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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - SEPTEMBER 12: Generic Metro train, trains, railway, manufacturing, engineering. A general view of ...

Full to capacity: Metro warns of commuter crush

1 hr ago

Radek Sali and George Calombaris at Fitzroy restaurant Jimmy Grants

Calombaris' business partner quits after $2.6m wages scandal

Hotel Coolgardie follows two female Finnish backpackers in an outback mining town.

Hotel Coolgardie and the disturbing outback barmaid trade

COMMENT

Ben McCormack arriving at the Downing Centre.

Not the 'usual' child porn: ACA reporter faces court for the first time

LeadWest chief Craig Rowley in front of an empty container park in Brooklyn.

'Ridiculous': How empty shipping containers are taking over west

Melbourne Express

Search for Ben: Family goes to collect car, autistic man disappears

Live
1 hr ago

Thousands of dollars in US travellers' cheques, nowhere to cash them

Doctor's email draws gasps as women sue over pelvic mesh surgery

35 mins ago

Fahour is guilty of cowardice. Time to hang up the the boots

COMMENT

A real Mediscare: How safe is your health information?

The problem with 'But Donald Trump's base loves it!'

ANALYSIS

Bernard Tomic.

Tomic loses, then stuns with: 'I couldn't care less. I won't have to work again'

33 mins ago

The crash involving Mark Cavendish (Dimension Data) and Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe) during the stage four sprint finish ...

World champion Sagan kicked off Tour de France after horror crash

1 hr ago

Continued issue with a police officer attaching a bracelet with the text #tafsainte, meaning don't grope, to a visitor's ...

'This is not OK': Swedish festival cancelled after 27 sexual assaults

Melbourne Demons Tomas Bugg leaves the AFL tribunal in Melbourne.

Demon Bugg cops six-match ban for punching Swan Mills

LLB's evil genius plan for taxidermy payed off for Kate and Harry on House Rules.

The 'genius' taxidermy got the House Rules perfect score

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Drone footage shows the destruction of Mosul

Vision has emerged of AFL diversity chief Ali Fahour punching an opponent to the head in a local football league game, ...

Podcast

As the ugly incidents mount up, is footy out of control?

A screen grab from the tweet following the abusive behaviour at the Pacquiao-versus-Horn fight.

Foul-mouth boxing fans banned from Queensland stadiums

iPhone render.

10th anniversary iPhone 'to let you unlock with your face'

The fitness industry is one big treadmill.

Five facts to motivate you to get up and moving

Whether your parents rented or owned their own home can impact future behaviour and attitudes to property.

Parents didn't buy property? You probably won't either

Professor Entwisle would like a future encounter with Nick Cave after the singer planted a tree in the Melbourne Gardens.

Melbourne's best kept secret is in Cranbourne, says Gardens boss

Mojave Rock Ranch, Joshua Tree, California, is for sale.

A house made from souvenirs lures Hollywood to the desert

Rebel Wilson has reportedly spent almost $4 million on a New York City apartment.

Rebel Wilson buys in 'paparazzi-proof' apartment block

Mortgage repayments could quickly cost borrowers hundreds of dollars more if rates increased.

How a rate increase would affect your mortgage repayments

Cian Channon-Ling, 15, broke his arm when he was thrown onto train tracks at Hawthorn Station.

Don't jail my attacker, says teen thrown onto tracks

'We feel trapped': What's missing from our fastest growing suburbs?

Misbehaving drivers targeted in city blitz

Law firms have been swamped by enquiries from survivors of child sexual abuse.

Hatchet attack accused 'offers to plead guilty'

Ramon Russell.

Rort? Ricky Nixon received $153k grant in R&D scheme

EXCLUSIVE

Jill Garner at the Tanderrum bridge, in Birrarung Marr; one of the projects she has advised on.

Meet the woman whose job you probably didn't know existed

Peter Waters was parish priest at Kyneton during the 1990s.

Former Kyneton priest charged with historical child-sex counts

Minister for WestConnex Stuart Ayres says the project will be delivered on time, and on budget.

