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Malcolm Turnbull with Snowy Hydro chief Paul Broad at Talbingo, NSW.

Everything you need to know about PM's Snowy 2.0

Adam Morton

Passengers are evacuated from Orly airport in Paris after reports of shots fired.

Paris airport evacuated after man tries to grab soldier's gun

BREAKING
Alexandra Laskie
1 min ago

'One of the main reasons I try to sleep with different girls as often as possible is to improve my own confidence,' ...

The ill-fated Tinder date: What happened to Warriena Wright?

An ambulance was called to the scene.

Driver injured as kangaroo causes head-on crash at Bungendore

Kimberley Le Lievre

The assaults allegedly occurred in the Tuggeranong Hyperdome food court on Friday evening.

Kambah man 'grabbed son by throat' in shopping centre

A man was allegedly hooning in front of an unmarked police car in Noble Park.

Residents assaulted, gun fired in northside home invasion

Ginninderra Falls: Can Yass council show the vision the ACT lacks?

COMMENT

Lost passport leads to man being charged over 375 cannabis plants

'Stick to your knitting': Peter Dutton has a go at CEOs over same-sex marriage campaigns

ABC boss delivers home truths about the broadcaster

EXCLUSIVE

Politics at tipping point as voters flee major parties

EXCLUSIVE

Tevita Kuridrani of the Brumbies makes a break.

Brumbies take on the Waratahs in crucial clash

Live
Chris Dutton

In for a slog: Pat Cummins and the Australian bowlers are facing a tough day at the coal face on Saturday.

Kohli fails again as India chase Australia's first innings target

Live

Canberra's five GWS AFL Women's players, Jess Bibby, Ellie Brush, Hannah Wallett, Britt Tully and Ella Ross have been ...

Canberra's Giants the closest teammates in the Women's AFL

Glamour buy: Luke Keary.

Panthers and Roosters lock horns in NRL heavyweight battle

Live
1 hr ago

Kyrgios has been forced to pull out of the game due to sickness.

'I have nothing left': Kyrgios pulls out of Federer clash

UPDATED

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Peter Dutton strikes out at Alan Joyce

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Avocado toasts that change the game

This is what flying does to your body, and it's not pretty

This is what flying really does to your body - it's not pretty

Paris: Orly airport evacuated after man tries to ...

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Man shot dead in Paris airport

8:00PM

The incredible story behind Thurston and Smith's ...

7:45PM

24B Bentham Street, Yarralumla.

Surge in listings sparks bumper weekend of auctions in Canberra

42 National Circuit, Forrest.

Then and now: The architects who shaped Canberra

News. The changing face of Braddon. Lonsdale Street. April 29th 2015 The Canberra Times Photograph by Graham Tidy.

Should I buy in a trendy suburb or one that's tipped for growth?

Rental bond refunds were delayed earlier this year.

Canberra tenants wait weeks for bond refunds over peak period

Canberra Domain Allhomes. Midnight - 92 Northbourne Avenue, Braddon. March 17, 2016.?

Future Northbourne Avenue residents snapping up units

Breast cancer survivor Tanya Gendle of Gungahlin had her breasts removed and reconstructed by plastic surgeons at the ...

Women with breast cancer urged to go public at Canberra Hospital

How to launch your new album: get naked in Canberra

58 mins ago

Queanbeyan-Palerang Council employee dies on the job

An artist's impression of SHL's plans for the block on the corner of Ainslie Avenue and Cooyong Street, in the city.

'Extremely disappointing': Back to drawing board on Cooyong flats

Handmade Canberra creative directors Julie Nichols and Rachel Evagelou have had to walk away from their dream of opening ...

'Irreconcilable differences': Sad end to The Local Larder dream

EXCLUSIVE

Pyrotechnic Fortunato Foti, of Foti International Fireworks, setting up fireworks for this year's Skyfire.

Skyfire 2017 offers fireworks, fighter jets and family fun

Visitors to the AWM had reported seeing a naked man.

