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Many Liberal MPs feel slighted by their Prime Minister.

Australia's become the punchline to jokes worldwide

ANALYSIS

Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull's battle is ripping apart the Liberal Party.

Abbott fires up the base to crash Turnbull's anniversary party

James Robertson

Pope Francis talks to students during a meeting to promote peace at the Vatican on Saturday.

Pope Francis sacks cardinal in charge of sex abuse cases

US President Donald Trump.

Trump tweets WWE meme of him attacking man with CNN head

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II shows her enjoyment during day three of the Royal Ascot race meeting at Ascot Racecourse, ...

Queen's secret 1975 dismissal letters could be released

Stephanie Peatling

An Iraqi Special Forces soldiers gives Abdulsalam Abufader 73 (right) some watermelon as he sits in his wheelchair at ...

'There were IS fighters staying in my house. Where could I go?'

The deadly industrial diseases reappearing in clouds of dust

Anna Patty

Same work, less pay for workers after penalty rate cuts

Teacher's role in one of Australia's glorious sporting moments

The three billionaires racing to take you into space

Joe Shute

'It's wrong, but I'm doing good,' says people smuggler

Rough afternoon: Jeff Horn wore a series of blows from Manny Pacquiao.

'If I had a towel, I would've thrown it': Horn's father wanted the fight stopped

The Voice Australia 2017 finalists: Judah Kelly, Lucy Sugerman, Fasika Ayallew and Hoseah Partsch.

'I'm living my dream': All the action from The Voice final

Changes to the ending of George Orwell's 1984 may cause you to see the dystopian masterpiece in a new light.

The secret of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four ending

Nick Kyrgios has been without a coach for two years.

McEnroe questions whether Kyrgios has what it takes

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Australians' wellbeing improved at more than double the rate of growth in gross domestic product in 2016.

What podiatrists really think about your thongs

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Mark Hamill's 'Trumpster' returns

Jess Jonassen celebrates dismissing New Zealand's Rachel Priest during the Women's World Cup at the County Ground in ...

Australia on track in Cricket World Cup

Red card: Sonny Bill Williams after being shown a red card in the second Test against the British and Irish Lions.

Sonny Bill haters are gonna hate ... and they have a fair point

Being an office oldie is a liberating experience.

As an office oldie, this is what stunned me about young colleagues

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

The Australian icon disappearing from our inner cities

COMMENT

62/1 Macquarie Street Sydney sold for $3,650,000 on Saturday.

Full impact of stamp duty cuts yet to be realised in Sydney

ANALYSIS

The One Another workshop supports fifteen women and four men.

The homewares brand backing artisans in the developing world

News. 13th July 2015. Owner of Perfomance classes off the beaten track Olivia Stone, and Logie winner Gyton Grantley are ...

Gyton Grantley's art piece that became a threat to his asthma

The patent drawing for Amazon's drone skyscraper.

Amazon patents 'drone skyscraper' to enable quicker deliveries

SONY DSC Henley House by David Mitchell Architects.

Architect turns old "warren" house into a chic hybrid

Norm Mackenzie, with his daughter Sarah, is refusing NSW Trustee and Guardian's directive to obtain a surety bond.

Father 'vindicated' in fight against 'cruel and exploitative policy'

The tiny, 'potentially toxic' needles found in baby formula

EXCLUSIVE
Esther Han

Female doctors grilled on plans for children 'tip of the iceberg': AMA

EXCLUSIVE

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

Lydia was getting headaches, face pain - her dentist knew why

religion

Affluence trumps belief: The most godless suburb in Australia

A dozen people were involved in the Merrylands brawl.

Two knocked out, hospitalised after birthday turns violent

Melissa Taylor, at her home in Katoomba, was first diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 31. She was diagnosed for ...

Map reveals your cancer risk depending on the suburb you live in

Kate Aubusson

Cardinal George Pell meets the media at the Vatican last week after being changed by Victoria Police with sexual assault.

Sydney Archbishop backs Pell, but won't pay legal bills

Premature death rates were significantly higher in Sydney's poorest areas.

The 'strong correlation' between your suburb and death and disease

Green Park chef Jess Browning at the Labour in Vain with the Fitzroy hotel's manager Anthea Leopoldseder.

Hospitality workers and venues pledge to stamp out sexual harassment

VIC

Fisheries have taken a man to the Supreme Court, alleging he took more than the daily limit of crays.

Perth man's Supreme Court battle over crayfish drags on

WA

Richard Pearson, administrator of the amalgamated Inner West Council.

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Richard Pearson, administrator of the amalgamated Inner West Council.

Push for councils to have say on plans for 35,000 new homes

Jacob Saulwick

New research says the most popular public high schools are highly segregated.

