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Tough month, positive day.

Are the wheels really falling off our economy?

ANALYSIS

FILE - At left, in a Jan. 26, 2015, file photo, Australian tennis great Margaret Court looks on during the official ...

An open letter to Navratilova, from Margaret Court Arena

COMMENT
Malcolm Knox

Tuesday's inflation figures triggered a sustained sell-off of the Aussie dollar that only gathered steam overnight as ...

'Miracle economy': Talk of recession as Australia takes world record

56 mins ago

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra on Wednesday 31 May 2017. fedpol ...

A crisis could jolt the country back to reality

ANALYSIS
Peter Hartcher

Changes are coming to frequent flyer programs.

It's about to get harder to earn Frequent Flyer points

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

President Donald Trump speaks about the U.S. role in the Paris climate change accord, Thursday, June 1, 2017, in the ...

'Dark prince' to lead fight against Trump's 'No.1 terror state'

Early election gamble set to backfire after turnaround

ANALYSIS

Australian tourist killed in fight outside San Francisco hotel

The bombshell clause that threatens to cause chaos in NRL

EXCLUSIVE
Michael Chammas

90,000 evacuated from popular music festival over terror threat

Melissa Cunningham
2 mins ago

The recession we're bound to have will come sooner or later

ANALYSIS
Ross Gittins

Faye Leveson (centre) is comforted by a family friend and her husband Mark Leveson (left) at the edge of the crime scene ...

Levesons had no idea they were standing within 100 metres of their son's body

Maria Tran.

Beaten up at high school, now an action-movie ace

The Messages app on Apple's iPhone, which can be used to make dinner arrangements, among other features.

Apple's tricky issue with one of its most popular features

SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES - APRIL 14: Mortlake for the Domain Neighbourhoods Project on April 14, 2017 in Sydney, ...

Is this suburb the Double Bay of the inner west?

HOSPITAL

I was clinically dead for two minutes. This is what I saw

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Muslims pray outside Trump Tower during Ramadan

Leo Varadkar celebrates as he is named as Ireland's next prime minister.

Son of immigrant becomes Ireland's first gay PM

Ariana Grande visits fans in hospital following the Manchester bombing.

Ariana Grande makes surprise visit to young bomb victims

I can no longer support the Salvation Army.

Why I won't give to the Salvos appeal

COMMENT

Injured Melbourne Storm stalwart Billy Slater says he is resigned to missing the finals.

The selection quarrels threatening to tear Maroons apart

ANALYSIS

88A Awaba Street, Mosman: The perfect family home is the holy grail of real estate.

How to find and future-proof your perfect family home

An unrealistic price won't get you that 'sold' sticker. Buyers are armed with information.

The factors you should consider when pricing your home for sale

The Yarramalong property has fallen into disrepair in recent years.

Scientologists opt out of drug rehab plans for Yarramalong

The couple are believed to have purchased the Bellevue Hill home of Rosemary Foot.

Vaucluse downsizers sell for $20 million, buy for $6 million

New laws from July 1 will require property vendors to prove they are Australian citizens when selling a home worth ...

'Foreign until proven otherwise': Budget change to affect sellers

Michael Arlington, graduating from UNSW with his medical degree in 1969. In the grip of depression, he took his own life ...

I found my dad dead. This is what I wished I'd said to him

Kim Arlington

Seeds for Macdonald's destruction were sown over an $1800 dinner

Kate McClymont

Man pleads guilty to stabbing ex-partner, murdering her date

Polluted groundwater spread from this service station in Randwick and may have posed a "vapour risk" to residential ...

Watchdog not declaring contamination despite health risks

The median Sydney house price is hovering above $1 million.

Analysis shows how many Sydney properties would get new tax break

Tony Campbell, pictured with his wife Robyn, died after falling down a ravine at Fox Glacier.

