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Police have been aware of a small number of members of the gang living on the Gold Coast, and others visiting regularly.

'Violent' Sydney gang emerges in Gold Coast

Jorge Branco

A sharp overnight drop in the S&P500 - the first such drop in 109 sessions - set up the ASX to its worst day since ...

$26 billion wiped off ASX as markets 'finally crack'

Myriam Robin
52 mins ago

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 22: Courtney Thompson, Sister of missing man Samuel Thompson looks distressed as her family ...

'If you can hear this ...': Family's tearful plea for missing son

Jorge Branco
1 hr ago

Human Services Minister Alan Tudge

Firm 'transforming' Centrelink led $800m Tax Office bungle

Eryk Bagshaw
33 mins ago

Energy Minister Mark Bailey's private email account is under review.

Director-General removed from MP email review

Amy Mitchell-Whittington
1 hr ago

Health Minister Cameron Dick has asked for medicinal cannabis to be on the PBS.

MP pushes to make medicinal cannabis cheaper

Felicity Caldwell
1 hr ago

Allison Baden-Clay life insurance payouts in limbo

'No one in this place likes him': Wong hits out

Live
25 mins ago

'I can't believe it': Minister halts 92-year-old's deportation

EXCLUSIVE
Michael Koziol

ASX loses $22b as Trump doubts hit Wall Street hard

1 hr ago

Former Howard minister Peter Reith rushed to hospital

Richard Willingham
25 mins ago

More than 200 millimetres has fallen at Midgee, south of Rockhampton, in less than two days.

Qld coast prepares for 100mm falls as north goes on cyclone watch

Toby Crockford
1 hr ago

The Queensland towns of Innisvail, Mission Beach, Tully and Cardwell where hit hardest by Yasi in 2011.

Experts whip up how-to guidebook in cyclone aftermath

8 mins ago

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 26: James Blunt and Ed Sheeran arrive for the 29th Annual ARIA Awards 2015 at The Star on ...

Ed Sheeran quietly admits to 'copycat' claims over new hit

Friends and family warned Ashley Hart that moving cities while pregnant was a terrible idea. It turned out to be ...

At six weeks pregnant, I moved cities. It's the best thing I've done

The City2South caters to runners of all experience levels, from elite distance runners to amateurs.

City2South fun run grows into two-day fitness festival

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New cruise ship terminal plans

Peter Gilbar

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What vitamins do you need in your 20s?

We should worry about corporate wrongs, not class ...

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Class action fees too expensive, says Perpetual ...

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Experts whip up how-to guidebook in cyclone's ...

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The government has allocated $45 million for new schools sites across the state.

Queensland government makes $200m school spend

Black lung inquiry to look at tunnels

1 hr ago

Swiss sailboat to take researchers to study Great Barrier Reef

Ponant ship Le Soleal.

Fuel and oil risks emerge as Gold Coast plans cruise ship terminal

Tony Moore

The $60 million Inner City Bypass upgrade will mostly be funded by truck toll increases on three toll roads.

Truckies unhappy about being forced to pay for ICB upgrade

Cameron Atfield

A man in his 60s was rescued by emergency services after the excavator he was working in fell off a bridge.

Excavator plunges 4m into creek bed as bridge collapses

Rachel Clun

The gay panic defence has been scrapped in Queensland.

Gay panic defence scrapped in Queensland

Felicity Caldwell

Lucky Gattellari is the key Crown witness against Ron Medich.

'Dripping with lies': Lawyer heaps insults on witness

NSW
Kate McClymont

Convicted blackmailer Halafihi "Fihi" Kivalu.

Building watchdog cut deal with blackmailer

ACT
35 mins ago

Health Minister Cameron Dick has asked for medicinal cannabis to be on the PBS.

Push to have medicinal cannabis listed on PBS

1 hr ago

Pamela and Janet with their unique discovery.

Message in a bottle discovered off WA's South West

WA
1 hr ago

Grandfather James Bradley, 92, and his granddaughter Karis Town, 9, at his home in Croydon, Sydney.

