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Health Minister Sussan Ley.

Donor revealed as seller of minister's property

17 mins ago

Former 2DAY FM breakfast team Sam Frost and Rove McManus.

Rove and Sam dumped from 2DAY breakfast show

1 hr ago

The government is being urged to erect a permanent fence around the Darling Harbour precinct to prevent further tragedies.

How dull must Sydney get before we say it's enough?

COMMENT

The winning ticket for the $55 million jackpot was sold in Queensland.

21 workers shared in $55m jackpot. Their 14 colleagues missed out

UPDATED
1 hr ago

Russian President Vladimir Putin bore a grudge against Hillary Clinton, officials say.

US intercepts capture senior Russian officials celebrating Trump win

Some apartment owners are declaring war on short term renters.

Dirty tricks and dodgy laws as Airbnb fight gets ugly in Sydney buildings

Market stunned as Bitcoin plunges 20% in a matter of minutes

President orders 1½ tonnes of cake, citizens struggle in recession

Killer says it's 'not fair' he has to hear so much about his victims

'I'm ready to throw a rock': Anger grows over Trump's view on Russia

Morgan Stanley names the moment to sell out of the 'Trump bump'

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 06: David Warner of Australia bats during day four of the Third Test match between Australia ...

Warner embarks on another run rampage as Australia seek declaration

Live
25 mins ago

University of Sydney students Emma Johnstone and James Leeder?have outclassed?hundreds?of opponents from?the likes of ...

Sydney Uni pair beat Oxford and Yale teams to win global contest

54 mins ago

Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford in The Force Awakens.

Carrie Fisher's scenes may be cut from Star Wars film

Tastes like a "roasted peanut": Nick Jarvis samples a cockroach.

'It's a superfood': Sydney venue puts cockroaches on the menu

The media seems less sure of how to respond to Trump's tweets.

The 'big misconception' about Trump's tweets

ANALYSIS

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Trump threatens Toyota

Qantas has been named the world's safest airline again.

World's safest airlines named in annual rankings

The caravan park at Freemans Waterhole, near Newcastle, is on 6 hectares. Photo: Supplied

Caravan parks disappearing as land prices soar

Beef wok stir fry with vegetables

Here's what health experts eat when they're feeling lazy

Showering certainly wasn't conducive to good health for Janet Leigh in the film Psycho.

Should we wash with bacteria instead of soap?

Chinese student Jing Su has enjoyed her time in Sydney despite the cost of living.

Beautiful, but..: What international students really think about Sydney

EXCLUSIVE

It's not the state government we should abolish

COMMENT
James Robertson

Police make horrific discovery after routine call-out

Nevil Whitlock, 76, became engulfed in an air lounger on Christmas Day.

'Vacuum-sealed to her face': Warning for popular gift

The blinding dusk at Cape Conran give Victorians a chance to see the sun set over the water, rare because of the state's ...

Heat rollercoaster set to hit Sydney from the weekend

Uncertain future for 2500 school students after tribunal decision

One of Sydney's largest private schools set to close

Water police and paramedics at Clareville on Thursday afternoon.

Man dead after boat accident in Sydney's north

Professions traditionally more dominated by women such as nurses are avoided by many men.

'I'm very worried': Why men don't want the jobs done by women

Maree Adshead

$200k part-time job has businesses 'shaking their heads'

QLD

WA had a hot, wet 2016.

WA town where the average maximum temperature is 37.5C

WA

Bronze whaler sharks have become a common sight this summer.

'This is the most shark sightings I've ever had to deal with'

VIC
9 mins ago

Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce.

'No apology': Government doubles down on Centrelink debt clawback

Fergus Hunter
32 mins ago

Ley bought house from Liberal donor on taxpayer-funded trip

Patrick Begley
17 mins ago

Australia's dirty little secret

COMMENT
Michael Gordon
1 hr ago

One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts says New Zealand has a 'hostile attitude' towards Israel.

NZ MP labels Roberts 'village idiot' over sanctions comments

Labor's human services spokeswoman Linda Burney.

Labor seeks audit office probe into Centrelink debt clawback

EXCLUSIVE

Health Minister Sussan Ley bought an investment property while on a taxpayer funded trip.

'Explain yourself or resign': Labor to Ley over property purchase

Centrelink and Medicare offices on King St, Newcastle.

Centrelink referring Twitter users to Lifeline amid debt crackdown

Peter Buttigieg, mayor of South Bend, is seeking election as chairman of the Democratic party.

Ordained by Obama, gay ex-sailor joins race to revive Democrats

20 mins ago

President Michel Temer has been attacked over the shopping list for the presidential jet.

Uproar over Brazilian president's order of 1½ tonnes of cake for plane

Muslimin, "Pawang Hujan" perform rituals to control the rainfall in the Ancol area, Jakarta. . Photo?Jefri Tarigan

The shaman who redirects rain away from events

In this March 18, 2003 photo made available by the U.S. Navy, K-Dog, a Bottle Nose Dolphin, leaps out of the water in ...

