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MPs reject prospect for government to hold a free vote without a plebiscite: Eric Abetz.

Alliances crumble as right wing goes to war

Ahmed Fahour

Australia Post loses bid to keep CEO's salary a secret

Senator Cory Bernardi resigned from the Liberal Party but many colleagues were happy to see him go.

Cory Bernardi's leaving? Phhht. So's the Gold Card, and MPs weep

Tony Wright

Sara Connor: "It's not fair, they are playing with my life."

Sara Connor trial: Sisters heard couple 'fighting for their lives'

Paul Fyfield.

Armaguard officer allegedly left door open to millions in cash

LIFE TIME - WEAR - L&L - AFR - JAN 25 Glendale Herringbone grey wool jacket $650. Julian purple cotton jumper $220. ...

Herringbone, Rhodes & Beckett add to retail carnage

'Both sides will lose' if China fights with US', warns top diplomat

Jury in Rolf Harris trial told they may return majority verdicts

Carlton AFLW star comes under cyber hacking attack

EXCLUSIVE

French ex-president Sarkozy ordered to stand trial over funding

White House uses Numan Haider to back Trump's terror claims

Abbott Bernardi homepage main image

The bromance is over: When Cory dumped Tony

A view of Melbourne Henge from Collins Street on Tuesday night.

Melbourne Henge: Sunset aligns with Hoddle grid

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Fake: The kisses exchanged didn't really mean much to Lauren who ran out on Andrew on Married At First Sight.

Runaway bride Lauren says it wasn't looks that made her run

Putting on a show: Amy and Tyson top score in the whole MKR competition.

MKR highest score smashed in one night by 'villains'

Old mattress

When to replace your mattress, towels, perfume and other stuff

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#Melbhenge: sunset aligns with Hoddle Grid

John Jarratt will reprise the role of Mick Taylor for the second season of <I>Wolf Creek</I>.

Stan to roll out offline viewing, Wolf Creek given second season

Woe to the unappreciative emailers among us: The analysis found that the best way to end an email is with gratitude.

Want people to respond to emails? Sign off like this

Got noisy neighbours? We've got tips to help bring peace and quiet to your apartment.

Noisy neighbours? This is how to sound-proof your apartment

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Unfrozen in time: A stark warning from the heart of Antarctica

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The apartment boom has left the city with mainly one and two-bedroom apartments.

Price boom masks risks for investors as yields plummet

John Collett

'What's the square root of nine times twelve divided by six point three recurring?': a scene from the film <i> Fifty ...

Why you should boycott the Fifty Shades Darker movie

COMMENT
Caitlin Roper

Luca Belgiorno-Nettis

It's not just the working class disillusioned with politics

Michael Koziol

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Lord mayor Robert Doyle, flanked by deputy lord mayor Arron Wood (left) and Cr Nicholas Reece, votes on the camping motion.

Councillors back homeless camping ban proposal

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'Vicious' fatal shopping centre attack captured on CCTV

'Windscreen viper' reunited with owner, one snake still loose in CBD

EPA has warned of poor water quality in Port Phillip Bay.

Bay beaches still unsafe for swimming with hot weather on way

Queensland's inland centres are set to be hot well in to next week.

Melbourne set to get through summer without 40-degree day

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'Dodgy': Crown casino worker charged over $1.5m ice haul

The injured woman's car after it was T-boned on Bell Street, Preston, on Monday night.

Man charged over alleged Preston police pursuit crash

SMH News; Story: Sydney set for a day of wind and rain, as the weather takes a turn. Photo by, Peter Rae Thursday 29 ...

Sydney unit block threatens to fall after wild storms

NSW

Lacey and Brenton Bradford pictured with their four children.

Girl, 5, hailed for bravery after car crash

QLD

The missing ring from the severed finger...

Man severs finger on razor wire, loses wedding ring

WA

Firefighters survey the scene at a house fire at 3 Ranken Loop, Belconnen.

