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The crash scene in Kalkallo.

Four hurt, road closed after pile-up on Hume Freeway

BREAKING
14 mins ago

Wage growth in Australia remains at low levels.

9.9c per $1: Latest economic record triggers warning

US President Donald Trump.

Key attorneys set to sue Trump over foreign payments

7 mins ago

A mangled bicycle at the scene of the crash.

Cyclist critical, two others injured after collision with car

57 mins ago

Police at the scene of the terror siege in Brighton on June 5.

Man charged with supplying gun used in Brighton siege

BREAKING
40 mins ago

Coach John Worsfold and the Essendon recruiters chose Andy McGrath as the Bombers' first ever No.1 pick

Could unintended consequences of drugs saga take Dons to a flag?

Chris Judd

Here are ten things you're doing wrong at tax time

Real estate agent licence given to convicted criminal

Dreamworld CEO to exit with $731,000 payout after park tragedy

56 mins ago

Terrorists are using this. Our laws need to keep up with the technology

COMMENT

New trains in trouble before they hit the tracks

Donald Trump is dogged by the "Russian thing."

For Donald Trump, this 'Russia thing' is a real problem

ANALYSIS
Paul McGeough

Melbourne's Nathan Jones breaks free of a tackle by Taylor Adams.

Queen's birthday blockbuster : All eyes on the 'G' for Dees v Pies

Live
4 mins ago

Megan Gale will join the 10th season of Australia's Next Top Model.

'Is the heartbeat there?' Megan Gale on miscarriage trauma

31 mins ago

Britain's Kate Duchess of Cambridge arrives for the premiere of the film "A Street Cat Named Bob", event in aid of her ...

Store wars: Kate Middleton rocked it, now David Jones moves in

An Airbus A380 aircraft, manufactured by a unit of European Aeronautic, Defence & Space Co. (EADS), is seen performing ...

World's biggest passenger plane could get even bigger

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Florida sinkhole swallows car

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Queen's Birthday: What's open, what's closed and what's on

Cate Blanchett

Blanchett gets a gong, plus all the Queen's Birthday honours

Hawthorn report card graphic

Mid-season report card: How low will the Hawks tumble?

3 mins ago

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

How you can cut your grocery bill in half

Selling your home? A study suggests that painting the bathroom blue will put more money in your pocket.

Selling your home? This colour bathroom adds the most value

Babies as housemates - make noise all hours, don't pull their weight when it comes to the washing up.

Our five-month-old housemate is posing some new challenges...

Opinion

June 12, 2017 JENNY BROWN Contributing writer The new headquarters of SJB architects in an old warehouse in Melbourne's ...

This office in Melbourne's CBD looks nothing like an office at all

The recent changes to strata law redefined what is cosmetic, minor and major renovation.

Flat Chat: How to nail rogue apartment renovators

Comment

Lisa and Josefine from Scandilove Gift Co.

Stylists answer the questions you've always wanted to ask

Fire crews at the scene of a fatal house fire on Gordon Street, Bundoora, on Monday, June 12.

Arson, explosive squad investigate fatal Bundoora house fire

Proposal could force Melbourne unit owners to sell to developers

EXCLUSIVE

'I dropped from heaven to hell': Brighton siege victim farewelled

Paramedics at the Inflation nightclub.

Six people leave hospital after suspected GHB overdoses

weather

Melbourne weather: Full moon to start but the clouds are rolling in

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Queen's Birthday: What's open, what's closed and what's on

The Victorian government will introduce assisted dying laws within months.

Anti-euthanasia forces warn Andrews 'the gloves are off'

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian at Silverwater jail in western Sydney on Sunday.

NSW's Supermax for terrorists a 'dangerous path'

NSW

The man made it across Toodyay Road before panicking and ditching the painting.

Brazen art theft in Swan Valley caught on CCTV

UPDATED
1 hr ago

The CCIQ says the Queensland government must do more to encourage young people into apprenticeships.

