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Half of Chinese buyers leave local apartments empty

US President Donald Trump speaks at Fort Myer about Afghanistan.

He went on and on- but remarkable speech may prove too late for Trump

COMMENT

Peter Helliar mocks Ten's problems on The Project.

When you lose in TV ratings to a tow-truck show, change is a must

ANALYSIS
Michael Lallo

The Age, News, 22/08/2017 photo by Justin McManus. Mural in Lt Charles st Abbottsford.

'You talk we die': Yarra council gets its overdose memorial, unofficially

1 hr ago

Buck up your ideas: Collingwood coach fumes over media reports relating to the future of his role as coach of Collingwood.

Buckley's coaching position 'in play', after board meeting

UPDATED

Saskia beer organic roast chicken with kale and anchovy.

More roast chicken?Supermarket price war sees Inghams fly on ASX

Imagine: 11 years after a dad walked out, his son spots him in a car park

VicRoads sues Grocon for $1m over mistake that closed Elizabeth St

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

Trump expected to request more Australian troops for Afghanistan

Two to tango: Borrowers need to take responsibility

Comment

Sue Neill-Fraser has spent the past seven years in jail.

Top barrister handed over explosive file on a murder- but didn't forsee reaction

EXCLUSIVE
38 mins ago

As a bloke, I was allowed to express a doomsday scenario about parenthood freely and openly, which was quite cathartic.

The key to enjoying parenthood? Low expectations

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

What the Game of Thrones' season finale has in store

Too easy: Ryan Crotty makes a break through the threadbare Australian defence.

'Doing it for years': All Blacks break grim news to Wallabies fans

Caleb, 23, and Annabel, 19, Ziegeler have recorded a satirical song about Pauline Hanson that has been viewed about ...

'Go back to cooking fish and chips': Hanson parody goes viral

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Siblings' viral Pauline Hanson parody song

Drugs and footy

How much should AFL clubs know about their players?

We're drinking differently, DrinkWise report says.

'No longer the leper': How our drinking culture has changed

A teacher at Mazenod College has been stood down after using hypnosis techniques on students.

Look deep into my eyes... Does hypnosis actually work?

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Vegetarian recipes that even meat eaters will love

Karen Chetcuti Verbunt's body was found on a track off Buffalo River Road, Lake Buffalo.

Karen's killer's murder plea was only to spare his mum, court told

Darebin stripped of ceremony rights after Australia Day snub

Madeleine Heffernan

Environment watchdog swoops on illegal waste dumpers

Police at the scene.

Family pays tribute to 'beautiful grandmother' found dead in Kew

Minister for Women Fiona Richardson will take leave to deal with illness

'Health challenges' force MP to miss next election

Yacqub Khayre was in a program designed to counter Islamic extremism in the six months before the Brighton siege.

IS-inspired Brighton gunman told police he had a bomb

Michael Cardamone is looking at a long sentence.

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

UPDATED

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

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

It takes two to tango: Why borrowers need to take responsibility for their debt

Just because a bank will give you $1m, it doesn't mean you should take it

Comment

The key to designing the perfect room is to choose clever furniture and make it work hard for you. Georgia and Ronnie's ...

Bye-bye gender neutral yellow: The new rules for kids' rooms

Photo: Houzz

Clever ways to warm up your home for winter

August 22, 2017 NEW YORK TIMES The Litchfield County Courthouse, which is about to close, in Litchfield, Connecticut. ...

Family reclaims US courthouse after 127 years

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

Private school splashes $25m in 20-year property spending spree

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

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

From refugees to sisters doing it for themselves

Cara Waters

Analiese Gregory, from Franklin in Hobart.

Analiese Gregory has fired up at Franklin in Hobart. So...

Gemima Cody

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Chris May fought in Afghanistan with the Australian Defence Force.

