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Fee-for-flattery: WeChat publisher offers candidates a positive spin. But there's a price to be paid 20 May 2022

A mysterious media agency is behind a fee-for-service offering to federal election candidates, including Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, placement of favourable news articles and interviews on the Chinese-language social media platform WeChat.

Echo Hui, Ariel Bogle, and Dylan Welch

New Northern Territory cabinet minister follows in the trailblazing footsteps of her father 20 May 2022

A lifelong Territorian and the daughter of the NT’s first Aboriginal government minister, Ngaree Ah Kit will take on a role in Natasha Fyles’s cabinet.

Matt Garrick

NSW girl's alleged murderer stole guns from neighbour before she was killed, court documents say 20 May 2022

A man accused of killing his fiance's daughter in NSW stole two guns from his neighbour months before she was killed, court documents allege.

Mark Reddie

Craig McLachlan applies to drop defamation case against ABC, Nine and Christie Whelan Brown 20 May 2022

Actor Craig McLachlan applies to discontinue defamation proceedings against the ABC, Nine and co-star Christie Whelan Browne over a series of media reports in 2018.

Harriet Tatham and Heath Parkes-Hupton

Nitschke to take an 'if it's not broke, don't fix it' approach, in new era for Australian women's cricket team 20 May 2022

Shelley Nitschke is an Australian cricket legend on the field. Now she'll take on a new challenge as the interim head coach of the national team she used to represent.

Brittany Carter

Trauma and loss – the legacy of Black Summer bushfires lingers, but is it being prioritised as a key election issue? 20 May 2022

Survivors of the Black Summer bushfires feel they've been left out of the national conversation during the federal election campaign as they continue battling trauma.

Fatima Olumee

More than 200 West Australians have now died with COVID-19 this year, as the state continues to grapple with surging cases.

Keane Bourke

100mm of rain could be dumped over already sodden parts of south-east Queensland, BOM warns 20 May 2022

An incoming trough system appears set to bring increasing rainfall over parts of south-east Queensland, while a risk of flash flooding remains across coastal regions over coming days.

Sarah Richards and Alex Brewster

Driver who ran a red light and fatally struck a child spared a jail sentence 20 May 2022

Zhao Hui Lu, 49, was sentenced to a three year community-based order over the death of Jack Power at Blackburn North in 2018.

Danny Tran

Man in his 20s dies after head-on collision in Canberra, police say third vehicle may have been involved 20 May 2022

WARNING: This story contains confronting images. A man who was commuting home from work dies after his car was hit head-on by a car allegedly travelling on the wrong side of the road.

Niki Burnside

Probable monkeypox case detected in Sydney, health authorities say 20 May 2022

Health authorities say a man in his 40s has been identified as a probable case of the rare viral infection which is spreading in Europe, the US and Canada.

Heath Parkes-Hupton

Actress Marnie Schulenburg dies aged 37, two years after cancer diagnosis 20 May 2022

The As the World Turns star had documented her battle with cancer after initially being misdiagnosed with mastitis.

Shanghai COVID lockdown supply issues prompt Queensland to delay non-urgent elective procedures 20 May 2022

COVID lockdowns in Shanghai spark a world wide shortage of contrast dyes used in CT scans, with Queensland Health announcing some non-urgent elective procedures will be postponed.

'Women being erased': Taliban orders female TV presenters to cover their face 20 May 2022

The move comes days after authorities ordered women to cover their faces in public, a return to a policy of the Taliban's past hardline rule and an escalation of restrictions that are causing anger at home and abroad.

Third time lucky for Starliner capsule trying to take mannequin to space station 20 May 2022

Boeing's Starliner crew capsule and test flight dummy Rosie the Rocketeer are finally on course for the International Space Station after a successful launch from Florida.

Bystanders on Queensland beach help dwarf minke whale return to the ocean 20 May 2022

Hervey Bay residents and local authorities are hopeful they have saved the life of a whale that beached itself on the Fraser Coast this morning.

Scott Lamond and Lucy Loram

Queensland man reported over alleged Adelaide break-in where he was stabbed 20 May 2022

The man was stabbed after allegedly breaking into a home in Adelaide's north on the weekend.

Here's how to vote if you're one of the thousands of Australians stuck in COVID isolation for election day 20 May 2022

There's been a last-minute change to voting rules to allow more Australians with COVID to vote over the phone. But how does it work?

Alexandra Humphries

How an idea to keep kids entertained in WWII became a world leader in broadcasting 20 May 2022

Nearly 80 years before COVID closed schools, Australian parents looked to the ABC to help educate and entertain their children during another national crisis — the result would become a generational game-changer.

Carol Rääbus

'Looks like a tomato, eats like an apple': Have you tried a persimmon? 20 May 2022

As the air turns crisp and the sky turns grey, the persimmon orchards around Victoria's north-east start to pop with vibrant orange trees.

Annie Brown

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