headlines
Monday
7
March
2016
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Former prime minister says his government’s ‘objective record’ is best rebuttal to Niki Savva’s book
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On the eve of the two-year anniversary of plane’s disappearance many relatives reject the idea it crashed in the ocean
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Needing just a point to secure passage to Rio and the 2016 Olympic Games, the Matildas did more than enough with a famous 2-1 victory over a physical North Korea in Osaka
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highlights
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Ray Tomlinson, the man who invented the @ sign, has died. Here’s a brief history of email, from the Queen’s first mail to the triumph of spam
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What are the minor technical issues with this cool-looking jet?
First Dog on the MoonAustralia is handing over $18bn or so for 72 dud F-35 jets that may or may not work. Surely there is a better way to spend this money!
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Kitty Mrache’s ‘geodesic dome loft’ has appeared on the site for seven years and is so busy her own children have to wait in line
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We look back on video game history with rose-tinted nostalgia, but some things tend to get overlooked amid those misty-eyed tales of gaming yore
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‘Passion’ meant working six days a week –16-hour days. I still play games, but having seen the inside of the sausage factory they’ll never be the same again
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Six things we learned at Sydney's All About Women festival
Gabrielle Jackson and Monica TanIt may be impossible to change the system, our sex lives are not what they’re cracked up to be, and we’re all a little bit sexist. Who knew?
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Lawyer of Alo-Bridget Namoa, 18, who has been charged with collecting documents connected with a terrorist act, says ‘hysteria around the word terrorism’ has created a ‘dire situation’ for her client
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Video filmed by No Pride in Detention activist shows the parade producer warning a float organiser after a protest at the Labor leader’s media conference
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EU leaders are set to call on Turkey to do more to stop migrants and refugees from making the dangerous journey across the Aegean Sea to Greece
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Umbrella opposition group likely to send delegation to Geneva despite some of most intense fighting since truce began
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in depth
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Crickets in brie and wild Texas antelope sushi are on the menu at pop-up restaurant Prey, where disruptive plants and animals find a new purpose
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Flamingos, glitter, bondage suits and more – Jonny Weeks captures the colour
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At these cool conceptual spaces, the design is just as compelling as what’s on offer at the shopping, exhibition, dining and drinking venues
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The Russian dissident was murdered with polonium, but only on the third attempt. In an extract from his book A Very Expensive Poison, Luke Harding traces the toxic trail the clueless assassins spread around London
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In 2014 the former press gallery journalist officially ‘quit’ Australia to form his own nation in Queensland. Almost two years later he is the Yidindji foreign minister, and it’s clear he’s doing much more than making a symbolic point
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The theoretical physicist’s mega-selling account of the origins of the universe is a masterpiece of scientific inquiry that has influenced the minds of a generation
pictures & video
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At the Noosa Festival of Surfing on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, paddle- and long-boarders are joined by their best friends for the dog surfing competition
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New Jersey artist Michael Massaia’s masticated sculptures of sea creatures, flamenco dancers and space helmets are made entirely from spat-out gum
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Timelapse footage filmed from the International Space Station shows the northern lights above Earth
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Aerial footage of 14,000 people at Greece’s border with Macedonia
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During a television broadcast, North Korea has strongly denounced annual military drills between the US and South Korea, which are scheduled to begin on Monday.
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The author of The Road to Ruin: How Tony Abbott and Peta Credlin Destroyed Their Own Government, speaks to ABC News Breakfast
people
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Infamous trial had all the elements for a sensational story except a murder weapon, and retired officer’s ‘odd’ reveal years later extends saga that won’t end
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‘It’s not a man, woman, race, class thang!’ the Saturday Night Live actor says of her black subway worker character, adding ‘if I’m the stereotype, so be it’
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Gordon-Levitt had been in line to direct and star in the big-screen version of Gaiman’s graphic novel fantasy
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The Reid brothers may have lost a little of their edge – but their longtime fans, also in their 50s, don’t seem to mind at all
popular
the big picture
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Workers of Tepco, Toshiba and Kajima Corp at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant five years on from the 9.0 earthquake
Revealed The 30-year economic betrayal dragging down Generation Y’s income
Generation Y A guide to a much-maligned demographic
Who's winning? Compare income with every other generation
'It's not just you' Millennials share their secret fears