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US palliative care expert Dr B. J. Miller at the University of Sydney.

'Silver tsunami' of deaths about to hit Australia

Damien Murphy

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - MAY 12: St Michaels Grammar School Year 3 students sitting the NAPLAN test on May 12, 2015 in ...

'Inhuman': UN slams Australia over failure to help children

Michael Koziol, Michael Gordon

Pyne staffer arrested in Malaysia briefly breaks his silence

Josh Dye

'God help us': Trump wants to run the nation like he runs his business

ANALYSIS
Paul McGeough

Colombian president wins Nobel peace prize for rejected peace deal

Nick Miller
28 mins ago

The 'patriotic education' of Chinese students at Australian universities

Alexander Joske and Philip Wen

However you split it, first home buyer numbers don't add up

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

Florida residents urged to seek shelter as storm death toll rises to 478

Live
Lynette Eyb
16 mins ago

Hot property: John Ibrahim is quietly moving into real estate development.

Kings Cross nightclub tsar makes quiet moves into property

The unrenovated kitchen at 28 Margaret Street, Newtown.

'People are desperate': Shabby terrace expected to fetch $1.1m

Scenic summer aerial panorama of the Old Town architecture in Helsinki, Finland. iStock

World Economic Forum names the safest country of Earth

Quick, easy and delicious desserts for lazy people

Truck rollover causes six kilometre queues

Quick, easy and delicious desserts for lazy people

Helen Kapalos hosted the Sydney and Melbourne editions of <i>Today Tonight</i> in 2013.

Helen Kapalos quit her dream job. Then she ran out of money

Hurricane Matthew batters US state of Florida

12:14AM

Banking chiefs still in the cross-hairs as ...

12:15AM

Colombian president wins Nobel peace prize, ...

12:02AM

A screenshot of herfashionbox.com, which is accepting orders for the "summer box".

'Critical' warning over online Australian fashion store

Esther Han

War games and rumours wind up Macquarie St as Baird takes a break

James Robertson

Women 'picked up and dragged' from Sydney protest site

Truck overturned on Mount Ousley Road, AKA Princes Motorway, about 3kms north of Picton Road. .

Truck rollover causes long delays on the M1 south of Sydney

The incident unfolded on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner between Phuket and Sydney.

Reclining seat sparks 'mid-air fight' on Jetstar flight to Sydney

Police in Maitland after a woman was shot dead in Horseshoe Bend.

Woman shot dead in home, partner charged with murder

A car fire which sparked a bushfire in Sydney's south on Friday.

High fire danger warning as car fire jumps to nearby bush

Georgina Mitchell

Wet and warm weather makes perfect breeding conditions for mosquitoes.

Big wet and warm weather will bring 'bad mozzie season'

VIC
Aimee Amiga, Neelima Choahan

Mt Druitt resident and Struggle Street subject Peta Kennedy stands outside SBS as rubbish trucks blockade the ...

Struggle Street producers fined for Brisbane filming

QLD
Cameron Atfield

Baby Z died suddenly at Bandyup Women's Prison in 2011.

Coroner finds no blame for baby's prison death

The Royal Flying Doctors Service has airlifted victims of Friday's incident in Kowanyama to larger medical centres.

One dead after car crashes into funeral gathering

Republican vice-presidential candidate Mike Pence.

Running mate backtracks on Trump's proposal to ban Muslims

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a town hall-style forum, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016, in Sandown, ...

US election 2016: Trump tells terminally ill to 'get out and vote'

Breach of decorum: Fox News presenters fight over Trump

UN slams Australia's regional processing centres in Nauru

Michael Koziol, Michael Gordon

The seven-figure surpluses of Australia's overfunded private schools

Fergus Hunter

Brandis faces embarrassing defeat in Solicitor-General advice row

Michaela Whitbourn, Heath Aston

Marcia Langton (left) and Josephine Cashman's (second left) attempts to build a national anti-violence campaign around ...

Australia's great shame is the result of policy failure, not silence

COMMENT
Michael Gordon

Labor defence spokesman Richard Marles says Australia should assert its rights to nativate the high seas under ...

Navy should be authorised for freedom of navigation in South China Sea: Marles

EXCLUSIVE
James Massola

Former PM Gough Whitlam and director of the Australian National Gallery James Mollison (left) in front of Jackson ...

Selling Blue Poles, a shameful abrogation of Australia's cultural history

COMMENT
Mark Kenny

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 05: Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull meets with vocational training and employment ...

Turnbull in sixth attempt to fend off royal commission

Tom McIlroy and Clancy Yeates

Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima leave after their inauguration ceremony in Amsterdam in 2013.

A 'spicy question' for Dutch King Willem-Alexander

Nick Miller

Hurricane Matthew: East coast braces as deadly storm lashes Florida

The next United Nations Secretary General, Portugal's Antonio Guterres, accepts his nomination on Thursday.

