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

Labor reeling, rising star quits amid gold 'scam'

EXCLUSIVE

Attorney General Jeff Sessions testifies on Capitol Hill.

'Appalling lie': Jeff Sessions denies he colluded with Russia

UPDATED
2 mins ago

The man police wish to speak to over a indecent assault in Melbourne's CBD.

Melbourne Express: Man indecently assaults young girl in city

Live
27 mins ago

Otto Warmbier speaks at his trial, which lasted an hour, in February 2016.

Detained US student evacuated from North Korea in coma

Ten is in a shaky position, with the board putting shares into a two-day halt to consider the company's future.

Why Ten Network is facing the corporate undertaker

COMMENT

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

39 mins ago

Salad days no more: Food chain in battle with Westfield

Uber CEO to take indefinite leave after slew of scandals

Covfefe law: Bid to save Trump's posts as court uses tweet against him

ANALYSIS

Global arms dealer seeks right to racially discriminate

'Nervous driver' admits dangerous driving that killed unborn child

The driver rammed his car into several bank branches on Swanston Street in Melbourne.

Driver arrested after Swanston Street rampage

10 mins ago

Roxane Gay Mia Freedman

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

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 13: Thiago Silva of Brazil heads the ball for a goal with teammates during the Brasil Global ...

Gone in 12 seconds: Brazil punish calamitous Socceroos gaffe

GEELONG, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 04: Former Collingwood captain Nick Maxwell gives instructions from the Giants bench during ...

Giants runner Nick Maxwell in strife with the AFL

Simple median measures do not take into account differences in interest rates in different time periods.

What to do if you can't afford to buy a house right now

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IV drips and scented oxygen at Goop

Helen Liu leaving the Sydney Supreme Court . She is sueing the Melbourne Age Newspaper in a defamation case. Wednesday 9 ...

The political donations with covert Chinese connections

airfares

Why you should always fly in the middle of the day

Collingwood's Jeremy Howe soars over Melbourne's Tom McDonald.

Jeremy by Howe far? The pacesetters for mark of the year

Cheese and bacon burger from Shannon Bennett's new Benny Burger range.

Shannon Bennett's Benny Burger hits Richmond

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - MAY 28: A general view of Alistair Knox Park in Eltham for Domain Neighbourhoods on May 28, 2017 ...

The suburb you get when you mix bogans, the upper crust, lefties

Vendors are advised to request a full 10 per cent on auction day.

Buyers go missing after two sales abandoned in same suburb

Circus Oz artistic director Rob Tannion

The best thing about Melbourne? Circusman takes our quiz

I live in an echo chamber and it's slowly, but steadily, driving me mad.

Why open-plan living is slowly and steadily driving me mad

128 Crosby Road, Ascot

The Australian mansion worthy of being home to Batman

One of the original 50 E-Class trams.

Revamped E-class trams on track to curb passenger injuries

State Greens leader quits seat, may take a tilt at lower house

Melbourne father of two missing at sea off Papua New Guinea

The bikes that two of the three cyclists were riding on Monday morning.

Bike lane ditched but 'no reason' for Macedon crash

The CFA will become a solely volunteer operation under the new arrangements.

Fire reforms to fail unless crossbench demands are met

Premier Daniel Andrews: ''The safety of the Victorian community has got to be the No.1 priority.''

Plan to detain teenage terror suspects for weeks comes under fire

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'Gutter crawler' accused of attacking 8 sex workers denied bail

Police caught up with the alleged kidnapper almost 400km from Sydney.

Teen in terrifying ordeal after alleged kidnapping

NSW

A Woodridge man has been arrested over the 2015 death of a two-year-old boy found unconscious in a Logan home.

Police arrest man over death of two-year-old boy

UPDATED

Australian Public Service Commissioner John Lloyd.

Five-point plan to get public servants to show up

ACT

Brisbane was forecast to receive about 50 millimetres of rain on Tuesday, with heavier falls expected on the Gold Coast.

Heavy rain, winds close in on south-east Queensland

QLD

Tree removal on St Kilda Road for the construction of the Metro Tunnel.

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Tree removal on St Kilda Road for the construction of the Metro Tunnel.

St Kilda Road treescape will take decades to recover

COMMENT
Margaret Fitzherbert

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
21 mins ago

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

Turnbull government in turmoil over climate and energy policy

James Massola
39 mins ago

Federal government debt surges past half-a-trillion dollars

Eryk Bagshaw

Faster access for medicinal cannabis after shock Senate vote

Adam Gartrell

Labor senator Jenny McAllister says the widening gulf between rich and poor in most countries is "the challenge of our ...

Income inequality the new handbrake on economic growth

EXCLUSIVE
Mark Kenny

Kathryn Greiner is the second Gonski Review panellist in two days to back the government's school funding changes

Gonski Review panellist Greiner joins push for school funding changes

EXCLUSIVE
Matthew Knott

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is in a must-win situation with Tony Abbott on climate policy.

