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Hillary Clinton says Russian President Vladimir Putin has a "personal beef" with her.

Russia's revenge? Clinton blames hacking for loss

1 hr ago

Tyson Duval-Comrie.

Tyson was paid $1.77 an hour. He'll now share in a $100m govt payout

Eddie Obeid arrives at the Darlinghurst court complex for sentencing on Thursday.

Obeid family nets $10 million pay day from 25-year-old

EXCLUSIVE
Kate McClymont

A Chinese Navy frigate and a Russian Navy ship take part in a joint naval drill in the South China Sea.

Tensions rise as Chinese warship seizes US drone in South China Sea

ATO officials were unable to use their computers after a crash brought internal and external systems to a halt.

Tax Office's IT crowd spent big before major crash

EXCLUSIVE

David Friedman (far left) gives interviews at a Trump campaign event entitled "Jerusalem forever" in East Jerusalem in ...

Trump's Israel move as profound as Taiwan phone call

Doctor Rudd? Ex-PM slams 'vicious public culture'

Walk with me into the minefield of women's sport and pregnancy

COMMENT
Peter FitzSimons

Court rules Dutton wrong on refugees' citizenship

Sorry, Uber, your new app may drive me back to taxis

COMMENT

'Despicable': ACT man jailed for 22 years over body in boot murder

Maria Claudia Lutz and Fernando Manrique with their children,
Martin and Elisa.

'All of us knew straight away, he's killed them'

Anastasia Lin says her human rights advocacy work as Miss World Canada has resulted in threats being made against her ...

Miss Canada causes a Miss World stink

Owner of Baldwin Distilling Anthony Baldwin at his distillery in Mitchell.

ACT distillery using a generator after stoush with ActewAGL

Hayley Teasdale has a rare immune deficiency, which means she needs regular transfusions of medicine made from blood plasma.

'I was told I'd be an occupational hazard': Hayley wants your blood

Young Woman Doing Yoga Meditation and Stretching Exercises. Stock photo.

Yoga pants ... they are an assault on manners

COMMENT

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Obama: 'We're feeling what not having hope feels like'

Books

The best non-fiction books of 2016 to read this summer

Elia Ware Crescent in Bonner is all lit up for Christmas to raise money for Legacy.

Canberra Milk Christmas lights map: find the city's best

Hundreds roll down Parliament House lawns

12:09PM

Putt it there: golfing greens the latest ...

12:05PM

A hologram wife for Japan's legion of lonely ...

12:03PM

Canberra Domain Allhomes. Urbane, Moncrieff. December 17, 2016.?

Room to move in new Gungahlin suburb, Moncrieff

Miranda Kerr is seen upon arrival at Narita International Airport on June 19, 2016 in Narita, Japan.

Kerr will need to find somewhere else to spend Christmas

Canberra Domain Allhomes. 24A Bay Road, Long Beach. December 17, 2016.?

Canberran appetites increase for South Coast properties

My dream home is going to be amazing.

The neighbours will probably complain about my dream home...

Danny Katz

Aim for diplomatic and respectful engagement.

How to deal with 'fun police' neighbours over the holidays

A malnourished flying fox pup getting cared for by ACT Wildlife volunteers

Starved baby flying foxes 'falling out of the sky'

Canberra greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise

Government housing affordability probe makes no recommendations

An?expanded laundry, a new bakery and a multi-purpose activities centre, have been built as part of the Government?s ...

New gym, bakery and hairdressers at Canberra prison

Shannon Noll at his soundcheck ahead of the Christmas in the City concert.

Shannon Noll wows Christmas in the City crowds

Historian Mark Butz and ACT Heritage Council chairman David Flannery at the launch of the Trench Trail at the ...

Canberra's World War I heritage remembered at Jerrabomberra Wetlands

An internal police investigation is underway after a police weapon was allegedly fired during one of two chases on Hume ...

Police weapon allegedly fired in Hume Highway police pursuit

Four people were on board at the time of the landing.

Passengers rescued after emergency landing

NSW
1 min ago

Peter Dutton has complained about "political correctness gone mad", but the school in question has been quite pro-Christmas.

'Politically correct' school not shunning carols

QLD

Then-NSW Fisheries Minister Obeid in 2001.

'Someone has to get paid': rise and fall of Eddie Obeid

NSW

Michael Hook, Coen Kentwell and Felicity Pallett were killed in the crash.

Jail for drink driver who killed three, went home to bed

WA

There will be answers, says Tax Commissioner Chris Jordan.

ATO tech wreck: Hundreds of IT staff work to fix 'big mess'

ADF members at Gallipoli Barracks, Enoggera. Defence's management of its bases has been savaged by the National Audit Office.

$200m wasted: Defence department's scathing audit

Tax Commissioner Chris Jordan told his workforce of the result on Wednesday afternoon.

'I am sorry this is not a better outcome for all of us': ATO votes no

The home ownership inquiry, commissioned by Joe Hockey in April 2015, has a long and tortured history.

