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Sir Ivan bushfire, near Dunedoo. 12 February 2017. Photo NSW Rural Fire Service

Fire crews prepare to defend town as front approaches

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Murray River

Infamous water-skiing race suspended after five competitors injured

Steve Lillebuen
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The female driver died at the scene.

Girl, 5, fights for life after siblings fall from apartment window

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Local band members Pat, Sam and Alex play in the outdoor courtyard of the Harold Park Hotel in Glebe. One complaint from ...

Call for councils to back off after Harold Park live music furore

Former Liberal MP and Sky News host Ross Cameron at the Sydney fundraiser on Thursday night

'Don't belong in decent society': Lib boss blasts Cameron over remarks

Melanie Anne Pears and Tony James Paraha were both sentenced to lengthy jail term for the death of their daughter Narelle

Man arrested for starting bushfire during total fire ban

Michael Evans

'The whole shelf has disappeared': Tourists swoop on pharmacies

Commando Steve's Sage Institute in administration

Eryk Bagshaw

North Korea launches missile as Abe meets with Trump

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'You have to be poor to go to jail': How a fugitive was caught out

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Liberals defend giving preferences to One Nation over Nats

The Sir Ivan bushfire burns near Dunedoo.

Winds pose new threat as state battles 'worst fire conditions in history'

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Anna Godfrey

'Mum, where are you?' Anna's baby boarded 65 flights by age 2

Sione Lauaki playing for the Chiefs in 2006.

Dead at 35: The All Black who threw Richie McCaw 10 metres

Angelia Jolie Pitt had a preventative double mastectomy after discovering she carried the faulty BRCA1 gene.

'I'm still friends with my ex Angelina' says Trainspotting star

You got a leg up if your parents called you Aaron or Alex, rather than Will or Zac, according to the research.

Why your name may be ruining your life

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Trump cheapens US-Mexico wall

Rock carvings on the Burrup Peninsula, near Karratha.

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The scientific slip that has put 30,000-year-old rock art at risk

Domino's

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The shocking truth behind your $5 takeaway pizza

Luke Treadaway is not afraid to bring out his character's off-putting side. Ginger Bob is portrayed for the most part as ...

A cat took him from the streets to stardom. Then came the backlash

Portrait of Sophie Smith, her son Owen Smith who are members of her SMH Half Marathon running group, Running for ...

Mother started running after losing triplets. Now she's raised $2m

Local band members Pat, Sam and Alex play in the outdoor courtyard of the Harold Park Hotel in Glebe.

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Local band members Pat, Sam and Alex play in the outdoor courtyard of the Harold Park Hotel in Glebe.

Call for councils to back off after Harold Park music furore

Jacob Saulwick

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What it's like to be a 'fly in, fly out' mother

Joanne Brookfield

Shane Thatcher and Sonya Stephen, creators of the Choovie app, at the Lido Cinema in Hawthorn.

Coming soon: Uber-style movie ticket pricing

Karl Quinn

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Europe's first vertical forest, the Bosco Verticale, was completed in 2014 in Milan.

Five of the coolest vertical forests in the world

Starr Partners are currently selling this five-bedroom house at 41 Laura Street, Merrylands, with a pool, and are seeing ...

How Sydney's summer heatwave is affecting buyers' decisions

Custom windows magnify the views at 37 Iluka Road, Mosman.

Mosman home beautifully formed to function

This former chapel turned art gallery in Carlton, Melbourne is suited to a variety of uses.?

Could these buildings be the answer to your property prayers?

The owner of the property is interior designer Melissa Bonney, so it's no surprise to find the home bursting with ...

Designer dollars: Good interior design key to big home sales

Bloomex customers complain on Facebook about shoddy flowers.

Valentine's Day roses 'with holes in the petals'

How a 'charming' baker turned into a ramraiding ATM thief

The club rewarding gamblers who spend $300,000 a year

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Students at St Oliver's Primary School in Harris Park.

Calls for hats to be made compulsory in high school

Portrait of NSW Treasurer Dominic Perrottet at NSW Government Offices, Martin Place. 8th February 2017, Photo: Wolter ...

