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Westfield said it was reaffirming its full-year funds from operation guidance.

Westfield fends off Amazon with bold new strategy

Carolyn Cummins
35 mins ago

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten should agree to audit the citizenship status of all MPs.

Malcolm Turnbull's lack of control is on full display

COMMENT
John Hewson

Troubled online sports retailer Surfstitch has called in administrators.

Troubled online sports retailer forced to call in administrators

BREAKING
1 hr ago

The sun has set on the gold travel pass that has entitled former parliamentarians to a lifetime of free travel.

Travel giant's decision signals the end of dirt-cheap airfares

1 hr ago

President Donald Trump speaks at a rally at the Phoenix Convention Centre.- a 'Blacks for Truth' sign in the background.

Story of the 'Blacks for Trump' guy that stands behind the President

1 hr ago

Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

Citizenship saga will drag on until at least October

Michaela Whitbourn
22 mins ago

Renay invested with her de facto husband. It 'tore her family apart'

Quitting your job could be the best thing for your career

Police pulled over John Ibrahim's 'work wife'. Something was 'amiss'

Stephanie Gardiner

'Public' shaming: Damning report condemns AOC

BREAKING
Chris Barrett

'Dance for me, boy': An evil force lurks from boxing's shadowy past

Daniel James Holdom, the man charged with murdering Karlie Pearce-Stevenson.

'A trophy of sorts': The chilling photos taken by an accused killer

Ava Benny-Morrison
33 mins ago

Shock recall: Rob Simmons.

Shock recall as Michael Cheika resists mass axings

1 hr ago

The median house price to income of Sydney is nine times, compared to 6.2 times in New York and 3.2 times in London.

The market that has grown four times faster than property

Give way: a cyclist waits at an intersection.

Five cycling-related rules that all road users should understand

Single man

The relationship advice married men want to give single men

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Toddler takes over newsroom

As the rally dragged on into the night, many in the crowd lost interest in what the President was saying.

As Trump ranted and rambled, his crowd slowly thinned

Princess Diana Funeral 6 September 1997 Coffin leaves Westminster Abbey in hearse with Prince Charles Prince Harry ...

Prince Harry speaks over father's reaction to Diana's death

Apple plans to release three new iPhones next month, reports have said.

New iPhone gives company $5.2b boost - but it's not Apple

A scene from the film version of The Boy in Striped Pyjamas.

'Deeply offensive' Book Week costume a 'wake-up' call

Matthew matt Leveson michael Atkins

Michael Atkins' dark secret finally comes to light after nine years

Merhi enters plea to weapons charge after 'bomb plot' raid

Rachel Olding

Popular pub among properties to make way for new light rail line

Matt O'Sullivan

Gladys Berejiklian and Parramatta MP Geoff Lee at Incheon Aiport, Seoul. 23 August 2017. Photo Supplied

'Will change lives': Premier's plan for new airport site

Kirsty Needham

Several students at Coonamble High School have been taught the wrong HSC mathematics course since the beginning of the year.

Year 12 students spend year learning wrong HSC maths course

Marco Matillano is part of a PrEP trial in NSW.

'Extraordinary': Strategy puts NSW on track to wipe out HIV

Ms Berejiklian says she has kept staffing bills lower than Labor despite the growth in well-paid employees in her own ...

Political staffers' $5.5m pay boost despite leaner government mantra

EXCLUSIVE

One lucky Perth punter will never have to work again.

Never work again: Lucky punter wins $20K a month for 20 years

WA

Salt levels vary wildly between pasta sauce brands - use packaging's "per 100 grams" column to compare products.

The pasta sauce with 90 times more salt than the best options

Several girls were suspended over an incident in which students were threatened in the bathroom at Killester
College.

Catholic schoolgirls suspended after fight streamed on Facebook

VIC

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

Death on the Derwent: Secret file could prove yacht killer's innocence

EXCLUSIVE
Nick McKenzie

Leamington St today.

