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Bradley Fauteux is from Canada and has just been brought over to take on the new role. He was photographed at Sheoak ...

'Inappropriate behaviour': Parks Vic boss resigns

16 mins ago

itunes prob

iPhone problems as Apple swamped with iOS 10 complaints

1 hr ago

3D ballot box with a flag - great for topics like ellection/ voting etc. Political parties' and lobby groups' use of ...

We don't need one plebiscite question – we need 10

COMMENT

Senator Malcolm Roberts delivers his first speech as One Nation party leader Pauline Hanson listens.

One Nation senator calls for 'Aus-exit' from UN in maiden speech

"No doubt" Tony Abbott would have won a bigger majority: former chief of staff Peta Credlin.

Credlin has 'no doubt' Abbott would have done better than Turnbull

1 hr ago

New research reveals why mothers in abusive relationships struggle to parent.

Why rape is not 'sex' and survivors don't 'confess'

COMMENT

Tim Pallas says people have right to pick 'manner in which they pass'

7 mins ago

Will the real Malcolm Turnbull please stand up?

EDITORIAL

Duterte tells US forces to get out of southern Philippines

ANALYSIS
48 mins ago

Players vote Dangerfield game's best player by a huge margin

What football eggheads will be watching for on Friday night

Rohan Connolly

What is she hiding behind the glasses? Hillary Clinton on September 11.

Lupus, Parkinson's, HIV ... How is Clinton still alive?

COMMENT

The new <i>50 Shades Darker</i> has enough intrigue to rival a Bond film.

50 Shades Darker trailer shocks by revealing ... plot

1 hr ago

In the test, watermelon soaked up the most bacteria when dropped on the floor.

Live by the 'five-second rule'? Scientists prove how gross it is

Amy Schumer in a Paris hospital.

'Thanks for everything Paris!' Schumer finds humour in hospital

Share the housework, have more sex

MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 13: A general view inside the stadium as Lightning strikes following the postponement ...

Massive storm hits Champions League match

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - AUGUST 1 2016: Trains return to the frankston line as McKinnon Station reopens to commuters in ...

McKinnon: The little village that could ...

7 outsourcing sites that could change your life

Week of transport chaos looms as Border Force ...

11:04AM

Treasurer Tim Pallas throws his support behind ...

11:00AM

Israel will get record $US38 billion in US ...

10:57AM

Exclusive first look at The Age stories

How Melbourne became a gun city: Chasing a silver bullet

Justice misfires as cops face bullets in gun city

Leaked Metro Trains report shows thousands of unrepaired faults

Melbourne weather: Rain soaks city to record third-wettest day of 2016

First the man was caught speeding, but police soon found he was wanted for more than traffic offences.

Police catch wanted 'Derrimut dill' with drugs, speeding

Twins Jess and Sarah Hosking have swapped playing netball for football at the Seaford Football Club.

Twins ditch netball court for the football field

Executive producer, Eugene Kelly, at Docklands Studio in Melbourne, where they are filming the final season of The ...

Melbourne has become the new home for Hollywood

Rachel Tyquin, 44, was found dead on a nature strip in Sunbury in April.

Woman pleads mental impairment over fatal stabbing of neighbour

A girl, 2, was found dead in home in Miller.

Woman charged with murder of two-year-old girl

NSW

Brett Peter Cowan, jailed for the murder of Daniel Morcombe, has been attacked in prison.

Morcombe's killer now answers to his dog's name in jail

QLD

Illegal guns have been seized in an international operation.

New national gun amnesty to be announced

EXCLUSIVE

Rowan Wallace Cook went missing while camping at Aldridge Cove in Walpole Nornalup National Park.

Campsite only clue in mystery of missing hiker

WA

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced his new ministry Parliament House in Canberra on Sunday 20 September 2015. ...

