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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - September 10: SUN HERALD NEWS: Supporters and Volunteers of incumbant Sydney Lord Mayor Clover ...

Four term Clover: Cr Moore cruises to election victory

50 mins ago

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - SEPTEMBER 10: Bernard Foley of the Wallabies is congratulated by team mates after scoring a try ...

Win over Boks doesn't mean Wallabies are back on track just yet

ANALYSIS
Tom Decent

Police console a woman at the scene of the crime on Brisbane Street.

Sydney shooting victim died in front of his fiancee

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - SEPTEMBER 10: Lance Franklin of the Swans is tackled by Callan Ward and Joel Patfull of the Giants ...

AFL lands NRL giant blow in western Sydney with bumper crowd

ANALYSIS

The attack on the World Trade Center, New York, on September 11, 2001.

'Somebody is going to pay': Handwritten notes from Air Force One speak of 9/11 drama

Teen enterprise: Beau Jessup, 16, runs a successful business to help name Chinese children.

Teenager makes small fortune giving Chinese babies English names

41 mins ago

Man in critical condition after stabbing in Sydney's south-west

Han Nguyen

GWS star's family 'crying all morning' after Jetstar stuff-up

Half of Trump supporters belong in 'basket of deplorables': Clinton

'Call this number ... or there will be consequences'

PHONE SCAM

'I was working four hours a day and earning more than $100k'

Azad Chaiwala, founder of Secondwife.com, has wanted multiple wives since he was 12.

Secondwife.com gaining traction here, founder says

Rachel Olding
1 hr ago

11 Lucretia Avenue, Longueville, sold for $1,175,000 over reserve.

Family home sells for $1.175 million over reserve

American comedian Margaret Cho.

Offending people is 'the right thing to do': Margaret Cho

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - SEPTEMBER 10: Tom Scully, Shane Mumford and Jeremy Cameron of the Giants sing the song in the rooms ...

Giant step forward as Swans crash

DO NOT USE Huffpo

DIY mistakes interior designers wish you would stop making

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Cat rescued weeks after Italy quake

An enthusiast turns up for Oz Comic-Con at the Sydney Exhibition Centre, Glebe Island in Sydney on Saturday.

PHOTO GALLERY

Comic-Con fever hits Sydney

Romantic date Valentines day

First date etiquette tips (for guys and ladies)

Crossbench challenges Shorten on same-sex marriage

12:28AM

Teenager makes small fortune giving Chinese ...

12:25AM

Clover Moore wins record fourth term as lord mayor

12:15AM

Exclusive first look at SMH stories

The dilapidated home at 27 Kingston Road, Camperdown.

Local couple beat developers at auction of rundown cottage

Anita Balalovski

Tough sell: Matthew Grounds bought the property for $11 million.

Mosman's high-end shelf left all but bare thanks to recent sales

Lucy Macken

Nikki Vautin in her Dee Why apartment.

Seaside suburbia is the hot ticket for Sydney's spring

The Residence penthouse on Hyde Park.

China's 'Red Princess' and the $13 million Sydney penthouse

4 Glen Road, Roseville

Getting bang for your buck on the upper north shore

Lynn Davies at her home near Canberra with her dogs Smorgasbord (left) and PooNeck.

Overnight, whistleblower vet became a pariah - and then she vanished

Education company to reap millions from visa program

Eryk Bagshaw

A quirk of fate and cold politics leave a Sydney family divided

Vince Ryan was convicted in 1995 for offences against more than 30 young boys.

'All I could think about was ... killing Father Ryan. I should have.'

Joanne McCarthy

The CareFlight team treats a tradesman who was attacked by three dogs at a property in Kenthurst.

'It was just horrific': three dogs destroyed after tradesman attacked

Harriet Wran before her arrest.

Harriet Wran set to walk free from Silverwater jail

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New battle looming over public-private school funding

Kelsey Munro

A 34-year-old Kallangur woman has been arrested over the 2004 murder of Ian and April Bailey.