Phantom Sydney suburb with just a train station - and a gruesome past

Rowan Atkinson famously crashed his McLaren F1, twice.

Forget property, you should have bought one of these 10 years ago

Mary Crawley, 93, has been the licensee at the Tattersall's Hotel in Barringun for 40 years.

The 93-year-old publican parting with her beloved outback pub

The Block 2017: Anything but a bedroom week screen grabs

The Block: Family space or a parents' retreat? The inside word

A cardboard cutout of President Donald Trump in his childhood home in Queens.

Spending a night at Trump's childhood home in New York

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As fighters approach 'Sydney', scientists game way to victory

Liam Mannix

Representatives from the local Indigenous community at the public forum to discuss the decision by Darebin Council to ...

Australia Day: time to start national conversation

COMMENT
Gregory Smithers

Like the S8 and S8+, the Photo, Galaxy Note 8 features an 'Infinity Screen'.

Samsung is 'moving on' as it launches Galaxy Note 8

Nassim Khadem

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Bill Shorten says the government has lost the plot, but there could be truth to its $150 billion tax rise claim.

Cormann's claim Labor plans $150b in taxes hinges on one big decision

James Massola
14 mins ago

Citizenship saga will not be resolved until at least October

Michaela Whitbourn
22 mins ago

Law Council criticises 'unprecedented' citizenship laws

EXCLUSIVE
Fergus Hunter

"New enrolments are lower than I would like": Labor foreign affairs spokesman Penny Wong.

'Yes' side battling to sign up young voters as electoral roll closes

Finance Minister Mathias Cormann has painted a doomsday scenario for Australia's economy under a future Shorten government.

Back in the USSR: Cormann accuses Shorten of 'socialist revisionism'

"Nothing comes above my relationship with Miguel": Rob Nay, left, with his partner Miguel Luciano.

Cancer diagnosis prompts heartfelt plea to PM on gay marriage

Dr Michael Gannon, President of the Australian Medical Association .

Plan to drug test welfare recipients gets a 'nasty star': AMA

Australia's top overseas spy chief Nick Warner with Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte in Manila.

Children deemed as collateral damage in war on drugs

COMMENT
Lindsay Murdoch

This undated image made available by Elon Musk on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2017 shows a new spacesuit from his company ...

Elon Musk shows off SpaceX's new spacesuit

1 hr ago

Florence mayor Dario Nardella

Mayor apologises for 'Allahu akbar' outburst

Nick Squires

Udai Faisal died on March 24 of acute malnutrition at al-Sabeen Hospital in Sanaa, Yemen.

Inside the world's worst humanitarian crisis

Shuaib Almosawa
1 hr ago

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten should agree to audit the citizenship status of all MPs.

Turnbull's lack of control on full display

COMMENT
John Hewson

New Zealand Opposition Leader Jacinda ...

Jacinda Effect shows you don't need stunts to get voters to notice

COMMENT
Judith Ireland

Yes, love is love, but how does that make marriage a "right"?

As a 30-year-old woman, everyone expects me to vote 'yes'. But I won't be

COMMENT
Katherine Harper

Scentre, which owns 59 Westfield shopping centres across Australia and New Zealand, is preparing for Amazon's push into ...

Westfield shopping centres' big move to fend off Amazon

Carolyn Cummins
35 mins ago

Profits results will drive the ASX today.

Markets Live: Miners do it again

Live
Patrick Commins and Sarah Turner
21 mins ago

Troubled online sports retailer Surfstitch has called in administrators.

Online sports retailer calls in administrators

BREAKING
Melanie Beeby, Patrick Hatch
1 hr ago

Founder John McGrath and chief executive Cameron Judson are battling low listing volumes.

Low real estate listings, sales whack McGrath earnings

Carolyn Cummins

Quitting your job could be the best thing for your career

Amy McPherson

Cheap airfares are about to end, Flight Centre says

Patrick Hatch
1 hr ago

Green light: Murdoch a step closer to owning Network Ten

Lucy Battersby

Boys' club: Australia's highest paid CEOs revealed

Clancy Yeates

Give way: a cyclist waits at an intersection.

