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Gladys Berejiklian's biggest backdown to date has been from plans to overhaul how fire and emergency services are funded ...

The four words Berejiklian has failed to utter

COMMENT
Sean Nicholls

The world's richest man can apparently predict the future.

'Eerily prescient': The bold predictions Bill Gates made in 1999

Roxy Jacenko leaves the offices of Sweaty Betty, which were vandalised.

Roxy Jacenko's offices paint-bombed in latest vandal attack

1 hr ago

The Aussie was last up 0.7 per cent to US77.32¢; it peaked overnight at US77.40¢, the highest it has traded since it ...

Aussie dollar continues to march higher with more gains to come

36 mins ago

The declaration by Elon Musk that coal doesn't have a long-term future has rankled politicians.

What Elon Musk's investment tells us about our energy crisis

1 hr ago

Pasquale Timothy Barbaro in 2007. Source: Facebook

The 40-year-old Mafia assassination that still haunts a NSW town

COMMENT
1 hr ago

Heartbroken Eagle blames 'positive' drug test on ADHD meds

Police to gain access to encrypted messages, apps under new laws

Arsenal coach rues the one that got away - Sydney FC's goalkeeper

Photographer reveals he's broke after being sued by a monkey

1 hr ago

'Personality clash' lands lawyers in Supreme Court battle

Josh Frydenberg and Alan Jones.

'Your career is finished': Frydenberg laughs off attack from Alan Jones

20 mins ago

The Daily Telegraph's graphic.

This was not a typo. And it can have serious repercussions

COMMENT

Want an upgrade? Dressing nicely is unlikely to help you.

Dress well for an upgrade? 10 of the biggest myths about air travel

The man pushed out notes through the ATM.

Man stuck inside ATM sends out notes for help with the receipts

Venus Williams.

Venus Williams roars into ninth Wimbledon final

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SNL and Westworld lead Emmy Award nominations

PEYRAGUDES, FRANCE - JULY 13: Christopher Froome of Great Britain riding for Team Sky in the yellow leader's jersey ...

Froome relinquishes yellow jersey to Aru on 'tough day'

On this week's episode of "It All Adds Up" we hear from unemployed 17 year old Bianca Barnard who is looking for work. ...

Podcast

The charts to show your boss to ensure you get a pay rise

Sophie Turner on the blue carpet for Game Of Thrones season 7.

'Like a death in the family': GoT star's emotional premiere

Australian artwork, like that of street artist Mulga, was front and centre at the launch of The Frame.

Framing indigenous art in a new light

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Rugged up for the cold. Manly Photo Nick Moir 27 june 2016

Rug up: Sydney bracing for the coldest weekend in years

Defiant and unrepentant: Sharobeem's final ICAC outburst

Head is in a 'noose': Jones lashes Premier in extraordinary interview

Some security officers say the suits are uncomfortable and restrictive.

Hospital guards fight authorities who want them to wear suits

Esther Han

DIGICAM 00000000 NEWS Kathleen Folbigg leaving Maitland Court after being refused bail. Picture Anita Jones.

Notorious baby killer jailed for punching inmate over toaster

EXCLUSIVE

Multiculturalism minister Ray Williams said the allegations were "completely false and I refute them entirely".

Commission finds no evidence minister broke donations laws

Sean Nicholls

NSW Ambulance

Woman hit by a van in Chatswood in a critical condition

Smoke from the Coolaroo fire was visible from the CBD on Thursday.

Hundreds evacuated as 'toxic' smoke blankets Melbourne suburb

VIC

Pastor Ken Perrin of the Ainslie Church of Christ. Census results have shown that the inner north has low numbers of ...

Canberra's hipster suburbs are also the least religious

ACT

The map lists Perth as one of the world's most dangerous places.

Perth named as one of the most dangerous cities in the world

WA

As companies grow, society starts making different demands.

Uber driver charged with raping teenage girl

UPDATED

Let this windmill spin you around.

Seven of the coolest house conversions around the world

1 hr ago

Expect the unexpected when you take responsibility for someone else's home and pets.