'I don't think it's fair that my generation is going to foot the bill'

The new NSW Treasurer

From flooding rains to searing heat: Chris Priestley examines a bore at the family's Salt Glen station near Carinda.

Shearers and graziers battle extreme temperatures

Youseff Ahmad is accused of importing cocaine from Southern California.

The workings of an alleged transnational drugs ring revealed

Illustration: Dionne Gain

How safe are your children in Catholic schools?

The incident at Altona McDonalds.

Men in wild brawl with police at McDonald's captured on video

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Cody went down to his local park to carve up the water.

'Not every day you get to ride in your park': Perth's wet inspires fun

WA

This koala was given a spray down to help it cope with the heatwave at Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve.

Wildlife cool off as more power outages plagued the capital

ACT

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (seated), joined by President Donald Trump, Vice-President Mike Pence (left) and his ...

What does Donald Trump have in mind for the Asia-Pacific?

David Wroe

Conservatives leap to defend Ross Cameron's 'dry humour'

Cory Bernardi's defection and right-wing politics in Australia

Nick O'Malley

Suddenly, it seemed, Mogadon Malcolm morphed into Street Fighting Man.

Turnbull's attack on Shorten could be the beginning of the end

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Michael Gordon

Ross Cameron appears on Sky News on Friday to defend his speech.

Ross Cameron defends calling Liberal Party 'a gay club'

Michael Koziol

The Turnbull government says it will announce its plans for school funding by the middle of the year

Private schools demand government release funding plans

Matthew Knott

Former Liberal MP and Sky News host Ross Cameron at the Sydney fundraiser on Thursday night

'At least they chuck pillow-biters off buildings': inside an explosive fundraiser

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A man watches a TV news program on North Korea's missile launches at Seoul Railway Station, South Korea, at the time of ...

North Korea fires unidentified missile from its north-west

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Demonstrators chant against US President Donald Trump's executive order on "sanctuary cities" outside City Hall in ...

Immigrants living in fear of Trump's 'deportation force'

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Alejandro Toledo is accused of receiving millions of dollars in bribes from a Brazilian conglomerate in return for ...

Peru says US not planning to detain wanted ex-president

Cambodia's opposition leader Sam Rainsy, pictured in Phnom Penh in 2013.

Cambodia's exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy resigns

Lindsay Murdoch

The obsession with getting women back to work risks overshadowing the major benefit of investments in childcare: ...

What every parent needs to know about the childcare changes

COMMENT
Jessica Irvine

Energetic performance: Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull let off some steam in Canberra.

Power politics don't get hotter than this

COMMENT
Annabel Crabb

Senator Cory Bernardi jumped the Liberals ship this week to form his own party.

No one can help Bernardi now he's out of the tent

COMMENT
Peter FitzSimons

Illustration: Glen Le Lievre

Now that it's back to business, bring on the wage rises

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

Domino's

The Domino's effect: the truth behind your $5 pizza

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You got a leg up if your parents called you Aaron or Alex, rather than Will or Zac, according to the research.

Why your name may be ruining your life

Tarullo, 64, is leaving well short of the 2022 end of his term. His time on the Fed board came during one of the busiest ...

Wall Street's top regulator quits, opening door for Trump changes

Domino's needs to face up to itself

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Adele Ferguson

NSW's biggest power user Tomago pleads for AGL not to curb supply

Peter Hannam

Happy Valentine? Consumers urged to avoid some online flower sellers

Esther Han

US stocks jump to record on 'phenomenal' tax hopes

Make it a day to remember.

18 gifts she'll actually love to receive this Valentine's Day

Handsome Things

The Melbourne Moonshine Distillery was established south of Melbourne's CBD by a pair of former engineers.

The once-illicit spirit that's making a big comeback

Smart Sipping

Marrickville flatmates Arlo Alexander-Meylan, Harry Gregg, Nikita Podlasov, Tom Grimes and Isaac Ewald filled their ...