Climate question hangs over Turnbull's leadership

ANALYSIS
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

Israel withdrew its ambassador from New Zealand in December.

Israel returns ambassador to NZ, ending diplomatic rift

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

Dyson drawing; re social media, parental care, terrorism, Age Opinion 14 June 2017

Hiding and sharing: talking to my children about terrorism

COMMENT
Dani Valent

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

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

The role of male shame in making a 'terrorist'

COMMENT
Steve Biddulph

The Australian dollar remains stubbornly high.

The RBA theory that isn't working

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

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

Big Four rivals tipped to follow ANZ's mortgage rate hike

Clancy Yeates

Lachlan Murdoch could be caught by the two-out-of-three media rules, and James Packer has no interest in the media.

Ten Network scrambles to escape corporate undertaker

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

Network Ten is looking at refinancing options.

D-Day looms for Ten

Lucy Battersby

Bellamy's reveals new strategy

CBD
Colin Kruger, CBD
1 hr ago

'Low point': retail spending to pick up

Madeleine Heffernan

ASX has best day in seven months

Myriam Robin

Salad days no more: SumoSalad battles Westfield

Madeleine Heffernan

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

Gabriella Munoz will travel to Mexico to try to find her biological family, along with husband Cesar Albarran-Torres, ...

'I'm spending my inheritance trying to find my birth family'

Gabriella Munoz

There is no reset of the cost base once you move into a property that originally started out as a rental.

What's the capital gains tax on a rental property turned home?

Noel Whittaker

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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Parcel bomb explodes at South Korean university

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US basketballer Rodman expected in North Korea

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Network Ten in trading halt

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Ivanka Trump not expecting 'viciousness' of politics

Illustration: Ron Tandberg

Best of Fairfax cartoons June 14

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Queen and Adam Lambert will tour Australia in February and March next year.

Queen and Adam Lambert are coming, with more than hits

Sarah Thomas

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

Exquisite: English singer songwriter Laura Marling.

Laura Marling's exquisite voice spurs a powerful yearning

Review
Debbie Cuthbertson

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

Food consumption and weight gain is presented to many pregnant women as a simple choice. It isn't.

The insulting advice that pregnant women don't need to hear

COMMENT
Kasey Edwards
21 mins ago

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

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

Jenny Noyes

Passionate vegan Freelee the Banana Girl has made a career out of starting beef.

Here's a fun quiz: Medieval medical advice, or 21st century wellness tip?

Clem Bastow

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

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

Fructose is not the worst type of sugar

Sarah Berry

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

Cheese and bacon burger from Shannon Bennett's new Benny Burger range.

Shannon Bennett launches Benny Burger in Richmond

Right first dine: Scrambled eggs on toasted wholegrain bread.

Chefs reveal how they tweak their scrambled eggs to perfection

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

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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

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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

The Cats' Rhys Stanley rejoins the senior team for the first time since round eight.

Geelong call on Stanley to fill big boots of Hawkins

Sam McClure

Shining: Gold Coast's Gary Ablett celebrates on the siren after the Suns defeated the Hawks in round 12.

Could Ablett's shining form hamper a trade to the Cats?

ANALYSIS
Jon Pierik

Jeremy Howe of the Magpies marks the ball over Tom McDonald of the Demons.

No one could say they didn't see it coming

Greg Baum

Essendon skipper Dyson Heppell.

Why Essendon tick all the boxes for the finals

What's cooking? AFL boss Gillon McLachlan will host the coaches at his annual dinner later this month.

Pre-finals bye on coaches' menu at McLachlan dinner

Jon Pierik

Jack Watts

Watts puts 'full stop' on Queen's Birthday infamy

Ronny Lerner

Former Collingwood captain Nick Maxwell gives instructions from the Giants bench.

Giants runner Maxwell in strife with the AFL

Collingwood's Jeremy Howe soars over Melbourne's Tom McDonald.

Jeremy by Howe far? The pacesetters for mark of the year

Ronny Lerner

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

Brazil too slick for Socceroos after gaffe gifts goal

Michael Lynch

A standout: Kevin Durant celebrates after Warriors win NBA crown.

Tearful Durant now 'all-square' with LeBron

Benjamin Hoffman

Connor O'Leary of Australia advances to round four.

Rookie Aussie in upset win over legend Slater

Mike Tancred has issued an apology to Fiona de Jong.

AOC media boss apologises for intimidating phone call

Georgina Mitchell

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull with Matildas Kyah Simon, Michelle Heyman and Clare Polkinghorne at Parliament House for ...

The murky road ahead for Australia's World Cup bid

ANALYSIS
Dominic Bossi

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