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Fatima Mehajer arrives at the Downing Centre Court complex on Thursday.

Mehajer's sister pleads guilty to electoral fraud

1 hr ago

The participation rate edged up, to 64.9 per cent, from 64.8 per cent in April.

Aussie dollar jumps as jobless rate falls to four-year low

Jens Meyer
54 mins ago

Charred cladding and flames seen at the building on Wednesday.

'Warnings fell on deaf ears': London death toll doubles

Live

Telstra signage around the Melbourne CBD, June 14th 2017. Photo: Daniel Pockett Photo Daniel Pockett

'Ambushed': 90% of Telstra job cuts to come from NSW, Victoria

1 hr ago

MONEY AFR 100421 MELB PIC BY JESSICA SHAPIRO... GENERIC cash, banks, interest rates, wages, pay, import, export, notes, ...

Senate votes to set up powerful commission of inquiry into banks

1 hr ago

There's an Uber app on your phone. Think twice about tapping it, because if Uber remains terrible after this, we have ...

One way to fix Uber? Think twice before using the service

COMMENT

Special counsel probes Trump for possible obstruction of justice

Man arrested at Sydney Airport 'trying to leave for Syria'

Rachel Olding
1 hr ago

Children, parents flee Sydney soccer training as man is shot in legs

'Why should I pay?': Taxpayers fork out for renovations

'Thank God for Ramadan': Boys saved lives in burning tower

Andrea Fitzpatrick, 32, says it is realistic for women to expect to have less in their super than their male counterpart.

The $200,000 gap between Andrea and her husband

1 hr ago

Conjoined twin girls Abby, right, and Erin at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in Philadelphia.

Doctors separate twin girls joined at the head in rare surgery

38 mins ago

Studio content deals, like the one Ten has with Fox, creators of The Simpsons, are not to blame for Ten's current problems.

Don't blame The Simpsons for Ten's financial woes

Demi Moore claimed she lost two teeth as a result of stress.

How stress made Demi Moore lose her two front teeth

Terrot threat

Medium, likely, probable: Why we need to revamp terror levels

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Video captures Republicans under fire at baseball practice

In the the W-League, just completed, you can stand on the sidelines of a suburban ground – maybe in Fawkner – metres ...

Peter FitzSimons

PM, tell us you're kidding about the women's World Cup?

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

It's on: Mayweather to fight UFC star McGregor

Tense time: The French stare down New Zealand team as they perform the haka.

France responds to haka with epic 80-second staredown

Reconstruction of Progura gallinacea next to a grey kangaroo.

Giant flying turkeys once roamed Australia

The Bellevue Hill mansion last sold in 1961.

Bellevue Hill's Bonnington mansion sold for $22 million

Make sure the extension has some consistency with the rest of the house.

The popular renovation that can decrease your home's value

If you had 80 supercars you might spend millions on a garage, too.

A $37m garage: The crazy prices people pay for parking space

Elaine, New South Head Road, Point Piper Point Piper estate Elaine sells

The Sydney properties among the world's top trophy homes

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

If your one-year-old laptop stopped working, could you get your money back?

Revealed: How quickly you realise you have bought a lemon

18 mins ago

Abbott money man hit by China donations scandal

EXCLUSIVE

'Real heroes': Super wealthy asked to donate $100m to Sydney project

The rules for community input on proposed liquor licenses are being reviewed.

Community input on liquor licences to be reviewed

Sean Nicholls

David Renshaw is sueing NSW lotteries. Pic nick Moir 13 June 2017

Heated exchange over Oz Lotto draw 188 cost man $3.3m: court

An express passenger train, similar to this one, has hit a car, killing the female driver.

'It was like a bomb': Train crashes into car, killing woman and dog

Nearly 56 per cent of commencing bachelor degree students were admitted based on criteria other than ATAR in 2015.

Why more than half of new uni students don't need an ATAR

Police have released an image of this man who's suspected of attacking Andrew Bolt

Police release image of Andrew Bolt attack suspect

VIC

The pair were caught on CCTV footage "snooping around", Mr Coe said. / The CCTV footage of the pair was more than an ...

After viewing footage the boat owner knew something was awry

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Man jailed over $10k in cash, drugs found in cylinders

ACT

Mike Tancred has issued an apology to Fiona de Jong.

AOC media boss admits to intimidating phone call, apologises

Finkel wants to keep the lights on and wants to keep the system stable so that new operators feel able to invest. ...

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Finkel wants to keep the lights on and wants to keep the system stable so that new operators feel able to invest. ...

Politicians must see bigger picture over power supplies

John Hewson
1 hr ago

Refugees on Manus Island. If the government believed it was operating satisfactorily it would not take extreme steps to ...

Government avoided having its dirty secrets exposed

COMMENT
Eva Orner
1 hr ago

Former prime minister Paul Keating played a crucial role shaping the final Sydney Modern expansion plans backed by the ...