Motorway link to airport without plans or funding

EXCLUSIVE

Police have charged a mother over the alleged poisoning of her son.

Woman charged after allegedly poisoning her son

NSW

Stephanie Foster, Deputy Public Service Commissioner

Public service not corrupt, says public service

ACT

Mechanics using the Carisma app.

Carisma app 'lifts the hood' on auto mechanic industry

QLD

Chrissy Manetas and her daughter, Ellie, lay a floral tribute for their friend Gordana Vlatkovic, who was killed in an ...

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Chrissy Manetas and her daughter, Ellie, lay a floral tribute for their friend Gordana Vlatkovic, who was killed in an ...

Something told Chrissy to stop at the scene of this accident

Tammy Mills

The political messages in Mark Bradford's work never detracted from a series of highly tactile abstract paintings and ...

If something is dull and confusing arty types will swear it’s magnificent

John McDonald

Lola Russell and George Dixon outside their 167-year-old home on the corner of King and La Trobe streets on Tuesday ...

City's oldest shop-and-dwelling falling down, and owners ask for help to save it

Clay Lucas

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Pic shows new Medicare Smart card

A real Mediscare: Data breach raises health record fears

Adam Gartrell

Malcolm Turnbull to urge Donald Trump to act against tech terrorists

EXCLUSIVE
Peter Hartcher

Turnbull says he has enough conservatives on his frontbench

EXCLUSIVE
James Massola

Australian Border Force Commissioner Roman Quaedvlieg is among those also in the running.

Border Force boss on personal leave after 'investigation'

Nationals senator John Williams has hit out at dysfunction in the Liberal Party.

Nationals Party senator hits out at Liberal dysfunction

Being weighed. Niman Adan Gabush, 2, is a severe malnutrition case at Hargeisa Group Hospital in Somaliland.

'Stop reproducing': The ignorant attitudes in face of an African crisis

The huge processing facility for Inpex Corporation's LNG plant in northern Australia arrived in Australian waters on May ...

Warning of 'significant damage' to economy if PRRT is replaced

People walk past a TV screen showing an image of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Tuesday.

Closed doors requested at North Korea UN talks

David Brunnstrom and Christine Kim
20 mins ago

A man from Nigeria holds his 6 months old baby, on their way to Italy after being rescued along with more than 600 ...

Fearing migrant flood, Austria sends troops to Italian border

33 mins ago

A soldier covers his nose as a group of white-helmeted rescue volunteers carry a body they found at the beginning of the ...

'Suicide Squad' brave bullets to rescue civilians

1 hr ago

This photo distributed by the North Korean government shows what was said to be the launch of a Hwasong-14 ...

Ball in Trump's court after new North Korea missile test

Illustration: Simon Letch

How China's debt binge threatens Australia

COMMENT
Matt Wade

Almost 30 per cent of Australians identify as non-religious, outnumbering Catholic Christians.

Denialism and blindness en masse

COMMENT
Damien Williams

Facts are stickier than fiction.

Fact will not overcome the lure of fiction

COMMENT
Rachel Visontay

Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Philip Lowe's statement paid tribute to the role played by depreciation of the dollar ...

How the Aussie dollar kept the RBA's hands tied

ANALYSIS
Peter Martin

Dreamworld has had issues with safety.

Familiar faces as Aveo's billionaire backer buys into Dreamworld

CBD
Colin Kruger, CBD

Mall owners are under fire over their treatment of tenants.

Big malls told to stop feeding the cannibals

Madeleine Heffernan

It's hard to escape the conclusion that retirement housing contracts are written deliberately to bamboozle

Time for retirement living to meet the fairness test

COMMENT
Gerard Brody

London should be the inspiration for Melbourne, says aviation expert

Patrick Hatch

The $850m Star Gold Coast transforming Broadbeach

Carolyn Cummins

DD-cups runneth over for online bra salesman

Nina Hendy

Murdoch and Gordon test out bid for Ten

Lucy Battersby

Training for the Secret Service involves pain, and lots of it.

Forget F45 or CrossFit: Is this the most extreme fitness test ever?

Fitness

Cuda shut down his successful digital agency and risked it all on creating an App.

