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Dear MPS, this is how you should spend our money

34 mins ago

Vince Colosimo one our most talented actors, in a new Ridley Scott film, Body of Lies. Village Roadshow Prahran
Monday 6 ...

Underbelly star Vince Colosimo on drug charge

Finance Minister Mathias Cormann has defended his use of taxpayer-funded entitlements

Cormann bills taxpayers $23,000 for weekend trips

EXCLUSIVE

President-elect Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York.

'All talk, no action': Trump attacks civil rights icon

Mobile phone use can be addictive. Those afflicted may feel panic when they misplace or break their mobile, or have no ...

Are mobiles the new cigarettes? How your phone is bad for you

COMMENT

A man was stabbed outside a pub in Melbourne's south-east.

Three teens in hospital after wild brawl at house party

1 hr ago

Julie Snook's biggest break – before white jacket spat

After a 40-year hunt police close in on Easey Street murders

50 mins ago

Andrews and Guy at odds over MP perks shake-up

Portsea no-show: Loose threads in Julie Bishop's polo story

Trump looks set to govern as he campaigned

Intaj Khan hopes his bold plans will inspire others.

Vote 1 Intaj Khan? The bogus poll mates of a millionaire councillor

EXCLUSIVE

HOLLYWOOD, CA - JANUARY 09: Actress Sienna Miller attends the premiere of Warner Bros. Pictures' "Live By Night" at TCL ...

Burnt by gossip, Miller searches for career-defining role

The Bueti family (father on left, daughter on right) from Adelaide used the Cancer Council aerosol spray sunscreen but ...

'Red raw': Growing alarm over spray-on sunscreens

Chairmaker Glen Rundell at Kyneton's Lost Trades Fair.

Hipster haven: Why crowds are flocking to this town

Danielle Laskie

The Melbourne nurse who married a US life inmate

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'You made me a better man'

Jimmel Kimmel has cracked jokes about the Amber Sherlock video.

'Clip of the year': US late night host loves Sherlock tantrum

Ally Deller (left), 18, and Brooke Mitchell, 15, enjoy their new friendship.

How two girls with no friends found each other

After you've accepted a negative thought, force yourself to challenge it.

How to stop (or at least, shhhh) the cycle of negative thoughts

These Instagram accounts are making fashion fun again

These Instagram accounts are making fashion fun again

Lisa and Glen Rundell established the Lost Trades Fair.

'Couldn't have done that in Melbourne': why this town's on the rise

Airbnb does a legal about-face in New York.

Homeowner discovers 'ghost host' illegally renting flat on Airbnb

South Korean architect Moon Hoon recently completed the project, called the "Busan Times" for a family in the South ...

Korean architect builds house to look like an owl

The Petronas Twin Towers (KLCC), center, stand in Kuala Lumpur, and are the current tallest set in the world.

New tallest pair of towers headed for Cambodia

Workers fitting a new weather vane on the lighthouse tower.

Living the dream: life on an island for six months for free

Premier Daniel Andrews is making his third attempt to thwart the investigation into Labor's so-called "rorts-for-votes" ...

It's time we had a Parliamentary standards commissioner

COMMENT
Farrah Tomazin

P-plater flips car while disqualified from road

1 hr ago

Developers behind Corkman pub demolition fined again

The iconic frame from Greg Harper's "If you drink, then drive, you're a bloody idiot" advertising campaign.

Mastermind behind behind the Drink Drive, Bloody Idiot ads passes away

A grassfire at Ravenhall had closed part of Western Freeway on Saturday.

Three major grassfires in Melbourne's west under control

A Metropolitan Fire Brigade fire truck.

Old Clayton primary school fire deemed suspicious

The Aedes aegypti mosquito, which spreads dengue fever.

Dengue fever cases hit 20-year high in Australia

Craig Butt

The women were attacked within 20 minutes of each other.

Two women assaulted in separate attacks

NSW

Sea gull on a hot night.

Sydney record hot night: Mercury hits 30C at 2am

NSW

Mohammed Abdul Ismail appeared in court charged with common assault on Saturday morning.

