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ATO deputy commissioner Michael Cranston near the Central Local Court in Sydney on Thursday.

Fast cars, fine wines: Inside the Tax Office sting

EXCLUSIVE

Ben Cousins outside court in December last year.

Ben Cousins assaulted by inmates in jail... for not playing footy

Luna, the Labrador who was allegedly attacked in Mirrabooka.

Man charged with stabbing pet Labrador at Mirrabooka park

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Ms Lutui has lost more than 30 kilograms and has reversed her diabetes.

'Life-changing': Perth resident takes control of her health destiny

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The man allegedly tricked his victims by promising to return with a box of marron.

Perth's 'fake marron farmer' charged with 29 fraud offences

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Erin Holland at Royal Randwick Racecourse in April.

Beauty queen used as unwitting bait by alleged tax scammers

Rolf Harris to be released from UK prison ahead of court

Aussie schoolgirl lured to US on Snapchat found in killer's basement

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Perth retailers urged to recall popular 'fidget spinner' toy

Perth vet struck off for letting prac students perform surgeries

Ute on fire near Graham Farmer Freeway tunnel now cleared away

Soundgarden's Chris Cornell: the screech comes as easily as ever.

'Something wasn't right': Cornell's final show filmed

A car rests on a security barrier in New York's Times Square after driving through a crowd of pedestrians.

Driver mows down pedestrians in deadly Times Square rampage

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Metronet 'needs to be loved' otherwise it will fail

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Stanley Kubrick: Hidden meanings in his film <i>The Shining</i> are parallelled in <i>Pitch Perfect</i>, which is really ...

The bizarre reason that stopped Stanley Kubrick moving to Perth

Olivia Mead successfully argued the original sum her late father left her wasn't enough.

Family of Perth billionaire fights secret daughter's $25m win

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Times Square crash caught on film

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

Worst job in Washington right now: working for ...

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Trump's Russia conversation 'within expectations'

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Fake 'marron farmer' charged with 29 fraud ...

8:35AM

Some home buyers are grouping together as friends and family to purchase their first property.

Dark side of the high life: Cottesloe's hidden health costs

Emma Young

'Twiggy' Forrest uses native title to defend the farm

Jonathan Barrett

Fake 'marron farmer' charged with 29 fraud offences

Emma Young
9 mins ago

A Perth tradie has won $2.6 million.

'I've won the bloody Lotto': Tradie finds ticket in work pants

Heather McNeill

The wonderful world of Frizz Ferguson's Wonder Woman collection.

The eccentric world of Perth memorabilia collectors

Brendan Foster

Miniature pig owners want the animal to be considered a pet.

'I'm devastated': WA council forces family to remove pet mini-pigs

Heather McNeill

Olivia Mead successfully argued the original sum her late father left her wasn't enough.

Family of Perth billionaire fights secret daughter's $25m win

The Caboolture woman had two big wins in two days.

Caboolture woman wins Lotto twice in two days

QLD

Shane Van Duren was spared jail after he clashed with authorities trying to seize his companion dog.

Veteran avoids jail after bid to free dog turns violent

ACT

Boxer Davey Browne died four days after he was critically injured during a super featherweight title fight.

Boxer was likely concussed before death: inquest

NSW

Elizabeth-Jo Willot Vickridge specialises in household rabbits.

Deregistered: Vet let students perform surgery

Noel Pearson has challenged political leaders to 'put a winnable proposition to the Australian people'.

'Noble compromise' will emerge on Indigenous recognition: Pearson

Michael Gordon

Trump's Russia conversation 'within expectations', says Bishop

Fergus Hunter
6 mins ago

Jobless rate down, but Australians are working fewer hours

Peter Martin

Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra on Thursday 20 April 2017. ...

Generational change forces Nats to consider emissions scheme

Fergus Hunter

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk.

Queensland considers $320m 'royalty relief' for Adani mine

Celebrate our victories: Anthony Albanese has distanced himself from Labor leader Bill Shorten's budget reply.

Anthony Albanese critiques Bill Shorten's budget reply

EXCLUSIVE

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten says the alleged tax fraud matter builds the case for a federal ICAC.

Shorten says alleged tax fraud builds case for federal ICAC

Rolf Harris.

Rolf Harris to be freed from prison ahead of court appearance

Latika Bourke

Chelsea Manning

Chelsea Manning shares first picture of herself since release

US Vice President Mike Pence: Presidential material?