How Keating kept alive bid to demolish Cahill Expressway

EXCLUSIVE
Sean Nicholls

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Greens Senator Peter Wish-Wilson is congratulated by Nationals Senator John 'Wacka' Williams and ALP Senator Sam ...

Senate backs commission of inquiry into big banks

James Massola
1 hr ago

Barnaby Joyce warns Tony Abbott could damage government

Fergus Hunter

Turnbull feels climate heat as Abbott steps up demands

James Massola

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull addresses the media after meeting with recipients of the National Disability Insurance ...

China ambassador says foreign donors story was 'cooked up'

Live
Stephanie Peatling

Senator Richard DiNatale is seeking access to intelligence committee hearings.

Greens ramp up pressure for major corruption probe

EXCLUSIVE
Mark Kenny

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton took aim at Slater and Gordon over the class action.

'No admissions', Dutton insists, after $90m Manus settlement

Michael Koziol

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has blamed Labor for the payout.

Despite what Dutton says, the Manus Island payout is momentous

COMMENT
Michael Gordon

Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.

Singaporean PM accused by siblings of misuse of power

Lindsay Murdoch
1 hr ago

Fires continued to rage into the day on Wednesday.

Building safety in the spotlight after deadly blaze

Nick Miller

Turkish President Recep Tayyip ErdogaN

Erdogan's guards to be charged in beating of protesters in US

US President Donald Trump.

Trump to be probed for possible obstruction of justice

Illustration John Shakespeare

How Finkel would keep the lights on, and why Abbott's not so keen

COMMENT
Peter Martin

Australia's Chief Scientist Alan Finkel.

The endangered elephant in the energy room

COMMENT
Judith Ireland

Don't wrap leftover cheeses in cling film, but do put that half-empty bottle of red in the fridge.

You're peeling bananas in the wrong direction (and other kitchen mistakes)

COMMENT
Felicity Cloake

The participation rate edged up, to 64.9 per cent, from 64.8 per cent in April.

$A jumps as jobless rate falls to four-year low

Jens Meyer
55 mins ago

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Markets Live: Aussie soars on jobs surge

Live
Patrick Commins and Jens Meyer
19 mins ago

Telstra signage around the Melbourne CBD, June 14th 2017. Photo: Daniel Pockett Photo Daniel Pockett

'Ambushed': 90% of Telstra job cuts to come from NSW, Victoria

1 hr ago

If your one-year-old laptop stopped working, could you get your money back?

How quickly you find out you have bought a lemon

Esther Han
18 mins ago

Banker used LinkedIn to send nude pics to jobseeker

The secret deal that sealed Network Ten's fate

Lucy Battersby

Blackouts warning with energy supplies under threat

Brian Robins

One way to fix Uber: Think twice before using it

COMMENT

Bespoke is not just an artform, but a relationship between artisan an client.

Why true bespoke is never just about the finished product

Handsome Things
16 mins ago

Not even the highest office in the country is immune to internal politics.

Office politics are unavoidable, but know how to come out on top

Advice

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

Greater legal stability has been welcomed by the nascent cannabis industry.

'Investors will be more inclined to open their wallets': startups

Rachael Ward

Students do not need years in a university lecture hall being force-fed so much information.

Employers must break the mindset that young people have a degree

Tony Featherstone

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Four killed in UPS shooting

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Pakistan thrashes England in Champions Trophy

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GOP shooter: 'Destroy Trump & Co'

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Grim search for victims of London fire

Illustration John Shakespeare

Best of Fairfax cartoons June 15

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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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Ten activities to aid toddler development

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Familar faces: The Simpsons has been hit by the death of a "beloved" character, which aired in the US on Sunday.

Don't blame The Simpsons for Ten's financial woes

Michael Idato

Bob Dylan's Nobel-winning saga has taken another entertaining turn.

Bob Dylan accused of plagiarising Nobel Prize speech

Rob Moran
1 hr ago

YouTube star Austin Jones has been charged with two counts of producting childhood pornography.

YouTube star charged with child porn offences

Avi Selk

Natural dag: Muriel's Wedding, The Musical star Maggie McKenna.

Kath and Kim star's daughter cast in Muriel's Wedding

Nick Galvin

Peter Helliar mocks Ten's problems on The Project.

The Project tackles Ten's financial woes with comedy

Rob Moran

Aidan Turner as Poldark: His love life is of great interest to fans.

Turner's torso has made Poldark the sexiest man on TV

Louise Schwartzkoff

Anita Pallenberg walks the runway at the Pam Hogg show at Fashion Scout during London Fashion Week Spring/Summer ...

Actress and Rolling Stones muse Anita Pallenberg dies at 73

Popular Ten programs such as The Project will continue unchanged. For now.

What does Ten's crisis mean for viewers?

ANALYSIS
Michael Lallo

Natural dag: Muriel's Wedding, The Musical star Maggie McKenna.

Muriel's Wedding has its new leading dag

Nick Galvin

Will Small , Margo Ward and John Kirkman. All attended a conference to help them engage with funding groups for their ...

How to win money and influence people

Peter Munro

Caitlin Burley impresses in <i>Oedipus Doesn't Live Here Anymore</I>.