Minister intervenes to stop deportation of 92-year-old vet

EXCLUSIVE
Michael Koziol

Sussan Ley releases report, mounts defence over scandal

Adam Gartrell

Arthur Sinodinos likens climate change denial to anti-vaxxers

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

Centrelink 'transformer' led $800m ATO bungle

Eryk Bagshaw
33 mins ago

Attorney-General Senator George Brandis during a Senate estimates hearing at Parliament House in Canberra on Tuesday 28 ...

Wong's whack at Brandis: 'No-one in this place likes him'

Live
Stephanie Peatling
25 mins ago

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Education Minister Simon Birmingham at an early learning centre in Canberra on Wednesday.

Government caves to pressure on childcare and savings package

Michael Koziol

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Minister for Immigration and Border Protection Peter Dutton during Question Time at ...

Dutton working behind the scenes to legislate same-sex marriage

EXCLUSIVE
Matthew Knott

Bahaa Trad, a Lebanese asylum seeker who was involuntarily deported after four years on Manus island.

Asylum seeker deported from Manus fears for his life in Lebanon

EXCLUSIVE
Farid Farid

South Sudanese children wait for food at the Bidi Bidi refugee camp over the border in Uganda.

Despite global progress, 766 million people still live in extreme poverty

46 mins ago

Waldomiro Costa Pereira was murdered in hospital.

Gunmen storm Amazon hospital, murder Brazil council worker

58 mins ago

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes: a 'big, gray cloud' over the White House.

A 'big, grey cloud' over the White House

ANALYSIS
Paul McGeough

The number of wallets that go missing and do not get returned far exceeds the happy few that make their way home to ...

Be honest, what would you do if you found a lost wallet?

COMMENT
Bill O'Chee

Sophie, you owe this young man a rum and coke.

If you wouldn't swim with crocs for a girl, you don't deserve love

COMMENT
John Birmingham

That's not how I used to look.

The most disturbing thing about turning Australia's middle age

Conal Hanna

A sharp overnight drop in the S&P500 - the first such drop in 109 sessions - set up the ASX to its worst day since ...

ASX loses $26b in Trump slump

Myriam Robin
52 mins ago

Billy Tucker, chief executive of OneFlare, says it's unfair start-ups get all the glory.?

Why I don't like start-ups

Alexandra Cain

Justice Bernard Murphy welcomed the 25th anniversary of Australia's class action regime.

We should worry about corporate wrongs, not class actions: judge

Sarah Danckert
5 mins ago

The drift lower in yields has pulled the US dollar down with it.

World stocks seen as most overvalued in 17 years

Jamie McGeever

CBA's Bankwest in corporate banking retreat

Patrick Hatch
1 hr ago

Why industrial relations is Australia's everlasting battle

ANALYSIS
Jessica Irvine

Bianca Rinehart given go-ahead to sue her mother

Louise Hall

'Risk off': This may be the day the Trump rally died

COMMENT
Robert Burgess

A conceptual design by Oiio Studio proposes "the Big Bend" as Manhattan's longest (not tallest) residential building.

Proposal for world's longest - not tallest - skyscraper in NYC

LONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 25: 300 children converge at Kidzania London as doors open to child-size city which is now open ...

Could indoor 'cities' for kids make shopping centres Amazon-proof?

In the mood for autumn: stylists reveal their decor predictions

Mr Riga said developments perceived to be of higher quality would rent faster, and have less trouble selling.

Why all eyes are on Brisbane's apartment market this year

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Multi-millionaires compete for Gold Coast's priciest homes

The Huracán Rear-Wheel-Drive Spyder is all angles and no curves.

The new Lamborghini is arresting, powerful and a little dangerous

Luxury Cars
1 hr ago

From technology to sport, there is a podcast for everyone.

Utterly addictive podcasts you should be listening to now

Culture

Home loans are bigger than in September 2013 and so is the differential between the best and worst mortgage rates.

