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Philip Lowe said the RBA would be reluctant to cut rates, even if weak wage growth and weak inflation made it appear ...

Neither up nor down: No rate hike yet, says RBA chief

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Accused drugs mule Cassandra Sainsbury. Cassie Sainsbury.

Sainsbury reaches plea deal to avoid long jail sentence: report

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George Pell arrives at court.

George Pell to plead not guilty to historical sex charges

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The Easy Home tap, sold at Aldi in June this year.

Aldi releases results of test on kitchen tap after excess lead claims

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Nick Philippoussis at Wimbledon in 2003.

Child sex offences: Mark Philippoussis' father arrested

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It's likely that we will see a limit put on cash transactions at $10,000.

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New citizenship queries: Matt Canavan's mother 'at her wit's end'

Three men on run after escape from Beechworth prison

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No interest rate rise on the cards as inflation disappoints

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This is what happens when you take a 's---hole' and make it really nice

Cardinal George Pell with his lawyer Robert Richter QC, leave court amid chaotic scenes.

George Pell: Prince of the Catholic Church walks gauntlet at court

Tony Wright
1 hr ago

Australians hate tipping.

Eleven foreign customs Australians will never understand

1 hr ago

Outgoing Collingwood Magpies AFL CEO Gary Pert (L) arrives to announce his resignation alongside President Eddie McGuire.

'The greatest example of spin that I've seen for some time'

Land and Property Information at times requires sensitive data, such as a marriage certificate when changing a name on a ...

How to know when it's time to call quits on your marriage

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Cancer-stricken McCain returns to US Senate standing ovation

Diana Chan celebrates her victory during the 2017 MasterChef Australia grand final.

Top corruption lawyer's Masterchef verdict boilover

Jimmy Choo shoes.

American designer to buy Jimmy Choo for $1.5 billion

Football

Doctors dissect American footballers brains, find 99% are damaged

Images like these showing torsos without heads, and rolls of body fat, are discouraged by the World Obesity Federation ...

What happens to fat when you lose weight?

Fiona* is speaking out about older teachers being pushed out of schools

'I'm traumatised': How experienced teachers are being squeezed out

Asbestos dispute escalates over $2 billion Alphington 'Tesla town'

Woman's body discovered in Richmond: 75-year-old arrested

The 77-year-old will face court after allegedly breaking into a number of homes in Sydney's south.

'Hostage situation': Incident in Melbourne's south-east resolved

UPDATED
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Joel Morrison outside the Magistrate's court for an earlier hearing.

'Vile' man who urinated on woman at Spiderbait gig convicted

Crown Casino is preparing to sack its workforce of poker-machine technicians next week to outsource work to a company ...

Unions target Crown's 'high-rollers' in casino jobs feud

During the getaway, he lost all but three of the chips.

'Opportunist' sentenced for stealing Crown casino chips

The 77-year-old will face court after allegedly breaking into a number of homes in Sydney's south.

Man, 77, charged over a string of Sydney burglaries

NSW

Daniel, Brooke and Harley Walker are mourning the death of Willow Walker.

Tributes for 'little angel' who drowned in tank

QLD

The south-west is bracing for wild weather.

Severe weather: ACT braces for damaging winds

UPDATED

Lara is just 13-years-old.

Mum's anger after vicious schoolgirl fight goes viral

WA

Wattle Glen: It's not all big houses on big blocks, but Clarke Avenue certainly has plenty of them.

This sleepy suburb's a prime spot for hipsters and treechangers

Angus O'Callaghan, Milk Bar, cnr Roseberrry Street and Nepean Highway, 1969

The shops that are becoming harder to find in our big cities

Artist Kimmi Lee in her Burwood home.

The artist who lives in Bert and Patti Newton's old home

It's likely that we will see a limit put on cash transactions at $10,000.

Splashing cash: Why it's key to saving for a home deposit

When census came knocking, more than one in 10 homes was empty.

The real reason one million homes were 'empty' on census night

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Too 'busy' for time out to reflect? Stop making excuses

Shevonne Hunt

Sorbet generic from Fairfax archive.

Court pours cold water on Aldi's 'Champagne' sorbet

Caitlin Dewey

Benison O'Reilly, medical writer and mother who sent her autistic son Sam to Africa.

How giving my autistic son a 'loving push' paid off

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Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce addresses the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra on ...

Joyce defends 'exemplary' Canavan amid new citizenship questions

Stephanie Peatling

A major blow for Coalition but where will this fiasco end?

ANALYSIS
Mark Kenny

UN says immigration officials screened refugees for reunions

David Wroe

Senator Matt Canavan said his mother had raised with him last week the possibility he was a dual citizen.

Resources Minister resigns from cabinet over citizenship fiasco

UK Defence Secretary Michael Fallon. For story by Latika Bourke. 21st July 2017. Photo:?Liliana Zaharia

UK dangles arms offer to build Australia's new warships

EXCLUSIVE

Prime Minister Tony Abbott held a late night press conference at 9.48pm following the coalition party room meeting on ...

