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John Warhurst: Terribly close, but the Liberals will probably win.

Experts, insiders share territory election tips

Kirsten Lawson

Social media advertising has advanced significantly since the 2012 campaign.

Parties focus social media messaging to younger voters

Christopher Knaus

ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr campaigning in Canberra.

'It's just so clichéd': The risky election stunt that could backfire

Christopher Knaus

The winning poster from Independent candidate for Ginninderra Vijay Dubey.

Revealed: The best poster from the ACT election campaign

Megan Doherty

Not all Canberans are sold on having three bins, like these ones pictured in a NSW council area. One group of ...

Group opposes introduction of green waste bins to Canberra

Megan Doherty

A screen grab from the census video.

Census meltdown played out in new FoI documents

Tom McIlroy

Speed and sharing are changing the nature of news reporting

COMMENT
Waleed Aly

It has not been a terrific week for George Brandis QC, but what's new?

COMMENT
Mark Kenny

Petulant, red-faced: Senators lose public war with the law

Amy Remeikis
1 hr ago

Ex-Test stars out as Channel Nine shakes up cricket coverage

Trump opened the sleaze floodgates - and got swamped

ANALYSIS
Paul McGeough

David Pope Page 1 Election Illo for October 5.

Leaders talk of 'most important election' since self-government in ACT

Melanie Allan, Alison Manners and Heather Frisken preparing items for sale at the Arawang primary school's 'Election Fun ...

Waterslides, cakes galore and shorter queues this election

Director of the National Gallery of Australia, Dr Gerard Vaughan AM.

NGA director Gerard Vaughan says funding cuts are 'challenging'

Barbara Mecham: "My Grandcat Bo enjoying the spring blossoms. In his backyard at Dunlop."

Photo comp: Spring's touch inspires Canberra photographers

The Turnbull Suite.

Stay in the 'Turnbull Suite': PM gets his own hotel room

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Should Telstra share its regional mobile network?

The importance of letting your kids walk home from school.

Is a 9-to-5 school day the solution for working parents?

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How to look good and feel less awkward in photos

Families of 21 Chibok girls wait to be reunited ...

12:13AM

Djokovic reaches Shanghai semis with hard-fought ...

11:37PM

Vladimir Putin pushes on with Aleppo offensive ...

10:56PM

Of the 141 candidates standing for election into the ACT Legislative Assembly this year, about two in five are from one ...

Fireworks, marijuana and skiers rights: the big promises from small parties in ACT election

Second fire in five months destroys Tuggeranong tattoo parlour, bikie taskforce investigating

One in 10 calls to ACT police are mental health cases

Barbara Mecham: "My Grandcat Bo enjoying the spring blossoms. In his backyard at Dunlop."

Spring's touch inspires Canberra photographers

Canberra's self-confessed supermarket thief is an example of people "neutralising their moral concerns".

'I'm Robin Hood': Confessions of a supermarket thief

Orange Sky Laundry Canberra service manager Noreen Vu with Red Cross road house Community liaison officer Liz Parr as ...

Free laundry service for homeless looks to expand in Canberra

A woman has died in a two vehicle crash on Isabella drive, Chisholm.

Woman dies in two-car collision in southern suburbs

The mother with her 8-year-old son, who was allegedly locked in a paddy wagon for almost an hour.

Officers charged after boy, 8, left in caged police wagon

NSW

The Supreme Court was shown photos of Gable Tostee and Warriena Wright taken on his own phone the night she died.

Wright decided 'to climb to certain death', court hears

QLD

The fire has burned over a million hectares.

Massive bushfire threatens wildlife sanctuary

WA

Chief Minister Andrew Barr campaigned at the Canberra Hospital campus on election day eve. He met newborn Rhianna Khanna ...

Territory's 'most important poll' too tight to call

Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka during a "Coffee with Ivanka" event at Spring Mill Manor in Ivyland, Pennsylvania.