Big banks hit home owners with $116k extra interest

ANALYSIS
Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon

Police escorting non-union labour to Patrick Stevedores through the MUA picket lines in 1998. Today, strike action is low.

Why industrial relations is Australia's everlasting battle

ANALYSIS
Jessica Irvine

Carolyne Burns' predictive hiring technology business Expr3ss! is based on an online survey that job applicants fill out.

How Carolyne built a $6 million business from a six-minute survey

Cara Waters

Billy Tucker, chief executive of Oneflare, says it's unfair start-ups get all the glory.

I don't like start-ups and here's why

Alexandra Cain

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Dad: 'help us find our boy'

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Fig tree falls in rain storm

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Apple unveils new iPad and RED iPhone

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New cruise ship terminal plans

Dyson drawing; re ultra-right embrace of Russia, Age Opinion 22 March 2017

Best of Fairfax cartoons, March 22

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Gripping escape thriller Underground - all episodes 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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One person makes all the difference for foster kids

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Hit the road and escape the city

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The Gatwick Hotel has a prime location on Fitzroy Street, St Kilda.

Nine finally confirms intense rumours about The Block

EXCLUSIVE
Broede Carmody

Unrelenting: Josh gets a telling off from the women on MKR about his behaviour.

Pete and Manu step in over Josh's treatment of Amy on MKR

Aja Styles

Dan Stevens as The Beast, and Emma Watson as Belle.

Beauty and the Beast review: A solid, if stilted, take on an old-fashioned romance

Jake Wilson

Ed Sheeran will be sharing his royalties with a few more writers after conceding similarities with a '90s hit.

Ed Sheeran quietly admits to 'copycat' claims over new hit

Bernard Zuel

Tim Minchin as Donald Trump in the Matilda parody.

Minchin mocks Trump with new 'musical' on James Corden show

Bernard Zuel

Married at First Sight 2017: The sun sets on Jesse and Michelle.

MAFS recap: The sun awkwardly sets on Jesse's fairytale dream

Karl Quinn

Dan Stevens as The Beast, left, and Emma Watson as Belle in a live-action adaptation of the animated classic Beauty and ...

How Disney keeps churning out billion dollar hits

ANALYSIS
Karl Quinn

The late-Carl Williams arriving at a gangland murder in Carlton, with his then-wife Roberta Williams, in 2004.

The gangland trial that delayed Murder Uncovered report

Adam Cooper

Anna O'Byrne and Charles Edwards took some of the limelight back from Dame Julie.

My Fair Lady has more to offer than just Julie Andrews

Susan Hetherington

A worker at the one of the munitions factories in south-east Queensland circa 1942. Source: SLQ Image 99531

10 Brisbane suburbs with histories even the locals don't know

Jodi Panayotov

Justin Bieber's movements and delivery have the haunted feel of someone who has been here so often that he is seeing ...

Bieber hits Brisbane with a spring in his step and a frog in his throat

Simon Holt

"The proposition is simple: you can get exactly what you want whenever you want, and you are no longer restricted by ...

Tailoring isn't just for brides, it's for t-shirts too

Clare Press

Northern Territory chief minister Michael Gunner and Health Minister Natasha Fyles (right) were vocal supporters of the ...

Women in the NT finally have access to RU486

Jenna Clarke

Mariam Veiszadeh is Daily Life's 2016 Woman of the Year

The irony of the government's 18C assault wasn't lost

COMMENT
Mariam Veiszadeh

Bee Shaffer and Francesco Carrozzini at the Venice Film Festival last year.

This engagement is basically the start of the ultimate fashion dynasty

Annie Brown

Ruby Hamad

The compelling reason why I decided to never have children

COMMENT
Ruby Hamad

Lena Dunham hits back after being fashioned shamed.

Lena Dunham did not care for Perez Hilton's outfit shaming

Friends and family warned Ashley Hart that moving cities while pregnant was a terrible idea. It turned out to be ...

Moving cities while pregnant was the best decision I made

Ashley Hay

Would you want to smell like a kitten?

