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The Age, News, 26/10/2016, photo by Justin McManus. Students at Penleigh and Essendon Grammar after completing their VCE ...

Elite schools celebrate top VCE results

Live

Once your home or business is declared 'NBN ready', you have 18 months before your old service is disconnected.

Thousands risk losing internet and phone access

1 hr ago

Much of south-eastern Australia is in for a hot spell including Melbourne.

Heat spike to bring discomfort before cool spell returns

1 hr ago

Samantha Armytage predicted Donald Trump's election win.

Samantha Armytage left experts for dead on Trump

COMMENT

"I was very frustrated": Australian Human Rights Commission president Gillian Triggs.

'I was very frustrated': Triggs apologises for calling MPs ignorant

1 hr ago

The CFA crew work at helping the toddler whose fingers were stuck.

Toddler with fingers stuck in bath plug hole taken to hospital

30 mins ago

Bellamy's enters trade halt after horror month

58 mins ago

New Zealand selects new prime minister

'The facts are there': Trump's Russia hack denial

Cory Bernardi's ominous warning to the Liberal Party

'Sophisticated drug syndicate': Private schoolboy charged

trees

103 trees gone, and that's just the start. The price we'll pay for Metro

Aisha Dow
1 hr ago

Big Apple Buddy

Couple makes millions from 'pretty obvious' idea

Russel Howcroft is currently chairman of television industry body ThinkTV.

Russel Howcroft to step down as boss of Ten

25 mins ago

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 01: Samantha Armytage poses at the Emirates Marquee on Melbourne Cup Day at Flemington ...

Daily Mail slammed for Armytage 'pantie' story

Melissa Doubleday found this barnacle-covered object on a stroll down Muriwai beach.

What the hell is that?: Mystery object washes up on beach

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Melbourne weather set to sizzle

Former prime minister Tony Abbott's end of year advice for Malcolm Turnbull.

Abbott's regret about reading Fifty Shades of Grey

The Western Bulldogs will have a tough time defending their premiership in 2017.

Traffic jam of contenders for AFL top eight in 2017

work happy resignation quit generic

How employers are adapting to improve workers' wellbeing

20 mins ago

7/36 Eldridge Street, Footscray

First-home buyers losing ground in last frontier of affordability

Be prepared for long delays in getting to the airport.

Holiday road hell looms with major works planned for key roads

1 hr ago

Former Geelong principal failed to act in best interest of students

Police car deliberately rammed in unusual attack in Preston

21 mins ago

Heavy traffic on the Western Ring Road.

Two major road projects, one long road to an election

UPDATED

Frankston North mother Karen Rae.

Man charged with murdering Karen Rae after grisly find

A sniffer dog indicated there could be a prohibited drug in Nguyen's luggage.

Pregnant woman charged with trafficking 15kgs of prohibited drug

Iman Ali Islamic Centre in Fawkner destroyed by fire

Islamic centre firebombed and graffitied

The Gold Coast light rail service is back on track.

Trams back online after lightning 'melted' cables

QLD

A tourist bus was flipped onto its roof during a forklift rampage on Thevanard Island.

Forklift rampage causes $150k damage

WA

David Maxwell announcing the Riverview suburban development in 2013.

NSW, ACT discuss shifting border for new suburb

ACT

Toddler drowns, another child critically injured in Sydney swimming pool accidents

Toddler drowns in Sydney swimming pool

NSW
1 hr ago

"I was very frustrated": Australian Human Rights Commission president Gillian Triggs.

'I was very frustrated': Triggs' apology to politicians

Michael Koziol
1 hr ago

You'll hear more from me in 2017, says Bernardi

Heath Aston

Abbott still no 'tech head' after Netflix confession

Fergus Hunter

"We don't believe it is sensible to pursue so called stimulus spending," says Finance Minister Mathias Cormann.

No recession, no stimulus spending: Cormann

"I loved my great-grandmother, and it made me sad and confused to see her age."

Stop children stealing from elderly parents, discussion paper says

Fergus Hunter

Sean Black – now working for One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts.

Police investigate One Nation staffer over assault allegations

Senator Nick Xenophon called for an inquiry into the leak despite knowing his own staffer was involved.

Xenophon staffer's clearance under review over subs leak

A couple kisses in front of graffiti depicting Vladimir Putin, left, and Donald Trump, on the walls of a bar in the old ...

Will Moscow rule the Trump administration?

COMMENT
Jennifer Rubin
19 mins ago

Snow covers vehicles in a rental car parking lot at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago.

Polar Vortex roars across the US

President-elect Donald Trump speaks to Chris Wallace on Fox News on Sunday.

Trump says US not necessarily bound by 'One China' policy

1 hr ago

National Party Deputy Leader, Bill English, was also Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister. He becomes NZ's 39th ...

Bill English is NZ's new Prime Minister, Paula Bennett new Deputy

Samantha Armytage predicted Donald Trump's election win.

How Samantha Armytage left the experts for dead

COMMENT
Tom Switzer

Minister Jenny Mikakos has acknowledged that children had been subjected to lockdowns and isolation at Barwon prison.

