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Senator Malcolm Roberts has been referred to the High Court.

Citizenship saga: Senators change their stories

President Donald Trump gestures at a rally at the Phoenix Convention Center, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017, in Phoenix. (AP ...

Donald Trump's presidency is in chaos. His rallies reveal why

COMMENT

Police have been given information about 600 persons of interest in the William Tyrrell investigation.

Missing boy William Tyrrell, in foster care, is probably dead: court

33 mins ago

MMag TV 20/8/17. Utopia.

Utopia's success shows there's no joke like our 'clowns in Canberra'

COMMENT

The dual citizenship debacle tearing apart the nationals has spread to Deputy Leader Fiona Nash who has told parliament ...

Public servants shouldn't be relocated to 'unappealing' cities

The result was just above the airline's guidance and beat market consensus of $1.38 billion.

Qantas delivers second-highest profit ever

31 mins ago

Marriage about 'men growing up': two take up Barr on proxy vote offer

Aussie Olympic medalist arrested, charged as part of police drug operation

'Miserable bunch': DJs blames belt-tighteners as shoppers steer clear

The $400,000 CEO who just made $95 million

COMMENT

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

Stuart Allman is one of the claimants in a class action against Airservices Australia.

This could be largest ever underpayment of workers by a govt body corporate

1 hr ago

tra2-checkIn PASSPORT John Safran

7 things to do in Canberra this weekend

Mavis Wanczyk

American woman quits her job after record $950m jackpot win

How can the Canberra Raiders fans be smiling come NRL finals time?

As crowds grow, Raiders consider Queanbeyan homecoming

The teacher who taught the wrong maths course to HSC students since the beginning of the year has been formally sacked.

Teacher who taught wrong HSC maths course sacked

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14 missing after Swiss landslide

Single man

Relationship advice married men want to give single men

hotel room

Hotel workers reveal the most disturbing things they've found

The $10.8m man: departing Australia Post chief's ...

9:15AM

Markets Live: Qantas profit in cruise mode

9:12AM

Worsfold gathers Eagles greats for Mainy tribute

9:10AM

?National Library of Australia staff in their Book Week costumes L-R: Candice Cappe (Ruby Red Shoes Rabbit), Vanessa ...

National Library staff show off their Book Week costumes

Man jailed over part in Gowrie drive-by shooting, arson

St Edmund's College teacher on trial for alleged sex abuse

The Woden Tradies Union Club has been sold for $16 million to local developer Geocon. Photo: Sitthixay Ditthavong

'Heartbreaking': Woden Tradies sold to local developer

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

Tim the Yowie Man believes he was cursed after diving at a haunted wreck near Perth.

Tim the Yowie Man's new book on haunted, mysterious Australia

Anna Snoekstra will speak at Millennials Strike Back.

Canberra Writers Festival: something for every appetite

The teacher who taught the wrong maths course to HSC students since the beginning of the year has been formally sacked.

Teacher who taught wrong HSC maths sacked

NSW

What Ms Summer found after biting into this piece of popcorn chicken.

Woman accuses KFC of serving raw chicken

WA

Proposed Aria Property Group development at South Brisbane

Waterfall skyscraper runs into opposition

QLD

Defiant: AOC president John Coates.

I won't quit: Coates vows to stay on despite at AOC

UPDATED

The dual citizenship debacle tearing apart the nationals has spread to Deputy Leader Fiona Nash who has told parliament ...

Decentralisation should have appeal for public servants: committee

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'

Matt Canavan, the now ex-minister for resources and northern Australia.

Senators change their stories in first High Court citizenship hearing

Michaela Whitbourn

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

James Massola

Coalition women form secret women-only WhatsApp group

Latika Bourke
1 hr ago

Final approval has been given for the Adani mine.

'Transparency needed': Bank queries secrecy of $5b loan scheme

Nicole Hasham

Minister for Immigration and Border Protection Peter Dutton addresses the media during a doorstop interview at ...

Law Council criticises 'unprecedented' citizenship laws

EXCLUSIVE

"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'

A shopper finds empty shelves on the bottled water section of a grocery store on in preparation of Hurricane Harvey in ...

Hurricane Harvey heads for Texas

A landslide that hit the village Bondo in southern Switzerland.

Swiss landslide leaves more than a dozen missing

President Donald Trump at a rally on Tuesday.

Trump lashes out at fellow Republicans again

A body recovered from the Xingu River lies covered by a blue tarp.

Brazil ferry capsizes, at least 22 dead in second accident this week

Trump uses his rallies to speak directly to his base, far from the troubles of Washington DC.

What it's like to be at the frontline of a Donald Trump rally

COMMENT
Josephine Tovey

David Pope

David Pope's latest cartoons

Anyone seen my Werther's Originals?

The worrying signs that you're no longer middle aged

COMMENT
Danny Katz

The result was just above the airline's guidance and beat market consensus of $1.38 billion.

Qantas shares profit bounty with frontline staff

Patrick Hatch
31 mins ago

Global investors are fixed to the sidelines.