Ivanka Trump hits campaign trail a week after lewd tapes leaked

Trip Gabriel

Donald Trump, 2016 Republican presidential nominee.

Trump 'could win if he had discipline': Beattie

Felicity Caldwell

Boris Epshteyn in one of his many TV appearances supporting Donald Trump.

The Russian-born lawyer who became Trump's top attack dog

Director of the National Gallery of Australia, Dr Gerard Vaughan AM.

National Gallery director says funding cuts are 'challenging'

Departing Finance Department chief Jane Halton farewells public service after 33 years, 14 as secretary of two federal ...

'Chip off the old block' Jane Halton farewells public service

Commonwealth public servants are facing a tougher time than ever trying to claim workers' compensation.

Public servants' workers compo gets tough

Senator Barry O'Sullivan and Senator Linda Reynolds question Solicitor-General Justin Gleeson.

A petulant, red-faced tantrum: senators lose war with the law

Amy Remeikis
1 hr ago

Justin Gleeson flouts 'radical' directive from George Brandis

Michaela Whitbourn

PM accuses Labor of 'union stitch-up' over Kitching appointment

A screen grab from the census video.

Census meltdown played out in new FOI documents

Former prime minister Julia Gillard at the Labor Party's election launch in June.

Sorry advocates, but the Gonski review didn't say what you think it did

ANALYSIS

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull speaks during the Summit for Refugees and Migrants at UN headquarters.

Terrible suffering in the name of protecting Australian values

COMMENT

Tony Abbott spoke to Alan Jones.

Abbott blasts 'toxic' culture of leaks, says he stands 'ready to serve'

EXCLUSIVE

An arresting scene from the VR film <i>Collisions</i>.

Virtual reality tells Indigenous story as bones bound for home

Nick Miller
1 hr ago

Filipino drug suspect wearing a band with the name of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has his hands tied together ...

Philippine Duterte in sights of The Hague

Lindsay Murdoch

A resident attempts to pass a tree downed by the high winds of Hurricane Nicole in St Georges, Bermuda.

Hurricane Nicole hits Bermuda

Gina Miller a founder of investment management group SCM Private, waits before going in the High Court for the start of ...

Brexit's most significant legal test

Nick Miller

If you're not a people person, it may be best to search for work where people skills aren't all that necessary.

Paying tax is the greatest bargain we ever made

COMMENT
Andrew P Street

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The latest cartoons from David Pope

Self-proclaimed women-protectors abandon Trump campaign: Donald Trump, Republican presidential nominee.

Trump isn't the only misogynist in the Republican Party

COMMENT
Anne Summers

Phone

Telstra's fight to keep mobile network to itself

IN DEPTH
Lucy Battersby

Billionaire Gina Rinehart during a tour of Hancock Prospecting's Roy Hill Mine operations.

Gina Rinehart launches fresh legal attack on her children

EXCLUSIVE
Sarah Danckert

Illustration: Glen LeLievre

How tweaking interest rates can transform the economy

COMMENT
Jessica Irvine

Liberal MP Julia Banks during the bank hearings at Parliament House in Canberra.

A shame ASIC's report on life insurers not out in the open

COMMENT
Adele Ferguson

Life insurance not so super as sector faces scrutiny

ANALYSIS
Ruth Williams

The new resources boom - blink and miss it

ANALYSIS
Elizabeth Knight

Work-life balance starts with smart offices

Suzette Lamont

Sydney landlords riding a high rental wave

Carolyn Cummins

While some of us are guilty of not making our beds every day, it's a great habit to get into and soon becomes second-nature.

Sorry, you've been making your bed all wrong

Shotover Country residents Deo Bohn and Beck Cole were ''disappointed'' a fence was erected in front of the access way ...

Renting couple return home to rude shock over new fence

Tighter lending policies are also affecting owner-occupiers.

The secret to maximising your home's sale price

A pass-in occurs when the top bid falls short of the vendor's expectations. The property is then passed in to the ...