Smart money moves to avoid share-house hell

Christine Long

Caitlin Fitzsimmons

Valentine's Day? Bah, humbug!

Caitlin Fitzsimmons

Teen entrepreneur Rebecca Rusinovic was the youngest keynote speaker at Pause Festival at Federation Square.

Teen entrepreneur gets set to launch skincare range

Cara Waters

Great pains are taken to ensure that what the audience sees is accurate to the last detail.

The startup turning archaeology into virtual reality

James Wong

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Liberals to direct preferences to One Nation

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Usain Bolt's All-Stars sweep Nitro series

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Wild weather contintues across Australia

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Trump weighs revised travel ban

Lightning echoed through the valleys at Laguna , north of Sydney . Photo Nick Moir 4 feb 2017

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Shane Thatcher and Sonya Stephen, creators of the Choovie app, at the Lido Cinema in Hawthorn.

Coming soon: Uber-style movie ticket pricing

Karl Quinn

Flume is in the running for his first Grammy.

The Grammy that could change a life; the nomination which won't

Bernard Zuel

Jonny Lee Miller as Simon in <i>T2 Trainspotting</i>. Twenty years after the original film, the character's "maturity ...

'I'm still friends with my ex Jolie,' says Trainspotting star

Celia Walden

Geoffrey Rush attends the Final Portrait premiere during the 67th Berlinale International Film Festival Berlin.

Rush praised as 'the king of dags' in Berlin honour

Stephanie Bunbury

Josh Lawson as Paul Hogan in a miniseries that mixes the real with the reimagined.

Hoges: The Paul Hogan Story is a five-out-of-five beauty, mate

Bridget McManus

Guns 'N Roses concert, Calder Raceway, Melbourne, 1993: Early birds: Guns 'N Roses fans camping out overnight at Calder ...

The notorious Gunners concert that rocked Melbourne

Martin Boulton

Matt Day is the winner of Tropfest 2017 for his dark comedy <i>The Mother Situation</i>.

Matt Day's dark comedy wins at Tropfest short film festival

Phoebe Moloney

Levi Miller and canine friend in <i>Red Dog: True Blue</i>.

Red Dog, True Blue leaves Berlin howling for more

Stephanie Bunbury

Anna Biller's The Love Witch uses vintage cinema techniques.

Pagan sex and other fun stuff to see and do this weekend

Beautiful role: Esther Hannaford will play Carole King in the Australian premiere of the hit Broadway musical.

Superstar approves Australian chosen to play her in musical

Debbie Cuthbertson

The only photo said to be taken of James Tyson, Australia's first self-made millionaire.

Meet the legendary Australian no one has ever heard of

Linda Morris

Channel 7 Sunrise host, Samantha Armytage forced an apology from Daily Mail Australia.

Daily Mail to stop publishing 'fat-shaming' stories

Amy Croffey

Specific patterns may make some people appear to be better dancers than others, a study has found.

What makes a good dancer? It's all in the hips, study says

Steph Yin

Portrait of Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young at Parliament House in Canberra on Monday 29 August 2016. Photo: Alex ...

Sarah Hanson-Young on what it's like to be a 'fly in, fly out' mum

Joanne Brookfield

Australian model Nicole Trunfio with musician husband Gary Clark Jr and their son, Zion.

Nicole Trunfio speaks out amid US racial tension for her biracial son

Amy Croffey

US President Donald Trump has a "massive fan" in Lisa Oldfield, wife of One Nation co-founder, David Oldfield.

David Oldfield's wife Lisa is a 'massive fan' of Donald Trump

Amy Croffey

Being married is about getting on the floor alongside your loved one and picking them up.

For me, marriage is the last line in the sand of life

Nicki Reed

Australian Laura Brown, editor-in-chief of InStyle Magazine and former Features/Special Projects and Executive Director ...

The Australian editor shaping up to be the new Anna Wintour

Jackie Dent

Em Rusciano and Harley Breen have made a strong start on air at 2DayFM

Why it is finally a good time for women on FM radio

Jenna Clarke

It looks like running could have been given a bad rap.