Markets Live: Qantas profit in cruise mode

Live
Patrick Commins and Sarah Turner
7 mins ago

How strong is the case of a shareholder class action against Commonwealth Bank?

Ambulance chasers' case against CBA not as strong as you think

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe
21 mins ago

Cleaner Judith Barber poses for a photo at the United Voice Union Office in Haymarket Sydney, on August 15, 2017. To go ...

The job more dangerous than construction and mining

Anna Patty

$10m heartburn: did company overpay for Maggie Beer stake?

Colin Kruger, CBD

Why the whole market is now watching Foxtel

COMMENT
John McDuling

Forrest declares beginning of end of modern slavery

Anna Patty

8@eight: Qantas on tap, ASX poised for flat start

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John Kicklighter
1 hr ago

The number of new apartments constructed in Canberra is predicted to fall.

New ACT units under construction to fall by a third: report

30 mins 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

Alice Glenn and Hazel Brown with their young children.

'It's a huge effort' to host Airbnb, so ... why bother?

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

Gucci has led the way with the extreme embellishment movement.

Why the latest trend in menswear is a total stitch up

Men's Style

UFC star Conor McGregor has lost sight of his origins.

Face off: The McGregor versus Mayweather is a production sham

Culture

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

Illustration: Simon Letch

How tax deductions for investment work

Noel Whittaker

Tax Commissioner Chris Jordan has raised concerns about Labor's plan to tax trusts.

'Going to be hard': Doubt cast on Labor's plan to tax trusts

Cara Waters

Women crowded by manspreading is an international problem.

The worst people on public transport

COMMENT
James Adonis

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Hurricane Harvey heads for Texas

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Massachusetts Powerball ticket wins AUD$950 mlllion

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Eels roll Broncos in crazy match

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Barcelona suspects filmed hours before attack

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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The business rules of attraction

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Wander through ancient landscapes in WA

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Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison in Homeland.

Homeland fans take out ad to blast show's creators

Travis M. Andrews
1 hr ago

'I'm the girl [who] walked away from Matty J': Jen farewells The Bachelor.

Jen quits Bachelor mansion: 'I ... walked away from Matty J'

Aja Styles

The Block, 2017

How The Block remains an audience favourite

Debi Enker

Singer Paulini Curuenavuli (top) performs during a media call for the Melbourne production of The Bodyguard at The ...

Singer Paulini leans on Bodyguard cast amid bribery allegations

Broede Carmody

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 featuring her

Rob Moran

Isaiah Firebrace performing for Australia at this year's Eurovision.

Australia confirmed for fourth shot at Eurovision

Danielle McGrane

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

Tim the Yowie Man believes he was cursed after diving at a haunted wreck near Perth.

Yowie Man explores the haunted and mysterious in new book

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

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

Malia with her dad at the White House last year.

What will uni life be like for Malia Obama?

Krissah Thompson
30 mins ago

The image in question.

This is why everyone is talking about Louise Linton

Robin Givhan

Is Daenerys really a feminist bad ass? Maybe not.

Success isn't acting like a man in a 'man's world'

Clem Bastow

FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 11, 2016, file photo, Conor McGregor stands on a scale during the weigh-in event for his ...

We should all try McGregor's secret training technique

Sarah Berry

'Incredible opportunity' ... Australian model Victoria Lee will appear in the Victoria's Secret show in China later this ...

Aussie model to make Victoria's Secret debut

Melissa Singer

Claudia Schiffer, Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell pose for Balmain.

The enduring appeal of the original 'supers'

Stephanie Darling
26 mins ago

Clementine Ford with her baby son.

How I survived my first year of motherhood

Clementine Ford

Protesters 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

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

Overwatch

Why gaming giant Blizzard just apologised to all of Australia

1 hr ago

The mini SNES comes with 21 legitimately great games built in.

Hands on with the Super Nintendo Classic Mini

Kotaku

Robotic bartenders at the Tipsy Robot in Las Vegas

Robot bartenders arrive at Las Vegas Strip

2018 Holden Commodore.

New European Holden Commodore reviewed

Andrew Maclean

Volkswagen is set to offer a performance variant of its upcoming baby T-Roc SUV.

VW plots T-Roc R

Stephen Ottley

2017 Mini Countryman John Cooper Works.

Reviewed: Mini's sportiest SUV to date

Drive staff

The 2015 Hyundai Santa Cruz concept.

Hyundai confirms ute

The Drive Team

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

Ferrari unveils stunning California successor

Greg Kable

2017 Suzuki Celerio.

Suzuki axes Celerio

Dom Tripolone

Statement win: Parramatta players celebrate a try.

Eels trample records, Broncos, in rout at Suncorp

How can the Canberra Raiders fans be smiling come NRL finals time?

Raiders consider Queanbeyan return for first time since 1989

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

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I've had hate mail since Bledisloe debacle, says Cheika

Raiders captain Jarrod Croker dismisses talk about them being unlucky.

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

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

Is this kid a Stephen Larkham clone?

Steve Johnson.

Stevie J back for crunch clash against Cats

University of Canberra sevens captain Ash Kara.

The busted lip that launched a girl's rugby union dreams