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Flight Centre chief executive Graham Turner has good news for investors, not so good news for travellers.

Say it isn't so: Is this the end of cheap flights?

1 min 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
40 mins ago

Liberal politician Elizabeth Kikkert.

Children 'groomed' by Safe Schools program: Liberals MLA

Troubled online sports retailer Surfstitch has called in administrators.

Troubled online sports retailer calls in administrators

1 hr ago

Woden Tradies members have the option to have fees refunded or transfer their membership.

'Heartbreaking': Woden Tradies club sold to a local developer

The Australian Press Council.

Press Council: DHS complaint about article upheld

Citizenship saga won't be resolved for a while yet

1 hr ago

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

200 poker machines approved for Canberra casino

20 mins ago

AEC revises offer to auto-update some voters' details

Cost of ACT same-sex marriage campaign revealed

Daniel James Holdom, the man charged with murdering Karlie Pearce-Stevenson and her daughter Khandalyce.

Man left ACT and took 'trophy' photo after killing Karlie, court told

1 hr ago

Meghan Trainor clearly knows better than to bite the little hands that feed her.

US popstar hits out at Australian anti-marriage equality ad

John I Dent Cup rugby union: Wests v Gungahlin. Gungahlin's Mac Hansen

Brumbies sign Larkham clone and physical lock for Super Rugby

23 mins ago

Give way: a cyclist waits at an intersection.

Five cycling-related rules that all road users should understand

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

Prince Harry breaks silence on father's reaction to Diana's death

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Toddler takes over newsroom

Single man

Relationship advice married men want to give single men

hotel room

Hotel workers reveal the most disturbing things they've found

Threatening Syria strike, Israel says Iran is ...

4:07PM

Singer Paulini leans on Bodyguard cast amid ...

3:56PM

You make your own luck - and Canberra hasn't made ...

3:56PM

The test track slabs for the light rail have been laid. From left, Mark Jones deputy project director, and Glenn ...

First 'test' light rail tracks laid in Gungahlin

Land deal investigation expected after CSIRO executive sacked

Canberra residents fired up about waste-to-power plant proposal

Thundamentals will take the stage at the Summernats Festival.

Musical lineup announced for Summernats in 2018

ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr: Has offered to proxy vote for anyone who needs help with a yes vote in the postal survey ...

Barr offers a proxy vote for anyone in marriage plebiscite

A fire broke out on the roof of a Gungahlin store on Thursday.

Gungahlin store evacuated after fire on the roof

The Grounds of Garema micro park.

Garema Place could get grassed platforms, flatpack trees

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

Death in Hobart: Date set for murder appeal

Shinkansen high-speed bullet train N700 series Nozomi passing a platform blurred from motion. Shizuoka, Japan ...

Push for very fast trains just gained a big supporter

EXCLUSIVE

Former CSIRO general manager for business and infrastructure services Mark Wallis.

CSIRO sacks senior executive over credit card 'breach'

MP Jo-Ann Miller claims the premier ignored corruption allegations.

Labor MP likens government to corrupt Sir Joh era

QLD

ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr's rainbow CBR pin.

ACT public servants warned against postal vote campaigning

Former CSIRO general manager for business and infrastructure services Mark Wallis.

CSIRO sacks senior executive over credit card 'breach'

Department of Health Secretary Martin Bowles during a Senate estimates hearing at Parliament House in Canberra.

Health Department boss Martin Bowles to retire

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

Citizenship saga will not be resolved until at least October

Michaela Whitbourn
1 hr 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.

While children die, our spy chief fist-bumps with Duterte

COMMENT
Lindsay Murdoch

Yingluck Shinawatra thanks supporters as she arrives at the Supreme Court for her final statements on August 1.

Thai soldiers 'prepared for troublemakers' ahead of trial

Lindsay Murdoch
1 hr ago

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

Inside the world's worst humanitarian crisis

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

Barnaby Joyce has been referred to the High Court as he has been a dual New Zealand citizen his entire political career.

Section 44 controversy reveals flaws in our political system

COMMENT

David Pope

David Pope's latest cartoons

Wayne Swan promised to "remove the hassle of shoeboxes full of receipts".

Our obsession with tax deductions is peculiarly Australian

COMMENT
Peter Martin

Mortgage Choice predicts banks will meet the 30 per cent cap on new interest-only lending by the end of next month.

Crackdown on interest-only loans tipped to ease

Clancy Yeates
41 mins ago

Profits results will drive the ASX today.

Markets Live: Miners do it again

Live
Patrick Commins and Sarah Turner

Flying high: Flight Centre founder Graham Turner.

