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Harley Bennell will miss another 8-10 weeks with a calf injury.

Dockers fine Bennell $10,000, order counselling

33 mins ago

Between March and December 2015, the syndicate laundered an estimated $29 million.

Dire forecast as wage growth set to stall at all-time low

1 hr ago

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': David Warner

EXCLUSIVE

Christopher Ryan Jones will be sentenced next week.

WA school teacher recorded dozens of kids in stockings

Several people have been taken into custody after a police chase through Yokine.

Police officer injured during 'car chase' through Yokine

Methamphetamine traffickers will get life in prison under a new bill introduced by Labor.

WA meth traffickers to get life in prison under new Labor bill

Australia considers US-style laptop ban on some flights

Stay-at-home dads do less childcare than working mums: study

Bad to worse: Why the world has given up on the Aussie dollar

Perth 'pie thrower' banned from Qantas flights for life

Bayswater's big decision spotlights soaring developer power

Some of the gold recovered by police.

WA gold theft: Man caught stealing $200k of gold from mine site

57 mins ago

Mentally, Donald Trump is still a seven-year-old boy who is bouncing around the classroom

When the world is led by a child

COMMENT

Marc Murphy and wife Jessie.

AFL slow to address Saints sledge on Murphy's wife

The fine a Perth driver copped for driving in the right lane.

Too slow... another Perth driver fined for lane hogging

Jasmine Yarbrough with sister Jade Yarbrough at Myer x Misha's MBFWA after-party at Icebergs, Bondi, on Monday night.

Karl Stefanovic's girlfriend plays host at Fashion Week after-party

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Learjet crashes into US suburb

The man behind the mascot masks is the same.

The dark secret behind the Eagles and Dockers' mascots

Athletes at last years event.

World's best athletes venture to Leonora in battle of the titans

Dockers fine Harley Bennell $10,000 in AFL

5:19PM

Kalgoorlie man 'stole' $200k worth of gold from ...

4:55PM

Wage growth set to stall at all-time low

4:25PM

The Professional Standards Portfolio continually monitor their own for unprofessional conduct.

Senior WA cop who investigates his own officers opens up

EXCLUSIVE

WA teacher indecently recorded students in stockings

Phil Hickey

Perth woman dismissed as mentally ill while 'Lyme-like disease' debate rages

Molly Schmidt

Methamphetamine traffickers will get life in prison under a new bill introduced by Labor.

Meth traffickers to get life in prison under new Labor govt bill

Brendan Foster

The fine a Perth driver copped for driving in the right lane.

Another Perth driver fined for driving too slow in the right lane

Heather McNeill

Alan Joyce hit with a pie during an event in Perth.

Perth 'pie thrower' banned from Qantas flights for life

Fran Rimrod

A resident's protest over plans for the Meltham station precinct.

Bayswater's big decision spotlights developer power

Emma Young

Anne Gabrielides

'Don't leave me trapped in a dying body': Anne's plea

EXCLUSIVE

Droughts will worsen at 1.5 degrees of warming in south-eastern Australia mostly from the impact of higher temperatures.

'Alarming': The difference half a degree will make

Marcus Volke and Mayang Prasetyo.

The debt and the deal that led to murder-suicide

QLD

A message sent from the prisoner who died at the Alexander Maconochie Centre on Saturday night to his partner the night ...

'Love ya': Prisoner's last words to partner

ACT

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull slapped down Ken Henry's criticism.

Government 'looking at' international flights laptop ban

Fergus Hunter

Medicare rebate thaw covers only a fraction of scans

Adam Gartrell

Welfare receiving drug users 'won't be referred to police'

Amy Remeikis

Australia's Immigration Minister Peter Dutton.

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

EXCLUSIVE
Adam Gartrell

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull slapped down Ken Henry's criticism.

Budget fails to propel Turnbull, but it may yet pay off

COMMENT
Mark Kenny

RSL national president Robert Dick.

NSW branch shrugs off RSL demands to stand down despite scandal

David Wroe
1 hr ago

Defence Industry Minister Christopher Pyne.

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

David Wroe

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

Brazil accused of anti-indigenous stance

Alex Spengler

Donald Trump smiles while meeting with Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on Monday.

Can you keep a secret, Mr Trump?

COMMENT
Daniel Flitton

Thailand's King Vajiralongkorn on Friday.

Facebook still running in Thailand despite royal threat

1 hr ago

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

Hillary Clinton starts Onward Together, a new political group

President Donald Trump fired the head of the FBI James Comey.

President Donald Trump must be impeached. Here's why

COMMENT
Laurence Tribe

The young, highly educated and restless are being priced out of many of the world’s major cities.

'Bright flight': another symptom of the housing crisis

COMMENT
Jason Twill

The Tesla S electric car has only 18 moving parts.

A world without petrol cars could be close

COMMENT
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Gerry Harvey released 10-month sales figures for his retail network, showing 5.5 per cent total growth in total sales.

Harvey Norman hits back

Catie Low

Peter Costello, Chairman of the Australian Future Fund, said he believed the banks would pass the cost of the tax onto ...

Customers, not shareholders, to feel bank levy pain: Costello

Georgia Wilkins

Distaste for the banks eased in the early afternoon and appetite for industrials and mining stocks kept the ASX clawing ...

Banks help ASX claw higher

Jessica Sier

Elliott has pushed for BHP to "think big" in revamping its operations, taking a line from the miner's new advertising ...

BHP hits back at 'misleading' claims from activist

Brian Robins

Underemployment the key to next rate move

UPDATED
Peter Martin

'Inflexible and defensive': Gloves off in BHP stoush

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

It's calm on the market - too calm

Patrick Commins

Consumer confidence plunges after budget

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

Can a family downsize from a house to an apartment?

