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The level crossing next to Glenhuntly railway station, noted in Metro Trains' track fault report.

Victoria shortchanged in $75 billion road and rail infrastructure spending spree

The 2017-18 Budget papers

The gaping hole in Scott Morrison's budget

COMMENT

Your budget at a glance

Budget 2017: Your five-minute guide

What the budget means to you

What does the budget mean for you?

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First-home buyers get 'super' saver scheme

Treasurer Scott Morrison

Morrison takes sting out of housing as Bowen slams workers tax hike

Empty nesters have been reluctant to downsize.

Retirees given $300,000 incentive to downsize

Treasurer Scott Morrison.

Black Tuesday for Australia's big banks

Mark Hawthorne

The big splash in 'infrastructure spending plans suggest most of the winners will be workers and companies sprawled ...

The $22b bonanza that Morrison's betting on

National Australia Bank has compiled a confidential borrowers' blacklist.

Borrowers to cop brunt of budget's bank tax: expert

How a bad year got worse: Bank rout wipes out $14 billion in a day

Retailers on verge of a 'recession' as shoppers keep hands in pockets

'He shouldn't have talked about religion': governor jailed

'Very scared': Mother pleaded for help before death, court told

'I didn't want to see that': Friend finds body in Bali villa

Jewel Topsfield

Banks

The winners and losers: Big banks hit with new tax, Medicare levy to rise

Paramedic David Watson and his wife Nicole.

'Uh oh, that's not right': Heart attack ambo saves his own life

Chelsea Randall, Bec Goddard and Erin Phillip hold the cup aloft after the Crows won the inaugural AFLW premiership ...

'We're ready now': Cats, Saints made to wait for AFLW teams

UPDATED

One of the two polar bear cubs at Sea World has died over the weekend.

'Deeply saddened': Polar bear cub dies at Australian theme park

Hugh Jackman and Dafne Keen accept the MTV award for best duo.

Nice guy Hugh Jackman scolded by Logan co-star for bad manners

Scott Morrison delivers the 2017 Federal Budget

Winners and losers from the 2017 federal budget

Julie Davey had a series of strokes that she's still recovering from 2 years later. Her husband Peter had to give up ...

The phone call that left this couple destitute

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Lou Richards in 1999.

Lou Richards' family considers state funeral for Collingwood legend

Still: George Calombaris exchanges words with a fan at the A-League Grand Final on Sunday night.

Calombaris caught on film in spat with rival A-League fan

Foreign buyers to be slugged a fee for having an empty property for six months or more than a year.

Government hits foreign home buyers with new taxes and rules

Treasurer Scott Morrison announced a first-home buyer 'super' saver scheme at Tuesday night's Federal Budget.

Federal budget: First-home buyers get 'super' saver scheme

Awning, Building Exterior, Building Feature, Color Image, Day, Facade, Horizontal, House, Multi Colored, No People, ...

Study says this common pattern may be causing you headaches

Empty nesters have been reluctant to downsize.

Retirees given $300,000 Federal Budget incentive to downsize

Le Chateau des Palmiers.

Trump lists Caribbean mansion for $37.5 million

PTV authorised officers explained they were familiar with the particular banking app.

Tram ticket inspectors 'demand to see woman's banking details'

Former speaker back in Parliament amid entitlements scandal

More V/Line trains, but what of a 'regional rail revival'?

Kaitlyn Offer

The proposed Freeway Apartment complex.

Blues over views: Royal Park's village 'no site for a high rise'

Fernando Manuel Paulino arrives at the Supreme Court in Melbourne on May 8, 2017.

'I'm going to kill her': Son tells court dad threatened mum

Aggravated burglary will be treated like rape and murder in the consideration of bail.

Carjackers, home invaders to be refused bail

Simone Quinlan.

Impossible to know cause of woman's death: court

A distressing incident at a NSW nursing home has led to a call for an inquiry.

Woman had maggots in mouth at nursing home

NSW

Daramalan College in Canberra is the most over-funded school in the country.

