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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 08: David Gonski's Proteges - Boss Mag Cover. (Standing in red) Louise Walsh, (cream ...

Elite school hits back over gay teachers complaints

Megan Levy
2 mins ago

Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young said she fought to keep the immigration role.

Greens leader reveals why Hanson-Young was dumped

Michael Koziol
25 mins ago

"You would have to say it poses serious questions": Barnaby Joyce on the pay rise awarded to Murray Goulburn directors.

'Doesn't pass the sniff test': Joyce hits out at pay rise

1 hr ago

United States' Katie Ledecky smiles with her gold medal after the women's 400-meter freestyle during the swimming ...

Olympic champion rejects $7m deals to go to college

Notre Dame posters on Broadway looking towards Central in 2015.

Battle of Broadway: It's war for the city's flagpoles

Kelsey Munro
1 hr ago

Pavlina Pizova was with her partner when he died.

Tourist heard partner's last breath before being stranded for a month

'They liked it': Teenage pregnancy program has reverse effect

Kate Aubusson

'Delusional' Wallabies must admit they won't beat All Blacks, star says

'Getting snapped up': Sydney property market gets a boost

Clancy Yeates

Mother 'was grooming me to be a prostitute'

Brazilian police charge Lochte over false robbery report

1 hr ago

Gopal

'I felt sick': Rising star faced awful dilemma after client licked her face

Kim Arlington
1 min ago

Ninety-nine per cent is exhausting.

The 100 per cent rule: The simple advice that changed my life

United States goalkeeper Hope Solo takes the ball during a women's Olympic football tournament match against New Zealand ...

A big inspiration on the field but a small person off it

COMMENT

Nails Aussie accent ... Dev Patel in <i>Lion</i>.

Dev Patel nails Australian accent in highly-anticipated fim

50 mins ago

LIU

It's time to insure your business' reputation

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What does your desk say about you?

Tennis star Pat Rafter is selling his Sunshine Beach house.

Pat Rafter selling mansion for $18 million

Fresh. Fig figs.
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You'll never be able to unlearn what figs are

'Too young and too pretty': the comment that left ...

10:59AM

Elite Anglican school Kambala hits back after ...

10:57AM

As Trump tries to drop his immigration madness, ...

10:57AM

The NSW government faces having to accept a much lower price in the re-run auction for power distributor Ausgrid.

The decision Mike Baird dreads is his toughest test yet

COMMENT
Sean Nicholls
56 mins ago

We need fresh faces, not a white knight, to save the NSW police

ANALYSIS
Nick Ralston

Balcony barbecue risks 'diabolical' situation for CBD planners

Adoptee Peter Jolly met his birth mother but they did not maintain a relationship.

How Facebook has changed adoption, not always for the better

Rachel Browne

Jamie Carter, daughter of Amanda Carter who was allegedly killed by Ricardo Francis Herman Dasilva. Thursday 25th August ...

Family 'still suffering' six years after brutal murder

Melanie Kembrey

Nick Kaldas has been flagged as a potential replacement for the job.

NSW government struggling to find the next Commissioner

Rachel Olding

Blaise Harris.

'Shaking with anger': Work dried up after teacher's admission

Kelsey Munro

Detectives are looking for this man in relation to a sexual assault at a Narre Warren shopping centre.

Shop assistant told she was 'beautiful' during sexual assault

VIC
1 hr ago

A mother found her child hanging with the swing rope around her neck near Mackay.

Mother revives child who got tangled in swing set

QLD

Brisbane City Council has revised its flood data, affecting thousands of homes.

Brisbane City Council redraws flood risk maps

QLD

A judge ordered the former primary school teacher be released immediately.

Teacher with thousands of child porn photos evades jail term

QLD

Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young said she fought to keep the immigration role.

'Time to refresh': Di Natale defends stripping Hanson-Young of role

Michael Koziol
26 mins ago

Morrison paints $1 trillion debt horror scenario

Mark Kenny

Fischer wants 'massacre tax' on US guns to trump Trump

Tony Wright

A matter for the WA Party: The Foreign Affairs Minister declined to comment on donations to the WA Liberals from ...

