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CCTV footage showing a man walking back to the bank with a container after he visited a service station.

Two fight for life after asylum seeker set fire to bank

15 mins ago

Donald Trump's election has sparked a fresh debate over taxes.

Making America hate again: Welcome to Trump's new USA

ANALYSIS
Paul McGeough

MONEY AFR 100421 MELB PIC BY JESSICA SHAPIRO... GENERIC cash, banks, interest rates, wages, pay, import, export, notes, ...

Our $220b cheap debt party is finally coming to an end

ANALYSIS

Since it was floated in 1983, the Australian dollar tends to move up or down in ways that limit inflation pressure and ...

Two reasons for our economic success as other countries suffer

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

Senator Jeff Sessions and Kellyanne Conway, campaign manager for President-elect Donald Trump, speaks to reporters at ...

Donald Trump chooses hard-liner to be his attorney general

2 mins ago

SHD. News. The Sydney Swans flag flies over the Harbour Bridge on the day of the AFL Grand Final, Sydney Swans vs ...

Study reveals the eight biggest threats that could paralyse Sydney

Matt Wade

Lovestruck mother scammed, ends up in foreign jail hell

1 hr ago

British woman charged in Dubai after reporting her own rape

Cadel Evans says he's too intimidated to cycle in Sydney

Grill'd in court: How two burger kings ended up in a legal bun fight

How Kingsgate's billion-dollar bonanza turned to fool's gold

Pasquale Barbaro, 35 (right), was shot dead in Earlwood in Sydney's west Monday November 15, 2016. Source: Instagram

Tensions as rival Sydney crime families came head-to-head at Rockpool

February 21, Saturday Herald, PS, Jenna Clarke Chef Guillaume Brahimi and his wife Sanchia Pic credit: Supplied ...

New woman in the life of husband who lost wife in Lindt cafe siege

Private Sydney

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 17: Comedian and actor Luke McGregor is seen during lunch with Age journalist Kylie ...

We watched his sexual journey, now he has an announcement

Michael Pena (left) and Alexander Skarsgard in <i>War on Everyone</i>.

Review: This mess could well be the worst film of 2016

Cup of coffee and laptop on wooden table. relax june 22
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I bought a stranger a coffee every week for a year

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Commonwealth Bank fire leaves dozens injured, six critical

Pretty pleased with himself: Greg Norman has been having regular chats with President-elect Donald Trump.

COMMENT

Tell us: how did you see Trump's win coming all along?

Charged: Faf du Plessis seen rubbing the ball with a lolly in his mouth.

South Africa skipper charged with ball tampering

39 Martin Place, Sydney, is slated for demolition. Photo: Google

Demolishing Sydney: how to take down a high rise

Metallica, the kid-friendly version.

Metallica go Wiggles: Metal legends play Enter Sandman on kids toys

Sydney's skyline will be dramatically transformed under a City of Sydney proposal.

Sydney must learn from planning failures of the past

23 mins ago

John Dieter Kahlbetzer paid $155,000 for the Deepdene penthouse in 1980; it is on the market for $6 million.

John Kahlbetzer offers up half landmark Deepdene building

The residential entry is through the old hall presenting the dichotomous relationship between the old and the new.

Heritage restoration gamble pays off in Parramatta

The Six Degrees townhouses in Brunswick, Melbourne.

Amazing design: Finding architecture's missing middle

8,49 Bennett St, Bondi

How (and where) to buy your new digs before Christmas

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 21: NSW Planning Minister Rob Stokes outside some terrace houses in Redfern on October 21, ...

Biggest housing construction boom in Sydney's history

EXCLUSIVE

'It's alarming': Why there are fewer cyclists on Sydney's roads

Jacob Saulwick

Officer breaks arm, four charged over violent home invasion

Shooters, Fishers and Farmers party candidate Phil Donato is chasing the party's first seat in the lower house of the ...