Study suggests running may be good for our knees

Sarah Berry

Focus more on less.

5 little ways to stop being stressed and start being on time

Susie Moore

Most conversations don't go as smoothly as Ryan Gosling's.

Single men are having less sex than you think

Jon Gugala

Snapper in crazy water Photograph by William Meppem

No-red-meat Weekly meal planner

Adam Liaw gives classic lemon and sugar crepes an update.

Crepes with citrus sugar and sour cream

Adam Liaw

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19 excellent zucchini recipes

New dad, Damien Leeson, was left horrified after being labelled "disgusting" for feeding his baby.

Dad labelled 'disgusting' for feeding baby in parents' room

"Wildo the Dildo." The very funny letter one dad received from his son's school.

Wildo the what? Dad shares hilarious letter from son's school

Kids' parties can be extravagant these days.

Mum's shock at being told to buy 'replacement gift' for birthday boy

Playa del Amor in the Marieta Islands of Mexico has an unusual history.

This amazing 'lovers' beach' is completely hidden inside a cave

Sinead Pearson

The Qantas Club in Sydney.

Letters: I can't believe what I saw people wearing in business class

A loop of the Moselle River.

Is this real or a fairytale? A part of Europe that's straight off a postcard

Brian Johnston

The Safety Check feature on Facebook.

Facebook to the rescue in times of emergency?

The new esports league will mimic the structures and conventions of the NBA.

NBA starts professional esports league

What battery percentage makes you anxious?

Why we're all obsessed with keeping our phones charged

Overwatch

7 stages of spending too much in games

Kotaku

Greg Miller

RTX and the power of small, strong audiences

2018 Audi RS3 Sportback.

Updated Audi RS3 revealed

Dom Tripolone

2017 Nissan GT-R Nismo.

Driven: Nissan GT-R Nismo

Andrew MacLean

2017 Isuzu D-Max.

New Isuzu D-Max prices revealed

Drive Staff

2017 Audi S4 Avant.

Details: 2017 Audi S4

Peter McKay

The Ferrari experience descended on Mount Panorama during the Bathurst 12 Hour.

Driving a Ferrari around Bathurst

Lucas Kennedy

2017 Mazda MX-5 RF v Abarth 124 Spider.

Mazda MX-5 RF v Abarth 124 Spider comparison review

Stephen Ottley

Sione Lauaki playing for the Chiefs in 2006.

Dead at 35. The All Black who 'threw Richie McCaw 10 metres'

Dean Jones steps out to lift Shivlal Yadav to the fence on the second day of the First test against India played at ...

Was this the most baffling axing in Australian cricket history?

Tim Lane

Hometown hero: Jeff Horn throws a right against Randall Bailey in Brisbane, where he was hoping to take his dream fight ...

Brisbane could lose Pacquiao-Horn fight to UAE

Phil Lutton

Narrow victory: Tolu Latu on the burst against the Rebels.

Folau takes positives from Tahs' exit at Global Tens

Tom Decent
1 hr ago

World No.1 golfer Jason Day.

Golf ready to launch its Twenty20

James Corrigan

A man in demand: Popovic is in the crosshairs of Shanghai.

The Popovic demands that stand in the way of mega-rich deal

Dominic Bossi

Solid start: Robbie Farah.

Walker ruins Farah's Rabbitohs debut

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Big week: Having been part of the team that defeated Manly 30 years ago, Wigan coach Shaun Wane knows the importance of ...

Wigan's plan to down Cronulla has been 30 years in the making

Steve Mascord

CARDIFF, WALES - FEBRUARY 11: Elliot Daly of England is congratulated by teammates Nathan Hughes (L) and Owen Farrell ...

England's great escape keeps Jones' unbeaten record intact

Mitch Phillips

Making moves: Matt Lucas breaks free during Saturday's Brisbane Global Tens competition.

Origin to deliver rugby windfall after getting green light

Phil Lutton

Unforgiving conditions: Shaun Stevenson of the Chiefs breaks away from the Waratahs defence.

Tens delivers as players, fans sweat it out

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