'It's laughable': Coalition slammed for housing affordability probe that proposes no changes

Dutton wrong on refugees' citizenship, court finds

Michael Gordon

Australia poised to ignore protests and ratify China extradition treaty

Philip Wen

One opportunity for a fresh start for Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull looms in an area former prime minister Tony Abbott ...

Turnbull's chance for a fresh start

COMMENT
Michael Gordon

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten are both trying to come to grips with the fact that ...

How to be an outsider when you're already an insider

COMMENT
James Massola

Greens leader Richard Di Natale wants Labor to join with his party to push for a federal ICAC-style body.

MPs say Obeid sentence supports case for federal ICAC

James Massola

Australia Post chief executive Ahmed Fahour

We can't rely on being Asia's quarry: Australia Post chief

Hillary Clinton says Russian President Vladimir Putin has a "personal beef" with her.

Clinton blames Russian hacking for loss as Obama vows response

Justin Sink
1 hr ago

President-elect Donald Trump has been a purveyor of conspiracy theories for years, Holthaus writes.

Trump's 17 cabinet picks all wealthier than one-third of US

ANALYSIS
Paul McGeough

Myanmar's State Counsellor and Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi is the de facto leader of the country.

'Daily reports of killings and rapes in Myanmar': United Nations

A British Army armoured vehicle makes its way along a barricade while on patrol in the Lower Falls area of west Belfast. ...

British soldiers face charges for IRA death 44 years on

Robert Mendick
55 mins ago

The office of Immigration Minister Peter Dutton declined to comment on the Federal Court ruling.

Here's how to take back Christmas from the PC brigade

COMMENT
Jacqueline Maley

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The latest cartoons from David Pope

It's wrong to think that part-time jobs are inferior to full-time jobs.

Unemployment, take a step back for the big picture

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

Illustration: Simon Bosch

Float flops: the no-good, the bad and the ugly of IPOs

IN DEPTH
Sarah Danckert

It's wrong to think that part-time jobs are inferior to full-time jobs.

Employment is growing. So is unemployment. Huh?

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

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Katie Page
CEO Harvey Norman
First woman appointed to the board of the National Rugby ...

The industry dominated by women - except at the top

IN DEPTH
Catie Low

Col Fullagar is principal of Integrity Resolutions and also volunteers as a firefighter.

From firefighting to the life insurance frying pan

COMMENT
Adele Ferguson

Why Packer's Crown is cashing in its chips at Macau

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

Fake news is sickening, don't make the cure worse than the disease

COMMENT
Margaret Sullivan

Star Wars, cricket books and drones: Christmas 2016 shapes up

SurfStitch strikes back against ex-CEO, Coastalcoms

<b>Archie Rose Copper Cocktail Kit</b><br>
As used by leading Aussie distiller Archie Rose, this deluxe cocktail kit ...

Holiday cheers: 27 boozy gift ideas for a very merry Christmas

Fine Drinks

There are some trends we hope don't make it into the new year.

What were we thinking? Nine shocker trends to kiss goodbye

Men's Style

Kyle Frost and Amy Miller planned exactly how much they would spend on their three-week trip to the US and Mexico – and ...

How to budget daily spend for your holiday

The lies we tell ourselves are the most dangerous of all.

The lies we tell ourselves about investment

Cutting corners in a workplace can lead to injuries.

Corner-cutters at work: a profile of the main culprit

James Adonis

"We completely reverse engineered the business rather than just overlaying a digital strategy" – Adam Laurie of Digital360.

Data pros bought a waste water plant to prove their point

Bhakthi Puvanenthiran

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Aussies eye victory as Pakistan collapse

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Trump makes hardline Israel envoy choice

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Aleppo: A timeline

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Obeid belongs in jail: Shorten

Federal Politics

Outside view of the Wentworth Hotel in Sydney on 13 September 1966. SMH NEWS Picture by R.L. STEWART Sheraton Sofitel ...

Rewind - The Wentworth Hotel turns 50

Preacher on Stan

Every episode of Preacher - now streaming only on Stan.

seinfeld

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

Understanding your toddler's fine motor skills

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The business rules of attraction

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Wander through ancient landscapes in WA

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Felicity Jones as Jyn Erso in Rogue One.

Star Wars' Rogue One the year's official box office hit

50 mins ago

Levi Miller and Phoenix in <i>Red Dog: True Blue</i>.

The eight month search for Red Dog with the X factor

Garry Maddox

Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling put on their dancing shoes for <i>La La Land</i>.

Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone make the musical sexy again

Witty and charming illustrations: <i>Mr Chicken Arriva a Roma</i> by Leigh Hobbs.

A guide to children's books for Christmas

Frances Atkinson

Lisa Gormley and Dan Ewing play Heath and Bianca in <i>Home and Away: Revenge</i>.

How Home and Away became the great Aussie soap opera

Michael Lallo

Dane Swan doesn’t regret putting family and friends before football.

Party drugs and musicals: The Dane Swan you've never met

FILE -- 1994 file picture of Michael Hutchence, the late singer and songwriter for Australian rock group INXS, taken ...