The good, the bad and the awkward: Life as a house sitter

Sean and Melissa McNeal enrolled Hudson, a mastiff-Akita, in a training program and had him DNA-tested to help get him ...

Certificates, therapy: Interview process for dogs in apartments

Two giant Shell signs painted on the side of Shell House at 2-12 Carrington Street, Sydney have been uncovered by the ...

Demolished Sydney building reveals signs from another era

Julie Nance knew she had made a mistake as soon as she closed the front door on her house for the last time.

'Let's move back': Why Julie bought the same house twice

Portrait of David Reilly, a professor of quantum physics at the University of Sydney. He also likes playing electric ...

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Portrait of David Reilly, a professor of quantum physics at the University of Sydney. He also likes playing electric ...

What is the '80s sound? Nerd heaven for rock guitarists

Peter Munro

The Cellebrite system can extract data from a variety of phones.

'Unprofessional': Govt agencies shop for phone hacking tools

Finbar O'Mallon

Andrew Woods started a GoFundMe page to raise money to support his family while his daughter Lailah is treated for leukaemia.

'System is failing': Australians falling through the cracks

Rachel Clun

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Josh Frydenberg and Alan Jones.

The minister who could make or break the government

Matthew Knott
20 mins ago

PM to push ahead with accessing encrypted apps and messages

Matthew Knott

Frydenberg warns states not to go it alone on clean energy

Adam Gartrell
1 hr ago

President Donald Trump listens as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during a meeting in the Oval Office of the ...

Trump's very 'praiseworthy' moves: Howard

James Robertson

Parliament is examining laws around the use and marketing of e-cigarettes.

Big tobacco's behind-the-scenes 'astroturf' campaign

EXCLUSIVE
Adam Gartrell

Liberal MP Craig Kelly in Parliament.

'People will die due to renewables': Turnbull government MP

Greens senator Lee Rhiannon was last month excluded from decisions on contentious policies for the foreseeable future.

Greens hope to end infighting with balance of power compromise

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Scotland, Wales threat to 'power grab' Brexit bill

Nick Miller

Newly appointed Canadian governor-general, former astronaut Julie Payette in the aft flight deck of the space shuttle ...

Trudeau names former astronaut as next governor general

A protester cries as he mourns jailed Chinese Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo during a demonstration outside the Chinese ...

Barred from treatment abroad, Liu Xiaobo dies in custody

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton.

Alleged people smuggler extradited from Indonesia

Jewel Topsfield

Tony Abbott: Truly conservative in his resistance to change.

Tony Abbott isn't fighting for the soul of the Liberals

COMMENT
John Hewson

Illustration: Andrew Dyson

Universities' greed and phony prestige to blame for appalling drop-out rates

COMMENT
Tracie Winch

Pasquale Timothy Barbaro in 2007. Source: Facebook

The family bonds that must be broken

COMMENT
Lesley Hicks
1 hr ago

Falling consumer confidence resulted in lower footfall, the company said.

DJs blames weak consumer confidence for sales fall

1 hr ago

The Aussie dollar is eyeing a 2017 high against the greenback.

Markets Live: Bulls in control

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Jens Meyer
1 hr ago

Kevin Gallagher says the Australian Domestic Gas Security Mechanism will distort the market and make only expensive gas ...

'High risk': Australia warned it may become the next Argentina

Latika Bourke

The declaration by Elon Musk that coal doesn't have a long-term future has rankled politicians.

What Elon Musk's investment tells us about our energy crisis

1 hr ago

Goldman Sachs relaxes dress code for millennial tech talent

Gerry Harvey cashes in as Tinkler's horse empire sold

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Colin Kruger, CBD

'Wow them': The charts to show your boss to get a payrise

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Jessica Irvine

With Packer's help, he made Wimbledon a money spinner

COMMENT
Harold Mitchell
59 mins ago

Honda state that their $420k supercar was never about the sales figures, but showcasing innovation.

