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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

The Age NEWS 140119.001.001 For story on Liberal Govt pay plan to disabled workers. Pic shows Tyson Duval-Comrie is a ...

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

West Gate Bridge traffic jam

The $60b reason Victoria's roads and rail can't cope

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

Chinese warship seizes US drone in South China Sea

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

End-of-the-world-as-we-know-it whiff to Trump's cabinet picks

ANALYSIS
Paul McGeough

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

Australia's biggest brands still boys' clubs

IN DEPTH
Catie Low

Police hunt passenger who groped man on bus

33 mins ago

Why cutting ties with Safe Schools' founder was the right call

COMMENT

Police news wrap: Deadly Dromana crash; fears for missing teen

Breaking

A journalist tells: How I became entangled in a racing scandal

COMMENT
Patrick Bartley

'Civility is lost': Kevin Rudd slams vicious public culture

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

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

Missed stumping: Matthew Wade can't catch the ball, missing a stumping against Pakistan.

The missed stumping that could cost Matthew Wade his Test spot

24 mins ago

Birds in the Macquarie marshes.

Why the number of wetlands birds is drying up

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

Miss Canada interview causes Miss World stink

The popular Christmas toy 'Elf on the Shelf' loses its magic, according to the story, when it is touched.

The story behind the 'Elf on the Shelf'

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

It's beginning to feel a lot like...shopping madness!

Festive frenzy: Christmas shopping trading hours

Phoebe Handsjuk was found dead in the chute at a St Kilda road apartment building in 2010.

Death in a garbage chute: Phoebe's Fall prompts law review

Parris Goebel (front) and her hip-hop dance squad (right to left), Kirsten Dodgen, Althea Strydom, Kyra Aoake and Kaea ...

2 billion YouTube hits: The Kiwi dancer who broke the internet

It's christmas on the beach. Kids wearing santa hats having fun on beach - laughing and screaming in water.

What to do with the kids: Melbourne school holiday guide

Real estate agents will be forced to advertise prices with a range of 10 per cent under new laws next year.

New bans on some real estate advertising in bid to quash underquoting

Cuadra san Cristobal is considered one of Barragan's masterpieces.

Own an architecturally important home? Good luck selling it

Miranda Kerr seen out in Manhattan after a photo shoot at Spring Studios.

Kerr will need to find somewhere else to spend Christmas

Two neighbouring shops on Rathdowne Street, Carlton North, had been in the same family for more than 50 years. They sold ...

The suburban shopping strip hotter than its busy tourist neighbour

Artist's impression of a 25-storey tower which has been approved for 9-11 Prospect Street, Box Hill.

Chinese builder buys Box Hill tower site for more than $16m

Emergency services work to free the woman's arm.

Woman trapped in drain after trying to save friend's phone

The Christmas crime police couldn't stomach

Hard act to follow: Caitlin's secret VCE weapon

A woman has died and nine others are injured after a multi-vehicle smash at Runnymede.

Fatal smash injures four children in horror start to Christmas holidays

MFB

Smoke from huge Laverton fire seen from Melbourne CBD

The judge described the crime as an ''abhorrent violation of a vulnerable woman".

Masseur jailed for raping 80-year-old woman in her home

Artist Janet Dawson (front) and NGV curator Beckett Rozentals, with John Peart's Corner square diagonal (rear) and ...

Do you own one of the 14 lost paintings that shocked Melbourne?

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

Passengers rescued after emergency landing

NSW
34 mins 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

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
49 mins ago

Jim Pavlidis illustration for Michael Gordon column, Saturday December 17, 2016

This is Turnbull's chance for a fresh start

COMMENT
Michael Gordon

Saad Al-Kassab, from Syrian refugee to gardening job to dux.

Saad fled from hell on earth to become college dux in Melbourne

COMMENT
Martin Flanagan

Make time to indulge in some relaxing activities to help you stay sane this festive season.

Carpark rage, dizzying debt... it's starting to feel a lot like Christmas

COMMENT
Denise Cullen

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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Aleppo: A timeline

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MYEFO: budget deficit to deteriorate

Budget

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Wild car chase ends in arrest

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.

The difference between fine and gross motor skills

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Wander through ancient landscapes in WA

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Hit the road and escape the city

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Felicity Jones as Jyn Erso in Rogue One.

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

45 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

Keyword: AMM-Email Date created: Thu, 29. November 2012 9:39 PM Date imported: Mon, 14. November 2016 4:48 PM Country: ...

Not so silent night: How to have a rock'n'roll Christmas

Annabel Ross

Some of the The Melbourne Drone Orchestra that features 18 guitarists, they use feedback, tones and volume to maximum ...

Drone Orchestra's wall of sound passes pain threshold

Annabel Ross

Senior curator of Indigenous art Judith Ryan with batik banners by artists including Emily Kame Kngwarreye in <i>Who's ...

Who's afraid of colour? Not these Aboriginal women artists, curators

Debbie Cuthbertson

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

Breathing affects the way we feel.

How breathing affects our brain

Sarah Berry

Bad fat and good food? People are confused.

It's time to get over our fear of dietary fat

Carrie Dennett

It's surprising that a demographic so conscious of appearance is failing the tooth-care test.

Young women have the worst dental hygiene

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

Pete Evans whole-baked whiting.

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

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

Missed stumping: Matthew Wade can't catch the ball, missing a stumping against Pakistan.

The missed stumping that could cost Matthew Wade his Test spot

25 mins ago

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

Hazlewood leads fearsome assault as Pakistan crumble

Peter Handscomb of Australia celebrates his hundred.

Greg Baum: Handscomb is as handsome does

Jamie Dowling.

'We don't want to see him die': How a suicide attempt shattered a league family

Roy Masters

Patrick Bartley

Patrick Bartley: How I became entangled in the cobalt saga

COMMENT

Josh Bellamy of the Chicago Bears.

The NFL's big freeze: 'It's going to be cold ... suck it up'

Sold: Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone sold the sport to Liberty Media this year.

Formula One is a castle build on sand, and Ecclestone is to blame

COMMENT
Oliver Brown
1 hr ago

Besart Berisha and Archie Thompson.

Thompson's flair or Berisha's fire: Don't ask Muscat to choose

Happy to be at Essendon: James Stewart.

Son of a Magpie's tough choice: Carlton or Essendon?

Sam McClure

Garry Lyon: Back on the airwaves in the new year.

SEN reveals its men-only footy line-up

Larissa Nicholson

Contract extension: Cyril Rioli has re-committed to the Hawks

Hawks star Cyril Rioli extends contract

Daniel Cherny

Sam Simpson

Cats' father-son draft call reaches Uganda

Rohan Connolly

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - OCTOBER 01: Caleb Daniel of the Western Bulldogs and Isaac Heeney of the Sydney Swans chase the ...

Swans tie up Heeney for long haul

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