Three times Vice President Pence deceived

ANALYSIS

Schapelle Corby is just days away from being deported back to Australia on May 27.

Schapelle Corby 'deserves her freedom': former prison governor

Jewel Topsfield

Illustration John Shakespeare

Welfare crackdown at odds with the real story

COMMENT
Judith Ireland

Scott Morrison, selling a budget whose projections stretch credulity.

The 2017 budget's inconvenient truth

COMMENT
Peter Martin

Freeway prang after car suddenly stops.

Perth's freeway woes are easy to solve... do the speed limit!

COMMENT
David Allan-Petale

Australians are visiting shopping centres less and less.

We are visiting shopping centres less and less

Madeleine Heffernan
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Markets Live: ASX down, not out

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Attuned to the anxieties of white America, Roger Ailes influenced conservative politics, amplified messages and picked ...

Roger Ailes was the media master who paved the way for Trump

Jim Rutenberg
1 hr ago

We're crushing the confidence out of our own people.

Insecure future: Governments are crushing our confidence

COMMENT
Harold Mitchell

What time of day are you working optimally? It's your biology

Anna Patty

Traders welcome return of volatility

ANALYSIS
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8@eight: Markets find their feet

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Former Fox News chief Roger Ailes dead at 77

When Dani Austin and Sam Ryan move into their straw house in a couple of months it will be with a great sense of ...

A young couple's unusual approach to building their first home

Professional location manager Drew Rhodes on the lookout for locations in the Yarraville village.

'It's all smoke and mirrors': The secret life of a location scout

Donald Trump would eventually have to disclose the sales price, but he would not be required to reveal the buyer.

Questions over sale of Trump's $37.6m Caribbean mansion

Mr Lavender hauled in hundreds of tonnes of stone to build Highlands Castle, putting each rock in place by hand.

When your home is a castle: Replica palaces taking off in US

Photo: Orbit Homes.

How to disguise one of your home's biggest eyesores

Cracking the two hour mark is the Holy Grail of marathons.

Breaking the two hour marathon: How to run your fastest time ever

The Long Run

You can't afford to be cheap when it comes to shoes.

What should you really be paying for your shoes?

Men's Shoes

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Complex situation for defined benefit members

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Noel Whittaker

Safety has long been the selling point for the Volvo.

'Trading shares is now a poor man's game'

Marcus Padley

Michael Schaper, deputy chairman of the ACCC, says small businesses are a far more attractive target for scammers than ...

Business scams top $3.8 million: ACCC

Cara Waters

Burleigh Brewing Company co-founder Peta Fielding also chairs the Independent Brewers Association.

Beer brawl as independents boot giants from association

Cara Waters

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Car slams into Times Square pedestrians

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Times Square crash caught on video

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Trailer: Fargo Season 3

Video surfaces of Chris Cornell's last performance

Illustration Andrew Dyson

Best of Fairfax cartoons, May 19

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Soundgarden's Chris Cornell: the screech comes as easily as ever.

'Something wasn't right' at Chris Cornell's final show

The face of TV cookery: Jamie Oliver

Why Jamie Oliver says he'll retire in 10 years

Sarah Thomas

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

Melissa McCarthy's outtakes just as funny as SNL sketches

Broede Carmody
25 mins ago

Caitlyn Jenner at the 27th Annual GLAAD Media Awards.

Caitlyn Jenner offered $1.7 million to join reality show

Chris Cornell on stage at the Soundwave music festival in Melbourne Showgrounds in 2015.

Soundgarden's Chris Cornell dies aged 52

Kerrie O'Brien

Fast moving: Ewan McGregor (left) as Emmit Stussy, and David Thewlis as V.M. Varga.

Ewan McGregor plays two very different brothers in Fargo

Michael Idato

Merrick Watts.

Merrick Watts to quit radio, eyes acting career

Broede Carmody

Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams at the Academy Awards, where he was nominated for <i>Brokeback Mountain</i> in 2006.

The Heath Ledger we never got to see

Garry Maddox

The wonderful world of Frizz Ferguson's Wonder Woman collection.

The eccentric world of Perth collectors

Brendan Foster

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

Taylor Swift attends the "Manus x Machina: Fashion In An Age Of Technology" Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan ...

What is Taylor Swift planning? Because the signs are all there

Emily Yahr

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MAY 18: A model poses backstage ahead of the Ten Pieces show at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Resort 18 ...