The Canberra schools losing funds revealed

ACT

The state claims Jason Edge was killed in a Clarkson home before his body was thrown into the ocean.

Perth drug dealer's body 'thrown into the ocean': court

WA

One of the Van Tassel girls pictured in the Evening News.

First flight taken in Brisbane was by a daredevil

QLD

A child at an Australian run orphanage in Phnom Penh.

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A child at an Australian run orphanage in Phnom Penh.

Cambodia vows to crack down on orphanages amid child sex abuse claims

Lindsay Murdoch

A crack in the Larsen C ice shelf, which grew 17 kilometres in December.

Crack in Antarctic ice shelf could mean major break is near

Chelsea Harvey

Residents feel they are getting stuck with contracts that serve only the developer's best interest.

'An abuse': Judge slams developers' powers

Staff reporter

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Treasurer Scott Morrison's second budget addresses key concerns.

Budget delivers promise of better days for Turnbull government

ANALYSIS
Paul Osborne

Medicare rebates to increase as part of $10b healthcare package

Increase in Medicare levy to fund gap in NDIS

The 2017-18 Budget papers

Treasurer can claim fairness, opportunity, but not much security

COMMENT

The big splash in 'infrastructure spending plans suggest most of the winners will be workers and companies sprawled ...

Surplus expected within four years thanks to faster economic growth

Sean Aylmer

Scott Morrison in his Treasury office building ahead of the 2017 budget.

Defence boosts staffing, takes razor to private sector spending

Doug Dingwall

Federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten.

It's a budget for millionaires: Labor

Smoke rises from an exploded vehicle outside a popular shopping centre in Pattani province, southern Thailand.

Bombing in Thailand's south targets shoppers, injures 56

UPDATED
Lindsay Murdoch
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At least 14 were killed in the explosion.

Mexico fireworks tragedy kills 14, including children

1 hr ago

No explanation: Turkey has blocked Wikipedia.

Wikipedia appeals to Turkey's constitutional court over blocking

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has repeatedly urged the killing of drug users and pushers.

Australia slams Philippines president over drug killings

Lindsay Murdoch

Emmanuel Macron addresses supporters after winning the French election.

France has its Napoleon III

James Traub

Grammy Award-winning singer Alanis Morissette. Could she be replaced by artificial intelligence?

Could computers become better artists than humans?

Yuval Noah Harari

Under fire for an Anzac Day Facebook post: ABC presenter and youth activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied.

Lest Abdel-Magied forgets, she created the problem

COMMENT
Amanda Vanstone

The big splash in 'infrastructure spending plans suggest most of the winners will be workers and companies sprawled ...

Budget 2017: The winners and losers revealed

Foreign buyers to be slugged a fee for having an empty property for six months or more than a year.

Foreign home buyers hit by vacancy tax and restrictions

Jennifer Duke

Treasurer Scott Morrison is planning to impose a tax on interbank transactions, according to banking sources.

Budget caps off Black Tuesday for Australia's big banks

Mark Hawthorne

The big splash in 'infrastructure spending plans suggest most of the winners will be workers and companies sprawled ...

Budget surplus expected within four years

Sean Aylmer

$75 billion infrastructure spending spree

First-home buyers get 'super' saver scheme

Jennifer Duke

Downsizing retirees given superannuation incentives

Tom McIlroy

Small business celebrates win on tax break

Mathew Dunckley

For the founder of MWC, launching a watch company was as simple as quitting one job and starting a new one.

The little Aussie watch company taking on the luxury giants

Watches

Airbnb is targeting business travellers.

Hotel chains should be nervous about Airbnb's new function

Business Travel

Danica Hampton is Head of Investment Specialists at Citi Wealth

It's bonds to the rescue as the needle points up for interest rates

COMMENT
Danica Hampton

Adelaide-based wealth adviser Louise Pfeiffer, 39, has chosen a career and business that will maximise her ability to ...

Meet the 'effective altruists' who earn to give

Lindy Alexander

Small business owner Alecia Whitelaw was looking for incentives to hire and improvements to payment terms.

