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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made remarks to the media in Launceston on Tuesday 3 September 2013. Election 2013. Photo: ...

Majority of cabinet supported Rudd's bid to be UN boss

Latika Bourke

ANZ, Westpac and now National Australia Bank are all caught up in the ASIC's rate rigging investigations. What about the ...

Reserve Bank rate cut: Big banks short-change mortgage holders

Peter Martin

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It wasn't ...

63-year-old becomes oldest Aussie woman to give birth: reports

Neelima Choahan
1h ago

Private boys school Trinity Grammar in Kew, Melbourne.
14TH FEBRUARY 2012
PHOTO: PENNY STEPHENS
THE AGE

Former Trinity Grammar worker to be tried over historical sex charges

An image from Warren Kirk's Westography

The western suburbs that time simply forgot

Kylie Northover

This undated frame grab from video provided by Bashar Sakka, producer of the sit-com, ???Um Abdou the Aleppan,??? shows ...

Child star killed by missile as he tried to flee war

Josie Ensor

Australian Marriage Equality boss quits to oppose plebiscite

Chloe Booker
56m ago

Federal police rule on election day 'Medi-scare' texts

Tom McIlroy

'He made a deal with the devil': Trump slams Hillary supporter

'Laughing killer' jailed for 20 years over murder of homeless man

Adam Cooper

Turnbull hires key backer as chief economist

Fergus Hunter

Richmond lead

'Bloodless' coup being planned at Tigerland

Caroline Wilson
1h ago

Pregnant Rebecca Judd recoiled as Nine News colleague Tony Jones kissed her goodbye.

Pregnant Bec Judd's awkward on-air farewell

weights

The five most overrated gym exercises of all time

Shower scene from Rio: Andrew Bogut putting the shower curtain up in his bedroom

#IOCLuxuryLodging: Bogut takes swipe at Rio accommodation

If all else fails, you can always hide the mess.

The faker's guide to getting your house in order

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Buffett slams Trump: 'Have you no sense of decency, sir?'

How a month off the booze changes your body and bank balance

Packing always takes much longer than you think.

Eight things you always forget about moving house

$15 an hour: the 'going rate' for Koreans

12:24AM

Rodney Croome quits Australian Marriage Equality role over plebiscite

12:15AM

Health minister battles trifecta of hospital scandals

11:53PM

Andrew Churchyard was able to continue to practice as a doctor despite facing charges of sexually abusing patients.

Patient plans to sue doctor's estate over sexual misconduct

Julia Medew, Richard Baker, Nick McKenzie

Ghost buses haunt the roads but Night Network trial extended

Benjamin Preiss and Clay Lucas

Four-wheel-drive rams into police car in Melbourne CBD

Neelima Choahan
1h ago

Willow lost her six-week battle on Tuesday.

Vale Willow: Melbourne Zoo's six-week-old baby elephant dies

Craig Butt, Daniella Miletic

A 62-year-old man has been taken to The Alfred hospital after being lost for four days in the forest around Bacchus Marsh.

Man found after four days lost in the bush near Bacchus Marsh

Neelima Choahan
1h ago

The Gatwick Hotel in St Kilda.

Police surround Gatwick Hotel after 'sighting' of man wanted over murder

The white sedan hit one of the men.

Dramatic images show car crashing into pedestrian in CBD

Daniella Miletic

Luckier than some ... Malcom Turnbull was able to recover most of his investment in PlayUP.

Another roll of the dice for venture PM once backed

The group of cyclists travel on General Holmes Drive.

Truck driver films 'road rage' spray at cyclists

NSW
Georgina Mitchell

Mystical Fire has been blamed for children falling ill at Deception Bay North State School.

Health alert after 'Mystical Fire' poisons school kids

QLD

Sewerage testing has found West Australian's use $2 billion worth of methamphetamine each year.

Meth in the water reveals state's $2b drug problem

WA
Heather McNeill

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has received mixed advice on the wisdom of challenging the Herbert election result.

Scale of Coalition's poor election result slowly emerges

ANALYSIS
Mark Kenny

No police action on Labor's election 'Medicare' text messages

Tom McIlroy

Shorten says right-wing 'puppet masters' will control Turnbull

Fergus Hunter

Scraped home in South Australia; Family First Senator Bob Day.

