The quiet achiever

Chris Waller’s track record speaks volumes, but the man himself is very low key.

Making babies

Julia Medew & Mark Baker While infertile couples pay dearly for the hope of having a child, others are reaping big dollars.

"Go and kill yourself …"

At just 15, was Leanne Thompson driven to her death by a drug-addled man who preys upon the young and vulnerable?

Behind the veil

MALCOLM KNOX Kerry Stokes has gone from rags to riches. But as Malcolm Knox reports, truth and closure are elusive in the story of the media mogul who is a master of reinvention.

Riding shotgun

John Elder How JFK died has attracted plenty of theories, but author Colin McLaren says his book gives the true account.

Their shout: cricketers toast brewery's deal

Amy Corderoy, Chris Barrett Alcohol remains a fraught issue for those who run cricket.

Defence all at sea on new submarines

David Wroe Submarines are the stealthy killers in maritime warfare. They are the queens on the chessboard, the strategic game-changers. Any country has to think long and hard about messing with another country that has an advanced submarine fleet. You can't be sure there isn't one sitting quietly off your own coast or waiting in hiding to sink your ships.

Shorten calmed the madding crowd once, can he do it again?

TONY WRIGHT It was just another night in a pub in the tough little town of Beaconsfield when things turned ugly. It was to become a peculiar test for a union chief named Bill Shorten. Few know anything of the matter. It had to be settled quietly before things got out of hand.

Father sought in travel ban dispute

RANIA SPOONER Egyptian national evades Australian authorities for weeks in international custody dispute.

'Cave' men lead scientific way with revolutionary 3D imaging

Bridie Smith To the untrained eye, the web of coloured wires rising and falling en masse across the wall of 3D screens looks like someone has let lose with a can of silly string, photographed the resulting mess and then zoomed in on a colourful cluster.

Screen time link to insomnia in young children

Kate Hagan Time spent in front of screens affecting sleep of children as young as two, research shows.

Dog-lover's bid to rescue home ends in tragedy

RACHEL OLDING Walter Linder, 63, died while defending his home during horrific fires in Lake Munmorah.

Families' unimaginable grief seared into the landscape

RICK FENELEY There is no measuring the relativities of grief that has struck one street in the Blue Mountains town of Winmalee, where 16 houses were razed, but the heartbreak of the Love family is immense.

Infernos being 'politicised'

DAVID WROE Environment Minister condemns attempts to link bushfires with the need for action on climate.

NSW toll mounts in worst fires in decade

Shane Green and Staff Reporters The toll from the NSW bushfire emergency is growing, with at least one person dead and hundreds of houses destroyed, as the fire threat continues.

Scientists warn bushfire season getting longer

Craig Butt, Lara O'Toole A bushfire season that starts in spring and stretches well into autumn could be new norm.

IVF costs soar as infertility business booms

Julia Medew and Mark Baker 12:01am The cost of some IVF services has soared as private equity funds have moved in on many Australian clinics looking to profit from the booming business of infertility.

Abbott flags Arlington-style National war cemetery for ACT

ROSS PEAKE 10:29pm Prime Minister Tony Abbott has given a huge boost to the proposal to create an Arlington-style national war cemetery in Canberra

Residents still failing to heed bushfire advice

MICHAEL HOPKIN 3:38pm Many people in fire-prone areas are still not facing up to the need to decide on a bushfire strategy in advance, a survey has shown.

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More planes fly too close under military control, Transport Safety Bureau warns

Matt O'Sullivan 1:17pm Air safety investigators have raised concerns about the "relatively high" number of aircraft that have flown too close to one another in the country's military-controlled airspace.

Billionaire's 'forgotten' family speaks out

MALCOLM KNOX 12:50am Kerry Stokes' achievements have evoked many strong feelings in the business world and the public, but none are as poignant as those of his only grandchild, who does not recall ever having met him.