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The bridge is along the route of one of Sydney's most notorious traffic snarls.

Premier's promise for notorious Sydney traffic snarl

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten addresses the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra on Friday 3 ...

It was a rhetorical question, but Shorten didn't have an answer

COMMENT
Peter Hartcher

Police search the Murray for the boy.

Grandparents warned in explosive letter threat mother posed to sons

Zahara Abdullah Muhasen 45 sits where she lives, one room that used to be a bakery in a market. Zahara's husband and ...

IS cut off the heads of her husband and sons then made her invisible

Grazier Guy Milson on his property Cardross near Goulburn on Friday 3 March 2017. Photo: Andrew Meares

Hug a farmer, they've just saved Australia's economic bacon

A syphilis outbreak in northern Australia has seen notifications of the infection skyrocket in Indigenous communities.

The national sexual health crisis nobody is talking about

EXCLUSIVE

Inequality, lack of jobs not why Trump won, says former PM

Trump's son-in-law on list of officials who met Russian envoy

Millionaire's top advice for entrepreneurs: 'Marry well'

Baby remains found in mass grave at former Catholic orphanage

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Claire Thurstans

Kirsty Dayment, centre, arrives at the Downing Centre District Court for sentencing.

Pregnant eastern suburbs socialite to give birth in jail, court hears

Karl Stefanovic's children are told he's a scumbag for not introducing them to a new girlfriend.

'It makes living hard': Stefanovic opens up about new tabloid fame

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 03: Robbie Farrah of the Rabbitohs passes during the round one NRL match between the South ...

Tedesco fires, Inglis breaks down in Farah's rendezvous with Tigers

Illustration: Simon Bosch

Blame Warhol, the man who paved the way for Trump

COMMENT

When you're stuck in a building for eight hours doing the same thing as everyone around you, it requires some effort to ...

Why it's (almost) never really okay to date your boss

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Ferrari pays tribute to Australian landscape

Nick Kyrgios plays a return to Serbia's Novak Djokovic.

Kyrgios gives serving masterclass to defeat former World No. 1

Martha L. Ruiz and Brian Cullinan from PricewaterhouseCoopers on the red carpet.

Oscars epic blunder could hurt PwC at malpractice trial

Masterclass: Steve O'Keefe celebrates the dismissal of Virat Kohli on day three.

Warne's opinions carry weight - but this borders on persecution

COMMENT

Lorde returns with a pop-focused new single, Green Light.

Lorde is back and she's not the same girl

COMMENT

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EMBARGOED FOR GOOD WEEKEND, MARCH 4/17 ISSUE. Kakenya Ntaiya - supplied image. cr: Aaron Kisner for Vital Voices Global ...

Educator who opened a school and sparked a revolution

Amanda Hooton

The Aurora Australia does its bit for researching Antarctic sea ice.

The continent that climate change has not forgotten

Peter Hannam

###EMBARGOED FOR SMH?4TH MARCH 2017### Ian Roberts in Kings Cross. Ian Roberts will be part of the NRL official float in ...

Two decades after coming out, Ian Roberts still hears it

Andrew Webster

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David and Kristen Bird are cashing in on the hot auction market, having already sold their Epping investment property ...

Overflow of eager buyers triggers record February

Darren Palmer: A dramatic makeover by changing three things

There's nothing quite like fresh produce for Indira Naidoo.

How Indira Naidoo 'found her purpose' in an apartment garden

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Starting from scratch: how to build your own property portfolio

West End was named after the West End of London.

Opportunity knocks up north in Brisbane's West End

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'Quite ruthless:' 12-year career over in just 30 minutes

For more than three decades Robert Adams kept a dark secret

Flooding cut access to Central Station for buses and light rail

Laurie Starling was found dead in his car outside his business in West Gosford.

Shot dead in his driveway after feud over prized bike

Students Marlia Stewart, Chloe Pratt, Knox Murray and Cameron Trulove, with assistant principal, Katie Harmon, try out a ...

