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Lochte made up robbery after breaking door at petrol station

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Reward for hard work: Australia's Ken Wallace and Lachlan Tame with their bronze medals.

Aussie wins bronze after $5000 bet over a beer

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Bolt smiling - but Gatlin could have the last laugh

Medals	G	S	B	Total
1. USA	31	32	31	94
2. GBR	21	21	13	55
3. CHN	19	15	20	54
10. AUS	7	8	10	25
Full Medal Tally

Cleanaway is one of two companies targeted by scammers in Brisbane City Council.

Scam that conned $450k from council could be interstate

Tony Moore

Jackie Trad, Deputy Premier of Queensland, right, and Cameron Dick, Queensland Minister for Health at a protest this ...

State government looks to UNESCO as tree clearing laws stumped

Amy Remeikis

The earthquake that struck off the coast of North Queensland on Thursday could have been much worse if it was closer to ...

Queensland's earthquake could have been devastating

CCTV images appear to show a teenager with ankle-cuffs being held down at the Townsville centre.

Bolt says it 'wasn't cool' for de Grasse to try to beat him

British athlete held up at gunpoint in Rio: report

Govt halts 'poison time bomb' dingo plan

Amy Remeikis

Calls for Quirk resignation over council property deal

Cameron Atfield

The car of the future is well on its way.

Who gets fined in a driverless car?

Cameron Atfield

White Desert’s main campsite, which comprises six sleeping pods.

Antarctica now has a luxury hotel

Luxury

The site is 35 kilometres from the Brisbane CBD.

Entire shopping village hits market

Back from injury: Brett Morris is tackled during the round 16 NRL match between the Canterbury Bulldogs and Brisbane ...

Broncos v Bulldogs

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DuoSkin's metallic tattoos allow people to create three types of user interfaces on their skin.

Temporary tattoo can control phone

Schoolgirl website is 'disgusting'

H&M has opened a new store, its 12th in Australia, at Pacific Werribee.

H&M; coming to Toowoomba months earlier than expected

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'I’d just hit the love of my life'

Bali police seek Australian woman over ...

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Broncos reignite top four contest

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The stunned, bloodied face of a child survivor ...

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The proposed new Townsville Stadium would seat 25,000 people with room for future expansion.

Townsville stadium could be 'Opera House of the north': Turnbull MP

Cameron Atfield

Two other councils targeted by scams before Brisbane was duped

Tony Moore

British family searching for 'Australian Mary Poppins'

Amy Mitchell-Whittington

A controversial ad posted online by a Brisbane company said "qualified trades" could expect up to $30 an hour while ...

'Fat Australian chicks': Tradie ad on Gumtree draws fire

Amy Mitchell-Whittington

Austin Wilshire, 18, and Bernd Hartzer, 24, designed the Make Census Great Again project at The Code Network hackathon.

Did two QUT students build a better census in 54 hours for $500?

Jorge Branco

A review has prompted a call for more transparency around religious instruction in state schools.

Religious instruction to remain in Qld schools

Amy Remeikis

Ben Hunt and James Roberts, right, celebrate a try for the Brisbane Broncos against the South Sydney Rabbitohs in April.

Broncos player 'woke in ambulance'

Adrian Proszenko

Footage shows alleged abuse in youth detention

The house in the exclusive suburb of Peppermint Grove has remained partially-built since 2010.

Oswal's 'Taj Mahal on the Swan' to be demolished

Mitra Alavi, sister of murdered hairdresser Leila Alavi, leaves the NSW Supreme Court on Thursday.

'She didn't obey rule of marriage': Man stabbed wife 56 times

The monitor appears to have split in two.

Mum's warning to parents after baby monitor goes bang

Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison says he was only "following orders".

Morrison says he was following Abbott orders against Gillard

Mark Kenny

Super cap exemptions: Divorce settlements in, lottery wins out

Fergus Hunter

We're moving part-time as the jobs market hollows out

Peter Martin

Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove says Vietnam veterans were treated shabbily.

'Look after your own', G-G tells Vietnam vets

David Wroe

'I won't be defamed': Dutton launches assault on the media

Australian Defence Minister Marise Payne.

Fall of Mosul could spread IS fighters, Payne warns

About 1000 Australian veterans have travelled to Vietnam for the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan.

Large crowds and Hanoi intervention led to Long Tan cancellation

Vietnam War veterans atttend the 40th anniversary of the Battle for Long Tan at the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne.

Why Vietnam objected to Long Tan ceremony

ANALYSIS
Lindsay Murdoch

A policeman stands between portraits of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and the republic's founder, ...

Four problems facing Turkey - and its region - in 2016

ANALYSIS
Maher Mughrabi

He's surprised too. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump .

Cut off from reality: Trump spokesman leaves facts behind

Chris Zappone

Scandal-ridden: Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak.

PM Najib 'wants to help' on humanitarian crises

Lindsay Murdoch

Third of schoolgirls, 14, shared naked selfies

COMMENT
Madonna King

Sisters in arms: Cate and Bronte Campbell after the 100m freestyle final.

