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Bendigo Health Construction Mgr Adam Hardinge and soil.
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Fraud charges laid over $630m hospital project

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A Jetstar tailstrike during takeoff at Melbourne Airport is being investigated by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau.

Hundreds of passengers stranded after Jetstar flight grounded

Marika Dobbin and Nick Toscano

Isabella Rees, with her large brown eyes and cheeky grin

'Pinocchio's nose': High anxiety in Clifton Hill over proposed tower

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton deadlocked

You're not alone 'Diamond Joe': Insolvencies on rise

Patrick Hatch

'Men don't do that': Councillor incident won't derail Saad: Eade

Bella donates to charity - without earning a cent

Cyril Rioli soars overa crowd of Swans players to mark.

Rioli's last-gasp winner breaks Swans' hearts

Dominic Bossi

The revelation of the cost of President Francois Hollande's haircuts has caused a storm of protest in France.

CoiffeurGate: Cost of Hollande's haircuts raise hackles

The Age, News. Matcha Mylkbar taste testing of a new Blue Algae Latte, pictured is the inventor Zoe Annabel.Pic Simon ...

Melbourne has reached peak wellness. And I'm not happy.

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Pokemon Go, while fun, has created some concerns.

Man wakes up to find his home is a Pokémon Go gym

This guy spends $2.75 a year on food and eats like a king

'Wounds never heal'

Prenuptial Housing is designed to split apart when a couple breaks up.

The home that splits in two if you split with your other half

Kids' sport food sponsors are 90 per cent unhealthy

Woman stabbed housemate to death over $50, trial told

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She woke in a pool of blood: hospital misdiagnosed baby who swallowed button battery, coroner hears

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Search for missing Greensborough schoolboy

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A man is led away from the Laverton motel by poilice

Suspected armed robbers arrested after siege at Laverton motel

Craig Butt, Nino Bucci, Nick Toscano

'Gut-wrenching': Woman and baby boy die in balcony fall

Craig Butt, Chloe Booker, Deborah Gough

Student boom at Kambrya after documentary aired

Henrietta Cook, Education Editor

The privacy commissioner will investigate the Department of Health and Human Services after a series of security ...

Privacy watchdog to investigate agency over foster care breaches

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Beau Donelly

Search continues for Melbourne mother Karen Ristevski

Tammy Mills, Cameron Houston

The car's owner was 'concerned he may well have died', County Court judge David Parsons said.

Drug-addled driver ran red light, hit car, killed partner, court told

Adam Cooper

A man holds up a sign saying "black lives matter" during a protest of shootings by police, in Washington, Friday, July ...

Thousands expected at Melbourne Black Lives Matter rally

Nick Toscano
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The Royal Commission heard the child's mother gave evidence that her daughter, aged 10 at the time, imitated oral sex ...

Oral sex act blamed 'on TV'

NSW
Rachel Browne

The new Perth Children's Hospital's roof is riddled with asbestos.

Hospital roof riddled with asbestos

WA
Heather McNeill

The scene of the golf buggy collision on Hamilton Island.

Hamilton Island buggy crash caused by brake failure

Cassandra Gibson with her two-year-old daughter Ella in a Perth park.

MH17: Family takes legal action against airline

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Tim Barlass

Tatts won a $540 million payout, which the state has since appealed, while Tabcorp is hopeful of a $686 million windfall ...

Revived push from key crossbench MPs for $1 max pokie bets

Richard Willingham, Tom McIlroy

Nauru minister lashes out at Australian media

Nicole Hasham

Joyce is key, claims ex-Hanson right-hand man

Tom McIlroy

Former foreign minister Bob Carr says the sooner the media ignore Pauline Hanson the better.

Carr warns against being 'deputy sheriff'

Daniel Flitton

Trade minister Steven Ciobo will be in Europe this week to discuss a free trade deal.

'A little alienated by a globalised world'

Kevin Andrews has called on Malcolm Turnbull to be 'magnanimous' and reappoint Tony Abbott to cabinet.

Andrews becomes 'Father of the House'

Nicole Hasham

PM says win equals mandate

Michael Koziol

US Pres. Ronald Reagan saluting, bidding farewell to troops upon his leave of office. (Photo by Diana Walker//Time Life ...

Is Trump Reagan reincarnated?

Paul McGeough

Boris Johnson visits a factory as part of the 'Vote Leave' campaign.

Theresa May puts Boris back on the high wire

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Maher Mughrabi

Phou Ratana, center, wife of Cambodia's prominent political analyst Kem Ley, arrives at a shopping mall where her ...

Wife of slain Cambodia critic 'wishes to flee'

Daniel Flitton

A supporter of Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee attends a campaign event in The Woodlands, ...

