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Phoebe Handsjuk was found dead in the chute at a St Kilda road apartment building in 2010.

Booze, drugs, high society and the bloody end to a young life

Australia prime minister Malcolm Turnbull speaks during the Summit for Refugees and Migrants at U.N. headquarters, ...

Liberals behind gay marriage smear campaign

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"ASX does not decide to close the market lightly," CEO Dominic Stevens said.

ASX reveals cause of worst trading outage in years

More than 500 million user details had been stolen from Yahoo.

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Uncle gets two years' jail for 'brazenly' molesting nieces

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Have we looked at our wealth through the magnifying glass?

Forget the wealth effect: You're not as rich as you think you are

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Mother ''Nimo'' and her four-year-old daughter ''Hafsa".?Hafsa saved two families, including her own, from a house fire ...

Four-year-old Hafsa saves two families from burning home

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Drawcard: Why Chinese property buyers love Australia

Surge: The professions where 76,000 new jobs are

Where's the candlelight vigil for accused child abuser Peter Scully?

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MFB chief quits as firefighters crisis deepens

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Signs of panic in heart of Islamic State's self-proclaimed caliphate

The surprise person who convinced Jobe to play on

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Cabin baggage being put into overhead bins lockers

Revealed: World's biggest airlines rake in $34 billion in extra fees

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Actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie on the red carpet.

Child abuse claims surface as Brangelina divorce gets poisonous

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I am the one who knocks...together all of this Breaking Bad merch for just $25.

Let's cook: The Breaking Bad showbag (yes, really)

Model Gigi Hadid fights off serial pest in fashion week protest

Hillary Clinton gets 'Between Two Ferns' treatment

The new 4 per cent stamp duty surcharge applicable to foreigners will raise $835 million, the government says.

Why are Chinese buyers so interested in Australia?

Billy cart tracks are not the roads of the future

MFB chief quits to fight disease linked to time ...

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Fisherman must shell out $100,000 for illegally ...

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Uncle gets two years' jail for 'brazenly' ...

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Exclusive first look at The Age stories

Watson set to play on after playful tweet

Jon Pierik, Rohan Connolly

Traffic congestion on Alexander parade - Victorians will shell out $100 million more in compensation for the scrapped ...

Victoria to pay even more for East West Link cancellation

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Delicate operation: Man rescued from deep construction site pit

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6000 tonnes and counting: Earth coming down on Great Ocean Road

Police are looking for offenders who held up a supermarket in Melbourne's south-east.

Knife-wielding offenders storm supermarket in city's south-east

Cops under investigation for leaking to criminals, using drugs

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Brayden O'Hara faced questions on Thursday over his behaviour.

Albury Tigers footballer apologises for urinating in premiership cup

Thousands of people are flocking to Victoria from Queensland.

State of excitement as Victoria's population passes six million

Rowers in the dying days of daylight savings.

Nationals plan to have daylight saving wound back

The shark follows the fisherman in his kayak for several minutes.

Shark shield saves Perth angler from 'great white'

New funding models to keep Brisbane River clean include a "tourist-bed levy" set at $1 or $2 a night.

Tourist levy could lend clarity on Brisbane River

Detective Sergeant David Crowe, of the ACT Policing sexual assault and child abuse team, said at least six female sex ...

Serial rape gang 'preying on sex workers'

Detail from the Children's Future leaflets that feature anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela.

Liberals behind same-sex marriage misinformation campaign

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Heath Aston
51 mins ago

'Lack of leadership': Labor links Dutton to anti-Muslim sentiment

Fergus Hunter

Help me out, run up more debt, says RBA boss

Peter Martin

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull meets House Speaker Paul Ryan at his office on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Turnbull says Islamic State on the cusp of defeat in Syria

Mark Kenny

Liberal Party campaign director Tony Nutt addresses the National Press Club of Australia in Canberra on Thursday.

Labor's Mediscare 'lies' claim another victim

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James Massola

Attorney-General George Brandis has denied he is seeking to exert more control over the Solicitor-General.

Has Attorney-General George Brandis misled parliament?

Senator Pauline Hanson at Parliament House in Canberra on Thursday 13 September 2016. Photo: Andrew Meares

People too afraid to speak of their fears of Muslims, Hanson says

Liberals argue that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is held to a lower standard of accountability than ...

