'Cook the books': Workers told to falsify documents to prepare for audit

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Support services staff for former Manus Island detainees say they were asked by their supervisors to… More

Live: Bill Shorten launches Labor federal election campaign with half-billion-dollar health promise

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Bill Shorten will issue a final rallying cry to the Labor faithful today, launching the party's campaign… More

Bankrupt mastermind of suspected WA Ponzi scheme returns with new property business

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Veronica Macpherson is behind a new property venture targeting mine workers, despite being permanently… More

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How would Thatcher have managed Brexit?

Newly-elected Conservative Party Leader of the Opposition, Margaret Thatcher (1925 - 2013) lends her support to 'Keep Britain in Europe' campaigners in Parliament Square, London, on 4th June 1975, the day before voting in the United Kingdom EEC referendum. Thatcher wore a sweater featuring the flags of European member states. Just over two-thirds of voters backed continued British membership. (Photo by P. Floyd/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)Between The Lines

Forty years after the 'Iron Lady' was elected into office, Britain looks like it may be lurching to the left.

Saving Africa’s small cats with citizen science

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Caracals are agile hunters, fantastic acrobats and have striking tufted ears. They are also in decline across Asia and Africa.

Live at the Wireless: J Mascis

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J Masic plays The Factory Theatre, Sydney. He’s a man of few words, but who needs to talk when you play guitar like this?

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Australia's number one physical activity

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Walking is officially Australia's favourite physical activity, but is it enough for your health and fitness?

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1901: The first election campaign

Images from the original 1962 film strip were designed to teach Aboriginal people the mechanics of the electoral process. (Supplied: AIATSIS)Nightlife

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