Republican platform veers far to the right

Jeremy Peters

Let's be wiser about Pauline Hanson

COMMENT
Julie Szego

New push for $1 maximum bets: Independent Senator Nick Xenophon.

Three ways to make them tell the truth

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Peter Martin

Mobiles are a weapon for change

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Josephine Tovey

DJs sales leaves them laughing

Catie Low

Payments to suppliers are in the frame after Dick Smith's administrator McGrathNicol revealed plans to claw back about ...

Dick Smith suppliers, dividends targeted

Catie Low

Only now is 'Twiggy' happy to dig deep

Colin Kruger, CBD

Change the only constant: Prime Minister Paul Keating speaking to John Laws in 1993.

Few could disrupt like Keating

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Harold Mitchell

Joe Gutnick, whose debts stand at $275 million, issued a $2.7 million loan just 16 days before going bust.

Financial hardship on the rise

Patrick Hatch

Clive Palmer says he's back in the money.

Deadline for Clive Palmer's nickel refinery

Jobless rate up despite surge in number of full-timers

Mark Mulligan

Reserve Bank would likely 'pressure bank profitability'

Clancy Yeates

Banks help ASX back above 5400

Jessica Sier

Are plastic cards on their way out?

Clancy Yeates

Nintendo shares lift on PokemonGO

Tim Minchin has earned accolades from New York, London and Sydney for his award-winning stage adaptation of Roald Dahl's ...

Acclaimed musician Tim Minchin swaps Hollywood for Australia

What I wish I had known before buying off-the-plan

The apartment was designed and built by architects Schwartz and Gross.

Why is no-one interested in buying this New York penthouse?

Man wakes up to find his home is a Pokémon Go gym

Property price growth is expected to slow over 2017.

Five graphs that show Australia's property price growth is over

Excavator parked in an open cast pit at change of shift

Getting to grips with big boys' toys

John Ewoldt

(L-r) Alan (ZACH GALIFIANAKIS), Stu (ED HELMS), Doug (JUSTIN BARTHA) and Phil (BRADLEY COOPER) raise a toast on the ...

Is the boozy buck's party dead?

Nigel Bowen

Australians investing in resources companies have a particularly tricky task.

Resources investors keep faith

Scott Phillips

Derryn Timms at her house that she rents out to the market in Eden. It???s called Char-ree-leera on KB Timms Drive. ...

Tax deductions for landlords

Melissa Browne

Five hours a week of deliberate learning could make a huge difference to your future success.

Forget a four hour week - try this

Tony Featherstone

Fairweather, now 26, had a conservation starter ready to go in his first days of business.

Entrepreneur life: what no one tells you

Jock Fairweather

Woman and baby die in fall

This issue won't go away: Xenophon

Ambulance GPS' system 'failed'

Karen Ristevski: Police search riverbanks

Helen Mirren dazzles in a tense drama

The ethics of drone warfare

Critically acclaimed dark military thriller

Accenture - Digital Disruption: Embrance the future of work

3 keys to success in the digital economy

Building Victoria's Skills Base

Celebrating Multiculturalism In Western Australia

Mel B, Geri Halliwell and Emma Bunton are reunited 20 years on from the Spice Girls debut.

Spice Girls new song is 'perfect pop'

Ebony Bowden

Chloe Bowles, <i>MasterChef Australia</i>.

MasterChef, you need to lighten up

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Larissa Dubecki

Asher Keddie's sex scene with her real-life husband Vincent Fantauzzo was one of the raunchiest scenes in ...

Keddie in on-screen romp with husband

Ebony Bowden

Daniel Radcliffe in <i>Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II</i>.

From Harry Potter to farting corpse

Karl Quinn

Home for good, solo for now: Peter Garrett's first solo album is energised and never just adequate.

No Oils, no problem for Garrett's album

Bernard Zuel

Ghostbusters faces ban in China

Michael Idato

In competition at Cannes: Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga in <i>Loving</i>.

Edgerton shines in civil rights drama

Ebony Bowden

Rebecca Maddern was a hit with Footy Show viewers in her first appearance on the program.

Where are the female sports presenters?

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Craig Mathieson

Artist James Powdtich entry in the Archibald portrait prize of Cath Keenan which is now in the Salon des Refuses.
11th ...

Salon des Refuses soothes Archibalds rejection

OKOT_JB_D01_00013.CR2 Ewan McGregor in Our Kind of Traitor.

Le Carre thriller loses beating heart

Sing Street riffs on an overly familiar theme

Jennifer Aniston blasted tabloids in a powerful essay this week.

Do fans want Jen to be pregnant?

Emily Yahr

As everyone who has a brother or sister will know, dealing with your familial other halves can be complicated.