Man 'set fire to partner's house while she slept'

ACT

Mr Abbott during the joint party meeting in Canberra on Tuesday.

Alliances and friendships shattered as right wing politics fractures

Matthew Knott

'Both sides will lose' if China fights with US', warns top diplomat

David Wroe

High-speed rail and a Hyperloop: MP's crusade for cheaper housing

Michael Koziol

Centrelink's processing times for age and disability support pensions have ballooned after job cuts, amid wider ...

Senate move could lift the lid on Centrelink debt letter debacle

Tony Abbott

The bromance is over: Why did Cory turn on Tony?

Jacqueline Maley

Senator Cory Bernardi addresses the media after delivering a statement in the Senate at Parliament House in Canberra, on ...

Courageous or crazy? Political defections that ended in tears

It's conservative members of the rank and file in his own party, where Turnbull has been, up to now, the least persuasive.

PM takes the axe to the most notorious political perk of all

Samar, 8, an asylum seeker from Sudan at the protest outside the UNHCR in Jakarta on Monday.

'I like Australia': Refugees beg UNHCR to decide their fate

Jessie Chiang

A settler reacts as police evict the last settlers from the West Bank outpost of Amona on Thursday.

Israel passes law to seize private Palestinian land

Footage from the attack.

Fresh video of suicide boat ramming Saudi frigate

Pro-government supporters hold up the national Syrian flag and pictures of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Aleppo ...

Syria carried out mass hangings at military prison: Amnesty

Illustration: Andrew Dyson.

Lurid claims about ADHD do parents no good

COMMENT
Sarah Gill

Illustration by Dionne Gain

Trump has given two great gifts to China at America's expense

COMMENT
Peter Hartcher

Eddie McGuire speaks to the media.

Eddie, you should have locked it in

COMMENT
Jenna Price

Only 8 per cent of millennials in Australia believe they will be better off than their parents.

Australia no longer the 'lucky country' for millennials

Illustration: John Shakespeare.

Macquarie millionaire's factory insists it is now the green machine

Colin Kruger, CBD
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Centrelink will be watching every dollar.

Centrelink keeping track of monthly investment performance

The Strand arcade in Bourke and Elizabeth Streets Melbourne owned by ISPT.

Rag & Bone latest international retailer to land in Australia

Poor workplace investigations can leave path of destruction

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Giri Sivaraman

Veda freezes business' credit due to typo

Will Snapchat last, or will it fade before our eyes?

COMMENT
James Titcomb

Senate committee tells Aus Post it can't keep CEO's salary a secret

Flinders Street Station

Damage already done: Melbourne's biggest missed opportunities

Cultiver Linen from cranmorehome.com

The best online stores to hit up for homewares this year

I accumulated a staggering amount of accessories found in vintage shops, garage sales and decor stores.

The one thing I stopped buying once I'd turned 30

Cranes on the skyline of Melbourne, Brisbane and, to a lesser extent, Sydney, have experts concerned about an oversupply.

'Only a matter of time' before prices fall in Melbourne: economist

Parents are forgoing other family priorities just to get their kids within certain school borders.

Melbourne's top school zones for house price growth

Angry puppy.

Expensive, noisy, messy: Why getting a dog was a big mistake

Self

Longines' Flagship Heritage timepiece, 60th Anniversary edition, 1957-2017.

Four of the hottest new timepieces to watch this year

Watches

Experts warn areas such as Melbourne's Docklands are "fraught with danger" for investors.

Property price boom masks risks for investors as yields plummet

John Collett

Centrelink's robo debt recovery scheme has been controversial because of high error rates.

Centrelink overload sees families unable to access payments

Bianca Hartge-Hazelman

Timothy Pilgrim, Australian Privacy Commissioner, found Veda had breached KB's privacy.

Veda freezes business' credit due to typo

Business etiquette is a minefield.

