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22 Feb 2017 - 8:37am

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu arrives in Sydney for historic visit

Malcolm Turnbull will host talks with Benjamin Netanyahu in Sydney on Wednesday after the Israeli prime minister arrives for a historic four-day visit.

22 Feb 2017 - 6:43am

US sets plan for sweeping crackdown on nearly all illegal immigrants

The Department of Homeland Security issued tough new orders Tuesday to begin a sweeping crackdown on illegal immigrants, putting nearly all of the country's 11...

22 Feb 2017 - 9:08am

Search for answers over fatal Essendon plane crash

Australian Transport Safety Bureau investigators will review their preliminary findings into a plane crash which killed five people in Melbourne.

22 Feb 2017 - 6:11am

Israeli soldier gets 18 months' jail for killing wounded Palestinian attacker

A young Israeli soldier who killed a wounded and incapacitated Palestinian assailant was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment on Tuesday, in a show of leniency...

22 Feb 2017 - 6:36am

Bishop heads to White House to meet Vice President Pence

Vice President Mike Pence will meet Foreign Minister Julie Bishop at the White House.

22 Feb 2017 - 6:15am

Eight years sought for Bali policeman's death

Prosecutors have called on a Bali court to jail Australian woman Sara Connor and her British boyfriend for eight years.

22 Feb 2017 - 8:03am

Milo Yiannopoulos resigns from Breitbart News amid paedophilia controversy

Milo Yiannopoulos, the conservative media personality under fire for comments he made that appeared to condone sex with minors, has resigned from Breitbart News,...

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22 Feb 2017 - 7:10am

Karen Ristevski mystery enters new phase

Police have identified the body of missing Melbourne mum Karen Ristevski after decomposing remains were discovered in bushland in Mount Macedon Regional Park.

22 Feb 2017 - 7:55am

Scores of bodies wash up on Libya beach

The bodies of 74 migrants who drowned in the Mediterranean trying to reach Europe have washed up on a beach west of the Libyan capital, the Red Crescent said...

22 Feb 2017 - 8:52am

Reports of 'active gunman' at Houston hospital

Police in Houston are responding to reports of shots fired inside a hospital at Houston's Texas Medical Center.

21 Feb 2017 - 7:50pm

Australia on target to eliminate Hepatitis C by 2026

Research by the Kirby Institute at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) has projected that Australia was on course to eliminate Hepatitis C within in the next...

21 Feb 2017 - 1:50pm

The man who digs up El Salvador’s disappeared

An all-out gang war has made El Salvador one of the most violent countries on earth. As the body count rises, one forensic criminologist has devoted his life to...

21 Feb 2017 - 7:51pm

Heysen's Flinders Ranges watercolour returned to Adelaide

A watercolour by Australian artist Sir Hans Heysen has been returned to Adelaide, where it was created, for auction next month after it was found in Germany.

21 Feb 2017 - 3:15pm

Katter urges voters to deliver 'blunt' warning to MPs over banks inquiry

Queensland MP Bob Katter is hoping more Coalition MPs will join Nationals MP George Christensen in pushing for a public inquiry into Australia’s banking sector.

In focus: US Politics

The latest news on American politics.

21 Feb 2017 - 7:53pm

Trump names McMaster as security adviser

US President Donald Trump said on Monday that Lieutenant General Herbert Raymond McMaster would be his new national security adviser, again turning to the US military...

21 Feb 2017 - 9:10am

Trump tweets response to Sweden terror incident remarks

US President Donald Trump has taken to Twitter to clarify comments he made at a rally in Florida when he referred to Sweden as the site of a recent terror incident.

20 Feb 2017 - 8:14am

White House denies seeking to hamstring national security advisor

A top aide denied Sunday that President Donald Trump is having difficulty filling the key post of national security advisor because of White House moves to...

19 Feb 2017 - 12:34pm

Trump says TPP a 'job killing disaster'

Donald Trump has blasted the media as fake news producers and condemned the TPP as a 'job killing disaster' at a rally in Florida.

20 Feb 2017 - 7:46am

Mattis, unlike Trump, has no media issues

US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis says he has no issues with the media, unlike his boss Donald Trump who says the media are "the enemy of the American people".

19 Feb 2017 - 7:28pm

Trump insists White House running 'so smoothly'

US President Donald Trump insisted Saturday that the White House is running smoothly, and used a campaign-style rally in Florida to bring his message to...

19 Feb 2017 - 7:44am

US pledges 'unwavering' commitment, Europe lukewarm

US Vice President Mike Pence on Saturday led a chorus of reassurance for allies rattled by Donald Trump's policy stance but European leaders gave the pledges a...

In focus: Australia's First People

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#FU2Racism

COMMENT: Racism in Australia: The stats are clear

Associate Professor Gawaian Bodkin-Andrews gives us a snapshot of the research on racism against Indigenous peoples since the 1960s.

Culture

Artistic learnings

My art. My culture. Our country.

Can art hold the key to reconciliation? Dancer and artist Thomas ES Kelly explains why he thinks so.

Health

Indigenous health

Comment: When race gets in the way of good health

Racism mars the healthcare system for Indigenous people, who are accused of faking pain, have their Aboriginality denied, and die while in state care.

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2 Feb 2017 - 9:43am

Indigenous Languages at risk

Australia's Indigenous languages could be completely wiped out by 2050 according to experts. The number of traditional languages has dropped from 250 to 120 over the last two hundred years.And the ...

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