What $400,000 buys you in Melbourne
Entry-level house hunters will find it twice as hard to enter the market.
60 Minutes involved in child abduction case in Turkey
Show was involved in filming another child recovery - this one in Turkey - ...
Richmond sluggish on all fronts
Club is just one loss away from conceding the inevitable.
MKR: we are the champions
And so it has come to this. Who would have thought, when this season of My ...
Detention on Manus Island 'illegal'
Nation's top court orders end to one of Australia's most controversial policies.
Mitsubishi testing scandal deepens
Car manufacturer admits it has been cheating on fuel efficiency data for 25 ...
Ump calls time on negative gearing
For defenders of negative gearing, it's bad news.
Casey council votes to reject mosque
Casey Council votes to reject a proposed mosque development in Narre Warren ...
Body found at home in Bentleigh
Homicide Squad investigating after a woman's body was found in a Bentleigh home.
China pulls plug on coal-fired power
China halts plans for new coal-fired power stations in many parts of the ...
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Australia's new subs to be built by...
Twelve-strong fleet will be built in South Australia, with France's DCNS winning the $50bn contract. Courtesy ABC News 24.
Victoria
'Mouse' killer to be held for 25 years
Former private school student detained in psychiatric hospital after stabbing homeless man.
Dwindling supplies: Water trucked into Lorne
Water authorities have started trucking water to Lorne to protect the coastal town's dwindling supplies.
Confusion over future of CSIRO Melbourne lab
The future of a major climate change laboratory in suburban Melbourne is in doubt after the national science agency announced it would cut hundreds of jobs and sets up a smaller global warming research centre in Tasmania.
Bushfire threatens homes near Daylesford
A large bushfire threatening homes near Daylesford is under control.
National
Navy officer bashed on Anzac Day train
A Navy officer has been bashed by a group of men on a Sydney train while returning from an Anzac Day service.
Federal Politics
Manus verdict: immoral and now illegal
The PNG Supreme Court has given Malcolm Turnbull cover to end the inhumanity of ...
Labor sets out ambitious carbon cuts
A Shorten government would slash carbon emissions by about 50 per cent more than the ...
Coalition shifts to tackle bracket creep
Treasurer Scott Morrison's first budget will now include previously ruled-out changes ...
'Five days after' contraceptive pill launched
An emergency contraceptive that works up to five days after unprotected sex has been ...
Clive, Australia's political prisoner?
Sketch We're not sure which gulag Clive Palmer has been condemned to inhabit, ...
Votes for boats: meltdown avoided
Analysis This decision may save Christopher Pyne from defeat in his own seat at the ...
Business
Mitsubishi cheated testing for 25 years
Improper testing goes as far back as 1991, deepening a crisis that has already wiped out half of the company's market value.
Chinese chain woos Australian farmers
Three years ago Chinese supermarket chain Winha had no customers. Now it has 800,000.
Australian branded in cattle cartel sting
Massive fines for Indonesian importers could 'kill' export industry.
$A 'significant overvaluation' call
Even if the dollar is "significantly overvalued", that is unlikely to prompt another rate cut by the RBA.
Australia's most charitable suburbs
Australians appeared to dig deeper for others in the past year.
China curbs coal power plans
China has halted plans for new coal-fired power stations in many parts of the country.
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Executive Style
Five of the best in-flight menus
The battle to win the hearts and stomachs of fliers continues to heat up.
Money
What life is like on the age pension
Surviving on the age pension requires spending almost nothing on items such as gifts, music, home improvements or overseas holidays.
Small Business
How NOT to run a business
Is it really OK for personal trainers to compromise the safety of their clients?
Twenty one workers for '$200 a week'
Jobs in Africa count the same as ones in Australia, industrial umpire rules.
Property
What $400,000 buys you in Melbourne
First home buyers may have it easier here than in Sydney, but lower-priced homes are largely in a couple of suburbs.
Comment: The perversion of negative gearing
COMMENT The buy, rent, rent strategy can be cheaper than the most obvious home ownership path. How?
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Chernobyl: inside the exclusion zone
April 26 marks the anniversary of the world's most notorious nuclear disaster. 30 years later Chernobyl remains a desolate, yet offbeat tourist destination.
Entertainment
Beatles footage emerges after 50 years
An Australian has released a never-before-seen clip of the Beatles from 1965, and it perfectly captures the fab four.
