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Experts fear how indebted households will manage economic shocks.

Aussies on verge of mortgage crisis as 'perfect storm' hits

The Meatball & Wine Bar in Richmond.

Underpayment claims hit Meatball & Wine Bar chain

EXCLUSIVE

"We stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the United States," Malcolm Turnbull said in a statement.

Turnbull deplores 'disrespectful' same-sex marriage debate

1 min ago

Police at the scene.

Police probe deaths of man and woman in luxury Kew home

1 hr ago

Shorten compared repeated questions over his citizenship status to the Obama birth certificate conspiracy.

Shorten emerges unscathed from solo grilling on Q&A

Trent Hodkinson, of the Newcastle Knights, takes terminally ill schoolgirl Hannah Rye to her school formal.

After school formal wish came true, terminally ill teenager Hannah dies

Yes, Trump did just stare straight at a solar eclipse without glasses

1 hr ago

Boon for shareholders as BHP triples dividend amid big profit surge

1 hr ago

Man wanted over Barcelona terror attack shot dead

The Australian Sex Party to change its name to the Reason Party

1 hr ago

Why this brick house in Hawthorn sold for $1 million above its reserve

Swedish journalist Kim Wall, who has been missing since August 11.

Missing journalist mystery takes dark turn as headless torso is found in Baltic Sea

49 mins ago

Crown Prince Frederik was in Queensland for a regatta but Princess Mary reportedly did not make the trip.

A prince walked into a Brissie bar ... oh wait, they didn't let him in

Champion mare Winx is seen in a stable ahead of competing in a barrier trial at Randwick on Tuesday, August 8.

Winx is getting a 'magic blanket' because she's too slow to start

Ukraine's Alexandr Dolgopolov.

Alexandr Dolgopolov's defeat triggers match-fixing inquiry

1 hr ago

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Vegetarian recipes even meat eaters will love

Trump fails to use eclipse glasses

Trump watches eclipse without safety glasses

Engaged: tennis star Serena Williams.

Serena misquoted about her main rival - and fans aren't happy

Loneliness in bouts is essential for me. It sucks me under, for a while, but then I reach this point where I feel clear ...

The incredible danger of loneliness

A plate of delicious plain nacho corn chips with cheese sauce.

How to make three-ingredient cheese sauce. You know you want to...

Russell Smith said anyone can learn to taste cheese like a pro.

We shouldn't shy away from food facts, even if they're hard to digest

Michael Cardamone is looking at a long sentence.

'How much worse can it get?': Details emerge of horrific killing

UPDATED

Crikey! Raid on Brighton house finds crocs, dingoes, even a roo

Swingers shooting: Footage reveals 'serious flaws' in police probe

Adam Storch.

Arrest warrant issued for an errant, high-risk sex offender

Sean Price stabbed Melbourne schoolgirl Masa Vukotic to death.

New authority to oversee Victoria's worst sex offenders

Match heads found at terror plot accused's home, court told

Matt and Eden Hibbert take advantage of the snow to build a snowman.

'Beautiful': Big chill brings a winter wonderland to Victoria

The top 10 pubs for poker machine profit made $117 million.

The pubs that hit the jackpot with $117m windfall

EXCLUSIVE

Burn victim Dana Vulin as she appeared on Seven's Sunday Night program and (inset) before the fire attack.

Burns survivor says she has 'no time to hate'

WA
1 hr ago

Crown Prince Frederik was in Queensland for a regatta but Princess Mary reportedly did not make the trip.

Crown Prince turned away from bar: report

QLD

Canberra's light rail Stage Two, overseen by Transport Minister Meegan Fitzharris, is unlikely to extend to Canberra ...

Light rail unlikely to go to hospital despite backing

ACT
1 min ago

Experts fear how indebted households will manage economic shocks.

'Perfect storm of issues' leaving Aussies on verge of mortgage crisis

Tena and Ray Bluhm in their new home in the Westminster retirement community in Lake Ridge, Virginia, USA. The Bluhms ...

