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Malcolm Turnbull

'Beyond Trump': PM slammed by Chinese media

1 hr ago

Seven residents of a Wangaratta retirement home have died after a flu outbreak.

Seven dead after flu outbreak in retirement home

47 mins ago

Convicted murderer and rapist Adrian Bayley.

Murderer Adrian Bayley stabbed with 'fork' inside prison

Chris Vedelago

Tancred with former AOC chef de Mission, Kitty Chiller.

AOC media boss cleared of bullying but set to lose job

BREAKING
1 hr ago

Dustin Martin is set to stay in yellow and black

Tigers insist Dustin Martin deal won't clog salary cap

20 mins ago

Bombs dropped by US Air Force B-1B bombers, F-35 stealth fighter jets and South Korean F-15 fighter jets hit a simulated ...

America in fiery show of force against North Korea

Leading Catholic thinker backs yes vote on same-sex marriage

1 hr ago

'Many will go to zero': Inside the bitcoin bubble

COMMENT

'It's crazy': Archer fined $2000 for punching runner at kids game

1 hr ago

ALP courts writer as Northcote vote looms

1 hr ago

'We only kill black people,' US police officer tells driver

Team of the century portrait

We crunched the numbers to pick AFL's team of the century

Andrew McGrath has won the 2017 Rising Star award.

Essendon young gun wins Rising Star award

BREAKING
40 mins ago

The director of Taylor Swift's new video has defended the singer against critics.

Video director slams criticism of Taylor Swift video clip

Work life balance

Why pursuing 'balance' in life is overrated

Apple???s Campus 2: still on the drawing board, but claimed to
be the world???s greenest building.

Apple to debut new iPhone at 'spaceship' campus

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Petrol outlets accused of ripping off customers

Evie Weir was two years old when she was diagnosed.

After a 'beautiful' year without cancer, doctors found a spot

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Spring in Melbourne is terrible. Here is the proof

Portrait of adorable two weeks baby girl sleeping. Cut out image, with copy space.

Tidying your room and 19 other ways to help you sleep like a baby

Shawn Theodore's Philadelphia "Silhouette City, 6" part of Street Diaries, a mobile photography Pop Up exhibition.

One in two young transgender Australians have attempted suicide

Ms Thompson wants Uber's complaint system to be more transparent.

Uber nightmare: 'He said he didn't have to take people like me'

Melbourne drivers 'paying 4 cents too much for petrol'

Execution-style Melbourne murders may never be solved

The teacher has been suspended for six months.

Teacher who made lurid comment to student suspended

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Ice-affected taxi driver caught on Tullamarine Freeway

Jane Garrett said her friend "knew what to say, when to say it and when to shut the hell up".

Purple farewell for Labor minister at packed ballroom

MCG.

Tickets for $500: AFL fans want government crackdown on scalpers

Melissa Cunningham, Anna Prytz

As many as 100 employees have been caught up in an internal fraud probe at the Department of Human Services.

Subcontractors sacked in DHS fraud probe

ACT

Two babies are recovering in hospital from deadly meningococcal disease.

Two babies being treated for meningococcal

WA

Shock: Corey Norman has been rattled by Reece Clarke's death.

Rugby star in shock after friend's horrific death

NSW

All businesses will be banned from imposing excessive credit card surcharges from September 1.

Small businesses face fines for credit card surcharges

A rare public warning has been issued about Melbourne real estate identity Craig McIntosh.

Alarm over rogue, unlicensed Melbourne real estate agent

31 mins ago

Photo: MacCormick & Associates Architects.

New home, old tricks: Add heritage charm to a modern home

As we move into spring, designers say that pale pink continues to be a popular colour, and it's nearly as versatile as ...

Forget florals: The interior trends you'll be loving this spring

What these towns lack in size, they make up for in wow factor. Bull Street in Bendigo.

Move over major cities: These are the best small Australian towns

Lorraine and Martin Kilbane have fought their insurance company over mould contamination for five years.

The common, often invisible household problem at plague level

Dan Marges senior horticulturalist at the Australian National Botanical Gardens in Canberra under Acacia covenyi wattle ...

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Dan Marges, a senior horticulturalist at the Australian National Botanical Gardens in Canberra.

Could a new, golden Australia Day bloom in the springtime?

Tony Wright

Whisky on the pour.

Ten great whiskies for $100 or less

Fred Siggins

CHILD AFR 071204 MELB ... GENERIC children, daughter, student, education revolution, computer, laptop, learn, teach, ...

Cyberbullying: adults are worse than children

COMMENT
James Adonis

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Dustin Martin with Alex Rance at the All Australian dinner on Wednesday.

Tigers insist Dusty deal won't clog salary cap

Jon Pierik
20 mins ago

Team of the century wide

Which is the best flag team of the 2000s?

Andrew McGrath has won the 2017 Rising Star award.

Dons' McGrath wins Rising Star award

BREAKING
40 mins ago

Origin: AFLW stars Chelsea Randall and Daisy Pearce.

AFLW stars expect high-quality state of origin clash

Ronny Lerner

Steve Hocking has been announced as the AFL's new football operations boss.