Australian grandfather died in New Zealand 'doing what he loved'

Golf courses in crosshairs as councils seek sports field space

Sydney golf courses in firing lines as councils look for sporting space

A proposal by Chinese developer Zhongren for the Maribyrnong Defence Site would include up to 6000 homes. Source: Zhongren

The $2.5b plan to turn contaminated land into a luxury suburb

VIC

The teenager was first approached near the playground adjacent to the bike path at Yerrabi Pond in Gungahlin.

Man grabbed 17-year-old girl in indecent assault

ACT

Callers to Centrelink got an engaged signal 42 million times in just 10 months, a Senate committee was told on Thursday.

Smartphones blamed as Centrelink sends out 42 million engaged signals

Muslim students were forced to leave the Perth Convention Centre because of their attire. (file pic)

Muslim students 'told to leave' Convention Centre due to attire

WA

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Amie Baines has produced a new video and photo series featuring 25 women who call Australia home.

The question about race Australians need to stop asking

COMMENT
Jenna Clarke

Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the UK opposition Labour Party, poses for a photograph with supporters after delivering a ...

Everything you need to know about the British election

Nick Miller
1 hr ago

Melbourne, May 18, 2001. The armour, including helmet and breastplate, of legendary bushranger Ned Kelly in its current ...

Wanted: $2.5m for 'definitive' Ned Kelly film

Garry Maddox
1 hr ago

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Four Australian Treasurers for Ipad

Keating, Costello, Swan and Hockey.

The (Really) Lucky Country: dark clouds as Oz takes world record

56 mins ago

The money men: Keating, Costello, Swan and Hockey

Mark Kenny

Lucky Country? Take it from me, another bad recession is coming

ANALYSIS
Ross Gittins

Illustration: John Shakespeare

How our record growth let to complacency, and bad politics

ANALYSIS
Peter Hartcher

Illustration: Jim Pavlidis

Winning the fairness debate in our miracle economy

COMMENT
Michael Gordon

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is in Singapore to talk regional security.

Turnbull warns China against bullying in pro-US speech

David Wroe

Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce remains a big figure in Queensland.

Why Turnbull and Shorten have inundated Queensland

Amy Remeikis

The Philippines' cybersex industry has been estimated to be worth $1 billion a year.

Children as young as two rescued from cybersex dens

Lindsay Murdoch

Leo Varadkar will become Ireland's new prime minister after winning his party's leadership.

Meet the man set to become Ireland's first openly gay PM

White House officials on Friday refused to confirm if President Donald Trump thought climate change was a hoax.

The burning question: Does Donald Trump believe in climate change?

An image from CCTV shows Manchester bomber Salman Abedi.

UK police investigate suspicious car as evacuations ordered

Margaret Court says she will boycott Qantas over its support for same-sex marriage.

It's important not to airbrush bigotry from our history

COMMENT
Julia Baird

I can no longer support the Salvation Army.

Why I won't give to the Salvos appeal

COMMENT
Garry Linnell

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian is calling for more autonomy for high-performing states.

Premier must showcase her credentials after fire levy burn

COMMENT
Sean Nicholls

Bunnings Group chief executive John Gillam is blunt about the big turnaround task in the UK but he's convinced it can ...

Bunnings finds it can afford to shun online

ANALYSIS
Madeleine Heffernan

Changes are coming to frequent flyer programs.

It's about to get harder to earn Frequent Flyer points

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

Illustration: Simon Bosch

Are the wheels really falling off Australia's economy?

ANALYSIS
Myriam Robin

Uber has become a global headache for the taxi industry.

Uber is transportation, but keep that on the down low

ANALYSIS
Nir Kaissar

Netflix shows are all worldwide hits - until they're not

ANALYSIS
Lucas Shaw

How Treasury spends billions without hitting key deficit

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

Talk about tech bubble is flashback to the dot-com era

COMMENT
Shira Ovide

The new rules of choosing a career

Work
Tom Ough

Aston Martin’s next hypercar, the Valkyrie.

Need for speed: The race to create the fastest car in the world

Cars

New Zealand as a backdrop: Founded in 1946 as a shirting business, Rodd & Gunn has repositioned itself as a purveyor of ...

