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Teachers' plan to outsmart Pokemon Go craze
If you can't beat it, work it into the lesson.
Canberra to trial publicly-funded home births
Expectant mothers in Canberra will soon have the option of giving birth at home as part of the first publicly-funded trial in the ACT.
US Vice-President Biden goes to the footy
The Secret Service codename for Vice President Joe Biden is "Celtic", but the Gaelic links to Australian rules football must have puzzled the small troop of burley blokes with earpieces hovering at the MCG boundary line as their charge strode onto the green.
HMAS Darwin sailors surf the Seychelles
The crew of the Royal Australian Navy's HMAS Darwin disembarked in Sydney on Sunday morning to drizzling skies and teary eyes, after a seven-month deployment in the Middle East and east Africa.
Sacked airport workers say their union abandoned them
A group of former Sydney airport duty free employees have complained the National Union of Workers abandoned them at a time when the union's former officials and employees were questioned about the use of union credit cards to buy tens of thousands of dollars in personal shopping items.
Union calls for end to APS's 'failed' industrial policy
Australian Services Union says controversial enterprise bargaining policy has "destroyed morale" and failed to secure agreements.
The preventative health tool deemed too costly
Diabetics will pay 50 times more for strips that help them monitor their blood sugar levels after the government removed the subsidy.
Review of trial that slashes caesars, epidurals
Canberra reviewers of the capital's public childbirth courses will take a close look at a Sydney trial which drastically cut caesareans and epidurals.
Gay dating app Grindr under fire for asking users about HIV status
It has to be one of the most invasive questions you could ask somebody before a date: Do you have HIV and if so, how infectious are you?
Antibiotic overuse a prescription for danger
Australia's outgoing chief medical officer says economic and health impacts would be "extraordinary" if antibiotic-resistant bugs continue to spread.
'Farcical' Armidale move could make two in three staff quit
The representative for the public servants at the pesticides authority said two-thirds of staff faced with moving to Armidale under Barnaby Joyce's "farcical" plan for de-centralisation would refuse
Who would have won without preferential voting?
If the results of the July 2 poll were replicated in a system similar to the UK or Canada's, Australia's parliament would look very different.
The patients that scare health insurers
A health fund has detected a 20 per cent increase in hospital admissions among one group of patients.
Reality of motherhood hits career women hardest
Professional career woman are shocked by how different the reality of motherhood is compared to their expectations.
Sex abuse claims: disability group defends its standards at royal commission
A large disability group has passed external audits with "flying colours", inquiry told.
How internet pornography took over one teenager's life
Andrew's parents were convinced he had glandular fever. What he had was a destructive pornography habit.
The future of Sunday penalty rates
Sydney hotel owner Harry Hunt has no problem paying his staff Sunday penalty rates and says it would be short-sighted to cut them.
SMH grows its lead as Fairfax dominates readership figures
The Sydney Morning Herald has significantly increased its lead as the country's best-read news outlet as Fairfax Media registered readership growth across its titles, according to new industry bench-mark figures.
Oral sex act blamed 'on TV'
A disability group refused to accept a 10-year-old girl had been abused in their care.
TWU official returns to work claiming denial of natural justice
NSW Transport Workers Union boss Michael Aird returned to work on Thursday after stepping aside in late April in response to allegations against him which he claims were politically motivated.
She woke in a pool of blood: hospital misdiagnosed baby who swallowed button battery, coroner hears
What we would give to have another chance to hear your voice, to feel your kiss and to see you grow," wrote the Rees family in Isabella's tribute.
Jetstar flight grounded: Hundreds of passengers stranded
Hundreds of Jetstar passengers are stranded in both Melbourne and Bangkok after a plane was grounded for engineering checks.
Canberra academic appointed Heart Foundation chief
Deadly cardiovascular disease continues to remain below the radar and hidden, despite heart disease killing more Australians than anything else.
Surgeons fees for prostate surgeries vary by thousands of dollars
Adding to growing speculation that some urology patients are being fleeced, Medibank Private has revealed huge variations in the surgeon's fees its patients are charged for common prostate surgeries.
Fears for embryos exposed to food container chemical
A controversial chemical commonly found in food containers has again been linked to poor health outcomes - this time in a study of embryos.
The business that 'struck gold'
A federal court judge has criticised the failings of the Commonwealth's funding of private vocational education for allowing hundreds of millions of dollars to flow out of public coffers with little oversight.
Corruption watchdog lays fraud charges over $630m hospital project
Victorian corruption investigators have laid more than two dozen fraud charges against the former construction manager of the $630 million Bendigo Hospital project
Patients' lives put at risk by glitches in NSW Ambulance GPS: union
Paramedics are being wrongly dispatched to triple-zero calls from up to 50 kilometres away by a failing tracking system that routinely loses ambulances on NSW roads.
Rupert Murdoch proxy war
Rupert Murdoch has spent a lifetime cultivating the version of history that credits his father Keith with heroically ending the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign. In this edited extract from his new book, Mark Baker, reveals that the Murdoch legend owes more to fiction than fact.