The 10,000 pieces of evidence that will settle the homework wars

Les Goldmann says the hearing aid industry is ripping Australians off.

'Don't tell you they're getting commissions': Les' bill shock

Esther Han

Tim Macpherson had just moved into a new home with his family.

Search for answers as young father killed in work accident

The drugs were concealed in items posted from China and Hong Kong to Sydney, police say.

Chinese drug syndicate members charged over record 300kg drug haul

Karen Ristevski.

Ristevski to be laid to rest two weeks after her body was found

VIC

A Queensland University Technology administration officer is now facing having to pay costs of up to six figures to ...

Judge denies QUT admin officer's 18C racism appeal

QLD

Mark McGowan and Colin Barnett

Poll indicates Labor could fall agonisingly short of win

WA

Grazier Guy Milson on his property Cardross near Goulburn

Hug a farmer, they've just saved Australia's economic bacon

Eryk Bagshaw

A national sexual health crisis nobody is talking about

EXCLUSIVE
Michael Koziol

Coalition MP Entsch makes kamikaze penalty rates pledge

James Massola

Alastair MacGibbon, Cyber Security Special Adviser to the Prime Minister, during a "Lunch with" at the Dickson Dumpling ...

Lunch with: Cybercop has no time for hackers

Fergus Hunter

One of the two new Australian Joint Strike Fighters at the Avalon Airshow

Australia's first Joint Strike Fighters unveiled

Summonsed home: DFAT is trying to wrangle 113 Very Important Diplomats back to Australia.

Foreign affairs aghast: Only $1.1m to fly diplomats home?

SKETCH

Khaled Sharrouf is the only known case of an Australian terrorist being stripped of their citizenship under the laws.

'Sensational beat-up': Ministers at odds on anti-terror laws

A car bomb explodes next to Iraqi Special Forces armored vehicles as they advance towards Islamic State held territory ...

Mosul victims treated for chemical attack as more civilians flee

Trump talks: Angela Merkel, Germany's chancellor, will visit Washington later this month.

Germany's Angela Merkel to meet with Trump in Washington

The Dalai Lama is keen to meet US President-elect Donald Trump.

Dalai Lama sides with Myanmar's Rohingya

Lindsay Murdoch

Imposing visa requirements on Americans could hurt tourism in Europe.

Europeans press for Americans to lose visa-free status to EU

Turnbull has been a strong voice of national cohesion, as any Australian leader should be.

How Turnbull can hold the centre from the hate-mongers

COMMENT
Peter Hartcher

Pop artist Andy Warhol in 1987.

Blame Warhol, the man who paved the way for Trump

COMMENT
Elizabeth Farrelly

Planned obsolescence, or incompetence on a grand scale?

Welcome to the Lemon Age where nothing lasts forever – or even a year

COMMENT
Garry Linnell

Illustration: Simon Bosch

Australian boardrooms in 2017: still like Mad Men?

IN DEPTH
Nassim Khadem

Illustration: Glen Le Lievre.

The recession that never was, didn't happen... Phew

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

Senator John Williams

A 'broken-down old shearer' takes on Commonwealth Bank

COMMENT
Adele Ferguson

Happy feet: (from right) 3D MEDiTech CEO Paul Docherty, Ken Shaw, head of research and development Gilan Gans.

Chance meeting leaves lasting imprint

Mark Hawthorne

Australia 108 developer was director of Watersun Homes

Simon Johanson

Banks may rue not facing a royal commission

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

Shopping centres must change to survive

Carolyn Cummins

Buoyant student numbers underpin development

Nicole Lindsay

A well-proportioned sleeve can make tiny hands look normal.

There's something very different about Donald Trump

La Corniche ticks all boxes.

Big business: The boutique hotels wooing high-flying CEOs

First Class

The truth is, not everyone can afford to buy a home and renting is cheaper than buying.

The case against letting first-home buyers use super

Noel Whittaker

The highest risk option for parents is to act as guarantor for the child's loan.