Jail for man who wandered naked near War Memorial

A swimmer braves grey clouds at Manly on Saturday morning as Sydney faces another week of rain.

Sydney's miserable March: the wet just keeps coming

NSW
13 mins ago

Henry Palaszczuk has shared childhood photos of his daughter, Annastacia Palaszczuk, the Premier of Queensland, on ...

Even Premiers can't escape their embarrassing dads

QLD

The man was charged with two counts of growing a trafficable quantity of cannabis.

Lost passport leads to charge over 375 cannabis plants

A New Zealand man has been accused of throwing a quokka off a jetty.

Kiwi charged after throwing quokka off jetty

WA

"Stringent privacy arrangements": Department of Human Services spokesman Hank Jongen.

'Deeply concerning': Fears over data of 53,000 public servants

Employees at Centrelink will join other staff at the Department of Human Services in strike action on Friday.

Public servants begin strike action to break pay impasse

Public service bosses can no longer order "secret medicals" for government workers.

'Secret medicals' on public servants ruled unlawful

Outgoing ABC Chairman Jim Spigelman. 15th March 2017. Photo: Steven Siewert

ABC boss delivers home truths about the broadcaster

EXCLUSIVE
Matthew Knott

Joyce floats national royalty plan to dismantle coal seam gas bans

Amy Remeikis

The plan that could wipe $40,000 off the cost of a house

EXCLUSIVE
Eryk Bagshaw

Portrait of Nationals Senator John Williams in his office at Parliament House in Canberra on Thursday 4 September 2014. ...

Senator reveals he has Parkinson's Disease

Michael Koziol

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull: Gas companies won't get a social licence if "while billions of dollars of gas are being ...

Malcolm Turnbull says he can't work with new ACTU boss

Amy Remeikis

John Haines says he is not in a position to comment.

RSL NSW man referred to police as High Court figure called in

EXCLUSIVE

Minister Peter Dutton: "If you want to become a politician, resign your job at $5 million a year, come on to $250,000."

Big business is bullied into backing same-sex marriage: Dutton

Tom McIlroy

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Begin baby boom across Europe, Erdogan tells Turks

Students laugh at the Prerna Girls School, a place where girls are taught their rights as women in the world.

An Indian school converts submissive girls into empowered women

Amrit Dhillon

The Large Blue butterfly or Maculinea arion which is the largest and rarest of blue butterflies.

Police net butterfly killer, and he may face prison

US novelist Ernest Hemingway attending a bullfight in Madrid, Spain.

Creativity linked 'to higher risk of suicide'

Corporatese and its neutering of the language is no longer restricted to the office.

We spend too much time in meetings being told gobbledegook

COMMENT
Garry Linnell

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The latest cartoons from David Pope

Rolling three dice on a wooden desk die dice?

Turnbull prepares his final throw of the dice

COMMENT
Jack Waterford

Illustration: Glen Le Lievre

How the two-speed economy worm has turned

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

Illustration: Simon Bosch

Game of phones: Telstra's regional roaming rage

Lucy Battersby

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Dishonest, illegal and fraudulent 'bad apples' still at large

COMMENT
Adele Ferguson

NAB could increase earnings by 4 per cent on the back of this move on rates.

Banks are itching to increase your mortgage interest rate

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

A lawyer's love for all creatures great and small

Mark Hawthorne

Boom time for the box out the back of Bourke

Lucy Battersby

Big gun malls in the billion-dollar sales club

Carolyn Cummins

Fed rate rise boosts Australian property interest

Carolyn Cummins

You call that a drink? 35 of the craziest cocktails from the world's best bars.

Thirsty? These are the craziest cocktails you'll ever drink

Fine Drinks

In his 50s, George Clooney sets the benchmark for aging gracefully.

Want to look great at 50 and beyond? Start doing this now

Grooming

Tim Harcourt, author of The Airport Economist, says tipping was considered patronising in 1950s Australia. It has slowly ...

Tipping is a choice, but there are consequences for getting it wrong

Caitlin Fitzsimmons

Pot stocks have enjoyed fevered interest since the government's moves to legalise the nascent sector.

