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The government has rejected Ken Henry's criticisms of the bank levy.

'Fallible' NAB boss slapped down over banks levy attack

1 hr ago

The Australian dollar has dropped around 3.7 per cent in the past three months.

Why the world has given up on the Aussie dollar

Three girls 'took stolen vehicle on 500km drive'

Three girls accused of taking stolen car on 500km drive

13 mins ago

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Mother appears in court after toddler son consumed drugs

1 hr ago

Raia Darin-Cooper.

'Failing system': Raia stood out as soon as she came to my school

COMMENT
Sarah Berry

The survey shows 93 per cent of businesses believe Sydney's congestion has worsened in the last year.

Sydney's traffic congestion killing 'jobs and growth'

1 hr ago

Trump revealed top secret information to Russian minister

Aged 13, I was easy prey for the man who took me to his apartment

COMMENT
Clementine Ford

'Unpopular': Jetstar starts charging to bring babies on board

Trump raging at hoax after staffer handed him fake magazine cover

ANALYSIS

'This is the best clue': North Korea linked to global cyber attack

The new security protocol could mean longer security lines, heightened delays, boarding gate confusion, and yet more ...

Brace for chaos: US plans to expand laptop ban to trans-Atlantic flights

1 hr ago

Kellyanne Conway

Conway said she needed to 'take a shower' after defending Trump

A ladybird takes flight.

Ladybird wings could change the design of umbrellas

1 hr ago

Regrets? Bill Gates has one

Billionaire Bill Gates offers life advice in 14 tweets

John Oliver called the New Zealand PM "the very poorest man's Daniel Craig".

'Very poorest man's Daniel Craig': John Oliver roasts NZ PM

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Learjet crashes into US suburb

A young Q&A audience member labelled education minister Simon Birmingham "out of touch".

Joshua delivered the closing reprimand to all the Q&A panel

Pia Gava was eliminated from MasterChef on Monday night.

MasterChef fans lament loss of a show favourite

Demon Jesse Hogan has cancer.

AFL star Jesse Hogan diagnosed with cancer

1 hr ago

Labor MP Anne Aly walked the runway for Thomas Puttick's show.

How Anne Aly and Big Bird's cute cousin won Fashion Week

It was the dirty dishes that started the stoush...

'I told you the rules': Dirty dishes sharehouse stoush taken to tribunal

Reverse sea change: Linda and Mark Paternson moved their family to an inner-city apartment.

Squeezing a family into an apartment and living happily ever after

Jack Chen and his wife Margarethahave amassed a property portfolio using a buy-and-hold strategy.

Jack and Margaretha's $5 million plan to be stay at home parents

Martin with his wife Aude and their 17-month-old daughter, Ella.

Is this Europe's most underrated city for expat living?

The author's daughter playing in their national treasure of a home.

'It's complicated': Living in a national treasure with a toddler

Stay at home father Clint Greagen and his four sons, Maki 5, Tyson 8, Lewis 10 and Archie 12. 15 May 2017. The Age Good ...

'I still get strange looks': The truth about stay at home dads

'Every last bit of wine and every last kiss': Anne's desperate plea

EXCLUSIVE
Sean Nicholls

'Biggest betrayal': Sydney bus routes to be privatised

The way fire and emergency services are funded in NSW is changing.

Insurers forced to display savings under new fire levy rules

Nathan White, 28, was arrested after his mother's body was found inside their Sylvania in Sydney's south.

'Just like a normal kid': Son charged with mother's murder

UPDATED

The entrance to a pathway on Reeves Street, Narara, where a girl was attacked on Monday.

Manhunt after girl tied up, sexually assaulted on way to school

An artist's impression of the controversial proposed "glass box" building.

On The Rocks: Fate of Sydney's controversial 'glass box' decided

A spokesman said the university was "shocked" to learn of the incident.

Monash Uni student on rape charge after weekend away

EXCLUSIVE
1 hr ago

Marcus Volke killed and reportedly dismembered his girlfriend in their Teneriffe apartment before taking his own life.

Death of killer chef was unavoidable, lawyer tells inquest

QLD
1 hr ago

Rebecca Bool, 32, is dying from a Lyme-like illness and no one knows how to treat her

Woman dismissed as mentally ill as Lyme disease debate rages

Molly Schmidt

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Students in disadvantaged schools make about two years less progress between year 3 and year 9 than similarly capable ...

The key to 'jobs and growth' too often overlooked

COMMENT
Ross Gittins
1 hr ago

We are all complicit to different degrees in placing children in rigid gender boxes, including by our choice of gifts.

I threw away my 'parental GPS' and you should too

Jo Hirst
1 hr ago

Indigenous people sing and dance during the Indigenous Peoples Ritual March in Brasilia last month.

Brazil accused of anti-indigenous stance

Alex Spengler
46 mins ago

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Australia's Immigration Minister Peter Dutton.

Dutton's department given go-ahead for $250m office upgrade

EXCLUSIVE
Adam Gartrell

Manus Island refugee compound to begin closure in weeks

Michael Koziol

Naval shipbuilding plan needs $1.3b for yards, thousands more workers

David Wroe

The government has rejected Ken Henry's criticisms of the bank levy.

