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Mitch Jackson is one of the Good Samaritans who went into the burning Springvale Commonwealth Bank to help rescue ...

Mitch's brave act: 'I had to do what had to be done'

Father-of-12 Junior Dean ran to saves staff and customers.

'Why did you do it?' Father of 12 caught bank arson suspect

EXCLUSIVE

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 18: Forensics are seen photographing evidence at the Commonwealth Bank in Srpingvale ...

Hospitals reveal how they dealt with 'traumatised' victims

A passerby receives cuts to his left hand when he smashed one of the windows to help get the woman out of the burning ...

Police rescue sleeping woman from burning car in Brunswick

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representative of the Friends of Elster Creek Gio Fitzpatrick at the Creek in Elsternwick Park, Elwood inside the golf ...

Suburban golf course set to go truly green and become wetlands

Vice President-elect Mike Pence leaves the Richard Rodgers Theatre in New York after a performance of Hamilton.

Trump demands apology from 'very rude' cast of Hamilton

Lovestruck Aussie mum scammed, ends up in foreign jail hell

Selectors set to swing axe in bid to end Test cricket slump

After Brexit and Trump, what will be the next domino to fall?

Why did Ivanka Trump attend father's meeting with Japanese PM?

Red faces over $80k luggage lift for PM's residence

Nur Islam's bed in the corner of the lounge room.

'I have no place to go': Inside the life of alleged Springvale bank attacker

Former senator Ricky Muir at his newly purchased sawmill, which he affectionately calls ''George''.

From senator to saw mill owner, what Ricky did next

photos. There is one of the sequencer, one of pipetting, and two options on the sample kit - one with text and one ...

New health frontier – trusting your gut feelings

Ricky Ponting celebrates a century in 2005.

Intrigue builds over Ponting as he quits IPL

Actor Brandon Victor Dixon who plays Arron Burr in Hamilton, speaks from the stage after the curtain call in New York.

Broadway actor's speech to audience member Mike Pence

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How to make young drivers slow down

Michelle Obama walks with Barack Obama wearing Sophie Theallet at an Independence Day barbeque on the South Lawn of the ...

Michelle Obama's go-to designer refuses to dress Melania

Rachel Weaver, who recently had a life saving kidney transplant.

You gave me a kidney, 'thanks' doesn't quite cut it

Barwon Heads beach house by Auhaus Architecture has one storey built around a courtyard with a generous deck and ...

What the simple Australian beach house looks like now

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How our distrust of modern medicine is making us sick

Suburbs like Cheltenham were once known for their sleepy suburban character.

Is the only way up? The sleepy 'burbs awoken by an apartment boom

Kirsten Robb

Allnutt Park, with its playgrounds, off-leash dog areas, birdie cage for golfers and walking/bicycle paths, is a popular ...

Why there is nothing wrong with this 'next suburb out'

Paul Best

Auctioneer Stephen Smith of Marshall White looks for a bid in Brighton earlier this year.

These buyers are the ones to beat at auction

Christina Zhou

A caveat on the title names the buyers as the Hunters Hill-based Huang family.

A famous Sydney waterfront mansion has sold for $60 million

Jacques Reymond at The Age Good Food Guide awards last year.

The kitchen that gets Jacques Reymond's stamp of approval

Kate Jones

Members of Reclaim Australia clash with Antifa, the militant arm of Rally against Racism, during simultaneous rallies ...

Far-right group to rally in Melbourne as bank fire fuels racism

Man charged with urinating on woman at Spiderbait gig

Elly Warren's father convinced she was suffocated to death

A man has been killed after being thrown from his dirt bike in Hampton Park.

Dirt-bike rider made desperate final call to triple 0 before death

The Frankston woman is expected to be charged on summons with a range of offences including drug driving.

Mum on meth caught driving with unrestrained kids

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

Ex kickboxing champ charged over infamous 'road gang' robbery

Archbishop Denis Hart.

Church doubles compensation but suppresses report

Sky News reporter Amy Greenbank was left bleeding after the incident outside court.

Woman charged with assault of TV reporter

NSW

Schoolies, swim, dance and drink at the Bounty Hotel, Kuta.

WA leavers: no booze but here's 10,000 condoms

WA

Erika Bacon's car was hit by a vehicle driven by a Russian diplomat.

Russian diplomats retaliate after road rage incident

ACT

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

Minister says she'd take her family to Dreamworld

QLD

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and wife Lucy at The Lodge.

Embarrassing admission over $80k luggage lift for PM's residence

Adam Gartrell

'Cheap': Hewson slams Dutton over Fraser criticism

Tom McIlroy

Shorten claim of a million foreign workers questioned

James Massola

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson hopes to toast a victory in Lockyer at the next state election.

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'

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

european leaders

After Brexit and Trump, what will be the next domino to fall?

Nick Miller

Pope Francis with migrants in St Peter's Square in June 2016.

Pope denounces 'epidemic of animosity' against immigrants

Fake news on Google.

US election sheds light on how fake news became the new reality

Josephine Tovey

Activists from the Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections (Bersih), march during a rally in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ...

Tens of thousands protest to demand PM Najib's resignation

Lindsay Murdoch

Premier Daniel Andrews: on a slippery slope when it comes to youth justice.

Victoria is facing our own youth justice crisis

COMMENT
Farrah Tomazin

Illustration: Joe Benke

Perhaps Turnbull's refugee ban wasn't so bad after all

COMMENT
Mark Kenny

The benefits to society of a guaranteed income for all may outweigh the costs.