Recount granted in Orange byelection after record swing

Pot of gold at the end of Sydney financial services rainbow.

Sydney's biggest win since the Olympics

Matt Wade

Former NSW branch secretary of the National Union of Workers, Derrick Belan.

Former union official charged for alleged fraud of $870,000

More than 20,000 children in NSW are in out-of-home care.

'Single biggest reform': Baird tackles child protection

Rachel Browne

CCTV footage showing a man walking back to the bank with a container after he visited a service station.

Commonwealth Bank arson attack: What we know so far

VIC

Agincourt Reef on the outskirts of the Great Barrier Reef.

Third person dies after scuba diving incident off Great Barrier Reef

QLD

Pasquale "Percy" Lanciana was arrested for the 1994 Richmond "road gang" heist.

One-time kickboxing champ arrested over $2.4m Armaguard heist

VIC

Audits of Queensland theme parks are on track to finish at the end of November.

Minister pledges to take family on ride when theme park reopens

QLD

Peter Dutton said Malcolm Fraser made mistakes bringing some people to Australia in the 1970s.

'Cheap': Hewson slams Dutton over Fraser criticism

Tom McIlroy

Shorten claim of a million foreign workers questioned

James Massola

Playing to prejudices does politicians no credit

ANALYSIS
Mark Kenny

The creators of fake news quickly found it was more profitable to create stories that played to the views of Donald ...

The Trump effect takes hold Down Under

Michael Koziol

Barnaby Joyce spoke to Chris Smith.

'Sack Joyce for reneging on Murray-Darling promise'

56 mins ago

Fairfax Media revealed up to 60 per cent of students at some universities were being admitted below the advertised ...

An unlikely alliance: Victoria and NSW fight school funding changes

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton

Dutton turns attack on legacy of former Liberal prime minister

Myanmar's foreign minister Aung San Suu Kyi – widely regarded as the country's de facto leader.

Aung San Suu Kyi under attack as Myanmar denies killing Rohingya

1 hr ago

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak with his Japanese counterpart, Shinzo Abe, earlier this week.

Pro-democracy arrests in Malaysia ahead of anti-Razak rally

Dubai has established a glitzy reputation as a holiday and stopover destination.

UK woman charged in Dubai after reporting her own rape

An injured man is carried in a blanket in the town of Caphiridzange, Mozambique after the tanker exploded.

Three days of mourning in Mozambique after explosion kills dozens

Malcolm Turnbull has sought to hitch his policy wagon to Trump's runaway horses.

Australia has only seen the start of the Trump effect

COMMENT
Peter Hartcher

Alcor

False hope isn't the answer for those scared of dying

COMMENT
Amy Corderoy

Fine modernism makes contemporary ostentation seem sad and lost by comparison.

How we moved from beauty to the McMansion

COMMENT
Elizabeth Farrelly

Illustration: Simon Bosch

Bondnado: Australia's $220 billion debt party is over

ANALYSIS
Clancy Yeates

Shane Heal has been charged with three counts of fraud.

Basketball stars caught up in Shane Heal alleged fraud

Simon Crowe, Founder of Grill d.

Grill'd in court: inside a big-league bun fight

Since it was floated in 1983, the Australian dollar tends to move up or down in ways that limit inflation pressure and ...

How little Oz rolls with the economic punches

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

Workers pay price as charities turn their back

COMMENT
Adele Ferguson

Food delivery businesses the new retail disrupters

Bringing the bling: jewellery's new carat patch

Co-working spaces are the new office model

The iPod changed how we listened to music.

13 brilliant Apple innovations that changed the world

Culture
45 mins ago

The Mercedes-Maybach S650 Cabriolet.

The game-changing new cars everyone is talking about

Luxury cars

Men are less likely to seek treatment for depression, and this can intensify the associated problems.

The money problems most likely to affect men

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What type of private pension should we take?

Matt Schneider says Optika employs a high ratio of employees with autism or Asperger's syndrome who, with unconventional ...

