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The burning Grenfell Tower in London.

Aussie buildings covered in similar risky cladding

EXCLUSIVE
1 hr ago

Malcolm Turnbull mimics the US President at the Midwinter Ball in Canberra.

'The Donald and I are winning': PM mocks Trump in leaked video

17 mins ago

Sandra Sully is rumoured to be the likely host of a national bulletin on Ten.

'People are in tears': Employees genuinely worried as Ten in crisis

1 hr ago

Fernando Manuel Paulino arrives at the Supreme Court in Melbourne in May.

Huge roar in court room after man found guilty of killing ex-wife

UPDATED
26 mins ago

Tony Abbott has asked just one question in the current Parliament.

All quiet on the Tony front: Abbott vocal everywhere, except here

Sunrise on Bourke Street, Melbourne on Thursday.

'A little bit unusual': Winter mild spell to continue as high hovers

23 mins ago

'It's still in my neck': ABC journalist hit by a bullet in the Philippines

1 hr ago

Is conwoman Belle Gibson 'thumbing her nose' at court?

1 hr ago

The Melbourne suburbs where burglaries are most violent

19 mins ago

'Outrageous': Liberals rush to defend MPs facing contempt charges

1 hr ago

Deadly blaze: London council admits it received complaints

Rebel Wilson speaks to the media outside the Victorian Supreme Court on Thursday.

'It's a win for everybody who gets maliciously taken down': Rebel's long fight

UPDATED
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Michael Gordon (middle) with former prime minister Bob Hawke.

Accolades flow for journalism giant and the most decent of men

United airlines

United Airlines in damage control again after man pushed to floor

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

How stress made Demi Moore lose her two front teeth

Many Australians are having "larger portions of junk food, more often", a survey has found.

How to avoid buying junk food at the supermarket

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London fire: how survivors escaped the inferno

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

Icon of 1960s style and Rolling Stones muse dies aged 73

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

Barnaby brings a stock whip to pollie party Midwinter Ball

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

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Plane passengers would rather sit next to this than a baby

Professional organiser Louisa Dyson helps busy clients sort out their personal lives and homes.

Why decluttering is not a solution to being messy

Highly-decorative posters were made in the late 1800s and early 1900s to attract home buyers.

How houses were bought and sold in Melbourne 100 years ago

Terraces surround Manarola, one of the five villages that make up the famed Cinque Terre on Italy's northwestern coast.

To save its cliffside towns, Italy revives an almost lost building art

The state coroner previously called on the government to implement better pool safety measures.

The new pool laws that may make your house less valuable

Paul Pfeiffer has admitted to misappropriating $250,000 in trust money.

'I'm rooted': Real estate agent took $250k of clients' money

A total of 482,959 crimes were committed in the year to September, marking a 6 per cent rise in offences.

The Melbourne suburbs where burglaries are most violent

19 mins ago

Firefighters union seeks to block release of bullying inquiry

1 hr ago

Bernardi party sets sights on Victoria and Safe Schools

Mr Gargasoulas last month told a court that he 'was under extreme stress which caused me to have a mental breakdown'.

Alleged Bourke St killer could claim he's unfit for trial

Madi Craig says she was at risk of disengaging from high school but preserved with the help of the Smith Family.

The real cost of dropping out of school

The historic Northcote mural after being tagged by Nost.

How a brickie with an ice habit became Nost

Firefighters quickly contained a fire on a Southbank balcony.

'Vicious flames': Fire causes evacuation of apartment block

Senior Defence Department official Kim Gillis

Defence pays $5.5 million for 8 contractors

ACT

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

Mehajer's sister pleads guilty to electoral fraud

NSW

Police freeze more than $1 million as part of ongoing investigation into suspicious financial transactions

Police freeze $1m in proceeds of crime probe

WA

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 14: Richmond Tigers head coach Damien Hardwick reacts during an AFL media opportunity for ...

Coach of the year can take Tigers deep into September

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Full catastrophe: Tales from a tenth grade loser

Clementine Ford

Adam Lust is one of more than 1000 taxi/hire car licence owners who has applied for relief from the government's taxi ...

Not a cent paid from $50m taxi hardship fund

Adam Carey
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Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce and George Christensen during question time at Parliament House in Canberra on ...

Government nerves as confidence vote looms in Parliament

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Stephanie Peatling
1 hr ago

Michael Gordon, a giant of journalism and most decent of men

Tony Wright

'Outrageous': Liberals defend colleagues facing contempt of court

Michael Koziol
1 hr ago

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

Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce at Parliament House in Canberra on Monday 29 May 2017. Photo: Andrew Meares

Barnaby Joyce warns Tony Abbott could damage government

Fergus Hunter

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says "enough is enough" on the ideological debates over climate change.

Turnbull feels climate heat as Abbott steps up demands

James Massola

Senator Richard DiNatale is seeking access to intelligence committee hearings.

Greens ramp up pressure for major corruption probe

EXCLUSIVE
Mark Kenny

Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.

