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NZ consumer price index up 0.2pc
New Zealand inflation slowed less than economists forecast in the third quarter.
AFL 'receives integrity report' into Whitfield allegations
Action against Greater Western Sydney midfielder Lachie Whitfield and two former senior Giants staff over an alleged anti-doping breach is reportedly being considered by the AFL.
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Markets Live: Sticking to the sidelines
Shares are set for a sluggish start, with weaker oil prices weighing on oil and gas producers.
Up to seven cars in motorway accident
Delays are building after a multi-vehicle pile-up on a major south-east Queensland motorway.
Mum and young son missing for over a week
Queensland police are trying to find a Logan woman and her four-year-old son who were last seen more than a week ago.
Tamworth family devastated after couple found dead in apparent murder-suicide
A family has been torn apart after a double shooting in a quiet, suburban East Tamworth home left a mother and father dead.
Apple shifts car focus
Apple has reversed from plans to build its own car, reassigning or laying off hundreds of workers.
Australia intentionally torturing refugees on Nauru, says major report
Amnesty International official who travelled to Nauru says Australia should be held accountable for breaching the Convention Against Torture.
Five missing children trigger Amber Alert
Police are calling for urgent assistance to help find five children possibly at "significant risk" after going missing in north Queensland.
Call for 'hefty fines' after wreckers flatten 159-year-old Carlton pub
Heritage experts have demanded tougher penalties for developers who brazenly knock down historic buildings, after the unlawful demolition on the weekend of a Carlton pub that was built in 1857.
Injured man charged with Cairns murder
An injured man has been charged with the stabbing murder of a woman whose bloodied body was found in Cairns.
Beware tracking down a tracker home loan
What a funny little business the sudden interest in "tracker home loans" is – an apparent desire to have a home loan that immediately follows Reserve Bank cash rate movements just when there's a very good chance the next RBA move will be up.
Five-year-old boy survives crash that killed father and grandfather
A five-year-old boy has survived a horror car crash at a rural property in the NSW Upper Hunter that killed three men including his father and grandfather.
8@eight: ASX set for flat open
The local sharemarket looks set to open flat to slightly weaker after US and European markets drifted down overnight.
US oil falls below $US50 a barrel
​Oil prices settled down with a spike in trade volume driving US prices below $US50 a barrel.
Pair of Lotto millionaires remain a mystery
One big lotto booty has been claimed in Queensland, but there's still two worth a combined $3 million up for grabs.
Icahn says US stocks overvalued
Billionaire Carl Icahn is wary because of weak growth in the US as well as in emerging markets.
Apple scraps plans for car, sources say
Apple has drastically scaled back its automotive ambitions, leading to hundreds of job cuts and a new direction that, for now, no longer includes building its own car, according to people familiar with the project.
Man charged with ramming cop off bike
A man has been charged after he allegedly injured a police officer when he struck him with his car in Brisbane.
'An exceptional family': community mourns after family of four found dead in Sydney
It was a selfless activity that Maria Claudia Lutz looked forward to each week.Â
Suspicions Donald Trump is using campaign to pave way for new TV network
In recent years American elections have proved to be fertile grounds for new media organisations.
Woman, 30, killed in house fire in Guildford
A woman has died in a fire that tore through a house in Sydney's west overnight, police say.
Aluminium slides on China worries
Aluminium prices fell to two-week lows due to worries about Chinese producers ramping up output.
Fischer presses fiscal policy
Fed vice chair Stanley Fischer said government policies could help offset lower productivity.
Pro-Russia media-savvy militant 'Motorola' killed
Arsen Pavlov first became known for strapping a GoPro camera to his helmet and then passing the footage to pro-Kremlin media outlets.
Three dead, boy survives after car plunges off cliff
Three people have died and a five-year-old boy was left with minor injuries after a car drove off a cliff in the NSW upper hunter region on Monday.
'I'm in Guantanamo Bay. This isn't Ballarat ... it can't be.'
Until today, she has been publicly defined by CCTV footage that shows her handcuffed, stripped of her underwear, stomped on, and kicked by police in a Ballarat cell. Now Yvonne Berry has broken her silence.
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Bank's decision to cut RT's funding a shock to network and to free speech
Imagine if the reverse had happened, if a Western media organisation had its bank accounts suspended, without explanation, in Russia, by a bank part-owned by the government.
Mark Bouris will be in the firing line at TZ
The host of Australia's version of The Apprentice, Mark "The Donald" Bouris, will again have a chance on November 26 to see how patient TZ Limited shareholders are.
Bank of America trading revenue surges
Bank of America said trading revenue for the period rose to the highest in five years.
Carry trades out, US dollar in
The US dollar is trending higher as investors foresee an interest rate increase come December.
Q&A;: Turnbull should stand up to 'right wing dinosaurs' says Di Natale
Greens leader Richard Di Natale has called on Malcolm Turnbull to stand up to his party's "right wing dinosaurs" and legalise marriage equality, warning Turnbull will lose the next election if he doesn't.
New 'street view' footage catches cancerous cells at their most destructive
Researchers have observed for the first time how villainous cancer cells attack and destroy the bone of leukaemia patients using a new "street view' system to zoom in and spy on the invaders.
'Pre-Hillary sale': Las Vegas gun store warns prices will 'skyrocket' if Clinton wins
"Don't wait!" the advertisement reads. "Prices will skyrocket after Crooked Hillary gets in."
Kremlin-backed broadcaster RT loses its British banking services
State-funded Russian broadcaster RT complained on Monday that NatWest had withdrawn its banking services in Britain without explanation, questioning how the move squared with the right to freedom of speech.
'Floor was squelching': WA homeowner shattered by tenants from hell
A Coodanup homeowner has been left shattered and irate after finding her once-pristine home with smashed windows, torn out ceiling fans and dog excrement all over the floor.
Four dumped Liberal MPs 'warehoused' as government advisers
At least four Liberal MPs thrown out by voters at the election have picked up plum jobs as taxpayer-funded advisers to their former colleagues.
Bus travel about to get cheaper for some workers
Brisbane City Council employees to salary sacrifice fares.
South Brisbane vagrants set to be moved on
Council to move rough sleepers following resident complaints.
Anti-corruption chief's bid for extra funding
ICAC commissioner Megan Latham got just a quarter of what she sought.
Assange claims 'state party' cut his internet
Julian Assange claims his internet connection was intentionally cut "by a state party", at the end of a weekend in which he was visited by Pamela Anderson and published a series of cryptic, coded tweets.
Veteran broadcaster, Peter Newman, to replace Bob Maumill on Radio 6PR
Radio veteran Peter Newman is set to return to Perth's airwaves, replacing retired-broadcaster Bob Maumill on Radio 6PR's Sunday brunch program.
'Stabbed and stabbed': Bloody Moe Monday leaves one accountant dead
One man has died and two others have been taken to hospital after a traumatic multiple stabbing at an accountancy firm in Moe.
Kowanyama funeral crash survivors remain in hospital
Eight people in hospital, others receiving psychiatric help.
Four harrowing tales told from the Island of Despair
Gazal and Jalil, Shadi, Mirza and Shahin, Firuz, Laleh and Nahal, and Amir, Yasmin and Darius have revealed their disturbing stories.
One Nation gears up to take seats at state elections
Pauline Hanson says she is emboldened by the growing support for One Nation as it prepares to field candidates at the Western Australia and Queensland elections, arguing the party continues to confront issues the major parties won't touch.