AFL announces Steve Hocking as new footy ops boss

UPDATED

Dustin Martin is set to stay in yellow and black

Martin rejects mammoth North offer, will stay a Tiger until 2024

Caroline Wilson

Coaching great Kevin Sheedy believes the Bombers are a strong chance to take out the premiership in 2017.

Sheedy has Bombers in flag mix

Patrick Ryder

'I had a lot of doubts:' Ryder caps return with All-Aus selection

"We are now in a society very different from what it was a decade ago": Father Frank Brennan.

Legalise same-sex marriage for the 'common good', Catholic priest

Michael Koziol
1 hr ago

Indigenous populations double in NSW and Victoria

Eryk Bagshaw

Defence watchdog calls for witnesses to alleged war crimes

David Wroe

Human Services Minister Alan Tudge.

Government claims cashless welfare card a success

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is struggling in the polls.

How flatlining Malcolm Turnbull can still win the next election

ANALYSIS
Mark Kenny

Nuclear power plants in the US.

Add nuclear to the clean energy mix: Minerals Council

EXCLUSIVE

Iceland poppy on white background

Wattle Day: Could a new, golden Australia Day bloom in spring?

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on TV in South Korea this week

'Absurd' Turnbull comment shows we're 'second class citizen'

Kirsty Needham
1 hr ago

Rohingya woman Rahima, left, sits with her six months old child Jewel at a temporary shelter after being detained by ...

Bodies wash up in Bangladesh as Rohingya flee Myanmar

UPDATED
Lindsay Murdoch
1 hr ago

Children play in flood waters in Mumbai, India.

Deadly floods bring havoc around the world

Emmanuel Macron promised to lower France's high rate of unemployment.

France unveils labour overhaul in big test for Macron

Illustration: Andrew Dyson.

Malcolm Tunbull says he's voting yes, so why do we need a plebiscite?

COMMENT
Waleed Aly

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single woman in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a husband ...

Why more educated women are 'marrying down'

COMMENT
Jenna Price

Illustration: Simon Letch

Ladies, we need to talk about Melania

COMMENT
Polly Vernon

Industry gets behind Low Emissions Target to help solve climate policy crisis.

Photo-ops and Snowy River 2.0 won't stop the blackouts

COMMENT
Michael Pascoe

Investors eyeing the ASX board.

Markets Live: Harvey Norman 'not investable'

Live
Sarah Turner and Patrick Commins

With Chinese funds, Bindaree has said in the past it could double its daily cattle cull and turbocharge its growth.

Hong-Kong-based billionaire takes control of Bindaree Beef

53 mins ago

The model is a brainchild of Property Collectives founder Tim Riley, (second from right) with (from left) architect ...

Owners band together to get foothold in property market

Simon Johanson

Three charts that show why global optimism isn't felt here

Retailers look to galaxy far, far away for a profit boost

Hedge funds take control of Slater & Gordon

Adele Ferguson

CBA faces new scrutiny over its transaction monitoring

Clancy Yeates

Bill Lark has brought the Australian whisky industry to life.

Taste the terroir: The flavours hidden in every glass of whisky

Fine Drinks
1 hr ago

The new look Cayenne goes for size and speed.

The controversial SUV that just got bigger and faster

Cars
Toby Hagon

Your daily coffee habit could be costing you more than you think.

Your morning coffee adds 154 minutes to your mortgage

Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon

Having the ability to borrow against or withdraw money from a mortgage offset account greatly expands the financial ...

The benefits of getting a reverse mortgage

Daryl Dixon

Bernard Salt says Australia looks flat-footed in comparison to the United States.

Salt warns Australia lacks entrepreneurial spirit

Cara Waters

Victims of cyberbullying have higher levels of depression and social anxiety, lower rates of self-esteem and feel more alone.

Cyberbullying: adults are worse than children

COMMENT
James Adonis

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It's an act of love: Turnbull

Federal Politics
1 hr ago

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Star Wars Force Friday II begins

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The most dramatic footage from the path of Harvey

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Making hearing health cool

Tens of thousands of Melbournians turned out today at the rally in support of a yes vote in the upcoming marriage ...

Fairfax photos of the week - August 31, 2017

1 hr ago

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

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

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The director of Taylor Swift's new video has defended the singer against critics.

Taylor Swift's video director calls criticism sexist

Rob Moran

Robbie Williams has shunned pre-sale tickets for his upcoming Australian tour in a bid to fight back back against ticket ...

Robbie Williams shuns pre-sales to fight ticket scalpers

Broede Carmody

Benjamin Haggerty, aka Macklemore, will headline the 2017 NRL Grand Final

US rapper to headline 2017 NRL Grand Final

Broede Carmody

Hugh Edwards as Piggy in the 1963 adaptation of Lord of the Flies.

'Misses the point': all-female Lord of the Flies remake mocked

Piya Sinha-Roy

Clausen was responsible for a number of the series most memorable musical numbers.

Simpsons producers slammed after firing longtime composer

Randall Roberts

Jerry Seinfeld has heaped praise on disgraced comedian Bill Cosby.

