• 15 mins ago

Three days after the joy of making his Super Rugby debut, Andrew Kellaway arrived at Waratahs training adamant he would be booted back to Shute Shield on the weekend.

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The federal government has been warned that the rise in household spending on solar systems is clear evidence they "have lost faith" in their energy suppliers, as they move to get greater control over the cost of their electricty bill.

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The pamphlet claim the Safe Schools program teaches 'heterosexuality is not the norm'.

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The ACT's "Mr Renewables", former environment minister Simon Corbell has been named an honorary associate professor at the Australian National University's Energy Change Institute.

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Warplanes struck a mosque in the rebel-held village of al-Jina, in northwest Syria, killing at least 42 people and wounding dozens, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said.

• 27 mins ago

Queensland Rail could have saved about $4.5 million over five months if it did not have to systematically rely on overtime.

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They are literally the pride of the Australian War Memorial; the two stone lions guarding the entrance to the structure once stood on each side of the Menin Gate in the city of Ypres in Belgium. During World War I hundreds of thousands of Australian soldiers passed between them on their way to some of the bloodiest battles of a terrible conflict in 1917. 6,169 of the more than 13,500 who never returned disappeared without a trace. Their bodies disappeared without a trace, either blown to smithereens or sucked down in to the mud of Flanders. The lions, the last semblance of civilisation they ever saw, are now on their way back to Belgium for a short stay.

• 30 mins ago

Premier Daniel Andrews will take the "unprecedented" and "unconventional" step of spending up to $50 million to buy a beleaguered timber mill in Heyfield in a bid to save jobs in Gippsland.

• 35 mins ago

Carlton star Bryce Gibbs returned to the club "in the right way" following his failed attempt to be traded to Adelaide in October, according to his coach Brendon Bolton.

• 39 mins ago

The trial of a former catholic school teacher accused of sexually abusing a student began on Friday in the ACT Supreme Court.

• 41 mins ago

The City of Sydney wants to force developers to make a greater contribution to affordable housing across the inner city.

• 44 mins ago

West Australian Labor leader Mark McGowan has been sworn in as the state's 30th premier at Government House.

• 46 mins ago

Photographer Rohan Thomson documented the intriguing faces of animals at Canberra's National Zoo and Aquarium for his series Encounter.

• 49 mins ago

Melburnians should make the most of this weekend's summery conditions, which could be the warm weather's last hurrah before cold and rain bring a return to normal autumn conditions next week.

• EXCLUSIVE
• 1 hr ago

Amount of gambling ads at sporting events now so extreme even gambling companies recognise it's out of control.

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Opposition Leader Tim Nicholls has called for Queensland's Energy Minister to be stood down while he is investigated for using his private email.

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In the end, winners are just people who keep trying. Here are seven steps to pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again.

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The Bourke Street home of Society restaurant, in its heyday one of Melbourne's best eateries, has sold for $8.07 million.

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Photojournalist Stephen Dupont wants you to be confronted by his images. Dupont, who has spent years documenting nations riven by conflict, describes himself as an anti-war photographer.

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Minutes after fatally striking a visiting Sydney woman on a Melbourne street and then fleeing the scene, a drink-driver posted on Facebook that he was going to jail - and sent photos of his injuries to his friends.

• 1 hr ago

Taronga Zoo is celebrating the arrival of an endangered pygmy hippo calf, the first born at the zoo in nearly seven years.

• 1 hr ago

Another electricity retailer has come on board to replace old light bulbs with LED globes in Canberra businesses.

• 1 hr ago

Allegations that nine inmates in Victoria's troubled youth detention system were assaulted by corrections staff have sparked an investigation by the children's commissioner.

• 1 hr ago

If Russia's rising Baltic ambitions and Trump's threat that European allies cannot rely on US support reach a flashpoint, it may be in Estonia. Are preparations for war already under way?

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Pakistan has asked Facebook and Twitter to help it identify people suspected of blasphemy so it can prosecute them or pursue their extradition.

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Some of Australia's biggest corporations and business leaders are being bullied by activist groups into supporting same-sex marriage laws, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has warned.

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Munster and Vunivalu will spend at least a month on the sidelines due to injuries.

• 1 hr ago

Eddie Jones has urged England to embrace their inner Sir Edmund Hillary as they contemplate scaling a significant peak in Dublin on Saturday, back-to-back Grand Slams that would be the Everest of their expectations.

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Police have found the body of a boy believed to be that of Ryan Teasdale who disappeared on Thursday afternoon.

• 1 hr ago

Two people will lose their jobs when Canberra organisation SHOUT closes in May.

• 1 hr ago

Police now believe a man found dead in an Adelaide home in 2015 was deliberately poisoned through lethal doses of drugs added to his food and drink.

Outspoken Port Adelaide president David Koch has ramped up the pressure on coach Ken Hinkley less than a week out from the season, reinforcing his message that he will not tolerate a third consecutive year outside the top eight.

• BREAKING

Homicide squad detectives are investigating the death of a man whose body was found in the front yard of a house in Melbourne's east.

Premier-elected Mark McGowan has labelled Perth Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi's behaviour "unacceptable" after she demanded councillors fess-up if they had spoken to the The West Australian.

It's a mug's game, gazing into the crystal football, but I'm shrugging off last year's pathetic prognostications to have another go at predicting who'll finish where on the AFL ladder.

• COMMENT

If the Reserve Bank and National Australia Bank were competitors, the consumer watchdog could have a case against them for price signalling.

• ANALYSIS

A history-making takedown of Washington as a national and global centre of power, amounting to the "deconstruction of the administrative state."

• Live

Shares edge higher as investor mood remains upbeat following this week's Fed decision, which has helped buoy mining stocks, while weighing on banks and health-care.

A woman's dramatic escape from a raging mudslide in Peru has been caught on video.

• UPDATED

Banks will be publicly named and shamed if they continue to fail to do basic background checks on their financial advisers.

Retail assets in Victoria have continued to strengthen with an IGA supermarket in Stawell changing hands for $5.11 million.

Authorities plan to test prawn farms all the way up the Queensland coastline in their fight against the highly contagious white spot disease, the state's chief biosecurity officer says.

A man accused of torturing his neighbour and burning her alive does not want to face a murder trial in the country Victorian town where they lived.

Australia's miners have reversed a period of dramatic sharemarket underperformance, pulling strongly ahead.

The former lover of Seven West Media boss Tim Worner has made good on her threat to sue the company.

The labour movement has split in the wake of controversial comments from the ACTU's newly minted secretary Sally McManus defending law-breaking industrial behaviour that has sparked a furious government attack on the Opposition.

Financially distressed listed law firm Slater and Gordon is expected to avoid collapse after confirming that its new senior lenders are supportive of a restructure of the company.

Cutting or moving the Brumbies would be a disastrous decision that says Australian rugby doesn't stand for anything any more.

A Victorian drug-addicted mother who killed another mother-of-three in a fight over $50 has been sentenced to at least 16 years in prison.