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Summernats 2017- The show goes on without missing a beat despite the death of Luke Newsome on site.

Man charged over Luke Newsome's Summernats death

Kimberley Le Lievre

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

Cocaine seizures in Canberra rise by more than 500 per cent

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

When Hall freezes over: Canberra's weekend ice age has a sting in its tail

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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

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

Gungahlin now has 71,000 souls, including those at the mothers club playgroup at the Forde community centre. Photo by ...

Time travelling to NIMBY-free Canberra in the year 2067

COMMENT
Ian Warden

An event of breathtaking enormity has just occurred in Canberra

COMMENT
Annabel Crabb

'Lazy, self-indulgent' Liberal Party facing 'existential crisis'

EXCLUSIVE

Leaked Greens emails shine light on 'faceless' powerbrokers

Tony Abbott steps back into the leadership ring

COMMENT
Peter Hartcher

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

Adele Ferguson

Clair Murray, senior conservator at the National Archives of Australia.

National Archives sets the record straight at its new Mitchell headquarters

Kimberley Le Lievre

Lucy Sugerman was voted through to The Voice grand final after her rendition of Bjork's 'Oh so quiet'.

Could ACT's Lucy win The Voice with a Taylor Swift song?

Melissa Thornberry, Yvette Rydman and Francesca Droulias have set up a Facebook page to help disadvantaged students be ...

Canberra Facebook group helps get battling students to the formal

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

Raiders players after the loss.

North Queensland Cowboys put nail in Raiders' 2017 finals hopes

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Cowboys dent Raiders' pride

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

Hockeyroos thrash Belgium in World League

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Nick Kyrgios '65 per cent' fit for Wimbledon

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Man has fingertip bitten off in Sydney pub fight

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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

Man hospitalised after motorcycle and truck collide in Queanbeyan

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

Leo Lewin at his Yowie Bay home this week.

The underworld figure and the carpet seller

NSW

Harry Spencer-Gibson skates at Bondi Winter Wonderland outdoor rink Photo: Cole Bennetts

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

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

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

Gungahlin now has 71,000 souls, including those at the mothers club playgroup at the Forde community centre. Photo by ...

Time travelling to NIMBY-free Canberra 2067

COMMENT
Ian Warden

Illustration: Matt Davidson

Best of Fairfax cartoons

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

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

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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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The business rules of attraction

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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

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

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

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

Raiders players after the loss.

Stuart blasts Raiders as finals hopes left in tatters

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

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

Greater Western Sydney and Geelong share the points

Patty Mills is set to stay with the Spurs.

Mills scores $65 million deal

A dejected Raiders after their loss to the Cowboys.

Talking points: Cowboys conquer Raiders of lost Arctic

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

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