For the past few decades Australia's deregulated banks gobbled up almost every financial services business they were allowed to take over. Now it seems they have a severe case of asset reflux.
By David Griffin, Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
Dozens of people across Australia have died in recent months after contracting the flu. Why is it the flu can cause death but we don't generally hear of colds doing the same?
The more Tony Abbott's anti-renewable energy position gets traction, the worse the policy problem for Malcolm Turnbull and his Government. It raises the question: how can it go on without blowing up? Michelle Grattan writes.
By Hannah Robert and Fiona Kelly, La Trobe University
Difficulties for de facto couples arise from the complex inter-relationship between the "burden of proof", institutionalised homophobia, and the sticky situations that can often arise in interpersonal or family conflict.
How can couples who support same-sex marriage still go ahead with their own wedding when their gay friends can't ? Don't invite me, writes Genevieve Callaghan.
Just as US President Donald Trump rewrote the rules of acceptable language during the campaign, it was kind of weird to hear the President describe another leader as "depraved", while threatening to "totally destroy" North Korea, writes John Barron.
Aussie Rules football is demanding more public money than all other sports in WA combined. Does it deserve another $100 million-plus from taxpayers over the next decade?
The UN General Assembly sits through 41 minutes of unfiltered, blunt messaging from Donald Trump, with North Korea, China, "loser terrorists" and the Iran nuclear deal in the US President's firing line.
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh say a vow by Myanmar's de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi to allow their repatriation is meaningless, as they're being asked to meet impossible criteria.
Research finds a marked increase in people, particularly among women over 50, who are building or wanting to build a tiny house. However, inflexible planning rules often stand in their way.
When it was clear my old washer was on its way out, it was harder than I expected to make an ethical choice about whether to fix it or buy a new one, writes Vivienne Pearson
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi may be a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, but her address to the nation was more the speech of a politician, writes Anne Barker.
She's back on the global tennis circuit and looking to move on, but Maria Sharapova refuses to say how she has replaced banned substance meldonium in her personal supplements regime.
Donald Trump's first speech to the UN General Assembly will be closely watched by those who fear he's backpedalling on core promises, and being swayed by the establishment he vowed to shake up.
There is more to bike share schemes like oBike than first meets the eye. As they grow in global popularity, the economic models behind them become increasingly diversified.
Australians have been fascinated by "big things" since the 1960s, but the decades-long practice of building novelty attractions has begun to reach a crisis point.