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The tap and go boom has created a significant rise in some retailers' debit card costs.

The hidden cost of Australia's tap-and-go boom

COMMENT
Clancy Yeates

CBA's outgoing chief executive, Ian Narev, last week apologised over the Austrac affair.

'On the nose': CBA executives hit with class action claim

1 hr ago

Rebel Wilson at the Supreme Court following her defamation trial verdict in June.

Bauer Media appealing Rebel Wilson's $4.56 million payday

23 mins ago

Maudie, left, susses out another dog at the off-leash dog beach.

My pup licked a baby at an off-leash beach. I was fined. Is that fair?

COMMENT
Neil McMahon
1 hr ago

Forced out: Harvey Weinstein.

Sex scandal: Media mogul Weinstein fired by own film company

Damen Stephens is wanted after two stabbings and a suspicious fire in a Bentleigh house.

Arrest after stab accused 'called for new victims' on Facebook

BREAKING
1 hr ago

Cancer fraud Belle Gibson deserved a much harsher punishment

COMMENT

These six people want to die. Under new laws, would it be allowed?

Robin shot himself while his wife waited in the kitchen. She knew...

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Surge in spring listings means 'even playing field' for auctions

Huge shake up in radio as Hughsey and Kate switch networks

Gary Ablett is seeking to return to Geelong.

AFL trades, day one: Dogs request pick 11 from Dons, Ablett pens a letter to fans

Live
Claire Siracusa
41 mins ago

Megan Gale shortly after the birth of daughter Rosie.

Megan Gale forced to defend date night without newborn

1 hr ago

Kerri-Anne Kennerley has opened up on her past as a victim of domestic violence.

Kerri-Anne Kennerley says she pointed gun at her ex-husband

LATAM now flies its 787 Dreamliners on the first non-stop flight from Melbourne to South America.

Flight test: New direct Dreamliner route to South America takes off

The Neanderthal In You Is Probably To Blame For Your Mood

The Neanderthal in you is probably to blame for your mood

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Heartfelt SNL tribute to Vegas victims

Robin and Barbara Collins on their wedding day.

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Robin shot himself while wife waited in kitchen. She knew...

The Block 2017 backyard week reveal

The Block: 'Ten tonne Tessie' fails to deliver for Ronnie and Georgia

Cow

Firefighters rescue cow, use terrible puns to describe what happened

Busy

Our lives are so hectic because of this crazy addiction

Dozens of taxi drivers have been fined for refusing short fares.

Plain-clothes cops crack down on fare refusals, cabbies fined

59 mins ago

Charged with a brutal double slaying, was this man innocent?

Chipp off the old block hopes to usher in age of reason in Northcote

The increase in passengers raises the likelihood of overcrowding during peak hours.

Would you give up your seat for a standing spot on a less crowded train?

A 30-year-old man has been charged after a pedestrian was killed in Box Hill.

97-year-old pedestrian killed in Box Hill, Mitcham man charged

Melbourne University's Tilman Ruff is the founding chair of the ICAN.

Nobel peace prize awarded to Melbourne-born organisation

If you’ve ever thought your rent costs could fund a mortgage, you might actually be right.

Dodgy landlords and letting agents face naming, shaming

RACQ CQ Rescue helicopter at Mackay Base Hospital

Woman suffers burns after falling into campfire

QLD

Chau Chak Wing with Governor-General Peter Cosgrove (right) and architect Frank Gehry.

Big political donor has secret Beijing ties: court

Michael Bachelard

Sharron Phillips has been missing since 1986 and is presumed dead.

Police name taxi driver as killer, 31 years on

QLD

Two teens have died after a car they were travelling in hit a tree south of Perth.

Two teens killed after car hits tree in Perth

WA

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'A nice room doesn't mean you have to fill it with crap': Colin Hay

One of the most cost-effective ways of sprucing up your home is with a lick of paint

Budget-friendly ways to freshen up your home this spring

The Block 2017 backyard week reveal

The Block: 'Ten tonne Tessie' fails to deliver for Ronnie and Georgia

7 Athol Street, Moonee Ponds, sold for $2,220,000 on Saturday.

Surge in spring listings means 'even playing field' for auctions

The villas draw heavily on classical Italian architecture.

Wildly opulent Dubai development nears completion

We may have never needed to talk to one another more than we do now, writes Jane Caro.

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We may have never needed to talk to one another more than we do now, writes Jane Caro.

We need to learn to talk to our enemies

COMMENT
Jane Caro

Oklahoma City Thunder guard Russell Westbrook (left) falls as he drives around Melbourne United's Casper Ware.

United shake the Thunder, losing by just one point

UPDATED
Roy Ward
1 hr ago

Ocsar Hunt has released their first line of shoes to accompany their made-to-measure suits.

Where to find the best hand-made shoes for men

Men's Shoes
Jeremy Loadman

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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull with Minister Josh Frydenberg at Parliament House in Canberra.

Frydenberg hints the government could abandon clean energy target

Adam Gartrell

Who are the winners and losers of the GST carve up?