US media challenge Donald Trump

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Paul McGeough
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Francisco Maneja, bleeding from gun shot wounds, raises his hands to ask for help in Manila.

Drug suspect 'rises from dead' to declare support for Duterte

Lindsay Murdoch
1 hr ago

The Dalai Lama and his impression of Donald Trump's hair.

Dalai Lama mimics Donald Trump, and it's hilarious

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, facing re-election next year, is under enormous pressure to show positive progress on ...

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani goes sour on nuclear deal

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American journalist and author Lionel Shriver has dangled a red rag in front of certain well-intentioned groups.

Silly frenzy over cultural appropriation ignores its role in literature

Peter Craven

Doggies' time in the sun, as the signs portend

Simone Egger

Role for philanthropy in social change is a given

Sarah Davies

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You're not as rich as you think you are

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Satyajit Das
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The post-US Fed relief rally is set to roll through the ASX again today.

Markets Live: Banks lead ASX higher

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Patrick Commins and Jens Meyer
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Multi-hued stress: Academics chasing grant money find it arduous, uncertain and difficult and it's far worse for casual ...

The $7m super pot still possible for a fortunate few

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Michael Pascoe

ASX reveals cause for trading outage

'Irresponsible': Facebook slammed in terrorism law suit

The professions where 76,000 new jobs are

Grocery suppliers 'under pressure' as Woolies, Coles save

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Not everyone is happy about Telstra's secret new network

This mansion could soon be Victoria's most expensive house

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Why are Chinese buyers so interested in Australia?

Inside the silo – with the kitchen area, heating and climbing wall.

Tight and tiny: German architect creates home from old grain silo

Small bathroom updates you can manage to do in one weekend

19 of the most annoying things flatmates do to each other

Custom motorbike builders from around Australia will showcase their trophy bikes at the fifth annual Deus Boundless ...

Easy riders: the cool cult which stretches from Bondi to Bali

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The new Ferrari aims to capture a younger market.

Ferrari's first four-seater with a V8 is one hell of a hatchback

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Howard and Gillian Tuxworth, with their children Harry and Molly, at the Collingwood home the Victorian government ...

What you can do if you're facing compulsory acquisition

Christine Long

If it's true love, like Wesley and Princess Buttercup in The Princess Bride, you might want to consider putting assets ...

The Money guide to shacking up with your partner

Melissa Browne

Sprinkle can handle shifting water restrictions.

'Crappy sprinkler systems' inspires invention

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How workers cope with shattered office morale

Tony Featherstone

Clinton appears on spoof talk show

Yahoo confirms massive data breach

The Bachelorette takes on Zoolander

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Russian plays Beethoven with guns

Colin Falls is a farmer from the plains north of Bendigo. He has a cracking crop of canola, which is now in full flower, ...

Fairfax photos of the week - September 22, 2016

Catch up on Transparent ahead of Season 3 on 24th September.

Season 3 of cult classic Adventure Time now streaming

Product recall costs mount for businesses

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Ten great reasons to become a foster carer

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Directors facing more personal liabilities

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Who wore Blue Steel best? Rhys Chilton (L) and Derek Zoolander (R).

Blue Steel at 10 paces from Bachelorette's model suitors

Amy Croffey
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The terrifying, tragic world of sex attacks and social media

Sarah Thomas

Vitaly stages his bangin' Beethoven performance.

Bangin' Beethoven played on handguns by sharpshooter

Nick Galvin

Contestants flee a category three cyclone during Thursday night's premiere.

Reality bites: Survivor camp smashed by massive cyclone

Ebony Bowden

Harry Potter and the order of the Phoenix
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Cat, heron or basset hound ... What's your spirit animal?

Katie Rogers

Cate Blanchett in a still from RED, 2016, a high resolution digital video, by Del Kathryn Barton.

Cate Blanchett perfect as a poisonous, man-eating spider

Andrew Taylor

John Olsen is still going strong at 88 years old.

Review: John Olsen's art is shallow and cliched

Robert Nelson

'The weak get weeded out': Carlos explains Darwin's theory of evolution in the season debut of <i>The Bachelorette</i>.

Bachelorette hopeful brings the bling - then gets dumped

Michael Lallo

Bron Batten, left, with The Age deputy arts editor Hannah Francis in Onstage Dating.

If only all awkward first dates were as funny as this

Hannah Francis

Sarah Peirse and Eamon Farren in Switzerland.

