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Balconies in this Melbourne apartment building have been patched up with wood following multiple glass explosions.

Fears over faulty glass on Melbourne balconies

Exclusive

Cardinal George Pell meets the media, at the Vatican, on Thursday.

Charging George Pell is only a tiny part of the whole story

Comment
Peter FitzSimons

Organisers of the much-hyped music festival cancelled the event well after people had started arriving.

Organiser of failed Fyre Festival faces wire fraud charge

A brainstorming session at Brighton Grammar.

A mess of obscure shapes and lines: the lost art of handwriting

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

Headaches and face pain? Your dentist will know why

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

Why are so many Australians living in their cars?

Notorious tagger blames warders for death of underworld figure

Compostable cup you can't compost, and other recycling woes

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

'I'll risk prison over it' says defiant horse-drawn carriage operator

Australian uni graduate attacked on his way to protest in Hong Kong

Narcissism is on the rise, but are you a narcissist?

Narcissism is on the rise. Are you a narcissist?

The Tigers are in the four.

Tigers bare their claws to crash into top four

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

At 50, Nicole Kidman learns not to be a 'people pleaser'

Newlyweds Lionel Messi and Antonella Roccuzzo after tying the knot in Rosario, Argentina, on Friday.

Messi and childhood sweetheart in 'wedding of the century'

Miranda Kerr in Sydney in 2014.

When Kerr dated a Malaysian moneybags undetected

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Geelong draw after Hawkins' misses post-siren shot

A guerilla artist has sewn a coloured cover for a temporary concrete bollard at Southern Cross Station. The first one to ...

Crafty disguises for anti-terror blocks catching on

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

I regret complaining about noisy babies in public now I'm a mum

Senator Pauline Hanson during a press conference at Parliament House Canberra on Thursday 22 June 2017. Photo: Andrew Meares

Americans discover Pauline Hanson and they are shocked

Chatting gossip housewifes and looser sullen men in 1970s style

The key to mastering small talk, according to Harvard researchers

Falls Creek - former toilet block in a chalet repurposed as a family weekender - Bobhubski is 27 square metres.

Size isn't everything: Melbourne apartments breaking the mould

A downsizer trumped first-home buyers for 2/25 Wilson Street, Highett.

First-home buyers beaten by cashed-up downsizer

It's unlikely city dwellers will head to the bush en masse, even with a cut in stamp duty and an increased first-home ...

Stamp duty changes will help those who already own, not new buyers

COMMENT

The Magic Mountain fun park in Merimbula.

Popular south coast fun park on the market for the first time

20 Byron Street, Brighton, sold after it passed in on a vendor bid.

Auction Results: See what sold near you on Saturday

The Age, News, 29/06/2017 photo by Justin McManus. Traffic congestion in Epping. Sunil and Nishtha Goel, Sunil has a 90 ...

How big is too big for liveable Melbourne?

Royce Millar

Apology for dead koala, but logging continues in possum habitat

Melburnians shiver through chilliest morning in two years

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

Troll targeted Hey Dad! actress because of her childhood abuse

The teacher has been spoken to about professional conduct.

Investigation into why nude photo of teacher sent to year 12 student

UPDATED

Michael Cardamone is taken into Wangaratta Court on Tuesday.

Paroled rapist pleads guilty to burning woman alive

UPDATED

The cost to fill an average 60-litre car tank is more than $70.

Fuming Melburnians slugged extra $120 a year for fuel

Leo Lewin at his Yowie Bay home this week.

The underworld figure and the carpet seller

NSW

Harry Spencer-Gibson and his sister Kitty skate at Bondi Winter Wonderland outdoor ice rink

Get set for a shivery start to Sunday

NSW

A woman has won her legal bid for her church pay damages after she lost her leg in a go karting accident.

WA church sued for woman losing leg at go karting event

WA

There were 68 seizures of cocaine in the ACT in 2015-16.

Snow season as cocaine busts surge in Canberra

ACT

Abdulsalam Abufader 73 sweeps outside his gate from his wheelchair at the entrance of his home in West Mosul, Iraq.

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Abdulsalam Abufader, 73, eats watermelon as he sits in his wheelchair at the entrance of his home in West Mosul, Iraq.

Is this the most house-proud man in Iraq?

Michael Bachelard

Things will never be the same after Christopher Pyne's apology.

An event of breathtaking enormity has just occurred

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Annabel Crabb

The Queen talks with the governor-general, Sir John Kerr, in 1977.

Australia's most enduring political mystery

Stephanie Peatling

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The Tigers are in the four.

Tigers bare claws to crash into top four

Ashley Porter

Jake Stringer struggled to get himself involved in the match against West Coast at Etihad Stadium on Saturday.

Bulldogs' hunger pains

Warwick Green

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JULY 01: Phil Davis of the Giants competes for the ball against Tom Hawkins of the Cats during the ...

