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A 29-year-old man died after falling two floors from the QT Hotel in New Acton on Sunday, November 13.

Man, 29, dies after falling two storeys from hotel room

Empolyment minister Senator Michaelia Cash during a press conference at Parliament House Canberra on Tuesday 22 November ...

Senator likens black and white-dressed female minister to zebra

A construction company in Fyshwick has gone under.

Home owners in limbo as Canberra builder collapses

39 mins ago

Faf Du Plessis has received little sympathy from the ICC.

Faf, you cheated, you got caught, you should be banned

COMMENT
Peter FitzSimons

Pre-polling for ACT election: The parties have now been given $8 for each vote.

ACT political parties receive biggest ever election windfall

Kirsten Lawson
27 mins ago

Mark Rogers, a Sydney grandfather of two, is being pursued by the Australian Government Solicitor over his 'save ...

Government threatens to sue grandfather over 'save Medicare' website

EXCLUSIVE

'No winners': jail for man who shot kangaroo with crossbow

'For many years I was ashamed': MP reveals domestic violence

Canberra Raider given $1000 fine for cocaine possession

New Labor MP cops 'nasty emails' after Dutton comments

'Untrue': Public service boss rages against union after historic no-vote

Australian teenager Jamie Murphy is searched by security at the entrance to the Sky Garden club in Bali.

Aussie teen's powder test 'negative': lawyer

22 mins ago

Swedish singer Tove Lo in a "uterus dress" at the ARIA Awards in Sydney on Wednesday.

Best and most creatively dressed at tonight's ARIA Awards

1 hr ago

Photo: El Cosmico Provision Company/ Goop.

Fancy an $11k yurt? Gwyneth's overpriced Christmas wish list

BROODING: This huntsman spider - dubbed 'Hortense' - guards her egg sac in a North Bendigo letterbox. They were born ...

Look away now: huntsman spider hatches huge brood in letter box

Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce chases down journalist Heath Aston during the Pollies vs Press Gallery touch footy ...

Who would take health advice from Barnaby Joyce?

COMMENT

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Faf du Plessis: 'I've done nothing wrong'

How many calories are in your favourite alcoholic drinks?

Bouquet of flowers in watering can on wooden table a day to remember

Ten ways to make your flowers last longer

Set to retire, Lumumba could take legal action ...

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'A nice fit in red, black and white': Ex-Saint ...

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Club bosses walk out on NRL as feud over funding ...

7:32PM

Canberra father Richard Stanton pictured riding his bike six weeks before he died. The coroner found he was killed when ...

How a bike ride turned to tragedy for a Canberra dad

The cost of seeing a GP in Canberra has gone up, way up in recent years

Dead woman's DNA found on claw hammer, murder trial hears

33 mins ago

court

Public servant acquitted over dating site sex assault claims

justice

Judge acquits man of involvement in 28kg Canberra drug run

Small business confidence is on the up in Canberra

What small businesses think about their future in Canberra

An artist's impression of the Belconnen hotel.

New 90-room hotel slated for Belconnen

Ben Cousins has reportedly been hospitalised after a car crash.

Ben Cousins under police guard in hospital after crash

WA

Police cordon off a footpath in Campsie where a man was stabbed to death.

Man stabbed to death on Sydney street

NSW
11 mins ago

Criminologist Paul Wilson has been found guilty of child sex abuse.

Criminologist found guilty of sex abuse of girl

QLD

A 29-year-old man died after falling two floors from the QT Hotel in New Acton on Sunday, November 13.

Police investigate man's fall from hotel balcony

'No back pay.' Defence human resources boss Richard Oliver

Public service bosses launch charm offensive as big votes loom

Employment Minister Michaelia Cash and her colleagues face defiance within their own offices over workplace policy.

Coalition staffers' workplace revolt escalates

Agriculture Department secretary Daryl Quinlivan.

'It's just nuts': More public service departments vote no

Labor senator Anne Aly says the Essential poll's questions about Muslims were too negatively worded.

Put women in the room with men and we are invisible, says Aly

Tom McIlroy
45 mins ago

Dreyfus threatened Shorten with resignation over Kitching Senate post

James Massola
15 mins ago

Senator likens black and white-dressed female minister to zebra

Heath Aston

Labor MP Emma Husar speaks about her personal experience with family violence in the House of Representatives on Wednesday.

'For many years I was embarrassed and ashamed'

Matthew Knott

SMH. Still Portraits of deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce as part of the Politicains for the Instagram Fairfax ...

We don't like health shaming. But let's talk about Barnaby

Tony Wright

Senator Pauline Hanson at Parliament House.

One Nation senators heal rift - for now

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'I need to be a catalyst for change': Bernardi's New York awakening

Latika Bourke

President-elect Donald Trump wants the media to fall in line.

Donald Trump still doesn't get the First Ammendment

ANALYSIS
Paul McGeough

Chinese President Xi Jinping, centre, talks with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, right, as Lu Wei, left, China's internet ...

