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Interest rates will stay low for longer and support housing demand.

Will home prices crash in 2017? The economists' verdict

The boy is believed to have been pulled from the pool during school swimming lessons.

Boy fights for life after near drowning at school swimming lessons

BREAKING
10 mins ago

A model wears a 'Tuck Frump' shirt on the organisation's website.

Turnbull staffer suspended over old 'Tuck Frump' post

52 mins ago

Turnbull and Trump, who had a heated 25-minute phone call on Sunday.

Trumbull, Trunbull: Is there any greater insult for the PM?

SATIRE
Tony Wright
1 hr ago

Forensic police study the blood trail at Westfield Donvale.

Gym group find man with 'throat slashed' at shopping centre

UPDATED
2 mins ago

A man continues to teach children even after pleading guilty to a sex crime against a former student.

Teacher guilty of sex abuse of ex-student still working in classroom

Top US retailer drops Ivanka Trump's brand amid boycott threats

1 hr ago

'Pathetic': Anger as Tigerair cancels Bali flight service

UPDATED
28 mins ago

Fresh insult for 'Trunbull' as Trump agrees to deal

'A curse word in our house': The man who is Trump's mouthpiece

Why Australian fans and players are sick of ODI cricket

COMMENT

Stacey Yean was 'smart, energetic, beautiful, kind and loving'.

Stacey went to bed and never woke up. Now, her family want to know why

Kylie Minogue and fiance Joshua Sasse.

Splitsville? Kylie Minogue breaks off engagement: reports

1 hr ago

Evan Spiegel, left, chief executive of Snap, and Bobby Murphy, senior vice president of engineering, each own 227 ...

Who are the Snapchat billionaires?

37 mins ago

Light with a bite: a sbagliato cocktail.

Friday drinks! A beginner's guide to aperitifs

The Rainbow Serpent Festival.

How to make sure your kids stay safe at music festivals

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AFLW: what you need to know

The Outer Sanctum.

Listen: Outer Sanctum kick off with Daisy Pearce

Beyond parody: Just two weeks into his presidency, the pair are already sick of Donald Trump as a source of comedy.

South Park duo take a stand as Mormon show hits Melbourne

Luxury experiences such as the one offered at Wilpena Pound Resort allow high-end tourists to feel at one with nature ...

The most glamorous glamping sites around the world

Ashleigh and Dan sit outside their tiny home.

Classy room: The Victorian teacher who built her own tiny home

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EMBARGOED FOR GOOD WEEKEND, FEB 4/17 ISSUE. Al and Megan Donnell, and their?two young kids, Isla, 7, and Jude 5, both ...

Audacity of hope: Why time is running out for the Donnells

GOOD WEEKEND
Tim Elliott

A toddler having a temper tantrum Autism

Why do so many parents fret about their prep's behaviour?

Henrietta Cook

Interest rates will stay low for longer and support housing demand.

Will home prices crash in 2017? The economists' verdict

Simon Johanson

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Akon Guode at the funeral for her three children in 2015.

Mother who drowned children 'almost certain' to be deported

The difference between Vic students and the rest? $2000

Sex attack: Teen lured to park by man with 'German' accent

Brendan Bernard, whose severed forearm was found in the Maribyrnong River on February 5, 2015.

Killed, chopped up over $60 debt: Trio face a long time in jail

Angelo Gargasoulas, Brother of accused Bourke Street killer Dimitrious Gargasoulas leaves the Melbourne Magistrates ...

With arm in plaster, Angelo Gargasoulas fronts court

A police officer inspects the scene.

Source of loud explosion leaves investigators baffled

Davut Bulduk blamed his offending on a heavy ice addiction costing up to $300 a day

Rapist claims he was an 'ice zombie', can't recall home assaults

The student, 16, made bizarre comments as he was arrested in a supermarket carpark.

'No idea' why boy allegedly went on stabbing rampage

NSW

Clive Palmer and wife Anna on the hustings during the Queensland election campaign.

Clive Palmer's wife called to give evidence

QLD

Missing backpacker Michael Eather.