Medical cannabis stocks are all the rage, but it's a bubble

Scott Phillips

Rob Deutsch, the founder and owner of F45 Training, has relocated to the United States.

The fastest growing franchise you've never heard of

Cara Waters

Call centres are often denigrated, ridiculed, avoided and despised.

Life in a call centre: could you handle it?

James Adonis

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Smylie Kaufman freaked by alligator

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Viagogo to go?

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Plane lands without its propeller

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Fear, hunger and destruction as IS retreats

National Zoo and Aquarium Jura, Cheetah.

Wild Side: Building a zoo

Stan - Billions

Brand new season of Billions - now streaming. Only on Stan.

STAN - better call saul

Criminal. Lawyer. Better Call Saul returns April 11 on Stan

Understanding your toddler's fine motor skills

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Wander through ancient landscapes in WA

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Hello to more than half a million Australians, and goodbye, as Adele, pictured in Brisbane this month, wraps up her tour ...

Give it up, Australia. You've been owned by Adele

Bernard Zuel

Scarlett Johansson plays The Major in <i>Ghost in the Shell</i>.

Why is Scarlett Johansson playing a legendary Japanese heroine?

Andrew Taylor

It is not the first time Hasbro has used a public marketing campaign to update the game's pieces.

Booted: Hasbro ditches 'tokens' and unveils new Monopoly

Michael Idato

U.S. President Barack Obam, left, laughs with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden after presenting the Medal of Freedom during ...

Hollywood commissions comedy based on Obama-era White House

Michael Idato

L_00377.NEF Loving - the Joel Edgerton, Ruth Negga film

As Loving opens, Joel Edgerton slams Married At First Sight

Garry Maddox

Matilda Brown, left, and Rachel Ward, the mother and daughter female leads in <i>The Death and Life of Otto Bloom</i>.

Which film made Rachel Ward come back to the screen?

Karl Quinn

Stephen Colbert poked fun at MSNBC's Rachel Maddow during the latest episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Colbert mocks Maddow's Trump 'scoop'

Broede Carmody

MELBOURNE, NEW SOUTH WALES - DECEMBER 21: Artist/photographer Bindi Cole Chocka is seen during lunch with The Age ...

Indigenous artist Bindi Cole Chocka: Leak's cartoon not racist

Kylie Northover

Going the full monty is less about novelty and more about the rawness of his new album, says Endrey.

How to launch your new album: get naked in Canberra

58 mins ago

Pyrotechnic Fortunato Foti, of Foti International Fireworks, setting up fireworks for this year's Skyfire.

Skyfire 2017 offers fireworks, fighter jets and family fun

Fireworks light up the sky at last year's Skyfire.

9 things to do this weekend in Canberra March 17-19

I have to pre-empt this gallery by saying it was very, very dry on the goods this week (everyone must be in hibernation ...

Sarah Paulson rewrites fashion's colour chart

The Kiwi spoof pokes gentle fun at the viral BBC interview ... and has subsequently gone viral.

The perfect parody of that BBC interview

Everyone has a moment that changes them forever. Mine exists in that classroom.

I was in Year 3 when I learnt my first lesson about sexism

Amy Butcher

President Donald Trump meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, ...

Another overseas leader, another awkward Trump handshake moment

Models Nicola Clarke and Rachal Rutt show off some House of Riot T-shirts on Friday.

Model turned 'boss bitch' says her T-shirts express 'mass frustration'

Melissa Singer

Di Maloney's Point Piper mansion.

Beliebers left hanging as star bails on Sydney party

PRIVATE SYDNEY
Andrew Hornery

Elizabeth Debicki will be attending the Golden Slipper at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday as a guest of at Longines.

How the A-list were wooed to the Golden Slipper

Jenna Clarke

Kate Middleton in the offending outfit.

Kate Middleton reportedly 'less than pleased' with William's dad-dancing

Breakfast: it's worth the effort.