Please still love me… even if I got you sacked

COMMENT
Bill O'Chee

Labor has hung out 'closed for business' sign

COMMENT
Tim Nicholls

The claim does not say how much in damages and lost income the applicants are seeking.

Racketeering, wire fraud: Australian banks sued in US

Sarah Danckert

Victorian government wins $1b lottery

Colin Kruger, CBD

Hip replacement is quite a business with a cost of about $25,000 per hip.

Leave Australia to fix your hip without hurting your hip-pocket

Harold Mitchell

Australians are paying record amounts for health insurance.

Health funds win big, not their members

Esther Han

Payment fraud jumps to $469 million

Patrick Hatch

Treasury Wine's $800m pot of gold

Simon Evans

Origin tells government to butt out

Brian Robins

Woolworths under pressure to stitch up hardware sale

Catie Low

IKEA's 2017 catalogue is a bleak look at our near future

Ipswich shopping village with 22 stores hits the market

The Blacks Beach house fetched $1.9 million at auction.

Shock $2 million property sale in struggling region

An entry in the 2014 Cubby House Challenge.

The Cubby House Challenge is back

Nicole Frost

What it's like to live in an actual treehouse

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An affordable classic by the team at MJ Bale. This shirt is in a slim Cuban Fit (which can be worn ...

How the humble flannelette shirt became a legit style icon

Men's Style
Stephen Lacey

People are entitled to their opinion, but that doesn't mean you have to listen to them.

Ten people you should unfollow on social media immediately

Culture
Mikolai Napieralski

Bring on the 'hard-nosed conversation' for the age pension

George Cochrane

Raised from the dead: Unlike the character Jon Snow in Game of Thrones, death is final and we need to plan for it.

Jon Snow in Game of Thrones and why we all need an estate plan

Catherine Robson

Sponsoring the Olympics is big business. Simone Biles is now considered the greatest female gymnast in the world.

Sports sponsorship: Why it's a big deal

James Adonis

Ludwina Dautovic says the fact she only used the internet at 30 hasn't held her back from launching a start-up.

'How I became a tech entrepreneur at 50'

Bhakthi Puvanenthiran

Alleged abuse at Townsville detention centre

Filming setup in Brisbane for the latest Thor movie

Thor to shut Brisbane streets

Riverside apartments snapped up

Schoolgirl website is 'disgusting'

generic medley image for promotion of the interactive hub page Featuring Will Power, cool threads and little women ...

The Vanishing Island

Love isn't always a fairytale. Beauty and the Beast, now streaming.

Fringe - every episode of the sci-fi drama now streaming.

The take up of contactless payment options is accelerating at a rapid rate.

How to present choice to customers

Advertiser Content

Hacker with binary codes looking directly to the camera iStock pic for Cyber Crime story Hacker / computers /technology ...

Cyber criminals target Australia

Advertiser Content

Michael Leunig: View the collection

Fairfax Shop

Megan Marx told bachelor Richie Strahan she couldn't fall in love with him in such an intense environment.

Megan's shock Bachelor exit provides raw emotion producers dream of

COMMENT
Ebony Bowden

Back to Gotham: A new animated <i>Batman</i> movie featuring the voices of Adam West and Burt Ward is on the way.

Holy comeback! Ageing caped crusaders return to Batman

Linda Morris

Lady Gaga has reinvented herself a few times on her journey from shock value pop star to Tony Bennett collaborator to ...

Lady Gaga to star in remake of A Star Is Born

Ebony Bowden

Daniel Radcliffe goes undercover as a skinhead in new film <i>Imperium</I>.

Daniel Radcliffe apologises for character's racial slurs

Hannah Furness

JK Rowling is keeping the Potter franchise alive.

JK Rowling unveils 'brand new treat' of three more Harry Potter books

Latika Bourke

Nancy (Blake Lively) in Columbia Pictures' THE SHALLOWS. Blake Lively in?The Shallows.?

Blake Lively shark tale The Shallows is a classic thriller

Jake Wilson

Megan Marx refuses a rose from Richie Strahan on Wednesday night's <i>The Bachelor</i>.

'Super, super weird': Megan Marx walks out on The Bachelor

Christine Sams

Frank the sausage, voiced by Seth Rogen, leads his edible friends on a mission to escape the supermarket in a bid to ...

Sausage Party animators allege 'unfair pressure tactics' by studio

Amelia Zhou

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - AUGUST 16: Lord Mayor Graham Quirk announces the start of construction to restore Teneriffe?s ...

Teneriffe's engine room to be transformed into a riverside cafe

Cameron Atfield

Matt Le Nevez will star in a new film being shot in Queensland.

All-star cast lured to Queensland for new film for Foxtel

Nathanael Cooper

Brisbane kids cafes with play areas

Lucy Hordern

Label donates cash from Ivanka Trump purchase to Clinton campaign

Rob Moran

Inside Amy Schumer, Thursday 15th October at 10.15pm on ABC2. M Mag TV Previews by Melinda Houston. Image supplied by ...

Inside Amy Schumer may be on its way out, according to her tweets

Patrick Ryan

Fashion blogger Liz Black "models" a sample size dress to protest the absurdity of fashion runway sizes.