'Really need help': Search for Aussie lost in jungle

QLD

The nudist club stripped off for a cruise down the Swan River.

All above board as nudist club takes a river cruise

WA
1 hr ago

Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce at Parliament House in Canberra on Thursday 10 November 2016. Photo: Andrew Meares

Deputy PM flies to Queensland to shut down growing controversy

Amy Remeikis

Turnbull staffer suspended over old 'Tuck Frump' Facebook post

Michael Koziol
52 mins ago

'No humanity': police end young man's desperate bid for freedom

EXCLUSIVE
Michael Gordon

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - AUGUST 16: NBN CEO Bill Morrow delivers a speech during the company FYR media presentation on August ...

Little-known bureaucrats cash in on pay cheques

Tom McIlroy
40 mins ago

Malcolm Turnbull has flagged a policy switch that is sure to provoke anger from anti-coal environmentalists.

'Clean coal' would push up power bills more than wind, solar or gas

Adam Morton
1 hr ago

Turnbull and Trump, who had a heated 25-minute phone call on Sunday.

Trumbull: Is there any greater insult for the PM?

SATIRE
Tony Wright
1 hr ago

Rod Culleton departs the High Court earlier this week.

Culleton was never elected to Senate, High Court rules

Amy Remeikis

70-year-old Sevanta Shantaram Kedar's family was too poor to send her to school when she was growing up.

At a school for grandmas, women reclaim their dignity

Amrit Dhillon
6 mins ago

German and Turkish flags.

Merkel lectures Erdogan on upholding freedoms

53 mins ago

US President Donald Trump attends the National Prayer Service at the National Cathedral in Washington on his first day ...

Trump wants religion and politics to mix

26 mins ago

Ali Vayeghan, an Iranian citizen with a valid U.S. visa, third from left, kisses his brother Houssein Vayghan, with his ...

'This is what human rights look like': visa-holder returns to US

Illustration: Andrew Dyson

Trump is only finishing what Hollywood and the media started

COMMENT
Waleed Aly

The government of Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has announced armed guards from adult prisons would be able to use ...

Andrews: brash, heavy-handed, and possibly what Victoria needs

COMMENT
Josh Gordon

Colour artwork by Peter Long Illustration of dog / EMI dog listening to headphones Digital downloads

It makes sense that dogs prefer soft rock

COMMENT
Simon Castles

Interest rates will stay low for longer and support housing demand.

Will home prices crash in 2017? The economists' verdict

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Markets Live: Week of worries for ASX

Live
Patrick Commins and Jens Meyer
21 mins ago

Donad Trump: The one thing you can be sure about populism is that its goals are short-term and short-sighted.

Trump simply doesn't get it

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

Margherita Boemo of Sprint Gas in Campbellfield. Her business has been affected by Telstra outage.

Telstra outage stings small businesses for 'thousands'

10 mins ago

Top US retailer drop Ivanka Trump's brand

1 hr ago

Snapchat kicks off $3.9b float

Harrison accuses Seven of 'whitewash' as CEO cleared

James Packer's tumultuous year could be about to get worse

EXCLUSIVE

Both charged: Truc Thanh Le Nguyen (also known as Judy Nguyen), right and her husband Tri Duc Ngo (also known as Joseph Ngo).

Ex-LJ Hooker agent 'swiped $60k at a time from accounts'

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 12: Jack Redden of the Lions leads the team off after defeat during the round two AFL ...

Eagles' Jack Redden puts luxury Brisbane home on the market

A selection of quasi-awesome-terrible things you never knew you wanted.

10 of the tackiest decor items on the internet

The Millennium Tower, right, stands in San Francisco. It was touted as the most luxurious tower in San Francisco, but ...

Sinking feeling: The $750m luxury tower sliding into the ground

Ashleigh and Dan sit outside their tiny home.

Less is best: this Melbourne teacher built her own tiny home

Balter's new pilsner.

10 of the best new Aussie beers you need in your esky

Fine Drinks

The Lexus Sport Yacht concept is a luxurious vision of the future.