Small business celebrates Budget win on tax break

Mathew Dunckley

Jowan Osterlund from Biohax Sweden holds a small microchip implant, similar to those implanted in workers at the ...

Technology to drive future workplace trends

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Trump was warned an aide may be open to blackmail

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Trump's million dollar travel costs

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Sharapova and Bouchard react to Madrid Open thriller

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Amazon sweeps US market for voice-controlled speakers

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Wander through ancient landscapes in WA

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Hit the road and escape the city

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Hugh Jackman and Dafne Keen accept the MTV award for best duo.

Nice guy Hugh Jackman scolded by Logan co-star for bad manners

Emma Watson, left, and Josh Gad accept the award for movie of the year for "Beauty and the Beast" at the MTV Movie and ...

Emma Watson wins first major gender-neutral movie award

Travis M. Andrews

Hidden Figures

Five myths Hollywood studio executives should stop repeating

Cara Buckley

Hard rock act Lordi, from Finland, perform at the 2006 Eurovision song contest.

Power ballads and metal: Myf Warhurst's top Eurovision acts

Myf Warhurst

Kit Harington as Jon Snow in <i>Game of Thrones</i>.

Australia to get its own Game of Thrones convention

Tim Richards

Girlboss Girlboss

Girlboss is aggressively charmless and desperately dry

Brad Newsome

Treasurer Scott Morrison during an interview with Fairfax Media journalists Peter Hartcher and James Massola ahead of ...

Why Channel Nine beeped Morrison during Oakes interview

Val Jellay appeared in a number of Australian television series, including <i>The Flying Doctors</i>, <i>Neighbours</i> ...

'She lived an amazing life': Flying Doctors star Val Jellay dies, aged 89

Michael Gurr with actor Kate Fitzpatrick in 2004.

'Genius' playwright and speechwriter Michael Gurr dies aged 55

Debbie Cuthbertson, Arts Editor

Almost overshadowed: Chelsea Gibb as Sally Bowles.

Technical debacle accentuates calamitous Cabaret

REVIEW
Cameron Woodhead

A wheat field, with cypresses early September 1889 (detail).

Van Gogh's beautiful imperfections reveal nature's wonders

REVIEW
Robert Nelson

Lily Rose Depp, the daughter of French singer and model Vanessa Paradis and actor Johnny Depp, has walked for Chanel.

The next generation of supermodels and their famous model parents

"I felt a large shift in how I was treated when I was read as a man": Nevo Zisin.

What it's like for a teen girl to become a man

Nevo Zisin

Karl Stefanovic and Cassandra Thorburn pictured in 2012.

Karl Stefanovic's $6 million divorce settlement: reports

As a younger woman, I clung to friendships because I was afraid of being lonely.

Why I ended my toxic friendships

Mandy Appleyard

A long and rewarding career: Jane Fonda.

What Jane Fonda has learnt about life at age 79

Jan Janssen

In the dark: Kanye West.

Kanye's Twitter and Instagram accounts go dark

Conrad Hilton, left, seen here in 2008 with his mother Kathy Hilton and his father Rick Hilton, has been arrested in Los ...

Paris Hilton's younger brother Conrad arrested

A blasphemy probe is under way into Stephen Fry.

Stephen Fry in blasphemy probe by Irish police

It's not uncommon, but what can we learn from it?

Emotional eating: why we do it and how to manage it

Sarah Berry

Way before it was considered cool, our front and back yards were planted out with vegetables and fruit trees.

Secrets to happiness from a peasant lifestyle

Maria Milone

Committed or addicted? Just because a behaviour is "healthy" doesn't always mean we have a healthy approach to it.

Extreme health: When exercise becomes addiction

Sarah Berry

Char-grilled calzone stuffed with ajvar and slow-cooked pork.

Weekly meal planner: this pork calzone will make your year

Eggplant and scallop moussaka by Peter Conistis.

The mothers who made our great chefs

Neil Perry's carrot soup with coriander yoghurt.