This perfume company wants you to smell like your kitten

Lisa Gutierrez

Forget hours slept and sleep with your cycle? Uh, no.

Using a sleep calculator to determine bedtime is a 'terrible' idea

Sarah Berry

Zoe Bingley-Pullin says consuming the right nutrients is important for physical and mental health.

Bingley-Pullin's top five mood-boosting foods

Zoe Bingley-Pullin

Slow down your workout and you might just speed up your results.

Now strong, slow and steady wins the race

Victoria Lambert

What do you mean, too much fish sauce?

What to do when you hate your partner's cooking

Crisp-fried school prawns.

The 50 best food and drink experiences in Australia

Adam Liaw's kari-kari chicken with spiced yoghurt.

Adam Liaw's Kari-kari chicken: the easiest mid-week dinner

toddler causes mayhem in the bathroom

Real estate agent's terribly timed appointment

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'I was made to feel like garbage': Jerry Maguire child star, 20 years on

While the giant chicken caused some people to be scared and horrified, the Brahma is actually a placid breed.

11 answers about THAT giant chicken video

The world's most expensive city, as seen from the Singapore Flyer observation wheel.

Most expensive cities named: Sydney, Melbourne among priciest

Melissa Cheok
18 mins ago

Germans hold the most powerful passport.

The world's best passports for travellers in 2017 named

MUNICH, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 17: Visitors hold up one-litre glasses of beer to kick off the 2016 Oktoberfest beer ...

Nine countries that do drinking better than Australia does

Ben Groundwater

Constant use of satnavs would probably have longer-term limiting effects: research.

Using 'satnav' switches off brain, say scientists

Is this the best way to deal with our traffic woes?

Stuck in traffic? The Hum Rider can help

The red iPhone 7 will go on sale in Australia on March 25.

Apple fans red with excitement over new iPhone, iPad releases

Lifehacker

The 200 apps every device user should own

Lifehacker

Earlier this month, Outlook 365, Xbox Live and Skype went down for several hours in parts of the world.

Microsoft outages hit Xbox Live, Outlook

2017 Foton Tunland 4x4 Dual Cab.

Is the China's best ute to date?

Mark Short

2017 Lamborghini Aventador S.

Driving an Aventador S around Australia's fastest track

Stephen Ottley
1 hr ago

2017 Hyundai Santa Fe Active X.

Hyundai adds V6-power to Santa Fe

Dom Tripolone

The South Australian government will be trialling a driverless shuttle at Adelaide airport.

South Australia locks in driverless vehicles

David McCowen

Porsche has mildly tweaked its 911 range.

Porsche updates 911 Carrera range

David McCowen

All-new 2017 Civic hatchback 2017 Honda Civic hatch.

Honda Civic hatch prices revealed

Dom Tripolone

Jason Taumalolo is set to become the richest man in league.

Taumalolo is set become league's richest player

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Warren Barnsley

Shaun Marsh backed away when a fielder was talking.

'He's talking. Him!' Indian fielders chirped during run-ups

Rob Forsaith

Building a case: Titans coach Neil Henry backs the judgment of the club's medical staff.

'Poke in the eye' could cost Titans $50k in alleged concussion breach

Phil Lutton

Batting slump: India's captain Virat Kohli.

Kohli no longer top-ranked Indian batsman

Rob Forsaith

Quade Cooper has received a three-match suspension.

Quade Cooper gets three-match suspension

Ultimatum: The players want to know who will be coaching the Tigers in 2018 and beyond before putting pen to paper.

Clock ticking as Wests Tigers discuss placing signing deadline on big four

Michael Chammas

Kevin Sheedy waves his old Essendon jacket after his team's win over West Coast Eagles in 1993.

Bombers to receive wave of support

Sam McClure

FILE - MARCH 20, 2016: Wests Tigers NRL club have sacked coach Jason Taylor effective immediately. SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - ...

Taylor comes out swinging after Sironen attack

Chris Barrett, Adrian Proszenko