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

Monash student charged with rape after weekend trip

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Patrick Cronin, who died on Monday

Punch was to weakest part of teen footballer's skull, court told

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Emma-Kate McGrath

Council backpedals over teen funeral parking ticket spree

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The common cold and respiratory infections can trigger a heart attack.

The common problem that can trigger a heart attack

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

Marc Murphy sledge: AFL chiefs say no further action necessary

1 hr ago

Complaints about telcos are up by a third, says the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman.

Australia considers US-style laptop ban on some flights

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

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Mark Kenny

'Golf, glitz and gluttony the key': US mission accomplished for Putin

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Anger over removal of Essendon's level crossing

My tram now says 'Toorak' on it and it's doing my head in

COMMENT

Sharehouse stoush escalates from dirty dishes to court orders

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Youths use hammers and axe in armed robbery at shopping centre

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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

1 hr ago

Scott Pendlebury and wife Alex are proud new parents.

It's a boy! Baby joy for Pendleburys and Magpies

59 mins ago

Autobahn Motors' vending machine in Singapore.

The 'vending machine' that dispenses Ferraris in two minutes

Team work: Matt Skinner, Jamie Oliver and Tobie Puttock at Jamie's Italian.

'Not trying to be hipster': Jamie Oliver's restaurants aren't cool

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Learjet crashes into US suburb

Live Nation Australiasia CEO Michael Coppel inside the Palais Theatre. His company will spend $6 million restoring the ...

Palais Theatre dome restored to its former glory

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Jesse Hogan could return to the field this season.

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

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Nathan Buckley has the self-belief to get the job done, but does he have the cattle?

Finals ultimatum won't finish Buckley, but bad trades might

Chris Judd

Young parents are the most concerned about the financial future of their children.

Most Aussie parents fear their kids won't ever move out, survey finds

20 mins ago

Listed at $2.3 million, this Manhattan apartment sale includes all the furnishings - like custom pieces by Poltrona ...

The perks of this $2.3m apartment make it worth every penny

Photo: Martyn Clarke Architecture

Declutter your house in a hour with these three jobs

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?

A lack of wood is putting 160 jobs at risk.

Bushfires put Morwell sawmill on brink, with 160 workers facing axe

From $1b to $60m: City fringe growth corridor 'shortchanged'

Retailers employing new tactics to lure Chinese shoppers

George Calombaris is facing legal action over food poisoning at his Hellenic Republic restaurant in Kew.

Violently ill: Calombaris restaurant sued over 'mass food-poisoning'

EXCLUSIVE

Police inspecting CCTV footage at the scene of a shooting in Tarneit.

Hunt for masked gang after shooting, beatings in Tarneit

UPDATED

The witness says he saw flags such as this being waved in a Melbourne park.

Tinnie terror hearing told of IS slogans, flags at Footscray rally

A higher bid for Fairfax Media is expected from private equity group TPG.

Apology to Chris Jermyn

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

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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

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

Brazil defies Constitution, takes anti-indigenous stance

Alex Spengler

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

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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says Australia is considering a United States-style ban on laptops on some international ...

Government 'looking at' international flights laptop ban

Fergus Hunter
10 mins ago

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

EXCLUSIVE
Adam Gartrell

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

COMMENT
Mark Kenny

Defence Industry Minister Christopher Pyne.

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

The Manus Island detention centre.

Manus Island refugee compound to begin closure in weeks

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

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

Hillary Clinton starts Onward Together, a new political group

Ian Brady, right, is escorted as he arrives at the courthouse in Hyde, Cheshire, England.

British Moors Murderer child killer dies

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

Assad troops close to UK base

Sednaya prison complex

Syria burns thousands of prisoners' bodies

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Has the mantle of global leadership passed from the US ?

COMMENT
Peter Hartcher

The negative stereotyping of Millennials is persistent and tenacious.

