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Josie Pagani: The seismic change in working-class voters

COMMENT: Australian outcome shows strong policies can lose elections.

Woman and child found dead at lookout south of Sydney

A woman and child have been found dead at the bottom of a Wollongong lookout.

San Sebastian: Basque in glorious cuisine

San Sebastian serves up a feast of traditional food for the delight of Anna King Shahab.

'What a monster': Australian finds $105,000 gold nugget

'It just a bit bigger than a packet of smokes, and the density of it was incredible.'

Tweets beat polls in Aussie election

Expert correctly predicted Brexit, Trump and Australian elections.

Two-in-one asthma inhaler hailed as a 'game-changer'

Study finds benefits in combination therapy for patients with mild asthma

Pauline Hanson's One Nation election truck set alight

The One Nation leader has tweeted footage of her campaign truck on fire in Tasmania.

Audrey Young: Parallels between Simon Bridges and Bill Shorten

There is one aspect of the Australian election that Simon Bridges wont be highlighting.

Memory of Bob Hawke hangs over Australian election

Bill Shorten goes into today's elections with the blessing of his political hero.

Guess who: Auckland Grammar shares schoolboy photos of famous old boys

The elite Auckland school is celebrating 150 years.

Controversial Jacinda Ardern mural ready to tower over Melbourne

Despite the controversy, the mural is nearly completed.

New Zealand remembers Bob Hawke

Foreign Minister Winston Peters leads tributes to the former Labor leader.

How our toothbrushes are littering paradise

NYT: Mountains of plastic weighing as much as a blue whale found off Australia's coast.

Mike Hosking: Labor will be a disaster for Australia

Comment: It looks a classic example of opposition not winning, but government losing.

'Today we lost Bob Hawke, a great Australian': Former PM mourned

Bob Hawke, who served as Australia's PM from 1983-1991, has died.

Former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke dies

Hawke was the longest serving Labor Prime Minister in Australian history.