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Wil Anderson hits the target in Fire at Wil.

Wil Anderson arrested after stepping off flight

Breaking
1 hr ago

Brooke Ledner, banned from practising psychology for a year in June for having an inappropriate relationship with a ...

Sydney therapist banned after having sex with former patient

The Age, News 15/06/2017, picture by Justin McManus. Melbourne Uni academics Dr Kate Shaw and Abdullahi Jama in front of ...

Tale of two cafes in Carlton shows failure of 'social mix' housing

COMMENT

US President Donald Trump in the Roosevelt Room of the White House last week.

Trump discloses multimillion-dollar income

Video still shows Vasko Ristevski emerging from the scrub during filming of Nine's A Current Affair.

Brother-in-law filmed near site where Karen Ristevski found

The USS Fitzgerald is seen off Shimoda, Shizuoka prefecture, Japan, after the Navy destroyer collided with a merchant ...

Sailors missing after US destroyer collides with container ship

1 hr ago

Guilty of killing her boyfriend while on the phone an hour away

Swans keep finals hopes alive but sweat on Franklin report

Widow's story reveals the cruelty of penalty rate cuts

COMMENT

Officer who shot black driver live on Facebook acquitted

Vanuatu President Baldwin Lonsdale dies suddenly at age 67

Jessica Urbano has been missing since the Grenfell Tower fire.

'Run down the stairs as fast as you can': Mum's last words to Jessica

Nick Miller

Commuting makes you miserable.

Money can buy happiness if you spend it on these three things

GOLD COAST, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 17: Jesse Lonergan of the Suns is tackled during the round 13 AFL match between the Gold ...

Suns, Blues playing out a thriller at Metricon Stadium

Live

Roxanne Gay.

Hunger: Roxane Gay's brave memoir on her eating struggle

Kit Harrington as Jon Snow in Game of Thrones.

This theory on Jon Snow's true name may have been confirmed

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Sampling the abyss

This four-bedroom 1930s home at 21 Iona Avenue Toorak, sold for $6.46 million.

Melbourne's auction market at lowest point for a year

Mamamia founder and publisher Mia Freedman.

Comment

How Mia Freedman's Bad Feminist moment went so wrong

EMBARGOED FOR SUNDAY LIFE, APRIL 30/17 ISSUE. Sunday Life. Portrait of Australian journalist and author Tracey Spicer. ...

'I want to hide inside and never leave': the toll of trolls

"A lady never tells," said actor Rebel Wilson (centre) when grilled by a barrister on the question of whether she fibbed ...

Rebel Wilson and the age old issue of ageing, especially in film world

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

A Carraig Ridge House by Saunders Architecture.

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

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

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

16 Villiers Avenue, Mortdale

Auction Results: See what sold near you on Saturday

Police at the scene of a stabbing in Preston on Saturday.

Man critical after woman allegedly stabs him in Preston

Developers, government win out in 'social mix' public housing: research

Chilling confrontation between a survivor and alleged abuser

Inspector Peter Tatter-Rendelmann said the five children and one woman inside the house during a siege in Epping were ...

Man arrested after woman and five kids caught up in siege

A still of the Mercedes-Benz seen on CCTV in Diggers Rest.

New CCTV footage in Karen Ristevski murder 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

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

ACT

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 14: Members of the Morning Mermaids of Point Lonsdale swimming group are seen at Springs ...

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 14: Members of the Morning Mermaids of Point Lonsdale swimming group are seen at Springs ...

Frigid weather no problem for 'mad' bay swimmers

Carolyn Webb

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
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Marc Murphy tackles Gary Ablett.

AFL Saturday Live: Suns and Blues going down to the wire

Live
Ronny Lerner

The Swans converge on Gary Rohan after he sealed the win against Richmond at the MCG.

Swans get off the canvas to hurt the Tigers

Rohan Connolly

Lance Franklin tussles with Alex Rance. He was reported for rough conduct on Connor Menadue.

