Michael Vincent
'Odds will be against them': Canadians detained face 'nightmare' interrogation
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Two Canadians detained on December 10 face a tense period of interrogation, a former ambassador to the country says, with experts claiming they have been taken "hostage" by Beijing in retaliation to the arrest of a key Huawei executive.
Topics: world-politics, law-crime-and-justice, jinping-xi, donald-trump, security-intelligence, china, canada, united-states, asia
Guerrilla 'hero' who escaped jail in a cage and vanished
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Ricardo Palma Salamanca escaped prison in Chile in a metal basket dangled from a helicopter in 1996, but now he has been captured.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, prisons-and-punishment, chile
Trump can't ignore Mueller now that a Russian is behind bars Analysis
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For the first time, a Russian is behind bars for attempting to influence the US 2016 presidential campaign. And with that, the Mueller investigation is inching closer to the question of collusion, writes Michael Vincent.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, us-elections, law-crime-and-justice, united-states, russian-federation
Why Mexico's new leader is getting rid of his $200m presidential jet
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Newly-elected Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is beginning his term with grand gestures of change, including putting the state-owned Mexican version of Air Force One — worth $US200 million-plus — on the market.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, elections, corruption, poverty, air-transport, mexico
Awkward encounters loom for Trump at the G20 Analysis
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Donald Trump — a great fan of the musical Evita — doesn't really want to share the world stage with other national leaders over the next 48 hours at the G20 in Buenos Aires, writes Michael Vincent.
Topics: donald-trump, world-politics, argentina
Europe already has an 'army', and it's never even been in a fight
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For more than a decade, EU Battlegroups have been in training, waiting for all 28 nation members to agree on a conflict zone to send them to.
Topics: army, defence-and-national-security, european-union
Lachlan Murdoch already 'running the show' in Australia, News Corp insider says
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What will News Corp look like when Rupert Murdoch is no longer at the helm? Insiders say son Lachlan is already calling the shots in Australia.
Topics: media, social-media, information-and-communication, australia
'God, I miss that smile': How a brain cancer charity helped Caleb get his smile back
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After having a brain tumour removed Caleb Scott was left with the right side of his face paralysed. While his family were thrilled he survived, they were devastated their once-beaming son could no longer smile.
Topics: charities, brain-tumor, port-macquarie-2444
Talk Time program prepares students with autism for a life after school
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For some parents of children with autism, where even simple communication can be a struggle, their greatest fear is how to prepare their child for adulthood. But an award-winning secondary school program is changing that.
Topics: disabilities, education, secondary-schools, secondary, autism-spectrum-disorder, condell-park-2200
Can't pay the rent? 'Get two jobs' or 'move to Adelaide or Perth'
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The nation's top real estate agent has some advice for anyone trying to get on top of property prices, and he admits many people will hate it.
Topics: housing, house-and-home, business-economics-and-finance, australia
Renting: What are the facts?
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The real estate industry and tenant organisations may disagree on whether or not there is a rental crisis, but there are some points where they do agree.
Topics: housing, housing-industry, house-and-home, australia
How a focused, agile Australian space agency can succeed
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Australia was one of the first nations to launch a satellite into space. Now the head of the newly formed Australian Space Agency explains how Australia can return to the forefront of the space race.
Topics: astronomy-space, space-exploration, defence-and-aerospace-industries, australia
'Inaccessible' medical cannabis in Australia leaves patients looking to US
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A father who escaped jail time for juicing cannabis to treat his two daughters who suffer Crohn's disease is now considering sending one of them overseas for treatment.
Topics: health, doctors-and-medical-professionals, cannabis, pain, australia
Father who juiced cannabis for sick daughters avoids jail
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A father who juiced cannabis to ease the suffering of his two daughters has been given a six-month good behaviour bond.
Topics: health, alternative-medicine, medical-research, drug-offences, australia, nsw
Six hundred years of life experience: meet the Umina Beach centenarians
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One retirement village on the NSW Central Coast is home to half a dozen women who have all celebrated their 100th birthday.
Topics: aged-care, population-and-demographics, family, older-people, umina-beach-2257
'The law is my life': East Timor bugging prosecution 'heartbreaking', lawyer says
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Lawyer and former legal representative for East Timor, Bernard Collaery, says the charges against him for allegedly breaching the Intelligence Services Act mean he may never practise law again.
Topics: agreements-and-treaties, security-intelligence, government-and-politics, federal-government, law-crime-and-justice, australia, east-timor
'Bureaucratic bastardry': DVA secretly changed rules to deny veteran's claim
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The Department of Veterans' Affairs secretly deleted an incapacity policy to prevent an injured veteran claiming assistance — without telling the veteran or his lawyer.
Topics: defence-forces, veterans, federal-government, federal-parliament, mental-health, back-pain, australia
'Like Australia Post on steroids': Chinese personal shoppers raiding local shelves
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Ever seen people clear entire shelves of baby formula at your local pharmacy or supermarket? They may be Daigou — the Chinese practice of buying on behalf of someone else — and it's a simple and lucrative business.
Topics: food-and-beverage, retail, economic-trends, globalisation---economy, multiculturalism, babies, australia, china
Trump doesn't have time to 'screw up' US-Australia relationship: Comey
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Former FBI director James Comey tells 7.30 he believes Australia will continue to have a close relationship with the US due to the long-standing bonds between both nations.
Topics: donald-trump, government-and-politics, world-politics, united-states
Cannabis is the only thing easing their chronic pain. Now their father faces jail
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What would you do if you were a desperate dad with two very sick daughters? Tired of waiting for access to legal medical marijuana, Stephen Taylor took matters into his own hands.
Topics: federal-government, states-and-territories, health, diseases-and-disorders, doctors-and-medical-professionals, cannabis, medical-research, australia
Nova Peris unleashes on ASADA over daughter's drug test leak
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Olympic gold medallist Nova Peris is furious that her athlete daughter Jessica's positive result on a drug test was leaked and ASADA saw fit to issue a statement confirming the test, which is only half complete.
Topics: athletics, sport, doping-in-sports, australia
Eye, nose and greed: A drug deal cliche between Facebook friends
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Dimitrios Jimmy Gountounas and Leo Yan Lai Cheung allegedly had a plan to leave a drug importing business they'd been working for to start a multi-million-dollar business of their own.
Topics: drug-offences, law-crime-and-justice, sydney-2000, adelaide-5000, mexico
Meth users top 30pc spike in 'toxic blend' of mental illness and drug use
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More than 40 per cent of meth users have a mental illness, as experts warn Australia is ill-equipped to deal with spiking rates of mental illness among drug users.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, mental-health, australia
In a list of 'bizarre' Trump speeches, this one is up there Analysis
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For an address that pledged to "put aside all of the policy fights in Washington DC", Donald Trump's remarks to impressionable boy Scouts complete with attacks on "fake news", Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama had a decidedly political tone, writes Michael Vincent.
Topics: donald-trump, world-politics, government-and-politics, united-states
Turning pain into poetry success
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A member of the Stolen Generations and a survivor of domestic violence, drug and alcohol addiction, unemployment and homelessness, Ali Cobby Eckermann will next month head to Yale University to receive the largest financial reward in the poetry world.
Topics: poetry, arts-and-entertainment, indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, indigenous-culture, indigenous-other-peoples, aboriginal, race-relations, bullying, alice-springs-0870, nt, australia, canberra-2600
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