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Holy yoga sparks spiritual spat
Jill Stark 12:00 AM It is during yoga practice that Josephine Lau feels closest to her creator.
To be or not to be ... a genius
John Elder 10:32 PM Was Shakespeare thinking of himself when he wrote: ``Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving''? John Elder asks where the Bard's greatness came from.
'Gay rights like Nazi Germany': Scott Morrison to share stage with extremists
Jill Stark 4:33 PM Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison will share a stage at the Australian Christian Lobby's annual conference with a radio host who compares the advancement of gay rights to Nazi Germany.
How a mafia fugitive slipped into Australia and disappeared
Tammy Mills, Josephine McKenna, Mark Hawthorne 1:31 PM Unaware of the felon's criminal history, Australia issued a member of the Calabrian mafia a student visa under his own name.
Top unis struggling to tackle rape culture
Clare Kermond 12:28 PM Tertiary campuses are battling a spate of aggressive, online harassment of female students, including threats of death and rape.
The Lost Boys – young men opt for virtual life of pornography and gaming
Cosima Marriner 12:15 AM Socially stunted, unmotivated, and with unrealistic sexual expectations, teen boys pay a heavy price for arousal addiction.
PM's wine list is 'embarrassing and boring'
Henry Belot 2:29 AM But the cost of 'just one helicopter journey could improve the cellar no end'.
The murky world of child recovery agents
Rory Callinan The recent failed child recovery operation in Lebanon shows how things can quickly go wrong for all those involved – with serious consequences.
Feel like chicken tonight? Probably not after reading this
Marika Dobbin Coles supermarket is in a flap over claims on social media that it sold gangrenous chicken.
Chemists plan to make synthetic life in test tube
Georgia Bell What if synthetic life could be created in a test tube?
Border Force uniforms made overseas
Henry Belot The military-style uniforms worn by Australian Border Force officials tasked with securing our borders were made almost entirely in Sri Lanka, Pakistan and China.
'I am not here to tell you what you f---ing want to hear'
Jack Waterford A public servant who always expressed his point of view - even to PM's.
Part-time work is better for your brain
Cosima Marriner 12:15 AM Just how well your brain performs depends on how many hours you work.
Canberra doctor challenges growing lobby on Lyme disease
Ross Peake A Canberra infectious diseases expert has decided to directly challenge the growing power of advocates who say Lyme disease has come to Australia.
Hep C 'time bomb' can be defused, doctor says
Richard Woolveridge It is financially feasible to defuse the Hepatitis C "viral time bomb" affecting 150 million people worldwide, an international conference will hear on Saturday.
What women really want
Anna Patty Employers think women want flexibility. But, for women like Betsy Oyler, there are much more important things.
Raunchy KFC ad removed in an hour
Nick Toscano The mastermind behind fast-food chain KFC's latest marketing stunt is either in hot water or in line for a big promotion.
Judge lifts lid on Henry Kaye's secret windfall from land bank scam
Royce Millar, Ben Schneiders, Simon Johanson Notorious property spruiker Henry Kaye charged 60 per cent interest on a $1 million loan to a discredited land banking scam into which mum and dad investors tipped tens of millions of dollars.
$300,000 fine for 'free range egg' fraud
Esther Han Shoppers who paid extra to "taste freedom" in their free range eggs were ripped off and misled, a court has found, with an egg company penalised $300,000.
Kiwis still treated as second-class
Susan Chenery An estimated 600,000 New Zealanders live and work in Australia, mostly quite happily, but only when something goes wrong do they discover how few rights they have.
'Dark thunderclouds on the horizon': The end of the Age of Antibiotics is looming
Ross Peake A Canberra doctor has some bad news about modern Australian medicine.
The countries beating Australia in health and education
Eryk Bagshaw Australian children have poorer health and education outcomes than Latvia, Slovenia and Croatia, a new report from UNICEF has revealed.
The salt wars: what the food industry learned from big tobacco
Harriet Alexander 12:15 AM It has been described as "the largest delusion in the history of preventative medicine" - the body of evidence that suggests salty diets lead to increased health risks.
Shut coal plants or risk missing climate goals and hurting clean power, says Climate Institute
Tom Arup Australia must start forcing the closure of dirty power plants or it will risk failing to meet long-term climate goals and seeing clean energy investment stagnate, a new analysis has found.
Man killed by buffalo in South Australia
A man has died after being mauled by a buffalo in South Australia.
We're 'stuck in the Stone Age'
Eryk Bagshaw "Australia's economy is stuck in the Stone Age," innovation summit hears.
APS bosses 'self serving' in calls for greater secrecy
Noel Towell 'No evidence' that FoI laws inhibit "frank and fearless" advice from the bureaucracy.
Public servant hospitalised after workplace coaching session
Noel Towell A public servant was taken away in an ambulance after being "encouraged" and "supported" by his Tax Office boss.
Push for Australia to have a Serious Fraud Office
Richard Baker, Nick McKenzie Australia should have a Serious Fraud and Corruption Office to tackle corporate crime and building industry rorts, according to the head of the nation's leading anti-corruption group.
Tough lessons from Vocation's collapse
John Addis One sector has arguably done a better job of destroying shareholder value than any other over the past few years.