Ageing parents, lots of stuff and children who just don't want it

Burgess house in Beaumaris.

'History not to be demolished': Fight to save a suburb's character

Scotch College's landholdings have expanded enormously over the past 20 years.

Private school's $25m, 20-year property spending spree

The Estate at 901 North Alpine Drive

To sell a $100 million house, its owners raise the asking price

Transport expert William McDougall is one of two experts hired by the Andrews government to question the figures behind ...

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Transport expert William McDougall is one of two experts hired by the Andrews government to question the figures behind ...

Concerns from second expert emerge over justification for $5.5b West Gate Tunnel

Clay Lucas

Polly Dunning has calculated that if she returns to full-time work her family would have to fork out $32,900 in ...

Childcare costs more than my salary. Don't tell me to work

COMMENT
Polly Dunning

Christy Tania's frozen eclairs.

Dessert whizz Christy Tania to open Glace ice-cream shop in Windsor

Dani Valent

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Opposition Leader Bill Shorten during question time at Parliament House in Canberra on Wednesday.

'People see chaos and we wear it': MPs angry over citizenship fiasco

James Massola

Turnbull deplores 'disrespectful' marriage debate

Fergus Hunter
1 min ago

New questions about Liberal MP Ann Sudmalis' citizenship

James Massola

Khaled Khayat, pictured at Sydney Airport in 2014, is one of the men arrested.

Lebanon monitored Australian bomb plot suspects: minister

Rachel Olding
1 hr ago

Social Services Minister Christian Porter said the tests were about helping people.

Sydney's southwest among locations for drug test trial

US President Donald Trump will unveil the new strategy on Tuesday.

Can Trump fix Afghanistan without tackling Pakistan?

David Wroe

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has had a horror week.

What could they have to hide? The only solution is a snap inquiry

COMMENT
Damien Nowicki

Jefferson County Sheriff Fred Abdalla talks about the shooting.

Judge shot in 'ambush' outside courthouse, kills attacker

Damage to the portside is visible as the Guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain steers towards Changi naval base in ...

After collision, US navy 'pauses' worldwide operations

A Uniformed Secret Service officer standing watch near storage containers line the driveway as the West Wing of the ...

Secret Service running out of money to protect Donald Trump

Jomari, a friend of Kian Loyd Delos Santos, refuses to leave the wake

The killing of this 17 year old boy galvanises the Philippines

Lindsay Murdoch

Illustration: Matt Davidson.

Girls, it's OK to dream, but it's more important to wake up

COMMENT
Wendy Squires

Yarra mayor Amanda Stone: ''Our decision caused a political and media storm that, I admit, we hadn't quite anticipated.''

Yarra Mayor: This is why we unrecognised Australia Day

COMMENT
Amanda Stone

Pauline Hanson wore a burqa into the Senate this week.

I don't love the burqa either, but I still don't want it banned

COMMENT
Matt Holden

The headline result was heavily impacted by one-off costs of $405 million associated with the axing of the company's ...

Asset sales, takeover on table as Murray Goulburn sinks to loss

Mathew Dunckley
25 mins ago

A busy day of earnings ahead.

Markets Live: Earnings deluge

Live
Patrick Commins and Sarah Turner
17 mins ago

iron ore

Boon for shareholders as BHP triples dividend amid profit surge

Darren Gray
1 hr ago

Eva Echeverria started using J&J's talc powder products when she was 11. She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2007.

Johnson and Johnson ordered to pay $525m to cancer sufferer

The irony: Murdochs may have stopped media reform

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

Fortescue 2.0: What is next for the cash cow?

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

'Pull out of our arse': NBN reseller's warning on speeds

Lucy Battersby

Billboard boss not looking to new career in comedy

Colin Kruger, CBD

Taking care of your muscles post-run is integral to maintaining a healthy body.

Treat yourself: The best recovery treatments for runners

Long Run

Brewer Scott Hargrave tests the aroma of their award winning brew.

Real deal: The surfers riding the craft beer wave to the top

Fine Drinks

If the main breadwinner dies or is no longer able to work, how would the family survive?