Man hit with wine bottle in 'racially motivated' attack

ACT

MP Steve Dickson has defected to One Nation, saying it was due to medicinal cannabis.

MP's One Nation defection not to do with cannabis: LNP

QLD

Blake Mott celebrates after beating Ireland's James McGee to clinch a place in the Australian Open main draw.

Australian Open 2017: From building site to main draw – the Blake Mott story

Roy Ward
1 hr ago

Worth the wait: Gilles Muller holds the trophy aloft.

Muller wins maiden ATP title in Sydney

Dudi Sela came from behind to oust Jan-Lennard Struff in the Canberra Challenger final on Saturday.

Dudi Sela wins Canberra Challenger

Eamonn Tiernan

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is greeted by the Australian Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull on arrival at Kirribilli ...

Trump looms large over Turnbull's talks with Japanese PM

Adam Gartrell

Turnbull's plan to avoid major reshuffle after Ley expenses furore

MP billed taxpayers $2000 to attend US prayer breakfast

Clive Palmer addresses the media at a press conference on the High Court challenge, in Canberra on Thursday 10 November ...

Clive Palmer goes ballistic over 'rogue killers'

Foreign Affairs minister Julie Bishop welcomed Frances Adamson as Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and ...

PM's pragmatic call frees him for a Bishop manoeuvre

ANALYSIS
Michael Gordon

"We should tell the new US administration from the get-go that Australia will not be part of such adventurism": Former ...

US 'threatens to involve Australia in war with China': Keating

Fergus Hunter

Health Minister Sussan Ley is facing calls to provide a full explanation of her trip to the Gold Coast or resign.

How a Sussan Ley's ministerial career unravelled

Anti-Trump protests will run throughout the week leading up to his inauguration.

Anti-Trump protests kick off in Washington ahead of inauguration

Syrian security forces and residents gather at the scene where a suicide bomber attack.

Dozens dead in Syria as IS launches biggest attack in months

Iraqi special forces advance inside Mosul University during fighting against Islamic State militants.

Air strike targeting IS kills up to 30 civilians in Iraq's Mosul

Some refugees have no warm clothes, as the freeze settles in south-east Europe.

Little humanity in Europe for refugees stuck out in cold

Nick Miller

Illustration: Jim Pavlidis

Turnbull is caught in a perfect storm

COMMENT
Michael Gordon

Divinyls frontwoman Chrissy Amphlett on stage. Photo: Tony Mott

Why Australia needs a museum for women

COMMENT
Miki Perkins

'I find it amazing that for four years there has been no apology from James Hird.'

The hypocrisy in public moralising about sport figures

COMMENT
Martin Flanagan

Bellamy's former CEO Laura McBain, who was ousted this week.

Milk shakes: Bellamy's disaster was only a matter of time

Seven West Media chief executive Tim Worner is under scrutiny.

Embattled Seven boss set to front at the Australian Open

Illustration: Glen Le Lievre

Chance and incompetence - our recipe for success

Jessica Irvine

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 13: Copy picture Ray Kataryna who has since died. on January 13, 2017 in Melbourne, ...

The relationship with his bank was clear. Then it started to blur

If banks can't make it in Asia, what Australian businesses will?

COMMENT
Alex Malley

Deutsche Bank bans text messages

Give ombudsman tools to tackle no-name wage fraud

COMMENT

Supermarkets urged to share customers' data

The 2012 Hennessey Venom GT Spyder Owned by Steven Tyler.

Million dollar babies: 10 rare luxury rides that could be yours

Cars

2016 saw a lot of endings, including some seriously good whiskey vintages.

Six rare whiskies you should buy before they disappear

Smart Sipping

Sometimes focusing on the details means we miss the bigger picture.

Investors should focus on the forest, not the trees

COMMENT
Scott Phillips

Many people are paying for gym services they don't use.

How to avoid spending too much on gym memberships

John Collett

First lady Michelle Obama is perceived as a succesful leader.