Swans keep finals hopes alive but Franklin reported

Rohan Connolly

Lachie Hunter of the Bulldogs celebrates.

Can struggling Bulldogs bark up the right tree?

COMMENT
Jon Pierik

Power coach Ken Hinkley is adamant runners are necessary in the AFL.

Hinkley, Fagan divided over runners' future

Ashley Porter
1 hr ago

Port's Ollie Wines (centre) celebrates a goal with teammate Justin Westhoff.

Power win, but Lions can take some pride away

Ashley Porter

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

AFL stars: Howe perceptions lag

Michael Gleeson

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

Collingwood's latest celebrity pal: WWE star John Cena

Anthony Colangelo

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

The Ofo bike-sharing app on a smartphone in front of the company's bikes parked on a sidewalk in Shanghai, China.

Bike-sharing boom travels from China to rest of the world

Kirsty Needham

US President Donald Trump in the Roosevelt Room of the White House last week.

Trump discloses multimillion-dollar income in latest filing

Australian police officers fold the Australian flag during a flag-lowering ceremony. in Nicosia, Cyprus.

Australian police leave Cyprus after 53 years

Vanuatu President Baldwin Lonsdale with Australian Senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells in May 2016.

Vanuatu President Baldwin Lonsdale dies

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 leads to a knighthood

Deborah Snow

Amazon to acquire Whole Foods for $18 billion

The fear that drives billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes

Damien Murphy

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

Commuting makes you miserable.

Money can buy happiness if you spend it on these three things

Caitlin Fitzsimmons

Noel Whittaker.

Unlucky seniors in the pension card trap

EXCLUSIVE
Noel Whittaker

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 ...

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Simon Gleeson: the theatre star despairing at the state of the arts

Latika Bourke

Green Light was the first new material from Lorde in nearly four years, after her first album Pure Heroine made her a ...

Lorde on fame, staying up late and being 'quite naughty'

Andrew Stafford

Gal Gadot in Wonder Woman.

Avengers director under fire for sexist Wonder Woman script

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

Green Light was the first new material from Lorde in nearly four years, after her first album Pure Heroine made her a ...

Lorde's new album, Melodrama, is brilliant

Bernard Zuel

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA ??? JUNE 08: Architect Peter McIntyre is seen during lunch with Age journalist Lindy Percival at ...

Architect Peter McIntyre slams 'disastrous' McMansions

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Lindy Percival

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

Katherine wears Dion Lee “Contour Tie” dress, $1590, from David Jones.

13 Reasons Why's Katherine Langford: 'I feel lucky to have a platform'

Cosima Marriner

Mamamia founder and publisher Mia Freedman.

How Mamamia's Bad Feminist moment went so wrong

Jenny Noyes

Susan Carland

How these women are staring down their trolls

Ginger Gorman

Ignore the fact that this bow-down-beautiful Oscar de la Renta blends into the background a bit, and instead just focus ...

This week's red carpets were positively blooming

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

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

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

Carrie Fisher died of sleep apnoea and 'other conditions':

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

Neil Perry's rendang of beef.

Neil Perry's beef rendang

Chocolate-chip macadamia shortbread.

How to bake simple shortbread plus 10 recipes

Sesame, date and banana cake with tahini cream cheese icing and caramelised banana.

Yotam Ottolenghi's banana cake and cookie 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

The Lightning's Caitlin Bassett starred in the grand final against the Giants.

Sunshine Coast win grand final with Giant victory

James Buckley
53 mins ago

Brodie Croft is swamped by his Melbourne Storm teammates after kicking the winning goal against the Cowboys.

Storm's young guns topple Cowboys in thriller

Roy Ward
25 mins ago

Dejected: Bernard Foley at full-time after the Wallabies' shock loss to Scotland.

Jock horror: Scotland get sweet revenge over Wallabies

Tom Decent
40 mins ago

Fabian Coulthard of DJR Team Penske celebrates his win in race one in Darwin.

Coulthard, McLaughlin finish 1-2 in Darwin

Mark Fogarty

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

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