Prepare for the risk of losing the breadwinner

Mark Bouris

Saving for a car is great, but try not to spend too much.

The best bank account for your kid's savings

Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon

Ali Sultana is a refugee who runs a catering company and helped set up SisterWorks, which provides advice and assistance ...

From refugees to sisters doing it for themselves

Cara Waters

Treasurer Scott Morrison's company tax cut for small business could result in the loss of accumulated tax credits.

Escaping the small business company tax trap

COMMENT
Max Newnham

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I'm not a secret English agent: Shorten

Federal Politics

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UK holds toe wrestling competition

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Bodies found in Kew house

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Aussies have 'open mind' for Bangladesh series

Illustration: Dionne Gain

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Brand new Stan Original Series The Other Guy - now streaming only on Stan.

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Shorten compared repeated questions over his citizenship status to the Obama birth certificate conspiracy.

Q&A; recap: Shorten emerges unscathed from solo grilling

Neil McMahon

Australian singer/songwriter, Paul Kelly has finally made it to No.1.

Life is Fine after Paul Kelly's first No.1 album in Australia

Martin Boulton

Don't call me Dany. My brother called me Dany, and look how that turned out.

Beyond the Wall recap: Is this GoT's biggest twist yet?

SPOILERS
Karl Quinn

Tina Arena says she has been approached to play the role on many occasions.

Iconic role lures Arena back to the music theatre stage

Nathanael Cooper

Jerry Lewis and Mick Gatto at a fund raiser for Muscular Dystrophy in Docklands in 2010.

'Beautiful man': Mick Gatto pays tribute to Jerry Lewis

Chris Vedelago

So, this appears to be working out pretty well, right?

Game of Thrones drops its biggest game changer ever

SPOILERS
Karl Quinn

Liam Gallagher performs earlier this month in Chicago.

Liam Gallagher confirms he'll play at Falls Festival

Jerry Lewis with Shaun Micallef.

Shaun Micallef pays tribute to his comedy hero Jerry Lewis

Shaun Micallef

Di and Viv and Rose (MTC review for The Age, Arts)

MTC's Di and Viv and Rose delivers fine mix of poignancy, humour

REVIEW
Cameron Woodhead

Soloist Li-Wei Qin is returning to Melbourne.

MSO soloist's gripping and consistent vision of Schumann

REVIEW
Clive O'Connell

Memory Field at Supersense

The promised ecstasy at the return of Supersense arrived early

REVIEW
Michael Dwyer

We're drinking differently, DrinkWise report says.

How our drinking culture has changed in 10 years

Sarah Berry

Supermodel Emily Ratajkowski looks fierce in a short skirt with a pinstripe trench and boots for a DKNY photo shoot ...

We love to hate bankers. So why do we dress like them?

Melissa Singer

Polly Dunning has calculated that if she returns to full-time work her family would have to fork out $32,900 in ...

Childcare costs more than my salary. Don't tell me to work

COMMENT
Polly Dunning

From left, Channel Seven's Mel Doyle, Nine's Lisa Wilkinson and Channel Ten's Sandra Sully at Audi Hamilton Island Race ...

Doyle, Wilkinson and Sully get competitive on Hamilton Island

Social Seen
Amy Croffey

Dr Kerryn Phelps believes two parasites whose names are unfamiliar to many of us may contribute to irritable bowel ...

The two gut parasites that most of us haven't heard of

Paula Goodyer

Joss Whedon has been accused by his wife of multiple affairs.

Joss Whedon's ex-wife accuses him of affairs, fake feminism

The themes played out by Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze in 'Dirty Dancing' endure three decades after the film's release.

Dirty Dancing allowed teenage girls to be seen. This matters.

Natalie Reilly

Danielle Macdonald in Patti Cake$.

Why does Hollywood still suck at body positivity?

Brooks Barnes

Analiese Gregory, from Franklin in Hobart.

Analiese Gregory has fired up at Franklin in Hobart. What's it like?

