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Ardent's former CEO GregShaw's left the company in April last year - but that didn't stop him from making $1.5 million ...

Dreamworld paid ex-boss $1.5m for doing nothing

10 mins ago

A bus caught fire on Beaudesert Road at Moorooka

Brisbane bus driver killed after being set alight

Live
1 hr ago

A typical 70-year-old woman can expect 18 more years, with 15.6 more for a man of that age.

Aussie life expectancy hits all time high and one state surpasses all

Envato co-founder and executive director Cyan Ta'eed.

The uni that produced most of Australia's young rich-listers

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016, in Toledo, Ohio. ...

'We should just cancel the election and give it to Trump', says... Trump

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 27: CEO Deborah Thomas arrives for the Ardent Leisure Annual General Meeting on October 27, ...

'Doing our best': Dreamworld CEO defends executives

Plane carrying Trump VP nominee skids off runway

34 mins ago

Nine's stunt outside court as Seven settles breakfast TV case

Vine is closing down, and the internet can't stand it

'Hillary doesn't play': Obama stumps with 'her girl' for first time

PM softens opposition to race-hate law changes

Kristina Hampel posted this picture of herself and Phoebe Handsjuk on Facebook seven months ago.

'One day the truth will come out': Hampel sister's post about Phoebe

56 mins ago

Bachelorette Georgia Love.

Ratings fall, sham endings. What happened to The Bachelorette?

ANALYSIS

Eureka Tower Penthouse

View from the top: Inside Melbourne's highest apartment

Countries with fewer airlines tend to be the most expensive to fly per kilometre.

Direct Australia-to-London flights just around the corner

Aerial

These stunning aerial images will change how you see the earth

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Plane carrying Mike Pence skids on runway

charity bins

The ins and outs of charity collection bins

Hard Bargain

It's a tough market: How to beat the rental property market

Dreamworld's former boss made $1.5m without ...

12:44PM

Red Cross data leak: Personal data of 550,000 ...

12:44PM

Ardent CEO admits Dreamworld crisis not handled ...

12:40PM

Steve Herbert has resisted calls for his resignation.

'I'm surprised he's still there' PM wades into chauffeur-dog saga

Mother broke down when told boyfriend said she'd killed Nikki

Fixing Fiskville results in $65m 'one-off' financial loss

Rather than being sprayed on a wall, one young offender had a picture of the word APEX spelt out in money.

Gang's name spelt out in cash, home invasion case told

What do youths in Victorian jails have in common?

Forty per cent of young prisoners have a family member in jail

Nino Bucci

The wombat seized by Benalla police.

Wombat seized after woman faces court with unlicensed marsupial

The charred body of father of five Kenan Balikel was found in car boot on October 31 last year.

'My life suddenly ended': Wife gave birth just before husband's murder

A bus caught fire on Beaudesert Road at Moorooka

'He stood little chance': Bus driver set alight

Live
1 hr ago

Unsavoury anonymous edits made to Wikipedia have been linked to Queensland government networks, using the WikiWatchdog ...

Offensive Wiki edits linked to Qld govt computers

QLD

Towers planned for Sydney Olympic Park.

Lucy Turnbull's affordable housing plan for Sydney

EXCLUSIVE

ABC

ABC defies govt as staff agree to new pay deal

ACT

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016, in Toledo, Ohio. ...

'We should just cancel the election and give it to Trump' ... says Trump

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, accompanied by first lady Michelle Obama in North Carolina.

Michelle Obama aims her star power at Hillary Clinton's campaign

Josephine Tovey

Republican presidential candidate Indiana Gov. Mike Pence talks with firefighters at New York's LaGuardia Airport after ...

Plane carrying Mike Pence slides off runway at LaGuardia Airport

34 mins ago

Donald Trump's popular vote is capped at 44 per cent.

Less is more: Trump's strategy to suppress Clinton's vote

ANALYSIS
Paul McGeough

Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump cheer during a campaign rally, Monday, Oct. 24, 2016, in ...

