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Edmunds abducted and murdered Abina Madill.

How to solve 1000s of crimes with a stroke of a pen

John Silvester

Marching orders: Rodney Eade was sacked as Gold Coast coach.

Eade says he wouldn't have taken Suns job had he known the truth

1 hr ago

Police close-down Orion Way in Roxburgh Park following the shooting.

Two men arrested over Roxburgh Park teen shooting

Tammy Mills
54 mins ago

Crown Resorts executive Jason O'Connor was released and deported on Saturday.

Crown exec released from Chinese jail

UPDATED

Taking time off when the children are little won't mean you have to wait ages for some long service leave.

Parents to benefit from 'fairer' long service leave laws

New Zealand foreign minister Gerry Brownlee

'Wrong answer': World leaders alarmed by fiery Trump

Keating's blunt warning as North Korean crisis escalates

EXCLUSIVE

Mother who accidentally suffocated her newborn sues hospital

Banker denies being jogger who pushed woman into bus

British backpacker charged with grooming 13-year-old girl for sex

'She has fire in her': Don't discount Bishop's leadership potential

COMMENT
Peter Hartcher

An image of Justine Damond at the memorial held for the slain Australian at the Lake Harriet Bandshell in Minneapolis.

'I should have been on a plane flying to a wedding – instead it's a funeral'

Justine Damond memorial
1 hr ago

Geelong battle Richmond in match of the day

Live

Alice Englert (left) and her mother, Jane Campion, built a special bond when Englert decided to embark on an acting ...

How Jane Campion turned her daughter into a monster

Australian born comedian and author based in the UK Clive James visiting Sydney to do some shows Ben Rushton/bgr ...

Clive James' new book is on his one great passion

This Frankston home sold for $728,000 in July.

Why people want to live at the end of the train line

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Dozens killed in Alexandria train crash

The Lobster Cave.

REVIEW

Lobster Cave review: Matthew Guy eats there - what's it like?

Matthew Guy during his hastily arranged press conference on Tuesday afternoon.

How much will Guy's lobster dinner end up costing him?

Why licking ice cream causes brain freeze

The real reason ice cream gives us brain freeze

DO NOT USE Huffpost

The best thing I have ever done was quitting alcohol

There will be delays on Spencer Street during more than a year of roadworks.

Road chaos as Spencer St sewer works begin

Kew bowls club collapses and the blame game begins

Panel beater rebelled and took over a business now worth $530 million

Elias Herodotou was jailed for 22 years.

Killer who stabbed man at Crown hotel finally named

Police at the scene on a farm in Bamawm, south of Echuca.

Man dead after bull attack in northern Victoria

Roxburgh Park man Anwar Teriaki.

One dead, two shot in bloody week for Melbourne gun crime epicentre

UPDATED

Driverless cars like this BMW will be among traffic on the Monash-CityLink-Tullamarine corridor from Friday.

Driverless vehicles technology to roll out on the Tulla

Thermomix kitchen machines are sold during in-home demonstrations.

Thermomix contractor loses legal fight

WA

Michael, John and Fadi Ibrahim with their mother.

Man who allegedly brought down house of Ibrahim

NSW
2 mins ago

Emergency services respond to a light plane crash at Caloundra Airport.

Two people trapped inside wreckage of plane

BREAKING

Papanui farm uses buses converted into mobile chicken coops to move the birds around their farm and produce 'open range' ...

The chicken farm where a dozen eggs cost $15

NSW

This Frankston home sold for $728,000 in July.

The end of the train line becomes hot property as house prices climb

Water Street, Levenham.

Magical home linked to Harry Potter and Shakespeare up for sale

Parkview Apartments at YarraBend 700 Heidelberg Road, Alphington.

Welcome to Melbourne's smart new inner-city suburb

Furniture is every bit as important outside the house as it is inside.

Your own Garden of Eden: An outdoor oasis sans neighbours

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JULY 27: Richie Strahan, the star of the new Channel 10 reality tv series The Bachelor poses for ...

Ex-Bachelor Richie to sell WA pad in rumoured Melbourne move

MONEY. First home buyers Behnam Borna and his wife Sara Sattarzadeh busy packing boxes getting ready to move house. Case ...

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MONEY. First home buyers Behnam Borna and his wife Sara Sattarzadeh busy packing boxes getting ready to move house. Case ...

Should you help your kids buy property? Only if they're good

Noel Whittaker

Flight crew assist a disabled person through an airport.

Why are 'disabled' passengers skipping the queues?

On the up: Richmond's season has been one of significant improvement.

Rise of the Tigers: How Richmond got back on track

Caroline Wilson

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Eye of the storm – again: Greater Western Sydney's Toby Greene.

'There will be hysteria about Toby': Giants stand by Greene

Andrew Wu

Marching orders: Rodney Eade was sacked as Gold Coast coach.

Eade: I wouldn't have taken job had I known truth

Daniel Cherny
1 hr ago

Dustin Martin and Patrick Dangerfield

AFL live: Saturday afternoon footy

Live
Ronny Lerner

Too strong: The Dogs were coming off a four-game winning streak but had not met an adversary as well credentialed as the ...