Best of friends - or foes from birth?

Linda Blair

Taylor Swift touched down in the Gold Coast today

Taylor Swift 'boob job' rumours

Amy Croffey

Beyonce joins 24 other celebrities in a new PSA against racial violence in the US.

Beyonce in Black Lives Matter video

Calvin Harris had addressed his relationship with Swift in a series of Tweets.

Calvin Harris calls out 'hurtful' Taylor

Michael Idato

Tarang Chawla with his sister Nikita before her she was murdered in January last year.

'I think I'm young enough to see change in my lifetime'

Jenna Price

Adam Goodes and Slush The Pig on Play School.

Adam Goodes in 'Play School' debut

Rob Moran

Ms Dhu, whose first name is not used for cultural reasons, died after she was held at South Hedland Police Station in ...

The issue not foreign to Australia

Louisa Gardner

Sun Herald News story by, Eamon Duff. Sydney Dogs and Cats Home, it has been a central drop off point for abandoned ...

Admit it. Baird's got this one right

Ruby Hamad

Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling in 'La La Land'.

Watch Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone dance

Robert Moran

The truth about protein shakes

Pete Evans uses a non-approved sunscreen.

Sunscreen anyone? Worrying new stats

Avoid this approach to eating

Senator Sam Dastyari eats a halal snack pack.

Senator Sam Dastyari shows how to make a halal snack pack

Sharnee Rawson

Neil Perry's chocolate fondant cake with Grand Marnier poached oranges.

Fancy a feast for Bastille Day? Here are our best French recipes

Cookies-and-cream doughnut sliders for breakfast

Matt Holden

The Webb quads: Abigail, Mckayla, Grace and Emily.

Identical quads star in adorable photoshoot

Cat Rodie

Claire Warner, 41, is raising awareness of a little-known warning sign of breast cancer: a barely noticeable dimple.

Viral photo reveals breast cancer sign

Ariane Beeston

Ten hilarious answers kids gave on tests

An Australian passport provides visa-free entry to 169 countries, but it's not so easy to access other nations.

The hardest countries for Australians to visit

Huge snow dump hits resorts after Antarctic blast

An Airbus A350 takes off at Farnborough Air Show.

Airbus A350's amazing near-vertical take off

Woman tourist take selfie photo from the boat on Cai Rang floating market, Can Tho, Vietnam Woman tourist on floating ...

Snapchat to change how we remember

David Beer

For phones, antivirus software is less important than strong passwords.

Is it antivirus software, or snake oil?

COMMENT
Peter Wells

Google launches Android Pay in Australia

Tim Biggs

It's a phone, Jim, but not as we know it.

Boldly go where no phone's gone before

Cynthia Karena

There are many ways of searching for vinyls - some more rewarding than others.

How to find old, rare vinyl records

Rod Easdown

New E-Class smarter than an A380

Tony Davis

Ford is set to confirm the Edge as its new Territory replacement.

Ford closer to Territory replacement

Andrew MacLean

Lamborghini Miura reviewed

Jez Spinks

New Holden Colorado revealed

Dom Tripolone

Renault Alpine A110 is one of the best examples of a French sports car.

Vive la révolution: Best French cars

Dom Tripolone

Land Rover Autonomous All Terrain technology.

The self-driving car that can go anywhere

Dom Tripolone

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JULY 14: Cyril Rioli of the Hawks is congratulated by team mate Ben McEvoy of the Hawks after ...

Rioli sinks Swans at the death

Dominic Bossi

Thomas closing in on new Kangaroos deal

Daniel Cherny

Cats dump Clark after one game back

Daniel Cherny and Larissa Nicholson

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JULY 10: An angry Saints head coach Alan Richardson walks away from the huddle at three quarter ...

Saints must close gap between best, worst: Richo

Tess Ikonomou

Mitch Clark has been dropped by the Cats.

AFL teams: Round 17

Mason Wood will miss six to eight weeks.

North's Wood to miss six to eight weeks after surgery

Larissa Nicholson

Jimmy Bartel says we should look outside the top four for premiership contenders thanks to the bye round.

Time ripe for premiers to come from outside top four: Bartel

Ronny Lerner

Gloved one: Nathan Buckley makes light of Travis Cloke's "illegal" glove.

Glove comes off as joker Buckley aims to spoil Adelaide party

Corinna Lagerberg

Leishman's sorry start to British Open

Darren Walton

Ambitious: Australian chef de mission Kitty Chiller speaks during the Australian Olympic Games rugby sevens team ...

Australia aims for 16 Olympic gold: Chiller

Georgina Robinson

Cahill set to play for Melbourne City

Dominic Bossi