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"The weak preliminary result is largely influenced by a month-on-month fall in Sydney and Melbourne dwelling values," ...

Property prices drop in Melbourne as market cools

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North Korea has tested a number of missiles.

Why North Korea's older-style Scud missile is bad news

Australians' wellbeing improved at more than double the rate of growth in gross domestic product in 2016.

As Aussie dollar lags, chances of interest rate cuts increase

Caleb Jakobsson has been sentenced to seven years' jail.

Monkey-bike killer gets 7 years' jail for mum's death

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Body found in wheelie bin in Preston.

Bin body identified as man from Broadmeadows

A Federal Court judge has come down hard on Acquire's sales and recruitment tactics.

'Disgraceful': Acquire Learning faces $4.5 million in penalties

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Mother who killed 3 of her children sobs as she gets 20 years' jail

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'Photos of sick kids' used in alleged $100,000 charity scam

Clean energy fund to invest in coal after rule change

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Scott Morrison locks $6.2 billion bank levy rate into law

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'Certain we're in a bubble': Fund manager chairman sells up

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Kim Kardashian opens up on all her best feuds: Kris Humphries, Taylor Swift, Monica Rose

Kim Kardashian reveals when she knew her last marriage was over

Matty Johnson is Australia's next Bachelor.

New season of The Bachelor could be spoiled before it premiers

Amy Barlow, 12, a victim of Manchester Arena bombing with her mother, Kathy, and father, Grant, at the Royal Manchester ...

'Tea, toast and hugs': Inside the hospital saving bomb victims

Claire Foy (Elizabeth II) and Matt Smith (Prince Philip) in The Crown.

The Queen has seen The Crown. She 'really liked it'

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Car reverse parks ... and plunges into a river

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Plans for a mouse farm, right in the middle of suburbia

Sunday night's aurora australis peaking through a gap in cloudy conditions over Point Lonsdale Pier.

Amazing photos of aurora australis ... taken right here

The stratosphere allows aircraft to operate in more stable weather.

Ever wondered why jet aircraft fly so high?

Tiger Woods' mugshot after being arrested on a DUI charge.

Tiger Woods says alcohol wasn't a factor in DUI case

Without the family home, the age pension and superannuation balances are unlikely to meet the day-to-day living needs of ...

The biggest challenge facing women in old age: their homes

Home prices in Hong Kong have surged more than 137 per cent since the financial crisis in 2008.

Hong Kong's property risks edge higher as secret loans rise

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Radha Nair and her son, Vimal Nair, who manages Radha's Airbnb bookings on her behalf.

Where there's a bill, there's a way: Airbnb answers home costs

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Creative ways millennials have moved out, while still at home

The 1944 IKEA clam chair designed by Danish architect Philip Arctander

Your old IKEA furniture could be worth thousands

Toddler Lachlan Black died of septicemia in 2014.

Could doctors have saved the life of two-year-old Lachlan Black?

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Cranbourne North home destroyed by fire

Worker hurt in Geelong building crane collapse

Kylie Maybury was six-years old when she was killed.

Remorse didn't make Kylie's killer plead guilty. It was this

John Silvester

Footscray Road elevated freeway. Artist's impression.

Thousands of cars a day: $5.5b tunnel to flood inner suburbs

The bodies of Judy Stephens, 53, and her mother Isabel Stephens, 89, were found south of Benalla on Saturday.

Benalla tragedy: Autopsies to solve mystery deaths

Anne Locco's mother Moira died in 2013 and she is still waiting for answers.

Absolute nightmare: Long wait for nursing-home death answers

Ricky Maddison was shot dead by police on Tuesday.

Gunman shot dead after cop killing

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Need a makeover? We want to pimp a public servant

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Ricky Hema jumps on to the head of motionless Oliver Goss.

Footage shows man stomping on victim's head

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Preventable nursing home deaths surge

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Huddersfield Town's players celebrate winning on penalty's after the League Championship, second leg soccer match ...

Aaron Mooy's long and winding road to the EPL

Michael Lynch

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Is 'alien yoga' really healthy?

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Ken Wyatt, the most senior Indigenous MP, has recently said he did not believe having an Indigenous body enshrined in ...

Only Indigenous minister vows to fight off preselection challenge

James Massola
27 mins ago

Turnbull government wants green bank to fund clean coal

Adam Morton

Scott Morrison locks $6.2 billion bank levy rate into law

James Massola
24 mins ago

Victorian senator Derryn Hinch.

'Child rape holidays' are over: paedophile passport crackdown

Fergus Hunter

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten.

Fury over 'clean coal' and schools funding as question time heats up

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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, pictured during a recent visit to troops in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan troop boost backed but 'where's the strategy?'

North Korea has tested a number of missiles.

Why North Korea's older-style Scud missile is bad news

Kirsty Needham

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn at a rally in Glasgow, Scotland, on Sunday.

Can Jeremy Corbyn win the UK election?