Government rejects 'fallible' Ken Henry's attack on big banks levy

1 hr ago

Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon has said the Greens should stand by its commitment to the six-year Gonski agreements

Gonski attack: the tweets started at 9pm and didn't stop

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra on Wednesday 10 May 2017. fedpol ...

'The people think it's fair': PM puts pressure on Senate over budget

George Christensen has disavowed his connection with The Dingoes racist podcast.

I didn't know they were racist: Christensen backtracks on group

Hillary Clinton speaks during the Women in the World Summit in New York last month.

Hillary Clinton starts Onward Together, a new political group

24 mins ago

US forces patrol on the outskirts of the Syrian town, Manbij.

Assad troops close to UK base

1 hr ago

Kellyanne Conway

'I need to take a shower': Conway after defending Trump

Sednaya prison complex

Syria burns thousands of prisoners' bodies

Illustration: Andrew Dyson

Has mantle of global leadership passed from the US to China?

COMMENT
Peter Hartcher

US President Donald Trump.

Donald Trump must be impeached. Here's why.

COMMENT
Laurence Tribe

Colonial First State, CBA's wealth management arm, is pitching life cycle options to its superannuation customers over ...

NSW must give the terminally ill the right to a dignified death

COMMENT

RBA governor Philip Lowe: waiting to see what effect recent mortgage rate rises and regulatory clampdowns on lending ...

'Careful monitoring': Housing, jobs worries weigh on RBA

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Patrick Commins and Myriam Robin

BHP's "resourcing the future" slogan has been replaced by "think big".

Activist calls for BHP to 'think big' in overhauling operations

Brian Robins

More than 20,000 shoppers complained to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission about consumer guarantees in ...

Consumer confidence plunges after budget

1 hr ago

Why the world has given up on the Australian dollar

Fat pay cheque won't protect your job from robots

Bill Gates goes on a tweetstorm and dishes out life advice

Jetstar starts charging to bring babies on board

Patrick Hatch

Australian photographer George Byrne is the latest inductee of the Mr Porter Style Council.

These Australian men are telling the whole world what's cool

Lifestyle
3 mins ago

The 2017 Volkswagen Golf 7.5 Alltrack.

The small car that's faster than the average Porsche

Cars

Writer Nina Hendy wishes she had discussed her father's estate planning while he was fit and healthy.

'My dad rewrote his will just before he died of cancer'

FIRST PERSON
Nina Hendy

UBank's goal is to deliver simpler, better, smarter banking to customers.

NAB-owned UBank launches robot to sell home loans

John Collett

Kate Carnell says banks have done enough stalling.

'Patience has run out': Banks to bow to pressure on unfair small business contracts

Cara Waters
22 mins ago

Dean Godfrey is a director of Blue Rock and a standing desk enthusiast.

Standing desks mean fewer sick days for this accounting business

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Federer to skip French Open

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Man shot, three injured in Tarneit attack

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Will & Grace tease comeback season with musical trailer

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John Oliver called the New Zealand PM "the very poorest man's Daniel Craig".

John Oliver roasts New Zealand Prime Minister Bill English

Broede Carmody

George RR Martin has said HBO is in fact developing five potential scripts for a Game of Thrones spinoff series.

George RR Martin's Game of Thrones 'successor shows'

Broede Carmody
1 hr ago

Nathan Mayfield,Tracey Robertson and Leigh McGarth from Hoodlum Entertainment will create the first Netflix Original to ...

Netflix to produce first original Australian series

Rob Moran

Education minister Simon Birmingham was interrupted by student protesters.

Cast adrift, clinging to a door, students slam minister

ANALYSIS
Neil McMahon

Pia Gava was eliminated from MasterChef on Monday night.

MasterChef fans mourn the loss of a show favourite

COMMENT
Aja Styles

Bounce host Danny 'Spud' Frawley holding a Chinese menu while mocking the historic Shanghai AFL game.

Fox Footy sorry after Bounce called out for 'racist' segment

Aja Styles

Paul McCartney will star in new Pirates of the Caribbean movie.

McCartney reveals first-look at role in new Pirates movie

Rob Moran

Comedian, Becky Lucas, in Sydney. 28th April 2017 Photo: Janie Barrett

Uptight and wearing a sports jacket? Stay away, says Becky

Sarah Thomas

Jeremy Marou (left) and Thomas?Busby of Busby Marou.

The accidental band making it big despite being 'too Australian'

Bronwyn Thompson

Katherine Waterston faces a terrifying new version of the classic alien in <i>Alien: Covenant</i>.

Move over Sigourney: Katherine Waterston is Alien's new ass-kicker

Karl Quinn

The singer is bringing sexual assault and battery proceedings against a DJ she claims groped her at a meet and greet event.

Masculinity under threat: Why DJ groped Taylor Swift

Clementine Ford.

I was 13 and easy prey for the man who groomed me

COMMENT
Clementine Ford

Chrissy Teigen's candid comments are unlike most celebrities.

