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Noelene Mayne is about to retire but has no idea how she will fund her retirement because her superannuation will not ...

'I will be stuffed': How super sells women short

EXCLUSIVE

Melbourne woman Sophie Dowsley, 34 remains missing, after her boyfriend Greg Tiffin, 44, was found dead.

Tragic twist as boyfriend of missing Melbourne woman is found dead

7 mins ago

AFL boss Gillon McLachlan.

The AFL scandal: Fact is, people's private lives are their own affair

EDITORIAL

Justine Damond called the police herself, concerned about a disturbance behind her house.

The transcript of Justine Damond's 911 call, made minutes before she died

Apple's top privacy executives have flown out to Australia twice in the past month.

Apple's big guns fly in to lobby Turnbull over controversial laws

Melbourne Express old square

Driver uses 'ghost car' trick to evade police... gets busted elsewhere

Live
46 mins ago

I was advised against the creation of new super-ministry: Abbott

Buck's party death: Police identify woman found dead in shower

Saudi heir held against his will until he gave up claim to the throne

Why things could get a lot worse for home owners

ANALYSIS

'In the dark': Riewoldt wants Saints' decision on his future now

EXCLUSIVE
Caroline Wilson

The discovery of this axe inside the Kakadu National Park has rewritten the history of Australia.

This world-first outback discovery will rewrite the history of Australia

Tony Wright

Close call: Mick Fanning.

'That shark is a beast': Mick Fanning pulled from water

Dairy farmer Jason Smith with Emma, his eight-month-old kelpie.

'People wouldn't shake his hand': The farmer wants a husband

Seeing green: Michael Matthews.

Australian now favourite to win Tour de France Green Jersey

1 hr ago

Singers Luis Fonsi, left and Daddy Yankee perform during the Latin Billboard Awards in Coral Gables, Fla.

Woman records husband's snores, creates 'Despacito' remix

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Tour de France crash catapults Aussie into green jersey

Delta Goodrem's Apple ad breaches community standards, the ASB has found.

Delta Goodrem's Apple ad banned by Standards Bureau

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'

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

The Greens are a mess - as is politics in general

The NHMRC has banned IVF clinics from offering gender selection.

Looking for an IVF clinic? The questions you need to ask

Two children were pricked by a syringe understood to have been found in the supermarket's deli section.

'Malicious': Two children pricked by syringe at supermarket

Mother sues after daughter 'finds mouse in SpongeBob biscuits'

Alleged suicide-pact man says he drowned partner in bath

Melbourne was saturated in rain on Wednesday morning.

Mysterious white flash lights up Melbourne sky

Angelo Gargasoulas (seen here in March) is the brother of accused Bourke Street killer Dimitrious Gargasoulas.

Brother of Bourke St accused in court over assault on woman

Businesses and residents near the Coolaroo blaze were evacuated as smoke enveloped Melbourne's north.

Residents join class action over Coolaroo recycling plant fire

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

'It's just about killed my marriage': How road fines take their toll

Sydney is forecast to reach 23 degrees next week.

Early burst of spring is coming to Sydney

NSW
51 mins ago

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them author J. K. Rowling.

JK Rowling book embargo breach cost man his job

QLD

Jessie Walton thought she was going to die after walking in circle.

Walking in circles: Lost WA mum feared for her life

WA

ACT teachers are paid about $1 million a year in compensation for physical and psychological injuries.

Almost 700 teachers assaulted in one year

ACT

The median house price in Melbourne has reached $865,000.

Melbourne property prices keep going up despite warnings

Rectory An artist's impression of what the 44-hectare park will look like. Image: Vogt
Farm.

Bold plans unveiled to use park to hide massive warehouse

The gospel according to Jay Rayner.

How good are your table manners? A guide to the dos and don'ts

The Reserve Bank has been positive on the economy and at the same time wary of the risks to financial stability posed by ...

Get ready for Australia's dark days of mortgage stress

ANALYSIS

Vacant blocks such as 54 Albany Road, Toorak, are often owned by the next door neighbour.

The trend emerging in Melbourne's most prestigious postcode

A motorbike rests on his bike as another passes him on a footpath in Jakarta on Tuesday.

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Motorcyclists, police and pedestrians share roads and footpaths in Jakarta, Indonesia

Jakarta's sidelined pedestrians are reclaiming the footpaths

Jewel Topsfield

Size 12 model Stefnia Ferrario. Lord Mayor Robert Doyle announced that Melbourne Spring Fashion Week has been rebranded ...

'Don't call me plus-size': Face of fashion week's body plea

Melissa Singer

We shouldn't let the government chip away at our rights, writes Elizabeth Duck-Chong.

Turnbull's attack on privacy matters to women like me

Elizabeth Duck-Chong

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St Kilda champion Nick Riewoldt.

Riewoldt wants Saints' decision on his future now

EXCLUSIVE
Caroline Wilson

Luke Hodge's final game may be on a Friday night.

Hodge's farewell looms as Friday night fixture

Sam McClure

Melbourne launces its reconciliation action plan.

