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British born former prime minister Tony Abbott is the only overseas born MP to publicly release his citizenship ...

Resignation raises questions about dozens more MPs

Ty Vickery

Vickery unwittingly pays for horses, his own wedding gifts

EXCLUSIVE

Dandenong mother Ozlem Karakoc was found dead inside a house in Lalor.

'You left us too soon': Tributes pour in for murdered young mum

A makeshift memorial at the scene of the shooting.

Australian woman the 541st person shot dead by US police this year

ANALYSIS
Josephine Tovey

U.S President Donald Trump attends a press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in ...

Trump in Twitter outburst over health bill defections

Facing court over road tolls can be 'humiliating', 'ridiculous' and 'leaves you very exposed'.

'It's just about killed my marriage': Road fines take a toll

'No sugar-coating it, Leigh': Greens leader grilled on 7.30

Billionaire bickering over Network Ten laid bare in court

Hospitals forced to ration 'critical' painkiller fentanyl

Dwindling water storages could trigger desal plant order

Upbeat: Australian dollar 'could go as high as US85¢'

Glacier

Bodies of Swiss couple found on glacier 75 years after they went missing

Michael Matthews has won stage 16 of the Tour de France.

Australian takes Le Tour stage 16 by a wheel length

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A still from the video showing "Khulood", dressed in a skirt and t-shirt.

Saudi police arrest woman who wore miniskirt in viral video

Gillon McLachlan, AFL chief executive, at the media conference after two executive resignations on 14 July.

'It's a disaster for the AFL, whichever way you look at it'

MasterChef Australia 2017's final five.

A dark horse has emerged in MasterChef's surprise elimination

COMMENT

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Counter-terrorism boot camp: The controversial tourist attraction

No. 9 Towers Road, Toorak, set the previous record after selling for more than $26 million last year.

Toorak mansion could set Victoria record after $40m offer

Cr Jonathan Sri (rainbow scarf on the right) walking to the press conference with Larissa Waters, her partner Jeremy ...

'Rainbow scarf man' causes buzz at Greens resignation speech

Bullied

How to tell if you're being bullied at work

Spaghetti and Meatballs. Simple home cooking column for Epicure. Photographed by Marina Oliphant. Styling by Caroline ...

The psychological benefits of cooking for other people

Rick Irwin

Coach who groped woman free to talk on 'healthy masculinity'

Second man appears in court over dressmaker's murder

Lalor man fronts court on murder charge over woman's death

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Money worries drove deluded grandmother to kill ex-husband

Former Melbourne city Labor councillor Richard Foster.

Former Melbourne City councillor loses diversion bid

Jason Roberts is led into court in December 2002.

'Enough is enough': Silk, Miller families speak out

UPDATED

The Phong Vuong was found dead on June 26.

Man charged with murder of Deer Park dressmaker

Shawn Newton and Rebecca Jane Gascoigne.

Manhunt over death of mother as new details emerge

WA

Brisbane-based Alliance Airlines has expanded to Gladstone, Bundaberg and Port Macquarie.

Brisbane airline launches cheap regional flights

QLD

Proposals for mandatory fuel emissions standards have raised concerns among auto businesses.

Revealed. The $14 billion Beaches Link price tag

NSW

Chief Police Officer Justine Saunders.

Gang rilvary behind recent gun, fire attacks

ACT

St Georges Road, Toorak where it is believed Melbourne's biggest sale has taken place.

Toorak mansion could set Victorian record after $40 million offer

Photo: Powda Con

Building to a budget: the small items that can blow up costs

Jared Leto attends the WSJ Magazine Innovator Awards 2015 at The Museum of Modern Art on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2015, in New ...

The Hollywood stars that are on the move

Real estate agent Stephanie Joyce Brown, formerly Stephanie Naylor, has been convicted of fraud.

Agent convicted of fraud after forging signatures, pocketing $33k

Seven of the world's most remote island homes

Jodie Whittaker will replace Peter Capaldi as the Doctor in the upcoming Doctor Who Christmas special.

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Jodie Whittaker will replace Peter Capaldi as the Doctor in the upcoming Doctor Who Christmas special.

I too used to think Doctor Who had to be a man

COMMENT
Clem Bastow

"Yo, bum rush the show, citizens. Fight the powers that be."

You should be far more scared about your data security

COMMENT
Andrew P Street

Indonesian maids in Hong Kong who developed ties with Indonesian jihadis via social media including Telegram.

Jihotties, lingerie and recipes occupy IS sympathisers on app

Jewel Topsfield

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Gillon McLachlan, AFL chief executive, at the media conference after two executive resignations on 14 July.

A disaster for the AFL

The Big V in action in 2008.

Scuttled: $10,000 bonus for AFL State of Origin

Jon Pierik

Travis Cloke played his second straight game in the VFL on Saturday night.

Cloke in the mix for a senior recall, says Beveridge

Jon Pierik

Alastair Clarkson, in full throttle at Hawthorn, is set to coach his 300th game this round.

Breust lauds 'inspirational' Clarkson ahead of milestone

Jobe Watson's future remains up in the air.