Conspiracy theories: Trump supporters predict a riot

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has shares in funds that invest in cigarette companies.

Turnbull softens opposition to 18C race hate law changes

Tom McIlroy

'Sympathetic' PM prepared to talk over paid parental leave change

Tom McIlroy

Mundine slams 'joke' inquiry into Indigenous incarceration

Fergus Hunter

Generics of blood donation at the Australian Red Cross.
SMH Artpix /Generics. 20030528. Photo by TAMARA DEAN/tkd SPECIAL ...

Red Cross leak: Personal data of 550,000 blood donors leaked

BREAKING
11 mins ago

A typical 70-year-old woman can expect 18 more years, with 15.6 more for a man of that age.

Australian life expectancy hits an all-time high

Peter Martin

Advocates for paid maternity leave say it promotes equality and enhances the health and development of mothers and children.

7-month pregnancy? A lesson for MPs about the birds and bees

Stephanie Peatling
1 hr ago

Barnaby Joyce denies altering Hansard and sacking his departmental secretary.

Barnaby Joyce denies sacking public servant after 'integrity' fallout

Tom McIlroy

Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks at the Sixth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, in Beijing this week.

It's official: Xi Jinping is China's most powerful leader in decades

Philip Wen

Jessica Kumala Wongso, centre, flashes a smile as she is surrounded by her lawyers after her jail sentence at a ...

Australian resident jailed for 20 years for cyanide-coffee murder

Jewel Topsfield
58 mins ago

A swift can stay aloft for 10 months.

A common bird can stay aloft for 10-months

58 mins ago

Syrian fighters repelling an attack in Achan, Hama province.

UN vows to evacuate the sick and wounded from Aleppo

World's most liveable city ... well, parts of it are.

World's most liveable city? Pull the other one

COMMENT
M. Ratnavel

Illustration: Simon Letch

We haven't seen the end of Islamic State

COMMENT
Waleed Aly

Illustration: Andrew Dyson

The inconvenient truth behind Melbourne's population boom

COMMENT
Josh Gordon

Ardent's former CEO GregShaw's left the company in April last year - but that didn't stop him from making $1.5 million ...

Dreamworld's former boss made $1.5m, not working a single day

Colin Kruger, CBD
10 mins ago

After a torrid couple of days, investors are hoping for some recovery on the ASX.

Markets Live: AMP shares take a hit

Live
42 mins ago

Gina Rinehart's group bid $386.5 million for the Kidman empire.

Rinehart grasps cattle empire after all-Aussie rivals pull out

1 hr ago

Dreamworld chief executive Craig Davidson and his employees leave flowers at the site on Wednesday.

Dreamworld CEO defends Ardent Leisure bosses

Jorge Branco

ANZ takes $360 million hit from new charges

Woolworths see sales boost as customer service improves

1 hr ago

Macquarie's net profit dips

Charities rethink contracts amid exploitation claims

Level 82 of the Eureka Tower comes with a $22 million price tag and strata fees of $60,000 a year.

View from the top: what the city's highest apartment looks like

Budgie Nine: F1 driver Daniel Ricciardo says he thinks the men have already learnt their lesson.

11 things foreigners think about the way Australians live

This three-bedroom home at 2/8 Burnett Avenue, Braybrook, sold for $600,000 in September.

The last inner-city suburb a first home buyer can still afford

Frankston will host the most auctions this weekend, including 1/20 Denbigh Street.

All bets are off as booming market stops for the Cup

ANALYSIS

What are the factors to consider?

Is it a good idea for parents to help their kids buy a house?

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Handsome Things

Sorry gents, skinny ties are on the way out.

Sorry hipsters, but this trend is officially over

Men's Style

A reader is fed up with working and keen to retire in her 50s.

Should we dissipate assets to maximise our age pension?

George Cochrane

Self-funded retirees will struggle under the new age pension rules.

Life is set to get tough for self-funded retirees

Daryl Dixon

A long lunch or spending less time at the desk doesn't mean a worker is looking to move.

