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Tottenham MP David Lammy was interviewed by Britain's Channel 4 about the Grenfell fire.

'Tale of two cities': MP's tears on Grenfell fire

24 mins ago

Many drug syndicates make their properties look a little less like run down rentals and more like the house next door.

Busting the Garden State: Homes in Victoria hiding a crime wave

At least 30 people have been confirmed dead in the tragedy.

London inferno: Death toll rises as crime link probed

1 hr ago

The fire started by a cigarette on an eighth-floor balcony of the Charter Hall-developed Lacrosse Apartment building in ...

The Docklands tower I wouldn't let my kids live in: former fire chief

EXCLUSIVE

President Donald Trump en route to Miami on Friday to deliver a speech on Cuba policy.

Donald Trump's tweets confirm he's under investigation

Wall Street where the financial crisis began almost 10 years ago.

Ten years since the GFC, are we headed for another meltdown?

Government in secret bid to secure Gonski deal with Greens

EXCLUSIVE
Mark Kenny

Man linked to Beaumont children's disappearance dies

'Why on earth?' Is this the reason Turnbull joined the Liberal Party?

Targeting Triggs: How a human rights protector came under attack

Michael Gordon

'What's the deal with Asians?': ABC in damage control over Symons

Michelle Carter's guilt is being seen as a potential precedent for how the law deals with online communications and text ...

Guilty of killing her boyfriend while on the phone to him, 1 hour away

Los Angeles County Coroner's Office will mark the cause of Carrie Fisher's death as undetermined.

Carrie Fisher died of sleep apnea and 'other' causes: coroner

18 mins ago

Mamamia founder and publisher Mia Freedman.

How Mia Freedman's Bad Feminist moment went so wrong

Comment

A young couple bought this Canora Street home for $1,050,000 in 2016.

Melbourne's mighty middle: Prices double in just five years

Baked camembert cheese.

Camembert cheese shortage sweeps the world

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Whales arrive in Port Phillip Bay

'It's not a fear of failure. It's not a fear of being unable to do it': Mike Cannon-Brookes .

'Someone is going to figure it out': Fear drives billionaire

AFL runner

Has Nick Maxwell brought about the extinction of runners?

Michael Gordon's identify card, issued after first joining The Age as a cadet.

Michael Gordon farewells 44 years of daily journalism

COMMENT

Pick up a vintage fashion find at the new Footscray Finds market.

Where to find Melbourne's newest market

15 Argyle Street, Fitzroy: A modern-day warehouse conversion success story.

Melbourne's warehouse conversions nearing endangered status

Everything is grown organically using compost from kitchen and garden scraps and manure from the farm's sheep.

Why this humble vegie patch is now world famous

Darren Palmer says futuristic apps are revolutionary for our home security.

Future is now: Home technology to actually get excited about

A Carraig Ridge House by Saunders Architecture.

In the wilds of remote Canada, a home for minimal impact

What are the five best ways for plucky non-millionaires to get a seat on the exciting not-poverty train?

Can't afford a house? Save more money! What great advice ... or not

COMMENT

Manny Waks and his alleged abuser

Chilling confrontation between a survivor and alleged abuser

Man arrested after woman and five children caught up in siege

New footage in Ristevski case released

UPDATED

Thar she blows: A whale looks at a boat near Williamstown on Friday.

Thar she blows: Whales spotted in the bay off Williamstown

Police are investigating a terrifying road-rage incident in Port Melbourne.

Man goes on 'road rage' rampage in Port Melbourne

Brighton siege gunman Yacqub Khayre.

Fourth man charged over Brighton terror siege

How do the scales of justice weigh the youth of a young man against the terrifying nature of his crimes?

Teen carjacker gets three years for 'appalling' thefts

Salim Mehajer arrives at Downing Centre Local Court on Friday for second day of his electoral fraud trial.

Police reveal Mehajer fraud allegations

NSW

Adam Cranston (right) has had his assets seized including expensive race cars. His brother Joshua (left) has not been ...

ATO tax fraud: Funds of 'syndicate members' seized

NSW

Only Romania and Turkey were ranked below Australia in education in the latest UNICEF report card.

Australia ranked 39 out of 41 countries for education

Australian National University scientist Graham Farquhar is the first Australian to win a Kyoto Prize.

ANU scientist proud to be first Kyoto Prize winner

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How these women are staring down their trolls

Ginger Gorman

Dr Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh and Dr Torben Daeneke at RMIT with their solar paint and samples painted on glass.?

The paint that makes clean fuel out of sunshine and air

Georgina Connery

EMBARGOED FOR GOOD WEEKEND, JUNE 17/17 ISSUE. The Bright Hour by Nina Riggs Photograph by?Toni Tronu (no archiving)

There are many things worse than death

COMMENT
Nina Riggs

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Hands out: Sebastian Ross gets the ball away as North’s Nathan Hrovat moves in to tackle during St Kilda’s win on Friday ...

Saints claim a forgettable four points

Daniel Cherny

John Cena (top) wrestles Triple H at Wrestlemania 22.