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop's links to Chinese political donors

EXCLUSIVE

Farmers who supply Murray Goulburn and Fonterra have been hit the hardest, because they export more than other producers.

Murray Goulburn pay rise 'doesn't pass the sniff test': Joyce

1 hr ago

Rod Culleton, Senate candidate for WA.

One Nation Senator loses appeal, must pay $200k

Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young.

'I'm disappointed': Hanson-Young loses immigration role

Emergency workers search the rubble of a building.

Italy earthquake: violent aftershock sends rescuers fleeing

Do they speak for the working class? Donald Trump and Nigel Farage.

Left has no cultural appeal to voters left behind

COMMENT
45 mins ago

Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor

Attempted breach of Angela Merkel's motorcade in Prague

Iranian patrol boats

US Navy ship and Iranian vessel clash

Malcolm Turnbull gives $5 to a homeless man in Melbourne.

'Stingy is not a word I'd ever use to describe our PM'

Graham Long
57 mins ago

Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison has reminded Australians of a time when inflation was a problem, not an aspiration.

The folly of the 'taxed and the taxed-nots'

COMMENT
Jessica Irvine

Fashion designer Aheda Zanetti and her burqini, modelled by Farrah Zbib.

What Australians can teach the French about the burkini

COMMENT
May Fahmi

Australia Post has returned to profit.

Australia Post returns to profit as letter reforms cut losses

Patrick Hatch
1 hr ago

Investors are refraining from making bigger bets ahead of a speech by Fed chief Janet Yellen, which may provide clues on ...

Markets Live: Caution ahead of Fed

Live
Jens Meyer
23 mins ago

Mount Franklin 'Bosom Buddies' Fundraiser water bottles. Raising money for Breast Cancer Research. Generic. Pic by James ...

Water puts fizz in Coca-Cola Amatil profit

Sue Mitchell
1 hr ago

Lightning Broadband's wireless internet technology can potentially deliver download speeds as fast as NBN fibre, and ...

NBN expects $5b annual revenue by 2020

Lucy Battersby
44 mins ago

What does a messy desk say about you?

Anna Patty

Star Entertainment profit climbs 15pc, beats consensus

John Stensholt
54 mins ago

$2.8m in ANZ and CBA shares dumped on conduct concerns

Clancy Yeates

RBA's rate cut is already making a difference in property market

Clancy Yeates

Tennis star Pat Rafter is selling his Sunshine Beach house.

Pat Rafter selling beachside mansion for $18 million

Rachel Clun
6 mins ago

Andrew Gregory.

McDonald's chief's $4 million buy in Glebe. Want fries with that?

Lucy Macken

Randwick will be Sydney's busiest auction suburb this weekend, including 7 Market Street.

Sydney spring market to open with record-level buyer energy

18A/21 Thornton Street, Darling Point.

Darling Point time-capsule unit sells for $6.3m

Lucy Macken

Tony Connelly's home of his converted attic and the staircase.

Renovators discovering the gold mines in our attics

Christine D'Mello

P. Johnson offer something beyond the traditional off-the-rack suiting.

Ten daring Aussie designers storming the international scene

Men's Style
Benjamen Judd

The average attention span has dropped from 12 seconds to eight seconds, one second less than a goldfish, which can ...

Our attention spans are now even shorter than a goldfish

Andrew May

Illustration: Simon Letch

The downside to investing in property for retirees

ASK NOEL
Noel Whittaker

Emerging markets can rewards investors for taking risks.

Index tracking can miss the mark

John Collett

Snuggle on down and get to sleep for business success.

Why lack of sleep makes you bad boss

James Adonis

Kate Carnell says bank-related complaints are high on the list of small business grievances.

Carnell: A royal commission will solve nothing

Bhakthi Puvanenthiran

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London burkini beach party

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Clinton blasts 'alt-right' Trump

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Tom Hiddleston mimics Chris Hemsworth

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Iran vessels 'intercept' US ship

Alan Moir editorial cartoon for SMH publishing on August 26, 2016

Best of Fairfax cartoons, Aug 26

54 mins ago

stan

Burnt - Starring Hollywood heart-throb Bradley Cooper.