The 'good' public schools that are only for the rich

EXCLUSIVE

The women at the Pacquiao-Horn fight, with the men behind them.

Women subjected to sexist tirade at Pacquiao v Horn fight

Felicity Caldwell

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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

Scott Pruitt, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Trump's man pushes 'review' of climate science

Food stall vendor Poe Arun became teary when asked how she felt about the imminent demolition of the White Building.

End of a lonely dance for Cambodia's 'White Building'

Craig Skehan

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

Greens senator Lee Rhiannon will be excluded from decisions on contentious policies for the foreseeable future.

The real reason my Greens' colleagues banned me

COMMENT
Lee Rhiannon

John Edwards captured plenty of headlines with his prediction.

Get ready for interest rate rises - but not overnight

COMMENT
Jessica Irvine

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

The Australian National Audit Office is conducting a performance audit of the ATO's approach to settlements.

ATO takes 'unnecessary', 'belligerent' stance

Nassim Khadem

New Australian Food and Grocery Council Chief Executive Tanya Barden

Surging energy prices threaten Australia's food makers

Madeleine Heffernan

Customers with interest-only loans, mainly housing investors, bore the brunt of last month's interest rate hikes from banks.

Property investors should expect more interest rate pain

COMMENT
Clancy Yeates

Virgin boss John Borghetti lost his likely successor last week when his deputy, John Thomas, was considered the wrong fit.

Rescue for driller Boart Longyear gets over the line

Colin Kruger, CBD

Fairfax buyout ditched, TPG and Hellman & Friedman retreat

Lucy Battersby

India's Modi cancels registration of 100,000 companies

Will the RBA spring a 'July surprise?'

Patrick Commins

PPB trussing up Ten for sale for CBA

Lucy Battersby

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

Fine Drinks

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

Dani Zeini has launched Flip City specifically to target Uber Eats customers.

'It's a game changer': How UberEats is changing the way we eat and how restaurants run

Cara Waters

Koskela directors Sasha Tichkosky and Russell Koskela say the homewares market in Australia is highly competitive.

Australian homewares labels killing it

Kate Jones

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Johnston's five star performance gives Souths victory

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Horn stuns Pacquiao and boxing world

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CCTV of three men who left woman to die

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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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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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The Voice Australia 2017 finalists: Judah Kelly, Lucy Sugerman, Fasika Ayallew and Hoseah Partsch.

The Voice winner for 2017 is ....

Christine Sams

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

Lady Macbeth's Ari Wegner, and the new breed of women shooters

Karl Quinn

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

Jonah from Tonga.

Jonah from Tonga pulled from Maori TV over negative stereotype

"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

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

Photographs ? Copyright by Julian Andrews. Eye R8 Productions Ltd. 2015. 22/05/0316, Petersham, Surrey, England. Former ...

Lyndall Hobbs: I'm ready to remarry again at 64

Jane Rocca

Before diving into any new lifestyle trend, it’s worth taking a
step back and asking what you hope to achieve.

After 'hygge', what's the next wellbeing trend to pick up?

Cat Rodie

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.

The secret to Gillies' and 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

Veal shank slow cooked in wine.

Weekly meal planner - beginning of July

Kombucha starts with a mix of bacteria, yeast and nightmares.

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

Man vs mountain: Manny Pacquiao and Jeff Horn trade blows.

'I just climbed Pacquiao mountain'

Andrew Webster

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

Jeff Horn stuns Manny Pacquiao - and the world

Phil Lutton

Rough afternoon: Jeff Horn wore a series of blows from Manny Pacquiao.

"If I had a towel, I would've thrown it", Horn's dad says

Andrew Webster

Party time: Souths players mob Johnston after one of his tries.

High five: Johnston scores handful of tries in Souths rout

Chris Barrett

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

Top cricketers could be subcontracted to save Ashes

UPDATED
Chris Barrett and Jon Pierik

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 27: Manny Pacquiao's trainer Freddie Roach speaks to the media during a press conference on ...

Manny Pacquiao faces a fork in the road, says Freddie Roach

Phil Lutton

Jeff Horn celebrating his win after being named WBO welterweight champion.

The party doesn't finish after big fight

Felicity Caldwell

Top of the world: Jeff Horn points to the sky in celebration after being announced the winner.

World reacts to underdog's victory

Matt Bungard

Familiar feeling: Knights players after one of the Tigers' many tries.

Knight heavily beaten in 'Spoon Bowl'

Scott Bailey

Taking the blame: Matt Moylan.

Moylan blames himself for turning point

Chris Barrett

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - JULY 01: Joseph Leilua of the Raiders leaves the field after being sent to the sin bin during the ...

Freddy savages 'weak' Raiders

Caden Helmers

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