Which top car brand is launching superyachts and spaceships?

Luxury Cars

Are you covered?

Is insurance in super pointless with a pre-existing condition?

Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon

Ensuring you are paid compulsory super can take a back seat to take-home pay and other entitlements.

Not everyone gets paid their compulsory super. But it's easily fixed

Daryl Dixon

Margherita Boemo of Sprint Gas in Campbellfield. Her business has been affected by Telstra outage.

Telstra outage stings small businesses for 'thousands'

10 mins ago

Eight-year-old Alexandra Shaw in the factory behind Salvios Dancing Shoes, in Randwick, with Phil Salvio toiling in the ...

Lessons I learned from being small business editor

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Super Bowl ads getting too expensive

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Reporter kicked out of Le Pen event

null

Our PM has a new name

Federal Politics US Relations

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Philippines drug killings continue under police ban

8yo Frederic Lan is the youngest participant in this years Sydney Chinese New Year Festival. He has been practicing his ...

Fairfax photos of the week

55 mins ago

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Wander through ancient landscapes in WA

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Jungle mission: Steve Price is ready.

Steve Price, John Laws and the day their feud turned ugly

Josh Thomas in Please Like Me.

Please Like Me: Vale the little show that could

Karl Quinn
1 min ago

The very fact that the immigration deal survived first contact with the Trump administration is worth keeping in mind.

Donald Trump asks for prayers for Arnie in bizarre TV ratings rant

Ebony Bowden

Was that the end for Josh Thomas' Please Like Me?

Josh Thomas calls time on ABC series Please Like Me

Ebony Bowden
57 mins ago

Beyonce shows off her baby bump in an Instagram post announcing her pregnancy.

Beyonce's Coachella appearance in doubt

Ebony Bowden

Pioneers: (from left) Octavia Spencer, Taraji P. Henson and Janelle Monae.

The remarkable story of the women putting people into space

Sarah Thomas

Manu Feildel with fellow My Kitchen Rules judge Pete Evans.

MKR's Manu reveals his MasterChef devastation

Confessed "embarrassed American" Bruce Springsteen had just the song for the day of phonegate.

Springsteen had just the song to mock Trump-Turnbull call at Melbourne gig

Michael Dwyer

Religious experience: <i>South Park</i> creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker at Melbourne's Princess Theatre.

The Book of Mormon creators shun Trump as musical opens

Debbie Cuthbertson
23 mins ago

The Encounter at Sydney Festival

The Encounter a five-star triumph that heralds future of theatre

REVIEW
Cameron Woodhead
55 mins ago

Ursula Martinez in Free Admission @ Soho Theatre. (Opening 09-02-16) ?Tristram Kenton 02/16 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON ...

Ursula Martinez busts through fourth wall in Free Admission

REVIEW
Cameron Woodhead

Splitsville? Kylie Minogue and Joshua Sasse.

Kylie Minogue and Joshua Sasse split, reports tabloid

1 hr ago

Groomed for power: Stephen Bannon is said to be the only person exempt from Trump's dress code.

Women, we can't rest until we can all dress like Steve Bannon

COMMENT
Annie Brown
1 hr ago

Angelina Jolie writes op-ed calling for compassion for refugees

Nicole Economos
1 hr ago

If you feared the world might have been running out of ways to shame pregnant women, worry not.

The new way to shame and control pregnant women has to stop

COMMENT
Clementine Ford

At first I wondered if I was shaming myself, but then I realised that casual sex is just not working for me right now.

I was an online dating addict, and here's why I'm stopping

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

Karlie Kloss showcases designs by Rachel Gilbert on the runway at the David Jones Autumn Winter 2017 Collections Launch ...

A true super: Why Karlie Kloss is worth the megabucks

Jenna Clarke

America's most famous family, Singer Kanye West and North West and Kim Kardashian

Kim and Kanye announce their next target market

Arielle De Bono

Beyoncé has released a photo essay, a day after her pregnancy announcement.

Beyonce is not finished announcing her pregnancy

Celebrate the little wins.