The one factor that determines leadership success

James Adonis

Nick Haddow runs a successful cheese business from Bruny Island.

Meet the small business owners living in paradise

Nina Hendy

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Obama delivers final weekly address

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SpaceX launches first rocket after explosion

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Anti-Trump protests begin before inauguration

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Arsenal thrash Swansea

Marjorie Cox Crawford serving during a tennis game, New South Wales, ca. 1930, 2 [picture]

Rewind - Tennis time

Preacher - STAN

Every episode of Preacher - now streaming only on Stan.

Sherlock

Brand new season of Sherlock 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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Sienna Miller as Emma Gould in the prohibition-era gangster movie <i>Live by Night</I>.

Miller escapes gossip in search of career-defining role

Andrew Purcell

Carrie Fisher on the set of <i>Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. </i>

Lucasfilm shuts down rumours of digitally recreating Carrie Fisher

Sarah Thomas

Jimmy Kimmel and Amber Sherlock

Kimmel takes a crack at Amber Sherlock's wardrobe tantrum

Amelia Zhou
41 mins ago

James McAvoy as Dennis in Split.

James McAvoy, man of many faces, adds another 24 in Split

Andrew Purcell

FILE- In this March 11, 2015, file photo, Actress Shailene Woodley poses for photographers upon arrival at a central ...

Divergent author Veronica Roth's next big series

Jason Steger

Dev Patel stars in Lion.

Dev Patel goes on 'a journey of real pain' in Lion

Garry Maddox

Meryl Streep poses in the press room with the Cecil B. DeMille award at the 74th annual Golden Globe Awards at the ...

Number of women making films in Hollywood is 'pitiful'

Rob Moran

Ed Sheeran in London on January 6 after a one-year hiatus from public life.

Ed Sheeran wrote Justin Bieber comeback songs

Ebony Bowden

Lea Salonga will perform shows in Sydney and Melbourne in February.

Miss Saigon to Princess Jasmine: Salonga on song for Aussie tour

Nathanael Cooper

Myuran Sukumaran's self portrait 'untitled (Double Self-Portrait, Embracing' that is a part of 'Another Day In Paradise' ...

Myuran Sukumaran exhibition displays final, hurried works

Ellen Parsons

How on earth did someone persuade not just Will Smith but Helen Mirren to appear in <i>Collateral Beauty</i>?

Collateral Beauty review: The worst movie these fine actors will do

Paul Byrnes

Portsea Polo. January 14, 2017. Shanina Shaik at the Peroni marque

Celebrity style: Portsea Polo in pictures

Kelly Landry and Anthony Bell with their children Charlize and Thea together in happier times.

The moment that cast a shadow over Anthony Bell and Kelly Landry

Andrew Hornery

Prince arrives with his then wife Manuela Testolini for the 2005 Academy Awards in Los Angeles.

Prince divorce files unsealed: Luxe lifestyle, jewels, photos revealed

Rochelle Olson and David Chanen

Saturday afternoon action on Tuff St at Summernats 30 in Canberra. A group of men surround a young woman and shout ...

Surrounded and hounded: This is 'the street where you don't go'

Hosts with the most. Bec and Chris Judd hosted a white party at their Jaggad marquee.

White hot: Judds star at polo

Melissa Singer

Khloe Kardashian is expanding her television empire with <i>Revenge Body with Khloe Kardashian</i>.

The trouble with Khloé's 'Revenge Body'

COMMENT
Catherine Bouris

Amber Heard has claimed Johnny Depp cut off his finger tip during an argument.

Depp and Heard finalise bitter divorce

Piya Sinha-Roy
1 hr ago

Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone in a scene from La La Land.

There's nothing romantic about the dapper gentleman

Neha Kale

Running the same route? It's time to shake it up.

This is why you need to change the way you work out

Sarah Berry

Middle age does not have to mean a middle spread.

How to avoid a midlife middle

Maria Lally

Turn-around: From fat-shamer to apologiser.

