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Christopher Howell pictured in the 1977 Trinity school magazine.

'All in it together': Ex-Trinity teachers accused of abuse

David Myers (left) hugs team-mate Jobe Watson

Jobe's swansong is a cruel tune for Bombers

ANALYSIS
Greg Baum

The mystery man killed by a train in Pakenham nine years ago.

Who is this man? Unidentified dead wait years to be given a name

16 mins ago

Joshua Dipietro, who was shot in his friend's car.

Man charged with murder over Rosebud Father's Day shooting

US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley addresses a UN Security Council meeting about North Korea.

'Pay a dear price': North Korea threatens US over UN stance

Ideally, adults will protect young gender-variant children from any stress and practical difficulties, says one gender ...

Why do transgender children anger 'tolerant' Australians?

The $18b woman told to hang up coats and fetch coffee

Nassim Khadem

'No stigma or discrimination': Why you should get tested

Anti-vax GP's Melbourne clinic raided and files seized

50 years, 2m babies: Our remarkable role in a medical success story

Support for same-sex marriage falling, says poll

EXCLUSIVE
James Massola

Deni Dimovski

'Beautiful man': Deadly stabbing after brawl at restaurant

UPDATED

Sloane Stephens reacts after defeating Venus Williams in the semifinals of the US Open in New York.

US Open has thrown up some bizarre storylines, but this tops it

Drink issue: The truth is, experts don't know whether one or two occasional drinks will affect the foetus.

One drink during pregnancy won't hurt, will it?

Gary Rohan (centre) of the Swans celebrates with Lance Franklin.

'Emphatic': Swans take AFL finals series by the throat

1 hr ago

The Glen Iris home has undergone a huge renovation over the last year.

How a year's worth of renovations paid off for this luxury pad

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Swans juggernaut rolls over the top of outgunned Bombers

Richard Branson, pictured before this week's hurricane, has urged others to evacuate.

Branson emerges from bunker after Irma slams his island

Laurie Strathdee and his partner Jasmine Payget's son Rian was killed in a hit and run accident on the Hume Hwy at ...

Who drove the truck that killed six-year-old Rian?

Don Williams

Country music legend 'Gentle Giant' Don Williams dies aged 78

Generic jogging shoes, asics, footwear, fitness, sneakers, soccer, health. Thursday 7th July 2005 AFR News photo Louie ...

Five unexpected lessons I've learned while training for a marathon

A woman has died after being hit by a van in a shopping centre car park.

Woman dies after being hit by husband in supermarket car park

'The crook, the retirement village and mother': Residents fight back

Adele Ferguson

Victoria to help asylum seekers facing homelessness

EXCLUSIVE
Benjamin Preiss

Moreland councillor Samantha Ratnam.

Moreland Council to vote on Australia Day move- again

A man and a woman in their 60s have died after a crash as they entered a highway in northern Victoria.

Couple in 60s die in northern Victoria highway crash

AFR. Mount Hotham. Supplied. Skiing. August 24 2017 .

'It's crazy': State's ski resorts enjoy bumper season ... in spring

Ricardo Herrera, 37, admitted filming up the skirts of thousands of women and girls for seven years.

'I felt sick': Teacher who 'couldn't stop upskirting' gets jail

David Croxon allegedly assaulted the girl after making her toast in the staff room of Shoalhaven High School

'This is wrong': Teacher raped student at school

NSW

Trailblazers: Dale and Jamie Todling with their son Malachy.

First adoption by a same-sex couple in Canberra

ACT

Rough seas start to pound the Nassau coastline as Hurricane Irma moves through the Southern Bahama Islands and along the ...

Hurricane, earthquake strands Perth tourists

WA

Nathan Zalewski being pulled by his dog Milo.

Dogs get their day at the snow for sold-out event

ACT

The Glen Iris home has undergone a huge renovation over the last year.