Murray-Smith psychological thriller is her best yet

Cameron Woodhead

Jackson Castiglione from Field Theory with the installation 9000 Minutes at the Queen Victoria Market.

Queen Vic Market as you've never seen it before

Hannah Francis

As painful as ghosting is, there may be a time and a place for the relationship manoeuvre.

Why some women feel compelled to 'ghost' their dates

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen
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Cast member Brad Pitt, right, and Angelina Jolie arrive at the premiere of Inglourious Basterds in 2009.

Child abuse claims surface as divorce takes messy turn

Maria Puente and Lorena Blas
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Gigi Hadid fights off man who lifted her off the ground in Milan

Women with daughters get advice every single day. Women with sons, not so much.

Your sweet son will try to be the drunkest in the room

Jenna Price

COLOGNE, GERMANY -APRIL 14: Fashion model Jueli Mery wearing a black jogger pants and white top from Zara, black leather ...

Harem pants get a major reboot, here's how to wear them

Melissa Singer

When these women were told not to cycle, they got out their bikes

Daisy Dumas

CANNES, FRANCE - MAY 19: Marion Cotillard attends the "It's Only The End Of The World (Juste La Fin Du Monde)" Premiere ...

'This is spiralling': Marion Cotillard shuts down rumours

Jenna Clarke

Cory Bernardi tried to troll LGBT people and instead got love

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Jenny Noyes

Experts say being overweight or obese is not a hopeless situation.

'A good news story': don't blame your genes for your weight

Sarah Berry

Getting a late start at long-distance running

Mike Plunkett

Work issues: woman overloaded with stuff at work

Stress can erase the benefits of your healthful diet

Melissa Healy

Blue Lagoon cocktail from The Underground Experiment. To be used for upcoming column by Michael Harden. Please credit ...

Bottoms Up: 8 shakin' cocktail trends to road test this Friday

Callan Boys, Gemima Cody and Myffy Rigby

Changing of the seasons as Spring and Summer opens in St Kilda

Nola James

Johnny Di Francesco's Zero Gradi gelateria in Brunswick East.

Best places to eat in Brunswick

Matt Holden

Baby Madeline is a fan of her big new friend.

Proof that grandparents can't be trusted to buy presents

Cat Rodie
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Katie and Dalton Prager on the their wedding day.

Real-life 'The Fault in Our Stars' wife dies five days after her husband

Ariane Beeston

Photos of a family's stillborn baby can really help them grieve.

Siblings get photos with stillborn sister to help them grieve

Cat Rodie

Surfer auf der Citywave bei der 3. Surf & Style Europameisterschaft am Flughafen M?nchen

Move over, Singapore: The European airport as good as Changi

Barry Divola

Baggage fees are one way some airlines are raking in millions.

Revealed: The 10 airlines earning billions from extra fees

Oliver Smith
1 hr ago

The last British Air Concorde flight to land at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport comes in for a landing on October 23, ...

Want to own your own piece of the Concorde? From $22 you can

Apple's tiny Lightning to 3.5mm audio adaptor bundled with the iPhone 7.

How is iPhone 7's headphone adapter?

Adam Turner
1 hr ago

Have a Yahoo account? Here's what to do

Hayley Tsukayama
1 hr ago

The conservation team that found a fragment of the Sydney Morning Herald from 1883, inside this sunfish.

SMH stuffed in massive fish in 1883 still there, found by museum

Marcus Strom

Tokyo police dealing with Pokemon GO chaos

Kotaku

First-round bids for the company's main web assets are due April 11, a person with knowledge of the matter said last week.

500m users hit in 'biggest breach ever'

The (tyre) burning question

Andrew MacLean

The 2017 Holden Equinox will replace the Captiva.

Holden Equinox replaces Captiva

Stephen Ottley
26 mins ago

Driven: The most famous Falcon

David Morley

Hyundai will reveal more about its N Performance arm at the 2016 Paris motor show.

Hyundai's VW Golf GTI fighter

David McCowen

2016 Mini John Cooper Works Convertible.

First drive: Mini Convertible JCW

Stephen Ottley

Volkswagen has been told it faces "serious consequences" in a court case filed by the ACCC

VW lashed for "playing games" in court

David McCowen
1 hr ago

Cahill, Fornaroli: Melbourne City look potent

Michael Lynch

Greg Bird has found himself in trouble yet again.

Bird under investigation for another incident

Adrian Proszenko