Check out this new solo material by Michael Hutchence

DiCaprio and the <i>Growing Pains</i> cast in 1992.

Leonardo DiCaprio pens touching tribute to Alan Thicke

Biscuit and Archie will be part of the Dachshund racing in the city this Sunday.

Canberra Weekender: What's on Dec 16-18

Louie Lester Yao is the organiser of a group-roll-down-the parly-lawns event this weekend. Photo by Karleen Miiney.

Mass roll-a-thon planned for grass at Parliament House

Paralympic athlete Michael Roeger will represent the ACT as one of Australia's most eligible bachelors.

Meet Canberra's hottest bachelor

Melanie Chisholm opened up to Fairfax Media.

Melanie C on raising her very own Spice Girl

Amy Croffey

Liam Mendes, 22, the self-styled paparazzo who took photos of Samantha Armytage going about her business on a Bondi ...

The 22yo pap who took Sam Armytage 'granny pants' pictures

Andrew Hornery

Hailey Baldwin in Sydney last week.

Hailey Baldwin shares baking tips (but not for cakes)

Stephanie Darling

Diane von Furstenberg attends the 2016 CFDA Fashion Awards at the Hammerstein Ballroom on June 6, 2016 in New York City.

Diane von Furstenberg is open to dressing Melania Trump

Sarah Polus

Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively are the Hollywood pair most revered for their red carpet appearances, that is until their ...

Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively make public debut with family

Amy Croffey

Illustration by Simon Letch.

Be armed and know your allies in the Christmas shopping war

Benjamin Law

Beyonce and Lemonade - a combination that made 2016 all the perkier.

2016's not all bad! 16 excellent moments of the year that was

Dom Knight

Jay Newton-Small started a business writing anecdote-filled profiles of dementia patients after her father got ...

Former journalist's 'weird' idea is transforming patient care

Pete Evans whole-baked whiting.

Gluten-free/Dairy-free/Paleo recipes for allergy-ridden guests

Flavours of summer: Coconut vanilla cake with stone fruit and almonds.

Chefs share their recipes for the perfect long, lazy summer lunch

Aldi's Turducken

The Aldi Christmas food taste test

ryan reynolds

Ryan Reynolds thanks Blake Lively, gives first look at their kids

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner at an Oscars party in March. In June, the couple announced their intention to divorce.

Ben Affleck calls Jennifer Garner 'world's greatest mum'

Mum's genius Santa hack to remind her kids to behave.

Mum's genius Santa hack for getting her kids to behave

Cityscape of the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana.

Forget Venice: Europe's best cities that aren't overrun with tourists

Europe
Tim Richards

Traveller letters: Beware in Barcelona train stations

The underground tunnel is efficient but bleak.

There's a good reason to avoid the world's longest train tunnel

Keith Austin

VPN-related searches on Google skyrocketed last year after new website-blocking measures were approved, and again this ...

Pirate Bay block won't stop VPN-savvy Aussies

Tim Biggs

As long as you're running, old foes like goombas and koopas won't stop Mario this time. He vaults right over them.

Super Mario Run is elegant and addictive

Tim Biggs

Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive and founder of Facebook: "extremely cautious about becoming arbiters of truth".

Facebook rolls out anti fake news measures to select newsfeeds

star wars

Every Star Wars video game ever, ranked

Kotaku

surface

Christmas tech gift guide: Over $1000

The Mazda CX-9 is a great everyday family car.

Hits and Misses: Best Daily Driver

The Drive Team

BMW Australia will introduce a limited-edition M4 to celebrate victory in the European DTM championship.

BMW's M4 DTM on the way to Australia

David McCowen

2016 Volvo XC90

New Volvo XC90 hybrid reviewed

David McCowen

Holden has launched a micro site for a trio of limited edition Commodores due to be revealed in January.

Swansong Commodores confirmed

Andrew MacLean

Volkswagen has produced a new Polo 'beats' special edition.

New VW Polo Beats reviewed

David McCowen

Toyota will build a Yaris hot hatch following its WRC experience.

Toyota confirms GTI rival

David McCowen

Howzat: Josh Hazlewood celebrates taking the wicket of Younis Khan.

Hazlewood leads fearsome assault as Pakistan crumble at Gabba

Raiders centre Joey Leilua has "left last year behind" him.

Fatherhood to inspire Leilua to even bigger 2017 campaign

James Faulkner fields during a stunning sunset at Manuka Oval last week.

Barr's vision for cricket at Manuka Oval after 2017-18 snub

Sport. Brumbies training. Player, Rory Arnold. June 27th 2016 The Canberra Times photograph by Graham Tidy.

Brumbies beat Toulon for one of world rugby's biggest signings

Joey Leilua is expecting big things from Raiders teammate Aidan Sezer this season.

Leilua tips Blues to have Sezer salad on the menu

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Prime Minister's XI fading into irrelevance

COMMENT

Sport. Canberra Capitals Co-Captain Lauren Jackson speaking to the media at the University of Canberra basketball ...

Jackson backs Boomers to bring down Capitals

Kila Pala

Kila goes from PNG to centre stage at Manuka