Woman charged with murder over 2004 cold case deaths

BREAKING

Nina Nicholson's killer has never been caught.

Who killed nurse Nina - was it someone close by?

VIC

Lotto

The $200b problem holding back Australia

Matt Wade

ABC Catalyst's statins program - presented by Maryanne Demasi - was found to have breached the broadcaster's editorial ...

Review reveals the truth about statins

Kate Aubusson

Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull meet with representatives of the Devondale ...

PM, Joyce at odds over 'troubling' $7.2 billion tax proposal

'So far, so good': Malcolm Turnbull reviews his first year as PM

Adam Gartrell

Donations, Dastyari and Chinese soft power

Nationals deputy leader Fiona Nash says she would like to 'level the playing field' over political donations.

Momentum builds for donation reform

James Massola

Tony Abbott's highly vocal week has not been 'the most helpful thing he could be doing', says one Liberal MP.

While Turnbull's away, Abbott comes out to play

Matthew Knott

"Christians have not always shown the respect or perspective they should": Archbishop Freier.

Anglicans should vote 'according to conscience' on same-sex marriage

AFR. Portrait of Malcolm Turnbull in his office at Parliament House in Canberra. Pic by Nic Walker. Date 14th March 2012.

One year on, another leadership tragedy could be unfolding

COMMENT

A cow stands at a shelter that harvests cow urine for theraphy in India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has introduced ...

Cow vigilantes take to streets accused of 'right-wing' crusade

Donald Trump calls out to supporters in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Clinton says Trump supporters belong in "basket of deplorables"

Will it stick? John Kerry, left, and Sergei Lavrov agree on a new Syrian deal.

US, Russia clinch Syria deal for Monday truce

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un salutes at a parade in Pyongyang, North Korea, last year.

Outrage over North Korean nuclear test, but few options on the table

Sevdet Besim pleaded guilty to planning a terrorist act.

Besim's sentence shows we're soft on terror

COMMENT
Garry Linnell

"Why not plant a vineyard?": Dream on ...

How not to start your own wine label

Richard Glover

The Baird government could learn a lesson or two from an expert on "toddler taming".

Why Mike Baird needs to tame toddlers to reduce crime

Jacqueline Maley

A Masters' fire sale looks set to dent trade at other hardware stores nationwide.

Under the hammer: Is the DIY industry screwed for spring?

If you do look at the figures you find little sign the economy is slowing.

The economic numbers game - it's not as bad as you think

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

After 34 days Customer A had burned $100,000 on TitanTade's binary options

Cashing in on the TitanTrade boiler room

EXCLUSIVE

A speculated 50 franchise agreements will be approached to have their franchise agreements terminated before their ...

Horror at 7-Eleven: no compensation, no goodwill

COMMENT
Adele Ferguson

Who built Dick Smith's House of Cards?

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

Galaxy Note 7 owners urged to stop using their phones

No stimulus, no peace as US stocks end two-month snooze with plunge

Reforms would leave motorists to fend for themselves

EXCLUSIVE

The Audi R8 V10 Spyder has a top speed of 318 km/h in the open air and is priced at close to $400,000.

Hot rods: New luxury cars we can't wait to drive in 2017

Luxury Cars
Peter McKay

Japanese whisky.

Sensational single malt whiskies (that aren't from Scotland)

Smart Sipping
Luke McCarthy

Marie Najjar is very happy with painters from Maikhael Painting who were recommended to her.

Renovation boom means a shortage of good tradies

John Collett

The family home is protected in public policy settings.

The truth about home ownership and the age pension

Caitlin Fitzsimmons

Franchising seems like a safe bet but that's not always true.

This 'safe bet' in business is anything but

Michael Schaper

Belonging to a faith shouldn't leave you excluded and demeaned at work.

Religious harassment at work: would you intervene?