Before and after: How a year renovating paid off for this luxury pad

24 Howard Street, Glen Iris

Auction results: See what sold near you on Saturday

Bitcoins sit among twisted copper wiring inside a communications room at an office in this arranged photograph in ...

World's first residential development to be sold in bitcoin

Higher Ground cafe, Melbourne, designed by interior design firm Design Office.

Cafe society: From cavernous power station to upmarket eatery

This stately property on a corner block is in tightly held St Kilda West.

Melbourne's suburbs that play hard to get for home buyers

'I used to dream about this when I was a kid': Syrian refugee Rami Basisah in Switzerland.

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'I used to dream about this when I was a kid': Syrian refugee Rami Basisah in Switzerland.

A Syrian refugee's journey to Europe's top concert halls

Bostjan Videmsek
1 hr ago

The Night Cat owner Justin Stanford with the 'yes' mural outside the Fitzroy club.

Paste-ups and murals: Marriage debate hits the street

Joe Hinchliffe

Story on stagnation in male teacher numbers. .Emmaus Christian School principal Erik Hofsink and his son Julian (right) ...

Decline in male teachers will hurt vulnerable children most

Jane Gilmore

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Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley with Robbie Gray.

Live: AFL elimination final heads to extra time

Live

Gary Rohan (centre) of the Swans celebrates with Lance Franklin.

Swans juggernaut rolls over the top of outgunned Bombers

James Buckley
1 hr ago

Marcus Bontempelli and Ben Brown are two of the names in line for a steep pay rise in 2018.

AFL players seeking pay days in 2018

Anthony Colangelo and Jon Pierik

Callum Sinclair

Swansong is a cruel tune for Bombers

ANALYSIS
Greg Baum

Illustration: Jim Pavlidis.

A big week in art ... Jobe's master stroke

Jim Pavlidis
59 mins ago

A new contract is imminent for St Kilda coach Alan Richardson.

Saints closing in a new contract for Richardson

Jon Pierik

Joel Selwood

Selwood says Cats can still ride finals 'wave'

Jon Pierik

After a generation, the Tigers are back in town.

Big crowd, a bigger win as Tiger dam bursts

Greg Baum

Mobility scooter user Barbara Lund in Canberra on Friday 8 September 2017. Fedpol Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Battle for our footpaths: senator pushes for scooter crackdown

Fergus Hunter

Support for same-sex marriage crashing, advocate polling finds

EXCLUSIVE
James Massola

Japan: US prepared to take action against North Korea

David Wroe

The Liddell power station.

Scheme could keep coal alive, but Liddell has 'mammoth problems'

James Massola

Finance Minister Mathias Cormann said he was very confident the law would be changed by Christmas if Australians voted "yes".

Same-sex marriage poll cleared to settle the matter 'once and for all'

Michael Koziol

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull kicked off the campaign promising to vote "yes".

Malcolm Turnbull catches a break - now he must grab it

ANALYSIS
Mark Kenny

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull with Christopher Pyne in question time after the High Court decision on the same-sex ...

So the marriage postal survey has been approved: what now?

Judith Ireland

Syrian Rami Basisah plays for his fellow refugees at the Greece-Macedonia border in 2015.

From Homs to Europe's top concert halls: a Syrian refugee's journey

Bostjan Videmsek
1 hr ago

Rohingya man Hossain Ahamed points to the bullet wound his son Mohammad Touha, 16, sustained while fleeing Myanmar, as ...

Australia told to halt support for Myanmar military

Lindsay Murdoch

Winds brought by Hurricane Irma blow trees lining the seawall in Caibarien, Cuba, before landfall on Friday.

Hurricane Irma makes landfall Cuba as a Category 5

The aftermath of Hurricane Irma in Virgin Gorda's Leverick Bay in the British Virgin Islands on Thursday.

French minister calls out Trump on climate change as Irma rages

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten during Question Time.

This is Bill Shorten's biggest challenge

COMMENT
Anne Summers

A survey found 40 per cent of women had been diagnosed with depression or anxiety.