The Hobart app mogul who turned his back on Silicon Valley

Success

Lynda and Graham Turner on the ski-slopes in Canada earlier this year.

Travellers' cheques can't be cashed but couple told there's no problem

John Collett

Clancy Yeates

Is it time for property investors to start paying down debt?

COMMENT
Clancy Yeates

Wes Bundy is the owner of online bra retailer Curvy.

DD-cups runneth over for online bra salesman

Nina Hendy

The founders of The Volte describe the website as being like AirBnB for fashion.

Where to go to hire that $30,000 dress

COMMENT
Alexandra Cain

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Dior celebrates 70th anniversary

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What is the dark net?

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McCormack in court for child porn charges

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Taxi ploughs into crowd at Boston airport

Ward O'Neill colour cartoon /illo /illustration Transition to retirement please refer to attached ...

Best of Fairfax cartoons July 5

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Ex-MasterChef contestant Heather Day making her pitch on Shark Tank for an investment in her artisan butter.

Where is MasterChef 2016 contestant Heather Day now?

Aja Styles
51 mins ago

iCapsulate success story: CEO Kane Bodain on Shark Tank.

A record set on Shark Tank with a $2.5 million deal

Aja Styles

LLB's evil genius plan for taxidermy payed off for Kate and Harry on House Rules.

The 'genius' taxidermy got the House Rules perfect score

Aja Styles

Ian McKellen as Gandalf in 'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug'.

Tolkien's estate, Warner Bros end five-year legal battle

Broede Carmody

Ben McCormack arriving at the Downing Centre.

Not the 'usual' child porn: ACA reporter faces court for first time

Stephanie Gardiner

Continued issue with a police officer attaching a bracelet with the text #tafsainte, meaning don't grope, to a visitor's ...

'This is not OK': 27 sexual assaults at Swedish music festival

Rob Moran

Lily Collins in Netflix's To The Bone.

Warnings issued over Netflix's controversial film To The Bone

Rob Moran

UWAP is publishing <i>The Collected Poems of Fay Zwicky</i>.

Much loved Australian poet Fay Zwicky has died aged 83

Jason Steger

More than just gags: Lawrence Leung brilliantly combined mind-bending acts of mentalism and the stand-up he's more ...

Keep Melbourne Magic Festival up your sleeve for school holidays

REVIEW
Cameron Woodhead

Liz Jones, artistic director and CEO of La Mama theatre. La Mama is celebrating it's 50th birthday with Liz still at the ...

David Williamson returns to celebrate La Mama Theatre's 50th

Hannah Francis

Leads Lyall Brooks, Nicole Melloy and Nelson Gardner have mixed success in Merrily We Roll Along.

Merrily We Roll Along not Sondheim's best, and it shows

REVIEW
Cameron Woodhead

Lina and Stephie, the two Finnish backpackers followed in <i>Hotel Coolgardie</I>.

Hotel Coolgardie and disturbing outback barmaid trade

COMMENT
Jenny Noyes

Tegan George and her friends at the Pacquiao-Horn fight, with the men behind them.

Women shouldn't have to 'play cool', even at a sporting match

COMMENT
Clementine Ford

'Why settle for someone you see more as a friend than a lover?'

Don't settle for the 'friend you never thought of that way'

Johanna Leggatt

Sound the new hair klaxon ... Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge on day one of the Wimbledon Championships.

The Duchess debuts a new look at Wimbledon, nails the dress code

Annie Brown

Justin Bieber spotted in Bondi on Tuesday morning.

Shirtless Bieber snapped in Bondi ahead of $359 a ticket church gig

Jenna Clarke

Donald Trump has expressed disgust and disdain for women's bodies on more than one occasion.

Disgust at female bodies has made an unwelcome return

COMMENT
Jane Caro

Sleep: We all need it.

Why 95 per cent of us can't wind down our brains at night

Sarah Berry

Margot Robbie is totally onto something.

