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Former Australia opener David Warner has stood by Usman Khawaja's revelations about the 2018 Sandpapergate scandal, saying Pat Cummins threw Khawaja "under the bus" at a press conference in Sydney this morning. 

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Ariel Bombara delivers a devastatingly powerful apology for her father's actions at an inquest into the 2024 shooting murders of family friends Jennifer and Gretl Petelczyc.

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William, 17, says he sang John Denver's Take Me Home, Country Roads to keep his spirits up while he desperately hoped to be rescued in Victoria's east.

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Heavy rain hits the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, flooding the sprawling tent camps where hundreds of thousands of people live and triggering an "immediate humanitarian emergency".

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These are some of the simple and inexpensive ways you can remove weeds from your garden and prevent them from coming back.  

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An actor, comedian, author and physics enthusiast, Ben Miller is a man of many talents. So, how did the son of English teachers become so obsessed with quantum physics? And how does a comic end up writing a spy thriller?

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ABC analysis reveals the important medicines that are repeatedly hard to source, highlighting supply chain weaknesses that could get worse.

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Binna Burra Lodge was destroyed in a devastating 2019 bushfire that also claimed 11 homes in the Gold Coast hinterland.

The shadowed outline of a plane is superimposed over the shape of a triangle, the forest of Barrington Tops in the background.
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Barrington Tops in NSW has claimed nine planes and 30 lives in the past eight decades. Only four people have ever walked away, and one of those is pilot Dennis Hume, who was forced to eject from his plane and plunge thousands of metres into its unforgiving forest ranges.

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In 1960, three scientists predicted that the world would end on November 13, 2026, due to overpopulation. Here's why they were wrong.  

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Department stores are fading away and retailers are grappling with the challenges of online trade. So what might this mean for physical shops and consumers?

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