'Part of their hearts fell out': what Trump's strategy means for home

David Wroe

Multinational tech giants grilled over offshore revenue shift

Eryk Bagshaw

Government pushes court to hear citizenship saga within four weeks

Facebook 'not moving fast enough' to stop fake news in Australia

Amy Remeikis

"I'm sick and tired of hearing people say 'that's my money'": Cheryl, who preferred not to give her last name, at ...

Surprising support in Bankstown for drug-testing trial

Garry Maddox
1 hr ago

Attorney-General George Brandis has urged the High Court to see to the citizenship saga as quickly as possible

Inquiry labelled 'waste of time' after judges were excused

Stephanie Peatling

Defence Minister Marise Payne says she will discuss Australian troop numbers in Afghanistan with the US.

Australia to talk troop numbers with US after Trump unveils plan

David Wroe

Damage to the portside of the USS John S. McCain is visible.

US divers search for 10 missing sailors in hull of damaged destroyer

BREAKING
1 hr ago

Peter Madsen on board his submarine.

Dark turn in missing journo mystery as a headless torso is found

President Donald Trump speaks at Fort Myer in Arlington Virginia.

Donald Trump clears way for troop increase in Afghanistan

Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop.

Rodrigo Duterte's drug war a 'deep concern' for Foreign Minister Julie Bishop

Lindsay Murdoch

Chinese soldiers with fixed bayonets attend the flag-raising ritual at dawn in Tiananmen Square.

Global expansion: how far will China go?

COMMENT
Peter Hartcher

Will winter ever end?

Lessons in life from the gaffer tape man

COMMENT
Clare Boyd-Macrae

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

Mick McMahon said sales had also been helped by relatively high red meat prices that saw more shoppers turn to chicken.

Supermarket roast chook standoff brings profits home to Inghams

Patrick Hatch

Miners helped push the ASX higher on Tuesday, as earnings seasons rolled on.

ASX snaps three-day losing streak amid earnings rush

Patrick Commins

IVF cycles in Australia dipped in 2017 but a bigger concern for big ASX companies specialising in the area is ...

IVF price wars lower costs for treatment

Sarah Danckert

Up to 25,500 apartments will be completed in Sydney this year.

Up to half of Chinese buyers leave apartments vacant

Simon Johanson

'Industrial blackmail': Paddle Pop maker in bid to cut workers' pay

Anna Patty
36 mins ago

BHP versus Elliott - the fight isn't over yet

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

Parking pain may have peaked at Sydney Airport

UPDATED
Patrick Hatch

From washing dishes to playing tennis: how Bill Gates spends his day

Aime Cain

Nineties inspired sneakers such as Nike's Dunks will be making a big impression.

Slam dunk: The retro sneaker trend you need to know about

Men's Shoes

The new M5 has all the room of a sedan and acceleration power of a sports car.

The luxury sedan that accelerates like a sports car

Cars

Dominic Grevsmuhl works for a company that provides software for online retailers and travels frequently between ...

Australians are being ripped off on currency exchange

John Collett

Lazy investors could do better than the diligent.

Why lazy investors can come out ahead

John Collett

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

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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Welfare recipients to be drug tested

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Australia to talk troop numbers with US

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'Stop the fags' poster appears in Melbourne

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Siblings' viral Pauline Hanson parody song

A boy looks out the window of a private bus used by Mexican authorities to transport a large group of Central American ...

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

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A Lannister reunion is on the cards.

What the Game of Thrones' season finale has in store

Broede Carmody

Helliar in June, joking about Ten's financial woes.

Can The Project save Ten from terrible Sunday ratings?

ANALYSIS
Michael Lallo

Taylor Swift is set to release her first new solo single in almost three years later this week.

Mystery snake post follows Swift wiping entire online presence

Rob Moran

Falls Festival 2017/18

Silver anniversary Falls Festival line-up announced

Martin Boulton

Now into his seventh life, Beric ought to have afew more answers than he does, surely.

