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Three Court of Appeal justices have handed down their decision and Erin Patterson, sitting in a small room near a window in prison, has learned her fate. Follow our live updates.

Three appeal judges rejected Patterson’s plea for her conviction to be overturned and instead increased her sentence because of her “shocking criminality”.

A Hong Kong judge who has overseen high-profile national security trials, including the collusion case of former media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, has been promoted to the Court of Appeal. A Judiciary statement on Thursday said the chief executive had accepted the recommendation of the Judicial Officers Recommendation Commission to appoint Court of First Instance judge Alex Lee Wan-tang to his new role, with his appointment taking effect on the day. Handpicked by the city leader to adjudicate...

For commuters who have endured pink replacement buses for years, the opening of the final stretch between Sydenham and Bankstown could not come soon enough. Follow live.

Chinese academic courses designed to deepen understanding of different countries or regions face a challenge in better informing policy and moving beyond frameworks developed in the West, a conference in Beijing has heard. Speakers said that as the country’s international engagement deepened, it needed a better understanding of the nations it engaged with, including their political systems, histories and strategic priorities. The discipline – known in China as “area studies” – draws on...

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Ashley Paul Griffith has been charged with committing 202 child abuse offences over more than three years while he was employed at a Sydney childcare centre.

Mushroom murderer Erin Patterson has lost her appeal and instead been re-sentenced to life behind bars without parole.

A potentially historic drop for Alphabet’s stock is dragging the US market lower after the company behind Google and YouTube reported weaker growth than analysts expected.

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PN also fields candidates against Bersatu as tensions persist.

Chinese scientists are less satisfied with their jobs than researchers in any other major country, according to a survey that also found they are more optimistic about their careers than their counterparts in the United States and Britain. Only 51 per cent of the 157 respondents from China said they were satisfied with their jobs, according to the survey published this month in the British scientific journal Nature, down 24 per cent from 2018. The survey drew 3,882 respondents from 133...