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Daryl Dixon: the income test would have been fairer if it was only applied to new retirees

Public servants are super losers: expert

Noel Towell

FILE - In this Dec. 10, 2016, file photo, supporters of LGBT and human rights wave rainbow flags during a rally ...

Liberal MPs' secret bid to legalise same-sex marriage

EXCLUSIVE

Defence industry minister Christopher Pyne on <i>Q&A</i>.

'Not a person of good character': Recording of Pyne ruffles feathers

"Profound changes": Public Service Commissioner John Lloyd.

APS jobs for life in the past warns public service chief

FILE - John Peter Moore, left, ex-personal secretary of Spanish surrealist painter Salvador Dali, is seen in this ...

Salvador Dali's body to be exhumed for paternity test

Canberra's prison, now trying to deal with an overflow of female prisoners.

What to do with the female prisoners overflowing from jail?

'Australia is a slow adopter': DFAT boosting security at embassies

Victorian man killed in blast wore 'bra stuffed with explosives'

It took me four days to say my dad had died. Then I lied about how

COMMENT

'There is no value': Investors in Ten delivered bad news

Fugitive changed name, grew beard then 'walked under our nose': cops

Four-year-old Cruz had to have surgery after the glass panels in his home's shower exploded.

'He was just screaming': Mother's warning after shower screen 'explosion'

Is a sugar tax the best way to tackle Australia's obesity problem?

Big Sugar's links to dietitians' group is not so sweet

COMMENT

Long Paddocks Eggs have free range chickens who live protected by maremma dogs with the second lowest stocking density ...

Canberra region home to Australia's happiest hens

Eight years later, I still choke on the word "husband". But our partnership is working.

I never wanted to get married, and it still feels strange

Olivia Wilde stars in the Broadway adaptation of '1984'.

Olivia Wilde play leaves audiences fainting and vomiting

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Priscilla stage show comes home

Close up Athletic Woman Holding her Painful Injured Back While Doing an Exercise.

How to get more energy in the morning (minus the coffee)

A home WiFi map can help troubleshoot your flaky wireless network.

The best tools for improving your home's WiFi

McEnroe: Williams would rank 'like 700' if she ...

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May 'bungs' a billion pounds to Northern Ireland ...

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Trump's travel ban partially revived by court

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ACT Policing is seeking the public?s assistance to locate missing 82-year-old man, Gerard McDonnell.

Police search for man last seen in Waramanga

Two weeks of law made her ready to quit. Now she's ACT's new judge

Dog 'sold to recoup drug swindle money', court hears

The sculpture will be made from corten steel and have a rust-like exterior.

Arboretum to get $2m sculpture inspired by Australian invention

Siena.

New development to bring a little slice of Italy to Canberra

Warehouse Circus is a program that helps teach circus skills to highschool students with disabilities. Photo: Dion ...

Funding ends for circus program for disabled students

The NTEU and ANU are in negotiations.

ANU staff launch union campaign on proposed roster changes

Wanted notice: Jayde Alfred Schackow was arrested following a nation-wide manhunt.

'Most-wanted' fugitive found under child's bed

NSW

Work safe is investigating.

130-tonne crane collapses at building site

WA

Commonwealth Games organising committee (GOLDOC) chairman Peter Beattie said resold games tickets must be within 10 per ...

Scalped Games tickets only 'hot air': Beattie

QLD

The point-to-point cameras on Athllon Drive.

Four-year-old speed cameras are already out of date

"Profound changes": Public Service Commissioner John Lloyd.

Public service jobs for life in the past, says workplace authority

Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce has said an audit report into the pesticides authority shows the government needed to ...

Labor, union leap to defence of beleaguered agency

CSIRO staff have reluctantly agreed to accept a new pay deal.

CSIRO staff narrowly approve new enterprise agreement

Liberal senator Dean Smith.

Liberal MPs' secret bid to legalise same-sex marriage

EXCLUSIVE
James Massola

Three strikes and she's out? Greens risk war over Rhiannon

EXCLUSIVE
Adam Gartrell

Cuts to GP home visits to strain emergency departments: peak body

Adam Gartrell

"Winner's circle": Defence Industry Minister Christopher Pyne.

Same-sex marriage could happen 'soon', says Pyne

Fergus Hunter

Minister for Defence Industry Christopher Pyne.

Pyne's 'treachery' consists of giving people what they want

COMMENT
Jacqueline Maley

Cory Bernardi

Bernardi lures another MP to his Australian Conservatives

EXCLUSIVE
Latika Bourke

The Great Barrier Reef generated 69,000 jobs in 2011-12, according to a 2013 Federal Government study.

The Australian icon worth 12 times the Sydney Opera House

Adam Gartrell

The wanted Maute family.