Singaporean PM accused by siblings of misuse of power

Lindsay Murdoch

An image distributed by IS's propaganda agency Amaq shows a mosque damaged by bombardment by the US-led coalition.

Air strikes on Raqqa cause 'staggering' civilian deaths

People wait for a tram next to the famed mural painted by artist Eduardo Kobra for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de ...

Rio Olympics price tag rises to $17 billion

Fires continued to rage into the day on Wednesday.

Building safety in the spotlight after deadly blaze

Nick Miller

Illustration John Shakespeare

A guide to Finkel Review in case, like Abbott, you haven't read it

COMMENT
Peter Martin

Australia's Chief Scientist Alan Finkel.

Australians largely agree something must be done. But our leaders?

COMMENT
Judith Ireland

More than 50 per cent of older workers feel discriminated against because of their age, sending them on a demoralising ...

If we're going to work until 70, we need to change how we retire

COMMENT
Conrad Liveris

Investors are pouring money into their superannuation accounts in a bid to beat changes introduced in the June 2016 budget.

'Huge inflow of cash' into equities: Coppo

Myriam Robin
1 hr ago

Australia may find itself on the wrong side of Donald Trump's spending spree.

ASX hits skids as banks slam into reverse

Patrick Commins
38 mins ago

In China, where United bills itself as a top carrier, tens of millions of people have read or shared a report that the ...

United in damage control again after staffer pushed 71-year-old

Mitchell Gajkowski was Australian champion for steer riding at the age of 14, his mother says.

Bull rider wins workers compensation after rodeo injury

Anna Patty

Unemployment rate beats expectations by 'country mile'

UPDATED
1 hr ago

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

Fancy zinc zucchini? Miners turn to exotic uses for their metals

How quickly you find out you have bought a lemon

Esther Han

Louboutin launched his latest sneaker at Pitti Uomo,

Baller move: Louboutin releases game-changing new sneaker

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

Why made-to-measure is the most intimate friendship you'll have

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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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Arrests after mass brawl in Washington

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United Airlines in damage control... again

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GOP shooter: 'Destroy Trump & Co'

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Four killed in UPS shooting

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Sandra Sully is rumoured to be the likely host of a national bulletin on Ten.

Channel Ten in crisis: 'People are in tears'

Michael Lallo
1 hr ago

Actor Ryan Gosling at the Academy Awards in 2017.

Ryan Gosling and Ken Kao form production company

Joey Pucino

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

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

Whitney Houston in June 1988. Director Nick Broomfield theorises that part of the reason the singer/actor was so unhappy ...

Whitney: Can I Be Me reveals How fame swallowed Houston

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Paul Byrnes

The ever popular Minions steal the show yet again in Despicable Me 3.

Third act of Despicable Me animated comedy franchise falls flat

Review
Jake Wilson

Demetrius Shipp Jr as Tupac.

Overcooked Tupac biopic glosses over unsavoury truths

Review
Jake Wilson

My hopes were high. Like, John Hughes-level high.

Clementine Ford: Tales from a tenth grade loser

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

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

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 duck with radicchio, fig and hazelnut.

Review: Meet the Mornington Peninsula's mini-MONA

Roast cabbage with porcini and caramelised onion butter.

Cabbage gets an amazing flavour makeover with this roast dish

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

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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

The tuna auction at Tsukiji Market. If you want to be one of the few tourists allowed to see it, you'd best arrive at 3am.

Visit Tokyo's 'great wonder of the world' while you still can

Shoko Oda

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

foxtel

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

2018 Range Rover Evoque with Si4 Ingenium petrol engine.

New power for Land Rover

Stephen Ottley

Daniel Wells

Magpies set to miss finals for a fourth year

Rohan Connolly

Saints head coach Alan Richardson

Seeking aggression: Saints to make at least three changes

Zach Merrett

Bombers have lift off – but sky is the limit

Sam McClure

Sam Mitchell

Eagle Mitchell 50-50 on retirement this year

Jason Johannisen was targeted before the opening bounce against the Swans.

Demons set to target Johannisen

Jon Pierik

Still No.1: Todd Goldstein is on the verge of turning his form around, according to North Melbourne coach Brad Scott.

Out of sorts Goldstein is still No.1 says Brad Scott

Luke Michael

Former Eagle Karl Langdon with a baby's dummy during the 1992 Grand Final Parade.

Karl Langdon reveals the secret behind Eagles '92 flag

Brendan Foster

Matthew Kreuzer of the Blues

Would Kreuzer still be the No.1 pick of the 2007 draft?

Jon Pierik

Matt Wilkinson of Australia

Wilkinson tops standings after Fiji triumph

Disappointed: England batsman Joe Root.

England's shock loss continues major ODI trophy drought

Scyld Berry

Roger Federer and Tommy Haas

Haas cuts Federer comeback short in Stuttgart

Jason Day

Day relishing the likely tough US Open conditions

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

It's on: Mayweather to fight UFC star McGregor

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