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Frost and fog in western Sydney. Weather. cold weather. May 30.

Brace yourself: City set for the coldest weekend in years

Cardinal George Pell speaks at the National Press Club in Canberra in October 2007, on the subject of World Youth Day.

Is this the final act of a man who authored his own tragedy?

Barney Zwartz

Boxers Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines, second left, and Jeff Horn of Australia, second right, pose for a photo in ...

How long can blood sport survive? I give it 10 more years

Comment
Peter FitzSimons

Two 19-year-old men have been arrested in Auburn in relation to an alleged ongoing supply of firearms and drugs.

Two teens arrested in counter-terror raids in the Sydney's west

Greens leader Richard Di Natale

'Massive mistake': How a leaflet led to the battle tearing the Greens apart

The Department of Human Services doesn't believe more staff are needed to oversee its "robo-debt" program.

Centrelink hacking into smartphones with anti-terror technology

Why economists are feeling better about Donald Trump

EXCLUSIVE
Eryk Bagshaw

Ex-Wallaby's charity did a deal with a convicted murderer

Patrick Begley

Conscience vote: Germany legalises gay marriage

UPDATED

The workers making a comeback on Peter Dutton's skills shortage list

'Pharma bro' hedge fund: boom to bust in 31 minutes

Some on the right know Tony Abbott was a disaster as prime minister and have no wish to go back to the dysfunction.

Abbott is back in the leadership ring – why you should take him seriously

COMMENT
Peter Hartcher

Miranda Kerr

How did Kerr date a Malaysian moneybags undetected?

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 30: Swans players wrestle with Tomas Bugg of the Demons during the 2017 AFL round 15 match ...

Sydney Swans too good for Demonds in spiteful match

Spectrum redesign Portrait / Dinkus - Bernard Zuel . Photograph by James Brickwood. Photographed Tuesday 4th February ...

After 25 years, goodbye Herald, and thanks for all the gigs

Bernard Zuel

GENERIC. Please credit iStockphoto Young couple waking up in the morning , woman putting off an alarm clock woman; man; ...

Is eating before you sleep bad? What health experts are saying

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Swans make it four in a row against Dees

On the front foot: Josh Hazlewood believes CA's offer to state-based cricketers has been disrespectful.

Cricketers are ready to wake up unemployed, Hazlewood says

Jessica Friedmann hopes her book about her postpartum depression allows other women to have a conversation.

'Women don't speak of this': Jessica's situation is too common

GOLD COAST, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 30: Josh Dugan of the Dragons leaves the field injured during the round 17 NRL match ...

Blues stars injured as Titans pile on the agony for Dragons

Aidan Nunan from Cambelltown is one of hundreds that queued to buy fashion from the Louis Vuitton x Supreme collaboration.

'Wads of $50 and $100 bills': Fans camp out for shop opening

The median price for a two-bedroom apartment in Shanghai is around $900k which is 25 per cent more than the median ...

What Sydney needs to learn from cities in Asia, according to developers

Minister for Family and Community Services Pru Goward says no public housing blocks in NSW have aluminium composite ...

What are the chances of a mass evacuation of Sydney flats?

FLAT CHAT

6 Barr Street, Camperdown.

Does size really matter? Why bigger isn't always better at home

24 Derby Street, Vaucluse.

Five features buyers expect in a luxury property

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Warrawee trophy estate Springfields has sold for about $12 million.

Upper North Shore record broken with $12 million sale

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How a 'demographic tsunami' will affect Sydney property prices

COMMENT

These are the faces who will lead a brave new world

Alexandra Smith

Mehajer loses urgent court bid as creditors clamour for $100m

Dane Coulter and Sean Duffy are a couple who want to have a family.

Couple searched the world for a surrogate. They found her nearby

Victim: Pig farmer Keith Cini was beaten to death by intruders.

Murdered pig farmer's partner tells court of terror, guilt

A man faces charges after allegedly selling drugs over the 'dark web'.