Collingwood's latest celebrity pal: WWE star John Cena

Anthony Colangelo
51 mins ago

Runners on the board: Luke Beveridge

Coach backs runners. 'I can't wait until the end of the quarter'

Daniel Cherny
12 mins ago

Deliberations: Live trading of selections on draft night has taken another step.

Live trading on AFL draft night moves a step closer

Jon Pierik

Patrick Cripps

Cripps not content to rest on laurels

Sam McClure

Back in town: Tom Liberatore.

Bulldog Liberatore out of exile

Daniel Cherny

AFL runner

AFL runners on the verge of extinction

Richmond would love to lock away rampaging midfielder Dustin Martin.

Dusty not signed yet: Tigers fans caught by tale ... again

Luke Michael

Simon Birmingham has a two-pronged strategy over Gonski 2.0.

Government in secret bid to secure Gonski deal

EXCLUSIVE

How teacher unions are holding progress on school funding hostage

COMMENT
Matthew Knott

Coalition brawl over British-style Home Office deepens

David Wroe

Refugees at Manus Island will learn their fate soon.

US to notify Manus Island detainees within six weeks

Colin Packham

Veteran journalist Michael Gordon observes Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra.

Farewell to Michael, a giant of journalism and a decent man

Tony Wright

Malcolm Turnbull and Donald Trump aboard the USS Intrepid in May.

Off the record? This is all a confected nonsense

COMMENT
Tony Wright

Former prime minister Tony Abbott.

Far from protecting his reputation, Tony Abbott is trashing it

ANALYSIS
Mark Kenny

At least 30 people have been confirmed dead in the tragedy.

Death toll rises as UK police announce criminal probe

Nick Miller
1 hr ago

Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl waves at supporters from his wheelchair in 2010.

Helmut Kohl, German reunification architect, dead at 87

1 hr ago

US President Donald Trump.

Donald Trump orders crackdown on Cuba travel and trade

Fire engulfs Grenfell Tower.

Anger as Grenfell Tower protesters storm town hall

Illustration: Jim Pavlidis

Thank you, Age readers, for sharing in my adventures

COMMENT
Michael Gordon

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 15: Australian actress Rebel Wilson smiles out the front of the Victorian Supreme Courton ...

Rebel Wilson and why a lady should act older than her age

COMMENT
Julia Baird

Illustration: Andrew Dyson.

The cruelty of penalty rate cuts

COMMENT
Sally McManus

Wall Street where the financial crisis began almost 10 years ago.

Ten years since the GFC, world suffers 'debt overhang'

Nassim Khadem

Institutions that don't take deposits, that fund themselves on the wholesale market such as Pepper Money and Liberty ...

Home loan crackdown and the Law of Unintended Consequences

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

CBS wanted to help Network Ten get through its financial difficulties and had already agreed to cut the cost of its ...

Network Ten staff told not to order anything

Lucy Battersby

Frank Lowy, now Sir Frank.

Listening to the BBC while hiding from Nazis leds to a knighthood

Deborah Snow

Amazon to acquire Whole Foods for $18 billion

The fear that drives billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes

Damien Murphy
1 hr ago

Cleanskin king represents new face of BHP

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

Strong jobs growth takes interest rate cuts off table

COMMENT
Jessica Irvine

The Alex is just one of seven new boutique hotels to open in Perth.

How Perth quietly became Australia's coolest city

Lifestyle
Elizabeth Clarke

Toby Jones and Mikey Nolan of Double Rainbouu say many of their deals are signed after hours.

The high school dropout who became our hottest export

Men's Style

A weak pound and stronger Australian dollar make a holiday to Britain cheaper.

Pound's weakness puts travellers to Britain in the box seat

John Collett

If you love to knit, you could have a side hustle selling cute beanies.

Five side hustles, for love or money

Catherine Robson

Women need to see themselves in leadership to stay at a company, the study found.

One way tech startups founded by women are different

A new study has revealed the types of jobs that lead to early death.

How your job is killing you

James Adonis

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Siege in Cooper Street, Epping

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Adam West tribute: Bat signal lights up LA

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Does Melbourne have a distinctive smell?

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Red Symons' controversial interview

SMH News story by Rachel Olding. Story: First court appearance for ATO tax fraud people - Michael Cranston, Lauren ...

Fairfax photos of the week - June 16, 2017

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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.

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Author Arundhati Roy is as unafraid of bearing witness to tenderness as atrocity which is part of The Ministry of Utmost ...

Was it worth the wait? The verdict on Arundhati Roy's new novel

Review
Felicity Plunkett

ABC Radio host Red Symons.

ABC in damage control after Symons' 'racist' comments

Rob Moran

Daniel Radcliffe in the film Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

20 years of Harry Potter: rating the boy wizard's impact

Yoko Ono at the MCA in 2013 for her exhibition, War is Over.

Yoko Ono set to receive credit as songwriter of Imagine

Samantha Schmidt

Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor is better known by her stage name Lorde.

Lorde's new album, Melodrama, is brilliant

Bernard Zuel

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 15: Australian actress Rebel Wilson smiles out the front of the Victorian Supreme Courton ...