Worry about weight behind many a woman's anxiety

COMMENT
Wendy Squires

Compulsive texting is a recognised syndrome in Japan.

Texting and other attention deficits

Toni Hassan

Jane Cartledge, who has lost a considerable amount of money after buying into a retirement village owned by convicted ...

'The crook, the retirement village and my mother'

Adele Ferguson

Qantas' new 787 Dreamliner will fly the non-stop Perth to London route, but the airline wants planes that can go even ...

Fly longer, but the airport transfer is not departing just yet

Patrick Hatch

Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments, hopes Americans turn the division it is experiencing into unity.

The $18 billion woman told to hang up coats and fetch coffee

Nassim Khadem

Could routine intubation improve the recovery rates in brain trauma cases?

Insurance scandal is treated like a storm in a tea cup. It isn't

COMMENT
Adele Ferguson

Retail tenants putting the heat on landlords

Carolyn Cummins

People are more upbeat about the economy and it's no bad thing

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

Suburban strips thrive despite retailing woes

Simon Johanson

Stop 'drip feed' of bad news: RBA's plea to banks

Clancy Yeates

Mercedes-Benz S-Class looks like a winner.

Start your engines: 13 new luxury cars we can't wait to drive in 2018

Luxury cars
Toby Hagon

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A. Lange & Söhne 1815 Annual Calendar.

The 'Oscars of watches' announce the best of the best for 2017

Watches
Benjamen Judd

Reports of mortgage stress are already emerging, despite interest rates at record lows. Illustration: John Shakespeare

The antidote to mortgage stress

Noel Whittaker

Grandparents and parents often want to give their children a helping hand.

The best way to invest on behalf of children

George Cochrane

There's an upward trend in workplace cheating.

This is why employees lie, steal and cheat

COMMENT
James Adonis

Michael Schaper, deputy chairman of the ACCC, estimates several thousand small businesses have contracts with JJ Richards.

'Game changer': ACCC takes first small business unfair contracts court action

Cara Waters

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By the numbers: SSM polls tighten

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Mexico earthquake death toll rises

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"She went so richly, and with such grace" Samuel Johnson

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Line of hurricanes hurtle west

Sirians in the Supreme Court deciding who should run their church hostile Sirian protesters... Police barricade at the ...

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

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Ariana Grande asserts her power effortlessly.

Review: Ariana Grande asserts power through vocal highs

★★★½
Nicole Economos
10 mins ago

The TV Week Logies Awards are set to leave Melbourne after 30 years.

The Logies and the Gold Coast are a match made in tacky heaven

COMMENT
Nathanael Cooper

Beck's new album, Colors, is released on October 13.

Beck returns from the brink with peppy album Colors

Andrew Murfett

Don Williams, pictured in 2012.

Country music legend Don Williams dies aged 78

Kyle MacLachlan and Sheryl Lee in Twin Peaks.

Why Twin Peaks: The Return is well worth your time

Michael Idato

Ringo Starr has worked with famous friends on his new album.

Track by track with Ringo Starr on his new album

Ringo Starr

Wildly ambitious: Javier Bardem and Jennifer Lawrence in Mother!

'I was horrified': J. Law on her darkest role yet

Garry Maddox

Anthony Callea says the government's non-binding postal survey is "insulting".

Anthony Callea slams same-sex marriage survey

Broede Carmody

The new Louvre Abu Dhabi.

French-designed 'Desert Louvre' in Abu Dhabi opening soon

The cast shines in a brilliant rendition of Angels in America.

Angels in America highlights the talent in Melbourne theatre scene

REVIEW
Cameron Woodhead

Jennifer Lawrence in mother!, from Paramount Pictures and Protozoa Pictures. Jennifer Lawrence stars as the woman, with ...

Mother!, with Jennifer Lawrence, is the maddest film of the year

Karl Quinn

Clem Ford: Nothing seems to cause as much whiplash as the contradictory emotions that come with parenting a small child.