Five cycling-related rules all road users should understand

The Omega Planet Ocean Big Blue is just impressive out of the water.

Six seriously stylish dive watches any landlubber can rock

Watches

Illustration: Simon Letch

How tax deductions for investment work

Noel Whittaker

German-born Dominic Grevsmühl transfers a lot of money between Australia and Europe.

Australians are being ripped off on currency exchange

John Collett

The challenge of regular annual leave will intensify in the coming decade.

Holiday hell for part-timers, contractors

COMMENT
Tony Featherstone

Taylor Tran visited hundreds of coworking spaces across Australia and globally.

Coworking grows up

Taylor Tran

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Proposed joint bid to buy Ten

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Magda Szubanski's emotional marriage equality plea

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Samsung launches Galaxy Note 8

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Typhoon Hato batters Hong Kong

A Chinese woman browses a smartphone on a sofa displaying a panda and bears at a shopping mall in Beijing, Monday, Aug. ...

World of Photos - August 24, 2017

Younger stan august

The truth is out in the brand new season of Younger - now streaming only on Stan.

The other guy stan

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

New approaches for retaining millennial staff

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How to create a better customer checkout experience

Advertiser Content

Ten activities to aid toddler development

Advertiser Content

The US popstar's face was featured in an ad for a group promoting the 'No' vote in the plebiscite.

Meghan Trainor hits out at anti-marriage equality ad

Rob Moran

Not good at deadlines: Author George RR Martin.

George RR Martin 'too busy' to watch Game of Thrones

Broede Carmody

Heath Ledger as The Joker in The Dark Knight.

Martin Scorsese set to produce 'gritty' Joker origin story

ANALYSIS
David Betancourt

Magda Szubanksi delivered an emotional plea on The Project ahead of the postal vote enrolment deadline.

Magda Szubanski in emotional marriage equality plea

Rob Moran

Swift on the cover of her new album, Reputation.

'Reputation': defiant Taylor Swift teases new album

Jenny from the Block knows how this Survivor game is played.

Getting Matty J's attention takes strategy of Survivor

COMMENT
Aja Styles

Jimeoin was among the shortlisted finalists.

15 best jokes from Edinburgh Fringe revealed

Elisabeth O'Leary

Daenerys with Drogon in Beyond the Wall.

Has Game of Thrones finally jumped the dragon?

SPOILERS
Karl Quinn

The celebrated German artist Katharina Grosse.

The artist who will make 'clothes' for Carriageworks

EXCLUSIVE
Linda Morris

Not to be sneezed at: Dancers preview some of the costumes from next year's production of The Nose.

Why a gang of noses danced at the opera house

Nick Galvin

The Jezabels kept their audience on side with an upbeat set.

Seven-day stint barely enough for The Jezabels

Michael Ruffles

Clementine Ford with her baby son.

How I survived my first year of motherhood

Clementine Ford

Donald Trump followed Hillary Clinton around the stage during the second election debate.

Trump made Clinton's 'skin crawl' during debate

Cleve Wootson Jr. and Amy Wang

Actress Shailene Woodley poses for photographers upon arrival at a central London cinema for the world premiere of ...

The 2020 US election ballot is looking like an Oscars after party

Mary Ward

British actor Gemma Arterton has described the body-shaming she experienced in Hollywood.

Gemma Arterton's 'emergency' exemplifies our weight problem

Sarah Berry

Designer Camilla Franks is expecting her first child with fiance JP Jones.

Camilla Franks is sorted for her own maternity wardrobe

Amy Croffey

At the dawn of the computing revolution women, not men, dominated software programming.

How women got crowded out of computing revolution

COMMENT
Stephen Mihm

President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump and son Barron Trump board Air Force One at Morristown Municipal ...

Melania thanks Chelsea for Barron defence

Make it known that you think: yes, marriage equality is the right thing.

