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Team suburbia: Hugh Mackay creates a fictional community as a laboratory for his ideas.

Home owners: you're not as rich as you think

COMMENT
Clancy Yeates
26 mins ago

ALP candidate and donor Simon Zhou with controversial Chinese political donor Huang Xiangmo.

ALP reels after rising star quits amid inquiry calls

EXCLUSIVE

Luke Baylis of SumoSalad

Millions on the line: Cut rent or we're out, chain boss tells Westfield

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull made an address on national security at Parliament House in Canberra on Tuesday 13 June ...

'Malcolm could lose his leadership over this': Coalition tensions erupt

James Massola

Gordon Streight at the recycling depot at 209 Harris St Pyrmont. Pic Nick Moir 12 June 2017

'Shocking' dumpster find turns unit block into beacon for city

Kirsty Boden (left) and Sara Zelenak were stabbed to death near the Borough Market.

London Bridge inquest details fatal attacks on Australians

51 mins ago

Ten is in financial crisis - but 'obvious' solution rings alarm bells

COMMENT
Michael Lallo

Move over, Melbourne: Gallery approval 'great news for Sydney'

EXCLUSIVE

Covfefe law: Bid to save Trump tweets as court uses one against him

ANALYSIS

Ronaldo accused of 15 million euro tax fraud by Spanish prosecutor

1 hr ago

Turnbull must win dangerous dance-off with Abbott

ANALYSIS

The last family photo of Scott Johnson, who died in 1988.

'I was horrified': What men with a telescope saw near Reef Beach ledge

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 13: Taison Freda of Brazil is congratulated by Willian Silva after kicking a goal during the ...

Gone in 12 seconds: Brazil punish calamitous Socceroos gaffe

1 hr ago

There are more and more people embracing polyamory with the enthusiasm that I reserve for napping, writes Kerri Sackville.

The rise of polyamory sure isn't convincing me to try it

COMMENT

Mia Freedman's podcast has come under fire.

'Will she fit into the lift?': Mia in hot water for remarks about guest

Carly Lander with her 11 year old Autistic son Louie who she home schools. 12th May 2017 Photo: Steven Siewert

I'm not a bad parent, but I think school attendance is overrated

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Roxane Gay slams Mamamia

Overheight truck at Arthur St, Granville. A timely reminder to always be aware of height restrictions. Photo: NSW Police ...

Beer truck gets stuck under M4 bridge

airfares

Why you should always fly in the middle of the day

President Donald Trump smiles during a Cabinet meeting.

Trump throws himself a lovefest in bizarre first Cabinet meeting

NBA Finals

Warriors look to clinch in NBA Finals series

Comedian Tim Ross in his Hunters Hill modernist home.

Why Rosso thinks Sydney is like a 'disappointing friend'

Homewares are as personal as clothes. They must be the perfect fit.

Why gifting these homeware items is the ultimate faux pas

This five-bedroom home broke Mount Druitt's house price record with a $1.2 million sale.

House in Mount Druitt sells for record $1.2 million

2C Hazel Place, Burraneer.

Sydney's cheapest waterfront home for $350,000? Just one catch

A terrace overlooks the Amalfi coast.

Inside the villa once owned by one of the richest people on Earth

airfares

Why you should always fly out of Sydney in the middle of the day

The biggest killer of children in Australia revealed

Julie Power

Teen in terrifying 19-hour road trip after alleged kidnapping

Rain is heading back to Sydney but nothing like the levels being seen up north.

Sydney hits June rainfall average, and there's more to come

Fairfield Liberal councillor Peter Grippaudo denies he's a property developer.

'Public in cold fury': Calls for police probe into Liberal councillor

EXCLUSIVE

Phillip Spain used a forged certificate to claim money from Medicare.

Trainer nets $486,000 from basic forgery he thought wouldn't work

Minister for Family and Community Services Pru Goward.

NSW child protection receives $63m budget boost

Sean Nicholls

Mike Tancred has issued an apology to Fiona de Jong.

