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Mixed fortunes: Virat Kohli and Nathan Lyon.

'Brain fade': Australian selector takes aim at Kohli

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 13: ? Local Werribee residents arrive at ?Station st for tonights public meeting against ...

It's the enemy within causing Premier Andrews most pain

Good with numbers. Janelle Monae, Taraji P. Henson and Octavia Spencer in <i>Hidden Figures</i>.

Women manage money better - so why aren't we letting them do it?

COMMENT

Russian dolls: At times, Trump seems besotted by Putin.

Russiagate? Trump administration's Moscow fixation

ANALYSIS

In early 2016, chief executive Lloyd Blankfein embarked on the firm's biggest cost-cutting push in years.

Goldman penny pinchers go after bankers' phone perks

PERTH, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 12: Tayla Harris and Sabrina Frederick-Traub of the Lions pose for a photo during the 2017 ...

Lions remain unbeaten and go top of the table after edging Crows

Blues coach defiant on tactics despite 92-point loss to Saints

The rags to riches tale of the Chadstone speed cameras

Woman candidate for safe Liberal seat 'sends right message'

Bold pitch: What if the St Kilda triangle site looked like this

Six-foot shark captured off Elwood Beach

"This is McCarthyism!": Trump has accused Obama of "wire tapping" Trump Tower before his US election victory last year.

Trump accuses Barack Obama of 'wire tapping' Trump Tower

1 hr ago

Hillary Clinton

Picture of Hillary seeing Pence email story goes viral

Sarah Ellen in Bonds bomber jacket, Gucci T-shirt and Acne Studios pants.

Viral clip star Sarah Ellen now a social media queen

The Rebel Elders unleashed for White Night Ballarat's media preview.

Ballarat stays up for a very different kind of White Night

A 10-room rooming house at 300 Gore Street, Fitzroy, sold for $3.53 million at auction.

Fitzroy rooming house sells for $930k over reserve at $3.5m

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New ways to play your video games

MOSUL ASSIGNMENT - DAILY LIFE IDP CAMPS Farah sits in the family tent in Jad'ah Camp near Qayyarah. Farah was injured ...

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Farah had just had facial surgery when told to cover her eyes

Emma Watson as Belle and Dan Stevens as Beast in Beauty and the Beast.

Drive-in bans Disney movie over gay character

EMBARGOED FOR GOOD WEKEND, MARCH?4/17 ISSUE. Ben Law?column - Protest,?Illustration by Simon Letch

How I stopped being lazy and starting protesting

BENJAMIN LAW

Obesity has been shown to create a higher risk of chronic pain in weight bearing knees and hips.

Eight weight loss tips that are beyond 'diet' and 'exercise'

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 30: Damian Monkhorst of Victoria fends off a tackle by Andrew Embley of the All Stars ...

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 30: Damian Monkhorst of Victoria fends off a tackle by Andrew Embley of the All Stars ...

Sacked EJ Whitten Foundation boss sues charity

Patrick Hatch

A screenshot from the government recruitment ad.

Be afraid, the revenge of the finance nerds is coming

COMMENT
Annabel Crabb

Senator Pauline Hanson's One Nation has voted with the government on 85 per cent of Senate votes.

What gridlock? Hanson proves friend in Senate for Turnbull

Matthew Knott

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Ann Nolan, a co-founder of Snobal, in the shared workspace The Dream Factory.

Skipping the CBD: Could this new work trend change Melbourne?

Mariko and Jeff Provan at their Mount Martha beach house with their grandson Finn.

The Design Files: Casual retreat for a perfectionist architect

A 10-room rooming house at 300 Gore Street, Fitzroy, sold for $3.53 million at auction.

Couple forks out $3.5m for dream house that sold $930k over reserve

3 Highbury Street, Balwyn North

Buyer splashes $2m on school zone knockdown without seeing it

Chapel Street shopping strip in South Yarra provides colour and light to the area.

Welcome to Melbourne's most well-serviced suburb

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 02: Locals woman Ros Atkins at her house near the 'Great Wall of Alphington' - the massive ...