What not to put in a voicemail message

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Cory Bernardi: Why I quit

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Council backs proposal for CBD camping ban

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Police hunt for Doncaster lift killer

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MPs voice opposition to safe injecting rooms

Illustration: Alan Moir

Best of Fairfax cartoons, Feb 8

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Stan - Jurassic

65 million years in the making, the Jurassic Park trilogy will never get old.

The difference between fine and gross motor skills

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Fake: The kisses exchanged didn't really mean much to Lauren who ran out on Andrew on Married At First Sight.

Runaway bride Lauren says it wasn't looks that made her run

Aja Styles

Putting on a show: Amy and Tyson top score in the whole MKR competition.

MKR highest score smashed in one night by 'villains'

Christine Sams

John Jarratt will reprise the role of Mick Taylor for the second season of <I>Wolf Creek</I>.

Stan to roll out offline viewing, Wolf Creek given second season

Broede Carmody

Golden boy: Shane Warne at the announcement of his <i>Warney Uncut</i> national tour.

Warney show promises 'nothing but the truth' about personal life

Karl Quinn

George RR Martin has said <i>Game of Thrones</i> fans will love his new short story.

Is Daenerys' origin story on the cards for a GoT prequel?

Broede Carmody

'A living hell': You can hear Andrew Bolt and Miranda Devine from 8pm on 3AW.

'For Christ's sake, Miranda': Bolt threatens to hang up on Devine

Ebony Bowden

George Michael on stage in 2012.

George Michael's body still hasn't been returned to his family

Broede Carmody

Tom Arnold on I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Outta Here Australia season 3, 2017.

Donald Trump a 'sexist, racist phoney' says Tom Arnold

Karl Quinn

"Year of fervent discussion about inclusion and constructive community": chair of the judges Brenda Walker.

It's a fact. Non-fiction dominates Stella Prize longlist

Jason Steger

Amy Winehouse.

Jewish Museum snares Amy Winehouse exhibition

Hannah Francis

Stanislava Pinchuk (Miso) is an artist commissioned by denim label Neuw to paint on leather jackets for Bella and Gigi ...

Melbourne artist Miso leaves her mark on supermodels

Annabel Ross

FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015, file photo, Sen. Bernie Sanders, of Vermont, left, speaks as Hillary Clinton ...

Anti-establishment pin up Bernie Sanders inspires luxury fashion collection

Jenna Clarke

Nora Ephron once wrote,"There's not a damn thing you can do about a neck."

This is how you can stop feeling bad about your neck

Natalie Reilly

By the time she died, I had my own family, but still the grief came for me every day.

I am still not ready to be eldest sister, and never will be

Jenna Price

Kylie Minogue has successfully blocked Kylie Jenner from trademarking the name "Kylie".

Battle of the Kylies: Minogue beats Jenner

Amy Croffey

Attempts to phone Centrelink would end up with me on hold and no further advanced in the phone queue by the end of my ...

How Centrelink has terrorised me over an ex-partner's debt

COMMENT
Andie Fox

Actress Jamie Lynn Spears with her daughter Maddie Briann Aldridge, and mother Lynne Spears.

Britney Spears’s niece seriously injured: reports

Nicole Economos

Demonstrators hold signs while marching towards Trump Tower during the Women's March in New York, U.S., on Saturday, ...

Women's March organises second day of action

Mary Ward

BEVERLY HILLS, CA - FEBRUARY 06: Actress Emma Stone attends the 89th Annual Academy Awards Nominee Luncheon at The ...

The best looks from the 2017 Oscar Nominee Luncheon

Health is not one-size fits all but personalised health is not quite here.

The problem with personalised nutrition and health

Sarah Berry

Good dancing is expressing what's on the inside.

Why everyone can learn to dance well

Sarah Berry

Performance doesn't have to decrease with age.

An athlete's age not the most important for performance

Ginny McReynolds

GOOD FOOD: Sydney Fish Markets. Chef Brent Savage tours the fish market showing us how to pick fresh seafood. Spanner ...