Smoking Gunn: This Kiwi brand is taking over the USA

Men's Style

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Can we improve our retirement income?

Noel Whittaker

Adjusting for inflation, wages have shrunk in real terms. Illustration: Michael Mucci

Solving the riddle of low wages growth in Australia

ANALYSIS
Jessica Irvine

Greens senator Nick McKim will introduce to parliament legislation aimed at eradicating late payments to small businesses.

Greens introducing small business payments legislation

EXCLUSIVE
Cara Waters

Appearance-related ageism tends to be harshest among the female gender.

Older workers: 'rusty, invisible and threatening'?

COMMENT
James Adonis

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Trump moves to keep CIA torture tactics secret

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French Open: Day six

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Video of Tiger Woods inside jail after arrest

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Terror threat evacuates German festival goers

Fireworks and bonfire for Empire Night in Sydney on 25 May 1957. SMH NEWS Picture by BERT POWER Queens Birthday cracker ...

Rewind - Cracker night

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The brand new season of iZombie - now streaming on Stan.

New approaches for retaining millennial staff

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How to create a better customer checkout experience

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Ten activities to aid toddler development

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Ninety-thousand people had flocked ot the three-day festival.

90,000 people evacuated from music festival over terror threat

Melissa Cunningham
2 mins ago

Vanessa Redgrave directed and features in the refugee crisis documentary Sea Sorrow, which she hopes will have an impact ...

Redgrave on directing: 'I want to save lives'

Garry Maddox

Maybe it was the Tim Tams which had Bill Callahan smiling between intense songs at the Opera House

Winning with baritone and Tim Tams

Bernard Zuel

Expect to see a lot more of Sydney FC and Melbourne Victory on prime time TV.

A-League moves to Network Ten in new FTA deal

Michael Lynch

Refocusing: Jimmy Barnes at Pellegrini's.

Barnesy on his brutal childhood, real blokes, and poetry

Martin Boulton

Mojean Aria says winning the scholarship means everything.

One to watch: Mojean Aria wins Heath Ledger scholarship

Michael Idato

Shari Sebbens: "Why would I want to audition for a film called <i>Australia Day</i>?"

New film exposes 'the horrible side' of Australia

Garry Maddox

Ben Hall and Tim Draxl in <i>Only Heaven Knows</i>.

Only Heaven Knows: a musical which still resonates

Jason Blake

One the Bear: An all-ages hip-hop fairytale.

Sydney, we're got your weekend sorted right here

Nick Murphy, formerly known as Chet Faker, beefed up sound and vision for his Opera House show

Faker no more - he's back and this time it's physical

Bernard Zuel

Michaela McGuire, new artistic director of the Sydney Writers' Festival brings in audiences.

Sydney Writers' Festival wraps with robust attendances

Linda Morris

Ariana Grande visits fans in hospital following the Manchester bombing.

Ariana Grande visits young UK bomb victims

The Piazza at Castle Towers.

Rebel Wilson's 'ghetto' only packed with evangelising teens

Andrew Hornery

Josie Pohla with her grandmother Avril Domestic Violence story cr:?Dominic Lorrimer (archive photo appearing in SL, june ...

Meet four Australian women changing the face of activism

"Charging Bull" and "Fearless Girl" face off against each other in New York.

How the 'pissing pug' became an ideal metaphor for MRAs

COMMENT
Naomi Chainey

We're moving into an era of customisation.

Where will makeup be in five year's time?

Stephanie Darling

My interest in tattooing stems from my upbringing.

Power and passage – the history of the female tattoo

Emily Poelina-Hunter

Shari Lea Hitchcock posted a photograph on Instagram, claiming she was assaulted.

Hitchcock's vision blurry after alleged attack

PRIVATE SYDNEY
Andrew Hornery

Blue jeans generic pic. April 5, 2017.

The comments about their bodies that women never forget

Johanna Leggatt

Circles of focus

The easy way to get focused in less than 2 minutes

Susie Moore

Sex can improve as we age.