Politics live as Malcolm Turnbull marks his first anniversary

Live
Stephanie Peatling

It was Turnbull's reason for rolling Abbott - he hasn't delivered

Peter Martin

Could Tony Abbott ever lead again? We ask the Liberals

Heath Aston

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra on Tuesday 13 September 2016. ...

If seven days of this stuff makes one weak, imagine a year of it ...

Tony Wright

"No doubt" Tony Abbott would have won a bigger majority: former chief of staff Peta Credlin.

Credlin has 'no doubt' Abbott would have done better than Turnbull

Michael Koziol
1 hr ago

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra on Tuesday 13 September 2016. ...

Report card: The first year of the Turnbull government

Senator Derryn Hinch delivers his first speech in the Senate at Parliament House in Canberra.

Hinch names 6th sex offender as McDonald's makes hiring change

Amy Remeikis

The woman, who has not been identified, was wearing a headscarf when a stranger lit her clothes on fire.

Muslim woman's clothes set on fire in NYC 'hate crime'

Derek Hawkins

Russian performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky.

Thought-crime returns to Russia

Michael Colborne

WikiLeaks

Wikileaks in latest data dump on Democrats

22 mins ago

Robert Andrew Fiddes Ellis flanked by his lawyers Benny Hariyono (left) and Yanuar Nahak (right).

Australian accused of child sexual abuse may get 16 years jail in Bali

Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa

Illustration: Simon Letch

Does Turnbull have no achievements? He got super right

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

Liberal senator Dean Smith is Australia's first openly gay Liberal member of Parliament.

I'm a Liberal senator and I can't support this plebiscite

COMMENT
Dean Smith

Dum Dum Donutterie and JUST EAT have created the world's most expensive "cronut" in London, a doughnut hybrid for $3500.

The 11 cafe trends of 2016 we're happy to see the back of

COMMENT
Matt Holden

Craig Drummond is flexing his muscles by overhauling top management following his recent appointment

Medibank replaces CFO, instals customer chief in overhaul

Brian Robins
57 mins ago

Investors are sweating over some disturbing moves in bond and oil prices.

Markets Live: ASX drops below 5200

Live
Patrick Commins and Jens Meyer
25 mins ago

After months of stumbling around like zombies, global markets have sprung to life again - but they're not moving in the ...

The zombie market is over, but that's not good news

1 hr ago

Australian consumption of avocados has been steadily increasing, with annual per capita consumption at around 3.2 kg per ...

Anger as Woolworths brings in foreign avocados

Lucy Cormack
1 hr ago

Tech billionaire offers $US5 million for Trump's tax return

Sarah Frier
13 mins ago

Missing millions: 'No assurance' tax office is doing its job

Why Gerry Harvey isn't worried about JB Hi-Fi's Good Guys buy

Is your boss a psychopath? There is a good chance

Anna Patty

Sachiko Robinson and fiancee Leo Palmer recently offered $30 extra a week to secure their Brusnwick townhouse.

No room to move: tough time for tenants as market tightens

Not so home sweet home.

The 10 most terrible things about Australian homes

Trains have returned to the Frankston line after McKinnon Station reopened to commuters.

Build it, but will they come? This suburb's rise and fall and rise

Aussie John is set to sell his house for what could be worth $100 million

$100m+ asking price for Aussie John Symond's palatial home

Are you being watched?

How could you tell if your house was being bugged?

Get a hobby. Run around with your mates. Move and meditate. Walk a dog. It's time to get moving.

14 ways to get fit without hating every minute of it

Boot Camp

Montblanc's 4810 Orbis Terrarum.

Best timers of the year nominated in the Oscars of watchmaking

Watches
Bani McSpedden

Once a scammer steals credit card details online, they can launder the money on eBay before too many red flags go off.

The most common scams and how to avoid them

Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon

The only way to achieve growth in a flat market is to pick the right stocks.

A stock-picking formula that actually works

Marcus Padley

Sean Senvirtne, founder of mydeal.com.au: "This is not the time for exit because we don't know what this thing is yet, ...

