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The question facing the Prime Minister is whether he will try to control the debate, or risk events running on without him.

PM calls emergency meeting over fiery same-sex concern

BREAKING
Michael Koziol
14 mins ago

cba

'Serious, systemic': CBA faces money laundering claims

UPDATED
Clancy Yeates
59 mins ago

Veteran journalist Laurie Oakes pressed the Prime Minister on potential future military action with the US.

'It's time': Veteran journalist Laurie Oakes calls it quits

18 mins ago

Police at the scene of a terror raid in Surry Hills. July 29, 2017. Photo: Brook Mitchell

'Substantial' evidence leads to charges over Sydney terrorist plot

Ava Benny-Morrison
1 hr ago

A Canberra woman has settled a lawsuit against the Canberra Hospital, a general practitioner and a neurologist for $12 ...

Spike in Sydney gastro cases prompts warning from NSW Health

Kate Aubusson
1 hr ago

Australia was knock out in the semi-finals of the Asean tournament.

Australian players sent home from Thailand for alleged shoplifting

1 hr ago

'Kick in the teeth': Final insult came after being defrauded for thousands

Lucy Cormack

Just after 8am Joe Tripodi set off on a most unusual road trip

Kate McClymont

New housing policy skewers expats to put 'Australians first'

Michael Pascoe

'Just the start': Amazon to create 'hundreds of jobs' in Australia

Three former NSW ministers found corrupt: ICAC

UPDATED
Michaela Whitbourn

Done deal: Cricket Australia chief James Sutherland.

Cricket Australia and players sign peace deal to end pay war

BREAKING
Chris Barrett
44 mins ago

It was an unhappy night for Kyrgios.

Nick Kyrgios booed off court on return to circuit

5 mins ago

Justin Bieber

'I'm sorry': Is Bieber's career break to start his own church?

People walk past a small plane resting on the beach at Sao Joao beach at Caparica in Portugal.

Light plane makes emergency landing on beach, kills sunbathers

Liquids are allowed on domestic flights, but not on international ones.

Why we ban liquids on overseas flights but not domestic ones

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Body cam shows suspected drug planting by US police

A doff of the hat and Prince Philip was off into retirement.

Prince Philip doffs his hat and heads off into retirement

Matty J goes in for the kiss with The Bachelor hopeful Laura.

Artistic licence taken over Matty J's 'first Bachelor kiss'

FILE - In this Saturday, June 6, 2015 file photo, Barcelona's Neymar celebrates with the trophy after the Champions ...

Football's $330m man: Neymar set to transfer in world record deal

Neely and Andrew Moldovan, shown on their wedding day, may have to pay their photographer $US1 million after a dispute ...

From $150 to $1m: Couple in wedding photography nightmare

Privacy and comfort are some of the reasons why Toni Purnell, who has two teenage sons, prefers her car to public transport.

'I can't do those things on a bus': Why many Sydneysiders prefer cars

Andrew Taylor

Fruiterer sentenced to jail for running Sydney cocaine syndicate

Ava Benny-Morrison

Australia urgently needs more climate scientists: report

Peter Hannam

Adrian Attwater at the Supreme Court.

'Look pretty rough': Mother and alleged killers 'spotted in car'

Springvale mine worker John Tilley - uncertainty returns to future of coal mine.

Court rules against coal mine in Sydney water catchment area

Investigations into the alleged plot are ongoing.

Man freed over alleged plane bomb plot felt like he was 'in a movie'

UPDATED

Disgraced former politician Eddie Obeid. Operation Credo probed the connections between members of Obeid's family and ...

Years after explosive inquiry toppled premier, report made public

Inflation nightclub owner Martha Tsamis.

Nightclub boss slams 'campaign' against cop partner

VIC
1 hr ago

The crash scene in Clyde North

Two flown to hospital after plane crashes in Clyde

Ashleigh Watterson leaving the Brisbane Supreme Court after she was convicted of assaulting her baby daughter.

Mother avoids jail for assault on her 'defenceless' baby

QLD

A composite of the man wanted for chasing after the woman on Saturday afternoon.