'I had to take a stand': Rebel Wilson set for big payday

UPDATED

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

Behrouz Boochani

The smartphone movie that had to be filmed in secret

Karl Quinn

Joanna Murray-Smith's plays have been staged around the world.

MTC raises $4.6m for five-year suite of new Australian plays

Debbie Cuthbertson

From left, Romy Madley Croft, Oliver Sim and Jamie Smith, of the xx, in New York, Sept. 24, 2016. The British indie-rock ...

Jamie xx and Olafur Eliasson join forces for Melbourne Festival

Debbie Cuthbertson

RMIT's makeover includes plenty of avenues for natural light.

Open House Melbourne unveils RMIT's swish makeover

Hannah Francis

Mamamia founder and publisher Mia Freedman.

How Mamamia's Bad Feminist moment went so wrong

Jenny Noyes

Back in February, Beyonce debuted her baby bump in a spectacular Instagram post.

Bey watch: Obama might have just revealed the sex of Beyonce's twins

Annie Brown

Susan Carland

How these women are staring down their trolls

Ginger Gorman

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 23: Lisa Wilkinson arrives at the 59th Annual Logie Awards at Crown Palladium on April 23, ...

Criticism of Mia was 'completely out of proportion': Wilkinson

Andrew Hornery

Articles and blogs fed into my worries - not to mention the online "mummy boards" at pregnancy and fertility websites.

How I overcame my fear of having an IVF baby

Amy Klein

The Bachelor series five Matthew Johnson, Matty J. publicity pic from Channel Ten. For PS

Channel Ten clashes with paps over Bach spoilers

Andrew Hornery

Chris Brown (L) and Karrueche Tran are seen during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2015 at Lincoln Center for the ...

Ex wins five-year restraining order against Chris Brown

Jayme Deerwester

Geoffrey Edelsten has congratulated ex-wife Brynne on her 'engagement.' Pictured here together in November 2012.

Geoffrey Edelsten surprised by ex Brynne's 'engagement'

The Goss
Amy Croffey

Roxanne Gay.

Roxane Gay's brave memoir illuminates struggle with eating and her body

Jim Higgins

Reflecting on the ephemeral nature of life can bring our priorities into perspective.

The 'unexpectedly positive' experience of dying

Sarah Berry

The Vitali bra: offering emotional support?

Could 'wellbeing' bra help you stay calm?

Jo Hartley

"I just couldn't bear it": Helen Kerry.

'Drenched in 100-degree liquid': Thermomix taken to court

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

Chocolate-chip macadamia shortbread.

How to bake simple shortbread plus 10 recipes

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Babies worse than bad body odour for fellow travellers

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Why I think birthday party goody bags should be banned

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Four ways parents can help a bullied child

Indian woman eating banana leaf rice, overhead view on wooden dining table. SatJun17cover-WorldFood - Ben Groundwater ...

The eight cities with the world's best local dishes

Ben Groundwater

The space race: Overhead locker storage can be a source of tension between passengers.

Traveller letters: Airlines need to crack down on overhead bin hogs

Sixteen-year-old travel blogger Zac George became the youngest person ever to buy his own ticket and fly in Etihad’s ...

Aussie teen the youngest ever to fly world's most luxurious airline class

Julietta Jameson

Super Mario Odyssey

Super Mario Odyssey is insane in the best way

NBN chief executive Bill Morrow unveiled fibre to the curb plans back in 2016.

NBN begins Fibre to the Curb trials

COMMENT

This city beneath a statue of Genesha appears identically in the game's art, trailer and early tech demo.

First look at the incredibly ambitious Beyond Good and Evil 2

Solar paint samples painted on glass.

Paint makes clean fuel out of sunshine and air

An impression of China's Micius quantum satellite.

China's leap towards a global quantum internet

Audi RS3 LMS.

Driven: Audi's 'affordable' race car

Peter McKay

Hyundai won't be joining the likes of Mercedes-AMG in Formula One.

Hyundai rules out F1

Toby Hagon

Range-topping dual cab ute comparison: Toyota HiLux TRD, Ford Ranger Wildtrak, Nissan Navara ST-X.

What's the best range-topping ute?

David McCowen

2017 Lexus CT200h.

New Lexus CT200h revealed

Drive Staff

Audi's RS3 sedan is a giant-killer in a compact package.

Driving Audi's sports car killer

Peter McKay

Jaguar and Land Rover have invested $25million into US ride-sharing business, Lyft

Jaguar invests in Uber rival

Andrew MacLean

Jason Day of Australia

Jason Day, Adam Scott among big-name US Open exits

Evin Priest

Joyce was previously the reserve grade and U23 manager of Manchester United.

Former Manchester United man tipped to be City's new coach

Michael Lynch
1 hr ago

On the outer: Spinner Steve O'Keefe has been left out of the tour to Bangladesh.

Bangladesh tour dragged into cricket's pay dispute

Andrew Wu

Aaron Mooy of Australia

Australia's quiet achiever making a huge noise

Michael Lynch

Sunshine Coast Lightning coach Noeline Taurua and her players celebrate after winning the Super Netball major semi-final ...

Lightning aiming to create Super Netball grand final storm

Linda Pearce

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