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"It's a skill set I don't have." Benjamin Law on why he doesn't want kids.

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"He's dead to me." David Bristow was 350 metres away when his father raped a backpacker.

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"We were encouraging her." Friends who filmed Shania McNeill on Snapchat before fatal crash apologise, & more in News in 5.

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Michael Hutchence and Helena Christensen were a "perfect match". Then a head injury changed him.

Last week, the Adani mine was approved. It's been described as "an assault to our planet".

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Belgian backpacker Davine thought Australia was safe. Then she was kidnapped and raped in a pig shed.

"Someone's in the house": The call David Campbell received from his wife while he was away.

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HOROSCOPES: How this week's full moon will affect you, according to your star sign.

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Drug addiction and postpartum psychosis: The women who kill their babies.

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Amanda Knox's life now, 8 years on: "I'm still someone else's story."

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OPINION: The world is convulsing as it realises Kim Kardashian is not a shitty person.

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For everyone who says women's sport is boring, you must've missed the Matildas last night.

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