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Accused killer Gable Tostee, left, leaves the Supreme Court in Brisbane with defence barrister Saul Holt, right.

Defence argues 'irrational' move led to death

Jorge Branco

The spillway at Somerset Dam.

Hydro-electric power finally on way back after floods

Felicity Caldwell

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: Simon Bosch

Telstra's fight to keep mobile network to itself

IN DEPTH
Lucy Battersby

Commodities have entered a bull market.

The new resources boom - blink and miss it

ANALYSIS
Elizabeth Knight

Billie Ava Stevens, weighed just 510 grams when she arrived prematurely.

'Is there any way my baby is going to survive?'

Amy Mitchell-Whittington

Queensland's economy showing signs of recovery: report

Felicity Caldwell

Love Australia or Leave party registered by AEC despite objections

Amy Mitchell-Whittington

SEQ shopping hours to be shaken up in December

Trump 'could win if he had discipline': Beattie

Felicity Caldwell

Outdoor kitchen becomes python battleground

Amy Mitchell-Whittington

Suncorp Stadium, or Lang Park, has been a happy hunting ground for Queensland's State of Origin team.

Push to rename Suncorp Stadium to Lang Park

Felicity Caldwell

Clear Thinking's 'Lose Your Mind' VR experience.

Virtual reality simulation imitates mental health symptoms

Phoebe Handsjuk, left, with her then boyfriend Antony Hampel.

Phoebe police investigation 'a cascade of failures'

Melbourne Theatre Company's production of Disgraced at the Playhouse, QPAC.

Get Disgraced this weekend

Leaving Nine ... former star fast bowler Brett Lee.

Nine Network dumps Lee, Hussey

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Susie a 'f...ing moron': Veronicas

Toowoomba's Muslim community rebuilding Mosque

Muslim community determined to rebuild after arson

British Film Festival in Brisbane.

Win tickets to British Film Festival

Canada considered ditching Prince Charles from ...

12:48AM

Barack Obama sidesteps Congress to make Cuba ...

12:19AM

The body of Thailand's King Bhumibol is taken to ...

11:50PM

Picture perfect: 72A Botticelli Street, Fig Tree Pocket.

What to see this weekend in Queensland

Ellen Lutton

Sydney Park Water Re-Use Project (Sydney, New South Wales).

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

Christina Zhou

Is this the most unique apartment on the Gold Coast?

Is this the Gold Coast's most unique unit?

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

Couple arrive at rental home to find garage blocked by new fence

46-48 Norseman Court, Paradise Waters, sold for $10.2 million.

Signs of a recovery in the Gold Coast prestige property market

Cruise ships are back on the Gold Coast agenda.

Australia?s biggest ever cruise season is officially underway, with ...

'Do we really need two?' Premier asks as cruise ship bargaining begins

Tony Moore

Murder charge over gunshot death on Darling Downs

Jorge Branco

Woman dead and man fighting for life after stabbing

Jorge Branco

The deputy director-general in the Department of Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services has been charged with ...

Drink driving charge for senior public servant

Felicity Caldwell

More than $1 million in fines was collected in 2015-16 from Queenslanders who failed to vote.

Queenslanders' million-dollar bill for failing to vote

Felicity Caldwell

Michael Horowitz, from Chicago, checks out his new iPhone 7 Plus at the Apple Store on Michigan Avenue, Friday, Sept. ...

Brisbane Apple Store staff sacked in explicit photo sharing scandal

In house counsel have drastically cut external legal spend and are looking for value.

Queensland man stabbed in chest with scissors

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

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

ACT

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

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

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

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 into the High Court for the start ...

Brexit's most significant legal test

Nick Miller

"Many of the Trump positions are reasonable enough," former prime minister Tony Abbott said.

Trump's lesson for every teen boy in Brisbane

COMMENT
Madonna King

The suicide rate among war veterans is higher than the general population.

Veterans face the ultimate indignity

COMMENT
Bill O'Chee

Sophie went missing for 24 hours.

In a cynical world, can people still surprise us?

COMMENT
John Birmingham

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

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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Susie a 'f...ing moron': Veronicas

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Shark swims into dive cage

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Cruise ship terminal plans for Southport

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Public servant driving drunk

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

Rewind - Illuminations

house of lies

House of Lies Season 4 - now streaming on Stan.

norm of the north

Arctic Adventure Norm of the North

Why more people are studying online

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How one person can make a difference

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Ten activities to aid toddler development

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

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story trailer 3: what we now know

Garry Maddox

Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift surprise album imminent?

Ebony Bowden

Musician Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel prize in literature.

Bob Dylan wins Nobel prize in literature

Ron Charles

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

Rapper 360 slays government ads targeting ice abuse

Aja Styles

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

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

COMMENT
Debi Enker

Zach Galifianakis plays a middle-aged loser in <i>Masterminds</i>.

Masterminds is a middling cops-and-robbers comedy

Jake WIlson

James Nesbitt was enthusiastic for a Cold Feet reboot.

Cold Feet reunion 'just like old times' but with Tinder

Linda Morris

After months of speculation, Janet Jackson has confirmed she is pregnant at the age of 50.

Janet Jackson, 50, pregnant with her first child

Amy Croffey

Brisbane City Hall

Brisbane Times has moved to a new neighbourhood

Lord Mayor Graham Quirk.

Meet our top 5 business brains

Live

More poster shots than mug shots now for Justin Bieber, who has announced a tour of Australia in 2017

Justin Bieber books Brisbane stadium show

Bernard Zuel

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 was 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

Phillip Hughes was struck and killed by a short ball delivered in a 2014 Sheffield Shield game.

Hughes family criticises 'memory failure' over sledging

Patrick Begley

Heading back to France: Will Genia.

Pocock and McMahon in, Genia out for Bledisloe Cup

Georgina Robinson

Safe bets: Dave Warner and Steve Smith.

'Cherry ripe to be ripped apart': Warning of horror summer of cricket

James Buckley

Despite the hefty fine, Nick Kyrgios took home more than half of his second round loser's prizemoney.

Nick Kyrgios needs to work out which kind of madman fits best

Phil Lutton

Gold Coast Muay Thai champ Benjamin Mahoney.

Gold Coast Muay Thai champ wins WBC Aust middleweight title

Year of Payne: Michelle Payne after winning the 2015 Melbourne Cup.

'Not in my wildest dreams': Payne wins Don prize

Samantha Lane

Gifted: Israel Folau needs to lift.

Why the Wallabies aren't even in the game

Paul Cully

Rockliff is out of favour at the Lions.

Lions struggle to find potential takers for skipper