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Colgate colluded with Woolies to rip you off
Esther Han 10:46 PM Household name Colgate has been found guilty of conspiring with two rivals and supermarket giant Woolworths.
Dutton rules out sending Manus detainees to Christmas Island
Kate Aubusson 9:52 PM Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has ruled out sending people illegally detained at Manus Island detention centre to Christmas Island, leaving resettlement on Nauru one of few options left to the government.
Doctors at war with chiropractors over treatment of babies and children
Julia Medew 8:02 PM Doctors have declared war on chiropractors amid outrage over an "eye watering" video showing a Melbourne chiropractor manipulating a newborn baby's spine.
Threat to Bali nine duo's legacy upsets families
Tom Allard 7:18 PM On the anniversary of the executions of the Bali Nine, family's grief is compounded
Reprieve for thousands of students
Eryk Bagshaw 7:09 PM Sydney school granted last-minute stay as government moved to withdraw $19 million in funding.
Rich aid sweeteners at risk after Manus Island shut-down
Daniel Flitton 7:08 PM Australia pledged an extra $450 million in sweeteners to Papua New Guinea to settle refugees – but most of the money is yet to be spent and could evaporate with the closure of the Manus Island detention centre.
Mosquito-borne disease moving south as temperatures rise
Harriet Alexander 6:31 PM A record number of people were infected with Ross River virus last year in what doctors believe may be a consequence of global warming.
APS faces biggest shake-up in decades
Noel Towell 12:00 AM No more public service "jobs for life" under new blueprint for reform.
Medical experts' pleas on Nauru rape victim ignored
Bianca Hall 5:39 PM Australia ignored urgent pleas from its own medical experts to bring a refugee raped on Nauru to Australia for an abortion.
In the rain and the cold, a community reunites and remembers
Adam Morton 5:30 PM Malcolm Turnbull has used a memorial service for the victims of the Port Arthur massacre to promise to defend Australia's gun laws.
Engineers concerned by gender inequality and school standards
Henry Belot 12:00 AM Australia's peak engineering group has raised concerns about a seemingly entrenched gender imbalance and a decline in year 12 students studying science and mathematics.
Seniors working full time in their 80s and 90s are not the retiring type
Suzanne Carbone 4:35 PM When it comes to the Australian work ethic, there is one group that can't wait to retire and another that can't wait to go to work.
'It's insane', but it just might work
Catherine Armitage 4:25 PM In the search for a cause, psychological, social, environmental and genetic factors have all been targeted. But what if everyone's been looking in the wrong place? What if anorexia nervosa is caused by a bacterial infection?
Scare campaign over climate policy kicks off
Peter Hannam 4:08 PM Bill Shorten is sending a clear signal he's willing to make climate a centrepiece of the 2016 election campaign.
'Spend money on education or build more jails'
Eryk Bagshaw 4:00 PM The economy will be $72 billion worse off if one key education outcome isn't improved, says new report.
Deadly heart condition can now be genetically screened
Bridie Smith 3:53 PM Elka Johansson was born with a big heart. It was inherited from her mother. And it had the potential to kill her.
The plan to beat gender bias in the APS
Henry Belot 1:54 PM Employment Minister calls for an "honest stocktake" of failures.
$30 billion of 'grey literature' we can't read
Timothy McCallum 12:03 PM Australia lacks a standardised system to share grey literature
Public service sackings should be 'respectful, blame free': review
Noel Towell 11:04 AM Dumped public servants could be "ambassadors" for their former departments, says new report.
The most expensive hospital in Sydney
Harriet Alexander 7:12 AM The cost of treatment varies wildly across Sydney, with some public hospitals spending nearly twice as much as others to deliver the same procedure
There are now more guns in Australia than before the Port Arthur massacre
Inga Ting 6:51 AM Australians now own more guns than at the time of the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, according to new research that shows firearm imports hit a record high last financial year.
Victorian hospitals spend least on patient care: report
Jane Lee Victorian hospitals including Frankston and Casey hospitals spend the least on patient care out of all of Australia's major public hospitals, a report says.
Tabcorp accused of 61 new breaches over money laundering
Cameron Houston, Chris Vedelago Gaming giant Tabcorp has been accused of a further 61 reporting breaches as part of a landmark Federal Court action taken by anti-money laundering watchdog Austrac.
The 'unsexy' branch of medicine being robbed of funding
Anna Patty Thirty-eight per cent of practitioners are likely or highly likely to leave their jobs.
'Not very good at politics': CSIRO chief
Peter Hannam CSIRO's embattled chief Larry Marshall stumbled through another Senate committee hearing on Wednesday.
Port Arthur, 20 years on: An end and a beginning
Adam Morton This is not a story about what's been lost. It's a story about what's been found. Twenty years ago on Thursday, Nesan Kistan's father was killed. He also nearly lost his mother.
Public service bosses misled workers ahead of key vote
Noel Towell Defence Dept bosses' "pants on fire", union says.
Asylum seekers issued with repellent after Zika virus confirmed on Nauru
Pregnant asylum seekers detained on Nauru could be exposed to the Zika virus, with the Department of Immigration and Border Protection confirming there had been cases of the mosquito-borne disease on the island nation.
Border Force officers to fight on for the right to strike
Noel Towell Airports could have been left vulnerable to terrorists, drug traffickers, child sex offenders.
'We don't want gun laws regressing'
James Robertson Michelle Fernando is not the only gun control advocate who want the Port Arthur anniversary to remind us why John Howard changes the rules.
