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Actor Ben Affleck has made headlines today after getting into a heated exchange with a television host about criticizing Islam.
Front pages
Regional news
BALLARAT - Marcus Volke had an intense gaze that went straight through you. That’s how one schoolmate described the former Ballarat man who is believed to be responsible for the murder and dismemberment of his Indonesian girlfriend at a Brisbane apartment. READ MORE HERE
TAMWORTH - A paraglider has died after a crash 40km from Tamworth. READ MORE HERE
WAGGA - Sydney band urinate on Wagga pub. READ MORE HERE
MANDURAH - Driver critical after freeway rollover. READ MORE HERE
ALBURY - High speed drag race appalls police. READ MORE HERE
SOUTH COAST - The Westpac Lifesaver Rescue Helicopter is searching an area around Jervis Bay for a possible missing person. READ MORE HERE
MILDURA - Man caught with fake ID trying to buy airline ticket. READ MORE HERE
NEWCASTLE - The jury that convicted Kathleen Folbigg of killing her four children was ‘‘almost certainly misled’’ about the rarity of multiple sudden infant death syndrome cases in families, a submission seeking a judicial review of her case will say. READ MORE HERE
MT ISA - Karumba has become Australia’s top fund-raiser for Cancer Council’s Biggest Morning Tea, taking the national trophy for raising more than $42,000. READ MORE HERE
National news
- Governments, industry and the education sector should be "alarmed" by the growing numbers of students abandoning science and mathematics in their final years of high school, say the authors of a landmark report that found a continuing decline in the proportion of year 12 science and maths students over the past two decades. READ MORE HERE
- Environment Minister Greg Hunt was given a thorough briefing about the effects of climate change on Australia's weather patterns three weeks before he told a BBC radio interview he had sourced information on bushfires and global warming from Wikipedia. READ MORE HERE
- Defence Minister David Johnston says the government does not know how much Australia's military mission in Iraq will cost the budget bottom line, but the matter will be addressed in December's mid-year economic update. READ MORE HERE
- Australian special forces have been cleared to start work on the ground in Iraq, helping local forces as they face the grinding task of driving Islamic State fighters out of their stronghold towns and cities. READ MORE HERE
Daily poll
National weather
International news
- This is the man who turned away from Islamic State. Now he's fearful that instead of recruiting him, they wish to kill him. READ MORE HERE
- As dawn broke and the Hong Kong government's ultimatum to pro-democracy demonstrators to vacate the streets passed, protesters said they had no intention of vacating the encampments that have paralysed major streets in the city centre until their demands are met. READ MORE HERE
- On a bright autumn Sunday in the heart of a city built around monuments to war, Barack Obama dedicated yet another - a memorial to America's disabled veterans. READ MORE HERE
Faces of Australia
Today's Faces of Australia features two men from South Australia who have made a big difference to the fight against polio worldwide.
LITTLE did 12-year-old Brian Condon know that the boy he was carrying on the handlebars of his bicycle would change his life forever.
It was about 1938 and Brian was giving a dinky ride to Georgie Shearer, 10, who would be dead two days later from polio.
Today, Brian has built a legacy based on his own experiences with the death of both Georgie and a woman relative from the disease.
Fellow Rotarian Ron Johns recalls during the epidemic that his mother, upon receiving a letter in the mail, would heat the envelope in the oven for fear of polio contamination.