1 hr ago

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The classic children's book The Gruffalo, now streaming.

1 hr ago

AGNSW

Watch Cate Blanchett recite manifestos

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Louise Hearman and her Archibald Prize 2016 winning portrait of Barry Humphries ? Art Gallery of NSW

See the Archibald finalists at AGNSW

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LIU

Insurance in a changing market

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Nails Aussie accent ... Dev Patel in <i>Lion</i>.

Dev Patel nails Australian accent in much-anticipated Lion

Garry Maddox
50 mins ago

Rising star ... Sydney actor Natasha Bassett will play Britney Spears in a new Lifetime film.

Aussie actress to play Britney Spears in unauthorised biopic

Ebony Bowden

Ryan Lochte will reportedly bust a move on Dancing with the Stars.

Lochte tipped to join Dancing with the Stars after PR debacle

Michael Idato

Ricky Gervais aims to put a bit of hope and humanity into all his characters, whatever their flaws.

'I can hardly hear you': a chaotic encounter with Ricky Gervais

Garry Maddox

Writer-director Quentin Tarantino with Samuel L. Jackson and Kurt Russell at the black carpet premiere of <i>The Hateful ...

How to be a film buff in Sydney

Garry Maddox

Zoe Coombs Marr and her comic alter ego, Dave.

Three Australians in the running for the 'Oscars of comedy'

Annabel Ross

Joey Santiago, Black Francis perform at Vivid Sydney in 2014.

Pixies to tour Australia in March 2017

Prince in 2007 performing at the Super Bowl in Miami.

Prince's Paisley Park to be turned into a Graceland-style museum

Michael Idato

Playwright and actor Alex Lykos and actor Janette Lakiss star in <i>Alex and Eve</i>.

'It represents us': Are real Australian voices missing in theatre?

Elissa Blake

Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras' new artistic director Greg Clarke with new CEO Terese Casu.

From Adelaide to Oxford Street: Mardi Gras' new artistic director

Nick Galvin

Jack Huston as Judah Ben-Hur in Paramount's <i>Ben-Hur</i>, which has flopped at the box office.

Review: Bigger than Ben-Hur? More like an epic failure

Jake Wilson

"About one-third of adults who aren't married or living together are in live-apart together relationships like mine."

I decided not to live with my boyfriend, this is why

Sarit Luban

Ninety-nine per cent is exhausting.

The 100 per cent rule: The simple advice that changed my life

Susie Moore

Celeste Barber.

I got in trouble at yoga

Celeste Barber

Lena Dunham (R) and Jemima Kirke pose for the Lonely Girls Project.

Lena Dunham, Jemima Kirke star in NZ lingerie campaign

Mary Ward

Olive's wedding day.

My grandmother's story, unwritten until now

Tracey Spicer

The author and her son. (Courtesy of Sa’iyda Shabazz)

I'm a proud black woman. My son looks white. Now what?

COMMENT
Sa'iyda Shabazz

2016 Doncaster at Randwick Racecourse. Australian model Jen Hawkins. Jennifer Hawkins. Photographed Friday 1st April ...

Myer 'disappointed' after Australian Turf Club ends partnership

Jenna Clarke

Jessica Alba arrives at the Premiere of Summit Entertainment's "Mechanic: Resurrection" at ArcLight Hollywood on August ...

Parties and premieres: Celebrity red carpet watch

detox

Spring cleaning the body with a detox? Read this first

Jacqueline Alwill

Melissa Ambrosini

Why Melissa Ambrosini chooses love over fear

Neela Shearer

desktop

Using social media at work can prevent burn-out

Lindy Alexander

Fleet chef Josh Lewis: “Being off the beaten track means people have to seek you out, which has definitely helped.”

The best restaurants out of Sydney - from the Good Food Guide awards

The Good Food Guide Team
1 hr ago

Fermented pickles and food from the Cornersmith Picklery.