Man chases jogger while committing an 'indecent act

WA

Investors would face more difficult circumstances in a declining economy than home owners, Moodys' Investors Service warns.

Economic slump a bigger threat to investors than owners

1 hr ago

From small tiles to full-sized tables, ChopValue creates furniture out of recycled bamboo chopsticks.

Oh snap! The company putting used chopsticks to good use

Civic Video in Bondi Beach in Sydney, is one of a handful in the city that is still open.

How the last video stores are surviving in the age of Netflix

Photo: Houzz

Yes, there is a perfect colour for each room of your home

Interiors by Sarah Elshaug, Maitland Street Interiors: Well-utilised space is an asset and makes your property appear ...

Expert advice: How to add value to your home without renovating

Jessica Sheehan waits for her treatment at the Clinical Trial Centre.

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Jessica Sheehan waits for her treatment at the Clinical Trial Centre.

Trial gives hope for teen with 'childhood Alzheimer's'

Aisha Dow

Rewi Waetford in front of his tent at the safe space for homeless in Martin Place, where a self-determined community is ...

Why the Martin Place tent city is offensive

COMMENT
Ann Deslandes

Critics have argued Barnaby Joyce should be relieved of the water resources portfolio.

Murray-Darling scandal must not flow to disaster

Editorial

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Malcolm Turnbull has called an emergency party room meeting to debate same-sex marriage.

Turnbull calls emergency Liberal meeting to debate marriage laws

BREAKING
Michael Koziol
14 mins ago

A trick as old as it is transparent: when in trouble, blame the media

COMMENT
Matthew Knott
51 mins ago

The Labor MPs who could blow up same-sex marriage

Michael Koziol
1 hr ago

Federal MP Warren Entsch: "The Prime Minister has not called me. Not at all. His office hasn't called up."

'All I'm asking for is to have a bloody vote': furious Liberal MP

One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts is refusing to release documents about his citizenship status.

Citizenship issue is a can of worms, but it has to be opened

COMMENT
Judith Ireland

The former operator of Sunshine Fruit Market has copped a record fine for underpaying a newly arrived refugee.

'Outrageous': Record fine for shocking refugee exploitation

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull with Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce, Minister Christopher Pyne and Treasurer Scott ...

Malcolm Turnbull eyes a near-death experience

ANALYSIS
Mark Kenny

Nurse Tammy Davis-Charles after her arrest last year.

Australian nurse jailed for 18 months in Cambodia

UPDATED
Craig Skehan

Tennessee bride charged after pulling pistol on new husband

1 hr ago

This sequence of images shows the development of embryos after the co-injection of a gene-correcting enzyme and sperm ...

Human embryo edited to correct gene for heart condition

Brazil's Former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, right, attends, next to ousted President Dilma Rousseff, the ...

Brazilian President avoids prosecution for corruption

Illustration: Andrew Dyson

A few egos ignore significant issues of the majority

John Hewson
1 hr ago

Labor senator Sam Dastyari is calling for a ban on political donations.

Why ICAC shows it is time to act on political donation reform

COMMENT
Sean Nicholls
1 hr ago

Men's incomes are trending down, while women's are trending upwards.

Why we're suddenly concerned about inequality

COMMENT
Peter Martin

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is a man with a plan.

Tesla is burning through cash, and (some) investors love it

COMMENT
John McDuling

Shares are set for a cautiously upbeat start.

Markets Live: Rio's bumper payout falls flat

Live
Patrick Commins and Jens Meyer

cba

'Serious and systemic': CBA faces money laundering claims

UPDATED
Clancy Yeates
59 mins ago

Jobseekers

'Just the start': Amazon to create 'hundreds of jobs' in Australia

Put economy ahead of climate deal, Glencore tells Australia

29 mins ago

Why contrarians bet on some of the ASX's most battered stocks

Suncorp lifts payout to investors, confident in outlook

Clancy Yeates

Webjet spends up to be world's No.2 travel wholesaler

Patrick Hatch

Unfortunately, you may have to regift all those flutes.

Sorry, but you've been drinking champagne wrong all this time

Fine Drinks
Liam Mannix
1 hr ago

Mick Fanning is taking a more relaxed approach to both surfing and life.

