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A photo of Sara Connor from her supporters in Byron Bay.

New bizarre claims in Sara Connor's Bali interrogation

1 hr ago

As many as 68 per cent of those surveyed said they did not keep track of their extras.

How Australians are losing out on their health insurance

Kate Aubusson

This Macgregor house was sold by overseas scammers in 2014.

International scammers sold her house, compo came from government

1 hr ago

A photo of the woman who is alleged to have thrown a banana at footballer Eddie Betts on Saturday night.

Banana-thrower admits 'terrible mistake' even as father defends her

Silver medallist Feyisa Lilesa repeated his protest on the podium.

The story behind the Olympic medallist's crossed arms

Rodney Croome: "If the Coalition allowed a free vote, marriage equality could pass tomorrow.''

Marriage equality free vote 'would pass both houses'

Michael Koziol

Coach has an 'easy fix' for the Wallabies after flogging

The 'conundrum' keeping Sydney's auction market hot

Why have we made Roxy Jacenko into the essence of a female villain?

COMMENT

Let's hope he's right: Census boss calls fiasco a blessing in disguise

ANALYSIS
Matt Wade

Former NRL player faces court over 'wedding assault'

Sanaa Derbas netted $2 million from seven victims

$2m lonely hearts fraud: Sanaa reeled her victims in one by one on Lavalife

1 hr ago

Barbra Streisand is tired of your pronouncing her name incorrectly.

When Streisand wasn't happy with Siri, she called Apple's CEO

Chloe Esposito wins gold in the women's modern pentathlon.

Rio's most surprising moments

Shop owner asks Kanye to pay up for pop-up shop

Vacation

This company literally forces its employees to go on vacation

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Growing old with Bridget Jones

Dangerous customers: The Sharks are a force to be reckoned with.

Sharks desperate to break two-match losing streak

The Plitvice Lakes are laced together by waterfalls in a pocket of wooded hills in central Croatia.

The most beautiful destinations on the planet

'I hope you die': Salim Mehajer screams in videos

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Sanaa Derbas pleads guilty to defrauding $2 ...

7:53PM

Bali police murder: New bizarre claims in Sara ...

7:52PM

Michael Bohl.

Swimming Australia hits back at criticism over Rio performance

Phil Lutton

Matthew Dellavedova.

Boomers lament ref decisions after heartbreaking loss

"Well short": Kitty Chiller sums up Australia's disappointing performance in the Rio Olympics.

Kitty's final word: We fell short; well short

Samantha Lane

Bitter defeat: Australia's Andrew Bogut.

The Boomers had an Olympic medal, but for five seconds

Rainy Rio wraps up on upbeat tropical note

CLOSING CEREMONY

Ethiopian wins silver but fears he will be killed if he goes home

Usain Bolt tries his hand at javelin

Melo stars as Team USA win third straight gold in men's basketball

petrol generic

Motorists missing out as global oil prices plummet

Matt O'Sullivan

Dumping official allegedly accepted bribes to ignore asbestos: ICAC

Controversial former mayor sues staffer for negative report mention

Woolworths customers have complained about the current loyalty scheme, saying it is too hard to earn Woolworths Dollars.

The downside for Woolies shoppers under new loyalty program

FAMILY 050706 BRW PICTURE BY JESSICA SHAPIRO / afrphotos.com GENERIC family business, people, staff, employer, employee, ...

The $22,000 running cost Sydney families pay each year

Cheryl Ardler's Facebook account was accessed more than 100 times in 2013.

Woman's Facebook 'accessed 100 times after she was killed'

Sydney wet weather in August this year. Photo by Edwina Pickles.

Pack your umbrella, winter isn't finished with Sydney yet

Dominica Sanda

Mussie Debresay leaving court where he faces charges of murder and manslaughter.

Toddler stomped to death after 'urinating on couch', court hears

VIC

This Macgregor house was sold by overseas scammers in 2014.

International scam sold her house, compo came from government

ACT
Megan Gorrey
1 hr ago

Seventeen-year-old Charlotte Verley, pictured on the family farm, believes 17-year-olds should be able to get their ...

