Repealing medical evacuation laws for asylum seekers and refugees will lead to
more deaths in offshore detention, senators have been told.
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Australian workers would be thousands of dollars better off each year if big
businesses reassessed their priorities, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg believes.
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Victorian union boss John Setka says his political enemies are out to get him as
he rejected reports of more allegations of abuse in his marriage.
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A Chinese billionaire who is now banned from Australia delivered $100,000 cash
in a plastic Aldi shopping bag to NSW Labor's party headquarters in Sydney, the
state's anti-corruption watchdog has heard.
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The interim head of Sydney's beleaguered Northern Beaches Hospital has
apologised for the public-private facility's early administrative and healthcare
failures but insists the facility did not open prematurely.
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A worker has been confirmed dead after a wall collapse at a mine in the Northern
Territory with industry officials warning risks remain at the site.
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No decision has yet been made on whether Cardinal George Pell will appeal his
child sexual abuse convictions to the High Court, a spokeswoman for the cleric
says, despite reports to the contrary.
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Former AFL champion Ben Cousins has walked free from prison after two serious
charges of stalking and threatening to harm his former partner were dropped and
he pleaded guilty to 12 other offences.
