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Fairfax chairman Nick Falloon (pictured) dined at Rockpool last week with Hellman & Friedman chair Brian Powers.

TPG withdraws $2.76 billion offer to buy Fairfax

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Dr Tessa Kennedy, chairwoman of the AMA NSW doctors-in-training sub-committee, said female colleagues had told her they ...

AMA slams practice of quizzing female doctors on baby plans

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Scott Pruitt, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Trump environment chief pushes effort to question climate change

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World Champion: Jeff Horn takes an upset victory over Manny Pacquiao by unanimous decision.

Jeff Horn stuns Manny Pacquiao to take WBO welterweight title

47 mins ago

A priest at St Patrick's Cathedral on Sunday.

Parishioners at St Patrick's urged to pray for George Pell

Australian cricketers Usman Khawaja and Glenn Maxwell arrive for the meeting.

Top cricketers could be sub-contracted to save Ashes

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Anti-euthanasia doctor suggests assisted suicide should be done by vets

All buildings tested fail safety tests introduced after Grenfell blaze

Pope sacks head of the Vatican office that handles sex abuse cases

Are Melbourne's sprawling suburbs set to become ghettos?

Rail link calls as airport heads for 70 million passengers a year

Apple CEO Steve Jobs announces the new Apple iPhone 3G at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, ...

Happy birthday iPhone - how on earth did we ever manage without you?

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Jarryd Roughead of the Hawks.

Hawthorn and Collingwood going goal for goal at the MCG

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

Annabel Crabb: What happens when the unapologetic apologise?

COMMENT

Tom Rockliff of the Lions tackles Kyle Langford of the Bombers

Finals chances take a hit as Bombers stunned by lowly Lions

5 mins ago

Foster care co-ordinator Tim Moss and vet Jade Norris with a dog who has had an operation to help his breathing at the ...

A pugly life for the dogs that are being crippled by cuteness

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Charles and Camilla join Canada celebrations

Lieutenant Colonel Saaed Beder Kathem moves away from the blast range of a planned detonation of one of six IEDs on a ...

'Finished? No, the war has just started...'

Gary and Beancaa Stanley have made huge savings on their electricity bills by installing solar panels and batteries.

How to fight back against rising energy costs

People paid tribute to Princess Diana at Kensington Palace on what would have been her 56th birthday. She died 20 years ago.

Will, Harry and Kate rededicate Princess Diana's gravesite

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

An artist's impression of Gateway Towers in Hawaii.

A penthouse for $US36 million: Oahu's new luxury homes

The patent drawing for Amazon's drone skyscraper.

Amazon patents 'drone skyscraper' to enable quicker deliveries

Melinda Gaudion's grandfather built the home for her grandmother 92 years ago.

Full of love from five generations, Bowen Hills home up for sale

Planning a savings approach to buy a home can be overwhelming, but don't put it off too long.

Tips and tools to start saving for a home

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

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

Glass balcony explosions highlight dangers of cheap construction

EXCLUSIVE

Notorious tagger blames warders for death of underworld figure

Motorcyclist dies in Dandenong crash

Police are searching for missing Melton baby Haze Knowles.

Police search for missing Melton baby boy

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?

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Melburnians shiver through chilliest morning in two years

A VicForests logging coupe in the the Loch Valley, a known habitat of the threatened Greater Glider.

Apology for dead koala, but logging continues in possum habitat

Businesses who think creatively about recruiting will be the big winners in future according to HorizonOne director ...

The Canberra job that starts with six weeks paid leave

ACT

Still from CCTV footage of "Young Person A3" being held on the ground at Cleveland Youth Detention Centre.

'Hog-tied, snarling dogs': Stories from youth detention

QLD

Police are questioning a man over the incident.

Man has fingertip bitten off in Sydney pub fight

NSW
21 mins ago

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

Church sued for woman losing leg at go karting event

WA

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At 20, I had so little belief in myself that I couldn't imagine surviving without the safety net of home.

What I learnt from first-time solo travelling at 44

Jo Stanley

Alan Richardson

Coaching to the sounds of silence

Libbi Gorr

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

An event of breathtaking enormity has just occurred

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Tom Rockliff of the Lions tackles Kyle Langford of the Bombers

Lowly Lions surge to beat Bombers

Anthony Colangelo
5 mins ago

Hawthorn's Ryan Burton was given the No.5 of Peter Crimmins.

Burton: A 'special' Hawk on the rise

Jon Pierik

Jay Kennedy-Harris and three other Melbourne players sanctioned for drinking will be available to play this week.

Demons drinking quartet available to play this week

Anthony Colangelo

The Tigers are in the four.

Tigers bare claws to crash into top four

Ashley Porter

Jarryd Roughead of the Hawks.

AFL Live: Hawthorn v Collingwood

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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

Gary Ablett sings the song with his Gold Coast Suns.

Suns rise to occasion for Ablett's 300th

Andrew Stafford

Fremantle's Michael Walters

AFL Live: Fremantle v St Kilda

Live
29 mins ago

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

Ousted: Cardinal Gerhard Mueller, the head of the Vatican office that handles sex abuse cases.