Giants thrash Bulldogs after powerful second half

Andrew Wu

Patrick Dangerfield and Dustin Martin will go head-to-head for the first time in 2017 at Simonds Stadium on Saturday.

Dusty v Danger: How do they compare in 2017?

Anthony Colangelo

There have been positives among young and senior players at Carlton.

Why it's been a nine-win season for Carlton

Daisy Pearce

Generation game: father-son draftees Callum Brown and Josh Daicos with their dads and Magpie legends Peter Daicos and ...

Magpies name Brown but Daicos misses AFL debut again

Anthony Colangelo

Jack Watts has been dropped for the Demons' crucial game against the Saints.

Demons drop Watts but Garlett to return from Perth to face Saints

Jon Pierik

Former prime minister Paul Keating.

Keating: North Korean regime depends on nuclear weapons

EXCLUSIVE
James Massola

Marriage survey could exclude 100,000 voters

Michael Koziol

'I've changed': Minister issues new apology over homophobic column

Nicole Hasham

Workers installed the first section of a 2.6m high security fence across the front lawns of Parliament House in Canberra ...

Security fence takes shape across Parliament House lawns

Tom McIlroy

A North Korean government photograph of what it says was the launch of a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile ...

Living in the shadow of 'fire and fury'

James Massola

Communications Minister Mitch Fifield.

Minister demands ABC explain Australian Story 'infomercial'

Matthew Knott

Labor frontbencher Shayne Neumann told the CCC he supported real-time donation disclosures for candidates

Labor MPs confront shadow minister in secret meeting

EXCLUSIVE

Democracy party member Howard Lam displays his wounds on his thigh from being stapled with crosses during a press ...

Hong Kong activist says Chinese agents stapled his legs

Nicolas Maduro, president of Venezuela, speaks at the National Assembly building in Caracas, Venezuela.

Donald Trump threatens Venezuela with 'military option'

James Oliphant

Two trains are seen after they collided just outside Alexandria.

Dozens killed as two trains collide in Egypt

A television screen shows US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Seoul.

US military is 'locked and loaded', Trump warns North Korea

John Wagner

Illustration: John Shakespeare

Why is Julie Bishop always left out of Liberal leadership race?

COMMENT
Peter Hartcher

Senator Mathias Cormann refused to comment on Commonwealth Bank's lax reporting of potential terrorism-related transactions.

When a politician's silence says as much as an outburst

Ebony Bennett

Lack of sleep impacts on mood.

Sleep health: are you getting enough?

COMMENT
Jenna Price

Illustration: Simon Bosch.

'It's two or three years of cock-ups': Has CBA run out of time?

Clancy Yeates

Wages squeeze: the national minimum was increased by 3.3 per cent this year.

The award for weak wages growth goes to ...

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

Crown Resorts executive Jason O'Connor was released and deported on Saturday.

Crown exec Jason O'Connor released from Chinese jail

UPDATED
Kirsty Needham

RBA governor Philip Lowe ripped into the banks for a short-term profit mindset.

Regulators put the boot into banks: trust deficit growing

COMMENT
Adele Ferguson

Son of retail doyen to take on UK homewares market

Carolyn Cummins

CommBank rules out lending to Adani's Carmichael coal mine

Peter Hannam

Pichai should resign as Google's CEO

COMMENT

Spruiker in hot water over 'buy a house for $1' scheme

Simon Johanson

Winemakers are ditching classic French grapes in favour of more daring varieties.

14 of the most delicious Australian wines you've never heard of

Fine Drinks

Minister for Tourism and Major Events, John Eren, announced that Victoria has exclusively secured the rights to host the ...

Is this classic car race doomed before it even begins?

Classic Cars

Many first home buyers will require family help, if available.

Should you help your kids buy property? Only if they're good

Noel Whittaker

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When income protection insurance is no longer worth it

Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon

Ray Malone turned AMA Group around after it came close to the brink.

Crash repair: How Ray Malone became head of ASX-listed company AMA Group

Cara Waters

There is occasional merit in letting staff go.

Losing great staff? Good riddance

COMMENT
James Adonis

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Murphy leads by example, goals from pocket

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Tim Minchin's plebiscite video goes viral

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Toby Greene fly kick set to create controversy

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Man rushes stage at Britney Spears show

A snowboarder coming down Thredbo in strong winds and heavy snow, on Sunday 6 August 2017. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

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New approaches for retaining millennial staff

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Alice Englert (left) and her mother, Jane Campion, built a special bond when Englert decided to embark on an acting ...

How Jane Campion turned her daughter into a monster

Andrew Taylor

Deborra-lee Furness and Simone Buchanan, who starred in <i>Shame</i>, which came out in 1988.

Rape-revenge tale Shame 'still so relevant': Deborra-lee Furness

Karl Quinn

Hell's Kitchen: Marco Pierre White.

Hell's Kitchen Australia crashes and burns

Michael Idato

Sally Alrich-Smythe, Jessica Westcott and Britt Lewis in rehearsals for the Chamber Pot Opera, held in a women's ...

