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

'A joke': Underdog Jeff Horn's victory met with fury

Spectators were forced to take cover at the netball last year as youngsters are forced to play on.

Netball a winter sport? You try playing in the wet in a lycra dress

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

Justice Minister Michael Keenan announced a planned national firearms amnesty on Wednesday morning to target the large ...

WA Police roll out 'welcome mat' as gun amnesty begins

Scott Pruitt, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Trump environment chief's effort to question climate change

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

Top cricketers could be subcontracted to save Ashes series

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AMA slams practice of quizzing female doctors on baby plans

EXCLUSIVE

Snow, hail and rain: Perth shivers through wet and wild weekend

Pope Francis sacks the cardinal in charge of sex abuse cases

NDIS begins roll-out across WA's Kimberley, Pilbara regions

Perth man's Supreme Court crayfish fight set to drag on

GEELONG, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 25: Michael Walters of the Dockers runs with the ball during the round 14 AFL match between ...

Dockers pipped at the post after hard-fought battle against the Saints

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

The secret of Gillies and Emdur's 10-year work marriage

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

WA mining magnate's daughter happy to lose her inheritance

Many international students choose to study in Australia.

McGowan 'wrecking WA's international student scene'

COMMENT

Australia's David Warner.

Emergency meeting: Aussie cricketers warned of Ashes threat

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St Kilda edge Freo in thriller

#3: Little Caesars in Mundaring is a right of passage if you grew up in Perth's east.

Perth's top 10 pizzerias: the top five unveiled

Arts and crafts will keep kids entertained for hours.

The staying put in Perth guide to school holidays

Turnbull's anniversary party crashed by Abbott ...

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Donald Trump in WWE Twitter attack on CNN

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Rapper Finese 2Tymes arrested after Arkansas ...

11:15PM

The patent drawing for Amazon's drone skyscraper.

Amazon patents 'drone skyscraper' to enable quicker deliveries

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

Rebecca Judd

Bec Judd reveals how she renovated her Prahran townhouse

Rebecca Judd

Sydney's Northern Beaches had the highest proportion of $2 million-plus sales at the end of April.

Is $2 million the new $1 million in Sydney's market?

Vintage wallpaper from The Bitch is Back in St Kilda, divan couch by Anderson Furniture Australia.

A labor of love renovation restores mid-century gem

The floating LNG facility is expected to employ 350 people.

World's biggest floating gas facility on its way to WA

Heather McNeill

Perth man's legal battle with Fisheries over cray catch drags on

Heather McNeill

WA church sued for woman losing leg at go karting event

Heather McNeill

A woman has woken to a boy inside her bedroom.

WA woman wakes to find a teenage intruder in her bed

Heather McNeill

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

Road train carnage: Two dead in WA's north

Heather McNeill

The 47-year-old woman died after the collision in Flint - 75 kilometres east of Perth

WA woman dies in head-on collision

Heather McNeill

A ute has fallen into what looks like a sinkhole in Wanneroo.

'I thought it would disappear': Ute swallowed up

Brendan Foster

The clever recruiting stunt is designed to lure talent from interstate.

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

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

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

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The important questions the census didn't ask

COMMENT
Peter Martin

John Edwards captured plenty of headlines with his prediction.

Ignore the economist who cried wolf

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

President Donald Trump speaks during a bill signing event for the "Department of Veterans Affairs Accountability and ...

Trump doesn't solve crises, he creates them

COMMENT
Peter Hartcher

Leeway: the ATO is giving time for people to get their tax affairs in order.

ATO takes 'unnecessary, belligerent' stance

Nassim Khadem

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

AFR. News. New Australian Food and Grocery Council Chief Executive Tanya Barden poses for a photo near the Fairfax ...

Surging energy prices threaten Australia's food makers

Madeleine Heffernan

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

What's next for Virgin Australia?

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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Carlisle cheap shot on Ballantyne ignites melee

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Shorten promises full penalty rate return

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Teddy Atlas rants at Horn result

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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 ...

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.

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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

Chris Rock's Total Balckout show dives into some personal failures.

Chris Rock delivers personal bombshells to Perth crowd

Fran Rimrod

Dianne Laurance poses in front of the 'Chick on a Stick' at her former winery.

'Chick on a Stick' to stay as new wineries open at famous Margs landmark

David Prestipino

Is Elmar's taking the mickey with this mountain of cheese?

'Something has gone wrong here': Elmar's adds cheese to nachos

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

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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

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Why I had the 'period talk' with my sons

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I gave my baby a fake name before she was born

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

"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 - and the boxing world

Phil Lutton

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

Shoulder charge: Lions winger Anthony Watson felt the full force of Sonny Bill Williams' shoulder.

SBW: Haters gonna ... have a fair point

Steve Mascord

Lion's share: Welshman Geraint Thomas of Team Sky earns the yellow jersey and a promotional lion – a reminder of rugby ...

Thomas channels Lions rugby to take Tour lead

Rupert Guinness

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

Drew Petrie of the Eagles.

Dogs v Eagles: Late heroic acts clinch West Coast's crucial win

Warwick Green

Safety first: Richie Porte of Australia and BMC Racing Team crosses the finish line during a wet stage one of Le Tour de ...

Porte disappoints in dramatic Tour de France opener

Cricket scoreboard

Emergency meeting: Cricketers warned of Ashes threat

Jon Pierik and Chris Barrett