The good news: sex doesn't end at age 40

Sarah Berry

Jill Simpson's data art provides a visualisation of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

Visualising anxiety: What does mental illness look like?

Sarah Berry

Cold brew coffee is often served over a 'spherical ice cube that melts slower than the devil's heart'.

Road-test: Making cold-brew uses a lot of coffee beans. Is it worth it?

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

'Flexible' eating an effective diet, CSIRO study finds

Jaffna dosa with chutneys at Mathura.

A foodies' guide to Sydney's Little Sri Lanka

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The unique baby names literally no one is choosing

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Mum rewrites daughter's outdated homework assignment

Lizeth and her mother, with the offensive award. Photo: Khou

Honour student labelled 'Most Likely to Become a Terrorist' by teacher

Your overweight carry on luggage could be dangerous.

Letters: Don't compare overweight passengers to excess carry on

Traditional Christmas market in Frankfurt, Germany.

The 50 amazing experiences you can only have in winter

18 hours: United Airlines is looking launch a new US to Singapore route.

Almost 18 hours: US airline says new route could be world's longest

For accurate shooting, raising the rifle to eye height will let you see a reticule on its tiny glass display.

Farpoint the best home VR shooting experience

The new Skype puts an emphasis on group messaging.

Skype copies Snapchat in big redesign

NBN is encouraging retailers to be less stingy with bandwidth, but will they play ball?

Will NBN's new CVC bandwidth pricing fix congestion woes?

Robocop

Dubai's Robocop rolls onto city streets

Under fire: Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Facebook shareholders not happy on fake news

2017 Volkswagen Amarok Highline.

Is this the best dual-cab ute on the market?

Stephen Ottley

2017 Renault Megane wagon.

New Megane wagon launched in Oz

Dom Tripolone

2017 Mazda3 Maxx hatchback.

The best end of financial year deals revealed

Stephen Ottley

2017 Kia Optima GT.

Carpool: Kia Optima GT

Andrew MacLean

Jeep Wrangler around Bathurst Island

Jeep looks to toughen its vehicles in the outback

Toby Hagon

Audi e-tron quiattro concept.

Audi confirms more EVs

Stephen Ottley

Story to study: Fawad Ahmed's story is now being used to teach primary school children.

How Ahmed and Bradman are teaching primary school kids

Daniel Lane

Bitter divide: Embattled ARLC Chairman John Grant.

The bombshell clause that threatens to cause the NRL chaos

EXCLUSIVE
Michael Chammas

Fairytale continues: Samantha Stosur in her victory over Bethanie Mattek-Sands

Stosur has eyes on a French Open fairytale

Darren Walton
40 mins ago

Weapon: Mathew Leckie said the Socceroos' new 3-4-3 formation would be very hard to stop.

'It's a weapon': Socceroos star gives his verdict on new style

Steve Larkin
1 hr ago

Australia's Aaron Finch takes a run during the ICC Champions Trophy match between Australia and New Zealand at Edgbaston ...

Rain rescues struggling Australia against New Zealand

UPDATED
Adam Collins

Margaret Court during the 1972 Australian Open Championships.

Court shouldn't be tried for what she said 50 years ago

COMMENT
Peter FitzSimons

No one better: Kevin Durant was enormous in game one of the NBA Finals.

Warriors show they are more than just an offence

Harvey Araton

A terrible waste: Nathan Burns should have been the dominant Socceroo of his generation but is instead going to end up a ...

Why Burns' Socceroos snub hit me where it hurts

Michael Cockerill

Injured Melbourne Storm stalwart Billy Slater says he is resigned to missing the finals.

The selection quarrels threatening to tear Maroons apart

ANALYSIS
Roy Masters

Quick opener: Josh Hoffman and Tepai Moeroa celebrate with Kirisome Auva'a after the centre's early try.

Not even Foran can solve rugby league's Rubik's cube as Eels win

Adam Pengilly

Billy Slater congratulates Suliasi Vunivalu as the Storm charge to a runaway win against the Newcastle Knights at AAMI ...

Slater hopeful of Queensland Maroons recall

Roy Ward

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