Album sales soar for Prince
The music of Prince rocketed to the top of the weekly US Billboard 200 album chart after the singer's sudden death last week.
Radio
Australia Overnight
Start the weekday with Luke Bona, from midnight to 5.30am.
Lifestyle
Is Rita Ora 'Becky with the good hair'?
Queen B has hot sauce in her bag and she's not afraid to use it.
Michael Mosley's 'mostly' approach
Does the GP and health expert follow his own advice? Not necessarily.
Are Jay Z and Beyonce over?
Hell hath no fury like a Sasha Fierce scorned.
Eighties flashback! Kylie rocks a perm
... Not to burst your nostalgia bubble, but two top hair stylists reckon it's just a wig.
Pete Evans marries Nicola Robinson
The My Kitchen Rules judge and the "Nutrition Mermaid" announced news of their private wedding via a front cover for New Idea magazine on Monday.
Foods loaded with sugar, salt and fat? Bring it
Dark chocolate is in. So, too, is beef jerky. And full-fat ice cream? You bet.
Good Food
The Wolf of Flinders Lane
This is a thronging Italian-but-oh-so-Melbourne restaurant and a pre-theatre winner to boot.
It's easy being green
Popeye would approve of this spinach-packed pasta dish that's ready in less than 30 minutes.
Melbourne's vegan hall of fame
Here are the top 10 plant-based eats around town.
Melbourne's top 50 bars
Knees ups, cocktails, craft booze: get up to speed on the city's bar scene.
$50k grill to smoke up Chinatown
It's just a sliver of vacant land now, but by September it'll be a two-level Japanese-Korean-Chinese eatery.
Daily Life
The beauty tax women pay
It's an 'ugly' attitude so deeply ingrained in society that most people don't even see it.
When celebs make their fans' day
Game of Thrones' Maisie Williams has really outdone herself in the being-awesome-to-fans stakes.
The actors struggling for recognition
These Aussies are in your favourite Hollywood movies and TV shows but you wouldn't know their names.
Woman shamed for knee-length dress
"I'm tired of ignoring these things. These men slut-shamed me in front of my own home."
Technology
My awful year with the Apple Watch
I stopped wearing it two months ago, and I'm not sure if I'll ever wear it again.
Aussies the worst GoT pirates
We top list of most pirated downloads, but more also tuned in to Foxtel than ever before.
Lemonade already available on iTunes
After 24 hours of exclusive access on Tidal, Beyonce's visual album releases elsewhere.
Vox's something old, something new
New outlet is old-school gadget blog, will exist primarily as a Facebook page.
Microsoft should stop making phones
COMMENT: No one will miss them when they're gone.
Email showdown: Gmail v Outlook.com
Despite Gmail's renown, Microsoft's site has built itself into a competent competitor.
Drive
Six most popular sports cars of all time
They are the cars that dreams are made of, but how many of those dreams have become reality?
Holden toughens up Colorado
More American style for popular workhorse.
Sport
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Fabregas reflects on a season 'so bad'
Cesc Fabregas admits he 'forgot how to play' football during a poor run of form at the start of the season.
Nichols may face grand final ban
Western Sydney Wanderers are at risk of playing the grand final without their second top scorer.
Victory's Delpierre retires
Melbourne Victory has a giant hole to fill in their A-League defence with Matthieu Delpierre announcing his retirement from football.
Castro wins Johnny Warren Medal
Perth Glory star Diego Castro has won the A-League's highest individual honour.
AFL
Rance: I'm absolutely remorseful
Richmond defender apologises to Jack Watts after accepting a two-match ban for striking the Melbourne forward.
The best foreign footballers
It's hard enough to succeed in AFL when you've grown up with it.
How Dockers became so bad, so quickly
A lot of people had fears Fremantle would one day reach this juncture.
Comment
Anti-vaxxer film is just another deceit
Amid World Immunisation Week, a film by a frontman for the anti-vaccination movement is being rolled out in US cinemas.
Umpire calls time on negative gearing
When rival politicians argue about negative gearing, most of us find we don't know enough to decide who's right.
Mothers, talk to your daughters more
Mothers must down tips and advice on surviving and thriving in the workplace.
Training on living animals saves lives
From "king hit" to "coward punch"