'Dark web drug dealer' charged in police swoop

Rachel Browne

Concerned about changes: Students and parents outside Bourke Street Public School.

Parents fear price rises as Bain dominates after-school care

EXCLUSIVE
Michael Evans

The men and women of the ADF promised to lay down their lives for us.

Young ex-servicemen most at risk of suicide, major study reveals

Michael Cardamone is taken into Wangaratta Court on Tuesday.

Paroled rapist pleads guilty to burning woman alive

UPDATED

The truck involved in the accident.

Truck driver killed after hitting kangaroo near Albany

WA

Simone and Martin Tonkin, with Nixon's body just after the birth.

'I was in labour for two days and they hand me my dead son'

QLD

Richie Porte finished fifth in last year's Tour de France.

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Richie Porte has extened his contract with BMC Racing Team.

Cadel Evans tells Richie Porte to 'stay calm' and cycle on ...

Rupert Guinness
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In better days: Town crier Graham Keating, Jess Miller, Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore and Professor Kerryn Phelps on ...

'I'm aware of succession,' says Moor after split with Phelps

Jacob Saulwick

Morgan turns in for the night in Surry Hills, Sydney.

Why are so many Australians living in their cars?

Good Weekend
Peter Munro

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Opposition leader, Bill Shorten, in Sydney.

Bill Shorten prepares for the Turnbull government to implode

EXCLUSIVE
James Massola

Tree Tories vs watermelons: the battle tearing the Greens apart

Matthew Knott

Young ex-servicemen most at risk of suicide, major study reveals

Fergus Hunter

After passing school funding changes, the next education battlefront for the Turnbull government is higher education funding

Government willing to make concessions on uni funding

Matthew Knott

Rory Grant, president of Liberal Pride.

'Liberal Pride': Pyne staffer leads gay pride group

EXCLUSIVE
Adam Gartrell

Cardinal George Pell

Abbott praises "very fine man" Cardinal George Pell

James Massola

Health Minister Greg Hunt.

Rare cancer sufferers given reprieve with new drugs subsidy

EXCLUSIVE
Adam Gartrell

The Brandenburg Gate is seen with a rainbow flag projected onto it during a vigil for victims of a shooting at a gay ...

'Conscience vote': Germany legalises same-sex marriage

UPDATED

Female People's Liberation Army troops march during a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Shek Kong Barracks in ...

Warning to activists as Xi Jinping inspects troops

Kirsty Needham

A modified version of President Donald Trump's travel ban begins on Thursday.

Fiance good enough, but not grandma: Trump's travel ban rules challenged

More than 1200 migrants, including children, arrive in Salerno, Italy, on Thursday, after being rescued from the ...

Italy mulls stopping migrant rescue boats

Illustration: Dionne Gain

Abbott: the fighter in the leadership ring again

COMMENT
Peter Hartcher

Illustration: Simon Bosch

Tyranny of the mob and the mainstream

COMMENT
Elizabeth Farrelly

Same sex marriage is the new climate change.

How same sex marriage could be Malcolm Turnbull's greatest moment

COMMENT
Jacqueline Maley

AVEO retirement village.

There are lies, damn lies and customer surveys

COMMENT
Adele Ferguson

Industry Super Australia chief economist Stephen Anthony assigns a 50 per cent probability to a conventionally defined ...

The chance of recession is one in five

Peter Martin

Illustration: Glen Le Lievre

A trillion dollars in debt, but no 'banana republic'

COMMENT
Jessica Irvine

Not so happy: Uber's shareholders realised its culture problem started at the very top, with founder and chief executive ...

Uber pays a $26 billion price for toxic culture

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

Flat shares, housing and income means year of muddling through

Peter Martin

OFCOM finds Murdoch family 'fit and proper', but too influential if BSkyB merger proceeds

Lucy Battersby

Why this was the year economists all got wrong

Peter Martin

Rate cut just as likely as a rate rise, economists predict

Eryk Bagshaw

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Enjoy some of the country’s finest beer and ...