Margot Robbie's unusual – yet entirely practical – beauty tip

Natalie Reilly

Sparrow's Philly Bourbon Bacon: Philadelphia's answer to the kebab

Independence Day: Where to find Melbourne's best American food

Finalists for the Josephine Pignolet Young Chef of the Year award. Clockwise from top left: Matthew Bugeja (the ...

'Screaming doesn't work. I lost 80 chefs because I was a lunatic'

Slow cooked ocean trout with witlof from restaurant Waku Ghin.

Tetsuya's Singapore restaurant receives two Michelin stars

Devices like this are no longer allowed.

Jetstar and Qantas ban kids’ sleeping devices

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5 ways to keep your child safe from cyberbullying

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The moment I hated being a single mother

Catch me if you can ... a job so popular they made films about it.

Confessions of an airline pilot: The secrets of flying revealed

Oliver Smith

San Sebastian is dominated by its beautiful bay.

The destinations so good, we don't want to tell you about them

Ben Groundwater

Trollpikken: Before

Norwegians pledge $33,000 to re-erect giant ‘troll’s penis’ rock

Gavin Haines

An apparent security hole in the health system is being exploited.

Your Medicare card details are up for sale

Polar the bear is super cute now.

Crash's return a modern spin on an old marsupial

iPhone render.

Anniversary iPhone to let you unlock with your face

Qantas

How passengers are using Qantas' free Wi-Fi

Lifehacker
24 mins ago

Fear of isolation used to extort Facebook users

COMMENT

2017 Land Rover Discovery.

New Discovery prices revealed

Andrew MacLean

2018 BMW i8 Roadster.

BMW teases i8 Roadster

Dom Tripolone

Tesla Model X P100D v Audi SQ7.

Tesla Model X v Audi SQ7

Daniel DeGasperi

All-new 2017 Civic hatchback 2017 Honda Civic hatch.

Honda offers five-year warranty

Stephen Ottley

2017 Mercedes-Benz C-Class.

Mercedes updates C-Class range

Dom Tripolone

CHICHESTER, ENGLAND - JULY 01: Cars race at Goodwood Festival of Speed on July 01, 2017 in Chichester, England. The ...

Goodwood: A car lovers paradise

Peter McKay

Melbourne Demons Tomas Bugg leaves the AFL tribunal in Melbourne.

Bugg cops six match ban for punching Mills

Michael Gleeson

Hurdles remain: Callum Mills (left) was only able to participate in light training with the Swans on Tuesday.

Mills in doubt to face Suns

Andrew Wu

The AFL has so far been silent over any punishment it may hand its diversity officer Ali Fahour, who punched an ...

Fahour guilty of cowardice, should hang up boots

COMMENT
Michael Gleeson

Collingwood's Nathan Buckley is taking a relaxed approach to speculation about his coaching future.

Bucks happy to wait for talks on coaching future

Anthony Colangelo

Vision has emerged of AFL diversity chief Ali Fahour punching an opponent to the head in a local football league game, ...

As the ugly incidents mount up, is footy out of control?

Podcast

Leigh Montagna: His future at the Saints may hinge on whether they make the finals.

My future is out of my hands, says Montagna

Jon Pierik

Carlton's Ed Curnow will miss another month with his throat injury.

Throat injury to keep Carlton's Ed Curnow out for month

Michael Gleeson

Jarrad Waite is out for a month with a calf injury.

Double injury blow for Kangaroos

Jon Pierik

Cool relations: Usman Khawaja, ACA staff members Clea Smith and Alistair Nicholson, and Shane Watson listen to questions ...

Players give CA chance to save 'A' tour of South Africa

Andrew Wu

Ashleigh Gardner was named captain of the Australian women's Indigenous cricket squad that was announced on Tuesday.

Cricket pay fight could hit Indigenous squad plans

Jon Pierik

FFA chairman Steven Lowy: under pressure.

Speculation that FIFA under pressure to remove FFA board

Michael Lynch

Australia bowler Jess Jonassen has hit back at 'misguided' views on women's cricket.

Australians label Younis tweet 'offensive'

James Buckley

Australia's Richie Porte goes on the attack in stage three.

Porte's Tour de France diary: Pushing hard and talking tactics

Richie Porte

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