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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull during the COAG press conference at Parliament House in Canberra on Friday 9 December ...

'If the rumours are true...': Curiosity over PM's speech

39 mins ago

The union representing Australia Post workers has been rocked over allegations of fraud, violence and child pornography ...

Thousands scammed by fake 'missed parcel delivery' emails

59 mins ago

Comfortable in the cool but at what cost?

Australia's eight-hour-a-night bad habit costing $1.1 billion

Get in early: morning swimmers at Sydney's Coogee beach.

Hottest day since last summer on the way for Sydney

13 mins ago

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

350,000 people risk losing internet and phone access

Hundreds of people attended the Palm Beach party.

Airtasker cleaners behind violence at exclusive party: host

1 hr ago

Former market darling in trading halt after horror 10 days

1 hr ago

Howcroft quits as Ten general manager to take up new job

'I was very frustrated': Triggs apologises to politicians

'Excited and humbled': New Zealand selects new prime minister

Thanks to weak Turnbull, Australia now has two governments

COMMENT

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Couple makes millions from 'pretty obvious' idea

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

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

16 mins ago

Legs of a woman standing on a weight scale, selective focus

It's time to rethink what it means to 'lose weight'

Passengers may be charged for alcoholic beverages on Asian airlines.

Airlines may be forced to charge for booze and checked baggage

Flu season is upon us.

How to cope with getting sick just before your holidays

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Breaking Bad good for Trump? SNL thinks so

SANTA MONICA, CA - DECEMBER 11: Actress Nicole Kidman attends The 22nd Annual Critics' Choice Awards at Barker Hangar on ...

Redheads and cutout dresses rule at Critics' Choice Awards

Samantha Armytage predicted Donald Trump's election win.

Samantha Armytage left the experts for dead over Trump

Steamy stuff: Passionfruit batida.

Get into the festive spirit with these Christmas cocktails

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

Leonardo DiCaprio sells his surprisingly modest LA home

ICAC Commissioner Megan Latham resigned after the Baird government restructured the agency.

Labor would protect ICAC heads from 'political interference'

EXCLUSIVE
Michaela Whitbourn
21 mins ago

Police inspector's murderer gets 11 years slashed from sentence

6 mins ago

All clear for Badgerys Airport ... finally

James Robertson

SMH News. Reporter: Rachel Browne. Story Cheryl Polock is a forgotten Australian. She was raised in a series of ...

'We were just abandoned': the 500,000 'forgotten Australians'

Both women and men underestimate the prevalence of bowel cancer among females.

The second biggest cancer among women that few recognise

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

Toddler dies after being found floating in pool at Sydney house

Student Phil Craig has spent thousands on dental work.

Painful truth: the big barrier to dental treatment

Both women and men underestimate the prevalence of bowel cancer among females.

Men's disease myth: women may underestimate risk

Police arrested a Year 10 student at Girton Grammar in September.

'Sophisticated drug syndicate': Private schoolboy charged

VIC

David Maxwell announcing the Riverview suburban development in 2013.

NSW and ACT discuss shifting the border for housing development

ACT

The Australian Future Health Workforce Report in 2014 has predicted a shortfall of about 85000 nurses by 2025.

Trained with nowhere to go: WA's hundreds of unemployed nurses

WA

Malcolm Turnbull on the eve of the 1999 republican referendum.

PM angers monarchists by agreeing to address republican dinner

Stephanie Peatling
39 mins ago

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

Michael Koziol

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

Heath Aston

The ATO says plans by workers to strike ahead of the close of financial year won't affect services to the community.

Entire Tax Office website down

1 hr ago

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

Abbott still no 'tech head' after Netflix confession

"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

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

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

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

Mathias Cormann's masterclass in how to successfully applaud was surprisingly comprehensive.

The blind spot that shows the government's real opinion of women

COMMENT
Andrew P Street
53 mins ago

Men walk past damaged buildings and shops in the eastern Aleppo neighborhood of al-Mashhad.

Aleppo's despair makes it clear that we're all failing Syria

COMMENT
Conny Lenneberg

Behnam Satah, a Kurdish refugee who holds a master's in English education, on Manus Island.

Our island prisons are an exercise in cruelty

COMMENT
Roger Cohen

Sirtex Medical chief executive Gilman Wong pocketed more than $2 million from a recent sale of shares in the company.