How to buy the freshest seafood at the market

'Pretty much nothing in it': Chocolate cloud cake from Anthia Koullouros.

19 smart sweet swaps to crush sugar cravings

Pete Evans' paleo spaghetti with prawns, pesto & pistachios

Paleo spaghetti with prawns, pesto and pistachios

Pete Evans

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One mum's plea to dads: 'Take the goddamn photo'

Facebook: Melinda Tankard Reist

Aussie preschooler's lunchbox prompts scathing note home

Movie time

What I said when my daughter asked me about my sex life

These airport terminals are set to beautify any commute.

Hope for a delay: The world's most beautiful airports

Sinead Pearson

Star Ferry, Hong Kong Harbour, at night.

Ten of the world's greatest travel experiences for $10 or less

Angie Kelly

Travelling in the US will be the same as it ever was.

Why you should still visit the US despite President Trump

Ben Groundwater

An artist's rendition of how Uber sees the future of on-demand urban air transportation, from last year.

Uber eyes flying cars, hires NASA veteran

The FTC says the Vizio case shows how a television or other appliance might be telling companies more than their owners ...

Vizio TVs apparently spied on their owners

A robot fills orders inside an Amazon fulfilment centre in the US.

Amazon ponders robot-run supermarket with staff of 3

Daniel John Sobieski, a retiree in Chicago is credited with an increase in the pro-Trump social media presence.

The 'cyborg' Twitter drive of conservatives

The Primo app scans a QR code.

This app lets you skip the shopping queue

2017 Volkswagen Amarok Core Plus.

Updated VW Amarok revealed

Dom Tripolone

2017 Mercedes-AMg Gt R sets bathurst lap record.

The fastest car around Bathurst is ...?

Andrew MacLean

The BMW M4 GTS has arrived in Australia.

Driven: BMW's hardcore M4

Stephen Ottley

2018 Holden Commodore Sportwagon.

New Commodore wagon revealed

Drive Staff

2018 Subaru Liberty.

2018 Subaru Liberty revealed

Drive Staff

18MY Jaguar F-TYPE, 400S. 2017 Jaguar F-Type.

Thieves steal $4.9m worth of engines

Dom Tripolone

India's captain Virat Kohli.

Smith might be world No.1 ,but this bloke's better: Ponting

Jon Pierik

Charged: Security consultant Adrian Gard, pictured with former US president Bill Clinton.

'Bizarre': All Blacks consultant charged over bugging

Tom Decent

James Pattinson has been named in the Bushrangers squad against South Australia in Adelaide.

Pattinson, eyeing India, back for Bushrangers

Jon Pierik

Melbourne City's Tim Cahill.

Cahill apologises for Melbourne derby ref abuse

Hit in the pocket: The Chappell-Hadlee series loss to New Zealand means Australia's players will miss out on performance ...

Rising anger as NZ tour hits players in hip pocket

Jon Pierik

Eugenie Bouchard agreed to go on a date with a fan.

Patriots comeback earns fan a date with Eugenie Bouchard

Danielle Rendina

Caught up in a blackmail attempt: Danny Cipriani.

Ex-Melbourne Rebels star caught in stripper blackmail attempt

Breakers players applaud Akil Mitchell as he is helped off the court after suffering a serious eye injury.

NBL import returns to US for eye treatment after horrific injury

As Darcy Vescio played a blinder on Friday night, her Twitter account was under cyber attack.

AFLW star comes under cyber porn attack

EXCLUSIVE
Samantha Lane

Wells is working his way into the shape Nathan Buckley expects.

Magpies happy as Wells guns for game time

Daniel Cherny

Toby Nankervis is enjoying life as a Tiger.

Nankervis looking forward to more footy with Richmond

Alex Fair

Xavier Richards, right, will be playing in the NEAFL this year.

Salary cap uncertainty may have cost Richards his career: Longmire

Ebony Marinoff starred for the Crows.

Marinoff, Hunt get AFLW Rising Star nods

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