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The many images of radiography

JOSH JENNINGS 12:00am Practioners regularly need to upskills to keep apace with medical technology.

Workplace Relations

Riding towards their goals

KRISTIE KELLAHAN 12:00am A major cycling event is a good reason for these school communities to come together.

Workplace Relations

Not speaking out at work can reward fraud

JIM BRIGHT 12:00am Workers calling out a dodgy practice can be subject to significant social approbation.

Workplace Relations

A disruptive view on the topic of disruption

JONATHAN RIVETT 12:00am 'Disruption' might seem like a word tailor-made for today, but isn't it really just a nebulous, undefined buzzword like so many others?

Music

Jose Carreras on following in Caruso's footsteps to take opera to the masses

Jose Carreras:

NICK MILLER 12:00am As he prepares for his final tour, Jose Carreras, one of two remaining Three Tenors, talks of the magic of singing and why the future of opera is in safe hands.

Entertainment

Savvy Shopper: Add a light touch with Pottery Barn

Small Hudson lantern by Pottery Barn.

ALEXIA BIGGS 12:00am Winter winners

Workplace Relations

No place like home for happy admin workers

LINDA MOON 12:00am The digital revolution is transforming the turf for skilled admin workers in regional Australia,

Comment

There's hope in the ambiguous election result

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ELIZABETH FARRELLY 12:00am Right now, for Australia, I reckon a Parliament hovering between the hung and the hapless is the best possible kind.

Comment

The last frontier for women in power is finally in sight

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ANNE SUMMERS 12:00am There are plenty examples of women in power, but there's a far newer phenomenon that's starting to change how decisions are made.

Workplace Relations

MyCareer cover: From gold mine to art and organics

DIANA PLATER 12:00am Words in hereeee xxxxxxxx

Workplace Relations

Meet the boss: Doughnut Time's Damian Griffiths

SUE WHITE 12:00am Former lawyers are out there in so many fields, it's sometimes hard to believe there are any left practising law.

Comment

Life in Australia, right now, right here, is not so bad

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RICHARD GLOVER 12:00am We're living, arguably, in the best place in the world, at the best point in its history. But no one wants to say so.

Comment

Sydney's culture shouldn't dry up because it's cold

Dominic Knight

DOMINIC KNIGHT 12:00am May and June packed full of culture, but there's nothing to do in July and August except hibernate under a doona.

Workplace Relations

Effective procurement looks beyond price

City of Sydney procurement manager Ian Rudgley.

CAROLYN RANCE 12:00am Effective procurement practices can boost reputations as well as budgets

CT Editorial

Greyhound racing ban tough but necessary

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THE CANBERRA TIMES 12:00am There's no room for vacillation when pronouncing a death sentence, and Mike Baird was all steely unforgiveness when he announced the termination of the NSW greyhound racing industry

Movies

Film review: Maggie's Plan

PAUL BYRNES 12:00am MAGGIE'S PLAN

The Age Letters

The young, and the old, vote every three years

Illustration: Andrew Dyson

12:00am Readers discuss columnist Piero Moraro's suggestion that we should grant more votes to younger citizens and fewer to older ones.

SMH Letters

Election results 2016: Malcolm Turnbull's election woe foretold in Herald letters

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12:00am If you were looking for a sign that last weekend's election was going to be tighter and messier than many pundits expected, you could have found it on the Herald Letters page.

TV & Radio

Stranger Things: Horror homage lands perfectly formed

MICHAEL IDATO 12:00am This love letter to the horror movies of the 1980s is terrifyingly good.

Art & Design

Archibald Prize: six winners on what it has meant for them and how to paint a contender

Art to art ... Del Kathryn Barton and John Beard share a moment over lunch.

NICK GALVIN 12:00am As the Archibald Prize judges decide this year's verdict, six previous winners talk about what it has done for them and how to paint a contender.

Video World News

Dallas suspect: Wanted to kill white people

A man raises his hands as he walks near a law enforcement officer, following the shootings Thursday of several police officers in downtown Dallas, early Friday, July 8, 2016. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

11:47pm The motivation of one of the Dallas snipers rounds off a terrible week for race relations in the USA.

Entertainment

ACCA head Max Delany aims to broaden the appeal of art

ACCA Artistic Director Max Delany.

ANDREW STEPHENS 11:45pm Fashions may have changed but Max Delany's love of Gertrude Street's rich social and cultural history remains.

