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Bernard Majadas, 5, rugged up to brave the frosty Canberra morning on Saturday.

Colder in Canberra than at Thredbo this morning

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A friendly and attentive woman in the Philippines is keen to help me, but to no avail.

ActewAGL worker accused of stealing thousands from clients

Iris Lees who died while a resident in an Aveo retirement village.

'Can't be forgiven': Iris died a horrific death at Aveo village

Adele Ferguson

Two ambulances were on the scene of a crash between a truck and a motorcycle in Queanbeyan.

Man in hospital after truck and motorcycle crash in Queanbeyan

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Karen Andrews suffers bruxism, a clenching and grinding of teeth that is becoming increasingly common for young women.

When Lydia woke up with headaches, her dentist knew why

Sent off: Sonny Bill Williams was sent off in the second Test between the All blacks and the Lions.

Sonny Bill Williams sent off as Lions level series

Hamish Bidwell
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Tony Abbott steps back into the leadership ring

COMMENT
Peter Hartcher

Killer doctor goes on shooting spree in New York hospital

Smells like election pitch: Shorten vows to tax the rich

EXCLUSIVE

'It's like a little town. Everything is here': the ACT's new nappy valley

Motorbike rider hospitalised after crash on Barton Highway

40 mins ago

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

Why are so many Aussies living in their cars?

Peter Munro

Raiders players after the loss.

North Queensland Cowboys put nail in Raiders' 2017 finals hopes

8 mins ago

Sport Portrait of Canberra born freestyle aerial skier Laura Peel with her gold medal won at the 2015 world aerial ...

Canberra's Winter Olympic hopeful shows nerves of ice

Patrick Dangerfield gets a handball away as he is tackled by Aidan Corr.

Saturday AFL: GWS Giants take on the Geelong Cats in Sydney

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David Warner of Australia

Warner says cricket's pay fight has made him lose 'family'

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SBW sent off for shoulder charge

Official portrait of Emmanuel Macron

Macron's portrait sparks the mother of all Photoshop battles

Roberto the maremma takes his role as a protector very seriously.

What your dog is trying to tell you

Morgan puts nail in Raiders' finals hopes

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St George Illawarra could give Sandor Earl a ...

9:39PM

Narcissism is on the rise, but are you a ...

9:11PM

Canberra Domain Allhomes. 33 Woodger Parade, Karabar. July 1, 2017.?

Auction watch: First home buyers vie for Queanbeyan properties

Banks have a choice to make as consumers dictate structural change.

New home financing takes a dive in Canberra: ABS data

Allhomes. Canberra. Domain. June 27, 2017. 2/29 Smalley Circuit, Giralang.

New charges could spell 'death of townhouses' in Canberra

More than 300 Access Canberra staff have just moved into a funky new office in the Woden Town Centre. Photo: Jamila Toderas

Millennials drive changes to modern workplaces

23 Welwyn Crescent, Coorparoo.

'I try to avoid the tumour': Transforming period homes

Do ambulance crews always need to remain while a patient is admitted to hospital?

Motorbike rider hospitalised after crash on Barton Highway

40 mins ago

Man hospitalised after motorcycle and truck collide in Queanbeyan

39 mins ago

Church requests inclusion in ACT child abuse reporting scheme

Safe Schools has been questioned.

Safe Schools questioned by Canberra Liberal MLAs

Chair of the Canberra Multicultural Community Forum, Diana Abdel-Rahman.

'Hypocrisy': ACT multicultural leaders condemn law change

Lyneham Primary School teacher Anita Griffin.

Two out of 100 new teachers leave the job each year

ACT Health head pathologist ( and Director of Blood counts program ) Dr Philip Crispin. Photo by Karleen Minney.

Canberra Hospital rolling out computers to help blood tests

The wreck of the Holden Commodore on Waldron Road in Chester Hill after a fatal crash in which a woman, sitting on the ...

Woman dead and three people on the run after car crash

NSW

Young ex-servicemen are most at risk of suicide, the study found.

Young ex-servicemen most at risk of suicide

Two people have died in a crash involving a road train in the Pilbara.

Road train carnage: Two dead in WA's north

WA

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

Two teens arrested after counter-terror raids

NSW

The Department of Human Services, which oversees Centrelink, has spent $32,249 on Cellebrite products in the 2016 / ...

'Blatant misuse': Centrelink uses anti-terror tech

'Insulting': CPSU deputy secretary Melissa Donnelly.

Public service courts staff vote no to 'insulting' pay offer

The public service's latest gender diversity trend could be holding women back, a new study suggests.

Blind recruitment in APS may be holding women back

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

A pro-democracy activist is taken way by police after the group's march clashed with pro-China counter protesters.

Xi warns democracy protesters not to cross 'red line'

Kirsty Needham

Avery Ng Man Yuen, former Melbourne university student and democracy protester.

Australian uni graduate attacked in Hong Kong

Kirsty Needham

Textile traders protest against the new goods and services tax in Bangalore, India on Friday/ The new system will ...

Modi takes a chance on second revolutionary reform

Geeta Anand

Donald Trump's government is considered by the Israeli Prime Minister to be more sympathetic to Israel than the Obama or ...

Western Wall deal: Trump's rise emboldened Netanyahu

ANALYSIS
Joshua Mitnick

Heaven forfend that the anti-corruption artillery ever be trained on ministers, or magistrates, members of government ...