Breakfast, fasting, snacking: the verdict on meal-timing

Amby Burfoot

Fuel your mood with happy foods.

Eating your broccoli can make you feel less stressed

Sarah Berry

Taryn Brumfitt believes that there has been a shift in the way many people view the "perfect" body; it no longer has to ...

Taryn Brumfitt on stripping down to shape up

Sarah Berry

Adam Liaw's classic roast chicken with bread and butter stuffing.

15 things you should be able to cook by the time you're 30

Martin Benn and Vicki Wild on tour.

How three-hatted Sepia restaurateurs do Hong Kong

Good Food Baked camembert cheese at Royal Hotel in Paddington. 15th November 2015. Photo: Steven Siewert

27 of our best-ever cheese recipes

Jo Alderdice saved a 3-year-old child from attempted abduction.

'I thought I would have to stab him': mum stops child abduction

Five siblings seeking a forever home have sparked a viral response.

Five siblings on the search for their 'forever family'

Jason Momoa with his two children with Lisa Bonet, Nakoa Wolf, 8, (left) and Lola, 9.

Jason Momoa's photo of daughter with 'naked' rock star causes outrage

Qantas A380 QF2 is stranded in Dubai due to technical difficulties.

Traveller letters: Qantas flight delay results in five-star stay

Bondi Beach girls ... but can anyone become one?

What it's like to be a Bondi chick for a weekend

Annie Dang

Cathedral Gorge, Purnululu National Park. Western Australia. must credit: Sean Scott Photography, supplied by Western ...

Photos: Stunning images of the Kimberley's record-breaking wet

The S8 would be the first to use the technology to verify financial payment applications.

Samsung S8 users to pay with their faces

This wanted poster provided by the FBI shows Dmitry Aleksandrovich Dokuchaev, 33, a Russian national and resident. The ...

What the Yahoo case says about Russian spies

COMMENT

Quantum physicist Professor David Reilly in his lab at the University of Sydney.

The Australian helping Microsoft deliver its billion-dollar project

A screenshot from the first instalment of the game.

Video game banned by Australian censors over 'ritualistic' sex scene

LoL

The League of Legends team house that folded

Kotaku

Which is the best dual-cab ute: Volkswagen Amarok V6 Highline, Ford Ranger XLT, Toyota HiLux SR5 and Holden Colorado Z71.

What is the best dual-cab ute?

Stephen Ottley

Hyundai has been refining its i30N hot hatch.

Too cool: Hyundai tests new hot hatch on ice

David McCowen

Lexus LC500 Coupe.

Is this the best looking car on sale?

David McCowen

2017 Jeep Grand Cherokee Trailhawk.

2017 Grand Cherokee prices revealed

Dom Tripolone

Seven worst Ferraris of all time

David McCowen

The Audi TT Offroad concept points to the styling of the new Q4 going on sale in 2019.

Audi confirms new Q4 SUV

Greg Kable

Key man: Raiders' captain Jarrod Croker has been one of the game's best players in recent weeks.

Raiders captain Croker expects Tigers to 'match fire with fire"

1 hr ago

Jockey Hugh Bowman rides Winx to win race 5.

Winx earns Frankel comparison as mighty mare does it again

Canberra Raiders training 14th March 2017. Dave Taylor. Photo by Karleen Minney.

Dave Taylor was ready to give it all away before the Raiders called

In for a slog: Pat Cummins and the Australian bowlers are facing a tough day at the coal face on Saturday.

India chase Australia's challenging first innings target

Live

Kyrgios has been forced to pull out of the game due to sickness.

Kyrgios pulls out of Federer clash due to illness

UPDATED

Glamour buy: Luke Keary.

Roosters and Panthers face off

Live
1 hr ago

A blistering pace saw in race four at Thoroughbred Park on Saturday saw jockey Brendan Ward set a class record and win ...

Running Broke repays the faith and salutes at Thoroughbred Park

1 hr ago

Canberra basketball player Chima Moneke's NCAA March Madness tournament dream has ended.

Chima Moneke's dream March Madness run comes to an end