AOC media boss admits to intimidating phone call, apologises

The injury that came within millimetres of Cam McIntyre's carotid artery.

Runner's brush with death in Brighton dog attack

VIC

Moments before the collision.

Who's in the right? Cashcam crash footage divides public opinion

WA

Shell Wright's dog, Marley, was stabbed at her home on Friday night in Queanbeyan.

'We don't know why': family dog stabbed to death in backyard

ACT

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The then-teenage MacColl moved from Brisbane to Melbourne to see through the pregnancy. 'My teacher and her husband had ...

Pregnant women don't need this insulting weight advice

COMMENT
Kasey Edwards

Sandra Sully is rumoured to host a national bulletin on Ten.

News cuts could backfire on Channel Ten

COMMENT
Michael Lallo

There are more and more people embracing polyamory with the enthusiasm that I reserve for napping, writes Kerri Sackville.

Polyamory might be the way of the future, but I prefer a nap

COMMENT
Kerri Sackville

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - MAY 27: Australian Greens Leader, Dr Richard Di Natale speaks to the media at Federation Square ...

Medicinal cannabis rules loosened after Senate gangs up on government

Adam Gartrell

Federal government debt surges past half-a-trillion dollars

Eryk Bagshaw

Income inequality, the new handbrake on growth

EXCLUSIVE
Mark Kenny

One of the two new Australian Joint Strike Fighters at the Avalon Airshow

Australia's next generation fighter jets starve pilots of oxygen

Adam Gartrell

Senator Pauline Hanson will pay the ABC's legal costs after dropping a case against the broadcaster.

Hanson drops case against ABC, forced to pay broadcaster's costs

The Coalition held a special meeting on climate change policy on Tuesday.

Government to hold crunch party room meeting on climate

Malcolm Turnbull joined the chorus of outrage after this week's terror attack in Brighton.

As it happened: the day in Canberra politics

Tammy Davis-Charles is in a Phnom Penh jail awaiting trial.

Nurse angrily denies Cambodia surrogacy allegations

Craig Skehan

US President Donald Trump.

Covfefe as law: Anything Trump tweets can be used against him

ANALYSIS

Five-year-old Mohannad Ali lies on a hospital bed in Abs, Yemen, in December. His two-year-old cousin died of hunger.

Senate opposition to Saudi arms deal grows

Residents of a Qatari-funded housing complex in the Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis hold a banner in Arabic reading "we ...

Israel approves move to cut electricity to Gaza Strip

Illustration: Dionne Gain

Why Albanese benefits from the UK election result

COMMENT
Peter Hartcher

Rising home prices aren't as beneficial to many owner-occupiers as they might appear to be.

Home owners: you're not as rich as you think you are

COMMENT
Clancy Yeates
26 mins ago

Man Haron Monis had committted heartless crimes before the Lindt Cafe seige.

The role of male shame in making a 'terrorist'

COMMENT
Steve Biddulph

Network Ten is looking at refinancing options.

Ten shares on ice as board mulls options

Lucy Battersby

ANZ is predicted to receive a 1.5 per cent boost to profits from Friday's rate hike.

Rivals to follow ANZ on rate hike

Clancy Yeates

The a2 Milk Company has avoided the carnage felt at rival Bellamy's.

Bellamy's strategy: Make something

Colin Kruger, CBD

Deloitte Access Economics has tipped nominal retail spending will come in at 3 per cent in the 2017 financial year.

'Low point': retail spending to pick up

Madeleine Heffernan

Ten Network scrambles to escape corporate undertaker

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

ASX has best day in seven months

Myriam Robin

Salad days no more: SumoSalad battles Westfield

Madeleine Heffernan

Cracks in the $60 million cult of Thermomix

Cara Waters

The new Lexus coupe will come in a hybrid (pictured) and V8 version.

The fuel-saving $200k sports car buyers don't want

Cars

The bridge is the latest must-have detail.

Make sure your next pair of sunnies has this one feature

Accessories

Running the economy is like being a pilot in a modern aircraft: there are lots of gauges and controls.