A fashion blogger's hilarious take on the absurdity of sample sizes

Daisy Dumas

My parents' strong relationship gave me unrealistic expectations about my own search for a partner.

My parents' happy marriage ruined my love life

Tracey Lloyd

What is hair contouring and why it can change your look

Melissa Singer

Khadija Khatab, one of the eight state media anchorwomen suspended and told to lose weight.

Egypt has suspended eight female TV anchors for being 'overweight'

Nour Youssef

Semenya Caster from South Africa crosses the finish line to win the women's 800-meter at the International Mohammed VI ...

Caster Semenya is a woman. Full stop. Why is that difficult?

COMMENT
Amy Middleton

I learned to sew as a part of a solid promise made to myself earlier this year, and so far, it has been more rewarding ...

I've taken up sewing my own clothes

Tara Moss

Success ain't no slippery slope for Alex "Chumpy" Pullin

The Juice Daily

Floating yoga - the new wellness trend

Sam Bailey

More files of this series and models on port.

HIIT workouts really are the Holy Grail of health

Benjamen Judd

From classic to choc-banana, here are the best cheesecake recipes

A classic caipirinha at Lotforty Bar in Darlinghurst.

How to make Brazil's national cocktail (or where to drink it)

Fred Siggins

Midweek family dinner: Teriyaki chicken and tofu meatballs

Adam Liaw

Seven Year Switch's Jackie poses nude while heavily pregnant

Staff writers

Spot the difference: Australian Federal Police post a message for parents.

Think you're posting a harmless selfie of your child? Think again

Ariane Beeston

Mum pens hilarious letter to husband as she is leaving for a girls weekend away.

Mum leaves hilarious note for dad before leaving for the weekend

Minaret Station, near Wanaka, New Zealand.

Five private ski experiences that will make your friends so jealous

Rachael Oakes-Ash

Why do we crave tomato juice more than other beverages when we're flying?

Why you should drink tomato juice at 35,000 feet

You won't look at odd at all: The 'head hammock'.

Could the 'head hammock' make sleeping on planes easier?

Gavin Haines

ARENA chief executive Ivor Frischknecht and ITP Renewables' managing director Simon Franklin with the Samsung All In One ...

Boosting understanding of renewables storage

Clare Sibthorpe

A smartwatch that's smart in both senses of the word.

New Moto 360 watch combines looks, brains

Cynthia Karena

These temporary tattoos can control your phone or store your files

Steven Overly

A compact camera, great for high-quality holiday snaps.

Panasonic's little travel camera stands tall

Peter Wells

Screenshots provided by developer Hello Games show off the many different ways to play.

Lost, lonely and loving it in No Man's Sky

Tim Biggs

Volkswagen is set to introduce a baby SUV based on the T-Cross concept.

VW prepares SUV onslaught

David McCowen

New Honda Civic reviewed

Daniela Intili and Stephen Ottley

Ford reveals special edition Ranger

David McCowen

VW boss blasts Hyundai

David McCowen

Ford plans to have a fleet of self-driving taxis on the road in 2021.

Ford to build self-driving taxi

David McCowen

Hyundai and Google could work together on next-generation vehicles.

Hyundai discussing partnerships with Google

Brothers-in-arms: Alistair and Jonathan Brownlee celebrate after winning the triathlon.

Glory for brothers as pair take gold and silver in triathlon

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Early exit from high jump in Rio: Eleanor Patterson seen here in Beijing.

Shattered Aussie at a loss to explain her early exit

53 mins ago

Usain Bolt wags his finger at Canadian runner Andre de Grasse.

Bolt says it 'wasn't cool' for rival to try to beat him

Not all Rio volunteers have carried out their duties.

Why Rio's anti-doping measures are the 'worst' ever

Bolt-less Jamaica into semis, US await

Michael Gleeson
46 mins ago

Birkenhead 'over the moon' after reaching shot put final

57 mins ago

Why Great Britain won the velodrome - and Australia flopped

Victoria Pendleton

British athlete robbed 'at gunpoint' in Rio

Cool head: Matt Giteau can dictate the game for the home side.

Why nobody should write off the Wallabies

ANALYSIS
Paul Cully

Nick Kyrgios smashed three racquets in quick succession.

Kyrgios destroys three racquets in anger

Shaved ACT Brumbies David Pocock and Matt Toomua at Wallabies training.

Brumbies duo Pocock, Toomua shave heads in support of Lealiifano

Chris Dutton

Leppitsch says he is unsure about his future.

Leppitsch rates relationship with Matthews 9/10

Ronny Lerner

Bronco investigated over drama at Normanby Hotel

Adrian Proszenko

Set for some time on the pine: Scott Fardy (right).

Wallabies coach drops a Bledisloe bombshell

Anthony 'Rumble' Johnson insists his days at welterweight weren't wasted.

UFC 202: Rumble makes most of second coming

Liam Ducey

Dilruwan Perera, right, and Kusal Mendis celebrate the dismissal of David Warner.

Series defeat a 'hard one to grasp', says Smith

Jon Pierik