Reducing the risk of helping adult children into property

Daryl Dixon

Founder of Boost Juice Janine Allis speaking at the Sage Summit.

Janine Allis' advice to entrepreneurs: Marry well

Cara Waters

Father and son team Ben and Bill Stuth run Bill & Ben The Electrical Men.

The rise of the iTradie

Cara Waters

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Expect more flash flooding Sydney

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Police raid major international drug ring

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Ferrari pays tribute to Australian landscape

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Sweden to reintroduce national service

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The latest incarnation of King Kong.

Nothing can topple King Kong: Tom Hiddleston

Michael Idato

Germaine Greer in 1970, at the height of her campaign for women's rights.

Trailblazing feminist Germaine Greer's secrets revealed

Gina McColl

Elle McPherson at Industry Beans in Fitzroy.

Elle Macpherson on business, health and her vegan, digital detox

Melissa Singer

Ed Sheeran had a year off but the new album shows him happy, settled and hit-filled

REVIEW: Ed Sheeran's album will divide and conquer the charts

Bernard Zuel

Martha L. Ruiz and Brian Cullinan from PricewaterhouseCoopers at the Oscars in Los Angeles.

Oscars debacle accountants given bodyguards following threats

Rob Moran

Ryan Corr.

Ryan Corr explains why they made the sequel no one asked for

Karl Quinn

Lorde returns with a pop-focused new single, Green Light.

Watch Lorde's return single filled with heartbreak and dancebeats

COMMENT
Bernard Zuel

Kris Smith was the fourth celebrity voted out of the show.

Kris Smith reveals he walked out on relationship with Minogue

Rob Moran

Nicholas Harding and the 'tasteless' painting

'It was tasteless': Artist licks priceless Van Gogh

Peter Munro

Compelling: Kate Mulvany

'King' Kate brings crowd to their feet in peerless performance

Jason Blake

Cate Blanchett in The Blind Giant Is Dancing 1995 by Steven Sewell Belvoir Street Theatre .

'There was an urgent sadness in her eyes ... a melancholy beauty'

Henry Zwartz

Actress Lisa Kudrow was told on the set of Friends she was only appealing once she had make-up on.

Lisa Kudrow was told she wasn't 'f---able' without makeup

Annie Brown

New York comedian Jenn Welch.

Woman tells Tinder matches her dad died and shares the hilarious replies

Lisa Bonos

Models wear a creation for Dries Van Noten's Fall-Winter 2017-2018 ready to wear fashion collection presented in Paris, ...

The most memorable moments from Paris Fashion Week so far

All Kate Iselin has to say about the creepy new dating show is "Hello, custom boyfriend!"

This strange new dating show might be onto something

Kate Iselin

Jane Fonda at the Golden Globes earlier this year.

'I thought it was my fault': Jane Fonda reveals sexual abuse

Why wasn't there as much outrage about the rate of child sexual abuse?

The outrage directed towards Kasey Edwards missed the point

COMMENT
Jane Gilmore

Solange Knowles looks angelic wearing a pretty white dress with sheer details and ruffles at the Chloé runway ...

The stylish celebrities sitting front row at Paris Fashion Week

BEVERLY HILLS, CA - FEBRUARY 25: CHANEL Ambassador Kristen Stewart, wearing CHANEL, attends the Charles Finch and CHANEL ...

Kristen Stewart adds edge to lace and other celebrity party pics

Olympic diver Greg Louganis.

How Greg Louganis survived and thrived after a HIV diagnosis

Sarah Berry

A good egg: What's the story?

Butter or olive oil? Eggs or no? New nutritional review cuts through the myths

Cara Rosenbloom

You don't have to abstain from food completely when you fast.

New intermittent fasting studies reignite debate about its benefits

Sarah Berry

Good Food. Andy Bowden cakes & savouries from his new Enmore shop. Photograph by Edwina Pickles. Taken on 1st March 2017.

Exclusive: First look inside Andrew Bowden's Saga cafe

Lee Tran Lam

An outrageous sandwich to rest your face on.