ANALYSIS
Nick Miller

The bomb exploded in the upper middle class district of Baghdad, initial reports say.

Baghdad attack: car bomb targets diners breaking fast

Lia Timson

Amy Barlow, 12, a victim of Manchester Arena bombing with her mother, Kathy, and father, Grant, at the Royal Manchester ...

Inside the hospital saving Manchester's young bomb victims

Nick Miller

Abbott's now infamous 2014 budget horror show was so manifestly unfair it has fundamentally altered the national ...

We should be thankful for Tony Abbott. No, really

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Jessica Irvine

Moshe Dayan, Israeli Minister of Defence during the Six Day War.

The Six Day War has endured for 50 years

COMMENT
Tony Walker

Our work lives and stress are rolled up together and it's not your individual responsibility to fix that.

Workplace balance needs to focus more on negatives

COMMENT
Jenna Price

Phillip Parker has caused a stir with his move to get out of the market.

'Sell everything' call: Brave, reckless or something else?

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Patrick Commins

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Markets Live: Banks lead ASX comeback

Patrick Commins and Jens Meyer
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Domestic energy markets hurt by lack of gas to service Queensland's gas export projects

Gas consumers hit by declining competition

Brian Robins

CoreLogic said house prices have fallen in Sydney and Melbourne this month.

Sydney and Melbourne property prices slip in May

Patrick Hatch
1 hr ago

Big Oil faces 'investor death spiral' as green energy rises

ANALYSIS

'No deals were done': ATO review launched after $130m fraud case

Nassim Khadem

How digital finance is adding to China's debt splurge

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Clancy Yeates

'Ticking time-bomb': Infinity cables still in thousands of homes

Lucy Cormack

Why get a dog blanket when you can get a falcon pack?

Nine of the most outrageous upgrades for your luxury car

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Don't let the cold weather put you off your daily run.

How to stay warm and avoid injury when you run in the cold

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Kate Robertson discovered she was saving thousands when she was forced to stop drinking because of long-term medication.

'Giving up drinking saved me $4000 a year'

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Kate Robertson

When directors buy or sell shares in their companies, they must disclose this to the ASX and it's public information.

The only insider info on ASX companies that's legal

Marcus Padley

A $40,000 fine has been handed down to Local Blue Pages for its debt collection practices.

Fake debt collecting agencies and threats to break legs: small business debt collection exposed

Cara Waters

You could take a wage of approximately $20,000 a year and not pay any income tax.

How do I become an employee of my own business?

Max Newnham

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Trump's laptop ban on planes moves closer

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French Open: Stosur moving up

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Queensland police officer shot dead

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The Daniel Craig of Skyfall seems like a distant dream.

James Bond's Daniel Craig goes redneck in new film Logan Lucky

Broede Carmody

On Monday night's Q&A, broadcaster Stan Grant said the political mechanisms need to come before reconciliation.

Q&A recap: Indigenous panel unpacks referendum conundrum

ANALYSIS
Neil McMahon

Matty Johnson is Australia's next Bachelor.

Paparazzi threaten to spoil The Bachelor

Rob Moran

Troy and Bec's storm out of the House Rules studio.

House Rules storm out ranks among TV's biggest meltdowns

COMMENT
Aja Styles

Actor and singer Jamie Foxx courted controversy on The Tonight Show when he signed in "gibberish".

Jamie Foxx slammed for 'gibberish' sign language

Broede Carmody

Claire Foy (Elizabeth II) and Matt Smith (Prince Philip) in The Crown.

The Queen has seen The Crown, and she 'really liked it'

Rob Moran

Gyton Grantley as Carl Williams in Underbelly.

Everything old is new again on Aussie television

COMMENT
Nathanael Cooper

Nicole Kidman during the 70th annual Cannes Film Festival.

Kidman among major award-winners as festival wraps up

Stephanie Bunbury

Bill Frisell loves re-visiting music from his younger days.

Veteran jazz musician Bill Frisell still wishing upon a star with a guitar

John Shand

The Avalanches ? Since I Left You Block Party with special guest DJ Shadow, Briggs, Jonti + DJ JNETT For Vivid Live 2017 ...

Melbourne electro kings the Avalanches light up Vivid Sydney

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Martin Boulton

"Let's have some fun": Ryan Adams had our full confidence.

Ryan Adams review: Heartbreak and soul defy the odds

Michael Dwyer

Kim Kardashian opens up on all her best feuds: Kris Humphries, Taylor Swift, Monica Rose

Kim Kardashian West dishes on all her best feuds

Amy Croffey

The Abortion Law Reform Campaign by Mehreen Faruqi held an action outside NSW Parliament House earlier this week.

Why I'm not giving up my fight to get abortion decriminalised

COMMENT
Mehreen Faruqi

Chrissy Teigen is a big fan of hair contouring.

Never mind cheekbones, it's now all about hair contouring

Amy Croffey
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Prince William and Duchess Kate watch "a lot of children's programmes" with Prince George and Princess Charlotte.