Cat misses after siren for a draw

Tom Decent

Bryce Gibbs kicked two goals in a game where the Blues tested Adelaide at times.

Blues bridging gap on best: Bolton

Daniel Cherny

Gary Ablett sings the song with his Gold Coast Suns.

Suns rise to occasion for Ablett's 300th

Andrew Stafford

Drew Petrie of the Eagles.

Eagles hold on for crucial win over Bulldogs

Warwick Green

Sydney players remonstrate with Tomas Bugg of the Demons after an incident involving Callum Mills.

'Dog act': Bugg booked for hit on Mills

Andrew Wu

Brad Crouch

Crouch brothers haul Crows over the line

Daniel Cherny

Tony Abbott's attack on Malcolm Turnbull is now so broad, and crosses so many policy areas, he is now as easily cast as ...

Tony Abbott, Lee Rhiannon and the age of the party faithless

Nick O'Malley

Bill Shorten prepares for the Turnbull government to implode

EXCLUSIVE
James Massola

'Massive mistake': leaflet led to the battle that is tearing Greens apart

Matthew Knott

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

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

Former U.S. President Barack Obama gestures as he delivers his speech during the 4th Congress of the Indonesian Diaspora ...

Obama criticises Trump for Paris climate deal withdrawal

An investigator collects evidence near an Arkansas nightclub where police say multiple people were shot, Saturday, July ...

Shooting at Arkansas nightclub leaves 25 injured

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

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

Illustration: Jim Pavlidis

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

COMMENT
Jacqueline Maley

Illustration: Simon Bosch

Tyranny of the mob and the mainstream

COMMENT
Elizabeth Farrelly

The bikini section at the 2016 Miss Universe Australia pageant.

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

COMMENT
Melissa Singer

The ASX will have its bad years. For all we know, 2018 will be one of those periods. Or not.

Forget all predictions: History rhymes on the ASX

COMMENT
Scott Phillips

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

Chris Collins, pictured nominating Donald Trump as the Republican presidential candidate in 2016, lost $22 million on ...

Key Donald Trump backer lost $22m overnight on Aussie biotech

Michael Koziol

Illustration: Simon Bosch

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

Eryk Bagshaw

Hedge funds have found a new target: the Aussie dollar

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

Uber pays a $26 billion price for its toxic culture

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

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

COMMENT
Jessica Irvine

<b>Adelaide Beer & BBQ Festival - Adelaide Showground, Adelaide SA</b><br>
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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Tigers overpower Port in Adelaide

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RAW VIDEO: Plane crashes onto US freeway

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Geelong draw after Hawkins' misses post-siren shot

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Crows hold off Blues fightback

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.

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New approaches for retaining millennial staff

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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

Ahn Seo-Hyun Ahn as Mija with Okja.

Will Bong Joon-ho's Okja become Netflix's first blockbuster film?

Film
Elissa Blake

A guerilla artist has sewn a coloured cover for a temporary concrete bollard at Southern Cross Station. The first one to ...

Crafty decoration of Melbourne's anti-terror bollards catches on

Hannah Francis

Ursula Yovitch and Aaron Pedersen in Heart is a Wasteland

Heart is a Wasteland a heartfelt tale of love and music in the outback

Stage
Kerrie O'Brien

James Packer on the Arctic P in the South Pacific last week. Model Rose Ashton can be seen in the background to the left.

James Packer did not want his picture taken on holiday with Karl Stefanovic

The Goss
Amy Croffey

"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

One-tray wonder: Baked sweet potato and sausages.

One-tray wonder: Baked sweet potato and sausages

Adam Liaw

Bean, bacon and egg breakfast bun.

The bean and bacon breakfast roll to beat all breakfast rolls

Jill Dupleix

Neil Perry's veal shank slow-cooked in wine.

Veal shank slow-cooked in red wine for this chilly weekend

Neil Perry

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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

Four-wheel-steering lends the Ferrari 812 Superfast uncanny agility.

What is four wheel steering?

David McCowen

2017 Porsche 911 GT2 RS.

New Porsche 911 GT2 RS revealed

Greg Kable

2017 BMW 520d Touring.

First Drive: BMW 520d Touring

Andrew MacLean

2017 Honda Civic Type R.

Honda Civic Type R price revealed

Jonathan Hawley

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

What is the best seven-seat SUV?

Stephen Ottley

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

BMW's plan to beat Tesla

Drive Staff

David Warner.

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

Jon Pierik

Patty Mills is set to stay with the Spurs.

Mills set to stay with Spurs on $50 million deal

Chris Dutton

Phil Liggett

AFLX is one thing, but leave Phil Liggett alone!

COMMENT
Scott Spits

Arina Rodionova

Australia's Rodionova qualifies for Wimbledon debut

Darren Walton

Richie Porte has extened his contract with BMC Racing Team.

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

Rupert Guinness

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