Turbulent times for Reserve Bank, but no reason for crash landing

COMMENT
Jessica Irvine

Capital losses can offset capital gains.

Why June is a bloody month for under-performing stocks

Marcus Padley

Tomcar co-founder David Brim in Melbourne.

Australia's last car maker is taking their lead from Tesla

Cara Waters

Running a bed and breakfast didn't turn out to be as lucrative for this reader.

'We never got close to making the GST threshold'

Max Newnham

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French riderless motorbike mystery solved

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The search begins after building collapses in Kenya

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Parcel bomb explodes at South Korean university

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US basketballer Rodman expected in North Korea

Illustration: Ron Tandberg

Best of Fairfax cartoons June 14

23 mins ago

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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.

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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So close and yet so far: Bryan Zhu's smile will not fill MasterChef's kitchen again despite his mastering food.

Damn, we almost welcomed back Bryan to MasterChef

Aja Styles

Sandra Sully is rumoured to host a national bulletin on Ten.

News cuts could backfire on Channel Ten

COMMENT
Michael Lallo

An artist's impression of the Sydney Modern project.

Art Gallery of NSW gets $244m for 'global museum of the future'

EXCLUSIVE
Sean Nicholls

Alison Brie says she was asked to go topless during an Entourage audition.

Alison Brie told to 'take your top off' during audition

Rob Moran

Season four of The Bachelor spinoff 'Bachelor in Paradise' has been suspended indefinitely.

Bachelor spinoff's future in doubt

Broede Carmody

Taylor Swift's lazy year has seen her fall down Forbes' richest celebrities list.

Taylor Swift free-falls from top of Celebrity Rich List

Rob Moran

Monday night's Q&A focused on energy policy.

A carbon tax by any other name would smell as sweet: Q&A;

Neil McMahon

Laura Dreyfuss and Ben Platt in the Pasek and Paul musical Dear Evan Hansen at the Second Stage Theatre in New York.

The Tonys have decided what theatre Australia will be watching

ANALYSIS
Nathanael Cooper

James Baldwin in I Am Not Your Negro.

I Am Not Your Negro dismantles the illusion of progress

Andrew Purcell

Benedict Wall and Gabrielle Scawthorn play a tree-changing couple in <i>The Village Bike</I>.

Impressive Village Bike takes us on rich, edgy ride

Jason Blake

Pinchgut Opera chief Erin Helyard in Sydney on 25, May, 2017. Photo: Brook Mitchell

A very modern night of booze, sex and glorious music

Nick Galvin

Roxane Gay described the Mamamia podcast as "a shit show".

'Cruel and humiliating': author Roxane Gay on treatment by Mamamia

Jenny Noyes

There are more and more people embracing polyamory with the enthusiasm that I reserve for napping, writes Kerri Sackville.

The rise of polyamory sure isn't convincing me to try it

COMMENT
Kerri Sackville

Bella Hadid doing her bit to make tiny glasses happen.

Alert: small glasses are back in fashion, RIP your peripheral vision

Mary Ward

"The cards never lie, and they never let me lie."

I have autism and tarot cards help me make sense of the world

Madeleine Ryan

Elle Macpherson and husband Jeffrey Soffer in May 2015.

Elle Macpherson 'splits' from husband Jeff Soffer, reports

Amy Croffey

A video made by the Women of Hizb ut-Tahrir Australia went viral in April after demonstrating how a husband could use a ...

Explainer: What Islam actually says about domestic violence

Nada Ibrahim

Bill Cosby arrives for his sexual assault trial.

Bill Cosby trial shocker: Defence rests after just 6 minutes

Serena shared a picture of her growing baby bump on Snapchat.

Hell yes to Serena's candid documentation of her pregnancy

Mary Ward

Too much sugar, regardless of the type, is a problem.

Fructose is not the worst type of sugar

Sarah Berry
10 mins ago

Taking the first step can result in a ripple effect.

Using the 'ripple effect' to achieve health goals

Evelyn Lewin

Addictive or just enjoyable?