Special porpoise for Navy dolphins - saving reatened species

To be a successful real estate developer is to commit to speed and risk, and to always be looking for the next deal.

Has Trump used his developer skills to play Russia?

COMMENT
Hugh Hewitt

Consumers appear to have a lay theory, or an intuition, that healthy foods are more expensive.

The surprising reason healthy food can be so expensive

COMMENT

Council chambers: Past their use-by date?

It's not state government we should abolish. Sydney's councils should go

COMMENT
James Robertson

toyota

More than $8b wiped off Toyota shares after Trump threat

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Markets Live: Surprise trade surplus

Live
Patrick Commins and Jens Meyer

Kimbal Musk outside The Kitchen, one of two restaurant chains he has run for a decade.

How Elon Musk's brother is disrupting farming

Ardent CEO Deborah Thomas at the reopening of Dreamworld on December 10.

Dreamworld takes $6m ticket hit after tragedy

1 hr ago

Bitcoin ends its stellar run with a spectacular crash

Bellamy's chairman likely to quit if board spill succeeds

'We need the hipsters': Old guard faces up to gentrification

Why men don't want the jobs done mostly by women

Three Parts House by Architects EAT.

The architecture trends to say goodbye to in 2017

Welcome to the year of the renter.

2017: Welcome to year of the renter

The dos and don’ts of applying for a rental property.

How to get the home: six tips for a successful rental application

Transitional Living Room by Found Associates.

How to make like Michelangelo and spruce up your ceiling

I did something people in their mid-twenties don't usually do: I moved away from the city to a small coastal town.

My friends thought I was crazy: I made a sea-change at 25

Sometimes the money and the car and the corporate card just aren't enough.

How my dream job turned into a nightmare

Life On Mars

"The rider of a bicycle must (a) sit astride the rider's seat facing forwards." Really?

The cycling road rule I never knew I was breaking

On Your Bike

Speak up, and put your hand up.

Invest in yourself in 2017

Annika Bradley

The excellent John Oliver, British comedian and host of the US Last Week Tonight Show, takes a satirical view of news, ...

Six ways to be better investor through entertainment

Chris Brycki

Wing La Cakes owner Wing La expects fellow existing businesses to adapt to the newcomers.

'We need the hipsters': Asian small business leader

Bhakthi Puvanenthiran

HiSmile founders Nik Mirkovic and Alex Tomic have used Kylie Jenner to spruik their product.

Dental dimes: $10 millon turnover in 18 months

Kate Jones

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Hard reality sets in for Brazil

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Minister's expensive impulse buy

Federal Politics

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Tesla shares fall as deliveries miss forecast

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Is China's epic short squeeze a return to 2016?

Illustration: Andrew Dyson

Best of Fairfax cartoons, Jan 6

Room

In "Room", 5-year-old Jack and his Ma escape from the enclosed surroundings that Jack has known his entire life.

Sherlock

Brand new season of Sherlock now streaming, Only on Stan.

Meghan Markle opens up about racial abuse online

Mary Ward

The difference between fine and gross motor skills

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JK Rowling was the top-selling author in Australia in 2016.

J. K. Rowling Australia's bestselling author in 2016

Jason Steger
24 mins ago

Former 2DAY FM breakfast team Sam Frost and Rove McManus.

Rove McManus and Sam Frost booted off Sydney breakfast show

Broede Carmody
1 hr ago

Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford in The Force Awakens.

Carrie Fisher's scenes may be cut from the eighth Star Wars film

Broede Carmody

Kim Burrell and Pharrell Williams perform on NBC's Today in December.

Pharrell, Ellen address gospel singer's anti-gay statements

Kelly Lawler

My sales are this big ... Adele finished 2016 as she finished 2015, with the highest selling album of the year in Australia.

Top seller of 2016: It went bigger than Christmas

Bernard Zuel

JonBenet Ramsay as Little Miss of Charlevoix County.

Australian director's JonBenet Ramsey doco success

15 mins ago

NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 17: Neil Patrick Harris performs during the Hillary Victory Fund - Stronger Together concert at ...

Being ugly is refreshing: NPH relinquishes his vanity

Andrew Murfett

The set of the movie <i>Peter Rabbit</i> in Centennial Park, Sydney.

Peter Rabbit film set in Sydney gets proper English welcome

The action in <i>Prize Fighter</i> is carefully choreographed but punches do sometimes land accidentally.

Why Pacharo punches on every night to make sense of his past

Lenny Ann Low

Guy Pearce in the short film, Lorne.

Young filmmakers land Hollywood superstar for their short movie

Rob Moran

Olfactory artist Cat Jones working in the UTS Super Lab.

Sydney stinks like cheap coffee in an overpriced car wash

Peter Munro

A Sydney academic has created a tool that randomly generates examples of threats many women receive online, in a bid to ...

'Donated' insults turned into one-click 'rape threat generator'

Daisy Dumas

One of six handwritten notes by Princess Diana that went to auction.