Pope sacks cardinal in charge of sex abuse cases

The coffin of 65-year-old Tony Disson is carried out of church in London.

Blame game continues over London's Grenfell Tower fire

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

Illustration: Matt Davidson.

Cory Bernardi now has a foothold in Victorian state politics

COMMENT
Farrah Tomazin

High-rise buildings along Elizabeth Street and Franklin Street dominate the view from Melbourne's Queen Victoria Market.

Tall storey: The Aussie icon disappearing from our inner cities

COMMENT
Matt Wade

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

An event of breathtaking enormity has just occurred

COMMENT

Fairfax chairman Nick Falloon (pictured) dined at Rockpool last week with Hellman & Friedman chair Brian Powers.

Fairfax buyout ditched, TPG and Hellman & Friedman retreat

Lucy Battersby
8 mins ago

The speed by which stamp duty revenue slows could be impacted by interest rate movements.

Will the RBA spring a 'July surprise?'

Patrick Commins
41 mins ago

Lachlan Murdoch and Bruce Gordon pulled financial support for the company last month, telling Ten they would not support ...

PPB trussing up Ten for sale for CBA

Lucy Battersby
1 hr ago

Saudi Arabia relies on energy sales for about 80 per cent of its budget revenue, S&P said.

Oil bears retreat as US shale activity eases

Patrick Commins

Forget all predictions: History rhymes on the ASX

COMMENT
Scott Phillips

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

COMMENT
Adele Ferguson

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

Michael Koziol

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

Eryk Bagshaw

The 911 GT RS Chronograph includes an in-house clock movement that was three years in the making.

Porsche's most powerful car ever even has its own custom watch

Cars

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

The ultimate bucket list every beer lover needs to check off

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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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Jeff Horn announced WBO welterweight champion

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Police crack down on horse-drawn carriages

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Charles and Camilla join Canada celebrations

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Trump blasts US states refusing to provide voter data

Lieutenant Colonel Saaed Beder Kathem moves away from the blast range of a planned detonation of one of six IEDs on a ...

The fight for Mosul reaches a critical stage

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Ari Wegner is one of the youngest members of the group of Australian female cinematographers making a big mark in ...

Lady Macbeth is a start: The rise of our female cinematographers

Karl Quinn

Jonah from Tonga.

Jonah from Tonga pulled from Maori TV over negative stereotype

Jay Z's new album called 4:44 features a song about his gay mother.

Jay-Z raps mum's lesbianism and his infidelity on new album 4:44

"To say I'm heartbroken would be an understatement": Adele

'Heartbroken' Adele cancels remainder of her world tour

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

Crafty disguise for anti-terror blocks catches on

Hannah Francis

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

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

Why Nicole Kidman is not a 'people pleaser'

Jenny Cooney Carrillo

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

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

Heart is a Wasteland is a two-hander.

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

Stage
Kerrie O'Brien

The writer with her former boyfriend and Collingwood player, Alan Didak.

My life as a WAG was glamorous, and I hated it

Cassie Lane

Sophia Forrest, the daughter of Nicola and Andrew Forrest, is on track to becoming one of the country's leading actors ...

Twiggy's daughter is happy he gave away her inheritance

Jenna Clarke

Our fashion habit is out of control. We're buying more and more clothes, at cheaper and cheaper prices, and it's ...

I gave up shopping for a whole year

Clare Press

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

Channel Seven's Morning Show hosts Kylie Gillies and Larry Emdur will host this year's Jeans for Genes Denim Dinner.

Is this the secret to Kylie Gillies and Larry Emdur's 10-year 'work marriage'?

Amy Croffey

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

What people really mean when they complain about noisy babies

Clementine Ford

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

My colleague has been drinking most afternoons at work.

Dear Jess: Should I question a colleague's drinking habits?

Jessica Rowe

Veal shank slow cooked in wine.

Weekly meal planner - beginning of July

Comedian Zoe Coombs Marr.

The kombucha craze is disgusting - no matter what it does for the gut

COMMENT
Zoe Coombs Marr

Butterscotch pudding pots.

Butterscotch pudding with salted cream and port raisins

Adam Liaw

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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

"Find somewhere for this".

Traveller letters: Flight attendant sorts overhead locker shocker

Letters

The main beach at Noosa Heads.

Why this is Australia's easiest destination for a laid-back holiday

Sally Webb

Komsomolskaya subway station in Moscow.

Inside the world's most beautiful city subway

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

World Champion: Jeff Horn takes an upset victory over Manny Pacquiao by unanimous decision.

Sun shines on Jeff Horn as he stuns Manny Pacquiao

Phil Lutton
47 mins ago

Australian cricketers Usman Khawaja and Glenn Maxwell arrive for the meeting.

Top cricketers could be sub-contracted to save Ashes

UPDATED

Roger Federer

Why Roger Federer has become the ultimate superman

Simon Briggs

Manny Pacquiao and Jeff Horn trade blows.

Battle of Brisbane: All the action, as it happened ...

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Matt Bungard

Stiff competition: Meg Lanning is expecting a sterner test when Australia takes on New Zealand in the Cricket World Cup.

NZ set to offer a stiffer test for Aussies

Ian McCullough

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