Is isolating children to protect inmates or secure the prison?

COMMENT
Bianca Hall

The challenge for those looking for their first family home is that the most affordable suburbs are further away than ever.

Did first-time buyers in the '80s have it as tough as Millennials?

Andrew P Street

Bellamy's Organic CEO Laura McBain (L) and CFO Shona Ollington

Bellamy's enters trading halt after horror December

58 mins ago

The mini-bull run on Wall St and the ASX is set to roll on this morning.

Markets Live: ASX jumps on oil

Live
1 hr ago

Russel Howcroft is currently chairman of television industry body ThinkTV.

Howcroft leaving Ten for PwC creative role

25 mins ago

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

Economic vandalism: How Abbott and Turnbull wrecked Treasury

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

Suppliers on edge after Woolworths' court win

Banks drag heels with rate cuts, speedy with hikes

Gold mine thrown lifeline at 11th hour

All the signs were there of Rupert Murdoch's latest move on BSkyB

Colin Kruger, CBD

EMBARGOED FOR GOOD WEEKEND, NOV 12/16 ISSUE. SMH/GW. Portrait for the 2 of us Akmal Saleh and his wife Catie Saleh ...

'It took them a year to realise I lived there': Akmal's odd sharehouse

Pantone looks at design and manufacturing trends to determine its colour of the year.

Pantone just released its colour of 2017, and it's a shocker

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio's Belize resort is expected to be completed in late 2018.

Leonardo DiCaprio sells his surprisingly modest LA home

The city reported a boom-time clearance rate of 80.7 per cent on Saturday.

Summer stunner: Melbourne auction market sizzles

ANALYSIS

25 Ludbrook Avenue, Caulfield South

Get in quick - buyers have woken up to this sleeper suburb

The Avigation Watch Type A-7 1935 by Longines.

Summer time: 31 of the season's best new luxury watches

Watches
Bani McSpedden
40 mins ago

<b>Jared Leto in February at the Academy Awards</b><br>
Leto added big shot accouterments to his custom-made Gucci suit ...

Chic or shocker? Fashion's biggest wins and fails of the year

Men's Style

Most pre-retirees don't have enough super.

What it would take to replace the age pension

Caitlin Fitzsimmons

The government offers a reverse mortgage alternative through the Pension Loans Scheme.

Nicole Helps… choose a reverse mortgage

ASK AN EXPERT

Big Apple Buddy

Aussie couple making a mint from exporting American goods

Adam Courtenay

alcohol delivery?

How small business is leading the booze delivery game

Kate Jones

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Direct Australia to London flights take off

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Turkey vows vengeance for blast victims

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Trump blasts 'ridiculous' CIA report

12 mins ago

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Liverpool held by the Hammers

Jim Pavlidis

Best of Fairfax cartoons, Dec 12

Stan - Mozart

Brand new season of Mozart in the Jungle - exclusively premieres tomorrow on Stan.

Preacher on Stan

Every episode of Preacher - now streaming only on Stan.

The difference between fine and gross motor skills

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Wander through ancient landscapes in WA

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Amazon's The Grand Tour has become the most illegally downloaded show in history.

The Grand Tour is most illegally downloaded show in history

Rob Moran

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

'Rogue One' premieres to raves, relief and an actual X-Wing

Bryan Alexander

Actor Samuel L. Jackson stars in Snakes On A Plane, which would may have been better if they'd flashed the words "Snakes ...

Samuel L. Jackson slams Hollywood's 'Oscar bait' movies

Rob Moran

Former Vice President Al Gore after meeting with Ivanka Trump and President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower.

Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth gets a sequel to open Sundance

Ellen McCarthy

Bryan Cranston as his Breaking Bad character Walter White on Saturday Night Live.

SNL goes after Trump with Walter White as the head of DEA

Elahe Izadi

Adam Driver attends the 26th annual Gotham Independent Film Awards at Cipriani Wall Street on Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, in ...

How Adam Driver went from marine to movie star

Karl Quinn

Eddie McGuire's <i>Hot Seat</i>, also known as <i>Millionaire Hot Seat</i> has been on air on Nine since 2009. The ...

Nine's plan to revive Eddie McGuire's flagging Hot Seat

Ebony Bowden

Patti Smith fumbled through her performance at the Nobel Prize ceremony.

Patti Smith forgets words at Nobels

Peaches wows at Meredith. Picture: Aunty Meredith @ Flickr

Meredith Music Festival: Peaches goes over the top

REVIEW
Chloe Booker

Martin conducted the crowd like his own choir.

Coldplay review: The best stadium performers of our generation

Nathanael Cooper

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Messiah review: MSO hard pressed to find much freshness

Clive O'Connell

Journalists and editors have a responsibility to the victims of crime and to the public.

10 headlines about violent men that needed to be fixed in 2016

Jane Gilmore

We all know what motherhood's really like.

The 7 kinds of 'perfect mother' we need to stop trying to be

Lauren Sams

Samantha Armytage on Melbourne Cup Day at Flemington Racecourse.

Sam Armytage criticised ... for wearing underwear

Public speaking is one of the top three human fears.