Honda's 'must-have supercar' attracted just a single customer

Cars
38 mins ago

Melbourne barista goes from couch surfing to being the face of Gucci

Men's Style

J. D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy, has become the US' go-to white, rural translator.

What we can learn from the Trump-voting 'hillbillies'

COMMENT
Catherine Robson

"It's not believable that someone on the age pension who owns their home would never suffer financial stress."

Super industry defends 'comfortable' retirement

Martin Fahy

Small business ombudsman Kate Carnell would like to see Australia Post CEO Christine Holgate consider bulk deals for the ...

Ombudsman takes on Australia Post over small business rates

Cara Waters

Certain behaviour can compel you to dive for unhealthy food.

How your job makes you eat your feelings

COMMENT
James Adonis

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The future of flying cars

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Wimbledon 2017: Venus Williams to meet Muguruza in final

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'No excuses' from Froome after losing Tour lead

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Drowning elephant rescued from sea

Cold start to the day in Melbourne with temperatures dropping below zero in outer suburbs.

Fairfax photos of the week - July 13, 2017

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Endangered African leopard, Panthera pardus pardus, at the Houston Zoo.

Stare into the eyes of the animals we are killing off

Andrew Purcell

Oprah Winfrey missed out on a nomination despite her strong acting chops..

The strange and surprising from the Emmy nominations

Michael Idato

Sophie Turner as Sansa Stark in Game of Thrones.

Sophie Turner hopes Thrones' rape controversy helps

Bill Keveney

Sarah Tiong's devastation at sending Eliza home on MasterChef.

MasterChef's immunity pin play that 'weighed heavily' on Sarah

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Aja Styles

Nicole Kidman at the 70th annual Cannes Film Festival.

Nicole Kidman, Geoffrey Rush snag Emmy nominations

Michael Idato

Australian artist Montaigne caused a stir at last year's ARIAs during her 'incomprehensible' acceptance speech for best ...

This could be a costly move by Channel Nine on Ten's turf

Broede Carmody

Josh Lawson

Should comic films be up for big awards? Josh Lawson thinks so

Garry Maddox

Sophie Turner on the blue carpet for Game Of Thrones season 7.

'It feels like a death in the family': GoT stars at premiere

Michael Idato

Chris Taylor, Craig Reucassel, David Lynch and Andrew Hansen in Neville's Island.

The Chaser stars out of their depth on island

Jason Blake

The beast in me: Mateusz Szczerek and Ivonne Kalter in "The Wolf and Peter".

Breakdancing wolf has all the right moves

Jill Sykes

Soldatic (left) with Castagna are proud to be telling stories set in western Sydney.

Incredible shift of Sydney's art scene

Elissa Blake

Zayn Malik and Gigi Hadid have been named by US Vogue as perhaps the next Kimye. They have been taking Paris Fashion ...

Oh Vogue, women wearing pants is not 'gender fluidity'

Mary Ward
1 hr ago

Our sense of smell may affect the way we store energy, study suggests.

The link between smelling your food and weight gain

Evelyn Lewin

Amy Middleton, editor of Archer magazine.

Being LGBTI is a health risk, but not how the Daily Telegraph implied

COMMENT
Amy Middleton

I'm tired of pretending that this behaviour is acceptable just because I'm at a wedding.

Why do we turn a blind eye to wedding gropers?

Danielle Sepulveres

Co-founder of P.E Nation Pip Edwards and David Jones ambassador Jesinta Campbell are leading the charge, encouraging the ...

Jesinta Franklin and Pip Edwards push for more diversity at David Jones

Jenna Clarke

We can't go to work and abandon our children.

Love economy: knowing what we do for free matters

COMMENT
Jenna Price

Clementine Ford talks trolling with Daily Life 2016 Woman of the Year, Mariam Veiszadeh.

Speaking out online has a personal cost, and now my family wears it too

Clementine Ford

"When I did this to the girls, I felt like I was big."