How to tell your employees are about to resign

James Adonis

Robert Willis shops for a Halloween mask at a costume store.

The case for Australian businesses embracing Halloween

Tony Featherstone

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Lee Elliott wins The Bachelorette 2016

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Trump leading in conservative US counties

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Selfies in the polling booth?

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Quake destroys 15th century church

Illustration Alan Moir

Best of Fairfax cartoons, Oct 28

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Brand new season of the Stan original comedy series No Activity, now Streaming.

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Younger Season 3 fast tracked from the U.S. every Thursday.

The difference between fine and gross motor skills

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Wander through ancient landscapes in WA

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The Bachelorette: Georgia Love.

'They downplayed me': winner of Bachelorette criticises producers

Eddie Remayne stars as Newt Scamander in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Accio Empire! 'Enchanted' cover celebrates new Potter film

Rob Moran

A vote for Hillary is a vote against new Star Wars: South Park

21 mins ago

Anna Dare, radio presenter for Hobart FM

Radio host suspended over Dreamworld gaffe live on air

<i>Sunrise</i> hosts David Koch and Sam Armytage.

Today v Sunrise court stoush: Could press releases bite Seven?

EXCLUSIVE

First look: Ryan Corr, Josh Lawson as Paul Hogan and Justine Clark in <i>Hoges.</i>

You've had Molly and Brock, get ready for Hoges and Warnie

<i>Today Show</i> hosts Karl Stefanovic and Lisa Wilkinson.

Breakfast wars: Has Seven gone all Trump on Nine?

Kim Kardashian at the Balmain show at Paris Fashion Week 2016, before the robbery.

Kim Kardashian returns to work surrounded by a small army

Ebony Bowden

Thomas Ostermeier in Schaubuehne Theatre's <i>Richard III</i>, which is coming to the Adelaide Festival in 2017.

New Adelaide Festival directors' ambitious program unveiled

Debbie Cuthbertson

Colleen Hewett's encore cameo shows how it's done.

Godspell Reimagined review: rock revival lacks conviction

Anne-Marie Peard

Glen Hansard in full flight on his Australian tour.

Glen Hansard pulls out all stops in mammoth Melbourne show

Debbie Cuthbertson

Georgia Love and Lee Elliott, the happy couple in the final installment of The Bachelorette 2016.

The story behind Georgia Love's fairytale dress

Jenna Clarke

The moment Trump says Melania will be delivering more speeches.

Melania was not pleased to hear she will be making more speeches

Mary Ward
33 mins ago

It may take two people to get pregnant, but only one will feel the physical effects.

Woman sexually assaulted in virtual reality game

COMMENT
Clementine Ford

Rebecca Vallance "Breakers", $689. Sarah J. Curtis "Summer Time Fun X Panama" hat, $649.

How to back a style winner this Derby Day

Melissa Singer

Mariah Carey and James Packer in November last year.

Carey and Packer 'not sure if they will stay together'

Mary Ward

The cover of Mockingbird No 8.

Comic book author deletes Twitter after 'feminist' t-shirt backlash

Revolving doors: Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, has been rumoured as a candidate for the post of ...

Sheryl Sandberg rumoured for role with Clinton

In Hans Christian Andersen's original, the mermaid of The Little Mermaid doesn't go back for her prince because he is ...

The Little Mermaid is not lovesick, she is ambitious

Gaming your way to better results.

The one 'supplement' athletes use that works

Sarah Berry

No rush: Slowing down when you eat is better for your body.

A hard-to-swallow truth for fast eaters

Casey Seidenberg

What teenagers drink affects their brains.

Caffeinated alcohol is 'cocaine' to teens

Steamed red bean sweet buns.

The secret's out about Secret Kitchen and its $700,000 fish tank

Chorizo meatballs, red beans and a fried egg.

Put an egg on it! Get cracking with these brunch and dinner recipes

14 mins ago

Burnished bird: the rotisserie chicken at Scott Pickett's Deli

October hitlist: Where to eat and drink in Melbourne right now

"It feels real good to have a cheque like that": Glenda Blackwell.