Secrets from Australia's top innovators

Kate Jones

An envelope of cash for a business venture could be an investment in your child's future.

The best $5000 you could spend on your kid's future?

Tony Featherstone

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Turnbull: Trade must be free and fair

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Obama hopes Trump can stand up to Russia

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US surgeons separate Nigerian conjoined twins

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Khawaja hits Shield ton first day back

School students show off their Beatle haircuts in Gordon in Sydney's north on 25 February 1964, the year of The Beatles' ...

Rewind - Subcultures

Good Behaviour

Michelle Dockery as you've never seen her before. Good Behaviour now streaming on Stan.

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Every single episode of Seinfeld now streaming. Only on Stan.

The difference between fine and gross motor skills

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Ten activities to aid toddler development

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Is this the film dud of 2016?

Is this the worst film of 2016?

Paul Byrnes

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 17: Comedian and actor Luke McGregor is seen during lunch with Age journalist Kylie ...

We watched his sexual journey, now Luke McGregor has a partner

Meryl Streep's move to the small screen has scored her a massive payday.

Meryl Streep to earn $1 million+ per episode for new TV series

Metallica, the kid-friendly version.

Metallica get their Wiggles on, rocking out on kids instruments

A Series Of Unfortunate Events Netflix - A Series of Unfortunate Events

Lemony Snicket's series trailer shows whimsy and doom

Actress Shelley Duvall on Dr Phil.

Dr Phil slammed for exploiting Shelley Duvall's mental illness

Leonard Cohen in concert at Melbourne's Rod Laver Arena, 2009.

For Leonard Cohen, the end came with a fall in the night

BEN SISARIO

Miss Phryne Fisher (Essie Davis).

Miss Fisher the action hero: Producers plans for the big screen

Ebony Bowden

Carriageworks director Lisa Havilah (second from right) with artists Mathew Cooper, Sarah Contos and Kate Beckett who ...

Carriageworks' visitor numbers outstrip rival arts institutions

Andrew Taylor

Artist Penny Ryan and her hearts.

Heart breaking: the toll of Australia's offshore detention regime

Peter Munro

Artist Mulga fires up young imaginations during a workshop for primary school students at Liverpool Library.

Writers go west to fire up young imaginations

Linda Morris

This is a teeny tiny breaking of beauty chains, because nobody - nobody - should tell women what to do.

Five beauty rules that are crying out to be broken

Natalie Reilly

St Paul's College at Sydney University.

Sexual assault is a campus, not just a college, problem

COMMENT
Mary Ward

Death is a huge part of life and the more you know about it, the better off you are.

How embracing death can make our lives richer

Daisy Dumas

Ruby Rose and Jess Origliasso's relationship was rekindled on the set of On Your Side.

Why the Veronicas latest video is groundbreaking

Nicole Economos

Joy Smithers is now focusing on her true passion of ceramics.

Why actor Joy Smithers won't use 'fame' to leverage latest project

Nicole Economos

Celeste Barber

The beauty up-sell that went too far

Celeste Barber

THE GOOD: Hailee Steinfeld = making Keith Haring-inspired yellow sequins look effortless since 2016. The 19-year-old ...

Best & worst dressed celebrities of the week

Moving out of home can be daunting

5 things your parents didn't tell you before you left home

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A pizza from Al Taglio.

Why pizza is a health food

Sarah Berry

Makda Haji.

The extraordinary story of one runner

Sarah Berry

Walk before you run... or after.

Not getting enough out of running races? Walk.

Vicky Hallett

Anthony Bourdain demonstrating his appetites ahead of his book <i>Appetites</i>.

'Bad boy, coke-snorting, man-slut' no more - What Anthony Bourdain did next.

Adam Liaw's crunchy lamingtons (with rice bubbles).

Perfect match: 32 chocolate and coconut recipes

Three ingredient canapes for summer entertaining. Styling: Sharnee Rawson and Neela Shearer.