'Bright flight': Just another symptom of the housing crisis

COMMENT
Jason Twill

The Tesla S electric car has only 18 moving parts.

The end of petrol cars could be just eight years away

COMMENT

BHP has stressed it remains committed to a target of 290 million tonnes and is now confident it can reach it without ...

'Inflexible and defensive': Gloves off in BHP stoush

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight
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Markets Live: ASX narrowly clings to morning's gains

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underemployment

Underemployment the key to next rate move

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Peter Martin
1 hr ago

Is low volatility a sell signal for the bears? Probably not.

It's calm on the market - too calm

Patrick Commins

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

Brian Robins
1 hr ago

Consumer confidence plunges after budget

Why the world has given up on the Australian dollar

Bill Gates goes on a tweetstorm and dishes out life advice

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

What does it take to be named one of the world's most stylish men?

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The 2017 Volkswagen Golf 7.5 Alltrack.

The small car that's faster than the average Porsche

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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'

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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

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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John Oliver grills NZ leader's pizza

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Melbourne's Jesse Hogan diagnosed with cancer

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Man shot, three injured in Tarneit attack

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Spicer lost for words over Trump tapes

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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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
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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

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

Joanna Buckley applies gold leaf to the Providence building at Abbotsford Convent.

Golden age: Joanna Buckley covers convent building in bling

Debbie Cuthbertson

BalletLab artistic director Phillip Adams at his company's new home, the South Melbourne Temperance Hall, which includes ...

Temperance Hall move gives new lease of life to Phillip Adams BalletLab

Hannah Francis

Abortion, domestic violence, child abuse, sexual assault, homosexuality, teen suicide – it’s all here.

An updated Awakening shimmers between the past and the future

REVIEW
Cameron Woodhead

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
1 hr ago

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
1 hr ago

The perfect holiday dress at Albus Lumen during fashion week.

Mercedes Benz Fashion Week: The very good case for holiday clothes

Annie Brown
1 hr ago

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

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

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

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

Lobster rolls are returning to Supernormal Canteen in St Kilda.

Andrew McConnell opening Supernormal Canteen in St Kilda

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

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

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

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Should Aussie pregnant women wear these on public transport?

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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

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
46 mins ago

'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

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

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

Mercedes-Benz EQ Concept.

How Mercedes-Benz plans to take on Tesla

Greg Kable
58 mins ago

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

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

St Kilda regrets its verbal attack on Carlton's Marc Murphy.

Murphy sledge not on, but we won't act: AFL chiefs

Sam McClure
1 hr ago

Jesse Hogan could return to the field this season.

Hogan has cancer surgery, hopes to be back in 4-8 weeks

Ronny Lerner
1 hr ago

Hawthorn Football Club captain Jarryd Roughead media conference. 16 May 2017. The Age Sport. Photo: Eddie Jim.

A year since his own diagnosis, Hogan news rocks Roughead

Sam McClure
36 mins ago

Cyril Rioli will miss between eight and 12 weeks.

Hawks lose Rioli, Stratton and Frawley for lengthy stints

Marc Murphy in action against St Kilda.

AFL fails at stamping out sexism, misogyny on the field

Caroline Wilson

Gillon McLachlan

Radical late-season fixture reset as early as next year

Caroline Wilson

Demon Jesse Hogan has cancer.

Hogan diagnosed with cancer

Michael Gleeson

Dan Hannebery played his best game of the season so far against North Melbourne.

Are the Swans storming back into the finals picture?

Rohan Connolly

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

In-form Federer drops French Open bombshell

Simon Briggs in Rome

Grateful: Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola.

Guardiola grateful for rare second bite of the cherry

James Ducker

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

Warner's shot at CA: 'They might not have a team for the Ashes'

EXCLUSIVE
Adam Collins

Throwing down the gauntlet: Shane Warne.

Warne calls for more aggression under England skipper Root

Bumped: Bernard Tomic.

Bernard Tomic ousted in Rome first round

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