'Embarrassing cultural irrelevance': Why opera must change

Joyce Morgan

Tim Minchin's has re-imagined Peter Allen's classic 'I Still Call Australia Home'.

Tim Minchin mocks 'homophobic' politicians

Broede Carmody

Paulini Curuenavuli will face bribery charges in Sydney next week.

Singer Paulini facing bribery charges

Eddie McGuire's return saw The Footy Show record its best ratings of the year.

Eddie McGuire's return sees The Footy Show crush competition

Broede Carmody

Britney Spears has earned over $US115 million from the Vegas residency.

'He's got a gun?' Man rushes stage at Britney Spears show

Rebecca Rubin

Tim Humphrey and Madeleine Flynn with one of their seesaws.

Seesaws that talk? Kid politicians? It's time for Melbourne Fringe

Hannah Francis

Elephant Man (The Age, Arts, August 11)

Malthouse's Elephant Man masterful, deeply moving ★★★★½

REVIEW
Cameron Woodhead

Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell in Yorgos Lanthimos' The Killing of a Sacred Deer.

Review: The Killing of a Sacred Deer is bleak but brilliant

MIFF 2017
Karl Quinn

Ahead of stomping the David Jones runway, Jesinta Franklin with her husband, Sydney Swans star, Lance "Buddy" Franklin.

Is Sydney Swans star Buddy Franklin destined for the runway?

The Goss
Amy Croffey

Kit X dress, $695.

Bridget Malcolm: I follow my gut, not trends

Georgie Gordon

There are far more pressing issues at stake than whether or not it's mean to use a certain term to describe brides.

No, feminists do not need to reclaim 'Bridezilla'

COMMENT
Clem Bastow

Returning to the water made exercise a joy.

How I went from hating exercise to loving it

Lisa Marie Basile

Model Gigi Hadid during Milan Fashion Week 2017.

Holey moly: why the ripped jeans trend is not okay

COMMENT
Melissa Singer

This year will be the last for the Bobby Goldsmith Bake Off fundraiser.

Australia's oldest HIV charity bake off prepares for last hurrah

Andrew Hornery

Television personality Lisa Wilkinson has spoken out about how one woman attempted to take her down during her career.

Who tried to take Lisa Wilkinson down?

Andrew Hornery

Meet the in-laws: Karl Stefanovic's girlfriend Jasmine Yarbrough (L) and Channel Nine's Sylvia Jeffreys (R), who is ...

Sylvia Jeffreys and Jasmine Yarbrough bury the hatchet

The Goss
Amy Croffey

The Lobster Cave.

Is Beaumaris' Lobster Cave worth the pinch?

Start with a plain croissant, still warm from the oven.

Skip the croissant queue at Lune

Lip-smacking beer braised rib wrapped in a soft flour tortilla.

Adam Liaw's winter tacos with beer-braised beef

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Is 'performance parenting' a thing?

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The truth about sharing photos of other people's kids on social media

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Firstborns are officially the worst drivers

Flight crew assist a disabled person through an airport.

Traveller letters: Why are 'disabled' passengers skipping the queues?

Out of the square: The d’Arenberg Cube in McLaren Vale.

Australia's coolest places to enjoy wine: The ultimate guide

Ben Groundwater

Woman showing their legs or arms will not be allowed to board Saudi Airlines flights.

Anger as airline refuses to fly women who show arms or legs

Soo Kim

Sony's giant A1 OLED rests on your television cabinet like a enormous Ultra HD picture frame.

Sony's entry into OLED TV race is a work of art

COMMENT

The Leica BLK360 can capture everything around it in 360 degrees and send it

Capturing reality with a tiny 3D scanner

Cynthia Karena

Battery-free phone

Phone breakthrough allows calls, texts with zero battery

Xbox One

Xbox One gets dash overhaul, again

Kotaku

Samus is better than ever in the new Metroid game.

An iconic, if overlooked, game franchise returns

Drive's David McCowen at the wheel of Volvo's XC90.

Why you soon won't be driving your car

David McCowen

Darren Levy is an Uber driver who films his trips for YouTube.

Confessions of an Uber driver

Alessandra Melville

2017 AMG Snow Experience.

This is the best driving course you can do

Stephen Ottley

Citroen ditch DS to focus on vans

Drive Staff

2017 Volvo XC90 Excellence.

Driven: Volvo's high-tech, high-riding limousine

Andrew Maclean

The ACCC is investigating growing complaints about the car industry.

Are you being ripped you off?

Stephen Ottley

Jason Day.

'I step up for the majors': Day in the mix at US PGA

Evin Priest

Australia's Sally Pearson produced a storming semi-final run.

Zippy Pearson fastest into hurdles final

Michael Gleeson

Overcoming the fear: Australia's Dani Stevens throws at the world championships in London.

Stevens overcomes fear factor to reach final

Michael Gleeson

Wallabies lock Adam Coleman.

Western Force to be cut from Super Rugby next season

Tom Decent

Michelle Payne, pictured last December.

'Sick' Payne walks out on function promoting race in England

Patrick Bartley

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