Some of the biggest alleged free speech champions on the right of Australian politics have used the defamation law to protect their own reputations even though they are trying to remove the "insult and offend" protection in the Racial Discrimination Act.
When Donald Trump starts work in the Oval Office in January, he will have more potential business and financial conflicts of interest than any other president in US history.
Heath Ledger fans are in for a treat next year when a massive exhibition featuring the movie star's personal effects goes on show at the Art Gallery of Western Australia.
The racial discrimination complaint against provocative newspaper cartoonist Bill Leak has been withdrawn.
Holy diabetes! McDonald's have put Nutella inside a burger.
It all started in a yellow suburban house in Brisbane with a single plastic sewing machine, a blog, and a hope that girls somewhere would like these patterned tights.
Thousands of people sleeping rough or in temporary shelters will get access to new housing and support as part of a $109 million plan that the Andrews government describes as the biggest response to homelessness in Victoria's history.
A marriage between an upper caste and low caste person in India evokes horror. But thinks are changing slowly.
There's a great story – possibly apocryphal – about the former Illinois governor, senator and diplomat Adlai Stevenson, drawn from one of his historic electoral whuppings by Dwight Eisenhower, against whom Stevenson twice ran for president in the 1950s.
A chunk of the country was struck dumb with the election of Donald Trump. But something inaudible rang out the next day – a silent but piercing alarm, rousing some people to action.
Amnesty International said up to six people were found dead last month in the Shura and Qayyara sub-districts.
Missing autistic man Damien Ezzy has been found safe on Saturday morning after disappearing from Calwell on Thursday.
Police believe the boy may still be in the Southport area.
A Zimbabwean court has thrown out charges against a local hunter accused of failing to stop the killing of the country's most prized lion by an American dentist, his lawyer said on Friday.
Police searching for four men after brutal assault and burglary.
Not only was the 18-18 result the first time the fourth nation has won a competition point in the history of the series, but it's the first time one of the top three nations has drawn or lost in to a tier two country in a major tournament since 1975.
A suspicious house fire in Ballajura is being investigated by the Arson Squad.
One man has died and another is fighting for his life in hospital after a crash in south east Victoria overnight.
The Aaron Smith toilet incident has taken a new turn after the woman involved says the pair didn't have sex in the airport bathroom.
A mother and her three young children left a hospital in Victoria's south west wearing pyjamas on Friday night.
As the AFL national draft nears, will clubs look more towards players with less immediately obvious attributes as they chase the game's developmental curve? It seems to have worked for the Western Bulldogs.
The tilled soil at Bathgate Farm in the Great Southern is so rich that if you strike a match to it the black furrows will burn.
When the idea of a Donald Trump administration seemed like little more than a fantasy, Steve Bannon, soon to be one of the most powerful men in the US, was already making waves.
"I really like boxing. It's much better than dancing. Well, I dance like a kangaroo with a broken leg and the boxing has been really good for my Parkinson's Disease."
Donald Trump is looking to Myron Ebell, a well-known climate sceptic, to lead environmental policy.
Mystery surrounds the exact circumstances of the death of Elly Warren, the young Melbourne woman found dead near a Mozambique beach this week.
Warren Buffett is once again the second-richest person on the planet, and he has President-elect Donald Trump to thank for it.
Catholic archbishop Christopher Prowse attracted criticism for not attending the healing ceremony for abuse victims on Thursday.
Just by winning the election, US President-elect Donald Trump has added to global instability and uncertainty. Here are the challenges he faces around the world.
US President -elect Donald Trump repalced top aide Chris Christie as the head of his transition team in favour of Vice-President-elect Mike Pence, as he scrambled to assemble a government after his surprise win.
"I grew up with you," the female voice yells from the crowd. "I love you." Rodriguez smiles. "You haven't changed a bit," he says back.
Police are continuing to investigate the shooting death of a 21-year-old man in Baulkham Hills.
Police in South Australia have arrested fugitive Lachlan Mitchell four days after he escaped from a Victorian youth detention prison.
Stolen car crashes into oncoming traffic during dangerous police chase.
Facebook users have expressed confusion after receiving a banner message on their profile pages and news feeds, which flagged their account as memorialised, as if they had died.
Man and woman found at Southport on Friday afternoon.
A police operation is underway after a woman's body was discovered in the Georges River National Park on Saturday.
In Queensland, Labor has just as much to lose from the One Nation vote as the conservatives, with the outlier party on track to become a major force in the state's politics.
(Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks ended mixed in whipsaw trading, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average edging higher to another record in its best week in five years, as investors speculate how Donald Trump's policies will impact the economy and interest rates. Small caps in the Russell 2000 surged.
Melburnians are waking to a cool and cloudy start to the weekend.
A car with a child inside crashed into a house in south west Victoria on Friday night.
Western Sydney Airport project clears a major environmental assessment hurdle.
The celebrity chef who has become synonymous with high-end cuisine in Melbourne, Shannon Bennett, has sold a majority stake in his hospitality empire to Singapore's wealthiest family for nearly $15 million.
All the latest news from America after Donald Trump's shock election win.
Few prognosticators predicted a Donald Trump victory ahead of Tuesday night. Polls showed Hillary Clinton comfortably ahead, and much of America (chiefly the media) failed to anticipate the wave of pro-Trump support that propelled him to victory.
Confidential documents show the Coalition was warned mishandling of reported sexual assaults of female defence cadets may have been marked by "criminal conduct".
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his allies hope to benefit from Donald Trump's election win, believing it has saved them from the risks of an interventionist Clinton administration.
Egypt imposed a big security clampdown in its cities on Friday as mass demonstrations called to protest against austerity measures failed to take place.
Donald Trump won the presidency campaigning on a promise of a far-reaching immigration crackdown, and early indications are that he intends to execute it.
An excavator is being used in a remote section of the Royal National Park where the search for the body of Matthew Leveson has resumed on Friday morning.
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