Family First re-elected to Senate in SA, Labor and Greens miss out

Michael Koziol

Peter Hendy conceded defeat on election night, becoming the first one-term Eden-Monaro MP since the 1970s.

PM hires key backer Hendy as chief economist

Fergus Hunter

Dinkus for Mark Kenny . Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Turnbull must find courage to avoid a bleak future

ANALYSIS
Mark Kenny
1h ago

Peter Dutton spoke to Ray Hadley.

PNG court orders Australian Manus resettlement plan

A man films Li Wenzu, left, wife of imprisoned lawyer Wang Quanzhang, holding a paper that reads "Release Liu Ermin" as ...

China rights activist 'confesses' to subversion

Philip Wen

Seaweed farmer Nikodemus Manefa works off the Indonesian island of Rote, where locals say their fish stocks and seaweed ...

Farmers launch class action over Montara oil spill

Jewel Topsfield

Citizen Vain: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is a meme sensation #DonaldTrumpTheMovie.

Billionaires turning on Donald Trump

Paul McGeough

Gregg, Kathryn and Lachlan Brain with Scottish MPs in Edinburgh in May. The Australian family have lived in the Scottish ...

Australian family fails to win reprieve from deportation

Nick Miller

To be lonely is to suffer, and the grim fact is that more than a quarter of people over 65 who live alone are lonely.

Loneliness is a modern curse - and it needs our children to lift it

COMMENT
James Bartholomew

Anyone can adapt to a lifestyle of no commute, no brittle mornings, no cringey small talk. It's no less natural than ...

The office has had its day

COMMENT
Erin Stewart

Show we only tick Christian on the census if we can sign off on the Nicene Creed?

Religious identity has meaning

COMMENT
Michael Jensen

Concerns include a general clause that says a resident can lose the right to reside in the village if they cease being ...

Elderly trapped in 'financial exploitation'

EXCLUSIVE
Adele Ferguson

Investigations found the underpaid workers were receiving illegal flat rates.

$15 an hour: the 'going rate' for Koreans

Nick Toscano
47m ago

The big four banks want to protect their profits and are not passing on rate cuts in full.

Banks act to protect profits

Clancy Yeates and Patrick Hatch

Illustration: John Shakespeare.

Not all fun and games at Seven

Colin Kruger, CBD

Tesla-town plan for mega development

Simon Johanson

Nothing to fear but fear itself

COMMENT
Tracey McNaughton

Incriminating tapes out of context: Westpac

Sarah Danckert

Coles battles to get fresh on the shelves

Catie Low

Having my own house gave my life a sense of certainty.

How buying a house gave me something a relationship couldn't

If all else fails, you can always hide the mess.

The quickest ways to get your house clean and in order

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - AUGUST 01: Krystina Witt (L) and Hannah Townley poses for a photo on the window sill of their ...

What it's really like to live in the heart of Melbourne

Packing always takes much longer than you think.

Eight things you always forget about moving house

The owners of Chateau de-la-Motte Husson traded in their East London flat to buy the fairytale castle in the Loire Valley.

Family swaps city flat for fairytale chateau in France

Dappr Aviation suggests many uses for the fuselage pieces it converts into small rooms, including a poolside cabana.

The funky new rooms made out of tired old airline jets

Stephen Lacey

Boghossian Jewels boulder opal and emerald butterfly brooch.

Luxury jewellery creating a bit of a buzz

Melissa Pearce

Martin Flood is concerned that ASX rule changes will make it harder for him to access sharemarket floats.

Small investors to be locked out of sharemarket floats

John Collett

Personal loans are cheaper than credit cards.

The cheaper debt product Aussies forgot. Hint: it's not plastic

Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon

The Pokemon game Pokemon Go has swept the world.

Pokemon Go a great new marketing channel

Alexandra Cain

Anthony Mitchell explains the real barriers to true business leadership in Australia.

Why leadership is failing in Australia and how to fix it

Anthony Mitchell

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Sinkhole getting 'bigger and bigger'

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PM on probation: Shorten

Federal Politics

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Melbourne Zoo unable to save baby Willow

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'16 years of peace' after laughing killer jailed

Power

Power Season 3, fast tracked every Monday

the last ship

The Last Ship - new episodes fast-tracked every Monday.

roadies

It's more than a job. Roadies - new episodes every Monday.

