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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - MAY 05:  Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Treasurer Scott Morrison listen to Opposition leader Bill Shorten deliver his budget reply speech on May 5, 2016 in Canberra, Australia. The Turnbull Government's first budget has delivered tax cuts for small and medium businesses, income tax cuts people earning over $80,000 a year,new measures to help young Australians into jobs and cutbacks to superannuation concessions for the wealthy.  (Photo by Stefan Postles/Getty Images)
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ScoMo’s big reveal on Turnbull’s fall

In a book full of startling revelations, former Prime Minister Scott Morrison writes that Malcolm Turnbull advised him to go for the top job during the infamous ‘spill week’ of 2018.

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LINCOLN RHYME: HUNT FOR THE BONE COLLECTOR -- "" Episode 103  -- Pictured: (l-r) Arielle Kebbel as Officer Amelia Sachs; Michael Imperioli as Detective Mike Sellitto  -- (Photo by: Peter Kramer/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

Why we obsess over dark stories

We love twisted tales about bad people doing bad things and now a world-famous crime author has shared his theory on why, while name-checking Aussie writers he says are at the top of the game.

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Sydney July 13, 2001. Minature portrait Matthew Flinders, 1801, part of an national touring exhibition starting in September. Flinders proved Australia was one land mass by circumnavigating it. (AAP Image/NSW State Library)

How hero was left ‘a broken man’

He’s one of the most celebrated figures in Australia’s story. But on this day in history – as a depressed, anxious jailbird – celebration was the last thing on Matthew Flinders’ mind.

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"Trim" pet cat of Captain Matthew Flinders.  historical

How shipwrecked cat was saved

One legendary cat, several farm animals and 80 seafarers faced death after being abandoned in the open ocean – until an extraordinary man hatched an audacious rescue plan.

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