National
Australia news LIVE: GDP figures show worst economic growth in decades; Dutton faces possible probe over terror leader’s detention
Treasurer Jim Chalmers said high interest rates were largely to blame for measly growth of 0.1 per cent in the March quarter. Plus, a Victorian Supreme Court judge found “a serious interference with the administration of justice” occured when the opposition leader helmed Home Affairs. Follow live here.
- by Lachlan Abbott
Healthcare
‘They were grown men with guns. I was in my PJs’: The crises where police aren’t wanted
Police should be relegated to back-up support for mental health workers or not respond at all to call-outs for severely mentally ill people in crisis, a major state inquiry has concluded.
- by Kate Aubusson
Joanna just wanted a simple beauty treatment. But the pain was ‘hell on earth’
After being burnt on her genitals during a traumatic beauty procedure, Joanna has joined medical experts to call for tighter regulations on the laser hair-removal sector.
- by Henrietta Cook
Exclusive
Skin cancer
Hayley’s melanoma came back. Then scientists tried something different
- by Angus Thomson
Education
Exclusive
Private schools
Jewish school confident of move to Caulfield Hospital site
- by Madeleine Heffernan
New South Wales
Victoria
Julia Gillard still hasn’t seen her own play. What sort of ex-PM is she?
- by Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Queensland
Perspective
Protests
Is UQ becoming the hotbed of activism it was in the ’60s and ’70s?
- by Courtney Kruk