Facebook has built a software tool to help China's censorship

Turkish men and women protest the bill. The placard reads: "Punish the rapist, not the child."

Turkey withdraws 'rape amnesty' sexual abuse bill, outcry continues

The Brex Pistols with Donald Trump. (From left) unidentified, Arron Banks, Trump, Nigel Farage, Andrew Wigmore, and ...

How the 'Brex Pistols' sparked anarchy in UK diplomacy

Nick Miller

President-elect Donald Trump could enter office a completely different person – prudent, inclusive, responsible – but ...

Does it matter that Trump is the least popular president ever?

COMMENT
Paul Waldman

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The latest cartoons from David Pope

Child's play: the best way to assess if a site or app is educational is to consider what is beneficial for your child to ...

Don't stress about screen time for children

COMMENT
Joanne Orlando

ACTU secretary Dave Oliver.

Unions up their dodgy official insurance

1 hr ago

Apple CEO Tim Cook is banking on sales of iPhones in China to help make up for slowing growth in other regions.

The man who took Apple's business in China

1 hr ago

Dell Australia and New Zealand managing director Angela Fox.

Whinge, complain, leave - the bad ride for women in IT

Dr Luci Ellis has been promoted to the position of Assistant Governor (Economic) at the RBA.

A woman is one step closer to being RBA governor

1 hr ago

Union boss stripped of executive positions

1 hr ago

Miners boost ASX, Fortescue at 5-year high

'Best deal in decades' for dockers

Sydney property market in 'severe disequilibrium'

The MM House in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, has been voted the House of the Year 2016 at the World Architecture Festival ...

Take a peek inside the house voted best in the world

Gwyneth Paltrow's lifestyle blog, Goop, is famous for its luxurious Christmas gift guides.

Fancy an $11k yurt? The 'best' gifts from Gwyneth's Goop list

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Former Brumbies boss sells Canberra home ahead of US move

An artist's impression of the Belconnen hotel.

New 90-room hotel slated for Belconnen Town Centre

Our landlord ran a colony for "clothing optional" enthusiasts.

Five important lessons I learned living next to a nudist colony

Hipsters before it was even hip, The Rolling Stones even invented the awkward lean.

Original hipsters: Is this the most stylish rock band of all time?

Culture

The GLC Coupe is ready for all terrain.

Our love affair with the SUV rolls on with this new high rider

Cars

Pam Graudenz, resident of a retirement village and vice president and village liaison officer from the Retirement ...

Buying into a retirement village? Beware these traps

John Collett

Pensioners have incentives to hoard cash

Jenny Brockis is a brain specialist.

Exhausted? Three tips to fire up your brain

Alexandra Cain

Trov on-demand insurance app

Millennial-aimed insurance startup moves to UK market

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Perth teen could face 12 years in a Bali jail

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Clip - Mad Max: Fury Road: Black and Chrome

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Rowling's magical Potter profit

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Rinehart backs 'exciting' Trump

Queenie the Elephant elephant handler Henry Maynard (on the left) at the media preview of Circus 1903, a modern take on ...

Circus 1903

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.

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Amber Heard will be donating her divorce settlement to charity.

Amber Heard sued for $13 million over sabotage claims

Ebony Bowden

This image released by Warner Bros. shows Colin Farrell, in a scene from, "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them." ...

Rowling hints at Fantastic Beasts film series finale

Emily Smith

Cam Pascoe, the beloved bartender on First Dates Australia.

First Dates' Cam The Barman on handling flirty contestants

Rob Moran

Portrait of actor Devon Terrell in the QT Hotel promoting his new movire Barry where he plays the role of a young Barack ...

Aussie actor lands first big role as most powerful man in the world

Sarah Thomas

Adele may have revealed she is expecting her second child during a concert in Arizona.

Adele's cryptic pregnancy 'announcement'

Tim Doutré

Australian Peter Sumner played Pol Treidum in the original Star Wars (1977).

Peter Sumner, only Australian to appear in Star Wars, dies at 74

Garry Maddox

Can Montaigne break through a pack of previous winners to win best female artist at the 2016 ARIA Awards?

ARIA Awards form guide: who should win; who will win

Bernard Zuel

Prince's estate has released a previously unheard track as part of a greatest hits collection available on iTunes.

New Prince music released seven months after his death

Tim Doutré

House of Strangers is back from LA and launching the first single from their new album on Friday. Canberra Times, ...

From O'Connor lounge room to the beaches of LA

Researchers at the ANU raised $70,000 from the public to help save the wild population of the orange bellied parrot ...

Canberra researchers in desperate bid to save these adorable parrots

There's just over a month until Christmas Day.

Where to shop local for Christmas presents in Canberra

Robbie Williams avoided the downpours at the ARIA Awards in Sydney on Wednesday.

Robbie Williams can't hack the rain at the 'cursed' ARIAs

Amy Croffey
11 mins ago

Ellen DeGeneres tears up as President Obama presents her with the 2016 Presidential Medal Of Freedom.