Federal Election 2016 Opinion

Election 2016: No Christopher, the Coalition has nothing in common with Hawthorn

Michael Gordon

MICHAEL GORDON 11:45pm Let's re-wind the clock. It's the Tuesday before polling day and Tony Nutt, Malcolm Turnbull's campaign director, rings his Labor counterpart with an offer George Wright could not refuse: a final...

Comment

What a mess we've gotten ourselves into

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MARTIN FLANAGAN 11:45pm We are on the brink of a breaking point between the way politics was done in the 20th century and the way it will be done in the 21st.

Books

Book review: Death on Earth, by Jules Howard

FRANK O'SHEA 11:45pm One way of approaching a subject like death is to say that it is the absence of life, but then you have to define life.

Comment

Who wins Nick Xenophon's Grange for predicting a hung parliament?

Nick Xenophon celebrates with Rebekha Sharkie, his party's candidate in Mayo, at his post election party.

CRISPIN HULL 11:45pm Xenophon said before the election that he would give a bottle of Grange to any journalist who correctly predicted a hung parliament.

Books

Book reviews: Alyzon Whitestarr, The Sorcerer's Daughter, The Summon Stone, First Light

COLIN STEELE 11:45pm An Australian young adult fantasy classic gets a new lease of life, writes Colin Steele

About Town

Geelong is a destination for great food, wine, coffee, art, theatre and history

Take a walk along the Geelong waterfront.

RICHARD CORNISH 11:45pm Six reasons to visit Geelong

Art & Design

Visual art review: Sally Gabori retrospective

Sally Gabori at 82, a year after she made her first painting.

JOHN MCDONALD 11:45pm Late-blooming artist Sally Gabori's large-scale paintings express her deep feelings for her family and homeland.

Canberra Life

Robert Mapplethorpe, Larry Clark in haunting new exhibition at National Portrait Gallery in Canberra

Sebastian, 1980, by Robert Mapplethorpe.

SALLY PRYOR 11:45pm A new photography exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery explores the complexities of youth and individual expression, writes Sally Pryor.

Federal Election 2016

Federal election 2016: How the west was won by NSW Labor Party general secretary Kaila Murnain

NSW Labor secretary general Kaila Murnain.

MICHAEL EVANS 11:45pm She's the 29-year-old Labor boss too busy planning elections to organise her own wedding, writes Michael Evans.

Comment

Protectionists do Australia no favours

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MIKAYLA NOVAK 11:45pm The federal Parliament is now dangerously stacked with politicians peddling anti‑globalisation agendas contrary to Australia's interests.

Canberra Life

Litbits July 9, 2016

RON CERABONA 11:45pm What's happening in the literary world in Canberra and the region

Comment

This is no time for wreckers

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TIM COSTELLO 11:45pm Australia is emerging from this federal election not so much divided as ambivalent. The parliament is almost evenly split, the Senate chaotic, Labor triumphant in defeat and Malcolm Turnbull much...

20 Things Melbourne

Weekend planner

CRISTINA NATOLI AND SEAN WILSON 11:45pm Our guide to the best of the weekend's events.

Comment

A much more optimistic vision of old age

WENDY SQUIRES 11:45pm I am not worried about my final years. I'm actually looking forward to them.

Movies

Scandinavian Film Festival 2016 brings rising star Jakob Oftebro to Australia

PETER CRAVEN 11:45pm The handsome new ''prince'' of Danish TV will be on hand at the Scandinavian Film Festival to talk about his two offerings.

Theatre

From singin' on the sidelines to Singin' in the Rain: the understudy's story

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ELISSA BLAKE 11:45pm Sudden illness in the cast can derail a million-dollar production or throw an unknown talent into the spotlight. Meet the understudies.

Entertainment

Even online 'lurkipators' are worth a listen - hairy ears and all

Illustration: Robin Cowcher

MONICA DUX 11:45pm Virtual debates are taking on Stalinist overtones.

Entertainment

Thornbury's Carwyn Cellars is the bar/bottlo for those in the know

HANNAH FRANCIS 11:45pm Carwyn Cellars

Music

Spectrum music review: Car Seat Headrest, Kaytranada, Mutual Benefit

BARRY DIVOLA 11:45pm Three twentysomething artists can't stop making music and putting it out there. Does the quality match the quantity?

Entertainment

Our pick of what's on the small screen

VARIOUS 11:45pm From deepest darkest space in No Man's Sky to the sassy and stylish '70s blaxploitation classic Foxy Brown.