The verdict on ACME's new brunch menu: Order everything

Stop the snack attack

Five tricks to stop late-night snacking

Rhianna Truman, 17, with her four month old son.

After pausing cancer treatment to give birth, teen mum is dying

Some kids are raking in up to $40, but the average per pearly white is $2.62.

Kids receiving up to $40 per tooth as Tooth Fairy expectations rise

What happens when a school stops giving out homework?

What happened when a primary school stopped giving homework

A deep blue hole at the world famous Azure Window on Gozo island.

Move over, Mykonos: Europe's most beautiful, underrated islands

David Whitley

This is the world's most visited country, according to the figures. But where is it?

Traveller quiz: Which country gets the most international visitors?

Mal Chenu

The Alaska Train travelling along the shores of Turnagain Arm near Girdwood.

One of the world's greatest train journeys takes just four hours

Brian Johnston

A flat phone battery might lead to a fine.

Battery life the big issue for mobile phone users

The AWS outage lasted slightly more than four hours.

Amazon's cloud outage due to human error

Moving from portable to home console and back again is as easy as dropping the Switfch into its dock, or lifting it out.

Review: Hybrid console Nintendo Switch is simple, but smart

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What to believe from the Galaxy S8 rumours

Kotaku

Artist impression of a habitable planet in the volcanic Hydrogen habitable Zone.

TRAPPIST 1: prospects for life getting better

Car v Bike: BMW M4 GTS v BMW S1000RR.

Car vs Bike: Which is faster?

Andrew MacLean

The go-anywhere image of SUVs has helped them outsell passenger cars in Australia.

SUVs sales overtake passenger cars

David McCowen

2017 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Cabriolet.

Mercedes E-Class Cabrio revealed

Greg Kable

2017 Holden Astra sedan prototype.

Prototype drive: Holden Astra sedan

Andrew MacLean

2017 Volkswagen Passat Alltrack Wolfsburg Edition.

Driven: Volkswagen's anti-SUV

Stephen Ottley

2017 BMW 5-Series.

New BMW 5-Series reviewed

Drive Staff

Unhappy reunion: Robbie Farah looks on with his new teammates during his regular-season debut for the Rabbitohs against ...

Tedesco fires, Inglis breaks down in Farah's rendezvous with Tigers

Michael Chammas

Stink: Sam Kasiano and Will Chambers grapple at Belmore Sports Ground.

Here's the 'real news', Des: The Storm don't lose in round one

Adam Pengilly

Matchwinner: Bobo celebrates his goal with Fillip Holosko.

Bobo winner takes Sydney FC to brink of premiership

Dominic Bossi

Bragging rights: The Swans draw first blood in this year's first cross-town clash.

Buddy's back: Franklin the star as Swans down Giants

James Buckley

Nick Kyrgios plays a return to Serbia's Novak Djokovic.

Aces galore: Nick Kyrgios stuns former world No.1 at Acapulco

Darren Walton

Calf trouble: Brett Deledio will miss the start of GWS's season after re-injuring calf.

Injury blow to star Giant Deledio

James Buckley

Impact: Alex Gleen and Sam Tagataese clash heads during the Sharks v Broncos match.

Duty of care the issue as NRL walks a concussion minefield

Peter FitzSimons

Masterclass: Steve O'Keefe celebrates the dismissal of Virat Kohli on day three.

Warne's criticism of O'Keefe was over-the-top nasty

COMMENT
Malcolm Knox

Carrying the load: Brad Arthur went to hell and back trying to hold the Parramatta Eels together in 2016.

To hell and back: How Arthur kept the Eels afloat

Michael Chammas

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 27: Mitchell Pearce and Daniel Tupou walk to training during the Sydney Roosters NRL ...

Pearce has turned a corner, says Robinson

Scott Bailey

Upfront power: James Tamou adds some starch to the Panthers' pack.

The teams that are poised to set the agenda after round one

Phil Lutton

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