Surf, beers, luxury cars: Inside the dream life of Mick Fanning

Culture

Severe mortgage stress is only a few interest rate rises away.

Mortgage warning: 8 per cent is the new 17 per cent

Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon

Reserve Bank of Australia governor Philip Lowe. The RBA should focus solely on its regulatory responsibilities.

What the Reserve Bank and US Fed need to do (no, really)

Scott Phillips

Purely Polished provides mobile manicures and pedicures in the workplace.

The businesses ensuring you never need to leave your desk

Elissa Doherty

Security checks need to be managed better and it's clear that not enough organisations have adjusted quickly enough to ...

Will you pay more for extra safety measures?

COMMENT
Tony Featherstone

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Teen opens emergency plane exit and jumps

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Sydney house fire causes peak hour chaos

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Portugal: Plane kills sunbathers in emergency landing

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Prince Philip makes final solo engagement

In this Friday, July 28, 2017, photo, George the bulldog rides a skateboard up the side of the bowl at Strawberry Hill ...

World of Photos - August 3, 2017

twin peaks stan july

It is happening again. The new Twin Peaks is now streaming. Only on Stan.

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Gather the congregation for the brand new season of Preacher - now streaming only on Stan.

New approaches for retaining millennial staff

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How to create a better customer checkout experience

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Ten activities to aid toddler development

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Canberra-based Nine Network political editor Laurie Oakes has announced his retirement.

'An absolute giant': Laurie Oakes announces retirement

Broede Carmody
18 mins ago

Bachelorette Leah with one of the captured piglets.

RSPCA investigating controversial Bachelor scene

Rob Moran
1 hr ago

Justin Bieber has confirmed he is taking a career break because he wants his "mind, heart and soul to be sustainable".

Justin Bieber confirms career break

Broede Carmody

Daniel Radcliffe as Yossi Ghinsberg

'I would've eaten human flesh' says man played by Radcliffe

Karl Quinn

The touching short film has drawn countless tributes online.

Touching short film about same-sex crush goes viral

Rob Moran

Marco Pierre White heads up Seven's new cooking show, <i>Hell's Kitchen</i>.

Marco Pierre White brings the heat on Hell's Kitchen

Rob Moran

Adelaide superstar Sia is swapping chandeliers for Christmas trees with an album of original holiday songs.

Sia to spread festive cheer with Christmas album

Danielle McGrane

Matty J goes in for the kiss with The Bachelor hopeful Laura.

Bachelor Matty J scores first kiss despite 'offensive' clanger

Christine Sams

The mature blackbutt tree has been suspended horizontally 10 metres off the ground of a CBD laneway.

Is it a bird? A plane?No, it's a tree flying over a city street

Linda Morris

Chryssy Tintner with dancers rehearsing for a performance of <I>The Seven Deadly Sins</I>.

Giving a voice to the silenced and persecuted

Peter Munro

Ellen Kirkwood rehearses the sax section of the Sirens big band.

Sisters do it for themselves in bid to tackle gender bias

John Shand

Outspoken white upper-middle-class male Peter Chudd.

We've got to fix feminism so it appeals more to blokes like me

Peter Chudd*
34 mins ago

Zoe Foster Blake (@zotheysay on the Snaps), shared this adorable throwback picture, demonstrating once and for all that ...

Try picking the famous Aussie this cutie grew up to be

Retro fun

Tony Abbott's claims that marriage is about "protecting women and children" are a gross rewriting of history.

Marriage equality opponents need to stop rewriting history

COMMENT
Jenny Noyes
1 hr ago

A 'switch' in our brain has been found to determine what the body does with energy from food.

'Switch' in brain decides whether we burn or store fat

Sarah Berry

American Apparel ad.

This creepy Ex-CEO who wants a second chance

COMMENT
Neha Kale

The universe has been telling me to kick my dry cleaning habit for years

The hidden dangers of dry cleaning your clothes

Clare Press

Where to shop Zoe Foster Blake's first fashion collab

Nicole Economos
1 hr ago

Australia has largely moved beyond acceptance of extremely objectifying ads for products with no inherent connection with sex

Why Australia should follow the UK's advertising standards

Michelle Smith

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8 reasons I hate indoor play centres

Photo: shutterstock

Paying $2.50 for a babycino? This is why...