Jurrah back for Demon action

Michael Gleeson

Cardinal George Pell.

Pell retains honorary role at Tigers

Jeff Garlett of Melbourne.

Garlett returns to WA to deal with death in family

Sam McClure

Jobe Watson has made leadership easier for Dyson Heppell at Essendon.

Irishman McKenna closing in on new contract with Bombers

UPDATED
Jon Pierik and Patrick Bartley

Patrick Dangerfield is rated a '40 per cent' chance to play against Adelaide.

Dangerfield a '40 per cent' chance to play against the Crows

UPDATED

Jack Viney at training this week.

Viney to step back quickly from foot injury

Michael Gleeson

The Fair Work Commission found the Public Service Act gave departments no general right to discipline their employees ...

Spies could gather intel on 'classes' of Australian citizens

David Wroe

'I will be stuffed': How super sells women short

EXCLUSIVE
Peter Martin, Matilda Boseley

Overseas born MPs insist they are clear to sit in Parliament

Former prime minister Tony Abbott is pushing for reform of the NSW Liberal Party.

Abbott calls on Turnbull to produce advice for super-ministry

Latika Bourke

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull with Alexander Downer, High Commissioner to London.

Alexander Downer joins UK think tank Policy Exchange

Latika Bourke

Apple's top privacy executives have flown out to Australia twice in the past month.

Apple flies out top execs to lobby on encryption laws

Grenfell Tower - this could happen here.

Thousands of Australian apartment blocks 'at risk of deadly fire

Eryk Bagshaw

Indonesian Muslims gather during a rally in Jakarta on Tuesday.

Indonesia bans Hizbut Tahrir to protect pluralism

Jewel Topsfield

Justine Damond called the police herself, concerned about a disturbance behind her house.

Minneapolis is not joining the dots on Damond's death

ANALYSIS
Paul McGeough

A motorbike rests on his bike as another passes him on a footpath in Jakarta on Tuesday.

Jakarta's sidelined pedestrians are reclaiming footpaths

Jewel Topsfield

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced Peter Dutton will become the Minister for Home Affairs.

UK Home Office a curious model for our super-ministry

ANALYSIS
Nick Miller

Acrid smoke shrouds the suburb of Dallas.

This fire is a reminder Melbourne is not as classless as we think

COMMENT
Matt Holden

Greens Leader Senator Richard Di Natale

Losing Ludlam and Waters no joke for Greens

COMMENT
Judith Ireland

"Now at age 50 I have the grand total of almost $27,000 in my super," wrote one of the respondents to the Per Capita ...

Flawed by design: why superannuation fails women

COMMENT
Peter Martin

Metcash CEO Ian Morrice intends to retire later this year after five years at the helm.

Supermarket CEO sells up to build his retirement home

CBD
Colin Kruger, CBD

Investors are playing it safe.

8@eight: ASX set for strong start

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Your thumbprint may become your new PIN

Clancy Yeates

Capital requirements are going up, but banks can get there without "big bang" capital raisings.

Banks throw a $14 billion party over new rules

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

Energy costs spark steel chief's bold 'battery' plan

Darren Gray

Shareholders won't pay for 'unquestionably strong' banks

Clancy Yeates

Focus shifts to BHP's cash pile after strong result

Darren Gray

Big bank relief rally drives ASX higher

Jens Meyer

If you're after one of the toughest workouts available - try ballet.

This 'high art' fitness trend is tougher than your hardest workout

Fitness
1 hr ago

Being serious about weightloss means make a commitment to get moving.

10 easy exercises to help you lose weight (and keep it off)

Boot Camp

Australian near the top in global rankings of retiree wellbeing

Australia near top in global retiree wellbeing

John Collett

Super funds added $140 billion to the national nest egg, with an average 10.4 per cent performance for balanced options.

Sharemarket rebound adds $140b to super funds

Caitlin Fitzsimmons

Jules Brooke sold her Victorian home to create her venture, Handle Your Own PR.

Meet the spin doctor digitising PR

Nina Hendy

Virtual fine dining restaurants are emerging.

Will technology kill fine dining?

COMMENT
Tony Featherstone

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Man removed from plane

Perth
1 hr ago

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Another shark scare rattles Fanning

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Two children pricked by hidden syringe

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Will biometrics replace passwords?

BUDAPEST, HUNGARY - JULY 17: Yukiko Inui of Japan competes during the Synchronised Swimming Solo Free, preliminary round ...

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The Batchelor Matty Johnson is in the mood for love.

Matty J is handsome, smart, funny; so why a TV Bachelor?

Christine Sams

Chris Evans was revealed to be the highest paid star at the BBC.

BBC pays top male star five times more than top woman

Foxtel was given $30 million over four years in this year's federal budget to promote underrepresented sports on television.

No documents: Foxtel's $30 mill government handout questioned

Broede Carmody

Sweet turns sour on MasterChef.

MasterChef's obsession with desserts is starting to curdle

COMMENT
Ben Pobjie

Tom Hardy as Spitfire pilot Farrier in Dunkirk.