Fat shamer apologises after he struggles to lose weight

Sarah Berry

Macadamia-dukkah chicken with preserved lemon

Weekly meal planner with delicious Moroccan chicken dish

Stick to house wine and tap water and opt for the pasta section.

How to eat at a hatted restaurant on a budget

Chocolate mousse with hazelnut praline

23 delicious Nutella and choc-hazelnut recipes

Sarah Louise Bryan and the shoes that started it all.

Mum demands $530 for daughter's shoes after messy playdate

Dr. Groth performs surgery on his young patient's favourite stuffed toy.

Doctor performs 'surgery' patient's favourite stuffed toy

View from above into a box with many different colourful Lego bricks. Multiple generations of Legos (brick designs from ...

The scientific reason it hurts so much when we step on Lego

Swaying palm trees, white sand beaches, crystal clear waters, beautiful coral and fish filled lagoons, Fiji really is ...

Twenty things that will shock first-time visitors to Fiji

Sheriden Rhodes

The impressive architecture of Munich Airport Centre and Terminal 2.

Traveller letters: When things go wrong, this is the airport to be at

Politeness, including saying please and thank you when making requests or being served, creates a more positive mood for ...

Flight attendant reveals four top tips for a better flight experience

Ubtech's Lynx, a video-enabled humanoid robot with Amazon Alexa.

Robots must get smarter to rule the world

Mark Zuckerberg has described telepathy as the "ultimate communication technology".

Facebook targets a way to read your mind

Exclusive shows like <i>Stranger Things</i> are one of the main reason consumers sign up for Netflix.

Apple looks to launch own content in 2017

Nintendo Switch

Australian details for Nintendo Switch launch

Kotaku

Screenshot of <i>The Lion King</i> on the Jaunt VR app.

Want VR on the cheap? Try these phone apps

The Volkswagen I.D. Buzz concept was one of the stars of the show.

Six best cars from Detroit show

Stephen Ottley

Life and Leisure Abarth 124 Spider for Tony Davis Column

2017 Abarth 124 Spider reviewed

David McCowen

Electric cars like the Chevrolet Bolt (pictured) have the potential to dramatically change car design.

GM design boss: 'Shackles are off'

Stephen Ottley

2018 Lexus LS.

Lexus rejects autonomous tech war

Daniel DeGasperi

Inside the Czech Hyundai plant at Nosovice.

How to build a car

David McCowen

2017 Kia Stinger

Kia doesn't need sub brands

Andrew Maclean

Bernard Tomic is happy with his preparation for the Australian Open.

Stop the salad talk; it's not about my fitness, says Tomic

Linda Pearce

Australia's squad for India has been named.

Australia name Test squad for India tour, include four spinners

Andrew Wu
21 mins ago

LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 14: Andy Carroll of West Ham United (R) celebrates scoring his sides second goal with his West ...

Chelsea, Spurs and Arsenal enjoy big wins

Ian Chadband
1 hr ago

Crunch time: This weekend offers a mouthwatering array of games/

Live: NFL 2017 scores, updates and news

Switzerland's No.1: Stan Wawrinka is keen to add to his three grand slam wins.

Stanimal the Swiss No. 2 no more

Linda Pearce

Big day out: Steve O'Keefe.

O'Keefe claims nine wickets in grade cricket return

James Buckley

Safety changes: F1 circuits will all have to implement specific measures for safety reasons.

F1 circuits upgraded to cope with faster cars

Alan Baldwin

Calum Puttergill has been banned for six months for betting offences.

Australian banned for six months for betting on matches

Revitalised: Collingwood defender Henry Schade.

Mum never far away from new Pie's mind

Daniel Cherny

Pumped: Jonathon Patton (left) celebrates a goal against North Melbourne.

Patton ready to join AFL's goalkicking elite

James Buckley

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Serious sport requires serious people

Timothy Boyle

Former Essendon coach James Hird is in hospital.

Hird had 'post-traumatic stress disorder for years': Corcoran

Kevin Sheedy says there is "no way known" Hird set out to run an illegal supplements program.

'People do love him': Sheedy's passionate defence of Hird

Jon Pierik

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