Philippine matriarch is alleged kingpin in Marawi assault

Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo.

Nobel prize laureate released from prison, after cancer diagnosis

Turkey's President and leader of ruling Justice and Development Party Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses his party members ...

Turkey drops 'controversial' evolution from secular curriculum

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a signing ceremony with Brazilian President Michel Temer last week, after they ...

Elves v trolls: How Europe is working to lay bare Russian meddling

With a friend like US President Donald Trump what country needs enemies?

Trump doesn't solve crises, he creates them

COMMENT
Peter Hartcher

Experts are meeting in Melbourne on Thursday to discuss elder abuse.

Old and alone: the government must step in

COMMENT
Jenna Price

Illustration: Jim Pavlidis

Free market faithful should support gender quotas too

COMMENT
Jessica Irvine

Gwyneth Jones has shared her experience of living in an retirement village with Adele Ferguson and Sarah DanckertPhoto: ...

‘Bleed ‘em dry til they they die’: Brutal engines that drive Aveo

The company, which supplies groceries to IGA supermarkets, reported net profit of $171.9 million for the year ending ...

Amazon threat to Aussie grocers is overblown says Metcash boss

Patrick Hatch

Mr Murdoch and Mr Gordon pulled financial support for the company, telling Ten late on Friday they would not support a ...

Rinehart in the ranks of the worthless at Ten

CBD
Colin Kruger, CBD

Ride-sharing services like Uber used for work are not exempt from fringe benefits tax.

Taking an Uber for work? Your boss may have to pay tax on it

Nassim Khadem

Why the investor pros beat the super selfies this year

COMMENT
Clancy Yeates

Yancoal reclaims box seat for Rio Tinto coalmines

Darren Gray

CBA to cut 150 jobs as banks shed costs

Clancy Yeates

'It's really worrying' - Aveo under fresh fire over privacy

Adele Ferguson

Siena.

New unit development to bring a little slice of Italy to Canberra

A view of the city of Barcelona from Antoni Gaudí’s Parc Güell.

Woman forced to squat in her own flat after Airbnb scam

The proposed baugruppen project in White Gum Valley, Perth.

The German idea that could help fix housing affordability at home

Saturday's clearance rate was solid.

Canberra auction market bounces back, ends June on a high

Allhomes. Canberra. Domain. June 24, 2017. Willinga Park (Terry Snow) has been recognised at the 2017 ACT Architect Awards.

Airport owner's horse park among ACT architecture winners

Thank you science: here's how lovemaking will stimulate your memory and brain.

Why you really need to have more sex as you get older (not less)

Self

Dressed for Arctic temps in downtown Brisbane? Maybe not.

Nine major fashion fails everyone makes in winter

Stitched Up

Meaghan Meredith bought a second-hand car that turned out to be a lemon.

Up to one-in-three buyers of second-hand cars buys a lemon

John Collett

Flybuys was able to fix their mistake.

Flybuys backs down on charging for its own error

Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon

Mental health awareness training can be useful for small business owners and staff.

The crippling impact of mental health on small business owners

COMMENT
Anthony Hasphall

My engineering consulting business needs a car.

The benefits of registering for GST

Max Newnham

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Defending the tampon tax

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Johnny Depp lawsuit turns dark

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Teen caught after falling from ride

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Fire in southern Spain threatens natural reserve

SYDNEY, NEW SOUTH WALES - JUNE 16: An aerial view of surfers at Mackenzies Beach on June 16, 2017 in Sydney, Australia. ...

Fairfax photos of the week - June 23, 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.

Understanding your toddler's fine motor skills

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The business rules of attraction

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Wander through ancient landscapes in WA

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Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen has delivered one of the worst house rules ever on the show.

This design rule on House Rules is in poor taste

COMMENT
Aja Styles

Comedian Chris Rock made a shock appearance at Melbourne's Comic's Lounge on Sunday.

Chris Rock surprises fans with secret gigs on Australian tour

Sarah Thomas

Olivia Wilde stars in the Broadway adaptation of '1984'.

Olivia Wilde play leaves audiences fainting and vomiting

Rob Moran

Jeremy Corbyn speaks to the crowd at the Glastonbury Festival.

Why 'Jezza' the politician scored rockstar reception at Glastonbury

Rob Moran

The participants on SBS's new doco series Filthy, Rich and Homeless

The filthy rich go homeless in latest TV social experiment

Kylie Northover

Girlboss has been axed on Netflix.

Netflix has cancelled another show after one season

Aja Styles

Parkin says it will be tough being out of contact with his family during filming.

Survivor superfan tests his skills in Australian reality

Toby Crockford

Chris Evans arrives for the UK film premiere of "Captain America: Civil War".

Why Chris Evans wanted Captain America to fail

Robbie Collin

Dalton Wiggins at his first birthday party.