Fashion Week has hijacked the bogan uniform

Jenna Clarke

CANNES, FRANCE - MAY 17: Model Emily Ratajkowski attends the "Ismael's Ghosts (Les Fantomes d'Ismael)" screening and ...

Susan Sarandon is Cannes red carpet goals

One-shouldered shirts at Anna Quan.

Fashion week rethinks the crisp, white shirt

Annie Brown

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Don't skirt around it, John Laws was objectifying women

COMMENT
Clementine Ford

US model Bella Hadid arrives in Cannes.

Let's get real about Bella Hadid's supposed wardrobe malfunction

Annie Brown

Greens co-deputy leader Larissa Waters soothes baby Alia Joy after breastfeeding her in the Senate.

Fighting sexism isn't simply 'identity politics'

COMMENT
Ruby Hamad

Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks in front of an artist's impression of the new campus, Apple Park.

A look at Apple's 'Mothership' reveals missing feature

SATIRE
Clem Bastow

Confusion over healthy food leads to a big spend-up on junk.

Healthy eating is cheaper, but we're spending big on junk

Sarah Berry
1 hr ago

Tuck into water with lemon before your morning coffee.

5 ways to jump-start a healthy morning

Jessi Roti

Sylvia Keays.

The struggle to make people take gut health seriously

Sarah Berry

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Woman arrested for tampering with baby formula

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Parents, keep cotton buds out of your kids' ears

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Why Minecraft is a threat to parrots and pet birds everywhere

Dust bakery in Sydney mills flour on site.

Low GI, high fibre and less gluten: Why it's OK to eat this real bread

Choc-coffee combo: Caffeine addicts and chocoholics beware.

Have your coffee and eat it too: Coffee-in-a-cone hits Australia

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Calorie count: There's a reason why airlines don't tell you what's in your in-flight meal.

The startling number of calories consumed on the average flight

Gavin Haines
16 mins ago

The Boeing 747- 8 Intercontinental passenger plane taxis before taking off on its first test flight at Paine Field in ...

Can I buy my own 747 jetliner - and how much would it cost?

Hugh Morris

More than 40 of the buildings are along historic or religious walkways and 59 are along cycle paths. One of the ...

Italy gives away castles to attract tourists - but what's the catch?

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Facebook hit with $165 million fine in EU

Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Google Inc., speaks during the Google I/O Annual Developers Conference in ...

Google wants to probe our lives even deeper

Getting ransom money in Bitcoin is easiest for cyber-crooks, but it isn't the most secure.

Why bitcoin may soon fall out of cybercriminals' favour

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Most of the updates coming to Android involve little tweaks.

Everything new about Android O

2017 Mercedes-Benz E220d All-Terrain.

Driven: Mercedes-Benz's SUV alternative

Daniel DeGasperi

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What to do when you have an accident

Alessandra Melville

Hyundai's high-performance division is planning a sportier version of the Tucson SUV

Hyundai to build high performance SUVs

Andrew MacLean

2017 Jaguar XF Sportbrake.

Jaguar XF Sportbrake teased

Dom Tripolone

170331-AB Volvo F?rarl?s sopbil. Best. av Anna Arbius Bild: Cicci Jonson, Bilduppdraget Volvo self-driving garbage truck.

Volvo to trial driverless garbage trucks

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2015 Holden Cascada Launch Edition.

What was wrong with Holden's failed convertible?

David Morley

Working up a sweat: Manny Pacquiao with Andrew Webster after a training run on the streets of Manila.

Killer in Manila: Busting a gut to keep up with the Pacman

Andrew Webster

Aussie coach Darren Lehmann.

Lehmann adamant players won't boycott Ashes series

Phil Lutton

Blues skipper Marc Murphy.

Sledge furore exposes AFL's unmet pledge on respect

Caroline Wilson

The next rung of Cats need to lift.

Why the Cats need to get their hands dirty

Wayne Carey

Magpie Adam Treloar.

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Tom Liberatore helps the Bulldogs to an elimination final win over West Coast last year. A last-round wildcard weekend ...

Finals wildcard weekend woos club bosses

Daniel Cherny

A natural footballer: Harry Perryman is eager to make his AFL debut on Saturday.

The tiny village producing AFL stars

James Buckley

Tasmanian Nick Riewoldt in action.

Football's lost years in Tasmania

Caroline Wilson
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