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The shark's teeth marks left in the bodyboard following the near miss in Bunbury on Sunday morning.

Man knocked off bodyboard by four-metre great white

Damage at Amaroo Sporting fields believed to be caused by a stolen bobcat on Saturday night.

'Pretty hammered': Stolen bobcat tears up Canberra sporting field

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Would you give alcohol to another person's child?

The teenage traits that predict who will become a binge-drinker

Desert energy - lithium evaporation pools on the salt lakes of Bolivia.

The delicate landscape that is the source of power for our gadgets

Antonio 'Tony' Loguancio. This image has been provided by his family.

Mother sues Channel Nine over son's death in siege

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CONSUMER: Melanie Bye with her daughter Bridget has reduced her grocery budget using different strategies, in Sydney. ...

'I thought I stuffed up the maths': Melanie 'in disbelief' at grocery bill

Here's where new land will be released in the ACT in the next year

'They were already gone, cold': more dogs baited in ACT suburbs

Why families are moving to Jindabyne for the entire snow season

My child won a private school scholarship. Now I'm facing a dilemma

COMMENT

Former Top Gear host Hammond injured in fiery crash

Sarah and Tom McGoram say clinical trials into rare cancers give them hope.

Why Canberra mum faces $10k-a-month cost for having 'the wrong cancer'

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Katy Perry is shaking up everything including her hair.

A messy, monumental misfire: Where Katy Perry went wrong

Big changes: Trent Merrin and Sally Fitzgibbons when they announced their engagement and Merrin at Penrith on Tuesday.

Sport's glamour couple Fitzgibbons and Merrin split

Jovy-Anne Fletcher and founder and former director of Shakuhachi Jessica White.

Once-beloved Aussie fashion label comes apart at the seams

Josh Hodgson, of the Raiders, and Waqa Blake, of the Panthers, scuffle during the match at Bathurst.

Where do the Raiders go after inexplicable loss to Panthers?

Crash in Switzerland.

Richard Hammond of Top Gear in dramatic crash

Bomber's legend Neale Daniher (right) gets a hug from nephew Joe Daniher.

The footy family isn't always functional, but the love is real

Baked salmon steak with vegetables. Diet menu. Top view

What are 'low starch' vegetables and why should we care?

Melbourne Demons legend David Neitz says Queen's ...

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NSW's Supermax for terrorists a 'dangerous path'

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Hunt thrilled with Wallabies debut after tough ...

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Some Australian citizens living abroad may be impacted by the changes. Illustration: Karl Hilzinger

Australian citizens caught up in 'foreign investor' rule changes

Popular fresh food markets for sale with units on cards

21 McConnel Crescent, Kambah.

Auction Watch: Long weekend doesn't deter young Canberra buyers

Canberra among leading cities for private listing growth

Canberra among leading cities for private listing growth

Andrew Wilson

Talbot Le Page Homes is the fourth WA builder to be placed into administration since last September.

Where exactly will land be released across Canberra - and why?

Reload Bar & Games co-owner Ravi Sharma shows off a virtual reality fighting game the bar has developed for future ...

The Canberra bar you can visit without leaving your house

Canberra teen found safe and well

Canberra Muslims break Ramadan fast with other faiths

New footpaths in the suburb of Throsby: Auditor-General Maxine Cooper has found that more than three-quarters of the ...

Footpaths not inspected, road resurfacing backlog skyrockets

Panel beater Reece Hatcliff from David Hand Smash repairs in Fyshwick.

Canberra cars towed to Wagga and Sydney for smash repairs

A new report has found Canberra parents are moving their children to well-off schools.

Parents picky when it comes to school choice

Lyneham High School students Enling Liao, Emi Callaway and Jessica Hill were national finalists in the International ...

National gong for Lyneham High's maths modelling aces

Shirley Bains is 85 and she has just passed her driving test.

Older drivers put foot down over discrimination

NSW

Matt Hall prepares to walk the Kokoda Trail for charity.

Former footy player with HIV to take on Kokoda

QLD

Baden Bond lived in a dark room smelling of urine and was abandoned in a park to die less than half a year after coming ...

Baby abandoned: 'I left him there and drove away'

NSW

Tina the Turtle was found near Shoalwater with her intestines "filled with rubbish."

Dead turtle was 'stuffed with plastic rubbish'

WA

Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce in full flight during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra.

Barnaby's Armidale move driven by 'political self-interest'

Public service managers say they fear false bullying claims.

APS managers powerless against false bullying claims

The CSIRO will try again to convince workers to accept a new deal on conditions and pay.

CSIRO pay offer takes away 20 per cent of 'legal safeguards'

FILE - In this May 22, 2016 file photo, An activist looks at an Islamic State group marketplace on the encrypted app ...

How the Turnbull government plans to access encrypted messages

EXCLUSIVE
David Wroe

Corbyn's UK success leaves the ALP reflecting on way forward

Amy Remeikis

Gonski 2.0 headed for Senate showdown

Matthew Knott

Settlers moved from the foreshore at Paga Hill to the inland site of Gerehu, where they live in appalling conditions.