Tradie crisis looms as apprenticeships fall by half

QLD

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

Stolen bobcat tears up Canberra sporting field

UPDATED
1 hr ago

A powerful man's mistake is his own, while a powerful woman's mistake "hurts all women" according to this ...

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A powerful man's mistake is his own, while a powerful woman's mistake "hurts all women" according to this ...

No, May's failures haven't 'set women back decades'

COMMENT
Naomi Chainey

Higher required payments at the end of an interest-only loan period increase the risk of default, Standard Life ...

Interest-only home loan customers tipped to be hit hard

Clancy Yeates

Reality Leigh Winner is accused of leaking material alleging Russian attempts to hack the US election.

Millennials: the generation most likely to leak secrets

COMMENT
Malcolm Harris

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Coach John Worsfold and the Essendon recruiters chose Andy McGrath as the Bombers' first ever No.1 pick

How the supplements saga took the Bombers closer to a flag

Chris Judd

Melbourne's Nathan Jones breaks free of a tackle by Taylor Adams.

Queen's Birthday footy: Melbourne v Collingwood

Live
Jon Pierik
4 mins ago

Bounced out: Shane Mumford congratulates Matthew Kreuzer after Carlton's upset win at Etihad Stadium.

Respect the Giant-killing Blues

Michael Gleeson

Hawthorn report card graphic

Mid-season report card: How low will the Hawks tumble?

Jon Pierik
3 mins ago

Top flight: Carlton's Matthew Kreuzer is at the top of his game.

The Last Word on round 12

Rohan Connolly

Russell Robertson, Neale Daniher and David Neitz leave the field overcome with emotion after Daniher's last game as ...

Neitz tells Demons to take next step with Queen's Birthday win

Anthony Colangelo

Off and running: Conor McKenna has improved quickly for Essendon.

Quicker, slicker Bombers are flourishing

Rohan Connolly

PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA - APRIL 09: Nic Naitanui of the Eagles looks to pass the ball during the round three AFL match ...

Naitanui, Mitchell futures depend on Eagles' fragile campaign

Kim Hagdorn

Niman Adan Gabush,2, is a severe malnutrition case at Hargeisa Group Hospital.

The humanitarian catastrophe Australians know nothing about

Adam Gartrell

Peter Dutton seeks stronger powers over citizenship decisions

Fergus Hunter

ABC election analyst Antony Green is now a national treasure

Tony Wright

Encryption is a fancy computer-person word for scrambling your data until no one can understand what it says without a key.

Our laws must keep up with terrorists using encryption technology

COMMENT
Jacinta Carroll

"It is a bill that suits the times we're living in," Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said.

Government to keep feedback on citizenship shakeup secret

EXCLUSIVE

Tony Fitzgerald is a former judge, who led an inquiry into corruption in Queensland.

Corruption fighter Tony Fitzgerald wants to clean up Canberra

Attorney-General Senator George Brandis.

London no longer calling for Attorney-General Brandis

US President Donald Trump's Washington hotel is illuminated with projected messages by Robin Bell, an artist and filmmaker.

State, DC attorneys general to sue Trump over payments

7 mins ago

A new battleground: Facebook

Philippine Islamic extremists open second front on Facebook

Lindsay Murdoch

Donald Trump is dogged by the "Russian thing".

'Russia thing' refuses to come to a head

ANALYSIS
Paul McGeough

French President Emmanuel Macron.

Macron's party claims parliamentary victory

1 hr ago

Illustration: Jim Pavlidis

The truth behind Finkel's power play and your bills

COMMENT
Jessica Irvine

Special Minister of State Scott Ryan: plans to introduce donations legislation to Parliament in spring.

Sweep the sewers and ban foreign political donations

COMMENT
Tony Walker

The Cappuccino Index tracks the price of a cup of coffee in Australia's capital cities and tells us all kinds of things ...

The 24-hour Gym Index

COMMENT
Matt Holden

Australian workers missing out.

