'All too quickly my eldest be flying the coop, yet it feels like we haven't had enough of him yet. Night after night he's sucked into the vortex of his room, slave to his books that are stealing away the lovely looseness of his childhood,' writes Nikki Gemmell.

Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg has taken aim at Labor state governments for pursuing unrealistically high renewable energy targets which he warns are compromising Australia’s energy security and pushing up prices for consumers.

OPINION: If you love your parents, respect your children, care for your society and think compassionately about your world then it is time to open your heart and brain to what happens when a jurisdiction legalises killing or, as it is called, euthanasia, writes Paul Kelly

"I spend most of my life whizzing hither and thither in exotica made from platinum and rhodium and fitted with engines that roar and bellow and spit fire. And all I want on the way home is a Ford Fiesta ST.""

The Western Bulldogs AFL Grand Final triumph was a bittersweet experience for Bob Murphy, who could only watch on from the sidelines after tearing his ACL earlier in the season. But coach Luke Beveridge made sure the beloved leader was involved in the post-game presentations, bringing him up onto the podium and presenting him with a medal of his own.

It’s the post-grand final family day 62 years in the making after the Western Bulldogs won their first AFL premiership since 1954.

Fans are invited to Whitten Oval on Sunday morning to help the team keep the celebrations going.

The Western Bulldogs, in defeating Sydney Swans at the MCG, have won their second AFL Grand Final. The last win was in 1954.

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"There will always be points of friction, but a strong China is better for the world than a weak one," writes Tony Abbott.

"Same-sex marriage could be the issue that goes on to haunt the Prime Minister."

Wyatt Roy met an Australian diplomat in Israel a week before he was caught between ISIS and Kurdish forces.

Public hospitals could be forced to repay money if staff commit any of a ­series of catastrophic mistakes.

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Australia has a two-speed education system, with NSW and Victorian students outperforming their state rivals.

At about 10am next Friday, the last Ford built in Australia will reach the end of the Broadmeadows assembly line. ­Fittingly, it will be a Falcon; a six-cylinder, rear-wheel drive emblem of sunburnt suburbia once found in every second driveway, now loved by precious few.

President Rodrigo Duterte has raised the rhetoric on his anti-drugs war even higher, comparing it to Hitler and the Holocaust, and saying he would be “happy to slaughter” three million addicts.

US fashion designer Tala Raassi wore a miniskirt to a party in Tehran - and paid a horrific price.

The only certainty about today’s grand final is that if the Western Bulldogs win, there’ll hardly be a dry eye at the MCG.

Europe’s pioneering Rosetta spacecraft has ended its 12-year odyssey after crashing into the comet it was chasing.

Alec Guinness had utter contempt for the “childish” film, but fresh evidence shows his role in rescuing it, and a genre.