• 1 min ago

Eddie Betts' departure from Carlton weighed heavily on him, but if he hadn't moved to Adelaide he may never have become the entertainer he is now.

• 2 mins ago

Dashing Fremantle winger Stephen Hill will miss a potential Derby classic with a hamstring injury suffered against North Melbourne.

• 6 mins ago

After a couple of tragic Puccini productions, the Johann Strauss operetta makes for a lighter night in the theatre.

• 6 mins ago

It was half an hour before her brother's wedding in Sydney when Cath and Liam Proberts got the shocking phone call.

• 17 mins ago

Chris Latham has a long interest in the musical side of Australian war history and his new role will help bring a human face to the nation's losses.

• 23 mins ago

It was equal measures of tears and laughter in Connie Johnson's Kaleen lounge room last night as brother Samuel brought home gold at the 2017 Logie Awards.

• 26 mins ago

A baby boy is dead and a man is in police custody after an incident in Wagga's suburbs on Monday morning.

• 26 mins ago

Former West Coast Eagles footballer Ben Sharp has been jailed for at least six years for an ice-fuelled armed robbery in which he and two others stole $287,000 from a security guard at gunpoint.

• 27 mins ago

The elimination of the two mainstream French parties from the first round of presidential elections on Sunday showed the deep malaise of French society, a member of centrist Emmanuel Macron's campaign said on Sunday.

• 28 mins ago

With Mr Macron appearing secure in his lead and likely to form a successful coalition once in power, the political event risk looming over Europe is fading and the euro hit a five-month high.

• 28 mins ago

Port Adelaide is investigating reports one of its AFL players was involved in an incident outside a hotel.

• 35 mins ago

An unlicensed teenager crashed his car into a power pole and then fled, leaving his two passengers unconscious in the backseat, a court has heard.

• 37 mins ago

Cats come home strong, Giants walk tall, Dogs late to Murphy's 300th party, new Lions leader shows pride.

• 38 mins ago

Not keen on Bali? The ubiquitous Bintang singlet not your type of travel wear? Fortunately for the adventure traveler there are another 8,443 islands that make up Indonesia.

• 54 mins ago

There's an interesting test of Donald Trump's presidency coming up tonight: does Wall Street think he has any credibility?

• 1 hr ago

Tributes are flowing for a young soccer player who died during a match in Brisbane on the weekend.

• 1 hr ago

The board of Spotless Group has recommended investors knock back the shock $1.2 billion bid from services company Downer EDI labelling it as "opportunistic, hostile, highly conditional' and unlikely to proceed.

• 1 hr ago

War is full of unsung heroes, but few can claim to have transformed the way we think of, and commemorate war.

• 1 hr ago

Western Australia has come last again in a quarterly report comparing Australia's state economies, lagging behind on all growth indicators as the end of the mining boom continues to hurt.

• 1 hr ago

Central Newcastle Butcher Boys have lost star prop Jake Finn for the season following an all-in brawl late in Saturday's season opener against the Kurri Kurri Bulldogs.

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• 1 hr ago

The crusading French politician Marine Le Pen hates being called a far-right leader. She says if most French voters endorse her harsh anti-immigration plans, that means she is a centrist.

• 1 hr ago

About 2000 employees have been evacuated from Coles' headquarters in Melbourne's south-east after a car caught on fire in the office's underground car park.

• 1 hr ago

Public servants could be hit for hundreds of thousands as government curbs tax brakes.

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• 1 hr ago

It's a million miles from Samsung's Galaxy S8 or Apple's iPhone 7, but Telstra's EasyCall 4 might be the dumb phone that you've been looking for.

• 1 hr ago

Tuesday can't come soon enough for chilly Canberrans staunchly observing this Anzac tradition.

• 1 hr ago

A house and car in the exclusive seaside suburb of Hampton were sprayed with bullets just hours after the state government announced a crackdown on drive-by shootings.

Dramatic drone footage from high above Fingal Bay has captured the full extent of a shark hunt off the popular Port Stephens strip.

Trent Thorburn has sought to move the case against him forward.

"His comment that he knows more than we do is ridiculous," local MP Ron Knight said.

The internet giant's big profits demonstrate yet again that the billboard space accompanying Google queries is the web's most valuable real estate for advertisements.

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ASX starts the week on the front foot after France's first round of presidential polling produces a market-friendly result, which helped push the euro to a five-month high.

Every day, 50,000 cars thunder up and down the Western Freeway between Melton and Caroline Springs. In one stretch where thousands of new homes are being built, dirt roads are the only way in or out.

A $72 million train station has opened at Aubin Grove, in Perth's south, with the service expected to be used 3900 times a day.

• ANALYSIS

Polls show that Trump supporters say they aren't disillusioned with the President's performance.

​President Donald Trump nears the 100-day mark of his administration as the least popular chief executive in modern times.

More than a hundred people gathered at Singleton Beach on Sunday evening to pay a heartfelt tribute.

The Turnbull government has abandoned plans to slash millions of dollars in funding from community legal centres after coming under intense pressure from lawyers, Labor and the states.

Emmanuel Macron, a 39 year-old former banker, has won the country's first-round vote.

A war memorial in Warrandyte has been vandalised with the words "war is murder" on the eve of Anzac Day. 

A burst water main on Monday morning has caused disruptions at the Woden Bus Station and the temporary closure of the Access Canberra Woden Service Centre.

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has stepped in to defend Tony Abbott, calling on his Liberal Party colleagues to show respect to the former prime minister.

What’s with this incessant need to tinker, not just with laws of the game, but the very framework of an AFL competition that is working just fine? The 17-5 fixture proposal is just another example.

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Melbourne Express is your morning primer - a live blog with breaking news, headlines, transport updates and weather.

Australians with food allergies are at risk when choosing whether packaged products are safe to eat, because of poor food labelling standards.

Perth locals have reported landing a rankin cod out of Mindarie, and a red emperor off Rottnest Island in the last week. Mud crabs have also popped up in Bunbury, and salmon have been caught off Exmouth.

A 16-year-old girl is fighting for life after her partner allegedly bashed her in the front yard of an Ipswich home.

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A collective sigh of relief will encompass the markets this morning as the French election results have avoided the worst possible outcome.

• COMMENT

A triumph for the far right, that will probably expose them as still fundamentally unelectable.

San Francisco: Travis Kalanick, the chief executive of Uber, visited Apple's headquarters in early 2015 to meet with Timothy D. Cook, who runs the iPhone maker.