Wage woe: Workers share of GDP hits record low

Anna Patty

Britain's Kate Duchess of Cambridge arrives for the premiere of the film "A Street Cat Named Bob", event in aid of her ...

David Jones scores win in the store wars

Melissa Singer

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Sydney-centric: Ad types hit the road to find out about Australia

Lucy Battersby

Ardent Leisure chief executive Deborah Thomas, a week after the accident at Dreamworld that killed four people.

Deborah Thomas to exit with $731,000 payout

Colin Kruger, CBD
56 mins ago

Is Coles strategic or desperate?

ANALYSIS
Madeleine Heffernan

Westpac hits back at ASIC responsible lending claim

Clancy Yeates

Tougher ID requirements under spotlight

Anna Patty

Same-sex marriage issue pays off for Qantas, says Joyce

Miriam Steffens and Patrick Hatch

Two-tone watches are tied to old school alpha-male sex appeal.

The new watch trend that comes with 'alpha male sex appeal'

Watches

The actor Jonah Hill is one of the celebrity practitioners of the black-socks-and-shorts trend.

The ugly style fail that became menswear's hottest fad

"If you're sitting on some bad apples you might as well bring forward the realisation of a loss to offset any gains."

Ten things you're doing wrong at tax time

Katrina Haskew

Renting to a relative is one way to avoid the ups and downs of the rental market.

Nicole helps … get the best loan for an investment

Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon

Grace Mazur came across Thermomix on a visit to an old school friend's house in Poland.

Cracks in the $60 million cult of Thermomix

Cara Waters

Josh Mihan is the owner of The Bearded Man. His business sees 2000 customers a year.

Behind the barber shop renaissance

Elissa Doherty

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Carlton pip Giants by slimmest of margins

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Why is Carlton so fashion conscious?

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60s Batman star Adam West dies

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Kickboxer attacked by fans in chaotic finish

Brumbies in the hogh grasslands near Kiandra in the Snowy Mountains.

Snowy Mountains Brumbies

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

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New approaches for retaining millennial staff

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Actress Rowena Wallace.

Embattled Rowena Wallace hopes crowdfunding will relaunch career

Broede Carmody
1 hr ago

Kevin Spacey performs at the 71st annual Tony Awards.

Blanchett, Minchin miss out on awards at Spacey's Tonys

Broede Carmody
1 hr ago

Katy Perry at an event.

Katy Perry undertakes bizarre livestream of her life

Joey Pucino

In Conversation with Ben Mendelsohn ? Ben Mendelsohn talk at Sydney Film Festival

'One day you'll be in Star Wars': Ben Mendelsohn's renaissance

Garry Maddox

Dylan Voller explains his actions and apologises to his victims on 60 Minutes.

Voller tells how he felt he was 'going mad' in detention

Aja Styles

"I was thinking for a moment that I wasn't going to make it": Candice Hedge.

'Like a horror movie': Aussie describes London attack

Cameron Mee

House Rules judge Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen was out for blood.

House Rules elimination almost ends in burning at the stake

COMMENT
Aja Styles

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

Geraldine Hakewill as Lady Macbeth and Jai Courtney as Macbeth.

MTC's Macbeth more an action movie with supernatural themes

Review
Cameron Woodhead

Bangarra Dance Theatre artistic director Stephen Page says he's "dancing on the shoulders of great indigenous giants".

Stephen Page has 'mixed feelings' about Order of Australia gong

Georgie Moore

Zoe Boesen?and Grace Lowry in the Red Stitch production of The Moors.

The Moors a brilliant, kinky homage with no weak link

Review
Cameron Woodhead

'Is the heartbeat going to be there?' Pregnant Megan Gale opens up on miscarriage trauma.

'Is the heartbeat going to be there?' Megan Gale on miscarriage trauma

Amy Croffey
31 mins ago

Tina Fey arrives at the 71st annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall.