Sirtex bear still wary despite share price dive

1 hr ago

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

Markets Live: ASX loses steam

Live
43 mins ago

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 10: Storms clouds roll in at White Water World on the day Dreamworld reopens on December ...

Dreamworld donates $157k after quiet reopening

Bellamy's shares collapsed last week on weak sales figures.

Bellamy's enters trading halt after horror December

1 hr ago

Howcroft leaving Ten for PwC creative role

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

Inside a unique church conversion.

Unique conversion: Disused church turned into quaint home

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

Leonardo DiCaprio sells surprisingly modest home

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

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

The city recorded a clearance rate of 76.2 per cent on Saturday.

Sydney market still hot as summer sellers surge

ANALYSIS
Andrew Wilson

The Avigation Watch Type A-7 1935 by Longines.

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

Watches
Bani McSpedden

<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

Heather Watson helped find her aunt Marjorie MacLeod a place in the same nursing home as Heather's parents.

Everything you need to know about paying for a nursing home

Superannuation is a marital asset that can be split in divorce, but it's still best to make sure your relationship is ...

Can I switch to making super contributions for my wife?

George Cochrane

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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

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Liverpool held by the Hammers

Lightning pummels the northern beaches near Narrabeen. Photo Nick Moir 5 dec 2016 .

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Season 2 of Blunt Talk now streaming on Stan.

The difference between fine and gross motor skills

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Ten activities to aid toddler development

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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

Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork from the Monkees are back on the road.

A daggy, dad-joke kinda night but still good old-fashioned fun

Bernard Zuel

Grammy-nominated Flume makes phenomenal music and plenty of thought has gone into his live show.

The awkward question remains: Just what is Flume doing up there?

George Palathingal

Julia Jacklin

Seemingly shy young performer blossoms into poised songstress

Lucy Cormack

SANTA MONICA, CA - DECEMBER 11: Actress Nicole Kidman attends The 22nd Annual Critics' Choice Awards at Barker Hangar on ...

Cut-out dresses rule the Critics' Choice Awards red carpet

1 hr ago

HOLLYWOOD, CA - DECEMBER 10: (L-R front row) Actors Mads Mikkelsen, Riz Ahmed, Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Alan Tudyk ...

What's wrong with this photo of the Rogue One premiere?

COMMENT
Mary Ward
1 hr ago

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

The switch to a triage system came as part of a suite of restructurings to hotlines for health services by the Coalition ...

Complaints about 1800 RESPECT service skyrocket

Jenna Price

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

Daily Mail criticises Armytage ... for wearing underwear

We all know what motherhood's really like.

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

Lauren Sams

"Silence keeps things as they are. It is only by speaking out that things change".

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

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.

Revealed: The winery behind Aldi's and Coles' award-winning $5 wine

EXCLUSIVE

The typhoon shelter crab at Queen Chow, Merivale's new restaurant on Enmore Road.

Merivale's Queens Hotel finally opens in Enmore

Farro and haloumi salad.

Weekly meal planner: Haloumi winner from Neil Perry

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

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

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

Roosters player Dylan Napa was taken to hospital.

The story of the NRL player and the exclusive Palm Beach party

Megan Levy
1 hr ago

Under lights: Cricket Australia are pushing ahead with pink-ball cricket after the third Test against South Africa in ...

Sydney Test could become day-night match: David Hussey

Rohan Connolly

COVENTRY, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 11: Kurtley Beale of Wasps dives over for the first try on his Wasps's debut during the ...

Kurtley Beale stars on Wasps debut after seven-month layoff

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

'Pure greed': Former players' union chief slams cricket pay deal

Chris Barrett

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

How 480th in the world Aussie won his first title

8 mins ago

Back again: The NCAA opening game is reportedly returning to Sydney in 2017.

US college football to return to Sydney: report

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

Video highlights: Costa strike sends Chelsea top

Back-to-back titles: Nick Kyrgios.

Kyrgios' ends year on a high with title

Australia's key to success lies with their captain Steve Smith.

Where the Pakistan Test series will be won

1 hr ago

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

Australia urged to fast-track Cummins for India

Chris Barrett

Sophie Molineux celebrates after taking the wicket of Tammy Beaumont.

Is this Australia's next ace all-rounder?

Larissa Nicholson

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