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Australia · Guardian Australia

Back to Back Barries: Do our leaders have the courage to take on their base? – video

24 Oct 05:00

Tony Barry and George Megalogenis (filling in for Barrie Cassidy) examine the response to the horrific alleged attack on independent MP Helen Haines this week. While the prime minister pleaded for all to 'turn the temperature' down, it didn't take long for some to dial it right up. So can politicians from all sides tell their tribes to tone down the hateful rhetoric? And what lessons can we learn from history to help

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Australia · ABC

Bayern Munich manager Vincent Kompany hospitalised after training collapse

The manager of German football giant Bayern Munich, Vincent Kompany, is taken to hospital after collapsing while watching a training session.

24 Oct 07:50

Australia · ABC

Biodiversity offset scheme 'an enormous thing' for landowners to consider

Peter Barton took years pondering whether to sign over a block of his western NSW property to a conservation agreement, but did it for his grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.

24 Oct 07:50

Australia · ABC

Brand trial ranges from backstage sex to alleged rape in his 'Gothic' home

A 2009 performance by the comedian at London's Hammersmith Apollo theatre, and what allegedly happened in the days that followed, has been the subject of much evidence at his rape trial this week.

24 Oct 07:45

Australia · ABC

New documentary spotlights 'silent killer' affecting First Nations people

Kelli Owen underwent kidney dialysis for three years before receiving a transplant, but says different attitudes to Aboriginal healthcare could have shortened that timeline.

24 Oct 07:42

Australia · ABC

Victorian victims of crime face long delays getting help from state

Advocates say victims of crime are waiting more than a year for assistance, while footing counselling and medical bills themselves.

24 Oct 07:42

Australia · Sydney Morning Herald

Melania Trump purportedly brokers localised humanitarian ceasefire in Ukraine

First Lady Melania Trump has helped secure a localised, humanitarian ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine for the front-line city of Oleshky in southern Ukraine, the White House says.

24 Oct 07:34

Australia · Sydney Morning Herald

Queensland authorities make daring floodwater rescue

Authorities in south-east Queensland have saved a man in a daring rescue, pulling him from floodwaters on the Sunshine Coast.

24 Oct 07:34

Australia · Sydney Morning Herald

Grandmother returns in Perth after being jailed in Japan for drug smuggling

A grandmother has arrived back in Perth, after being jailed in Japan for attempting to smuggle drugs into the country.

24 Oct 07:34