Tony Abbott's late-night words may come back to haunt him

Professor Allan Fels, Chair of the National Mental Health Commission, addresses the National Press Club of Australia in ...

'More people need to get in': Call for radical rethink of mental illness

Former Thailand's Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra talks to reporters on the last day of a hearing in Bangkok Thailand.

Yingluck Shinawatra, Thailand's first female PM, faces financial ruin

Lindsay Murdoch
1 hr ago

Shocked children leave Manchester Arena after the terror attack in May.

Terrorists 'may target children and hospitals' say experts

Nick Miller

Accused drugs mule Cassandra Sainsbury. Cassie Sainsbury.

Australian in plea bargain for drug smuggling: report

1 hr ago

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, second from right, inspects the preparation of the launch of a Hwasong-14 ...

North Korea could cross ICBM threshold next year, US officials warn

Illustration: Andrew Dyson.

The biggest scam there is ... and why we fall for it

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

There is much we don't know about water taken from the Murray-Darling Basin's rivers.

This is exactly how to kill a river system

COMMENT
Richard Kingsford

Meet Patty double standard burger Images from Meet Patty burgers for top 20 Melbourne cheap eats feature for Good Food ...

Why you eat like your colleagues

COMMENT
Caitlin Fitzsimmons

Philip Lowe said the RBA would be reluctant to cut rates, even if weak wage growth and weak inflation made it appear ...

Neither up nor down: No rate hike yet, says RBA chief

Peter Martin
1 hr ago

The ASX is set for a solid session of gains.

Markets Live: Aussie slides on inflation miss

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Plucking the goose so as to obtain the most feathers with the least hissing: Hitting buyers of new housing and leaving ...

Plucking the goose: Existing home owners get a free ride, again

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe
1 hr ago

Treasurer Scott Morrison launched the PaTH scheme

The government's intern plan is just a pathway to poverty

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ACCC sues Ford after it claimed faults were caused by drivers

Lucy Cormack
50 mins ago

No rate rise on the cards as inflation rate disappoints

Peter Martin
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Sarah Frier

180 jobs lost as Rowsthorn's salvaged business collapses

EXCLUSIVE
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Anti-fragrances go against everything you thought you knew about colognes.

15 of the weirdest, and best, smelling fragrances for men

Grooming

The airline joins a number of companies collaborating with designer labels.

Qantas reveals bold new designer look for business class

High Flyer

The Australian dollar is riding high against the US dollar.

Windfall for travellers to US who lock-in their money now

John Collett

More than 40 per cent of assets under management is invested through some form of responsible investment strategy

Ethical investing moves further into the mainstream

John Collett

Online Liquor Group and Cracka Wines founder Dean Taylor is turning to crowdfunding to expand into Asia.

Crowdfunding helps winepreneurs crack Asia

Christine D'Mello

Armed and masked special forces troops at the announcement of the government's new policies on military involvement in ...

Are you ready for a terrorist attack?

COMMENT
Alexandra Cain

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ACCC launches action against Ford

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June CPI lower than expected

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Matt Groening announces new show

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The musical life of Dr G Yunupingu

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Tributes flow for 'once in a life' artist G Yunupingu

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Ashlin Herbert, who recorded the fastest time in the heats, failed to complete all eight obstacles under the strict time ...

Viewers rage after Ninja Warrior fails to crown winner

Rob Moran

Simpsons creator Matt Groening in animated form.

Simpsons creator working on a new show for Netflix

Andrew R. Chow

Portrait of Aboriginal Singer/Songwriter, Gurrumul Yunupingu. picture Justin McManus.

Indigenous musician G Yunupingu dies aged 46

Latika Bourke and Josephine Tovey

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Dead stuntman's brief Ninja Warrior appearance

Broede Carmody

Nymeria and Arya Stark

Is this Arya reunion just a Game of Thrones tease?

SPOILERS
Aja Styles

Michael James Scott took out the gong for best supporting actor in a musical for his role as the Genie in Aladdin.

Bizarre cultural cringe? Musicals in Australia are in pretty dire state

COMMENT
Nathanael Cooper

Karl Stefanovic and Lisa Wilkinson claimed a victory of sorts in 2016 - but could soon find themselves beaten by ...

Today on cusp of losing ratings battle to Sunrise

Michael Lallo

Melbourne Festival artistic director Jonathan Holloway at the Forum Theatre.

'Big picture' Melbourne Festival 2017 program one for the ages

Hannah Francis

Kate Cole plays English neuropsychologist Martha in Incognito.

Incognito: Grand questions swirl in acting masterclass

REVIEW

Indigenous Australian actress, director and writer Leah Purcell.

Kosky's Saul and Belvoir's Drover's Wife clean up at Helpmanns

Hannah Francis

More than half of Australian adults do not eat the recommended two serves of fruit, and 92 per cent do not eat the ...

The three major lifestyle factors linked with a healthier, longer life

Sarah Berry

Where do we find time to reflect, before the world wakes up and starts with all its noise and chaos?

