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The Queanbeyan-Palerang election. Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council administrator Tim Overall.

Qbn election night results look good for former mayor

33 mins ago

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

'Pay a dear price': NK threatens US over UN 'fit'

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

Hurricane Irma makes landfall in Cuba as a Category 5

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

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

Same sex marriage supporters outside High Court. 7 September 2017. The Age News. Photo: Eddie Jim. Sarah Marlowe, left, ...

Support for same-sex marriage falling, says poll

EXCLUSIVE

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

'We're all going to die': unsolved hit and run that killed Rian

Battle for our footpaths: Push for scooter speed crackdown

Canberra prosecutors struggle with criminal confiscation workload

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

French minister calls out Trump on climate change as Irma nears

Cash stolen as Canberra supermarket robbed at knifepoint

Love Your Sister's Connie Johnson.

Tributes flow for Connie Johnson

1 hr ago

Best man: Kurtley Beale makes a break for the Wallabies.

Wallabies blow lead to draw Test, but crowd reserves anger for ARU

1 hr ago

Nathan Zalewski being pulled by his dog Milo

Dogs get their day at the snow as Corin Forest opens to pooches

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

Eagles celebrate after a momentous win.

Eagles power to win over Port Adelaide in extra time

25 mins ago

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'She went so richly, and with such grace': Samuel Johnson

Floating timber floors look beautiful and feel good to walk on.

Get this wrong and you'll risk ruining your entire renovation

Banana bread

How to make banana bread with just seven ingredients

Man charged with assault for hitting man with ...

11:39PM

Eagles power to win after tough draw

11:31PM

Queanbeyan election night results appear positive ...

11:23PM

Canberra Domain Allhomes. 54/47 Blackall Street, Barton. August 26, 2017.

Auction watch: High demand for high-end inner south homes

Given the assets that remain in a super pension remain tax-free and the $1.6 million balance transfer cap is allowed to ...

I'm about to retire – should I sell my Canberra house?

Allhomes. Domain. Canberra. August 29, 2017.?30 Swinden Street, Downer.

Downer suburb record smashed by more than $300,000

5 Moresby Street, Forrest.

Canberra property market to blossom after standout winter

Allhomes. Canberra. Domain. September 1, 2017.?56 Albatross Crescent, Harrison.

Full house: What are Canberra families looking for in a home?

David Cross has not been seen since 8am on Saturday at his Ngunnawal home.

David Cross has Alzheimer's disease and he has gone missing

Vale Connie Johnson: 'You did make us all kinder'

Man arrested after police officer punched in Canberra

Turner Primary school teacher Sam Hardwicke with students Shazia Fathraya, William Hughes, and Matthew Ohms.

Turner School teacher awarded for making maths fun

Canberra motocross star Harry Bink can't wait to perform with Nitro Circus in front of a home crowd.

Nitro Circus global tour announced - first stop, Canberra

Safe Shelter volunteers Ken Vesperman, left, and Katy Nicholls prepare hot drinks at St Columba's Uniting Church in ...

Big jump in homeless needing overnight shelter in city

Connie and Samuel Johnson.

Connie 'was cushioned by your love till the end', says brother Sam

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

Mr Preece is stuck aboard a cruise ship.

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

A former public servant has won a bid for taxpayer-funded running shoes.

Public servant wins Comcare bid for running shoes

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton.

Immigration starts debt recovery for leave mistakes

Winner: Michael Pezzullo will lead Peter Dutton's new Home Affairs Department.

Pezzullo a winner in public service shake-up

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

Chris Dunstan makes the most of solar energy, and an app that monitors the household consumption and costs.

People power: how households can help the energy crisis

Judith Ireland

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

Senior executives in Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's department have received pay rises of up to 12 per cent a year.

Malcolm Turnbull catches a break - now he must grab it

ANALYSIS
Mark Kenny

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

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

What's there to be so scared of?

I didn't get the flu shot. Does that make me an anti-vaxxer?

COMMENT
Aisha Dow

A couple embracing outside the count centre in Dublin when Ireland held a referendum on gay marriage on May 23, 2015.

Lessons from Ireland: the Catholic country with a gay PM

COMMENT
Tiernan Brady

David Pope

David Pope's latest cartoons

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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Olivia Newton John admits her cancer battle fears

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US Open 2017: Nadal beats del Potro to reach final

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Line of hurricanes hurtle west

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Mexico earthquake death toll rises

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

Rewind - The force

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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Ariana Grande asserts her power effortlessly.

Review: Ariana Grande asserts power through vocal highs

★★★½
Nicole Economos
1 hr 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

Landscape with Monsters by Circa sneak-preview.

A different kind of circus comes to town (hint: no red noses!)

Move over Liam Hemsworth! Andrew Creer, whose parents live in Canberra, plays Tom in new teen surf movie 'Rip Tide'.

New teen surf blockbuster edited right here in Canberra

Wendy Baker has been selling her knitted items for 30 years at the Hartley Hall Markets.

Wendy onto a winner at Hartley Hall Markets

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

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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

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

Habanero steak tartare with prawn crackers.

Eightysix still ticks plenty of boxes

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

Ads

Would you put ads on your phone for money?

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

Best man: Kurtley Beale makes a break for the Wallabies.

Wallabies blow lead to draw Test, but crowd reserves anger for ARU

1 hr ago

Belconnen United players celebrate their first goal.

Belconnen United stun Canberra Olympic in NPL grand final

Retaining Raiders forward Dave Taylor is looking like a "lost cause".

Coal Train staying at Canberra station a 'lost cause'

Eagles celebrate after a momentous win.

Eagles power to incredible win after tough draw

25 mins ago

Magic night: Nathan Cleary distributes with the hands but it was his kicking that sealed Manly's fate.

Death by a thousand Cleary kicks, but who will help Panthers star?

Canberra's David Toussaint crowned new Australian middleweight champion.

Canberra's Dave Toussaint crowned Australian champion

Chris Dutton

Did everyone forget the Wallabies are playing in Canberra

COMMENT

Canberra Vikings skipper Tom Cusack said without five teams in Australia he may never have been given an opportunity in ...

Tom Cusack says five Super Rugby teams provided his chance