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Australia debates value of electric vehicles while China pushes ahead
China is now the world's biggest electric vehicle market with the most cars on the road, the biggest range of manufacturers, and the biggest charging network.
- by Kirsty Needham
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Coalition dreams of a future in which Malcolm Turnbull actually succeeds
If the Prime Minister has an agenda, he'd best share it before it's too late.
- by Jack Waterford
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'This is different rich...It's crazy': the Chinese riding the spending boom
Wealthy Chinese-born Australians are driving a boom in luxury goods, homes, schools and services. But what’s driving them?
- by Jane Cadzow
'Deep grief': South Korean hospital fire kills dozens
A South Korean city became a scene of horror as flames and toxic smoke swept through a hospital, killing at least 37 people and injuring more than 140.
- by Christine Kim
East Timor dissolves Parliament in effort to solve political standoff
East Timor’s Parliament has been dissolved and fresh elections called to end a political impasse that has paralysed Australia’s neighbour for months.
- by Lindsay Murdoch
Hindu mobs burn cars, threaten beheadings to block a movie in India
Even Bollywood's protests are over the top: Hindu mobs burn cars, threaten beheadings to block a film in India.
We're now closer than ever to the apocalypse, according to the Doomsday Clock
A panel of scientists and scholars have moved ahead by half a minute the symbolic Doomsday Clock, saying the world is at its closest to annihilation since the height of the Cold War.
- by Barbara Goldberg
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Top American adviser quits Myanmar's 'whitewash' advisory panel
Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi is living in a “bubble” ... according to one of her most powerful international allies.
- by Lindsay Murdoch
Human rights
People enslaved, beaten, killed by rogues in Thai fishing industry
Despite changes to the law, human rights groups say regulations are not being enforced and are little better than window-dressing.
- by Lindsay Murdoch
China's massive global infrastructure spending a 'game changer' for world power, says Labor's Penny Wong
China's $1 trillion "belt and road initiative" that builds transport infrastructure in needy countries is a "game changer" in how it is using money to build political influence across the world, says Labor's foreign affairs spokeswoman Penny Wong.
- by David Wroe, National Security Correspondent
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Bali drug accused too ill to stand trial, court told
An Australian man accused of bringing drugs into Bali is unfit to stand trial due to his rapidly deteriorating mental health, an Indonesian court has heard.
- by Melissa Cunningham and Amilia Rosa