James Adonis

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7-Eleven 'bullying' tactics caught on camera

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Denver wins Super Bowl rematch

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Pliskova eliminates Williams

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Smith miss hands Cats win

Senator Sam Dastyari leaves his home in Russell Lea, Sydney on Wednesday morning.

Fairfax photos of the week - September 8, 2016

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Binge Season 1 of Ash Vs Evil Dead ahead of Season 2 in October!

Power

Power - From Executive Producer Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson.

NPS

The role parents play in nursing sick kids

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Healthy employees save you money

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LIU

Insurance in a changing market

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American comedian Margaret Cho.

Margaret Cho: offending people "the right thing to do"

Kylie Northover

Henry Rollins woke up one day and knew his musical career was over.

Why Henry Rollins swapped hardcore rock for spoken word

Martin Boulton

<i>The Red Turtle</i>'s visuals were inspired by a trip to the Seychelle Islands, where director Michael Dudok de Wit ...

The European filmmaker who enchanted Japan's Studio Ghibli

Stephanie Bunbury

Pulling strings: Tame Impala's Kevin Parker.

Tame Impala's Kevin Parker: producing hits for pop royalty

Mikael Wood

Author Steven Amsterdam

Steven Amsterdam on euthanasia and why there is no Easy Way Out

Linda Morris

Kate Miller-Heidke says <i>Muriel's Wedding The Musical</i> is a "dream project".

Kate Miller Heidke on making Muriel's Wedding: the Musical

Lenny Ann Low

EIGHT DAYS NOV 3 Ann Patchett author pics Ann Patchett cc Heidi+Ross.jpg

Why I am a better writer without my father

Ann Patchett

Patrick Dempsey plays charming billionaire Jack Qwant in <i>Bridget Jones's Baby</i>.

Patrick Dempsey on Bridget Jones and his racy passions

Lenny Ann Low

Toni Collette and Bill Hunter in the 1994 film <i>Muriel's Wedding</i>.

Hopes to make Muriel's Wedding a musical beyond Aussie shores

Andrew Taylor

Sydney Fringe Festival discos.

'They have no idea about dancing but they know effort': The disco judged by surgeons

Elissa Blake

Judith images as promised
Judith Lucy

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What are you doing this weekend? Here's 20 things to see and do

Elle Macpherson at a special screening of Trumbo at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2015.

Macpherson and first hubby Benison in Sydney for shoot

Andrew Hornery

NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 27: Jessica Chastain attends the Broadway Opening Night of 'Long Days Journey Into Night' at the ...

Mini trend: velvet looks for the warmer months

Melissa Singer

London-based Australian model, Rosie Nelson.

Aussie model's #nosizefitsall fashion campaign

Daisy Dumas

Sophia Tilley with her former boyfriend Stephen Wyllie, son of NSW Prosecutor Margaret Cunneen.

Socialite behind the ICAC car crash refused entry into US

Andrew Hornery

StandBy's Karri Ambler, who works to support those affected by suicide in the Kimberley.

The women taking on Australia's global suicide capital

Daisy Dumas

Kylie Evans on <i>Survivor Australia</i> with teammates Flick, Matt and Sam.

How a lead firefighter and mother of three prepares for Survivor

Amy Croffey

Melissa George attended the Opening Night Gala at the 69th annual Cannes Film Festival in May.

Melissa George reportedly bruised after 'incident' with partner

Jenna Clarke

The beauty brand that gives back

Stephanie Darling

Sebastian Robertson

Why men neglect their mental health

Sarah Berry

A front view photo of a male fitness instructor

7 expert tips to kick start your spring training

Neela Shearer

stomach ache

Science still can't agree on the whole gluten-free thing

Benjamen Judd

Whisky caramel pie recipe.

Whisky caramel pie

Adam Liaw

Consumers have demanded the return of the original flavour since it was removed.

Arnotts snack backtrack: Pizza Shapes return to orignal

David Allan-Petale

Spice Temple's fish-fragrant eggplant dish.