Property

Crocodile Club snapped up by Singaporean group Well Smart Investment Holdings

Singaporean group Well Smart Investment Holdings has acquired the Club Crocodile Resort in Airlie Beach, marking its third hotel purchase in Australia.

CAROLYN CUMMINS 11:45pm Singaporean group Well Smart Investment Holdings has acquired the Club Crocodile Resort in Airlie Beach, marking its third hotel purchase in Australia.

Books

Book review: Complete guide to finding the mammals of Australia

The Complete Guide to Finding the Mammals of Australia, by 
David Andrew. CSIRO Publishing. $49.95

IAN FRASER 11:45pm Pretty much wherever you go in Australia, this book will enhance your natural history experience.

Property

Balmain's Exchange Hotel hits the market

CAROLYN CUMMINS 11:45pm Development sites are being offered across town as investors look for bricks and mortar that can be converted into higher yielding assets when compared to placing cash into the volatile sharemarket...

Comment

Public or private? Lesson on plumbing in there for all of us

DANNY KATZ 11:45pm In both schools you learn stuff, you come out at the end, and you can be whatever you want to be.

Canberra Life

'Like a shot of vodka': The Scandinavian Film Festival 2016 comes to Canberra

Stirring: As it is in Heaven.

JANE FREEBURY 11:45pm This year's Scandinavian Film Festival is by turns bold and beautiful, writes Jane Freebury.

Art & Design

Has Instagram changed photography forever? CCP's birthday brings the present into focus

RAY EDGAR 11:45pm In the time it takes you to read this story, more photos will have been published than in the entire 19th century.

Art & Design

Smartphones become time machines as apps bring history within reach

Port Melbourne, Now and then, from the Passport app.

RAY EDGAR 11:45pm Port Melbourne is the latest testing ground where boundaries between past and present collapse.

Comment

Brexit casts doubt on the wisdom of crowds

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MARK BUCHANAN 11:45pm Smaller groups can actually make better decisions, particularly on complex issues.

Property

Record low rates boost retailers

ANDREW JOHNSTON 11:45pm One could be forgiven for feeling that the retail environment has weakened in the past few years, however there are many aspects of the economy that are supportive of retail and consumers...

Comment

A letter to a clueless couple

KAREN HARDY 11:45pm There's been two letters doing the rounds this week. One, a letter to a wife, one who won't get a job while her husband works himself to death. The other, her imagined reply.

Entertainment

Plotlines

Capability Brown shaped the grounds of Highclere Castle, familiar to many as the setting for TV series <i>Downton Abbey</I>.

MEGAN BACKHOUSE 11:45pm A tribute to the man who made the real Downton Abbey great is among the events coming up on Melbourne's gardening calendar.

Property

Strong demand for food and beverage pubs

CAROLYN CUMMINS 11:45pm Pubs that offer an expanded array of craft beers and food are gaining traction and are more cost effective, say hotel property agents.

Property

No pain, no gain for George Street

CAROLYN CUMMINS 11:45pm It has been the talk of the town for a long time, but as the reconstruction of George Street in in full swing, attention is now on the retailers along the strip.

Property

Leasing Ladder

CAROLYN CUMMINS 11:45pm SYDNEY $675 sqm gross

Entertainment

In Dandenong, there are more than 150 ways to say welcome

Mariam Issa and Abdi Aden at the Dandenong Market.

HANNIE RAYSON 11:45pm From an official Refugee Welcome Zone come tales of courage that capture hearts and minds.

Canberra Life

Strong women are the best inspiration, says Canberra artist Julie Bradley

Visual artist Julie Bradley at her studio at M16 Artspace.

SALLY PRYOR 11:45pm A chance visit to an English museum set Julie Bradley's art practice on an entirely different course, she tells Sally Pryor.

Movies

Having wooed Michael Fassbender, is Alicia Vikander about to conquer Hollywood?

Alicia Vikander at the Australian premiere of Jason Bourne in Sydney on July 3.

ANDREW STEPHENS 11:45pm At 27, the former Swedish soapie star has the film world at her feet.

Movies

Maggie's Plan review: Greta Gerwig shines in funny, smart gender study

Ethan Hawke and Greta Gerwig in <i>Maggie's Plan</i>.

PAUL BYRNES 11:45pm Director Rebecca Miller once again gets away with surprising us.

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Brexit vote sparks protests

Protesters gather in London and Scotland to show support for the EU in the wake of Britain's vote to leave.