Bacon and pea soup.

Three Blue Ducks' velvety green pea and bacon soup

Benjamin Law with his finished sourdough bread.

Dough boy: Benjamin Law's quest for the perfect sourdough

Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins

Would you take this nanny job for $162,000?

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Chef Matt Golinski introduces baby daughter to the world

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Serena Williams' partner reveals her strange pregnancy cravings

You can't impress an Australian with a beach.

The 13 things you will never hear an Australian traveller say

Ben Groundwater
15 mins ago

Air India 78-8 Dreamliner economy cabin.

Legroom and convenience, winners on this direct Dreamliner flight

Katrina Lobley

Once you've experienced travel, you may never want to come back.

Seven things I wish I knew before I became a traveller

Chistopher Elliott

The moon almost totally eclipses the sun during a near total solar eclipse as seen from Salem, Oregon on Monday.

Total solar eclipse dazzles America

The Essential smartphone, with and without its sold-separately 360 degree camera.

Is Essential's Android phone ... essential?

The THeMIS ADDER, from Estonian company Milrem, is a smart unmanned system that could potentially be controlled by AI.

Musk, others warn UN in open letter: ban killer robots now

The NBN might not bring relief to every Australia who regularly loses their broadband after heavy rain.

Get ready for the spring rain broadband blues

COMMENT

The incisor and molar discovered by Eugene Dubois in 1890.

Tooth that helped find 20,000 'missing' years

2018 BMW M5.

New BMW M5 revealed

Greg Kable

Skoda will offer a diesel variant of its Kodiaq seven-seat SUV.

Skoda Kodiaq diesel confirmed

Dom Tripolone

One-of-a-kind Kode 0 shown at Pebble Beach.

When your Lambo isn't rare enough

Drive Staff

BMW has given its M2 some mild updates.

Refreshed BMW M2 revealed

Dom Tripolone

The Volkswagen I.D. Buzz concept will go into production after positive reviews.

VW is bringing back the Kombi

Greg Kable

2017 Holden Commodore SS

Tradie review: Commodore SS ute

Mark Short

Chris Yarran during a Richmond Tigers AFL pre-season training session at ME Bank Centre in 2015.

Tigers had right to know Yarran's drug secrets

COMMENT
Caroline Wilson

Essendon celebrate their 2000 grand final victory.

Finally, finals loom again for Bombers

23 mins ago

Re-signed: Jake Kolodjashnij is staying with the Cats.

Backman re-signs with Cats, ending Ablett talk

Daniel Cherny

Nathan Buckley's future as Collingwood coach remains up in the air.

Buckley's chance: D-Day looms on Pies coach and his coaches

ANALYSIS
Michael Gleeson

Brad Scott's coaching future is linked to the Kangaroos' bids to bring Josh Kelly or Dustin Martin to the club.

Dusty, Kelly decision to play a role in Brad Scott's future

Jon Pierik and Caroline Wilson

AFL Commission chairman Richard Goyder at Subiaco Oval.

AFL chair Goyder 'hates' pokies

Greg Baum

Jake Carlisle of the Saints (third from left) after being reported.

Saint Carlisle cleared while Power's Jonas cops ban

Sam McClure

Chris Judd was surprised by two things in life after footy.

My advice for the retiring class of 2017

Chris Judd

Ukraine's Alexandr Dolgopolov.

Dolgopolov's defeat triggers match-fixing inquiry

Simon Briggs
1 hr ago

The trainer of Winx will use dome special equipment to try and settle the horse's barrier nerves.

Winx to be fitted with 'magic blanket' to stop tardy starts

Patrick Bartley

Wayne Rooney, right, celebrates scoring his 200th goal.

Rooney nets 200th EPL goal in draw with City

1 hr ago

Manny Pacquiao will return to Brisbane in 2017 for a Battle of Brisbane rematch

Pacquiao to return for Battle of Brisbane rematch

Ruth McCosker

Victoria Azarenka will miss the US Open.

Azarenka withdraws from US Open due to custody battle

1 hr ago

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