Evicted living on the streets made way for Australian-backed development

EXCLUSIVE
Heath Aston

Government changes to school funding will soon come to the Senate for a vote.

Gonski 2.0: Your school funding questions answered

Matthew Knott

Prime Minister Theresa May and Elmo at a polling station in Maidenhead, England.

Australia should adopt this delightful but awful UK tradition

Judith Ireland

Yacqub Khayre leaving court after he was acquitted over a terror plot in 2009.

States agree to tougher rules for criminals with terrorist links

Michael Koziol

Bluff called: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte.

Independence day scramble in ruined city of Marawi

Lindsay Murdoch

Women and children, including Tran Thi Thanh Loan (centre), in their cell at the detention centre.

Turned back by Australia, Vietnamese deemed refugees

Shira Sebban
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Under scrutiny: US Attorney-General Jeff Sessions.

Sessions will testify in Senate on Russia and election

US forces patrolling on the outskirts of the Syrian town of Manbij.

Russia issues warning to US over strikes in Syria

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The votes are in: UK Prime Minister Theresa May's decision to call a snap election has resulted in a fiasco.

Generation gap widens and political chaos slips through

COMMENT
Annabel Crabb

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Wage rises are good for us. Really.

COMMENT
Peter Martin

Neither of us, thank goodness, are the algal blooms in Lake Burley Griffin.

Singing a (non-soppy) Federal Capital Love Song

COMMENT
Ian Warden

The gold dust mesh panel midi dress purchased by Fairfax Media is yet to arrive. It was bought online on May 24.

How did it all go wrong for fashion label Shakuhachi?

Lucy Cormack

Warren Buffett, 86, is the world's fourth-richest person, worth $US76.2 billion according to Forbes magazine. He is ...

Anonymous fan pays $3.5m for steak with billionaire Buffett

Owner-occupiers only realise the value of their home if they sell.

The property market is taking a breather, not falling off a cliff

COMMENT
Mark Bouris

The volume of exports was up 2 per cent in the June quarter.

Stormy times for an economy in the doldrums

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

Amazon will be a friend and a foe, retailers warn

Carolyn Cummins

The multibillion-dollar duel for Rio's Hunter Valley coal mines

Airfares on the rise as Qantas, Virgin make peace

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

Finkel puts energy security centre stage - but what about the cost?

Brian Robins

Keep backseat passengers entertained with their own TV screens.

The hottest luxury upgrades your car needs this snow season

Cars

Craigellachie Distillery has become infamously known as the "bad boy of Speyside".

Why the 'bad boy of Speyside' is the world's best single malt

Fine Drinks

Comparing internet plans can be copmlicated.

Smaller providers offer great-value, low-risk internet plans

Lucy Cormack

Sallie Krawcheck, formerly chief executive of Citigroup and Bank of America, says for a time she bought into the myth ...

The data's in: women make better investors than men

Georgina Dent

Do you have expectations of lunches, drinks and water cooler gossip?

Friendships at work: are you indifferent?

COMMENT
James Adonis

Gen George, founder of casual work start-up OneShift.

Gen George sells OneShift to Programmed

Cara Waters

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Panthers foil Raiders in great escape

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Man dies in North Narrabeen rugby match

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60s Batman star Adam West dies

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Penrith down Raiders in miraculous comeback

Portrait of Faezeh Jalali who is an acclaimed Indian playright, director and actress in India. She is in Sydney with a ...

Fairfax photos of the week - June 9, 2017

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The brand new season of Better Call Saul - now streaming on Stan.

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It is happening again. The new Twin Peaks is now streaming. Only on Stan.

Understanding your toddler's fine motor skills

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The business rules of attraction

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Wander through ancient landscapes in WA

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Boy George today: "If I talked about wanting to work in fashion or music or whatever they just laughed."

Boy George is the chameleon of the entertainment industry

Nathanael Cooper

The scene of the crash.

Richard Hammond injured in dramatic crash

<b> Clarke and Sayle in Meet The Mavericks: </b> what could possibly go wrong?

John Clarke's unseen interview a gift to bereft viewers

Bridget McManus

John Grisham, who wrote the novel ?A Time to Kill,? in New York, Sept. 26, 2013. The stage adaptation of Grisham?s first ...

John Grisham writes a little something on the sly

Janet Maslin

The Dynamic Duo: Adam West as Batman and Burt Ward as Robin.

Batman star Adam West dies at age 88

Michael Idato

Bliss N Eso smells like Australian spirit. From left: Eso, Bliss, Dj Izm.

Bliss N Eso take aim at the fixation on 'us and them'

Bernard Zuel

Glenne Headly with Michael Caine and Steve Martin in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

Glenne Headly, star of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, dies at 62

Jayme Deerwester

Women stripped of their rights and forced to bear children for the elite: Elisabeth Moss (left) as Offred and Alexis ...

The Handmaid's Tale resonates thanks to Trump

Katrina Onstad

Coffee Lab store manager Steph Urosevic says that for some time now, they have offered a 50 cent discount for customers ...

