In the days following her daughter's death, Natalie Handsjuk is distraught Phoebe's fall is being treated as a suicide. Desperate to speak to Phoebe's partner, Ant Hampel, the pair meet at his apartment. On the advice of her father, Natalie makes a secret recording of their conversation.
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Episode three of Phoebe's Fall looks at a secret tape plus the state of Phoebe's Handsjuk's mind at the time of her death. Listen now: http://www.smh.com.au/subscriber-first
Episode three of Phoebe's Fall looks at a secret tape plus the state of Phoebe's Handsjuk's mind at the time of her death. Listen now: http://www.smh.com.au/subscriber-first
A national service veteran and retired teacher was allegedly stabbed to death after he caught a couple breaking into his home.
The nine Australians arrested after stripping down to budgie smugglers emblazoned with the Malaysian national flag during the Grand Prix have escaped conviction in Malaysia. http://bit.ly/2dgAZMw
Comment: After NSW's near-decade of scandal, sex, torpor and then a touch more scandal, Mike Baird came bursting through the door like the ideal new suitor for our perennially jilted offspring.
"Today the world meets the moment. And if we follow through on the commitments that this Paris Agreement embodies, history may well judge it as a turning point for our planet": The Paris climate accord has been ratified by enough countries for it to go into force. http://bit.ly/2dGmrJH
"I don't think it's good for anybody to have two votes that incite some people in the community to spew hate - and that's certainly what is going to happen if the government pursues both," says Indigenous academic Marcia Langton.
Footage of the crash shows witnesses watching as both trucks are engulfed in flames. One person is heard asking: "Did anyone see him get out?"
One of nine Australian men who were arrested after stripping down to budgie smugglers emblazoned with the Malaysian national flag during the Malaysia Grand Prix has read out a letter of apology in court saying it was a "moment of folly".
"The cost of justice in this country is incredibly high": Hotel owners, bakers and florists who object to same-sex marriage would have their legal cases bankrolled by a new fighting fund set up by the Australian Christian Lobby.
An overheating, smoking Samsung smartphone has forced the evacuation of a plane that was preparing to take off in the US, with reports indicating the phone was a new Galaxy Note7 issued as a replacement following a global recall.
Stillbirth Foundation Australia CEO Victoria Bowring said stillbirth was a "national crisis" still being dealt with in silence.
If you're deliberately trying to provoke people, perhaps it's a tad undignified to then complain about how people subsequently got all provoked, writes Andrew P Street.