'I dearly wish my mother was here to meet the children'

Hannah Furness

Jessica Chastain attends the Closing Ceremony.

The best looks from the Cannes Film Festival awards ceremony

Is there anything more disruptive to the workplace than hormones?

The hormone that needs to be banned from workplaces

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Naomi Chainey

Widi Rahmawati (L) and Firdda Kurnia, members of the metal band Voice of Baceprot, perform during a school's farewell ...

Meet Indonesia's hijab-wearing metal group

Yuddy Cahya

Fashion consultant Margaret Zhang as she appears in the new issue of Elle Australia, on stands Monday, May 29.

Elle Australia photographed their cover using an iPhone

Jenna Clarke

"Flexible" eating allows a day a week to have whatever you want.

'Flexible' eating effective, CSIRO study finds

Sarah Berry

Cheese might do our ecosystem good, but fast food does not.

Can knowing your gut microbes reveal much about your health?

Paula Goodyer

A regular walk could help ward off dementia.

Brisk walks may slow dementia

GRETCHEN REYNOLDS

Okonomi-yaki pancake gets the kebab treatment.

Okonomiyaki on a stick? Japanese pancake gets the kebab treatment

Free for all: OzHarvest founder Ronni Kahn has launched a rescued food supermarket.

Waste warriors: Seven things you can do right now to fight food waste

Kylie Kwong's scallop and ginger dumplings with Sichuan chilli dressing and Sichuan pepper and salt.

Kylie Kwong's scallop and ginger dumplings with Sichuan chilli

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'I chose not to breastfeed. That doesn't make me a bad mum'

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Mum's warning about dangerous 'deodorant challenge'

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Are these really the 7 best reasons to date a single mum?

This is NOT how Mongolian barbecue is done in Mongolia.

Cuisines that are misrepresented in Australia: 1. Mongolian barbecue

COMMENT
Ben Groundwater

Perisher saw 20cm of snow dumped across the valley on the weekend.

Snow hits Australian ski resorts: Photos

Traveller

The stratosphere allows aircraft to operate in more stable weather.

Why do jet aircraft fly so high?

Michael Gebicki

The latest tidbit has its Galaxy S8 smartphone hitting 1 million unit sales in South Korea since its April 21 release.

Crisis over, Samsung enjoys power of habit

COMMENT

Campbell Simpson.

How I threw away $4.8 million in Bitcoin

COMMENT

Soren Schwertfeger, center, and his team of assistants work on an automated arm in Shanghai.

How China may be outsmarting the West in Artificial Intelligence

Model and Playboy bunny Dani Mathers appears in Los Angeles County Superior Court to answer charges related to her ...

Playmate sentenced for body-shaming post

There's no way around it, Prey's monsters are boring.

Prey is a promising but deeply conflicted game

Mercedes is looking to entice more buyers into its AMG performance car range with new entry-level models to sit under ...

Mercedes-Benz to offer cheaper AMG cars

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Mazda6 sedan.

What new mid-size sedan should I buy?

Cameron McGavin

Volkswagen will offer the Golf R wagon in Australia from January 2018, while the hatch goes on sale mid-August.

New VW Golf R wagon price revealed

Dom Tripolone

The Nissan Qashqai ST.

The Sweet Spot: Nissan Qashqai

Stephen Ottley

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Rolls-Royce unveils world's most expensive new car

David McCowen

2017 Porsche Panamera.

Porsche Panamera Turbo reviewed

Andrew MacLean

Rory Sloane celebrates a goal against the Dockers.

Selwood (Scott, that is) to tackle Sloane

Dustin Martin is getting interest from a lot of clubs.

Bombers deny making huge offer for Martin

Swan Jake Lloyd was an early casualty with a head knock.

Life (and football) wasn't meant to be fair

Chris Judd

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Mid-season report card: Demons finals bound?

Jon Pierik

Josh Schache of the Lions.

Schache denies manager has been 'shopping' him to clubs

Kennedy is assisted from the field after suffering the calf injury against GWS.

Eagles 'relieved' as Kennedy suffers calf strain

Brendan Foster

Robert Harvey and Sam Mitchell during the 2008 preliminary final.

I'm no Harvey, says Mitchell after breaking Saint's record

Hamstrung: Bob Murphy sits on the bench.

Murphy to undergo more knee surgery

Michael Gleeson

Australian captain Steve Smith was one of three signatories of a letter to Cricket Australia.

Players frustrated by CA's refusal to talk

Ian McCullough

Dominant: Queensland won in 2016, and have taken 10 of the last 11 series.

State of Origin 2017: When and where is it on?

Matt Bungard

Tiger Woods' mugshot after being arrested on a DUI charge.

Woods says alcohol not factor in DUI, blames medication

Clutch moment: Aaron Mooy of Huddersfield Town celebrates scoring during the penalty shootout.

Mooy slots penalty as Huddersfield win promotion

Matt Bungard

Steve Smith and his teammates did not get much of a chance to play.

Australia washed out; South Africa crush England

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