Recall: Next Navy Strap Brogue Shoe

Children's shoes found to contain cancer-causing chemical

Liquids are allowed on domestic flights, but not on international ones.

Why we ban liquids on overseas flights but not domestic ones

Michael Gebicki

075998 Picture : www.my-tropical-islands.com Tropical Island Resort, south of Berlin, Germany

These 13 amazing attractions are in locations you'd never expect

Brian Johnston

The Bus:Stop project of Krumbach, Vorarlberg, Austria, has some works that resemble sculptures.

Tiny Austrian village creates world's coolest bus stops

Craig Platt
1 hr ago

Love your leftovers: Dan Lepard's pepperpot pork pies.

30 hearty winter pie recipes to warm you from the inside out

1 hr ago

From left: Fourme d'Ambert blue-veined French cheese, Old Winchester firm pasteurized cheese, Picodon goat's milk cheese ...

What's your No.1 cheese? Top global chefs share their favourite

Stir-fried beef with zucchini.

Speedy stir-fried beef and zucchini

Neil Perry

There's a lot more to do with a fancy UHD TV in South Korea than there is in Australia.

Why South Korea is an Ultra HD wonderland

Sony X93E

Review: Sony TV proves LCD has a place in 2017

NBN Co says it is working with Telstra and Optus to prevent customers being cut off.

ACMA, ACCC shift responsibility on Australians in NBN limbo

Google's software understands conversational English far better than its competitors.

Google Home: novelty or long-term assistant?

COMMENT

The friendly check-in staff at Tokyo's Henn Na Hotel.

Japan's robot-run hotel is still incredibly buggy

Toyota continues to dominate the new car market.

Oz's best selling cars revealed

Dom Tripolone

Holden was found to have likely contravened consumer law in a number of ways.

Holden's new 60 day refund and return policy

David McCowen

2018 Hyundai Santa Fe.

2018 Hyundai Santa Fe revealed

Drive Staff

2017 BMW 530e.

BMW's new fuel-sipping 5-Series reviewed

Andrew Maclean

2018 Aston Martin Vantage prototype

All-new Aston Martin Vantage revealed

Andrew Maclean

2017 Holden Astra LTZ sedan.

Quick spin: Holden Astra LTZ sedan

Stephen Ottley

Done deal: Cricket Australia chief James Sutherland.

Cricket Australia and players sign peace deal to end pay war

BREAKING
Chris Barrett
44 mins ago

In demand: Ash Taylor.

Star's next contract could turn Titans into Broncos feeder club

Phil Lutton

Australia was knock out in the semi-finals of the Asean tournament.

Two Joeys sent home from tournament in Thailand for alleged shoplifting

Dominic Bossi
1 hr ago

Nick Kyrgios has retired injured on his return to the ATP Tour.

Nick Kyrgios booed off court as he retires hurt on return to circuit

5 mins ago

FILE - In this Saturday, June 6, 2015 file photo, Barcelona's Neymar celebrates with the trophy after the Champions ...

The $330 million man: Neymar set to move to PSG

Rory Smith

Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy lines up a putt on the 14th green during the final round of the British Open Golf ...

Why Rory McIlroy sacked his caddie

Tim Cahill could be the last stop for marquees arriving in the A-League.

FFA set to cut A-League marquee player fund

Dominic Bossi

Acting skipper: Matt Simon had the armband for the night, and was on the scoresheet.

Sydney make FFA Cup history, Mariners in shock loss

Emma Kemp

Under pressure: Des hasler

Des Hasler has five games to save his job at the Bulldogs

Andrew Webster

Manly prop Brenton Lawrence has signed with the Gold Coast.

Titans sign Manly prop, Dragons chase Blair

Adrian Proszenko

Good bloke: Laurie Daley acheived far more as a player than he has managed as a coach.

Why NSW can't bring themselves to dump Daley ... but should

Peter FitzSimons
Peter FitzSimons

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