What Teigen's armpit lipo reveals about beauty standards

Natalie Reilly
1 hr ago

Chanel has released a boomerang.

Chanel 'regrets' causing offence with new $1900 boomerang

Jenna Clarke

"I've yelled down phones – and mobiles have not prevented me from the dramatic hang up."

I thought I had 'anger issues' – but the real culprit was anxiety

Natalie Reilly

Karl Stefanovic sitting front row at MBFWA on Monday with girlfriend Jasmine Yarbrough, his mother Jenny (far left), her ...

Stefanovic and Yarbrough's PDA ... beside their mothers

Amy Croffey

Sneakers go with everything. Fact.

The street style not to miss at Sydney fashion week

Labor MP Anne Aly walked the runway for Thomas Puttick's show.

Labor MP Anne Aly swaps counter-terrorism for the catwalk

Jenna Clarke

Raia battled an eating disorder from age 11 until her death at 25.

We don't understand this about eating disorders, but we should

COMMENT
Sarah Berry

Swap out the biscuit break.

Four healthy habits to start in the 'real world'

Jae Berman

Start gently and build up slowly.

You don't need to do high-intensity exercise to lose weight

Paula Goodyer

Jamie Oliver at the relaunched Jamie's Italian restaurant in Sydney.

'It's not trying to be hipster': Jamie Oliver on why his restaurants aren't cool

Meals at Fika's Swedish Kitchen carry on the hygge tradition.

Beat the wintery chill: Five ways to bring hygge to your plate

Andrew Bowden unveils his Rita cake on <i>MasterChef Australia</i>.

ICYMI: The Andy Bowdy cake made on MasterChef last night

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Can your toothpaste tell if you're pregnant?

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The easy way to choose the perfect lipstick colour ... if you dare

The detrimental effects of smacking your kids.

What five decades of research has confirmed about smacking

Michael Graziano and Alexander Thomas James Hennessy from Global Degree.

Backlash after pretentious 'sorry' from millennial travellers goes viral

Ben Groundwater

The new security protocol could mean longer security lines, heightened delays, boarding gate confusion, and yet more ...

Brace for chaos: US plans to expand airline laptop ban

Justin Bachman and Michael Sasso
1 hr ago

This is your captain sleeping.

Trainee flies passenger plane while pilot takes a nap

Soo Kim

'Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl' was released at the movies in 2003.

Hackers reportedly hold Disney film for ransom

1 hr ago

Waymo's self-driving cars could find more test-riders thanks to the Lyft partnership.

Lyft, Waymo team up against Uber

1 hr ago

The MP3 played no small part in the rise of digital music, and of the iPod.

RIP MP3: audio format has been officially terminated

Liberal MP Dan Tehan addresses the media during a doorstop interview in the press gallery at Parliament House in ...

WannaCrypt: Aussie businesses crippled

A lock screen from a cyber attack warns that data files have been encrypted.

WannaCrypt global spread slows, for now

Mercedes-Benz EQ Concept.

Mercedes-Benz's first electric car sampled

Greg Kable

Google's Waymo self-driving division has won the first step in a court case against rival ride-hailing business Uber.

Uber's latest self-driving setback

Mike Isaac
1 hr ago

Volkswagen Spirit of Amarok.

How does the new VW Amarok handle going off-road?

Kez Casey

Renault has unveiled an F1-inspired van.

Renault unveils F1-inspired van

David McCowen

Porsche sport driving school.

Back to school with Porsche's driver training

Daniela Intili

2017 Toyota Yaris ZR 2017 Toyota Yaris

Which is the best Toyota Yaris model?

Andrew MacLean

David Warner and his fellow leading players may not be involved in the next Ashes series.

'They might not have a team for the Ashes': Warner

EXCLUSIVE
Adam Collins

Picking his battles: Roger Federer will duck the French Open.

In-form Federer drops French Open bombshell

Simon Briggs in Rome

On the burst: Latrell Mitchell takes on the Titans defence.

Latrell thinking: Mitchell on verge of shock Origin call-up

Michael Chammas

Demon Jesse Hogan has cancer.

Melbourne forward Jesse Hogan diagnosed with cancer

Michael Gleeson
1 hr ago

Robbie Farah wants to hold onto his position as hooker.

Farah favoured to win battle to be NSW Origin hooker

Andrew Webster

Andrew Kellaway is in line to make his return this weekend against the Melbourne Rebels.

'I couldn't breathe': Waratah opens up on bizarre injury

Tom Decent

Matt Giteau heads to Japan after six years in France.

Giteau confirms post-Toulon move

Expect Warner to be taking strike, not on strike, in the first Ashes Test.

Strike? Most likely it will end in a draw

COMMENT
Greg Baum

Waiting in the wings: Dylan Napa.

Walters backs Napa to make Origin debut

Hit in the hip pocket: The Bulldogs and Raiders will have to stump up for fines.

Bulldogs, Raiders fined by the NRL for salary cap breaches

51 mins ago

On the move: Russell Packer.

Packer signs with Wests Tigers for four years

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