The ultimate brewer's bucket list every beer lover needs to check off

Fine Drinks

Ferrari Australasia CEO Herbert Appleroth.

Who wants to buy a Ferrari? It's not who you might expect

Cars

Liz Hall-Downs is among the 13 per cent of disability pensioners to own a home either outright or with a mortgage.

'We built our own home on the pension'

Liz Hall-Downs

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Do sums before you bequeath shares

Noel Whittaker

Ben Chaung and Phillis Chan are the founders of Big Apple Buddy.

Your small business end-of-financial-year checklist

Cara Waters

Family businesses can leave you feeling like Robert Duvall in <I>The Godfather</I>.

Working in a family business: a tale of unfairness

James Adonis

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Storm demolish Broncos

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Master your Facebook privacy settings

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Titans still alive

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2017 Skoda Kodiaq v Mazda CX-9 v Toyota Kluger v Nissan Pathfinder video comparison review

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Rewind - Merv Bishop

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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.

New approaches for retaining millennial staff

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How to create a better customer checkout experience

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Ten activities to aid toddler development

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Sarah Monahan (bottom centre) played Jenny Kelly in the hit series Hey Dad!.

Troll harassed Hey Dad! star

Liam Mannix, Adam Holmes

"I subscribed to the idea that homosexuals are subhuman": Hannah Gadsby spent years struggling with who she was.

I thought homosexuals were sub-human: Hannah Gadsby

Tony Wright

Sam Newman has lashed out at Geelong star Patrick Dangerfield.

'Say it to my face': Sam Newman takes aim at AFL star

Nathanael Cooper

Tom Conroy takes an emotional pummeling as Winston Smith in 1984.

How intense is 'vomiting', 'fainting' 1984, really?

COMMENT
Rob Moran

Adele performing at Etihad Stadium.

Adele pledges to return to Grenfell as soon as tour is over

Latika Bourke

Daryl Hannah in Netflix's Sense 8.

Fans force Netflix to give Sense8 a fitting sendoff

Joey Pucino

Susanna Reid shuts down Piers Morgan's rant on Good Morning Britain.

On-air smackdown of Piers Morgan goes viral

Rob Moran

The House, starring Will Ferrell, Amy Poehler and Jason Mantzoukas, exemplifies the biggest current weaknesses in ...

Not even Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler can save this film

Jake Wilson

Bernard Zuel has kept a tape of his phone call with Kate Bush.

That time the phone rang ... and it was Kate Bush on the line

Bernard Zuel

Beau Dean Riley Smith (centre) and his fellow cast members are outstanding.

Quite exceptional - don't miss it and tell your friends

Jill Sykes

1984

OK, let's get the torture out of the way first ...

John Shand

The bikini section at the 2016 Miss Universe Australia pageant.

Miss Universe: for all your good, the bikinis need to go

COMMENT
Melissa Singer

Saamdu Chetri.

The simplicity of happiness according to Bhutan's happiness guru

Sarah Berry

The Jenner sisters have caused a controversy ... again.

'Disgusting' Jenner sisters T-shirts pulled after controversy

COMMENT
Annie Brown

Alison Brie says making GLOW was a life-changing experience.

The new TV show giving women their power back

Clem Bastow

US President Donald Trump has proved the underlying sexism American women face.

Why I'm grateful every time Trump insults a woman

Alyssa Rosenberg

Miss Universe Australia winner Olivia Rogers will compete for the world title.

Miss Universe Australia reveals her battle with mental illness

Melissa Singer

Halle Berry says the industry hasn't moved forward.

Halle Berry speaks out on her 'meaningless' Oscar win

Jill Serjeant

Cristiano Ronaldo and the twins.

Cristiano Ronaldo is now a father to twins

Marissa Payne

Don't make your hosts feel like they're running a restaurant.