A twisted version of masculinity breeds sexual abusers

COMMENT
Jane Gilmore

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'Cafe's babycino ban makes no sense'

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The deadly spot we're missing when we apply sunscreen

Facebook: Angela O'Guinn Downs

Teen electrocuted while using mobile phone in bath

Prawn toast with ham at Neil Perry's Jade Temple restaurant in Sydney's CBD.

Review: Play prawn toast Jenga at Neil Perry's new Jade Temple

Picking a wine: Knowing your price range is a good place to start.

Eight dos and don'ts of ordering wine in a restaurant

Neil Perry's beef bourguignonne recipe.

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Eser Aksan Erdogan, a pilot for the Turkish budget airline Pegasus Airlines, has become an Instagram star.

Glamour, travel, stardom: So why aren't there more female pilots?

N'Dea Yancey-Bragg
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Mr Wicken, who was identified as Dean Stinson, the name he uses on Facebook, said he was behind the prank., posted a ...

The true identity of the guy who checked in a single can of beer

Entry denied: If your ESTA is not attached to your current passport, you won't be allowed to travel to the US.

Don't miss this detail on your ESTA when travelling to the US

The world's richest man can apparently predict the future.

15 predictions Bill Gates made in 1999

Gold Coast Commonwealth Games organising committee chairman Peter Beattie with CISCO Australia vice-president Ken Boal.

Commonwealth Games to get the 5G treatment

This enhanced-colour image of Jupiter's Great Red Spot was created by citizen scientist Jason Major using data from the ...

Jupiter's Great Red storm 'so powerful and so beautiful'

Kenneth Chang

Stadium Events

Old video game sells for $55,093 on eBay

Kotaku

Mario Kart VR

Mario Kart VR is now a real thing

Jaguar has teased its 2018 E-Pace compact SUV.

Jaguar's cheapest SUV revealed

Jonathan Hawley
58 mins ago

Detail Audi Sport Peformance Parts

Audi to offer performance parts

Drive Staff

2018 Hyundai i30N.

Hyundai reveals its Golf GTI rival

Andrew MacLean

Aston martin Valkyrie.

F1 for the road: Inside Aston Martin's Valkyrie

David McCowen

HSV VX ClubSport.

What to look out for in a used HSV

David Morley

The new camera technology detects drivers using their phones.

Top 10 dangerous activities Australian drivers admit to

David McCowen

Mistake: Legendary Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, pictured at ANZ Stadium on Thursday night, said the club made an error ...

Wenger rues the one that got away - Sydney FC's goalie

Dominic Bossi

Just play: Brad Fittler's football philosophy.

It's time for Fittler and Johns to coach the Blues

Andrew Webster

Chris Froome, right, and new overall leader Fabio Aru, climb Port de Bales pass during the twelfth stage.

Froome relinquishes yellow jersey to Aru on 'tough day'

Rupert Guinness

Sabbatical: David Pocock has been getting up to plenty on his year off from rugby.

Pocock's good deeds continue on rugby sabbatical in South Africa

Tom Decent

BRISTOL, ENGLAND - JULY 09: Australia bowler Ellyse Perry in action during the ICC Women's World Cup 2017 match between ...

All-round effort: Perry the bowler will only get better, says coach

James Buckley
1 hr ago

Outgoing: Reece Robinson is set to depart the Waratahs.

Robinson to leave Waratahs as club overhauls roster

Tom Decent

Lauryn Eagle is yet to be charged by police.

Professional boxer Lauryn Eagle allegedly caught drug driving

Injury blow: Sydney FC need to find a replacement for Rhyan Grant at right back.

Sydney FC star in doubt for season after tearing ACL

Dominic Bossi

There was no Origin joy yet again for the much-maligned Mitchell Pearce.

The NSW side to help break the drought

Adam Pengilly

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - JULY 12: Jarrod Wallace of the Maroons scores a try during game three of the State Of Origin ...

The sad nadir of ref-blaming culture

Steve Mascord

Natural: Cameron Munster shrugs off Josh Dugan on an Origin debut to remember.

In a world of his own, Munster turns in a debut for the ages

Phil Lutton

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