Watson to wait until post-season to discuss future

Ronny Lerner

Will Adelaide-Geelong be a grand final preview?

Will Adelaide have something to Crow about against Cats?

ANALYSIS
Jon Pierik

Swans CEO Andrew Ireland.

ANZ Stadium only fair if GWS host AFL final: Swans boss

Emma Kemp

Blast from the past: State of Origin captains Craig Bradley (SA) and Gary Hocking (Vic).

How the AFL could revive State of Origin

COMMENT
Chris Judd

Greens senator Peter Wish-Wilson, born in Singapore is congratulated by Nationals senator John "Wacka" Williams and ...

MPs scramble as question marks hover over more than 20

Amy Remeikis

Doubts over Turnbull's new home affairs ministry

David Wroe

The rise and rise of Peter Dutton, our new security tsar

ANALYSIS
James Massola

Forced to resign: Larissa Waters left Canada before she had even turned one.

The absurd rule that forced the shock resignation of two Greens

ANALYSIS
Adam Gartrell

Peter Dutton faces a major test in implementing the national security changes.

Home affairs details reassuring but questions remain

ANALYSIS
David Wroe

Senator Larissa Waters in the Senate at Parliament House in Canberra on Monday 19 June 2017. fedpol Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Second Greens senator forced to resign over dual citizenship

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced Peter Dutton will become the Minister for Home Affairs at Parliament House in ...

Dutton the big winner as Turnbull creates Home Affairs office

Emmanuel Macron and France have displaced the US at the top of the soft power index.

Macron trumps Trump in new soft power index

Nick Miller
1 hr ago

Indonesian maids in Hong Kong who developed ties with Indonesian jihadists via social media including Telegram.

Jihotties, lingerie and recipes occupy IS sympathisers on app

Jewel Topsfield

A Los Angeles police officer fitted with a body camera.

In US, police wearing cameras is not open-and-shut case

ANALYSIS
Paul McGeough

Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn addresses the audience at the royal ploughing ceremony in Bangkok in May.

Thai king to control billions in 'richest royal fortune'

Lindsay Murdoch

Illustration: Simon Letch

History's pendulum is swinging against neoliberalism

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

Illustration: Andrew Dyson.

When Trump chooses between country and family, family wins

COMMENT
Nicole Hemmer

Having a degree is increasingly becoming the prerequisite to even getting a look-in at a job interview, but the problem ...

Who ultimately pays for university daze?

COMMENT
Nicholas Stuart

The Good Guys store in Geelong is one of nine stores leased to the electronics and whitegoods chain which have sold to ...

'Blood, sweat, tears' to build - now Good Guys family sells up

Simon Johanson

Baia The Italian has been ordered to pay $15,000 in compensation for the unfair dismissal of an employee: Sydney's ...

'Shabbiest type' of conduct lands restaurant in trouble

Anna Patty

The 7-Eleven business is believed to be worth about $1.5 billion.

Death of 7-Eleven co-owner raises succession question

CBD
Colin Kruger, CBD

Rupert Murdoch, co-chairman of Twenty-First Century Fox Inc., left, and Lachlan Murdoch, co-chairman of Twenty-First ...

Billionaire bickering over Ten laid bare in court

Lucy Battersby

Elliott appeals to BHP retail shareholders for change

Darren Gray

Street where shops pay $20,000 just to rent a metre

Carolyn Cummins

Hotel openings repair room shortage

Carolyn Cummins

New Silk Road has 'astounding upside'

Jessica Sier

The Grandmaster Chime Reference 5175: a double-faced reversible wristwatch.

The luxury watch brand worn by the world's elite

Watches

Eat now, work out later doesn't quite add up in the calorie game.

Why running to 'burn off' the junk food you eat doesn't work

Fitness

Excluding "sin stocks", such as gambling companies, would not have harmed returns from the Australian market over the ...

Investing with a conscience needn't mean lower returns

Clancy Yeates

Carrie Bradshaw holding a Manolo Blahnik shoe in an episode of <i>Sex and the City</i>.

Cure yourself of the Carrie Complex

Melissa Browne

Energy price rises have put small businesses into a precarious position, says Kate Carnell.

Small business gouged and hung out to dry in Australia's energy crisis

COMMENT
Kate Carnell

Ashley Newland is the creator of the Scrubba stealth pack.

What Ashley did next

Alexandra Cain

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Vickery unwittingly pays for racehorse

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Fashion week ends its spring fling

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Larissa Waters resigns

Federal Politics

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Shorten backs Finkel on energy policy

Illustration: Cathy Wilcox

Best of Fairfax cartoons July 19

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<i>Australian Ninja Warrior </i>has continued to smash TV ratings.

Ninja Warriors weren't screened for 'drug enhancements'

EXCLUSIVE
Broede Carmody

MasterChef Australia 2017's final five.

A dark horse has emerged in MasterChef's surprise elimination

COMMENT
Aja Styles

Customers were driven wilder than wildling Tormund Giantsbane (Kristofer Hivju) by Monday night's outages.