The painfully contradicting lessons of parenthood

COMMENT
Clementine Ford

Connie and Samuel Johnson.

Connie Johnson loses her battle with breast cancer

Jennifer Aniston in Friends with those lips and that hair.

Alert: You can buy the exact lipstick that Rachel Green wears in Friends

Stephanie Darling

Drink issue: The truth is, experts don't know whether one or two occasional drinks will affect the foetus.

One drink during pregnancy won't hurt, will it?

Sarah Berry

"Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, Silvana Mangano, could exist as icons after 40, but not as actresses. And I think ...

Monica Bellucci's role in Hollywood's age revolution

Sally Williams

Alexa Chung on the streets of New York, 2013.

The enduring appeal of the Breton stripe

Wendy Douglas

Rihanna at the launch of Fenty Beauty in New York City on Thursday.

Inclusivity is the theme of Rihanna's Fenty Beauty

Amy Croffey

Best of?Melbourne Fashion Week. September 8, 2017

The 10 moments that made Melbourne Fashion Week 2017

Three-cornered heaven: Ricky & Pinky's prawn toast triangles.

Prawn toast heaven: the new yum cha menu at Ricky and Pinky

2017 Sanglier Rose, McLaren Vale South Australia.

Five smashing bottles to celebrate spring

Best of British: A loganberry tart from Lyle's.

The hottest spots to eat and drink in East London

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12 things parents do that their children will (almost always) copy

Miki Agrawal with her breast pump at Burning Man.

Breastmilk lattes at Burning Man

Alanis Morissette & family

Alanis Morissette says PND started 'seconds' after her son's birth

Cape Town.

This was the greatest trip of my life, and nobody wants to know about it

Ben Groundwater

Pioneertown's Mane Street.

Where you can stay in the world's coolest, real live movie set

Kylie McLaughlin

Precious sleep on a plane can help you avoid the worst of jetlag.

Resolved: Why do some airlines close window shades in daylight

The Nokia8 in steel (above) and tempered blue.

Nokia 8 review: return of the Finnish flagship

The OnePlus 5 can go toe-to-toe with the Android heavyweights, but with a mid-range price tag.

Hands on with the OnePlus 5 smartphone

COMMENT

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off with the Pentagon's test vehicle attached.

SpaceX launches secretive space drone for US government

LA Noir

L.A. Noire coming to Switch, PS4, Xbox, VR

Kotaku

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Mazda BT-50 at the 2017 Birdsville Races

Getting to Birdsville races the hard way

Andrew Maclean

Hyundai has invested in a hydrogen station at its Sydney HQ.

Will SA become a hydrogen hub?

David McCowen

2017 Kia Proceed Concept.

Kia reinvents the hot hatch with new concept

Stephen Ottley

Kia's Picanto received a four-star safety score following Euro NCAP testing.

Crash tests highlight child safety

David McCowen

2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk.

Reviewed: Jeep builds the world's fastest SUV

Tim Robson

Williams has used its F1 expertise to develop a lighter electric vehicle platform

Williams reveals F1-inspired electric car

Andrew Maclean

White-line fever: Kenny Bromwich runs in to score for the Storm.

Parra shattered: Storm survive massive scare to topple Eels

Michael Chammas

Sloane Stephens reacts after defeating Venus Williams in the semifinals of the US Open in New York.

US Open women's final: American friends pursue dream ending

Simon Briggs

In the clear: Israel Folau scores the Wallabies' first try in Dunedin.

Wallabies take on Springboks after tumultuous week

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Stephen Samuelson
52 mins ago

Bentleigh Greens clash with Heidelberg United in 2016. They do battle again this weekend in the NPL Victoria Grand Final.

NPL clubs take centre stage, chance to promote A-League claims

Michael Lynch

On top: Rafael Nadal celebrates after beating Juan Martin del Potro.

Nadal and Anderson to meet in US Open final

David Waldstein

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