The biggest misconceptions about property auctions

Bowen Place Crossing (Bowen Place, ACT).

Hope for a green future among country's leading urban designers

Lark Distillery, Single Malt Whisky was a breakthrough.

Nine Australian spirits that changed the way we drink

Smart Sipping

Tom Cruise set tongues and Twitter wagging when he appeared on the red carpet at the BAFTAs in February.

Filler fail: Why do men get cosmetic surgery so wrong?

Grooming

Keep your ear to the ground for financial advice.

Motley Fool: What's a defensive investor to do?

Scott Phillips

Telstra was one of the big public floats of the 1990s and 2000s.

The best way to become a financial winner

Catherine Robson

Have you been at your workplace long enough to receive a gold watch?

The consequence of being a loyal employee

James Adonis

Rosario Chozas and Julia Ford-Carther, founders of Bammies.

Startup wants you to wear your pyjamas to work

Nancy Dahlberg

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Rivals ready to pounce on Samsung's mobile turf

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Trump: 'These claims are are all fabricated'

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Drone footage shows Aleppo destruction

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Bob Dylan wins Nobel prize in literature

The Tivoli Theatre aka The New Tivoli in Castlereagh Street, Sydney in May 1939. SMH HOME Picture by GORDON SHORT Sydney ...

Rewind - Illuminations

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House of Lies Season 4 - now streaming on Stan.

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Arctic Adventure Norm of the North

Why more people are studying online

Advertiser Content

Activities that could make your kids smarter

Advertiser Content

The business rules of attraction

Advertiser

Legendary fast bowler Brett Lee.

Brett Lee, Mike Hussey to leave Nine, Michael Clarke takes over

Long before he hosted the Oscars, Chris Rock was a busboy at Red Lobster.

Chris Rock to earn a massive $52m for two Netflix gigs

Ebony Bowden

Stormtroopers prove they ain't afraid of no damp in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

There's a new trailer for Rogue One. Here's what we now know

Garry Maddox

Musician Bob Dylan has been awarded the Nobel prize in literature.

Gasps as Bob Dylan wins Nobel prize for literature

Ron Charles

Addiction: Rapper 360 aka Matthew Colwell has written a song about his ordeal.

Rapper 360 says anti-ice ads only make addicts want to score

Aja Styles

Taylor Swift

Is Taylor Swift about to drop a surprise new album?

Ebony Bowden

James Nesbitt was enthusiastic for a Cold Feet reboot.

Was bringing back Cold Feet a brilliant idea or a terrible one?

Linda Morris

Comedy gold: Sam Pang on Have You Been Paying Attention?

Have You Been Paying Attention to the naughtiest show on TV?

COMMENT
Debi Enker

Portrait of renowned Japanese classical pianist and composer, Nobuyuki Tsujii who will perform a special piano recital ...

Blind virtuoso to play grand piano in Parliament's Great Hall

The entries in this year's Canberra International Riesling Challenge will be available to taste on Saturday at Albert Hall.

Canberra Weekender: What's on October 14-16

Design Canberra launches new look festival

More than 27 million men, women and children are estimated to be trapped in slavery today.

Chained to a bed and servicing 50 clients a day

Daisy Dumas

Musician Bob Dylan has been awarded the Nobel prize in literature.

Why no woman won the Nobel prize this year

Jenna Price

The sad truth is that we can't afford to give harassers the benefit of the doubt.

We are expected to humour harassment. This is why we can't

COMMENT
Clementine Ford

Jemima Khan attended the annual UNICEF UK Halloween Ball.

Jemima Khan dresses as Melania complete with groping Donald

Jenna Clarke

Rebecca Wilson waged a very private battle with cancer. She died aged 54.

'Rock on, darling Bec'

Andrew Hornery

Celeste Barber and #hothusband enjoy a two-week sojourn in the US.

I went away without my kids for two weeks

Celeste Barber

We need these safe spaces to have important conversations on manly topics.

Please don't take away our locker rooms

Ben Pobjie

Radio talk show host and political commentator Rush Limbaugh.