Is Neil Perry opening Spice Temple in Parramatta?

Scott Bolles

Is it acceptable to request people only give your baby handmade gifts?

Request for handmade christening gifts branded 'ungrateful'

Cat Rodie

Lisa Gash and her daughter Bethany, and the recently rediscovered letter.

Dying mum's heartbreaking letter found 15 years later

Adam Boult

The wedding gift that sat unopened for nine years.

Why this couple waited nine years to open one of their wedding gifts

Ariane Beeston

Deer Cave, which is home to a colony of wrinkled-lipped bats when they're not out feeding.

The extraordinary corner of Southeast Asia tourists forgot

Anthony Dennis

Bird's eye: Poolside paradise on the Celebrity Solstice.

With 2850 party people on board the ship named Australia's best

Cruising
Julietta Jameson

Male Aussie tourists dress much worse than women

Sony's new PlayStation 4 Pro plays the same games as the regular PS4, but will make many of them look better.

What the PlayStation 4 Pro is all about

Tim Biggs

William Shatner, left, DeForest Kelley and Leonard Nimoy on the set of the TV series <i>Star Trek</i>, which has clocked ...

Fan clubs bear the brunt of modern technology

Adam Turner

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What's new in Apple's iOS 10, macOS Sierra and watchOS 3

Peter Wells

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Pokemon GO will be on Apple Watch this year

Kotaku

3SIXT's digital lightning buds plug into an iPhone's Lightning port, but they don't sound too flash.

My first experience with Lightning buds sucked

COMMENT
Adam Turner

Mid-size luxury comparison test: Audi A4, Mercedes-Benz C-Class, Lexus IS, BMW 3-Series, Jaguar XE

Where does your car come from?

David McCowen

2016 Jaguar F-Pace R-Sport 20d.

Road test: Jaguar F-Pace 20d R-Sport

Stephen Ottley

2017 Holden Trailblazer. Embargo: 9/9/2016

Holden's newest SUV reviewed

Andrew MacLean

Lexus has revealed its UX concept ahead of the 2016 Paris motor show

Lexus UX Concept hints at city SUV

Andrew MacLean

2017 Bentley Flying Spur W12 S.

New Flying Spur W12 S revealed

Dom Tripolone

2017 Porsche Panamera 4 E-Hybrid.

Porsche unveils 278km/h hybrid

Greg Kable

Morale-booster: Bernard Foley is mobbed after scoring a crucial five-pointer.

Wallabies grind out win over Springboks

Phil Lutton

Clean break: Matt Prior on his way to the tryline.

Sharks book hosting rights with narrow win

Michael Chammas

Crowd pleasers: Lachie Whitfield and the Giants rose for the occasion at ANZ Stadium

AFL comes of age in western Sydney

ANALYSIS
James Buckley

Concern: Gambling figure Eddie Hayson.

Foran fears taskforce will stop return

Danny Weidler

Shackled: Israel Folau attempts to break away from the Boks' defence.

Wallabies win eases pressure on Cheika

ANALYSIS
Tom Decent

Sight lines: The Gold Coast Titans were incensed by a string of refereeing decisions in Friday night’s elimination ...

It's time to hit pause on video refereeing

COMMENT
Phil Gould

Tough day at the office: Franklin earned his keep, but his best work came in the midfield and not inside 50.

Ruthless Giants trounce Swans in brutal clash

Andrew Wu

Straight up the middle: Beauden Barrett shows a clean set of heels in Hamilton.

All Blacks tame Pumas in scrappy win

Centre of attention: Melbourne’s Kevin Proctor had his hands full against the Cowboys on Saturday night.

Storm hold strong, earn home preliminary final

Roy Ward

Disc problems: Sharks' skipper Paul Gallen

Flanagan delighted with extra week

Michael Chammas

Runaway winners: Trent Merrin shares the joy after his try puts the result beyond doubt.

Penrith move was worth Origin sacrifice: Merrin

Michael Chammas

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