Seinfeld says Cosby is still 'biggest comedian of all time'

Rob Moran

This image released by HBO shows Isaac Hempstead, who plays Bran Stark, in a scene from "Game of Thrones." A full ...

Thrones star on Bran, the Night King and a key deleted scene

Stephanie Merry

Picture Shows: Julia (NICOLE KIDMAN) Nicole Kidman in the series 'Top of the Lake: China Girl'. Photo: BBC

Second act: TV hands stars career-redefining roles

Debi Enker, Michael Idato, Tom Ryan

Inua Ellams is performing in Sydney and Melbourne.

Inua Ellams: Dispatches from a life lived 'in the middle'

PERFORMANCE
John Bailey

Leeanna Walsman and Eryn Jean Norvill will be appearing in Melancholia.

Malthouse to stage Melancholia, Picnic at Hanging Rock in 2018

THEATRE
Cameron Woodhead

A bloody civil war has left survivors in the clutches of a one-party state.

Darkly atmospheric production envisions a dystopian Australia

REVIEW
Cameron Woodhead

Perhaps we should be striving for less balance and more immersion, than more balance without full engagement.

Why pursuing 'balance' in life is overrated

Sarah Berry

Littlefinger tried to get in Sansa's ear.

How Game of Thrones finally showed its feminist card

Naomi Chainey

Former British Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman.

Ex-Vogue editor caught in peak mansplaining incident

Annie Brown

The bank of mum and dad is recycling large amounts of housing wealth to the next generation through intergenerational ...

Why I offered my service as a 'professional' third wheel

Allie Volpe

Louise Hay: the doyenne of personal development.

Louise Hay changed the way I think about my life

Jacinta Tynan

Image posted to social media by Elton John, paying tribute to his late friend Princess Diana.

Elton John, Britons honour Diana 20 years after her death

Miley Cyrus has donated US$500,000 as part of her Happy Hippie Foundation.

Miley Cyrus tears up speaking about Hurricane Harvey donation

Nicole Economos

Marchesa designers Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig.

Marchesa move cements 2017 as the year of the 'going out' top

Annie Brown

Go-to dish: The hot ocean trout salad.

Review: Prahran pub The Smith version 2.0 is a people-pleaser

Starward's original Solero release.

Drams for dad: Ten great whiskies for $100 or less

Scone dough ready for baking.

Our most common cooking mistakes - and how to fix them

The $49 foldable beach trolley parents are flocking to Kmart for.

The Kmart item parents are going mad for

Is it the considerate thing to do?

Is request for kids to wear headphones unreasonable?

Feeling the buzz of pregnancy.

This maternity shoot is un-BEE-lievable

Qantas has announced it will re-route its A380 London stopover from Dubai to Singapore.

Dubai, you're dumped: A stopover Australians preferred to opt out of

Anthony Dennis

Jobs with a major airline are the flight path to the big time.

Revealed: How much airline pilots really get paid

Michael Gebicki

Which city is depicted as King's Landing in Game of Thrones?

Quiz: Which city is depicted as King's Landing in Game of Thrones?

Mal Chenu

V30

LG's V30 looks like an incredible phone

1 hr ago

Apple???s Campus 2: still on the drawing board, but claimed to
be the world???s greenest building.

New iPhone to debut at 'spaceship' campus

Programmable R2-D2 and BB-9E are the latest additions to Sphero's range of robotics Star Wars droids.

Sphero's latest interactive robots are straight out of The Last Jedi

COMMENT

OzPod 2017 will feature 34 speakers and panelists from across the globe, plus workshops and networking events.

Podcast conference OzPod returns to Sydney

Designer Benjamin Geskin imagines the new iPhone (centre), compared to the 7 and 7 Plus.

Why iPhone 8 may be biggest redesign yet

We cross the Simpson Desert in the Mercedes-Benz G300d Professional.

We drive Mercedes' Army-grade off-roader

Andrew Maclean

Bugatti Chiron.

Audi Sport boss to depart

Greg Kable

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New Nismo-tweaked Nissan 370Z reviewed

Drive Staff

Holden will give Uber drivers discounted access to new cars.

Holden launches Uber partnership with Maven

David McCowen

2017 Toyota Fortuner Crusade

Toyota's HiLux-based off-roader range review

Andrew Maclean

Lapo Elkann's one-off camo-print Ferrari 458 Italia.

One-of-a-kind Ferrari found in barn

Stephen Ottley

Ange Postecoglou's men still have a big say in their World Cup fate.

What the Socceroos need to keep their World Cup dream alive

Michael Lynch

Roger Federer has battled through to the third round at the US Open.

Federer battles on at US Open

Meg Lanning will join the Perth Scorchers on a three year deal

Lanning heads to Scorchers in the WBBL

Bad timing: With his country in crisis, Manny Pacquiao can't return to the ring in 2017.

Pacquiao officially withdraws from rematch with Horn

Phil Lutton
57 mins ago

Lacklustre: It was a disappointing night for the Socceroos in Tokyo.

Be brave bold and resolute and go for goal: Socceroos have no other option

Michael Lynch

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