Photo: Martyn Clarke Architecture

Easy win: Declutter your house in a hour with these three jobs

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

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

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

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

Nature strips are where you'll discover which bits of furniture have been relegated to the scrap heap of style.

What became of the waterbed? An ode to the furniture time forgot

Charles Oates Fine Apple Brandy is an Australian homage to the French spirit known as calvados.

The premium Tasmanian spirit every whisky lover needs to try

Fine Drinks

The 2017 Volkswagen Golf 7.5 Alltrack.

This zippy small car is 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

Sensis chief executive John Allan says he "sincerely regrets" the poor customer service.

Not happy Jan! Sensis in trouble in first unfair contracts action

Cara Waters

Kate Carnell says banks have done enough stalling.

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

Cara Waters

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Melbourne's Jesse Hogan diagnosed with cancer

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Syria builds massive crematorium at prison: US

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Man shot, three injured in Tarneit attack

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Federer to skip French Open

The Palais theatre in St Kilda when it was hosting the Melbourne Film Festival (some time in the 1970's)

The Palais is back.....As we look back at the Palais Theatre through the ages.

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It is happening again. The new Twin Peaks premieres 22 May. Only on Stan.

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

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New approaches for retaining millennial staff

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2 Broke Girls has been axed after six seasons.

Which of your fave US shows are coming back – and which aren't?

Rob Moran

Em Rusciano slammed radio veteran John Laws, calling the 81-year-old's comments "sexist" and "irrelevant".

Em Rusciano roasts John Laws after 'sexist' skirt comments

Broede Carmody

Actress Melissa McCarthy portrays White House spokesman Sean Spicer, while taping a segment for Saturday Night Live.

How Melissa McCarthy came to play Sean Spicer on SNL

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

Will & Grace

Will & Grace tease comeback season with musical trailer

WATCH THE TRAILER

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

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

The 2012 Henschke Hill of Grace vintage was superb, the winery says.

Long wait over for 2012 Henschke Hill of Grace

David Prestipino

Greg Garnish and senior winemaker Bernie Stanlake.

Made in Margs: Oz's first Pisco hits Perth

Allen Newton

The multi-faceted winery Aravina Estate in Yallingup is one of WA's best.

One of WA's most-loved wineries is up for sale

David Prestipino

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

Fashion desgners Beth and Tess Macgraw with their assistants from the Country Women's Association Annette Hinde and ...

The CWA just made a charming Fashion Week debut

Jenna Clarke
1 hr ago

Being 'zombied': when people come back from the dead to eat your brains and make you go crazy.

What modern dating and horror movies have in common

Kerri Sackville

The perfect holiday dress at Albus Lumen during fashion week.

Why everybody should have a resort wear wardrobe

Annie Brown

A model falls over on the runway in a design by Victoria Bliss during the Project NextGen show at Fashion Week at ...

Relatable: Model takes a tumble at Fashion Week ... wearing flats

Amy Croffey

Jasmine Yarbrough with sister Jade Yarbrough at Myer x Misha's MBFWA after-party at Icebergs, Bondi, on Monday night.

Karl Stefanovic's girlfriend plays host at Fashion Week after-party

Amy Croffey

'Without the possibility of any factual account, I have been left to patch the events of the evening back together myself."

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

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

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Should Aussie pregnant women wear these on public transport?

These Lego DIY fidget spinners are just some of the DIY options available.

How to make your own fidget spinners at home

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Your 'parent-teacher interview' survival guide

53 mins ago

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

Qatar’s bar takes the prize, despite its roots in a largely dry country.

World's best in-flight lounge bar -and the drinks you should order

Michael Graziano and Alexander Thomas James Hennessy from Global Degree.

Backlash after pretentious 'sorry' from millennial travellers goes viral

Ben Groundwater

Australia is considering a ban laptops on some international flights.

Possible laptop ban in Australia: would it work?

COMMENT
Anthony Dennis

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

Hackers reportedly hold Disney film for ransom

Puyo Puyo Tetris

Tetris returns to form, with a Japanese twist

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

RIP MP3: audio format has been officially terminated

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

Lyft, Waymo team up against Uber

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

WannaCrypt: Aussie businesses crippled

2017 Hyundai i30 Premium diesel.

What open-road car should I buy?

Cameron McGavin

Mercedes-Benz EQ Concept.

How Mercedes-Benz plans to take on Tesla

Greg Kable

What are the best car related apps?

Top 10 motoring apps for drivers

Alessandra Melville

Volkswagen Spirit of Amarok.

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

Kez Casey

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

Renault has unveiled an F1-inspired van.

Renault unveils F1-inspired van

David McCowen

Jesse Hogan could return to the field this season.

Hogan expected to make full recovery, could play in 4-8 weeks

Michael Gleeson, Ronny Lerner
1 hr ago

Harley Bennell will miss another 8-10 weeks with a calf injury.

Dockers fine Bennell $10k and order him to get counselling

33 mins ago

PERTH, AUSTRALIA - MAY 12: Players contest for a mark during the round eight AFL match between the West Coast Eagles and ...

Will the Eagles' MCG 'curse' extend to Etihad Stadium?

The Western Force are on track to play Super Rugby finals this year.

Force welcome back Super cavalry as finals berth on horizon

Hayden Ballantyne is not far from a return with Freo.

Ballantyne, Hill set to bolster Freo as Eagles wait on Petrie

Kim Hagdorn

Ross Lyon expects Harley Bennell to play for Peel in five weeks.

Bennell to return via WAFL in five weeks: Ross Lyon

Nathan Vardy is eyeing a forward role at the Eagles.

Vardy's ruck days might be numbered at West Coast

A grim Murphy leads the Blues off after the volatile loss to St Kilda.

Murphy lashes trolls as Saint regrets wife sledge

UPDATED
Michael Gleeson