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Two Macquarie Group executives repeatedly drugged a colleague with valium and laxatives during a business trip to South America in a "malicious" attempt to discredit him.

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A sheriff's officer has been attacked with an axe while executing a search warrant in Cranbourne, south-east of Melbourne.

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Michael Cranston captured in phone intercepts allegedly suggesting that his son lie to a judge.

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Australian players have been warned cricket is at risk of falling into the same hole as rugby if players do not give up the revenue-share model.

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The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by the Herald's picture editors.

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Fire crews are expected to be at the scene of the fire all night as a man recovers in hospital.

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An 81-storey tower in Brisbane could allow more than 1000 residents to live above one of the CBD's busiest intersections.

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In a wide-reaching speech, Senator Gichuhi set out her agenda and her passions.

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Rates of colorectal and prostate cancer also higher but reasons unclear.

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Felicity Prideaux's Hackett home may have been demolished more than a year ago but the toxic shadow it cast will hang over her for the rest of her life.

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In a stark contrast to the punitive "throw away the key" philosophy to criminals, Queensland's first 'earn or learn' facility aims to break the cycle of offending. Borallon Training and Correctional Centre

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'Here's your debt; pay it or prove you don't owe it.'

Kambah woman and a man who seems to have since disappeared were arrested in a home raid in 2015.

Minus 33.5 degrees, who's up for a swim?

Electoral Commission says $73,000 spend was within the rules.

It seems Melbourne and Sydney residents agree that Canberra is the cool capital.

The truck driver was assisting police with their enquiries.

Australia has dropped five places in a global survey of the best places to live, but still remains one of the only countries outside of Scandinavia in the top 10.

Push for the use of wood pellets and other biomass products to reduce emissions'

If there was a firearm, the victim would be able to describe it, jury hears.

The Turnbull government has locked in the numbers for a stunning victory on its Gonski 2.0 school funding package by agreeing to fast-track its spending plan and pump an extra $5 billion into the nation's schools.

​Local councils across the country are split over a fresh push to find a new date to mark Australia Day.

Students with disabilities are putting a strain on teachers and schools, Pauline Hanson has told parliament.

West Coast vice-captain Luke Shuey looks set to be an Eagle for life, after signing a contract extension tying him to the club until 2022.

Van and car have collided at busy junction, injuring eight and leaving child and adult in hospital.

Fiona Splitt, who led a petition calling for the Qld government to introduce "no body no parole" laws, lives a nightmare as she imagines her long-missing husband walking through the door.

A top language testing expert has rebuffed Peter Dutton over claims Labor wrongly exaggerated the difficulty of English testing that aspiring citizens would have to pass.

Royals outside back George Morseu is one of four club players on the Brumbies' Singapore tour.

The man became fixated with a prostitute, recruiting a teenager to pour accelerant over her and set her alight.

Melbourne Storm coach Craig Bellamy would like to see the NRL allow sides to name extra players in their 23-man squads to over State of Origin players.

Australian Press Council chair David Weisbrot has bowed to pressure and resigned.

Canberra woman Zoe Featonby is every doctor's worst nightmare.

A global sell-off of Australian assets exacerbated the biggest single-day fall in shares since Trump's election.

Logan police are appealing for public assistance to help find a stolen giant stuffed koala.

Travis Kalanick has stepped down as chief executive of Uber, the ride-hailing service that he helped found in 2009 and that he built into a transportation colossus, after a shareholder revolt made it untenable for him to stay on at the company.

West Coast midfield gun Luke Shuey will almost certainly finish his playing days at the Eagles after signing a new four-year deal with the club.

An Australian man and three others appear to have made a clean getaway after their suspected escape tunnel from Bali's Kerobokan prison was found to be empty.

The day's burning issues as seen through the eyes of The Sydney Morning Herald's editorial cartoonist.

Last year the moons needed to align for the seventh-placed Dogs to win the flag. This year it has not taken one big moment but a small shift of those moons to see them now they sit outside the eight.

Election promises are about to get more believable.

Northern Territory welfare policies had created a new stolen generation by allowing Western family tree concepts to take precedent over Aboriginal kinship systems, the Royal Commission into the Protection and  Detention of Children has been told.

The Labor party is mourning the death of former federal minister Con Sciacca, with opposition leader Bill Shorten paying tribute to him as "an icon, a true believer and a fearless warrior."

Cycle paths in inner Sydney will be among the biggest beneficiaries of $62 million in funding from the state government this year for so-called active transport.

Winter's depths have been plumbed according to the clocks but the worst of the season's chill is almost certainly ahead.

Given the uncertainty over what was wrong with him, the fact Jaeger O'Meara will be back is very good news at Hawthorn.

Raiders prop Junior Paulo is confident if they find themselves in another close game, this time they'll pull through.

Australia has made its first successful foray into space in 15 years with the launch of the INSPIRE-2.

A government department has quietly requested extra syringe sweeps of the politically sensitive inner-north even though the same contractor was already hired by the council for that work.