Foxtel reveals source of its Game of Thrones 'glitches'

Karl Quinn

The director of the Melbourne Writers Festival, Lisa Dempster.

Melbourne Writers Festival: Thinking for the dark times

Jason Steger

Ed Sheeran, left, and Maisie Williams in a scene from Game of Thrones. Sheeran appeared as a Lannister soldier leading a ...

Game of Thrones fans mock 'painful' Ed Sheeran cameo

Rob Moran

Australian Ninja Warrior is leaping over the competition.

Expect a call for next year's Ninja Warriors soon

Broede Carmody

Canadian religious scholar John Stackhouse.

Q&A recap: So much Yassmin Abdel-Magied, so little time

Neil McMahon

I'm home: Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) returns to Dragonstone.

Game of Thrones crowned as record audience wages war

Michael Idato
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Bernadette Byrne from the Little Death Club, showing at 2017 Provocare winter arts festival in and around Chapel Street.

Chapel Street has a brand new winter arts festival

Sonia Harford

Peter Mungkuri with his winning artwork Ngura Wiru.

Indigenous artist Peter Mungkuri wins $100,000 Art Prize

Goya Dmytryshchak

What makes a winner? An illustrated guide to the Archibald Prize

Simon Letch

Prince William, and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, with their children Prince George and Princess Charlotte arrive in ...

Kate Middleton's off-the-cuff comment sparks baby speculation

Amy Croffey

Amber Harrison.

As Amber Harrison knows, the boys' club is always all right in the end

COMMENT
Clementine Ford

However, there's one truth that remains one of the biggest parenting taboos of all ... the sheer, excruciating, ...

Admit it. Looking after young kids is boring.

COMMENT
Jo Hartley

Writers and advocates Tara Moss and Amy Gray at the recent cyberhate symposium.

We need to get comfortable with reporting cyberhate

Emma Jane and Nicole Vincent

Jessica Alba is expecting baby number three.

Jessica Alba and Cash Warren are expecting baby number three

Intermittent fasting: it's no better or worse than restricting energy intake, researchers say.

This is the truth about intermittent fasting

Carrie Dennett

Mindy Kaling arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017, in Beverly Hills, California.

The internet's fantasy BFF is reportedly pregnant

Blame Gwynnie but face oils have reached cult status.

Why face oils have (rightly!) reached cult status

Natalie Reilly

Fried eggs with nahm jim.

Neil Perry's quick fried eggs with spicy nahm jim dressing

Neil Perry

Hall of fame: Laksa King's seafood laksa.

Rockin' the suburbs: Melbourne's top 20 cheap eats for 2017

Jeremy Strode in 2013.

Industry legend and chef hero Jeremy Strode dies at 53

Facebook: Kath Milroy Pattingale

'Please be careful': mum's plea after toy choking incident

Gender equality is real on Australian Ninja Warrior.

8 reasons Australian Ninja Warrior is great for kids

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Surgeon finds 27 contact lenses in woman's eye

Delta Air Lines and Ann Coulter

'It cost me $10,000!': Commentator meltdown after airline moves her

Kelly Yamanouchi

Josh Avsec and Michelle Arendas will meet for the first time in Hawaii after their Tinder exchange went viral.

Tinder to fly strangers to Hawaii after hilarious messages go viral

Craig Webb

People partying

Eight ways your friends are lying about their holidays on social media

Ben Groundwater

The talkative Google Home smart benchtop speaker is launching in Australia this week.

Google Home launches down under this week

Village Roadshow is waging an ongoing war against piracy.

Village Roadshow backs anti-piracy tech

The upcoming Atari box is modeled on the iconic Atari VCS, complete with a wood grain front.

Atari shows off a brand new 'modern' games console

Wi-Fi

Thousands agree to clean toilets for Wi-Fi

The new Nintendo 2DS console

Nintendo's latest handheld is great value

A leaked image of the 2018 Buick Regal GS, which will share its V6 engine with the new Holden Commodore.

First look: 'Holden Commodore V6'

Stephen Ottley

2017 Kia Sorento GT-Line.

Revamped Kia Sorento reviewed

David McCowen

2017 Lexus RX200t F Sport.

Which is the best Lexus RX model?

Andrew MacLean

2017 Mazda CX-3 Akari.

What little SUV should I buy?

Cameron McGavin

2018 Maserati Levante S.

1500km in the new Levante petrol

Peter McKay

2017 BMW 520i.

BMW to offer new entry-level 520i

Dom Tripolone

Roger Federer tasted Wimbledon success at age 35, but can't yet match Serena Williams for longevity.

Comparing the careers of tennis greats by age

Conal Hanna

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 30: Cameron Munster of the Storm runs with the ball during the round 17 NRL match between the ...

Munster in World Cup calculations: Meninga

Roy Ward

Back in action: West Indies spinner Sunil Narine.

'Temporary amnesty': Top players set for West Indies return

Kristen Beams snares the wicket of India batsman Mithali Raj during the pool stage.

Fast bowling still the future: Beams

James Buckley

Roger Federer's night of celebration started at Wimbledon's winners dinner.

Celebrating eight leaves Federer with a sore head

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