| | | | Management at a popular hotel run by Australia's largest hotel group is directing its staff to segregate Aboriginal people into inferior rooms while charging them the same price as other guests, an investigation by the ABC reveals. | | | | The former prime minister says internal polling in marginal seats — "the only ones that matter" — had the Coalition in a winning position, but madness prevailed. | | | | Five years on from the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 with 239 people onboard, the conspiracy theories as to what happened are going strong. | | | | They're future leaders, readers, writers and thinkers — we ask five young women, aged 13 to 21, to describe their inspirations, their fears, and what they hope the world will become. | | | | Students as young as eight will have to complete their homework via their internet in a new move that has some parents concerned over online safety, screen time and the death of handwriting. | | | | A rare and beautiful cockatoo, known as the "Ringo Starr" of the bird world, could be extinct within a decade unless urgent action is taken to protect its habitat in a remote part of Queensland. | | | | The nation's largest companies with just one female director will be told to lift their game or face punishment by their shareholders, including votes against the re-election of their often-male chairmen. | | | | More than 250 people across the world have died in the pursuit of the perfect selfie since 2011, but one country in particular stands out — and it's possible group photo-taking, a younger population and a culture of identity-building is to blame. | | | | More than 70 per cent of female lawyers surveyed in NSW say they have been sexually harassed, with reports of unwelcome touching, objectification and repeated advances, and one woman saying she was criticised for not going with male colleagues to a strip club. | | | | Catharine Lumby was hired more than a decade ago to improve the NRL's culture around women, and says that while 95 per cent of players do the right thing a small percentage are "education-proof" and will simply never learn. | | | | The drama surrounding the redevelopment of Sydney's stadiums has less to do with the sporting events they are designed to host and everything to do with politics, writes Richard Hinds. | | | | It might seem strange, but it was on the misogynistic floors of Australia's meat packing factories that one of the great advances for Australian feminism was won. | | | | One of the first International Women's Days saw a leader toppled and women win the right to vote. A hundred years later, why are we more likely to gather for platitudes and breakfast? | | | | Canada's Prime Minister admits his office continued to lobby a former justice minister over a construction firm bribery case, long after her mind had been made up. | | | | A high-profile Sydney magistrate is accused of "conditioning" a young boy for years before molesting him during a sailing trip, a court hears, but his lawyer insists the complainant is "mixed up". | | | | Californian rockers the Red Hot Chili Peppers hit out at stricter live music regulations in NSW, describing them to Australian fans as "the stupidest thing ever". | | | | A man accused of stealing a car from a mother and children while armed with an axe and a knife is arrested. | | | | Many in the Defence Force expected the inquiry to be completed in 2018, but it is set to run on for months. | | | | Grape crushing has started at China's third-largest winemaker Weilong's new Australian home near Mildura in north-west Victoria. | | | | For some kids in Moree, roaming the streets at night can be safer than being at home, but police and youth services hope they might have the answer. | | | | Cyclone Oma stripped metres of sand from eastern Australian beaches when the system brushed past last month, but it also opened up new opportunities for bounty hunters looking for hidden treasure. | |  |
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