ANALYSIS
Peter Martin
26 mins ago

Productivity Commission says GST system 'beyond comprehension'

Peter Martin

Industry data shows 42 drug companies spent $286 million on 117,000 events over four years.

$187,000 to $6.30: Drug subsidy gives hope to cancer sufferers

Adam Gartrell

That WA's return had fallen as low as 30 cents in every dollar two years ago, focused the minds of sandgropers.

Coalition's lonely search for escape from its WA GST nightmare

ANALYSIS
Mark Kenny

Senator Nick Xenophon announced on Friday that he would be resigning from the upper house.

Xenophon strains politics as the art of the plausible

ANALYSIS
Mark Kenny

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - AUGUST 10: Michael Danby addresses the crowd at the peaceful protest by the Jewish community of ...

Labor MP says no more taxpayer-funded ABC attacks after backlash

Adam Gartrell

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters.

Foreign investment a focus in NZ kingmaker's coalition talks

South Koreans watch a TV news program showing Kim Yo-jong, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's younger sister, in 2014.

Kim Jong-un promotes sister to centre of power

Guo Wengui, a Chinese real estate magnate who now lives abroad, and is a member of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago.

China denies alleged cyber attacks in US targeting exiled tycoon

People on a rooftop wave Spanish flags during a march in downtown Barcelona, Spain, to protest the Catalan government's ...

Catalonia will follow through with independence declaration

Illustration:Jim Pavlidis

Be alert, not alarmed, about Australia's high household debt

COMMENT
Jessica Irvine

Belle Gibson was reportedly paid $75,000 to talk about what happened on <i>60 Minutes</i>.

Cancer fraud Belle Gibson deserved far harsher punishment

Margaret Fitzherbert

A memorial site for the Las Vegas victims.

How many more people will be killed before this sinks in?

COMMENT
Wendy Squires

CBA's outgoing chief executive, Ian Narev, last week apologised over the Austrac affair.

'On the nose': CBA hit with class action claim

Sarah Danckert
1 hr ago

Australia's shares and currency are poised for more trouble this week.

Markets Live: Banks and miners power ASX

Live
Sarah Turner
1 hr ago

Shane Houston was the inaugural deputy vice-chancellor (Indigenous strategy and services) at the University of Sydney.

Sydney Uni senior staff member takes legal action over dismissal

EXCLUSIVE
Anna Patty
1 hr ago

Sofitel Darling Harbour

France's Accor lobs $1.2b offer for Australian hotel group

Carolyn Cummins

Meet the little girl spreading fear in commodity markets

Race to the bottom: Australia's first tech star loses its shine

Comment
John McDuling

Data for sale: banks putting a price on our information

Clancy Yeates

Ex-Australia Post boss Fahour's new role

EXCLUSIVE
Colin Kruger, CBD

Ocsar Hunt has released their first line of shoes to accompany their made-to-measure suits.

Which country makes the world's best hand-made shoes for men?

Men's Shoes

It's time to accept that "traditional" gender roles are outdated and dangerous.

Tough boys, pretty girls: These toxic gender roles need to go

Life on Mars
Phil Barker

The family economics equation: parents give very unequally while they are alive, but provide to have their estates ...

Why some kids get more cash from their parents than their siblings

COMMENT
Rebecca Valenzuela

STRESS AFR 100722 MELB PIC BY JESSICA SHAPIRO... GENERIC tablet, pill, pharmaceutical, drug company, pain, relief, ...

Buy now, pay plenty later: warnings sound on layby apps

John Collett

Phubbing is a phenomenon.

Phone snubbing: how to tell you're doing it

COMMENT
James Adonis

The Financial Ombudsman Service will look at PayPal delays.

Financial Ombudsman Service to look at PayPal delays on frozen accounts

Cara Waters

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Saving Australia's albatross

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Australian woes as India continue spell on top

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Crackdown on landlords to make renting fairer

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Indigenous leaders tell PM to back off on fracking

Clare McCutcheon, aka Henchwench Cosplay, who is the current Australian Cosplay Champion in character as a Death Knight ...

Fairfax photos of the week - October 6, 2017

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The epic 10 part Stan Original anthology series Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams - now streaming

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Reap what you sow… Season 4 of The Last Ship - now streaming only on Stan.

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Over 200,000 seek shelter in Northern Uganda

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Adam McConvell plays Myuran Sukumaran in Guilty.

New film is a gut-wrenching look at Bali Nine execution

Garry Maddox

Kerri-Anne Kennerley, whose husband, John, suffered a spinal cord injury after a fall, at UTS in Sydney.

'I think I'll be dead': Kennerley reveals past domestic abuse

Rob Moran

Dave "Hughesy" Hughes and Kate Langbroek have switched networks.

Radio shake up as Hughsey and Kate switch networks

Nathanael Cooper

Two backpackers have revealed how they thought they were going to die at the hands of Salt Creek attacker Roman Heinze.

Salt Creek victims break their silence on 60 Minutes

Ford returns as a much-older Deckard in Blade Runner 2049.

'Friends? I can hardly find time to see my accountant': Harrison Ford

Robbie Collin

Aldean, who was onstage at Las Vegas when the shooting began, paid tribute to the victims on SNL.