It's a man's world, united or not

Daniel Flitton

The face of Adolf Hitler is projected onto a 3D canvas as part of an art installation during a rehearsal for the 'Berlin ...

Hitler was true author 1923 book hailing him, author says

Never have we needed truth and compassion more.

Most of us are unsurprised by skullduggery in the church, but this is low

COMMENT
Elizabeth Farrelly

When we're young, it seems there will always be time enough for everything.

What I learnt after my cancer diagnosis

COMMENT
Julia Baird

The unlikely rise of Donald Trump is symptomatic of a world with shallow comprehension of the genuine challenges it faces.

Forget the Canberra bubble: we need to watch the world

COMMENT
Hamish Macdonald

NAB chief executive Andrew Thorburn faces the parliamentary hearings into the big banks.

Banking chiefs still in the cross-hairs as hostility simmers

IN DEPTH
Mario Christodoulou
21 mins ago

Villa Gusto owner Ben Edwards is one of Australia's top sommerliers.

Top sommelier takes on Fiat Chrysler as deal goes sour

Money movers: How the RBA shifts interest rates

COMMENT
Jessica Irvine

Alice Archer? Features & Supplements Editor? MediaXpress The Age T?03 9006 9082 ...

Tax Office sticks boot into uggs

Malcolm Turnbull's tribunal will be no quick fix for banks

ANALYSIS
Clancy Yeates

Australia Post gets books in order, privatisation feared

EXCLUSIVE

Value capture is not a magic pudding

CBD fast food giants now heading out to the 'burbs

9B Baden Road, Neutral Bay, is attracting local and overseas interest.

'Everyone expected the floodgates to open in spring'

Stephen Nicholls

The grounds at Berith Park, in Wahroonga, include a pool, a tennis court and a golf driving range.

Historic Berith Park resets north shore trophy market

Lucy Macken
28 mins ago

The home which featured in Avalon Now is up for auction.

Stunning waterfront home from Avalon Now for sale

Kate Burke

Sydney has dropped out of the top 50 of Knight Frank's Global Residential Cities Index.

The lone Australian city in top 50 for price growth globally

Kate Burke

The hilariously frank Gumtree ad has drawn a flood of responses.

Hilarious Gumtree ad offers up 'financial black hole for rent'

"Wild young men can't be expected to act like saints when they're worshipped as gods."

Aaron Smith's tryst isn't excusable, but it's understandable

Life On Mars

Zac and Jordan Stenmark in new perfume commercial they created for Giorgio Armani

Under the influence: 19 men ruling Australian fashion right now

Men's Style

Financial literacy is useless unless you can separate fact from fiction.

Financial literacy won't help if you don't get your facts straight

Noel Whittaker

NAB chief executive Andrew Thorburn at the parliamentary bank inquiry last week.

What the banking inquiry means for shareholders

Scott Phillips

This company bucked all the start-up cliches and still succeeded

Farhad Manjoo

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 14: Oprah Winfrey revs up the audience on the set during the first taping of the "Oprah ...

Five ways your body language harms your career

James Adonis

Energy talks to avoid widespread blackouts

Driver on mobile takes forever to see cop

Australia draw in Jeddah

Cardinals see off 49ers

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Rewind - Taronga turns 100

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The hilarious Stan Original comedy No Activity, now streaming

Every episode of The Circus now streaming on Stan.

Activities that could make your kids smarter

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Hit the road and escape the city

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Ten activities to aid toddler development

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Banksy, or someone claiming to be him, in a scene from the documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop.

Will the real Banksy please stand up?

Karl Quinn

Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard star in the upcoming film <i>Allied</i>.

Could this be the film that broke Brangelina?

Karl Quinn

Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood.

Stones go back to basics with first studio album in a decade

The simple pleasure of seeing Todd Sampson suffer - a lot

Karl Quinn

Officials told the Associated Press that the armed assailants, who are still at large, tied Kardashian up and locked her ...

Is this the end of Keeping Up with the Kardashians?

Ebony Bowden

White people are cross at Netflix for its supposed lack of 'racial diversity' in <i>Luke Cage</i>

Quit whining, white folk. How can all-black show be racist?

COMMENT
Michael Lallo

Lady Gaga at the Maxwell Spring/Summer 2017 collection at The Russian Tea Room in New York, where she showcased songs ...

Lady Gaga launches new album with a dive bar tour

Kerrie O'Brien

Flight Facilities may not look like classical musicians but the ARIA for classical album of the year is now in their hands.

Flight Facilities' "classical" ARIA Award prompts outcry

Bernard Zuel

David Campbell and Hannah Fredericksen as Bobby Darin and troubled wife Sandra Dee in the musical <i>Dream Lover</i>.

Too much blubber weighs down Bobby Darin musical

Jason Blake

Artist Greg Semu at the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation 5th October 2016 Photo by Louise Kennerley Story by Andrew ...