Game of Thrones fans' distress over game-changer

Broede Carmody

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

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

Keiji Haino at Supersense (Age, Arts, Aug 22)

Why Supersense is the only music festival that matters

REVIEW
Michael Dwyer

2017 NICHE Niche; Eryn Jean Norvill and Emily Tomlins (The Age, Arts, August 22)

What it means to 'go viral': Elbow Room returns with Niche

REVIEW
Cameron Woodhead

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

Joss Whedon cultivated a certain feminist mythology about himself and then used that mythology to justify repeated ...

Not just cheating: Why Joss Whedon's behaviour matters

COMMENT
Clementine Ford

FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2017 file photo, Taylor Swift performs at the DIRECTV NOW Super Saturday Night Concert in ...

Taylor Swift shuts down Kim, Kanye, Katy and Calvin

Amy Croffey

We're drinking differently, DrinkWise report says.

How our drinking culture has changed in 10 years

Sarah Berry

As a bloke, I was allowed to express a doomsday scenario about parenthood freely and openly, which was quite cathartic.

The key to enjoying parenthood? Low expectations

Paul Chai

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

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

Freedom Eubanks with her newborn daughter Eclipse, named after Monday's total solar eclipse in the US.

Baby girl is total solar Eclipse of her parents' heart

Two boys helped themselves to food and alcohol in a Sainsbury's store

Two boys get locked in supermarket overnight - consume $500 worth of food

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Is this the most incredible cubby-house ever?

You can't impress an Australian with a beach.

The 13 things you will never hear an Australian traveller say

Ben Groundwater

Private Boeing 787 Dreamliner 787 VVIP. Photo: Kestrel Aviation

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner that costs $100,000 an hour to fly

Traveller

The fake Qantas website that the 'free flight' posts will take users to.

No free flights: Thousands hit by Qantas Facebook scam

Craig Platt

Oreo

Android 8 is officially called Android Oreo

What Mars could have looked like during an ice age 400,000 years ago.

How is it possible that it snows on Mars?

President Donald Trump points to the sun, unprotected, during the solar eclipse.

Yes, Donald Trump did just stare directly at the solar eclipse

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 on killer robots

2009 Subaru Forester.

What used SUV should I buy?

Cameron McGavin

Audi's S1 offers turbocharged performance.

The sweet spot: Audi A1 Sportback

David McCowen

2017 Mercedes-AMG E63 S 4Matic

The fastest Merc on sale reviewed

Andrew Maclean

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

Skoda Kodiaq diesel confirmed

Dom Tripolone

2018 BMW M5.

New BMW M5 revealed

Greg Kable

Great Wall is interesting in buying Jeep.

Jeep denies Chinese sale

Stephen Ottley

Eddie McGuire

Buckley's coaching position 'in play' after board meeting

UPDATED

Steve Johnson is still to be cleared fit to play.

Is there a place for Stevie J in Giants team to play Cats?

Michael Gleeson

Former AFL football operations boss Simon Lethlean.

Lethlean in the mix for top job at Collingwood

Sam McClure

Brock McLean and Cameron Bruce

Bruce to join Carlton as right-hand man

Drugs and footy

How much should AFL clubs know about their players?

Danyle Pearce makes his way onto the ground in 2014.

'It's unfortunate racist attitudes still exist': Danyle Pearce

Phil Hickey

Luke Hodge as a teenager.

No.1 pick? Tanks, but no tanks

COMMENT
Ronny Lerner

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

Ukraine's Alexandr Dolgopolov is under investigation.

Dolgopolov's defeat triggers match-fixing inquiry

Simon Briggs

Force benefactor: Andrew Forrest at a Save the Force rally in Perth on Sunday.

ARU rejects $50 million offer from Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest

Tom Decent
1 hr ago

Midfield marshall: The fitness of Australia's Mile Jedinak remains up in the air ahead of the next round of World Cup ...

Socceroos eye injury cloud ahead of World Cup qualifiers

Ben McKay

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

Melbourne Storm fullback and Starlight Children's Foundation ambassador Billy Slater with 12-year-old Courtney at the ...

Slater says premiership win won't influence whether he plays on

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