10 easy three-ingredient canapes

Chrissy Tiegen

Chrissy Tiegen gets real about weight loss

Allie Casazza with her four children.

How giving away most of her kids' toys helped one mum gain control of her life

Ariane Beeston

Audrey Nicole's daughter pictured with her dad's girlfriend.

Mum's uplifting post on the "other woman" in her daughter's life

The Hume Highway is the fastest transport route between Sydney and Melbourne.

Sydney to Melbourne by road: The nine best stops along the Hume

Penny Watson

Singapore Airlines disappointed a Traveller reader.

Traveller letters: Singapore's service 'completely frustrating'

A barbecue at Los Angeles' famous Venice Beach is one of the Airbnb experiences on offer.

Airbnb is about to change the way you travel, again

Sarah Theeboom

The Mini is small enough to fit in the palm of your hand.

Mini NES is more than just a nostalgic novelty

Tim Biggs

David Irvine, former head of both ASIO and ASIS, said savings from offshore storage could be dwarfed by the liabilities ...

Former spy boss' advice on Mumbai cyber breach

David Ellery

Amazon granted Aussies access to Prime Video just in time to watch The Grand Tour.

Amazon Prime Video arrives in Australia just in time

COMMENT

earthvr

Google Earth in virtual reality looks incredible

Kotaku

Twice the GPU power, bumped up CPU, same PS4 games.

Review: PlayStation 4 gets powered up

Tim Biggs

Mazda rotary-powered RX-Vision concept.

Mazda plots rotary sports car return

Stephen Ottley

Porsche is set to offer a manual gearbox again on its 911 GT3 road racer

Manual returns to Porsche 911 GT3

Andrew MacLean

The Mazda MX-5 returns to defend its Best Convertible crown, but faces some stiff competition from some iconic models, ...

What is the best convertible?

Andrew MacLean

Subaru has unveiled the VIZIV-7 Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) concept at the 2016 Los Angeles Auto Show. Subaru Viziv-7 ...

Subaru concept to target Kluger

David McCowen

Jeep? Compass Trailhawk 2017 Jeep Compass.

New Jeep Compass revealed

Peter McKay

Tesla's latest car is incredibly quick.

Tesla Model S to go even faster

David McCowen

Charged: Faf du Plessis seen rubbing the ball with a lolly in his mouth.

Du Plessis charged with ball tampering

Andrew Wu

ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 14: Tony Popovic of Western Sydney speaks to media during a press conference after the ...

The $7million offer on the table for Tony Popovic

Dominic Bossi

Pretty pleased with himself: Greg Norman has been having regular chats with President-elect Donald Trump.

What is the world's leader thinking? Just ask Sharkie

Peter FitzSimons

Manchester City's manager Pep Guardiola says having sex makes better soccer players.

Sex ban at Manchester City? No way, says Guardiola

Mike Whalley
10 mins ago

Ankle injury: Quade Cooper didn't train this week, but may well play.

Quade Cooper under injury cloud

Tom Decent

Andy Murray celebrates winning the first set against Stan Wawrinka.

Murray beats Wawrinka, books semi spot

Linda Pearce
51 mins ago

Possible farewell: Coach Tony Popovic has repeatedly been linked with Chinese club Shanghai Shenhua.

Wanderers furious over controversial decision

Dominic Bossi

Banished: Guillermo Amor coach of Adelaide remonstrates with the fourth official.

Amor banished to the stands in Glory win

Thankless task: Steve Smith.

Time to ditch selectors and let skipper choose?

Malcolm Knox

Ellyse Perry of Australia smiles during the women's international series T20 match between the Australian Southern Stars ...

Perry guides Southern Stars to thrilling win over South Africa

Caden Helmers

Happier times: Australia's Test team celebrate their series win over New Zealand and No.1 Test ranking in Christchurch.

What has gone wrong in Australian cricket?

Andrew Wu

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