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exclusiveKeating lashes Shorten’s Labor
Paul Keating has delivered a damning assessment of Labor under Shorten’s leadership.
Region revolts against Baird
The NSW Coalition faces possible defeat in a regional by-election despite dropping its greyhound racing ban.
Trump backflip on Obamacare?
Donald Trump has given an exclusive interview to The Wall Street Journal after meeting with Barack Obama.
Leak cartoon complaint dropped
Woman who alleged she suffered racial hatred because of a provocative Bill Leak cartoon has withdrawn her complaint.
inside storyPlight unmasks injustice of 18C
Kyran Findlater made an alarming discovery when he checked his LinkedIn page one day in November last year.
Smith a colossus in the ruins
7:06PMAndrew FaulknerEvents in Hobart must surely end any suggestion about Steve Smith abdicating the captaincy.
Team Trump gets shake up
9:32AMDonald Trump has shaken up his transition team - demoting Chris Christie and giving three spots to his children.
Obama gives up on TPP
Barack Obama’s administration has suspended efforts to win congressional approval for the free-trade deal.
Stealing at the supermarket
Those Daleks masquerading as self-serve checkouts are infuriating. But does that mean it’s okay to steal?
Bankrupt Jackson winning bids
Kathy Jackson has bid enthusiastically at a prominent Sydney auction house though claiming to be a bankrupt.
‘I believe in battle and conflict’
Paul Keating saw leadership as the combination of courage and imagination.
Rust belt put steel in Trump
Donald Trump’s security and foreign policy appointments will be crucial.
Welcome to a world of war
The incoming US president will need to be a fast learner on geopolitics and foreign policy.
Six home truths from US election
Australia needs to get a better understanding of the political reality following Trump’s surprise victory.
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Late braker
TRENT DALTON Who says you need to be a ruthless, egotistical mongrel to make it in Formula One?
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‘Squid will check you out’
ROSS BILTON How an expat Pom with an underwater photography hobby lost his appetite for calamari.
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Mirth in the message
PENNY DURHAM Indonesian standup comedian Sakdiyah Ma’ruf on conservatism, burqas and the virtues of eco-terrorism.
Unintelligent design
What were you thinking, God, when you created men with so much in-built obsolescence?
My family’s keeper
On tour in the West Indies, cricketer Brad Haddin got a call that changed his world.
Leave our legacy alone
Legacy. Code for old-fashioned, redundant, non-digital. Hence Fairfax’s rush to dump legacy – that is, print – newspapers.
‘Their eyes will haunt you’
The story of the Yazidi genocide is the hardest this lifetime war correspondent has ever written.
Donors desert Gillard-led fund
The biggest donor countries behind the $US4.6bn Global Partnership for Education warned they could withdraw funding.
Other buyers beware, agents rise
Buyers’ agents are increasingly striking deals before homes have even been listed for sale by their vendors.
‘Deal ends ALP’s boatpeople era’
The end of Manus Island and Nauru after a resettlement deal for asylum-seekers would be the “end of Labor’s legacy”.
Thousands ‘miss out over NDIS’
Thousands of people with profound disabilities who should have gained access to the $22bn NDIS have been “lost”.
The face of Trump’s America
Until last Tuesday, the industrial town of Scranton in rural Pennsylvania was Hillary Clinton country.
Huge protest against Park
Hundreds of thousands of men, women and children have joined a new protest in Seoul against South Korea’s President.
Taliban claims US base attack
Several people have been killed in an explosion in the largest US base in Afghanistan, with the Taliban claiming it.
Actor Robert Vaughn dies
Robert Vaughn, the debonair actor in TV’s The Man From U.N.C.L.E., has died aged 83.
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Stock pickers warn of correction
Investors should be alert for a correction in toppy sharemarkets, according to leading fund managers.
Rise of machines the next battle
The upside of the Trump win is what the markets have chosen to focus on since Wednesday: public spending and tax cuts.
Robb woos Chinese prawn funds
Former federal trade minister Andrew Robb has accepted a new post that will utilise his close China ties.
South Africa leads by 86
Josh Hazlewood made a crucial breakthrough but South Africa ended the first day in the ascendant | WATCH
Krishna stars in Phoenix win
Roy Krishna has continued his stellar form to inspire Wellington to a 2-0 win over Central Coast.
Russian regulator bans LinkedIn
A Moscow court upheld a decision to ban LinkedIn in Russia in a landmark ruling enforcing a personal data law.
‘Binned’ eggs boost IVF chances
Women could have a better chance of giving birth via IVF thanks to a technique generating eggs from spare ovary cells.
Leonard Cohen dead at 82
Leonard Cohen, the singer, songwriter and poet hailed as one of the most visionary artists of his generation, has died at 82.
The Australian hits record highs
The Australian and The Weekend Australian are bucking a global trend by boosting total sales across print and digital.
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- 11:37PM Russia arrest 10 suspected terrorists
- 11:37PM Vic gov to spend $109 million for homeless
- 10:31PM Heath Ledger exhibition to open in WA
- 9:38PM Banks exposed to looming property catastrophe
- 2:31PM Oil rise fails to lift stocks
- 12:17PM The disaster of negative rates
- 11:55AM Home loan approvals bounce back
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Don’t appease mad and bad views
Anyone with a shred of decency will condemn the president-elect.
Fix these real problems now
Republican voters named immigration, jobs and terror their biggest concerns.
Politicians best play on policy
Disparaging a rival candidates supporters is a sure way of limiting one’s own appeal.
It is the local economy, stupid
The US is a nation divided with one half deeply resentful of the comforts enjoyed by the rest.
Make Australia great again
Politicians here in Australia need to wake up to and act on the divisions that are tearing apart our society.
Our trusted friend turns rogue
Shared values and common interests mean nothing to the US president-elect.
Americans betrayed by elites
Name calling and denial by the US ruling class left the door open for angry voters.
Scrap pervasive, insidious law
Citizens can be pursued to the ends of the earth under section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act.
The royal treatment
Two top-shelf British series deserve to be welcomed with great fanfare.
Sad songs
Jimmy Barnes’s brave and disturbing memoir ends before the start of his rock career.
Remember the age of chivalry?
When it comes to Donald Trump’s demeaning attitude towards women, don’t blame the 1950s.
Day the Diggers beat the odds
Writing about defeats is a necessary part of any war historian’s job, but it’s refreshing to read about a victory.
Your weekly TV planner
TV writer Graeme Blundell gives his top recommendations for this week’s viewing on the box.
From the sublime to the simian
The commune has loomed large in the Australian imagination and has a starring role in a new work of fiction.
Vale Leonard Cohen
We celebrate the life of one of the most acclaimed singer-songwriters of the rock era, Leonard Cohen.