The case for a basic income, no questions asked

Peter Martin

Rio Tinto paid $US4.5 billion in tax in 2015.

'Rio offered to pay me off': ex-Guinea mining minister

Charities should start taking a stand instead of waiting until they are shamed into it.

Workers pay price as charities turn their back

COMMENT
Adele Ferguson

blue chips

Bond yields a bad sign for expensive ASX

ANALYSIS

CROWE AFR 090731 MELB PIC BY JESSICA SHAPIRO... Simon Crowe, Founder of fast-growing hamburger chain Grill d. Story by ...

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

Here are Goldman Sachs' top trade ideas for 2017

Suicide prompts ad agency to review 'work to death' principle

Basketball stars caught up in Shane Heal alleged fraud

How little Oz rolls with the economic punches

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

The iPod changed how we listened to music.

13 brilliant Apple innovations that changed the world

Culture

The Mercedes-Maybach S650 Cabriolet.

The game-changing new cars everyone is talking about

Luxury cars

Fergus Herbert says his divorce saw him lose 'financial momentum'

How to have a good divorce

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Wardrobe lessons from a reformed shopaholic

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

Senator Sam Dastyari said he made a mistake 22 times earlier this year at a press conference.

So you've stuffed up at work: now what?

James Adonis

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How should we interpret movement in the commodity market?

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Trump picks Sessions for attorney general

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Wanderers and City share spoils

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Japan's Abe meets Trump in hastily arranged NY meeting

Professor Richard Kingsford wades into an Ibis colony in the Macquarie Marshes. A flood has brought a breeding event ...

Thousands of waterbirds flock to Macquarie Marshes

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

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LA-based Australian screen producer Bruna Papandrea.

The Australian producer tackling Hollywood sexism

Karl Quinn

Is this the film dud of 2016?

Review: 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

Not happy Paul, says John Lennon.

Bitter Beatles letter fuels memorabilia boom

Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones play at Desert Trip.

New studio album for the Rolling Stones

Jon Pareles

Michael Keaton's new shot at Oscar glory

Karl Quinn

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

An accomplished musician, Bailey frequently rocks out on stage.

Bill Bailey's Absurd flights of fancy make for impressive show

REVIEW
Craig Platt

Bessie Holland and?Elaine Crombie?in Blaque Showgirls.

Blaque Showgirls embraces sheer silliness and some raw truths

REVIEW
Cameron Woodhead

Alex Lahey performs with the EG AllStars during the 2016 The Age Music Victoria Awards, at 170 Russell, Melbourne. ...

Alex Lahey scores major win at The Age Music Victoria Awards

Martin Boulton

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

Michelle Obama walks with Barack Obama wearing Sophie Theallet at an Independence Day barbeque on the South Lawn of the ...

Michelle Obama's go-to designer refuses to dress Melania

Mary Ward

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

Sarah Christian was seven years old when she lost a patch of hair the size of a 20-cent piece.

Think dating is hard? Try navigating it with alopecia

Daisy Dumas

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

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

Actor Joy Smithers won't use 'fame' to leverage latest project

Nicole Economos

St Paul's College at Sydney University.

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

COMMENT
Mary Ward

Lindt Cafe siege victim Katrina Dawson will long be remembered after a foundation was set up to assist young women in ...

Lindt cafe siege widower finds new love

Andrew Hornery

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

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

Perfect match: 32 chocolate and coconut recipes

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

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

10 easy three-ingredient canapes

The toddler needed hospital treatment after ingesting alcohol.

Mother charged after toddler drinks vodka from sippy cup

Allie Casazza with her four children.

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

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

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

The perfect place to try it surfing: Waikiki Beach.

The top five things to do in crazy Waikiki Beach, for young and old

Brian J. Cantwell

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'

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

Set to lead a new-look XI: Steve Smith.

Selectors set to swing axe in bid to end slump

Andrew Wu

Legal aid: Faf du Plessis may have South African lawyers fighting his ball-tampering charge.

Faf du Plessis in Test limbo as feud escalates

Andrew Wu

Taking nothing for granted: Geoff Ogilvy.

Spieth lurks but Ogilvy leads

Adam Pengilly

Nine Network cricket commentary team at the WACA.

Taking guard: Nine no certainty to bid for international cricket rights

Jon Pierik

Returning Ricky: Ricky Ponting has quit the Mumbai Indians

Ponting quits IPL - ready for major CA role?

Jon Pierik

Alex Doolan is examined by medical staff after he was forced to retire hurt following a classy knock of 202.

Another Test hopeful concussed

Chris Tremain starred on day three.

Vics set NSW big day four chase

Soft: Dale Steyn has ridiculed the ICC for charging Faf Du Plessis with ball tampering.

'Blame it on a lollipop': Steyn hits out at ball-tampering charge

Megan Levy

On the move: Andrew McGrath of Sandringham runs with the ball during the TAC Cup.

All shapes and sizes, the best 30 in the draft

Emma Quayle

Steve Johnson of the Giants.

Johnson injures hand in strange phone accident

Larissa Nicholson

Laverde had an injury-plagued 2016.

Laverde back training after surgery

Daniel Cherny

Former Lions coach Justin Leppitsch.

Lions cop financial hiding

Larissa Nicholson

AFL draft prospect Jack Bowes.

The draft: Club-by-club guide, part two

Emma Quayle

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