Beauty or eyesore? Locals split on doomed Great Wall of Alphington

Calls for Uber to be investigated over 'greyball' tactics to evade authorities

Can a new TV show help catch cold-case killers? The $1 million reward may help

MFB crews evacuate an Abbotsford shopping centre on Saturday.

Nauseating fumes lead to evacuation at Abbotsford shops

The vehicle on the railway line at Wendouree.

Children in hospital after horror crash when car swerved to avoid roo

The fighters dispersed when police arrived.

Victorians arrested after brawl before Sydney soccer match

Brett Mifsud prepares to climb Long John Silver, a towering Mountain Ash tree near Powelltown.

Forest giants: Finding and climbing state's tallest trees

The weather delivered surprisingly good conditions for the Australian Open of Surfing at Manly.

Week ahead will please those sick of the wet

NSW

More than 95 per cent of submissions supported the government's plans to ban lightweight plastic bags in Queensland.

Queenslanders support ban of plastic bags

QLD

Kirsty Dayment arrives at Downing Centre District Court.

Pregnant socialite to give birth in jail, court hears

NSW

Politics is a dirty business...

Pranksters change Colin Barnett's Google listing

WA

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and WA Premier Colin Barnett tour an LNG project on Barrow Island last year.

Turnbull set to steer clear of WA as Barnett fights to hold power

Matthew Knott

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

Warren Entsch says he is not concerned that the penalty rates issue could cost him his seat.

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

Doorman stands at the entrance of the "The Walled Off Hotel".

Artist Banksy opens Bethlehem hotel

"This is McCarthyism!": US President Donald Trump has accused Barack Obama of "wire tapping" Trump Tower before his US ...

Donald Trump accuses Barack Obama of 'wire tapping' Trump Tower

1 hr ago

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

Xie Yang's account of torture at the hands of interrogators was widely reported in January, including in <i>The New York ...

China's response to reports of torture? 'It's fake news'

Illustration: Jim Pavlidis

Turnbull is drowning in a sea of indecision and ambivalence

COMMENT
Michael Gordon

Tony Abbott addresses media for the last time as Prime Minister at Parliament House.

Are men just too emotional to govern?

COMMENT
Jacqueline Maley

Do yourself a favour. Go and see <I>Shut Up And Paint</I> before it ends on March 13. Brighten up your day.

The two things I love about Melbourne the most...

COMMENT
Martin Flanagan

Uber says its "greyball" program protected its drivers from physical harm.

Fake apps and ghost cars: The lengths Uber will go to to win

Illustration: Glen Le Lievre.

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

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

Chris Monk runs a company in Chippendale that teaches coding.

Blue collar workers of the future: Codies are the new tradies

Catherine Armitage

Senator John Williams

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

COMMENT
Adele Ferguson

'Adapt or perish': Old-style town centre makes comeback

Carolyn Cummins

'Dinosaurs still exist': boardrooms in 2017

IN DEPTH
Nassim Khadem

Banks may rue not facing a royal commission

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

Fed's Yellen sets stage for March rate hike in US

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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Body of boy found in Murray River

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Women on the executive pay debate

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Banksy opens hotel on West Bank

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Pence on defense amid email claims

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Emma Watson as Belle and Downton Abbey's Dan Stevens as Beast in Beauty and the Beast.

Drive-in cinema bans Disney movie over gay character

Arnold Schwarzenegger has quit as host of The Celebrity Apprentice.

Arnie fires himself from Celebrity Apprentice all because of Trump

Michael Idato

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Expect more chest-bursting terror in the new Alien

Garry Maddox

Mark Colvin (front) with actor John Howard.

How ABC journo's pen pal stepped in to save his life

Elissa Blake

From left: Jing Tian as San, Brie Larson as Mason Weaver, Tom Hiddleston as James Conrad and Thomas Mann as Slivko in ...

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

<b>Charles Blackman:</b> Compelling.

Win Charles Blackman tickets, Mexican and St Patrick's Day fare

GIVEAWAYS

Emily Bitto's eyes were opened by a university course called "20th Century Women Writers".

Celebrating the women writers who changed me

Emily Bitto

Art and music collide for siblings Reg Mombassa (left) and Peter O'Doherty.

