The trial of Bruce Lehrmann has closed on conflicting accounts of the night that Brittany Higgins alleges she was raped at Parliament House, and the response of senior ministers.
Bureau of Meteorology staff have been hospitalised because of work conditions, as a loss of senior meteorologists means junior forecasters are trying to deal with natural disasters beyond their expertise.
While state MPs keep backing the destruction of native forest for woodchips and paper pulp, a once-divided timber region is getting out of native logging.
A consulting firm responsible for a quarter of the aged-care sector has warned its providers to avoid high-needs patients or risk reducing ‘profitability’.
The former prime minister is the lead name in speculation on who will become the next US ambassador, with support from key American foreign policy figures.
The captain who founded militant anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd has been forced out of the organisation, which he says has become ‘Uber’ for bureaucrats.