Downer

Is Victoria’s economic future here?

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AMEX

Customer service makers & deal breakers

Advertiser Content

AMEX

The business rules of attraction

Advertiser

Citizen Vain: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is a meme sensation #DonaldTrumpTheMovie.

Trump's war with Hollywood just got viral

Aja Styles

Quitting ... AC/DC's long-term bassist Cliff Williams, left, with Stevie Young, Angus Young, Chris Slade, and now ...

Is AC/DC over? Tour could spell end for Young

Aja Styles

Reunited and it feels so good: Kyle Sandilands and former newsreader Geoff Field.

Sandilands kisses and makes up with gay newsreader after feud

Michael Koziol

Rebel Wilson's cameo as an air steward hostess in Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie.

Rebel Wilson filmed Ab Fab movie role in one day

Danielle McGrane

Pregnant Rebecca Judd recoiled as Nine News colleague Tony Jones kissed her goodbye.

Pregnant Judd's awkward on-air farewell

Ebony Bowden

Ethicist Peter Singer on Q&A.

Controversial ethicist accused of advocating infanticide on Q&A

Neil McMahon

Taking the mick ... Tatum (centre) in one of his most famous roles in Magic Mike.

Channing Tatum to wear a tail in reboot of fishy classic

Sarah Thomas

John Cleese has launched his own YouTube channel "to benefit the advertising revenue".

John Cleese wants you to know he's 'still alive' and working

Sarah Thomas

A garden in Sunshine West proudly landscaped with topiary hedges is among the photographs from Warren Kirk's book ...

Warren Kirk's Westography reveals beauty in the 'burbs

Abdul Abdullah, Self Portrait as Ophelia, 2015. Oil and resin on board, 180x110cm. Courtesy the artist. Part of ...

Fresh paint: The canvas makes a comeback in new ACCA show

Kate Lyn Sheil in Kate Plays Christine, screening at MIFF 2016.

MIFF 2016 review: Kate Plays Christine is utterly compelling

David Jones ambassadors Jessica Gomes and Jesinta Campbell preparing for the launch of the 2016 Spring/Summer ...

How David Jones gets its ambassadors ready for the catwalk

Melissa Singer

Kanye West wants to collaborate with Ikea.

Kanye West wants to collaborate with IKEA

Amy Croffey

Oprah Winfrey on stage during her An Evening With Oprah tour in 2015 in Melbourne.

Why Oprah uses this Rodin face oil on her feet

Stephanie Darling

Eating more regular, smaller meals may do nothing to curb your appetite.

Study suggests it may be time to stop 'food grazing'

Carrie Dennett

Miss Texas Teen USA 2016 Karlie Hay will be keeping her crown despite her history of racism on Twitter.

Miss Teen USA keeps crown despite her racist tweets

Elahe Izadi

"For all of us in that in-between space, perhaps you don't need to always feel aligned with your environment or even ...

Bleach-laced facials and other challenges of a visit to my parents' homeland

Sarah Malik

The 4th Trimester Bodies Project is a group of women who share images of their post-birth bodies and aim to reduce ...

Why the so-called 'mummy wars' are a load of tosh

Celina Ribeiro

A man prays at a makeshift altar in front of the Tsukui Yamayuri En care center for the disabled on July 29, 2016 in ...

Why didn't Japan's worst mass killing since WWII rate?

Carly Findlay

Getting naked is not about 'empowerment'

Sarah Jayne

#MenInHijabs has gone viral, following a call for men to support women's rights by Iranian journalist and activist Masih ...

Why men in Iran are donning the hijab

Rob Moran

Beautiful sexy woman enjoying the taste of fresh strawberry on a red background

Hedonistic or healthy: What you eat and what it says about you

Sarah Berry

weights

The five most overrated gym exercises of all time

Daine McDonald

Omsk, Russia - September 20, 2015: two runners are running during Siberian international marathon

Compression garments may help with muscle recovery

Gretchen Reynolds

Sticky fingers strawberry sundowner with elderflower soaked strawberries cracked pepper and jam and top tier of Marilyn ...