How to live waste-free (is this the end of rubbish?)

KATIE FAULKINER
1 hr ago

Sweet delight of Provini's tiramisu.

How to make tiramisu - step by step video

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'I lost my baby to Zika - women, don't let it happen to you'

Staff writers

Rubble surrounds damaged buildings on August 25, 2016 in Pescara del Tronto, Italy.

Girl, 8, gave her life for her sister under the rubble of their home

1 hr ago

Alan Rickman as Professor Severus Snape in <i>Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban</i> (2004).

Grizzly fan theory sheds new light on complex Harry Potter character

Cat Rodie

'Generally, airline meals get a beating, [but] not all airline meals are created equal.'

An inflight food reviewer rates the best and worst airline meals

Hazel Plush

Just another day at Burning Man, Nevada.

Is everyone really naked? 10 misconceptions about Burning Man

Sarah Theeboom

The sparkling harbour city of Vancouver is well worth a few days.

Six worthy stopovers for Aussies heading on overseas ski trip

Rachael Oakes-Ash

Apple

Apple rushes iPhone fix to stop eavesdropping

Nicole Perlroth
1 hr ago

solitaire

Google adds solitaire game to search results

Tim Biggs

The so-called "Touch Disease" only affects the iPhone 6 and the larger iPhone 6 Plus.

iPhone design flaw leads to screen paralysis 'disease' for many

Stephen Hutcheon

No Man's Sky mixes a saturated, low-fi presentation and meditative synth metal soundtrack with?mysterious, old-school ...

Eight No Man's Sky tips I wish I knew last week

Kotaku

Still no word on where you can get Xbox themed socks or framed murals.

Xbox Onesie: what it's like and how to get one

Tim Biggs

New Porsche Panamera.

New Porsche Panamera reviewed

Stephen Corby
1 hr ago

The Infiniti Q60 will be offered in Australia with a twin-turbo V6 by late 2016.

Infiniti: 'We're not relevant'

David McCowen

Volkswagen Trakkadu AT campervan.

Tested: VW's new campervan

Sam Charlwood

Jeep Cherokee 75th Anniversary: Willys MB meets Jeep Wrangler.

Origin of the (SUV) species

Stephen Ottley

Head-to-head: BMW M4 Competition v Mercedes-AMG C63 S Coupe.

M4 v C63: Which is better?

Stephen Ottley

The Kia Rio is set to be revealed at the 2016 Paris motor show.

New Kia Rio set for Paris debut

Dom Tripolone

Clive Rathbone playing for Australia in 2004.

'Delusional' Wallabies need to admit they won't beat All Blacks: Rathbone

Sefa Naivalu breaks a tackle against Western Force

Super Rugby review flags axing Australian team

EXCLUSIVE
Georgina Robinson

Facing a spell on the sidelines: Hope Solo.

Hope Solo finally learns words have consequences

COMMENT
Steven Goff

On a collision course: The two Sydney teams both have their sights set on the title.

Sydney finals derby still on AFL's agenda

Andrew Wu

Not insured: QBE have reportedly declined a $1.2 million payout for Anthony Watmough's career-ending injury.

QBE rejects $1.2m payout for Eels' Watmough

Playing it straight: Australia captain Steven Smith, left, and coach Darren Lehmann.

Lehmann shrugs off Clarke criticism

Impeccable record: Manchester City head honcho Pep Guardiola.

Guardiola faces reunion with Barcelona

Jason Burt

Questions to answer: Ryan Lochte.

Brazilian police recommend charges against Lochte

1 hr ago

Questions: Anthony Watmough's third-party deal with the Eels was part of the NRL's case against the club.

Controversial third-party arrangement system faces the chop

Adrian Proszenko

Highs and Lowes: Johnathan Thurston congratulates Ethan Lowe on one of his two tries at Belmore.

Thurston shines on Belmore 'homecoming'

James Buckley

Still confident: Andrew Fifita.

The numbers which suggest Sharks' title quest is over

Adam Pengilly

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