It's easy to say we're too busy to slow down. But we need to.

Shevonne Hunt

The set-up costs of Peter Dutton's new super ministry will not be small.

Where is our Home Office for domestic violence?

COMMENT
Jane Gilmore

Lifestyle factors are the likely cause of men's declining sperm counts.

'Not a crisis yet' - the fertility statistics men can't ignore

Sarah Berry
1 hr ago

Sure the non-stretch Reformation Zipper Jeans Reformation is signifcantly cheaper than the Vetements x Levi ...

Here's hoping these bizarre jeans don't become a trend

Regina George

I feel personally victimised by the return of low-rise jeans

COMMENT
Jenna Clarke

Chrissy Teigen has finally been blocked by President Trump.

'No one likes you' - the insult that got Teigen blocked by Trump

Caitlin Gibson

Chanel Iman, Michael Kors, and Heidi Klum at the Annual amfAR Inspiration Gala at The Museum of Modern Art in 2011.

Michael Kors to buy Jimmy Choo for $1.5 billion

Jenna Clarke

Victor's Ochazuke.

Top chefs' everyday go-to recipes

Expanding: Hana Assafiri is opening a lunch-only taginerie.

Taginerie opens behind Moroccan Deli-cacy

Thin and crispy choc-chip bikkies.

Thin and crispy or chunky and chewy? 18 of our best ever chocolate cookie recipes

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New guidelines for breast pump hygiene after baby suffers brain damage

Clay Travis with his three sons.

Family kicked off flight because six-year-old had head lice

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Smarter people are more likely to fail their driving test first go

Australians hate tipping.

Eleven foreign customs Australians will never understand

Ben Groundwater
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Il Monastero, Ischia, Italy: This boutique hotel, housed in an erstwhile 16th-century convent postures dramatically on ...

Photos: Twenty-five bargain hotels in spectacular locations

1 hr ago

The Liver building next to the Port Authority and the Cunard Building on Pier Head, Liverpool.

How a tiny island nation become the biggest empire in the world

Steve McKenna

Snopes.com is asking readers to donate money to keep the lights on.

Is Snopes.com in danger of closing down?

An image from Nintendo's recent patent.

What games would be on a Nintendo 64 Mini?

COMMENT
34 mins ago

Paint's time as a default Windows Tool is up, but it will still be around if you need it.

MS Paint lives: old app gets a new home after online backlash

Movies

Best free sites to stream or download movies

Lifehacker

Google WiFi gives your home a wireless overhaul to fix coverage blackspots.

Google WiFi is a great router, with a catch

COMMENT

BMW reveals pricing for more powerful M4

Dom Tripolone

Honda assures customers replacement airbags are safe

Andrew Maclean

How to turn an F1 engine into a road car powerplant

Stephen Ottley

New high-performance Jaguar XJ revealed

Dom Tripolone

Great Wall is developing a tougher ute than the Steed

Great Wall to build Ranger Wildtrak rival

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2017 Suzuki Swift Sport.

New Suzuki Swift Sport revealed

Stephen Ottley

Outgoing Collingwood Magpies AFL CEO Gary Pert (L) arrives to announce his resignation alongside President Eddie McGuire.

'The greatest example of spin that I've seen for some time'

Sydney captain Josh Kennedy reaches the 200-game milestone on Friday night.

Kennedy doubted his leadership after horror start

1 hr ago

Bulldogs skipper Bob Murphy believes the season is too long.

AFL season and pre-season are too long: Murphy

Patrick Bartley

The price is rising: Dustin Martin has been offered $6 million by the Tigers.

Revised offer: Martin to be Tigers' $6 million man

Jon Pierik

Griffin Logue played his best game to date for the Dockers last week.

Dockers rookie learns from Riewoldt trickery

Tom Hawkins' scoring accuracy has dropped significantly.

Is Hawkins' form a concern for Cats?

ANALYSIS
Jon Pierik

Swans coach John Longmire with Tom Harley, who will become the club's CEO at the end of next year.

Harley the man as Swans announce CEO succession plan

Daniel Cherny

Mark Blicavs of the Cats

Cats utility Blicavs may be out until AFL finals

Michael Gleeson

Golfer Jarrod Lyle hugs his wife Briony, after playing the Australian Masters in 2013, his return to golf after beating ...

'Will give it a smashing': Lyle facing a third battle with cancer

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Brain injury: NFL linebacker Junior Seau, whose May 2012 death was ruled a suicide, was found to have had the brain ...

Brains of 111 NFL players were examined, 110 had this disease

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Australian cricket players and administrators are unable to nail a pay deal.

Cricket pay war: don't call them stupid

Greg Baum

James Troisi celebrates after his goal against Chile in the Confederations Cup.

Melbourne City set to sign Socceroo marquee

Dominic Bossi

A number of state league clubs or consortiums have expressed interest in joining the A-League in the past 12 months.

A-League hopefuls to wait on expansion

1 hr ago

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