Australian cattle 'killed with sledgehammers' in Vietnam

Chloe Booker   Distressing footage appearing to show Australian cattle being bludgeoned to death with sledgehammers in Vietnam has sparked renewed calls to ban live cattle exports.

Canberra eateries' worst-ever hygiene result

Markus Mannheim   Three in 10 of the premises tested failed health inspections last year.

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'It didn't work': The program that put more people in hospital

Kate Aubusson   It was supposed to keep people out of hospital. It didn't quite work out that way.

Dream Destination: Four Seasons Resort Bora Bora

Angie Kelly   Dream Destination

Eats: Starting from scratch; va-va-voom in Brighton

Sally Webb and Annabel Ross   EATS JUNE 11

Drugs aren't working for our economy

Michael Heath   Futile attempts to regulate the sale of codeine-based painkillers illustrate the wider impasse on structural reforms putting a brake on growth.

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TAFE: enrolment system dumped

Eryk Bagshaw   The NSW government had dumped part of a $531 million enrolment system from the state's TAFE network after years of chaos and budget blowouts.

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'Billions of tax dollars being squandered'

Kelsey Munro   Private vocational courses cost taxpayers seven times as much as TAFE, new analysis finds.

Medibank's secret changes to boost profits

Esther Han   Medibank has been accused of failing to disclose policy changes to members in a bid to boost profits ahead of its privatisation.

Threats and spin will not deter us from reporting on Unaoil

Nick McKenzie, Richard Baker, Michael Bachelard   Over the past few months, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice, the UK Serious Fraud Office and the Australian Federal Police have been running a major international corruption probe into Monaco company, Unaoil. 

'We don't know how we'll cope through winter'

Kate Aubusson   A Sydney hospital in 'crisis mode' will get just $1 million in next week's state budget.

A good eye and a little bit of luck

April Dudgeon   Willie Phua's philosophy is simple: "Get the best picture possible, stay away from danger, and have a lot of luck."

Labor's plan for a female-friendly public service

Noel Towell   Careers will be on the line if public service diversity targets aren't met, says Labor.

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Southside's pre-poll lockout

Noel Towell   If you're south of the lake, you'll have to wait.

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Federal election 2016: Labor promises to restore Trove funding if elected

Henry Belot   Federal Labor would pump millions of dollars into the National Library of Australia if elected.

Canberrans want 3am last drinks: alcohol poll

Natasha Boddy   Most Canberrans want 3am last drinks for bars, clubs and pubs, and many feel more threatened in the city by drunks than people high on drugs.

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Teacher withdrew $1.9 million in cash, court told

Eryk Bagshaw   Teacher was a relative of the college's owner and told the court she could not remember where the money came from.

Superbugs could send us back to 'dark ages'

Kate Aubusson   Australia's high rates of antibiotics misuse risk sending us back to the dark ages of medicine.

Rosie Batty blasts Family Court

Rachel Browne   Domestic violence campaigner says "comprehensive training is crucial" for judges and magistrates.

Needle assault accused anti-vaxxer sells 'ancient oil' to fund defence

Simon Hendery   An anti-vaccination campaigner accused of assaulting a man with a needle has been offering to sell "ancient magnesium oil" to fund his defence against the charge.

Male CEOs with daughters more likely to back women for top roles

Beau Donelly   Male chief executives are "sitting on the fence" when it comes to championing gender diversity in their companies, research shows.

'Poisonous' gag clause in WHO's Olympics talks

Harriet Alexander   WHO says the Olympics should roll on despite Zika, but there is less consensus than appears.

NBN boss 'breached caretaker conventions'

Mark Kenny   Ziggy Switkowski was strongly warned his plan would breach the rules. He went ahead anyway.

'Potential for more severe weather'

Peter Hannam   Residents across an arc of eastern Australia stretching from Queensland to Tasmania should be on watch for more potentially severe weather this weekend as another winter storm loom, the Bureau of Meteorology said.

'A casualised, unstable world of work'

Kelsey Munro   Young people have it a lot tougher than their parents' generation, new study shows.

'Journalists are not monsters': Defence told to drop 'shut-up or shut-out' media strategy

Henry Belot   "Defence shares the secrecy habit with everybody else in official Canberra", think-tank says.