How to stop sweating public speaking, and just maybe enjoy it

Fiona Higgins

"We've got each other's backs. It was never meant to be the huge movement that it's become."

How Constance Hall's bold blog attracted a million 'queens'

Jenna Clarke

A very chic Christmas ... Barack and Michelle Obama have sent their last Christmas card before they depart the White House.

Obamas' parting Christmas card a lesson in style

Melissa Singer

Madonna has taken out the top prize at Billboard's 11th annual Women in Music awards.

'Doormat' Madonna slams gender inequality at Billboard event

Jenna Clarke

Lululemon executives Kyle Housman and Ben Jackson.

The activewear brand set to launch a 'sweat shop' in Bondi

Jenna Clarke

Danielle LaPorte.

'Liberating' advice from the rebel of wellbeing

Sarah Berry

Fibre and potassium for better blood pressure?

Is more fibre a recipe for better blood pressure?

Paula Goodyer

Losing 'weight' - remember muscle weighs more than fat.

Rethinking what it means to 'lose weight'

Wina Sturgeon

Getting off the grog to concentrate on your A game.

The winery behind Aldi's award-winning $5 Tudor shiraz

EXCLUSIVE

Steamy stuff: Passionfruit batida.

On drinks duty? Get into the festive spirit with these summer cocktails

36 mins ago

Farro and haloumi salad.

Weekly meal planner: Quick summer dinner ideas, BBQ winners

Karla Barry walking down the aisle.

Maid of honour goes above and beyond for friend's wedding

Can children learn the truth about Santa, by becoming Santa?

How to break the news about Santa without traumatising your kids

Should parents be graded on their commitment to their child's education.

The school 'grading' parents on their performance

The 787-9 Dreamliner will take 17 hours to fly between Perth and London.

17-hour haul: Non-stop flights from Australia to London confirmed

1 hr ago

Passengers may be charged for alcoholic beverages on Asian airlines.

The end of free in-flight booze, checked baggage around the corner

Angus Whitley

Check your passport details well before you go overseas.

Traveller letters: Be warned - check your passport now

Once your home or business is declared 'NBN ready', you have 18 months before your old service is disconnected.

These suburbs must join NBN or be disconnected

Adam Turner
1 hr ago

Target's Nintendo Classic Mini NES sale was the kind of disaster that will see Amazon eat Australian online retailers alive.

NES fail paves the way for Amazon-ageddon

COMMENT

Lightning Claw has yet to be formally identified.

Everything you thought you knew about dinosaurs is probably wrong

iinet

Inside the downfall of iiNet Sydney

Gizmodo

Japan's H-IIB rocket lifts off at the Tanegashima Space Centre southern Japan at 12.26am Saturday, Sydney time.

Australia's first payload to the ISS

The AAA conducted real-world emissions testing using sophisticated exhaust sensors.

Fuel use figures unachievable

David McCowen

2016 Audi SQ7.

Driven: Audi's red-hot SQ7

Stephen Ottley

2017 BMW 5-Series.

Driven: BMW's all-new 5-Series

Andrew MacLean

Alpine Vision concept

Renault opens order book for Alpine sports car

David McCowen

2016 Lexus LC 500

Lexus' new sporty coupe reviewed

David McCowen

The Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio will battle it out with the likes of the BMW M3 and Mercedes-AMG C63.

Alfa reveals local Giulia range

Dom Tripolone

First title: World No. 480 Sam Brazel won the Hong Kong Open.

This Aussie, ranked 480th in the world, just won his first title

1 hr ago

Former ACA boss Paul Marsh has slammed the move by Cricket Australia.

'Pure greed': Footy chief slams CA pay model

Chris Barrett

Former Australian cricketer David Hussey.

Sydney Test could become day-night match: David Hussey

Rohan Connolly
1 hr ago

Tim Cahill's wonder goal was a highlight of the first derby of the season.

Scene set for feisty renewal of hostilities in Melbourne derby

Michael Lynch

He's back: Pat Cummins impressed in the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy series.

Officials under pressure to fast-track Cummins

Chris Barrett

A Cleveland Browns fan holds up a sign in the second half of an NFL football game between the Cincinnati Bengals and the ...

Playoff picture starts to take shape in NFL

Chelsea's Diego Costa scores to break the deadlock against West Bromwich Albion at Stamford Bridge on Sunday.

Diego Costa strike sends Chelsea to top of table

Sophie Molineux celebrates after taking the wicket of Tammy Beaumont.

Is Renegades teen Australia's next ace all-rounder?

Larissa Nicholson

Sylvia posted the photographs from the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne.

Colin Sylvia in hospital after breaking neck in balcony fall

Emma Young

Nic Naitanui iinjured his knee before the 2016 finals series.

On the comeback from injury, Nic Nat has plans to play in 2017

The Western Bulldogs will have a tough time defending their premiership in 2017.

The case for the top eight in 2017

Rohan Connolly

Luke Dunstan

Saint detained, fined for being drunk in a public place

Ben Cousins at an earlier court hearing in October.

AFL offers to fund rehab for Cousins

Adrian Beattie

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