How to build a $20 million company in four years

Co-Founder and Creative Director of The Daily Editor, Alyce Tran

Five entrepreneurs reveal their tips for success

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Cowboys of Compton

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Snakepits and ladders: the PM's first year

Anniversary

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Clinton artwork created in crop

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Obama: Election not 'reality show'

Illustration: Andrew Dyson.

Best of Fairfax cartoons, Sept 14

ash v evil dead

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

Power

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

Fostering Connections

Ten great reasons to become a foster carer

Advertiser Content

Community Corrections

What it's like working in Australia's prisons

Advertiser Content

Fostering Connections

How foster care makes a difference

Advertiser Content

The new <i>50 Shades Darker</i> has enough intrigue to rival a Bond film.

Could 50 Shades be getting a little tired of all that sex?

Ebony Bowden
1 hr ago

Rap musician Tupac Shakur was murdered in 2006

Murdered 20 years ago, Tupac is still hip-hop's $100m man

Sarah Thomas
1 hr ago

The artist formerly known as Chet Faker, now back to being called Nick Murphy, will be one of the headliners at Laneway ...

Laneway Festival's 2017 lineup announced

Bernard Zuel
1 hr ago

FILE- In this May 27, 2006 file photo, South African novelist, recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, John M. ...

No Booker Prize spot for local legend JM Coetzee

Latika Bourke

Pugnacious self-acceptance: John Turturro plays John Stone, a low-rent "precinct crawler" lawyer in <i>The Night Of</i>.

TV finales that left us flat: Is that it? We don't find out?

Craig Mathieson

Triple J

Triple J may change Hottest 100 date - but not yet

Aja Styles

Damon Herriman and Patrick Brammell in ABC series The Elegant Gentleman's Guide To Knife Fighting.

The Aussie actor who wants to stop being nameless

Ryan Lochte's debut on Dancing with the Stars got off to a bumpy start.

Two men charged over attempted TV attack on Ryan Lochte

Michael Idato

Cabaret artist Meow Meow features in Victorian Opera's 2017 program.

Victorian Opera enchants with fables and fairy tales

From left, Polyglot Theatre's Lachlan Macleod, Sue Giles and Aseel Tayah with the <i>Bellbird</i> installation.

Children centre stage in Melbourne Fringe Festival

Heide director Kirsty Grant is stepping down.

Heide Museum of Modern Art director Kirsty Grant resigns

Amy Schumer in a Paris hospital.

Amy Schumer hospitalised for food poisoning in Paris

Michael Idato

Tara Moss: "Every time we call rape 'sex', we do the public and injustice."

Rape is not 'sex' and survivors don't 'confess'

COMMENT
Tara Moss

In the company of women, there's "more likely to be reciprocity and mutual respect, and a willingness to search for ...

Why I prefer the company of women over men

Kasey Edwards

No zebras were harmed in the making of this ensemble in 2007. Our eyes on the other hand, well...

Victoria Beckham is the new Kate Moss

COMMENT
Jenna Clarke

"I am sure fewer parents would set out on high-performance parenting if they could foresee how miserable it would make them."

I was a tiger mum - it made us all unhappy

Tanith Carey

Valerie Sagun, @biggalyoga, Instagram

Yes, you can be fat and do yoga

Chloe Papas

Repeat offender Suitsupply defended its recent campaign, arguing women were depicted as having the "upper hand".

Advertising still glorifies violence against women: study

Grief can be expressed in different ways.

How grief affects us in different ways

Alexandra Newmarch

joy

It's a wonderful world: Why are we scared?

Dr Tim Sharp

Berit Nordstrand

The Scandinavian belly fat program

Sarah Berry

Someone is trying to pick up a dropped slice of bread with peanut butter and jelly from the floor.

The gross truth behind the 'five second rule'

Ben Guarino

Food waste is a bigger problem for the environment than most people realise.

How much food do you waste?