Marriage equality's silent supporters need to speak up

COMMENT
Koraly Dimitriadis

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Should teens be allowed to start school later?

The parents of a four-year-old girl duct-taped to a chair want answers.

Parents' anger after daughter duct-taped to chair at daycare

Rocio Cortes Nunez, 26, who had just given birth before the accident.

New mother killed by hospital lift in freak accident

Jetstar will fly Boeing 787 Dreamliners on its new China route.

Jetstar launches its first direct Australia-China route

Craig Platt

Overcrowded: Tourists walk through the Stradun, the main street in the coastal town of Dubrovnik.

'Don't send any more': The problem with too many tourists in one city

Michael Gebicki
1 hr ago

There huge differences in length, layout and construction of airport runways depending on factors, such as location.

Holes, crashes, delays: Things you didn't know about airport runways

Hugh Morris
1 hr ago

Chimichurri salsa is drizzled over grilled provoleta.

Introducing provoleta - Argentina's answer to fondue

Salmon and fennel soup.

Soup + sandwich = dinner sorted

Jill Dupleix

Dessert at Frenchies Bistro & Brewery.

Just open: Bistro meets brewery at Frenchies in Rosebery

The Galaxy Note8 and the iPhone 7 Plus.

Specs: Galaxy Note8 v iPhone 7 Plus

1 hr ago

Note8's extra screen space is great for doodling.

First impressions of Galaxy Note8

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Inside Lockheed Martin's secret Australian war lab

The Samsung Galaxy Note 8.

Samsung 'moves on' as it launches Galaxy Note8

Robotic bartenders at the Tipsy Robot in Las Vegas

Robot bartenders arrive at Las Vegas Strip

The Portofino uses a folding hardtop roof to protect occupants from the elements.

Ferrari unveils California successor

Greg Kable

Audi wants to develop a solar panel roof for future EVs.

Audi develops solar roof

Stephen Ottley

2018 Volkswagen T-Roc.

VW's new Mazda CX-3 rival revealed

Greg Kable

Hydrogen ride-sharing on the cards for Australia

David McCowen

Jeep previewed the Wrangler ute with the Crew Chief concept.

New Jeep Wrangler ute details leaked

Drive Staff

The Formula One safety car may soon go without a driver.

Will F1 go autonomous?

Stephen Ottley

AOC President John Coates was praised for using his international position to ensure Australian athletes were treated fairly.

Damning report into AOC uncovers an organisation with a dysfunctional culture

BREAKING
Chris Barrett

Shock recall: Rob Simmons.

Shock recall as Cheika resists mass axeings

Tom Decent
1 hr ago

Rival captains: Gareth Ellis (left) of Hull FC and Wigan Warriors' Sean O'Loughlin.

Despite strife, rugby league's holy place remains pure

Steve Mascord

Face-off: Floyd Mayweather, left, and Conor McGregor at a news conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday.

Mayweather and McGregor use racial conflict to sell fight

Adam Kilgore

Usman Khawaja batting without his front pad.

Aussies use old trick to prepare for Bangladesh spin

1 hr ago

Hawthorn coach Alastair Clarkson.

'No integrity': leading AFL coach wants pre-finals bye axed

Jon Pierik
5 mins ago

Angus Young of AC/DC.

Rock climbing: It's a long way to the top on a ski ergometer

COMMENT
Peter FitzSimons

ESPN's Robert Lee, left, and Confederate general Robert E. Lee.

Commentator removed from broadcast because of his name

Gina Cherelus

Double trouble: Cronulla's John Morris celebrates victory in a controversial finals clash in 2013, the last time there ...

NRL double-headers could be coming back to Sydney

Adrian Proszenko

Red-hot: Penrith Panthers have won seven consecutive games.

Panthers on brink of one-in-100 finals miracle

Adam Pengilly

Tense times on the Coast: Jarryd Hayne at Titans headquarters.

Hayne an 'easy target' when things go wrong, says Mannah

Adrian Proszenko

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