Don't lower the driving age, warn doctors and road safety experts

VIC

Raymond Ellery was just five when he suffered a stroke after being assaulted at kindergarten.

From a stroke after a kindergarten assault...to a soccer star

WA
Justin Rake

Senator Cormann has challenged Labor to 'step up to plate' and work with the Coalition to pass savings through Parliament.

Cormann ramps up pressure on Labor over budget repair

James Massola

Marriage equality would pass both houses if free vote granted

Michael Koziol

Half of female AFP members say they've been sexually harassed

The Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Employment Minister Michaelia Cash at the Coldstream CFA to announce they intend ...

Premier has a 'sinister purpose' says Malcolm Turnbull

Asylum seeker Mehran Jabar says everybody in Nauru detention has stress, depression and many 'use tablets for sleep'.

In Nauru's ghost camps, refugees sleep away the pain

EXCLUSIVE
Nicole Hasham

Former High Court justice Michael Kirby has warned against a plebiscite on same-sex marriage.

Michael Kirby warns gay marriage plebiscite 'a dangerous precedent'

Tom McIlroy

Nick Xenophon will move that the Senate economics committee investigate replacing the inflation target with one for ...

Xenophon leads push to axe inflation target

EXCLUSIVE
Peter Martin

Advertising material from the commemorative event.

Mao tributes in Australia sharpen community divide

Philip Wen

Silver medallist Feyisa Lilesa repeated his protest on the podium.

What is the story behind Olympian's crossed arms?

Colin Cosier

In what would be a stunning turnaround, Donald Trump looks poised to set out a plan for "legalisation" of illegal immigrants.

Trump's change of heart on migrants could be his biggest flip-flop yet

ANALYSIS
Aaron Blake

Sergey Aksyonov, "prime minister" of the autonomous republic of Crimea, right, attends the opening day of the St ...

Promised prosperity never arrived in Crimea, locals say

Maria Tsvetkova

Illustration: Jim Pavlidis

The topic we don't mention when we talk about school results

COMMENT
Sonia Orchard

Teens are sharing their lives online like never before.

Why I'm glad I was a teen without a smart phone

COMMENT
Jennifer Duke

Airbnb could become part of the solution to the housing crisis not part of the problem.

How Airbnb can help fix our inner-city housing crisis

COMMENT
James Norman

At the halfway mark, a rather large 70 per cent of companies have increased dividend payments compared with this time ...

Why more Australian companies are paying out dividends

Michael Pascoe

Commonwealth Bank says higher funding costs and capital requirements are causing it to reduce the size of interest rate ...

CBA pulls back in mortgage discount war

Clancy Yeates
1 hr ago

Graeme Wood, the founder of Wotif.com.

He sold wotif, now Graeme Wood is putting money into biotech

Brian Robins

Australian Securities and Investments Commission chairman Greg Medcraft.

Banks scolded in BBSW stoush

Patrick Durkin

Motorists failing to reap full benefits of lower oil prices

Matt O'Sullivan

ASX slips on US rate hike talk

Vanessa Desloires
1 hr ago

Airtasker taken to task over '$20,000' claim

Georgia Wilkins

ATO pledges tougher action on tax debts

Georgia Wilkins

There's a lot to consider when it comes to paint.

Renovate safe: the best products for the biggest home jobs

Linda Moon

Reigning Block champion Dea Jolly.

Dea Jolly: Ten things I wish I'd known before The Block

houzz

Do you really need to make your bed every day?

A Birchgrove auction on Saturday.

The 'conundrum' keeping Sydney's auction market hot

Jennifer Duke

The sale of Origin Energy chief Grant King's Neutral Bay home has set a new suburb price record.

Sale of Neutral Bay trophy home smashes suburb record

Lucy Macken

Jarryd Rubinstein holds the Guinness world record for the most consecutive muscle ups, which he has held since 2010.

Everyday heroes: the world record holders you didn't see in Rio

Fitness
Gary Nunn

Mortlach 1939 is billed as the oldest single malt ever bottled.