Love at first bite: Melbourne's best wedding cakes

Jane Ormond

Adam Liaw's restaurant classics: Butter chicken

Adam Liaw

The sweetest drink around: hot chocolates from Yarra Valley Chocolaterie

Frog-in-a-pond: is this Australia's cutest hot chocolate?

Sofia Levin

They wanted to see <i>Bad Moms</i>, but two US women say they were left feeling like terrible parents.

Mums kicked out of 'Bad Moms' screening

Staff writers

The times we need to be mean.

The times when you need to be a mean parent

Maggie Dent

Seven-year-old's tongue after consuming Warheads Juniors Extreme Sour last year.

CHOICE warns parents about the dangers of sour lollies

Ariane Beeston

Tourists relax in the thermal pools in the Bolivian Altiplano.

The wild, weird and unadulterated country no one talks about

The Backpacker
Ben Groundwater

A killer whale attacks a turtle in the Galapagos Islands.

Spectacular killer whale attack caught on camera

Craig Platt

The biennial Flower Carpet festival in Brussels' city square.

Giant flower carpet to take over European city square

Europe
Annie Dang

Some of the new and redesigned emoji that will soon appear on Apple platforms.

New Apple emoji include friendlier pistol

Tim Biggs

Gareth Clear, 36, of Bondi says his iPhone exploded, causing him serious burns, after he fell off his bike on the weekend.

iPhone 'explodes', leaves cyclist with burns

Melanie Kembrey, Lucy Cormack

One of the many popular anti-Niantic images that is circulating now.

Why Pokemon GO's biggest fans are turning against it

COMMENT
Patricia Hernandez

NBN chief executive Bill Morrow.

Why Australia needs an NBN education

COMMENT
Andrew Colley

Intersecting Pokestops (left) have all been removed in the game's latest update.

All Pokestops removed from overwhelmed park

Kathryn Wicks

Flyin' Miata has engineered a V8 conversion for the new Mazda MX-5.

Meet the V8 powered MX-5

David McCowen

2016 Ford EcoSport Shadow.

New Ford EcoSport Shadow revealed

Dom Tripolone

2017 Honda NSX.

New Honda NSX price revealed

Sam Charlwood

BMW is set to go racing with a GT4 version of its M4 coupe.

BMW to introduce M4 GT4 racer

David McCowen

2016 Mini Ray.

Mini reveals cheapest model

Dom Tripolone

New Fiat Chrysler Australia boss Steve Zanlunghi

New boss appointed at Fiat Chrysler Australia

Andrew MacLean

Richmond President Peggy O'Neal.

Tigers board facing coup

Caroline Wilson
1h ago

Andrew Walker made highlight reels around the world with his 2011 screamer over Jake Carlisle.

My mark better than Krakouer's

Ronny Lerner

Prestia, left, looks set to join the Tigers.

Tigers look set to land Prestia

Emma Quayle

Williams has a laugh with Trent Cotchin during a Tigers training session.

Williams told job not guaranteed next year

Caroline Wilson
1h ago

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JULY 30: Darcy Moore of the Magpies in action during the 2016 AFL Round 19 match between the ...

Moore: 'I've got mad respect for Buddy, Lynch, Kennedy'

Larissa Nicholson

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JULY 26: Western Bulldoags coach Luke Beveridge looks on during a Western Bulldogs AFL training ...

Beveridge extends stay at the Bulldogs

Ronny Lerner

David Zaharakis is learning to deal with a tag every week.

Bomber Zaharakis embracing being tagged

Ronny Lerner

Minson warms up before a Western Bulldogs training session.

Bulldogs may look to Minson for North clash

Larissa Nicholson

Ready for Test: Jon Holland fast-tracked a new passport to get to Sri Lanka.

Veteran's Test career takes sudden upturn

Jon Pierik

Shower scene from Rio: Andrew Bogut putting the shower curtain up in his bedroom

Bogut rips into Boomers' Rio accommodation

Tom Decent

Stephanie Catley in action during the AFC women's Olympic final qualifier between South Korea and Australia in Japan.

Matildas' to open campaign days before Rio flame flares

Dominic Bossi

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