Cheese: is it addictive? This doctor thinks so

Paula Goodyer

Andhraiites typically eat fiery hot food, but this prawn curry packs a lot of flavours too!

Curry in a hurry: Whip up these easy curries in 30 minutes

Right first dine: Scrambled eggs on toasted wholegrain bread.

Chefs reveal how they tweak their scrambled eggs to perfection

Crispy skin barra with mint peas and brussels with bacon peas mint and brussels at Three Blue Ducks in Sydney.

Lemon butter barramundi: The trick to cooking perfect crispy skin

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Baby, it's cold outside: 6 challenges of having a winter bub

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Attention dads: why you need to read Facebook posts when your partner tags you

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Primary school excludes 10-year-old girl with her period

The new 'World Class' ship from MSC Cruises promises to be the world's biggest.

6850 passengers: New cruise giant will be world's biggest

Could Ben Groundwater been Japan's new Mr Sparkle? It's possible.

I was just being a tourist, then a local film crew showed up

Ben Groundwater

Abandoned ferris wheel in amusement park in Pripyat, Chernobyl.

Hostel opens in the most radioactive place on the planet

Hugh Morris

The upcoming PlayStation-exclusive Spider-Man game closed Sony's pre-E3 conference.

PlayStation showcase is all games at E3

Details offered in search results include price, airline, duration and stopovers.

Google targets travel market with Flights

Beyond Good and Evil 2 was finally confirmed at the event, to great applause.

Ubisoft confirms its own Mario game and Beyond Good and Evil 2

sprint telco

Sprint Telco fined for pretending to be Telstra

Gizmodo

Despite Monday's fall in price, bitcoin still was up more 170 per cent so far this year.

Digital currency frenzy crashes Coinbase trade

2013 Mazda CX-5

What is the best used SUV?

Cameron McGavin

2017 Nissan Navara ST dual-cab 4x4 diesel auto.

Tradie review: New Nissan Navara

Mark Short

2018 Hyundai Kona.

Hyundai's new SUV revealed

Toby Hagon

Opel badge

Opel CEO quits amid PSA deal

Andreas Cremer

Porsche's new GT2 RS features in Forza Motorsport 7.

Revealed: Porsche's fastest 911 yet

David McCowen

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 09: Asia Pacific managing director George Biggs poses for a photo at the launch of / the ...

McLaren 720S arrives in Australia

Drive

Under pressure: Socceroo James Troisi tries to get a kick away from Brazil’s David Luiz.

Gone in 12 seconds: Brazil too slick for Socceroos

Michael Lynch
1 hr ago

No curfews: Blues coach Laurie Daley won't make the casino off-limits to his players.

Daley fears Queensland will strangle them out of Origin II

Andrew Webster

Debut: Karmichael Hunt in his first Wallabies Test on Saturday against Fiji

Hunt 'built for Test rugby', says Foley

Tom Decent

Mike Tancred has issued an apology to Fiona de Jong.

Tancred apologises to de Jong for intimidating phone call

Georgina Mitchell

DUNEDIN, NEW ZEALAND - JUNE 13: Highlanders players celebrate their team's 23-22 victory during the 2017 British & Irish ...

Highlanders make history with thrilling win over touring Lions

Alex Brosque and David Carney of Sydney celebrate after the penalty shoot-out in the 2017 A-League grand final.

Sydney FC re-sign grand final hero Carney

Dominic Bossi

Big Bash League broadcaster Channel Ten is in crisis.

Ten's crisis more reason to keep pay model, say cricketers

Jon Pierik and Andrew Wu

Comeback trail: Lance Franklin kicks at goal during the Swans' training session at the SCG after their defeat of the ...

Swans rediscover trademarks in belated revival

Andrew Wu

Staying in Bondi: Blake Ferguson.

Roosters to give Ferguson another chance

Michael Chammas

James Tedesco announced himself as a genuine superstar in game one at Suncorp Stadium.

Tedesco admits he based his game on Slater

Michael Chammas

Big ask: Johnathan Thurston.

Thurston says Sydney win could be Mission Impossible

Phil Lutton

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