Ancient Greek tragedy goes for spin in 'burbs

Jason Blake

The conditions in the factories producing Ivanka Trump's clothing have been called into question.

What Ivanka and Gwyneth get wrong about work/life balance

Annie Brown
37 mins ago

Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop and David Panton at the Midwinter Ball at Parliament House on Wednesday.

Sparkles and whips help pollies party at Midwinter Ball

Jenna Clarke

Lorde

Is Lorde involved in an onion ring review side hustle?

Nicole Economos

Once someone in the partnership feels unloved or unrecognised, the relationship is under threat to outside forces.

A dozen signs your relationship is in trouble

Bella Elwood-Clayton

Mia Freedman (left) and author Roxane Gay. Freeman's podcast about Gay failed to adhere to the higher standards ...

Mamamia's treatment of Roxane Gay was cruel, but not unusual

COMMENT
Maeve Marsden

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

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

COMMENT
Kasey Edwards

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

Medieval medical advice, or 21st century wellness tip?

Clem Bastow

Watch out Kylie, Kim Kardashian is launching a make-up line

Nicole Economos

Grinder: Demi Moore said she lost two teeth as a result of stress.

Can stress make you lose your teeth?

Sarah Berry

Watermelon water: super?

Watermelon water: 'super' water or 'super' joke?

Sarah Berry

Pause and experience pleasure.

The one word that can instantly change your mood

Susie Moore

Adam Liaw's chicken tagine with mango chutney and apricot.

28 one-pot wonders to warm you up

The clay oven flat bread, burrata, persimmon and grilled leeks served at Pheast in Waverley.

Review: Neil Perry protege returns to Sydney with Pheast

'Without butter, everything is boring': Marco Pierre White.

Marco Pierre White: 'Why I gave back my three Michelin stars'

How could something so awful come from this gorgeous little girl?

Everything awful about parenting summed up in 40 second video

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KISS parenting: there are only three simple rules

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Why a girls' night out is good for mum's health

A stack of generic passports on an isolated white studio background

The exclusive passport that can only be held by one person

Kylie McLaughlin

Airport firefighters, not pictured, perform a water salute for an Airbus SE A350 aircraft, operated by Singapore ...

20 hours in economy? New planes will fly further than ever before

Michael Gebicki
1 hr ago

The train from Jungfraujoch station on the move to Kleine Scheidegg.

The world's most beautiful country to see by train

Steve McKenna

Genuine Lepin Star Wart blocks on sale at Shanghai's famed fake markets.

Geek Pilgrimage: Shanghai fake markets

COMMENT

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

Ubisoft confirms Mario, Beyond Good and Evil 2

Super Mario Odyssey worlds feature a range of different graphical styles, but all will feature creatures and objects for ...

The best 5 things Nintendo just announced at E3

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Foxtel targets 17 more pirate sites in Australia

Lifehacker

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

PlayStation showcase is all games at E3

2017 Hyundai Kona.

Hyundai Kona first impressions

Toby Hagon

2017 Toyota C-HR.

New Toyota C-HR Koba reviewed

Daniela Intili and Stephen Ottley

Jaguar XF Sportbrake.

Jaguar reveals XF Sportbrake

Andrew MacLean

Aston

Aston Martin says goodbye to Vantage with Le Mans tribute

David McCowen

McLaren

McLaren unveils 570S Spider

David McCowen
1 hr ago

2018 Range Rover Evoque with Si4 Ingenium petrol engine.

New power for Land Rover

Stephen Ottley

Free Foxtel? The RLPA demands that have enraged NRL clubs

Roy Masters

Really? Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull at the announcement in Canberra of the 2023 bid for the Women's World Cup in ...

PM, please tell us you're kidding about the women's World Cup

Peter FitzSimons

Controversial miss: Elliot Daly of the Lions misses a long-range penalty kick at goal against the Highlanders.

Angry Lions to demand fair deal on goalkicking rules

Mick Cleary

Fresh: Jonny Gray of Scotland.

Scots kept hitman on ice for Wallabies clash

Tom Decent
54 mins ago

Roger Federer and Tommy Haas

Roger Federer loses to lowest-ranked opponent since 1999

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

It's on: Mayweather to fight UFC star McGregor

BREAKING

Disappointed: England batsman Joe Root.

England's shock loss continues major ODI trophy drought

Scyld Berry

All-rounder: Pat Cummins attempts a runout while playing for the Sydney Thunder.

Ten turmoil: the $60 million question for the Big Bash League

Andrew Wu

Ex-Manly coach Geoff Toovey.

Visa wait over as Toovey joins Super League

Warren Barnsley

Making a stand: Josh Dugan is determined to bounce to his feet if he takes a knock in Origin II.

Dugan vows to make a stand to skirt concussion rules

Adam Pengilly

Backing his mate: Luke Brooks says Mitchell Moses needs time to settle at Parramatta.

'Moses needs time': Brooks backs housemate to fire

Adam Pengilly

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