Greg Semu turns the body of Christ into tattooed artwork

Andrew Taylor

Artists will take over parts of Fairfield this weekend for <i>Women in Fairfield</i>.

Hidden lives of women revealed in Sydney's West

Andrew Taylor

Top look: Dior's T-shirts quoted author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Dior encourages feminism ... with a $700 t-shirt

Jenna Clarke

Happy kids, great life: How do some people have it all?

COMMENT
Dom Knight

Hijab protest: Chess star refuses to attend championships in Iran

This Week We're Obsessed With

A one-size-fits-all approach is careless, writes Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen.

It's time to admit we need better forms of contraception

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

Kylie Minogue puts support behind same-sex marriage

Georgia Love with some of her potential suitors.

What The Bachelorette exposes about our dating culture

COMMENT
Kasey Edwards

Chrissy Teigen campaigning for Hillary Clinton.

Chrissy Teigen 'not strong enough' for Twitter anymore

The breathing trick that can make you more productive

Seth Porges

Cold baths: helping or hindering your performance?

Sarah Berry

Ellie Goulding works out at Nike Sydney this week.

'I wanted to run like Forrest Gump': Ellie Goulding

Scorched orange daiquiri from Bulletin Place.

Sydney bar slips out of the world's top 10 watering holes list

Nick Miller, London

Which wines to drink with pizza

Michael Austin

Pork belly fries, Peking duck fries and other fully loaded fries at Night Noodle Markets

Sharnee Rawson

Why are people going bonkers for Bonds ... again?

Jo Hartley

'I am fuming': mum explodes after delivery driver's comment

Cat Rodie

Daughter's hilarious yet blunt get well card for dad

Ariane Beeston

Finland has been named the safest country. Pictured: Helsinki.

World's safest countries: the results will surprise you

Oliver Smith

Two American Samoans have filed complaints over claims they were weighed by Hawaiian Airlines before they boarded their ...

Weighed on a plane: Complaints as airline targets obese passengers

Oliver Smith

Just because we're laughing doesn't mean everyone else is: The 'Budgie 9' at the Malaysian Grand Prix.

The reasons why Aussies behave so badly overseas

Ben Groundwater

Sony's MDR-1000X Bluetooth wireless headphones raise the stakes when it comes to noise-cancelling.

Sony cans' next level noise cancelling

COMMENT
Adam Turner

The Rift headset from Facebook's Oculus.

Facebook, Google chase wireless VR experiences

Joshua Brustein

Dag Kittlaus and his team previously built Siri, which was acquired by Apple in 2010.

Samsung buys AI firm founded by Siri creators

Elizabeth Dwoskin

The best video game control pads

Kotaku

Pixel is filled with all sorts of custom tweaks not found in the standard version of Android.

Why Google's Pixel is the anti-iPhone

COMMENT
Tim Biggs

Dick Johnson with the 2016 Ford Falcon Sprint.

Driving the last Falcon with Dick

David McCowen

Is this the world's best hot hatch?

Stephen Ottley

The last Australian-made Ford Falcon rolls off the production line.

The final Ford Falcon

Stephen Ottley

Holden built over 100,000 Cruze in Australia between 2011-16.

Holden Cruze production ends

Stephen Ottley

Could Ford have been saved?

Andrew MacLean

Driven: BMW's updated i3 electric car

David Morley

Dazed and confused: Why wasn't Dale Finucane removed from the pitch?

The NRL are not taking concussions seriously

Peter FitzSimons

Graham Arnold speaking to media in August.

'There will be blow ups this year, a hundred per cent'

Andrew Webster

Four more years: Greg Inglis will be a Rabbitoh until the end of 2020.

Inglis makes long-term commitment to Rabbitohs

Matt Bungard

Don't prejudge: Semi Radradra deserves to tour unless he is found guilty of a criminal offence.

Fifita and Radradra caught by a puritanical system

Malcolm Knox

The Rebecca Wilson I knew

COMMENT
Andrew Webster

Roar's Brandon Borrello and Daniel Georgievski of the Victory challenge for the ball.

Victory forced to settle for draw

1 hr ago

Slipper dropped as Wallabies name team

Tom Decent

Best and fairest: Toby Greene won the Kevin Sheedy Medal.

Toby Greene claims Sheedy Medal

James Buckley

Taking a break: James Maloney missed a holiday but caught a well-earned break with selection in the Kangaroos squad.

Maloney wanted a break, but Australian jersey was too tempting

Adam Pengilly

Andrew Fifita: Was not selected in the Kangaroos squad for the Four Nations tournament on "character" grounds.

What if Fifita had written a letter in support of a killer?

COMMENT
Darren Kane

Plea: Melbourne Storm captain Cameron Smith wants players to start making the right off-field decisions.

Smith: 'Players should know what the wrong or right decision is'

Andrew Webster