What's the food etiquette for a weekend away at a friend's house?

One-tray wonder: Baked sweet potato and sausages.

One-tray wonder: Baked sweet potato and sausages

Adam Liaw

Porteno's new(ish) digs in Surry Hills.

Porteno team tipped to open wine bar at former 121BC site

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Why I had the 'period talk' with my sons

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Cake cutting hack that will change your life

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I gave my baby a fake name before she was born

Komsomolskaya subway station in Moscow.

Inside the world's most beautiful city subway

The vegetarian meal a passenger was served on Aegean Airlines.

Is this the worst vegetarian airline meal of all time?

Hugh Morris

Some of the rules of flying on airlines may surprise you.

Passenger banned over body odour: 15 shocking airline rules

Soo Kim

'We must take the fight to the criminals', Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says.

Sick of defending, our cyber force will attack

Dolby Atmos sound lets you hear what's above you, not just what's around you.

Dolby Atmos wall of sound comes to Netflix

COMMENT

Father Joseph Seed and his fellow cultists as they appeared on the initial Far Cry 5 reveal poster.

Far Cry 5's religious weirdos court controversy, but not that much

Tim Biggs

Esports

Female esports pros hope to close gender gap

Kotaku

Game of Thrones is returning for season 7 on July 17.

One third of Aussie GoT fans planning to pirate

Seven seat SUV comparison: Skoda Kodiaq, Mazda CX-9, Nissan Pathfinder, Toyota Kluger.

What is the best seven-seat SUV?

Stephen Ottley

Holden has tested its next-generation V6 twin-turbo racing engine in the Red Bull Racing Sandman promo vehicle

Holden tests V6 supercar engine

Andrew MacLean

2017 Honda Civic Type R 2017 Honda Civic Type R.

Honda Civic Type R price revealed

Jonathan Hawley

2012 BMW 328i.

What can go wrong with a used BMW 3-Series

David Morley

2015 Mini Cooper.

What luxury hatch should I buy?

Cameron McGavin

Audi's new A8 limousine makes it debut at the Hollywood premiere of Spiderman: Homecoming

Spiderman arrives in all-new Audi A8

Andrew MacLean

Manny Pacquiao delivers his 45 seconds of wisdom.

More Manny madness ahead of Horn fight

Andrew Webster

New Queensland six?: Cam Munster was in fine form for the Storm on Friday night.

Storm score seven tries in mauling of Broncos

Roy Ward

GOLD COAST, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 30: Josh Dugan of the Dragons leaves the field injured during the round 17 NRL match ...

Blues stars injured as Titans pile on the agony for Dragons

Mitchell Jennings

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 15: (EDITORS NOTE: THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN CONVERTED TO BLACK & WHITE) Jeff Horn poses during a ...

Horn must drag Pacman to the gutter: Fenech

Phil Lutton

Josh Hazlewood

Hazlewood: Cricketers ready to wake up unemployed

Jon Pierik and Chris Barrett

World Rugby chairman Bill Beaumont insists Australian rugby "will ride the storm and come out strong".

'Hard to imagine two years ago you were in final of World Cup'

Tom Decent

David and Goliath: Manny Pacquiao and Jeff Horn.

How long will blood sport continue?

Peter FitzSimons

Big win: Swans players congratulate Buddy Franklin after he kicked a goal.

Swans too good for Dees in spiteful match

Andrew Wu

Tough loss: James Maloney backed up from Origin to suffer a second defeat in five days.

Flanagan warns a focused Maloney can fire up Sharks

Adam Pengilly

Head down: Boyd Cordner is now focused on being fit for the series decider on July 12.

Cordner 'quietly confident' as Origin pain eases for Blues

Chris Barrett

Sharks net: Raiders rake Adam Clydesdale is Shire-bound.

Sharks snare Clydesdale to overcome recent hooking crisis

Adrian Proszenko

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