Dunkirk is an assault on the senses (and Harry Styles fares OK)

Jake Wilson

Sunday Night has re-examined one of Australia's most baffling crimes, but the boss of arch-rival 60 Minutes isn't happy ...

60 Minutes boss lashes out at arch-rival Sunday Night

Broede Carmody

Delta Goodrem's Apple ad breaches community standards, the ASB has found.

Delta Goodrem's Apple ad banned by Standards Bureau

Rob Moran

Utopia

Politics is the television gift that keeps giving

COMMENT
Melinda Houston

K.D. Lang and her band were let down by poor sound.

Poor sound dampens a cracking first night of K.D. Lang tour

REVIEW
Hannah Francis

The director of the Melbourne Writers Festival, Lisa Dempster , at the State Library. 18 July 2017. The Age News. Photo: ...

Melbourne Writers Festival: Thinking for the dark times

Jason Steger

CDH entered his portrait of Stu, a 'street father' who?was displaced from Hosier Lane last year,into the 2017 Archibald ...

Street artists snub Hosier Lane over homeless eviction

Hannah Francis

When it comes to heterosexual dating, smart women could take a leaf out of our male counterparts' books, writes Kerri ...

Why I'm removing 'smart' from my dating checklist

Kerri Sackville

Kate Ritchie is the new face (and body) of Jockey.

Tim Worner scandal won't stop Kate Ritchie's Summer Bay return

Jenna Clarke

The new Doctor Who: Jodie Whittaker. Her announcement as the new Doctor was meant with outrage from some (mostly male) ...

Why UK tabloids ran those nude pics of Jodie Whittaker

Clementine Ford

There can be both healthy and unhealthy, ethical and unethical ways to eat different diets.

What the Health: The 'alternative facts' about veganism

Sarah Berry
2 mins ago

Zoe Foster Blake and her husband, Hamish Blake, last year.

Zoe Foster Blake and Hamish welcome baby girl

Jenna Clarke

Jennifer Hawkins is who Australian women relate to according to designer Alex Perry.

Jen Hawkins is more relatable than Karlie Kloss says Alex Perry

Jenna Clarke

Justine Damond, 40, was killed on Saturday.

We only met twice, but Justine Damond changed my life

Jacinta Tynan

Madonna performs during the Women's March on Washington, Saturday, January 21, 2017, in Washington.

Court stops auction of Madonna's Tupac break-up letter, underpants

Hall of fame: Laksa King's seafood laksa.

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

Mushroom and pea risotto.

35 not-boring rice recipes that will become go-to dishes

Steaks at Hawksmoor.

What makes the perfect steak?

Mum compares her mental load to her husband's

Could this be the baby clothing of the future?

Is this the baby clothing of the future?

1 hr ago

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I'm a dance mum... but thank goodness I'm not a horse mum

Flying rules were a little more relaxed in the 1980s, when comedy classic Flying High was released.

Smoking or non-smoking? What flying was really like in the '80s

St. Petersburg, FL, USA - April 6, 2016: The exterior of the Salvador Dali Museum viewed from Tampa Bay. The museum ...

Ten unpopular US cities with a single incredible attraction

David Whitley

Travel writer

'F*** off to Afghanistan': Why people hate travel writers so much

Ben Groundwater

Now you see it, now you don't. Robotic furniture transforms a room at the touch of a button.

Robotic room transforms itself

55 mins ago

Kef's Motion Ones are the best of the bunch.

Porsche delivers earbuds that actually sound good

COMMENT
59 mins ago

Designer Benjamin Geskin visualises the Galaxy Note 8 based on the latest leaks.

Is releasing a new Samsung Galaxy Note playing with fire?

Glass 2.0

The much-ridiculed Google Glass is back

Stairs proved to be the K5's nemesis.

How the security robot ended up in a fountain

2018 Holden Commodore VXR.

Holden Commodore VXR revealed

Stephen Ottley

2013 Renault Clio RS Cup Trophy.

The biggest issue with a used Renault Clio RS

David Morley

2018 Mercedes-Benz X-Class.

New Mercedes-Benz ute revealed

Drive Staff

Ferrari chief marketing and commercial officier Enrico Galliera

Meet Ferrari's Dr No

Tony Davis

2017 Holden Astra sedan.

Holden Astra sedan reviewed

Daniela Intili and David McCowen

Porsche may phase out diesel in favour of EV and hybrid models.

Porsche may ditch diesel

Reuters

Seeing green: Michael Matthews.

Australian Michael Matthews favourite to win green jersey

Rupert Guinness
1 hr ago

Close call: Mick Fanning.

Mick Fanning has another close call with shark

Mitchell Johnson was the chief destroyer last time England came to Australia.

Johnson says England will be scarred ahead of Ashes series

Tom Decent

NRL integrity unit investigators descended on the Manly Sea Eagles' head office.

NRL team descend on Manly HQ over alleged salary cap breaches

Kate McClymont

Andrew Bogut: Plans to push on to the Tokyo Olympics.

Bogut central to Boomers' Tokyo charge: Lemanis

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