Rush Limbaugh unwittingly gave a great lesson on consent

Mary Ward

Fitness First's Michael Cunico noticed his mental clarity was not as good.

What happens when fitness fanatics give up exercise

Sarah Berry

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Most vitamins are useless, but these are the ones worth taking

Erin Brodwin

Michaela Werner and fellow mermaid, Vicky.

Mermaiding: The water sport making a splash this summer

Sarah Berry

Adam Liaw's delicious gado gado salad with eggs and peanut dressing.

Adam Liaw's prawn cracker hack and Indonesian gado gado salad

Adam Liaw

Soft-boiled egg.

You can eat eggs every day, according to new CSIRO study

Zoe Meunier

Chicken kapitan with fragrant rice.

Feel like chicken tonight? Here are 30 chicken dinner winners

The tip of baby Lilly's finger was cut off by a nurse.

Nurse cuts off part of newborn's finger

Donna-Lee Biddle

Beware of Magpie swooping season.

Queensland girl,7, left blind in one eye after magpie attack

Ariane Beeston

A child's grief deserves privacy, it is not for public consumption.

Don't watch the viral video of a boy learning of his mum's death

OPINION Kerri Sackville

Women be warned while travelling in Iran.

Traveller letters: My wife was groped by security guards

The Turnbull Suite.

Stay in the 'Turnbull Suite': PM gets his own hotel room

Kylie McLaughlin

Entertainment monitors sit on the back of passenger seats in the economy class cabin of an Airbus SE A350 aircraft, ...

Airbus plans to create the 'perfect' economy class space

Justin Bachman

Samsung has recalled six models of its top-loader washing machines.

Samsung's history of problematic products

Brian X. Chen and Choe Sang

Scientists believe a comet hitting the Earth caused global warming 55.6 million years ago, an event that can help us ...

Clues to ancient climate change could help us

Sarah Kaplan

Virtual Reality is ready to come out and play, but does it have staying power?

Virtual reality is here, but how long will it stick around?

COMMENT
Adam Turner

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Australia, as shown by Forza Horizon 3

Kotaku

The PlayStation VR headset.

PlayStation VR: virtual reality for the masses

Tim Biggs

Honda will offer its new model with a turbocharged engine.

Honda unveils new CR-V

David McCowen

2016 Maserati Quattroporte GTS GranLusso.

New Maserati Quattroporte prices revealed

Dom Tripolone

2016 Hyundai Elantra SR Turbo.

Hyundai Elantra SR Turbo reviewed

Stephen Ottley

Drive editor Andrew Maclean enjoyed an epic road trip across New Zealand.

The Long and Winding Road

Andrew MacLean

Isuzu MU-X.

Road test: Isuzu MU-X LS-T 4x4

Toby Hagon

The 2017 BMW 5-Series.

Revealed: New BMW 5-Series

Greg Kable

Christian Lealiifano rallies around friends family and the 1000s of supporters at the Canberra Leukaemia Foundation ...

Family is the rock in Brumbies star Lealiifano's leukaemia battle

Australia's Kangaroos Four Nations squad assembling before the Perth Test against New Zealand and tour of the United ...

'Big is beautiful again' and Boyd is 'realising how big he is'

The Raiders' Junior Paulo has lost his driver's licence for 12 months.

Raiders prop Paulo disqualified from driving for road rage

AQUIS is the new major sponsor of the Brumbies.

Brumbies re-sign major partner Aquis despite election fears

Capitals' Lauren Mansfield stepped up in the final quarter.

Canberra Capitals beat Adelaide Lightning

Tom Staniforth is the Vikings' players' player for 2016.

Staniforth recognised by Vikings teammates

Christian Lealiifano could be part of the Brumbies coaching set-up next year if he is unable to play.

Lealiifano upbeat on marrow transplant

Wants out: Jack Steele has asked to head to St Kilda.

St Kilda secure Jack Steele from GWS Giants