If you missed the 3-2 loss to Germany, you might think the Socceroos earned some pride despite the loss. But the truth may be a bit more jarring, with Australia seemingly having no plan against the world's best.
Business leaders pleaded for partisan support for the Finkel report's findings, but with partisan breakdown over energy policy erupting yet again, power prices only have one way to go — up.
It is easy to kick a sport when it is down, but you don't have to put on the steel-capped boots when considering Australian rugby, writes Richard Hinds.
Anna Stubblefield, a former chair of philosophy at Rutgers University, had sex with a man who can't speak. She went to jail — and for a minute, it looked like the story would end there.
Australia's most populous state is in the midst of a boom that just keeps on giving and outperforming its peers in economic growth, employment, debt and revenue, explains ABC News business editor Ian Verrender.
US senator John McCain accuses North Korea of murdering Otto Warmbier, effectively labelling the explanation that the student took a sleeping pill and ended up in a coma as rubbish, writes Conor Duffy.
Bill Cosby's trial has ended in a mistrial due to a hopelessly deadlocked jury, but the circus is likely to be repeated, with prosecutors immediately announcing they will retry him.
For many women, landing on the wrong side of 50 brings unexpected bonuses, writes Jane Caro. But others will find that a lifetime of sexism has left them out in the cold.
Whoever finds it beautiful is beyond help, quipped critic Eduard Hanslick upon hearing Franz Liszt’s Sonata in B minor for the first time. Fortunately, posterity did not agree with him.
Yes, Malcolm Turnbull mimicked the US President. But as piss-takes go, the Prime Minister's chief target was himself, and it was suitably humorous and self-deprecating, writes Andrew Probyn.
To implement an alternative that still effectively puts a price on emissions might — apart from its policy advantages — be seen by Malcolm Turnbull as righting the old wrong done to him by his party.
When Malcolm Turnbull visited India two months ago, he made much of reviving stalled free trade talks — but developments in India this week show the prospects of eventual success are remote at best, South Asia correspondent James Bennett writes.
Duelling press conferences, supporters and protesters screaming at each and people waving placards and blowing bubbles while marching around the court house. Conor Duffy reports on the mayhem caused by the deadlocked jury in the Bill Cosby trial.
Season five of House of Cards made for exhausting viewing and left me hankering for the relative stability of the Trump White House. Yes, it had that effect.
While those affected by the Grenfell Tower fire may have to wait some time before the causes become clear and responsibility is taken, landlords and local councils can act now to help prevent another disaster, writes Feng Fu.
The new mummy film is the latest foray into "shared universes", the seemingly critic-proof movie juggernauts that have come to dominate our cinemas, writes Colin Yeo.
When life doesn't go exactly the way you had hoped, what is it that helps some of us cope through adversity? By finding meaning in our experiences, emotional suffering can be relieved, Sophie Scott writes.
The prison population in Australia is at its highest-ever recorded level, data shows, with large increases in remandees as well as Indigenous and women prisoners.