Diana letter about troublesome Harry sells for $4000

Mad Men's Betty Draper.

What happens when narcissists become parents?

Jody Allard

Over half of women surveyed said they also prefer a male manager.

The 'intuitive' advice that's holding women back

Kaitlyn Plyley

State Rep. Ilhan Omar takes the oath of office as the 2017 Legislature convened Tuesday.

First Muslim woman sworn in to US Congress

Arielle De Bono

Kayla and Darius Boyd.

What the backlash against Kayla Boyd really reveals

Natalie Reilly

Melania Trump, pictured with her husband President-elect Donald Trump, has once again set tongues wagging about her ...

Is Melania trying to tell us something in this D&G dress?

Melissa Singer

Enough's enough. It's time for women to hold a Twitter strike

COMMENT
Jenny Noyes

Showering certainly wasn't conducive to good health for Janet Leigh in the film Psycho.

Is cleanliness harming our health?

Sarah Berry

Starving for seven days won't help your body to 'detox'.

Don't let detox diets deceive you

Ellie Krieger

PMDD affects women more than PMS, and researchers may now know why.

Possible cause of severe PMS discovered

Melanie Eversley

Chipotle chicken in adobo.

Bunker down, Sydney: 100 dishes from 10 tins in your pantry

Adan Liaw

Ruby Tandoh.

"Flavour Over Fad": A cook's fight against fad diets

Tejal Rao

Fratelli Famous pizza is available to eat-in or takeaway to the park.

Why it's better to eat your pizza cold

Callan Boys

Grant Kessler in the waiting room.

Why the internet is swooning for this teen

It's okay for mums to have a rest.

Why I'm aiming to be a worse mum in 2017

Family holidays are about sharing new experiences.

The five trends that will dominate family travel in 2017

The mouth of the Noosa River on the Sunshine Coast.

Two surprise Aussie cities make world's top 50 destinations list

Kylie McLaughlin

Qantas has been named the world's safest airline again.

World's safest airlines named in annual rankings

Sinead Pearson
1 hr ago

Six Senses Laamu in the Maldives: But what does this place have in common with Jordan, London and Iceland?

Traveller quiz: What do Iceland, Maldives, London have in common?

Mal Chenu

Tim Baxter, president and COO of Samsung Electronics America, speaks at CES.

Humble Samsung blunt about its 2016 struggles

A 75-inch Samsung QLED TV.

Everything Samsung announced at CES

The Cerevo Taclim VR shoes.

VR shoes let you feel the surface you're not walking on

Google unleashes Go-playing AI online

Kotaku

Faraday Future's FF 91 can summon 1000 horsepower and go from 0 to to 60mph (96.5kmph) in 2.39 seconds.

Faraday Future unveils FF 91 electric car

Mercedes-AMG has teased a new hybrid supercar at the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Mercedes teases F1 hybrid supercar

David McCowen

2017 Hyundai Sonata.

2017 Hyundai Sonata reviewed

David McCowen

2017 Skoda Kodiaq.

Skoda now offers five year warranty

Andrew MacLean

2016 Toyota HiLux.

Australia's favourite car revealed

Stephen Ottley

Hyundai will be giving demonstrations of its Ioniq hybrid at the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show.

Hyundai's plan to stop you driving

Dom Tripolone

2016 Drive Car of the Year Best Luxury Car over $80,000: Mercedes-Benz E220d

In-car health monitors to prevent crashes

David McCowen

In command: David Warner reached his century three minutes prior to lunch.

Warner out after record-breaking knock

Live
Rohan Connolly
26 mins ago

Matt Renshaw leaves the field after being struck on the helmet on Thursday.

Pressure on ICC to bring in subs, says Brukner

Andrew Wu
1 hr ago

Jeff Kennett hopes Hird gets the help he needs

Bombers, Kennett urge privacy for Hird and family

UPDATED
Sam McClure
1 hr ago

Rafael Nadal is convinced there was almost no illegal activity among the tennis' best players.

Nadal applauds match-fixing crackdown

Phil Lutton

Going nowhere: Nine's Shane Warne and Michael Clarke.

Don't like listening to Clarke call cricket? Get used to it

Andrew Webster

Philosophical: Andrew Bogut, in action for the Mavericks in November.

Bogut suspects the writing's on the wall

Eddie Sefko

Kyrgios has the potential to win major titles, says opponent Richard Gasquet.

Injured Kyrgios crashes in 49-minute loss

Oliver Anderson

Australian Open boys champion charged with match fixing

EXCLUSIVE
Nino Bucci

Strong pedigree: James Vince.

Morgan backs Vince for BBL success

James Buckley

Second knock: Matt Renshaw with Australia skipper Steve Smith after being hit on the helmet while fielding on Thursday.

Concussed Renshaw ruled out of Test

UPDATED
Chris Barrett

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 01: Hilton Cartwright bowls during an Australian training session on January 1, 2017 in ...

Australia no closer to finding solution

Andrew Wu

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