Zoe Meunier

Toasteroid.

New toaster lets you custom-print your breakfast

Sofia Levin

Paper-baked salmon with salsa of Asian herbs.

Salmon with Asian herb salsa

Adam Liaw

It's important for mums to be included in photos with their kids.

Dads urged to "just take the photo" of their partners

Evelyn Lewin

"I think if we just have one more day, we'll both be happy with that," said Katie Prager.

Real life 'Fault in our Stars' love story takes a heartbreaking turn

Ariane Beeston
38 mins ago

Kerry Stoutenburgh with her boyfriend, Luke Carquillat.

Brain-eating amoeba claims another young life in US

Suzi Catchpole

Istanbul, Turkey.

11 things you should know before travelling to a Muslim country

Ben Groundwater
1 hr ago

Travel nearly anywhere in the world, and you'll find cheap airlines offering no-frills service, not in Canada.

Why doesn't Canada have ultra low-cost airlines?

15 mins ago

Petuna trout served on Virgin in Business.

Why won't airlines tell you what's in your food?

Hugh Morris

Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple, holds an iPhone 7s while speaking with dancer Maddie Ziegler.

Two reasons the iPhone 7 is the best iPhone ever

iPhone 7 review
Peter Wells

itunes prob

iOS 10 update fails for some iPhone users

Alex Webb
1 hr ago

A team led by Princeton's Tullis Onstott looking for life-forms that could give insights to possible life elsewhere in ...

A vision of life on Mars in the depths of Earth

Kenneth Chang

The iPhone 7 Plus, unveiled by Apple on Thursday.

Every change between iPhone 6s and 7

Lifehacker

Netflix is calling on broadband providers to stop choking our internet access.

Netflix pushes to abolish download limits

COMMENT
Adam Turner

2017 Subaru Impreza.

Subaru's new Mazda3 rival tested

Stephen Ottley

The finalists competing during the 2016 Nissan GT Academy competition.

Nissan GT Academy Australian finalists announced

Dom Tripolone

2016 Hyundai Tucson 30 Special Edition.
Embargo: 2/9/2016

Hyundai adds Android Auto

Dom Tripolone

2016 Jaguar XE.

Jag's new fuel-sipping petrol engine launched

Dom Tripolone

2016 Skoda Superb 4x4.

Skoda sets sights on Mazda

Stephen Ottley

BMW i3 at the 2016 Paris motor show.

BMW set to debut new i3

Dom Tripolone

Patrick Dangerfield won the AFL Players Association MVP award by a massive 906 votes.

Dangerfield wins MVP by astounding margin

Samantha Lane

Richmond's Brett Deledio

Clouds surround Deledio's Punt Road future

Sam McClure

The Age, News.Women's football is growing rapidly at the grassroots. Twins Jess and Sarah Hosking have swapped playing ...

'It's gone crazy': Twins join flight from netball to footy

Chloe Booker

Future Hawk? Jaeger O'Meara.

Sun O'Meara chooses Hawthorn as destination club

Michael Gleeson and Daniel Cherny

Jayden Laverde

Saints eyeing Bomber Laverde

Sam McClure

In round three, the Hawks lost the contested and uncontested ball, the clearances and the inside-50 count but still won ...

Hawks v Dogs: Much a debate about footy than a finals contest

Rohan Connolly

Shane Mumford and Lance Franklin get close and personal.

Mumford apologises to Buddy over sledge

UPDATED
James Buckley

Ticketek responded to complaints on Twitter.

Ticketek to refund fee after website buckles

Ronny Lerner

File image of Evan O'Hanlon training in the AIS gym.

100m hat-trick out of reach for O'Hanlon

Scott Spits

Paralympic sprinter Evan O'Hanlon.

Australia's greatest ready to let his running do the talking

Scott Spits

Shark attack survivor Achmat Hassiem has dedicated his life to protecting sharks.

The swimmer grateful for losing a leg in a shark attack

Scott Spits

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