Rare whisky turns to rivers of gold for investors

Fine Drinks

When Woolworths South Africa bought David Jones, once shareholders passed a scheme of arrangement, it became compulsory ...

Corporate takeover? Decide for yourself whether to sell your shares

Scott Phillips

A mortgage broker puts the borrower at the centre of the process.

Why using a mortgage broker gives borrowers more power

Mark Bouris

Jess May is an accidental entrepreneur who has forged a new direction.

I started my business from a Facebook post

Christine D'Mello

The way forward will involve serious regulation of the online SME lending industry.

Online SME payday lenders are alive and all too well

Neil Slonin

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Entertainment news highlights

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Luck lands major title

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Rio 2016: Tears and tantrums on final day

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Sydney tops nation's transport costs

Steven Jones-Evans

Cancer breakthrough: 'It genuinely is a game changer'

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Season 1 & 2 of UnREAL, now streaming.

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Spaced - starring Simon Pegg.

AGNSW

The Cate Blanchett monologues at AGNSW

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AGNSW

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SMEG

Is this the perfect oven?

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Thor: Ragnarok star Chris Hemsworth thanked the people of Brisbane for putting up with disruption from filming the ...

Fans rejoice as Thor and Loki take over Brisbane city

Nathanael Cooper
1 hr ago

Barbra Streisand is tired of your pronouncing her name incorrectly.

Barbra Streisand has an age-old problem with Siri

Ebony Bowden

Baron Toots Thielemans and Madame Thielemans at Laeken Castle in Brussels, Belgium, on May 6, 2014.

The musician who performed Sesame Street theme song has died

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Roxy Jacenko on 60 Minutes: the two-segment interview split viewers.

Roxy Jacenko is a ratings winner for 60 Minutes

Karl Quinn

Frank Ocean's 17-track album <i>Blonde</i> is a compelling and stimulating experience.

Frank Ocean's second album is more low key brilliance

Bernard Zuel

Lou Pearlman was credited for starting the boy-band craze and launching the careers of the Backstreet Boys and 'NSync.

Backstreet Boys, 'NSync creator dies in prison for fraud

Michael Burke

Let's take this challenge offline so we can unpack the synergies and tear down the silos.

This bunch of Survivor contestants are damn hard to like

COMMENT
Michael Lallo

Toby Kebbell plays Messala Severus (back) and Jack Huston plays Judah Ben-Hur in <i>Ben-Hur</i>.

Ben-Hur flops as audiences lose faith in biblical tales

ANALYSIS
Karl Quinn

Fawlty Towers Live

Fawlty Towers review: Strong start but Basil and crew need to let fly

Jason Blake

Andrew Henry in <i>Look Back in Anger</i>.

Look Back in Anger review: Plenty of heat but little cold fury

Jason Blake

Ben Folds.

Ben Folds with yMusic review: The piano pop maverick still has it

Lucy Cormack

Roxy Jacenko opens up to Alison Langdon during the interview on 60 Minutes.

Roxy Jacenko: don't like her? Then look away

COMMENT
Melissa Singer

Callie Thorpe's wedding portraits and candid words have gone viral.

'You are deserving of happiness no matter your size'

Members of Team United States dance during the Closing Ceremony on Day 16 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at Maracana ...

Best and worst dressed at the Rio 2016 Closing Ceremony

Hooray, sexism erased!

Pop the champagne, 56 per cent of men say sexism is over

What I learned about love after going on 13 blind dates

Madeleine Dore

Life Beyond the Warzone, words by Ruby Hamad, images by Dalia Khamissy.

Life beyond the warzone in Syria

Ruby Hamad

Tall people are more likely to be right-wingers, finds study.

Tall people more likely to vote conservative, study finds

Lee Kofman's visit to Sexpo with her mother was a surprisingly bonding experience.

I took my mother to Sexpo

Lee Kofman

BASE Jumping

Extreme sports are good for mental health

Jennifer Morton

food craving

How to overcome food cravings

Jacqueline Alwill

weight loss

How to spot a dodgy weight loss program

Paula Goodyer

Cubby's Kitchen is at the forefront of a Middle Eastern wave in Surry Hills.