She wanted to teach him a lesson - but won $1 million instead

Travis M. Andrews
52 mins ago

Ivy Steel, 6, needs to travel to America for lifesaving treatment that is not available in Australia.

Mum's plea: 'We need all of Australia to know the name Ivy Steel'

Tooth Fairy caught on camera!

Dad captures Tooth Fairy on camera with son, 5

Countries with fewer airlines tend to be the most expensive to fly per kilometre.

Direct Australia-to-London flights are just around the corner

Michael Gebicki

Emirates' new business class lounge at Dubai International Airport.

$11 million makeover: Emirates opens new flagship lounge

Julietta Jameson

The new economy seats on Qantas's Boeing 787 Dreamliners.

Qantas unveils new seats, new look for Boeing 787 Dreamliners

Craig Platt
1 hr ago

Even if you haven't connected a phone, the Sync 3 default interface is decent.

Ford Sync 3: in-car tech, powered by your phone

Tim Biggs
1 hr ago

Plenty of Aussies would love unlimited mobile data, but they're not prepared to pay through the nose for it.

Aussies think unlimited mobile data worth $60

COMMENT

The new Touch Bar will offer a range of customisable functionality depending on the situation.

Apple announces new 'gold standard' MacBook Pro

The Nintendo Switch

Nintendo to reveal all about Switch in January

Kotaku

The company reported 317 million monthly active users, ahead of analysts' average estimate of 315 million, and the net ...

Twitter to cut 9 per cent of workforce

2017 MG3.

MG defends 'poor' safety scores

Andrew MacLean
1 hr ago

2017 Skoda Octavia.

Skoda reveals updated Octavia

Andrew MacLean

Mercedes-AMG E 63 S, Detailaufnahme // Mercedes-AMG E 63 S, detail shot 2017 Mercedes-AMG E63.

New Mercedes-AMG E63 revealed

Greg Kable

The new Toyota HiLux failed a Swedish "moose test" of its dynamic ability.

Toyota HiLux fails moose test

David McCowen

LDV Maxus D90 Concept

LDV confirms Ranger and Everest rival

Andrew MacLean

Tesla has made groundbreaking claims about the driver aids available in its Model X.

ACCC flags Tesla's Autopilot

David McCowen

Missing out this year: Michelle Payne rode Prince Of Penzance to Melbourne Cup victory in 2015.

Godolphin locks Payne out of Melbourne Cup

Adam Pengilly
10 mins ago

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 07: Channel Nine commentary team members Mark Nicholas and Shane Warne during game two ...

Fans have fallen out of love with Nine's cricket commentators

COMMENT

Jockey and race caller Hayley Moore in town for the Melbourne Cup.

Racing's not sexist: UK jockey calls out Michelle Payne

Larissa Nicholson

You shall pass, out and in again: how Perth announced Jaron Johnson's return.

Wierdcats: 'Magic' Johnson back in strangest of ways

Mumm has made history with the first swimming pool in a Birdcage marquee.

A pool. In a tent. At Flemington. Slip into something marquee

Melissa Singer

Big test: Shaun Marsh has proved his fitness after a hamstring tear.

Marsh set to get nod ahead of Burns for first Test

Open and shut: Jose Mourinho.

FA moves against coaches behaving badly

NSW's David Warner celebrates a century on day three at The Gabba.

What you missed on day three of the Shield

Daniel Cherny

Pinch test: "He'll get there or he won't."

We'll do what we can for Yarran, says Tigers footy boss

Larissa Nicholson
1 hr ago

Steve Johnson of the Giants

Cushy run or hard road? Our club-by-club 2017 fixture rankings

Rohan Connolly

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JULY 23: Xavier Richards of the Swans in action during the round 18 AFL match between the Sydney ...

Bizarre fortnight ends with Richards an ex-Swan

Daniel Cherny

Dees on track for new deal with major sponsor

Daniel Cherny

Richmond won't play on Friday nights in 2017

Tigers dark at losing Friday night lights

Larissa Nicholson

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