Pussycats and footpads prefer watchdogs on short chain

COMMENT
Jack Waterford

Illustration: Matt Davidson

Best of Fairfax cartoons

Illustration: Simon Bosch

Tyranny of the mob and the mainstream

COMMENT
Elizabeth Farrelly

Illustration: Simon Bosch

Rate cut or rate rise? It could go either way, economists say

Eryk Bagshaw

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 its toxic culture

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

John Hayto suffered a fall while living in an Aveo village.

Aveo: 'All they seem to want is your money and nothing else'

COMMENT
Adele Ferguson

Illustration: Glen Le Lievre

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

COMMENT
Jessica Irvine

Shares, housing, wages: Welcome to the year of muddling through

Peter Martin

How much would Trump have to pay you to work for him?

'Pharma bro' lashes out: 'They blame me for capitalism'

Patricia Hurtado, Renae Merle

'Some things can't be forgiven': The horrific death of Iris Lees

Adele Ferguson

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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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Cricket's pay dispute explained

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Pacquiao: If the knockout comes, it will come

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McGuire wrestles with Alfie after KO

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'Dark web drug dealer' arrested

A girl in state of shock arrives with her family at a screening point in western Mosul after being rescued by Iraqi forces.

In Mosul, kindness for human shields escaping Islamic State

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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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Wander through ancient landscapes in WA

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Roseanne Park from Melbourne, was encouraged to audition for K-pop agency YG Entertainment by her father.

It started with a 'dad joke' - but now she's a superstar

Gabriel Wilder

Say cheesy: Rob Shehadie (left) and Tahir Bilgic feel their comedy never quite gets the recognition it deserves.

Habibs creators rail against our comedy 'apartheid'

Karl Quinn

Nicole Kidman is thankful to still be hitting new peaks in her career.

Why Nicole Kidman is not a 'people pleaser'

Jenny Cooney Carrillo

Starring in SBS's 'Filthy Rich and Homeless' was an eye-opening experience for entrepreneur Tim Guest.

The story that reduced this millionaire to tears

Broede Carmody

"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

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

Troll harassed Hey Dad! star

Liam Mannix, Adam Holmes

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

The Warm Trees project will be on show at the National Arboretum Canberra for a month from Sunday, July 2.

Trees get warm at National Arboretum Canberra

The Forage is on in the Little National Hotel carpark on Saturday afternoon.

6 things to do this weekend in Canberra

Eloise Green as the Mad Hatter.

Come to the Mad Hatter's Tea Party - with no Alice

"There are so many annoying, obnoxious things in the world that are permitted with less pushback than the presence of ...

What people mean when they complain about noisy babies in public

Clementine Ford

If you're not getting enough sleep, a napercise class could be what the doctor ordered.

Could this be the exercise that dreams are made of?

Jo Hartley

The media needs to change how it reports violence against women, says new research.

Audiences can push media to help stop violence against women

COMMENT
Jane Gilmore

Have Bey and Jay just dropped the names of their twins?

Are these the names of Beyoncé and JAY-Z's twins?

Katy Perry greets fans at Myer's Sydney City store on Friday.

Myer to foot the bill for Katy Perry's Australian tour

Jenna Clarke

The bikini section at the 2016 Miss Universe Australia pageant.

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

COMMENT
Melissa Singer

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

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?

Cheese on toast with chorizo.

This twice-cooked cheese on toast will blow your mind

Darren Purchese

Broccoli.

Raw or cooked: What's the healthiest way to prepare broccoli?

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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

"Find somewhere for this".

Traveller letters: Flight attendant sorts overhead locker shocker

Letters

Fortress and fishing boats at Gran Platja beach and Badia de Tossa bay in the evening in Tossa de Mar on Costa Brava, ...

The great destinations behind the world's greatest masterpieces

Katrina Lobley

Facebook said it has already blocked scores of web pages in Thailand.

If Facebook were a religion, it would be world's No. 2

COMMENT

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

Sick of defending, our cyber force will attack

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

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

Esports

Female esports pros hope to close gender gap

Kotaku

2017 Porsche 911 GT2 RS.

New Porsche 911 GT2 RS revealed

Greg Kable

BMW reportedly has plans to add an all-electric variant to its future 3-Series range.

BMW's plan to beat Tesla

Drive Staff

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

What is the best seven-seat SUV?

Stephen Ottley

2017 Honda Civic Type R.

Honda Civic Type R price revealed

Jonathan Hawley

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

Drive comparison test - Mini Cooper CREDIT: Mark Bean

What luxury hatch should I buy?

Cameron McGavin

Raiders players after the loss.

Morgan puts nail in Raiders' finals hopes as Croker gets injured

9 mins ago

Christian Lealiifano running on to the field for his Canberra rugby comeback, with brother Lix following.

Family ties: Lealiifano's touching fourth-grade rugby comeback

Patty Mills is set to stay with the Spurs.

Mills scores $65 million deal

Patrick Dangerfield gets a handball away as he is tackled by Aidan Corr.

AFL live: Saturday night footy

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Sent off: Sonny Bill Williams was sent off in the second Test between the All blacks and the Lions.

Sonny Bill Williams sent off as Lions level series

1 hr ago

David Warner.

Warner says cricket's pay fight has made him lose 'family'

Canberra Demons vs Sydney Swans July 1. Alex Johnson listens to the team meeting. Photo: Dion Georgopoulos

Alex Johnson nails a goal in Sydney Swans comeback

Game face: Manny Pacquiao and Jeff Horn after weighing in at Suncorp Stadium before Sunday's fight.

'It's game face on, school is out'