Just Open: At the forefront of Surry Hills' Middle Eastern resurgence

Scott Bolles

Spicy hot beef and tofu by Neil Perry.

Weekly meal planner: Neil Perry's spicy tofu 'n' mince

Tiger prawns at One Ford Street.

Bucket list: Sydney's best Italian food 2016

Good Food Guide Team

varney

The intimate photos that helped a mum get her groove back

Cat Rodie

Nicola Jackson, 15, says she doesn't plan to change her ways and is expecting another letter.

Parents' list of teen girl's "catalogue of crimes" has gone viral

Ariane Beeston

Helping children grow up to be happy, healthy, strong, kind and capable.

Raising awesome teens in a chaotic, sexualised world

Maggie Dent

Cathay Pacific Premium economy.

We test premium economy seats on one of the world's best airlines

Andrew Bain

The Plitvice Lakes are laced together by waterfalls in a pocket of wooded hills in central Croatia.

These are the most beautiful destinations on the planet

Brian Johnston

Aurora Australis in the ice.

The cheapest way to experience Antarctica

Annie Dang

Microsoft's Hololens augmented reality headset offers a glimpse of the future.

Hands on with Microsoft's Hololens

COMMENT
Adam Turner

taobao

The social network Facebook would kill for

Selina Wang

Windows 10's Anniverary Update was supposed to improve many of the system's features, but in at least one case it's done ...

Millions of users angry after Windows update breaks camera

Darren Orf

SAMSUNG CSC 2016 Hot Gadgets - USB-C

What exactly is the fuss about USB-C?

Gizmodo

Why intelligent aliens might look like us

Matthew Wills

The 2016 Lamborghini Centenario was unveiled at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.

Lamborghini's new $3m drop-top

Dom Tripolone

2016 BMW 2002 Hommage.

BMW 2002 Hommage revealed

Dom Tripolone

the fact that Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6 carries the Maybach designation could signal that Mercedes-Benz plans to let its ...

Maybach reveals its future

Greg Kable

In hot demand: the 2017 Ford GT supercar.

Ford GT production to double

Stephen Ottley

Subaru's Levorg GT-S offers WRX power in a practical package.

New Subaru Levorg GT-S reviewed

David McCowen

Traxxas Slash 4x4 radio controlled car.

Father's Day Gift Guide

Dom Tripolone

Crunched: George Burgess is tackled during the round 24 NRL match between the South Sydney Rabbitohs and the Cronulla ...

Live: Rabbitohs v Sharks

Easy fix: Nathan Grey is not concerned after the Wallabies' rout at the hands of the All Blacks.

Wallabies defence woes easy fix: Grey

Adrian Warren

Marquee: Brazilian Bobo has signed for Sydney FC from Gremio.

Sydney FC sign Brazilian striker Bobo as second marquee

Adrian Warren

FFA Cup debut: Tim Cahill.

Cahill in line for shock FFA Cup debut in northern Brisbane

Twitter rage: Robert Allenby.

Allenby unleashes on 'haters' comparing him to Lochte

1 hr ago

A photo of the woman who is alleged to have thrown a banana at footballer Eddie Betts on Saturday night.

Banana-thrower agrees to undergo training: Port

Full house: University of Hawaii's home turf, Aloha Stadium.

Why you should be excited for Sydney Cup

Matt Bungard

New faces: Damian McKenzie is one of five new faces to come into the All Blacks squad for the second Bledisloe Cup game.

Uncapped Ioane among quintet called into All Blacks squad

Storm captain Cameron Smith congratulates Cooper Cronk after he scored a try in the round 26 match against Brisbane.

Storm can't afford to let momentum slip: Cronk

Roy Ward

Old-fashioned carve up: Blake Ferguson breaks through the Dragons defence.

Sorry Dragons blown off the park by Roosters

ANALYSIS
Phil Gould

Chris Lawrence

NRL to review players using phones in sheds

Adam Pengilly

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