Meet Dolton, the now not-so-little miracle baby

Griffith Butcher's Mike, Richard and Tim Odell. Their butchery was named the overall winner in the 2017 Australian Bacon ...

Canberra bacon (a different one) voted best in the country

Lucy Sugerman will perform in the grand final of 'The Voice' next Sunday.

Lucy through to 'The Voice' grand final

Steve Carell has the internet all in a bother with his sleek new look.

Steve Carell and the fascination with the middle-aged makeover

Annie Brown

Eight years later, I still choke on the word "husband". But our partnership is working.

I never wanted to get married, and it still feels strange

Kasey Edwards

In signature Katy Perry fashion, the Witness signer wore a skin-coloured catsuit covered with thousands of crystals for ...

Celebrities brought back the 90s at Glastonbury this year

Among the VIP guests of Managing Partner, Shelli Azoff, and Ariana Grande's manager, Scooter Braun, in the exclusive ...

Kim Kardashian is naming her daughter's dog by general election

Mary Ward

Yara Shahidi arrives at the BET Awards.

The best dressed celebs at this year's BET Awards

Alessandra Ambrosio does the Sergeant Pepper jacket.

The military trend is exactly right for our times, and this is why

Melissa Singer

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Mind the gap: How women can negotiate their way to better pay

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Sue Williams

Lorde was also taken to task for her poor choice of words.

What the shaming of Lorde and Lucy Hale tell us about young women

COMMENT
Natalie Reilly

Fresh produce on offer at various Farmer's Markets

A beginner's guide to shopping at a farmers' market

Elizabeth Clarke

Magic: Adam Liaw's bitter caramel and cocoa custard layer cake.

Weekly meal planner - with choc and caramel magic custard cake

Paleo loaf and coconut bread.

To carb or not to carb? The experts weigh in

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Exhausted new parents still find time for sex

Baby Ruby, stronger and healthier after 20 days in NICU.

How a free app saved this baby's life

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Calls for children to be banned from owning smartphones

The 747-8 jumbo jet has not been a great seller for Boeing.

Future of air travel won't include jumbo jets or A380s, says Boeing

Julie Johnsson

A North Korean traffic police woman stands in front of Workers' Party flags decorating the streets in Pyongyang.

Westerners visiting North Korea just 'torture porn' for tourists

Suki Kim

Including the service within the menu prices, and paying staff properly, is becoming a micro-trend.

Think America's tipping rules are confusing? They just got worse

David Whitley

Wargaming is known for its competitive game World of Tanks.

Wargaming to amplify Australian presence

Google has vowed to stop scanning our inboxes, perhaps allowing it to improve overall security.

Why Google will stop scanning personal email

COMMENT

Xbox, PlayStation bosses discuss what makes their brand best

Overlearning the lesson of Steve Jobs' first fall at Apple, Silicon Valley's investors created a culture where founders ...

Secret history of iPhone: 5 things you didn't know

Gizmodo

IBM, and many others,allow Russian authorities to review their software's source code.

The tech firms sharing secrets with Russia

Takta has filed for bankruptcy amid global safety recall for potentially deadly airbags.

Takata files for bankruptcy

Bloomberg

Toyota Tarago V6 GLi.

Review: Toyota's anti-SUV family car

Andrew MacLean

2013 Mercedes-Benz A200.

Should you buy a used A-Class?

David Morley

Hyundai has big plans for its next fuel cell-powered vehicle.

Why Australian innovation is driving hydrogen cars

David McCowen

2017 Ford Transit Custom automatic.

New Ford Transit Custom reviewed

Drive Staff

Mazda

Feature: Mazda3 and 323 over the years

David McCowen

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 26: Australian cricketer David Warner poses during a portrait session at La Perouse on June 26, ...

Cricket's pay dispute on verge of crisis, with Ashes in doubt

Daly Cherry Evans is a polished media performer.

Charm offensive: Why DCE puts his fellow players offside

COMMENT

ACT Brumbies flyhalf Christian Lealiifano made his return in Singapore on Thursday, 10 months after being diagnosed with ...

CT sport podcast: Lealiifano returns but when will the Raiders?

Podcast

Nine to extend wall-to-wall coverage on Saturdays

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 26: Luke Parker of the Swans in action during a Sydney Swans AFL training session at Sydney ...

F-word creeping back in at Swans

Jeff Horn (left) trains with Glenn Ruston during a training session in Brisbane, on Monday.

Horn's 10-point plan to beat Pacquiao

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 23: Bachar Houli (left) and Brandon Ellis of the Tigers celebrate during the 2017 AFL round ...

Houli sent straight to tribunal

Canberra Heat in the Australian Volleyball League.

Canberra Heat representing AUS at Asian Club Champs