Ellen DeGeneres shares a teary moment with a friend

Nicole Economos

Swedish singer Tove Lo in a "uterus dress" at the ARIA Awards in Sydney on Wednesday.

Best and most creatively dressed at the ARIAs

Jenna Clarke
1 hr ago

Taryn Brumfitt, found of The Body Image Movement, has released a documentary called Embrace

The question from my seven-year-old daughter that shook me

Taryn Brumfitt

Former Coalition MP Dr Sharman Stone retired from the House of Representatives this year after deciding not to contest ...

Shrewd move: New appointment for women and girls

Jenna Clarke

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 23: Peking Duck arrive for the 30th Annual ARIA Awards 2016 at The Star on November 23, ...

Celebrities still manage to shine on ARIAs soggy red carpet

1 hr ago

A couple of disagreements is no bar to happiness for Dallas Baird and Lucinda Crossley Meates, pictured on their wedding ...

What my bipartisan marriage can teach us about living in harmony

COMMENT
Dallas Baird

These days, you can hardly talk about narcissism without the president-elect coming up.

I fell for a narcissist, and this is what we can now all expect

Jon Shadel

Strong , serious looking soldier

An exercise in mindset: Lessons from a special forces trainer

Sarah Berry

From fancy footwear to injury?

Runners who wear hi-tech trainers more at risk of injury

Henry Bodkin

Running towards better mental fitness.

How exercise might keep depression at bay

Gretchen Reynolds

Flavoured kombucha.

Kombucha: How to brew this superstar health drink at home

Adam Liaw's easy cheeseburgers.

Adam Liaw shows you how to make the easiest-ever cheeseburgers

A Canberra bus stop cake by Sonya Curran.

Canberra-themed cakes to be turned into a cookbook for PANDSI

surprise

Photo shows mum's delivery room shock

Mum's taxi is now earning her money

Mums are embracing Uber as a family friendly career option

Bridgette Veneris, 10, is on her way to NASA thanks to her invention.

How this 10-year-old Australian girl won her way to NASA

Live 'la dolce vita' in Italy.

The eight countries where locals enjoy life the most

Ben Groundwater

Hydon, Australia - August 4, 2013: Wave Rock is a natural rock formation located east of the small town of Hyden in ...

Australia's six most incredible, must-see rocks (besides Uluru)

Brian Johnston

Emirates One&Only Wolgan Valley.

How airline Emirates created a perfect resort in Australia

Jane Reddy

The mp4 video that causes iPhones to crash when viewed in Safari.

Corrupt video can cause any iPhone to freeze

Tim Biggs

"In 2016, people no longer go online, they are online," said the UN report.

Half the world will be online by end of 2016

The Touch Bar is great in some apps, a little clunky in others.

The new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar is a worthy upgrade

The Note 7 was recalled because it battery could overheat.

Despite disaster, people still love Samsung

Lifehacker

VicHyper's prototype Hyperloop rail pod.

Aussie students unveil Hyperloop prototype

Walkinshaw Performance has unveiled its W407 tuning package.

Walkinshaw unveils HSV rival

David McCowen

2017 Suzuki S-Cross Turbo Prestige.

New Suzuki S-Cross prices revealed

Dom Tripolone

The Ford Focus ST is back to defend its Best Performance Car under $60,000 title against two of its stablemates the Ford ...

Best Performance Car Under $60k

Stephen Ottley

Exotic cars including the Lamborghini Gallardo GT3 will hit Bathurst this weekend.

Supercars set for Challenge Bathurst

David McCowen

Can the new Jaguar XF, Mercedes-Benz E-Class or Volvo S90 knock the Tesla Model S off its perch in the 2016 Drive Car of ...

Best Luxury Car over $80,000

David McCowen

2015 Chrysler 300 SRT

Chrysler to stay in Australia

Peter McKay

Former Titan Dave Taylor pleaded guilty to two charges of possessing a dangerous drug, namely cocaine, in 2014.

Canberra Raiders will work with NRL integrity unit after Dave Taylor fined for cocaine possesion

Du Plessis seen rubbing the ball with a mint in his mouth.

'Scapegoat': I'm no cheat, says du Plessis

Eagles bad boys Michael Gardiner and Ben Cousins.

A downward spiral: the strife and times of Ben Cousins

To say Hilton Cartwright was a surprise inclusion in the Australian ODI team would be an understatement.

Hilton who? Bolter named in ODI squad

Blake Austin takes to the running track at Stromlo Forest Park as the Raiders begin pre-season training.

Raiders five-eighth Blake Austin raring to go as pre-season begins

In the pink: Faf du Plessis has been cleared to play in the Adelaide day/night test match.

Proteas to appeal Faf du Plessis guilty verdict

High hopes: Nic Maddinson.

'It will hoop': the challenge confronting Australia's rookies

Capitals' coach Paul Goriss.

Coach Paul Goriss says resilient Capitals have turned a corner