8 ways training for a triathlon made me a better dater

Alicia M. Cohn

A little light can help you to sleep deeper.

How nature can help us sleep better

Sarah Berry

Five minutes to a better day.

A morning routine to set you up for a super productive day

Susie Moore

Light with a bite: a sbagliato cocktail.

Friday drinks: a beginner's guide to French aperitifs

Egg sarnie, improved - with avocado, corn and bean salsa.

Is Melbourne's first egg-centric cafe all it's cracked up to be?

Korean spice-rubbed chicken.

54 easy chicken fillet recipes

Gayathiri Bose and her breast pump.

Airport staff order mum to squeeze her breasts to prove she's lactating

Your kids are watching you more closely than you realise.

Check yourself on these 8 things before your kid becomes a teen

"To be blunt, I like one of my children more than the other," one mum admits on an online forum.

Mum admits she has a favourite child - and she's not the only one

The Duchess of Alba: To have called her merely 'rich' would be like calling Placido Domingo a bit of a warbler.

The weird world of Spain's richest woman is now a tourist attraction

Larissa Dubecki

Hong Kong has been named the world's most visited city.

Not Paris or New York: The world's most visited city named

Sinead Pearson
1 hr ago

One airline is now giving its first class passengers moisturising pyjamas on board.

Traveller quiz: Which airline offers moisturising pyjamas in first class?

Mal Chenu

Evan Spiegel, left, chief executive of Snap, and Bobby Murphy, senior vice president of engineering, each own 227 ...

Who are the new Snapchat billionaires?

37 mins ago

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is distancing himself from the Trump administration.

Uber CEO quits Trump advisory group

The Oculus Rift has put Facebook at the forefront of the virtual reality boom.

Oculus lift: Facebook loses $653 million VR verdict

Here's how the future of Australia's 4G will go

Kotaku

MasterCard Identity Check will let Australians shop with a smile.

MasterCard 'Selfie Pay' coming to Australia

COMMENT

2017 Audi Q2 Launch Edition.

New Audi Q2 prices revealed

Drive Staff

The Mazda3 was the top-selling car in January.

Strong start to 2017 new car sales

Stephen Ottley

Leena Gade.

Bentley's 'First Lady of Le Mans'

David McCowen

2017 Holden Trax.

New Holden Trax prices revealed

Dom Tripolone

2016 Alfa Romeo Giulia QV.

Alfa Romeo Giulia QV sold out

Jonathan Hawley

2017 Volkswagen Passat Alltrack Wolfsburg Edition.

New VW Passat Alltrack Wolfsburg Edition

Dom Tripolone

Nick Kyrgios

Bernie who? Aussies race to 2-0 Davis Cup lead

Linda Pearce
58 mins ago

Woods struggled in his highly-anticipated comeback.

Tiger loses his cool in the desert after nightmare round

James Corrigan

Faces of Australian cricket: David Warner and Steve Smith.

Why Australian fans and players are sick of ODI cricket

COMMENT
Malcolm Knox

Juergen Klopp loses his cool.

Klopp: I was lucky to escape sanction

Usain Bolt training at Albert Park.

Captain Bolt yet to decide what he runs

Michael Clarke.

Clarke to pad up as PM's XI coach

Jon Pierik

Andriy Grivko punched race leader.

Grivko disqualified for punching Dubai Tour leader Kittel

Hanging up the boots: Frank Lampard.

Frank Lampard finally announces retirement

Scott Pendlebury believes fans are unlikely to take kindly to industrial action.

Pendlebury would sit down to make a stand

Daniel Cherny

Set to return: Essendon's Michael Hurley.

Hurley hurts ankle in Essendon's intra-club match

Jon Pierik
1 hr ago

Opposing AFLW captains Steph Chiocci of the Magpies and Lauren Arnell of the Blues.

AFLW: The brave new world starts now

Samantha Lane

The Giants look to be winners before the season starts, having won the battle for Riverina with the AFL.

Giants look to have won the battle for Riverina

EXCLUSIVE
Caroline Wilson

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