Rising airfares trigger $95m boon for Australia's 'best value' CEO

COMMENT
Colin Kruger, CBD
56 mins ago

Nine expects the Big Bash rights to be the most competitive.

Nine calls for cap on prices for sports rights

Lucy Battersby
29 mins ago

Online sports retailer calls in administrators

Patrick Hatch
1 hr ago

Westfield shopping centres' big move to fend off Amazon

Carolyn Cummins

Low real estate listings, sales whack McGrath earnings

Carolyn Cummins
1 hr ago

Quitting your job could be the best thing for your career

Amy McPherson

Construction of Canberra's first hemp house. Photo: Jamila Toderas

'Can we smoke it?': A look inside Canberra's first hemp house

Woden Tradies members have the option to have fees refunded or transfer their membership.

'Heartbreaking' move: Woden Tradies sold to Canberra developer

Rowan Atkinson famously crashed his McLaren F1, twice.

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

The Block 2017: Anything but a bedroom week screen grabs

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

Offshore ownership of Australian real estate has become a hot-button issue.

Chinese buyers keeping apartments empty 'an urban myth'

UFC star Conor McGregor has lost sight of his origins.

Face off: Why McGregor versus Mayweather is a total sham

Culture
22 mins ago

Give way: a cyclist waits at an intersection.

Five cycling-related rules all road users should understand

If your boss asks you to "take care of something", communicate about how you plan to tackle it.

How to manage your boss

Catherine Robson
59 mins ago

Illustration: Simon Letch

How tax deductions for investment work

Noel Whittaker

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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Typhoon Hato batters Hong Kong

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Toddler takes over newsroom

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.

Understanding your toddler's fine motor skills

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Wander through ancient landscapes in WA

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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

Connie Johnson spends a lot of her time in Clare Holland House colouring in; her original designs planned to be made ...

'Still a lot of beauty': Connie's life and death 'knife-edge'

EXCLUSIVE

John Safran is one of a huge line-up of writers coming to Canberra for the Canberra Writers Festival this weekend.

7 things to do in Canberra this weekend

Clyde Rathbone, Monish Parajuli and Dayne Rathbone have redeveloped their Karma website.

The new website that will make you 'meditate on the positives'

Clementine Ford with her baby son.

How I survived my first year of motherhood

Clementine Ford

'Proud Boys' sporting a Fred Perry polo that they've adopted as their signature garment.

The fashion industry has been weaponised. It needs to speak up.

Robin Givhan
1 hr ago

Celine Dion is having her best year yet.

Celine Dion's magic technique for answering awkward questions

Annie Brown
1 hr ago

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

FILE- In this March 11, 2015, file photo, Actress Shailene Woodley poses for photographers upon arrival at a central ...

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

Chimichurri salsa is drizzled over grilled provoleta.

Introducing provoleta - Argentina's answer to fondue

Salmon and fennel soup.

Soup + sandwich = dinner sorted

Inside the Nestle Allen's Lollies factory in Broadford.

They kept taking away our beloved lollies. But one fave is back!

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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

Turia Pitt's first baby with fiance Michael Hoskin is due in December.

Turia Pitt: 'Three things I will teach my son'

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

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

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

Jetstar launches its first direct Australia-China route

Craig Platt

The Galaxy Note8 and the iPhone 7 Plus.

Specs: Galaxy Note8 v iPhone 7 Plus

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

Canberra Capitals recruit Rachel Jarry doing injury recovery with an anti-gravity Alter G tredmill at the AIS

Capitals recruit walking on air in anti-gravity machine to help knee injury

29 mins ago

John I Dent Cup rugby union: Wests v Gungahlin. Gungahlin's Mac Hansen

Is this kid a Stephen Larkham clone?

23 mins ago

Nick Kyrgios, of Australia, returns to Rafael Nadal, of Spain, at the Western & Southern Open tennis tournament, Friday, ...

'Tennis can be fun': The turning point for Nick Kyrgios

Shock recall: Rob Simmons.

Kuridrani, Simmons in for Bledisloe redemption

Local cycling team, Matt rizzuto, Dan McNamara, Michael tolhurst, Stephen Isbel, Alastair Loutit, Andrew Lake and Ben ...

Door opens for ACT's next cycling stars on Capital Tour

29 mins ago

Knights coach Nathan Brown labels the Raiders the "unluckiest side" in the NRL.

Brown labels Raiders 'unluckiest side' in the NRL

Canberra Raiders forward Joe Tapine says it's time to take his game to the next level.

Honeymoon's over: Tapine's new challenge

Andrew Forrest joins the crowd during a rally in support of the Western Force.

RUPA 'bewildered' by ARU leaving $50m offer on table