Dog Trumpet still barking at the neighbours

Michael Dwyer

Former model Victoire Dauxerre has written a book detailing the pressure faced by young models in a market saturated ...

'I was imprisoned in my body': model exposes dark side of industry

Radhika Sanghani

Middle age does not have to mean a middle spread.

The seven dream partners I would create from scratch

Kate Iselin

Jessa Crispin is done with the f-word, but not for the reason most give for avoiding the label.

Why I no longer call myself a feminist

Jessa Crispin

American writer, Lindy West, is in Sydney for the All About Women Festival. 2nd March 2017 Photo: JAnie Barett

The question that irks Shrill author Lindy West

Jenny Noyes

Pregnancy and birth and kids change almost every woman, but they don't have to limit our choices.

Kim wore heels to play tennis - and I applaud her for it

Natalie Reilly

Adele attending the 2017 Grammy Awards.

Adele hits back at Princess Fiona Grammys comparison

Ruby Rose is home for Mardi Gras.

Ruby Rose lines up for Mardi Gras

Andrew Hornery

Sienna Miller and Tom Sturridge in 2014.

Why the 'semi-split' is replacing the divorce

Flic Everett

Weight and what we eat can affect fertility.

The best fertility diet may be low-carb, research finds

Sarah Berry

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

Jill Dupleix's berry cheesecake pancakes.

Did we say cheesecake pancake recipe? Yes, yes we did.

Jill Dupleix

Pasteis de Belem (Portuguese tarts) in Lisbon.

10 must-have things to eat and drink in Portugal

Neil Perry's spaghetti with bottarga.

Neil Perry's simple cherry tomato spaghetti

Steph Eden-McIlroy used a hosiptal grade breast pump to stimulate milk production.

Same sex couple shares the joy of breastfeeding their baby

"Take the photos. While you have time": Cath Hughes' message to families.

The heartbreaking story behind this blurry family photo

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

The spectacular Na Pali coast, Kauai, Hawaii.

Twenty things that will shock first-time visitors to Hawaii

Sheriden Rhodes

Dressing up a bit for a business class lounge shouldn't be difficult.

Letters: Dressing decent in the Qantas lounge - it's not that hard

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

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

galaxys8

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

Kate McCarthy kicked the decisive goal for the Lions in the final quarter.

Lions remain unbeaten and go top of the table after edging Crows

St Kilda's Josh Bruce, who kicked seven goals, takes a strong mark against the Blues.

Bruce kicks seven in Saints' huge win over Carlton

Scott Spits

Patrick Cripps of the Blues.

Bolton defiant after leaving out stars in 92-point loss to St Kilda

Scott Spits

Dockers Ed Langdon and Hayden Crozier (centre) celebrate Langdon's match-winning goal after the siren.

Langdon kicks after-the-siren goal to break Collingwood hearts

Lance Franklin irons out teenage Giant Tim Taranto.

Buddy ironed him out; how this teen responded delighted GWS

James Buckley

The crowd was small as the Dogs and Lions played at Etihad on Thursday night.

Time to end pre-season football at Etihad Stadium

COMMENT
Daniel Cherny

Patrick Dangerfield of the Cats (left) is rated the competition's best midfielder but needs more support.

Handling pressure: How the Cats hope to get the cream

ANALYSIS
Jon Pierik

Magpie Moana Hope celebrates a goal against Fremantle.

Two in a row for Pies with one-point win over Dockers

Nathan Lyon appeals successfully for the wicket of India's captain Virt Kohli.

Roaring Lyon puts Australia within arm's-length of Trophy

Andrew Wu

LeBron James drives to the basket against Atlanta Hawks forward Paul Millsap.

Cavaliers shatter NBA record with three-point barrage

Australia's Nick Kyrgios lost to American Sam Querrey Mexico.

Kyrgios goes from big win to big letdown

After the brawl: Sydney FC's Bobo celebrates a goal in the Sky Blues win over Melbourne Victory at Allianz Stadium on Friday.

Four men charged after ugly brawl before A-League game

Dominic Bossi

Danny Vukovic says his knowledge of Victory's swift counter-attacking style helped in Sydney FC's win on Friday.

Vukovic draws on year at Victory for Sydney FC's defining save

Dominic Bossi

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