A healthy twist on cream: 21 ways to eat yoghurt in savoury meals

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5 things my wife needs to know before we have a third baby

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Welcome to parenthood, sorry but you are no longer 'cool'

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The unexpected ways our children make us happy

Cattle class: Blighted by not enough space, bad air quality and grumpy passengers and flight attendants.

Why flying has become a pain in the back seat

Lee Tulloch

The low-cost carriers are the most likely to play hardball over carry-on allowances.

How flexible are airlines' carry-on baggage allowances?

Michael Gebicki

Silver Muse's pool deck, around which bar staff glide bearing colourful concoctions.

Silversea ups the luxury ante with new ship Silver Muse

Brian Johnston

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick.

Uber faces criminal probe over sneaky 'greyball' software

Dan Levine and Joseph Menn

Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg said the network hopes to cut down on the response time between when someone reports a ...

Facebook hiring 3000 to monitor live video violence

Hayley Tsukayama

Get used to Apple's less-turbocharged future. The tech giant still generates more profits than any other company, and it ...

Apple shifts out of fast lane, perhaps for good

COMMENT

The spate of global cyber espionage has unfolded largely under the public radar.

Entering 'golden age of espionage' for hackers

The Surface Laptop's affordable price, portability and features could appeal to a far broader audience-including Mac ...

Apple can't ignore Microsoft's slick, new Surface Laptop

2018 Ford Mustang.

2018 Ford Mustang spec leaked

Stephen Ottley

2017 Isuzu D-Max.

Is this the toughest dual-cab ute?

Andrew MacLean

2016 Kia Sportage SLi Diesel.

What SUV should I buy?

Cameron McGavin

Jeep's Grand Cherokee Trailhawk offers outstanding off-road ability.

Which is the best Jeep Grand Cherokee model?

David McCowen

Reinvented: A Harley-Davidson, minus the famous v-twin.

Harley: 100 new bikes in 10 years

Andrew MacLean

Can use and re-use for Fairfax publications only including Online. Advertising/marketing are excluded. Images are ...

Top 10 tips for buying your first car

Alessandra Melville

Lindsay Thomas has been suspended for three matches

Remorseful Roo rubbed out for three games

Staff reporters

Chelsea Randall, Bec Goddard and Erin Phillip hold the cup aloft after the Crows won the inaugural AFLW premiership ...

'We're ready now': Cats, Saints made to wait for AFLW teams

UPDATED
Staff reporters

Adam Treloar is battling to be fit for the match against the Giants

Treloar in doubt for Giants clash

Tom Lynch was concussed in the Jarrad Waite tackle

Updated: North accept Waite ban after coaches query MRP on rough tackles

UPDATED

Two-metre Peter: Peter Wright is one of the few Suns players tall enough to command a spot in business class

Swimming stopover for China-bound Suns

Lou Richards in 1999.

L is for Legend: Magpie greats call for Richards to be elevated

Gerry Carman and Age reporters

Matt Scharenberg is in the selection mix after a month in the VFL.

Magpies consider four changes as Buckley's coaching criticised

Staff reporters

Jarrad Waite booted six goals against the Crows

Reports of Roos' demise greatly exaggerated

Chris Judd

Glenn Maxwell celebrates his maiden Test century in Ranchi

Glenn Maxwell to remain a Bushranger but no certainty for Ashes berth

Charged: Shaun Kenny-Dowall of the Sydney Roosters.

SKD stood down over coke charges after offering to take hair follicle test

Sky Blues the limit: Sydney FC players celebrate their win.

'Win it again next year,' Arnold tells Sky Blues

Steve Larkin and Ben McKay

Eugenie Bouchard of Canada celebrates match point in her match against Maria Sharapova of Russia on day three of the ...

'Inspired' Bouchard wins Sharapova grudge match

Tales Azzoni

Nadal's preparation for the Madrid Open has been interrupted by an ear infection.

Ear infection delays Rafael Nadal's Madrid Open start

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