The Canberra cafes reducing - or banning - disposable cups

Tash Sultana has been announced in the 2017 lineup for Spilt Milk music festival.

Lorde, Tash Sultana heading to Canberra for Spilt Milk

Canberra Centre manager Amanda Paradiso inside the new Monaro Mall precinct.

What's behind the hoarding - inside 'Monaro Mall'

Karl Stefanovic and Cassandra Thorburn at the 2011 Logies.

Cassandra Thorburn and kids move into Cremorne house

Amy Croffey

Child-free and living the grey nomad dream.

Child-free and living the grey nomad dream

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Schapelle Corby

Schapelle Corby denies she's heading to Big Brother

Andrew Hornery

Sydney's PR Queen, Roxy Jacenko.

Have Roxy Jacenko and Sara Huegill fallen out again?

The Goss
Amy Croffey

Katy Perry will join Ariana Grande for the all-star concert on June 4.

Where did Katy Perry go wrong? A timeline

Patrick Ryan

Young businesswoman at her desk in home studio.

What's holding so many well-educated women back at work?

Jackie Dent

When women date younger men, it can raise eyebrows, but when men date younger women, no one blinks.

It's the year of the cougar, so ignore the sexist critics

Kathy Lette

When it came to my daughter's education I needed to do what was best for her, not others.

The dilemma I faced when my daughter won a private school scholarship

COMMENT
Elana Benjamin

Competitive runner Dylan McCuaig-Walton tried minimalist running shoes for a while.

Minimalist shoes may be able to make you run a lot faster

Sarah Berry

A weighted blanket or just tuck your blanket in?

Are weighted blankets worth the hype?

Evelyn Lewin

Harley Breen.

Harley Breen's day on a plate: 'I regret everything'

Right first dine: Scrambled eggs on toasted wholegrain bread.

Chefs tell: How they tweak their scrambled eggs to perfection

Honey is one of the key foods vulnerable to fraud.

Are you really buying honey or high fructose corn syrup? How to avoid food fraud.

Pete Evans' shepherd's pie. <b>Styling:</b> Deb Kaloper. <b>Photos:</b> Mark Roper.

Weekly meal planner: June

Baby Ezra surprised his mum during a shopping trip.

She didn't know she was pregnant, then gave birth in supermarket

Jessica Simpson and 5-year-old Maxwell.

Jessica Simpson and daughter in bikini photo furore

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What I want you to know about my 'gifted' son

The debate over seat reclining etiquette continues.

Traveller letters: This is why airlines should ban reclining seats

Phillip Island, off Norfolk Island. Getting there is not easy.

'The Uluru of the Pacific': Australia's other incredible rock

Louise Southerden

Creation rock at the Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado.

The world's best music venues, named by Australia's top musicians

Andrea Black

A self-driving car guided by Project Apollo, on the test
track at CES Asia in Shanghai.

Baidu prepares China's self-driving car hopeful

Shadow Creator's Halomini augmented reality headset looks like Microsoft's HoloLens but falls far short of the mark.

AR headsets still very much works in progress

COMMENT

E3 2017

E3 2017: The Australian gamer's one-stop guide

MVC

Why these games are vanishing from iOS

Kotaku

If all you want is Game of Thrones you can get it for $15 per month, but if you want everything the service has to offer ...

Foxtel Now: everything you need to know

Tesla has played a huge role in shifting perceptions of electric cars.

Why Australians shun electric cars

David McCowen

2017 BMW 530e.

First Drive: BMW's 530e plug-in hybrid

Andrew MacLean

2017 Renault Clio.

New Renault Clio reviewed

Andrew MacLean

2017 Kia Stinger

The best new cars still to come in 2017

David McCowen

2017 Jeep Grand Cherokee Trailhawk.

Jeep's off-road warrior reviewed

Toby Hagon

2017 BMW 530e.

BMW slams Government over "inaction" for electric cars

Andrew MacLean

Full concentration mode: Aaron Woods.

Live NRL: Tigers look to kick start season against Roosters

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The Boomers want to head to Canberra with home town hero Patty Mills but the move depends on the future of the AIS.

Boomers' Canberra game hinges on AIS Arena future

Pass mark: The rust was evident and expected but the Wallabies got their season off to a solid start against Fiji on ...

Wallabies start with a six out of 10 in season opener against Fiji

Josh Hodgson, of the Raiders, and Waqa Blake, of the Panthers, scuffle during the match at Bathurst.

Question marks remain on Raiders after heartbreaker

Blues captain Marc Murphy will need to play well if the Blues are to avoid a comfortable defeat by GWS.

AFL live: Carlton Blues v Greater Western Sydney Giants

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Latvia's Jelena Ostapenko celebrates winning the women's final at the French Open on Saturday.

Ostapenko beats Halep to win Latvia's first grand slam

A frustrated Steve Smith.

They're singing at Edgbaston as Australia crash out

Kristina Brice of the Giants grabs the ball.

Vixens out in straight sets, Giants-Lightning grand final