It was all about frills and feathers on the Tony Awards red carpet

1 hr ago

Alexandra Shulman with Kate Moss. Moss has appeared on 27 covers under Shulman's reign at Vogue.

UK Vogue departing editor Alexandra Shulman: 'women can't have it all'

Celia Walden
1 hr ago

My question to all the men who insist they do in fact want workplace flexibility: What are you doing about it?

How men can fight for workplace flexibility (if they really want it)

COMMENT
Kasey Edwards

About one in three nominees for Order of Australia honours is a woman.

Australian honours: time to ditch the men at the top

COMMENT
Jenna Price

American model Lindsay Ellingson, knows what's up, mascara (not those ridiculous wings) is all you need to get ready for ...

Here's why mascara is indisputably the MVP of beauty

Natalie Reilly

Collette Dinnigan: 'Who knows maybe in the future ... I might go back to something that involves clothing ... but right ...

Collette Dinnigan honoured on Queen's Birthday for work in fashion

Melissa Singer

No doubt Gwen Stefani knows taupe is having a moment.

Forget 'greige,' the new neutrals are about rust, putty and terracotta

The Rules
Melissa Singer

Working out at night is not bad.

Night owls, rejoice: A late workout shouldn't hinder your sleep

Carolee Belkin Walker

Addictive or just enjoyable?

Cheese: is it addictive? This doctor thinks so

Paula Goodyer

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

Neil Perry's broad bean falafels with mint labna.

Our favourite falafel recipes and hotspots for Falafel Day

Right first dine: Scrambled eggs on toasted wholegrain bread.

Chefs tell: How they tweak their scrambled eggs to perfection

Adam Liaw's coconut and coriander chicken curry.

Weekly meal planner (starring coconut chicken curry)

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

Airbus may add extended wings to its A380 superjumbo, the world's biggest passenger aircraft.

Supersize superjumbo: World's biggest plane could get even bigger

Fiij Airways business class has just eight seats.

Flight test: No seatback TV in business class? But don't panic

Nina Karnikowski

The debate over seat reclining etiquette continues.

Traveller letters: This is why airlines should ban reclining seats

The Xbox One X is being touted by Microsoft as the most powerful console ever created.

Microsoft announces the Xbox One X

You can usually bypass a VPN block when it's compromising your security.

Beating a VPN block when it puts you at risk

COMMENT

The app lets Powerwall owners monitor their home energy system from afar.

Tesla will drop power bill to $0, says Melbourne man

Minecraft will now run a bit more like a service or social media platform than a traditional game.

New Minecraft makes game more accessible

E3 2017

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

2017 Alfa Romeo Giulia Super.

Alfa Romeo's C-Class rival tested

Stephen Ottley

There are a few trick to stretch out your trips to the bowser.

Fuel saving tricks: Fact or fiction?

Alessandra Melville

The Queen is reportedly a fan of the Netflix drama.

Top 5: Cars fit for The Queen

Stephen Ottley

2017 BMW 530e.

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

Andrew MacLean

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

Why Australians shun electric cars

David McCowen

2017 Renault Clio.

New Renault Clio reviewed

Andrew MacLean

Spain's Rafael Nadal wins the French Open.

Nadal demolishes Wawrinka to win 10th French Open title

Christopher Clarey

Veteran forward Sam Thaiday has been omitted from the Maroons side.

Desperate Maroons axe seven for Origin II

UPDATED
Phil Lutton
45 mins ago

Ange Postecoglou will shuffle his Socceroos deck for the friendly against Brazil on Tuesday.

Ange to make changes against 'practice match' opponents Brazil

Michael Lynch

Emotional: LeBron James tears up as the Cavaliers receive the Larry O'Brien trophy after NBA Finals 2016.

Same scenario, new year: Warriors seek alternate Game 5 finish

Tim Bontemps
16 mins ago

Tim Cahill warms up before the recent World Cup qualifier against Saudi Arabia in Adelaide.

At 37, Cahill savours any time with Socceroos

Michael Lynch

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