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Global issues dominate writers festival

Despite the searing heat and idyllic setting, dystopian themes were common at the Adelaide Writers Festival.

'No other way': Student climate activist Greta Thunberg's strike call

Students have no choice but to close their books and walk out on their classes to make their demands for serious climate action heard, the Swedi…

Nicola Gobbo named as Informer 3838 after court lifts gag

Underworld barrister Nicola Gobbo can now be named as the high-profile criminal lawyer at centre of Informer 3838 scandal that sparked the royal…

Derryn Hinch faces furore for claiming gruesome details of Melbourne student murder

Senator Hinch says he has disclosed what he claims are the horrific injuries suffered by Aiia Maasarwe because “people need to know what a kille…

Schindler's List, 25 years on: a mother's legacy of joy in the face of horror

When Mira Unreich was interviewed for Steven Spielberg's Shoah Foundation, she recalled the kindness that helped her survive the Holocaust.

War criminal might have won defamation case under court's new rules

In 2009 The Australian turned the NSW Supreme Court into a de facto war crimes tribunal, and won. Would that even be possible in the Federal Cou…

Too many unknowns in Crown case, Eastman defence says

Lawyers for David Eastman told a jury Thursday there are gaps in the Crown case that cannot be filled.

A decades-coming bridge to unite Croatia is finally going to be built ... by China

With drills churning and its engineers arriving daily, a state-owned Chinese construction firm is finally going to complete a project Croatia ha…

Man suspected of killing cyclist in South Yarra hit-run arrested in the CBD

The man, 26, was arrested in Bourke Street about 5.30pm after a member of the public recognised him from images released by police on Sunday.

Trump and Italian PM Giuseppe Conte's stars align in Washington

The leaders have found unlikely common ground and offer a rare example of trans-Atlantic co-operation in anxious times.

Tragic tale that took Denmark by storm opens Australian festival

First-time filmmaker Mehdi Avaz scored a surprise hit in his homeland with a drama drawn straight from the pages of his high school yearbook.

'Charlatan, conman and predator': Fake gyno's victim tells of her pain

It's been almost a decade since one woman was deceived by a fake IVF specialist but not a day goes by without her wondering if she would now hav…

Myanmar takes back single Rohingya family despite UN concerns

Myanmar has accepted what appears to be the first five among some 700,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled military-led violence.

Solly Lew threatens mass store closures as rent fight escalates

The company behind Just Jeans and Smiggle is threatening to pull every store from shopping centres where rivals are being offered cut-rate rents.

L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt dies aged 94

​French businesswoman and billionaire Liliane Bettencourt, whose family founded L'Oreal and still owns the largest stake in the cosmetics giant,…

British park donates eggs in bid to save northern white rhinos using IVF

The world's first test-tube rhinos could be born from animals at a British safari park.

New image of missing Nannup girl gives grandparents new hope

The grandparents of a missing WA girl say they are hopeful a newly released age-progressed image of her may give them answers as to her whereabo…

It's time to consider wearing your handbag as a bum bag

Look mum, hands-free!