Country star pays tribute to Las Vegas victims on SNL

Elahe Izadi

Robert Pattinson as Connie even makes 16-year-old Crystal, played by Taliah Webster, an accomplice in Good Time.

Good Time review: Robert Pattinson hits his stride

Craig Mathieson

Tim Rogers, Sophie Ross (singing) and musician Xani Kolac in What Rhymes with Cars and Girls.

You Am I frontman's first solo album lives again in new show

Elissa Blake

Joe Petruzzi in Joanna Murray-Smith's American Song.

Joanna Murray-Smith's new play confronts US gun culture

REVIEW
Cameron Woodhead

Thousands of sharp scissors dangle like clinking clouds of metal during the performance.

Under Siege review: Chinese history brought to life again

MELBOURNE FESTIVAL
Jordan Beth Vincent

Ryan Gosling, left, and Harrison Ford in <i>Blade Runner 2049</i>.

Harrison Ford is still the best thing about Blade Runner sequel

REVIEW
Jake Wilson

Ariana Grande has usually kept a sun-kissed brunette tone.

We are here for Ariana Grande's new grey hair

1 hr ago

Harris who was first discovered as a finalist in the Girlfriend magazine model competition at 13-years-old.

Megan Gale supports model Sam Harris in calling out racism

Nicole Economos

We may have never needed to talk to one another more than we do now, writes Jane Caro.

Now more than ever we need to be talking to our enemies

COMMENT
Jane Caro

The Dove ad that has people up in arms.

Who signed this off: 'Racist' Dove ad attracts backlash (obviously)

Cleve R. Wootson Jr.

Today's Lisa Wilkinson and Peter FitzSimons say 'I do' ... again.

Lisa Wilkinson and Peter FitzSimons say 'I do' ... again

Amy Croffey

Fashion blogger Nadia Fairfax, David Jones' 2017 face of racing, is one of the new breed of social media influencers ...

The fresh new faces of the spring racing carnival

Melissa Singer
1 hr ago

Lucie Robson poses for a picture on October 5, 2017 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Daniel Munoz/Fairfax Media)

How Tinder turned into an essential tool for tourists

Andrew Taylor

Cassandra Thorburn at The Australian Women's Weekly Women of the Future Awards on Wednesday.

How Thorburn celebrated her divorce from Stefanovic

The Goss
Amy Croffey

Chicken and broccoli linguine.

Weekly meal planner: Easy recipes to feed the whole family

Aaron Turner: 'We talk so much about the sustainability of produce - how about we talk a bit more about the ...

Igni chef Aaron Turner on the impact of a 90-hour work week

Alyce Alexandra's cheat's vanilla slice.

How to make cheat's vanilla slice with a Thermomix

Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher are starting their own Christmas traditions.

Why Mila Kunis won't be giving her kids Christmas presents

Discussion of world events needs to be age appropriate.

How much news should we share with our kids?

You do have a favourite child - and it's costing you money

Bombardier Global 7000 private jet.

1142 km/h: World's largest, ultra long-range private jet unveiled

49 mins ago

LATAM now flies its 787 Dreamliners on the first non-stop flight from Melbourne to South America.

Flight test: New direct Australia-South America Dreamliner flight

Louise Southerden

St Helena Island.

First ever airline flights take off to one of world's most remote islands

Sara Clemence

Run-and-gun stages are just as difficult as boss fights, with frequent deaths adding to your knowledge of the dangers as ...

Hand-drawn shooter is a surreal, superb game

1 hr ago

The Note8 features optical image stabilisation on both lenses.

Explainer: why your smartphone now comes with a dual lens

Android Wear

Does Google still care about Android Wear?

Gizmodo

Google on 'AI-first' approach to hardware

QUT's @DrCoaster Malcolm Burt conducting research on The Gatekeeper winged rollercoaster ride at Cedar Point, Ohio ...

Theme parks are under threat from technology

2018 Hyundai Kona Active.

New Hyundai Kona price revealed

Dom Tripolone

Maven in Australia allows Uber drivers to rent cars from Holden for a flat fee.

GM placing its bets on ride sharing future

Drive Staff

Nissan Leaf.

Top 10: Strangest car names

Ally Melville

Nissan has given its Patrol a round of mild updates.

Updated Nissan Patrol revealed

Dom Tripolone

2018 Subaru WRX STI.

Subaru WRX STI reviewed

Stephen Ottley

2017 Toyota GR HV Sports Concept

Next-gen Toyota 86 to be hybrid

Andrew Maclean

Gary Ablett is seeking to return to Geelong.

AFL Trades: day one, live

Live
Claire Siracusa
41 mins ago

Homesick Lion: Josh Schache is seeking a new home at a Victorian club.

Lions to try trade homesick young star back to Victoria

Michael Gleeson

Lever's move to Melbourne could influence a host of other clubs.

Deals to watch as trade period kicks off

Anthony Colangelo

A good fit at Port Adelaide? Geelong's Steven Motlop.

Trade wrap: Port's Impey opts for a move to Hawthorn

Michael Gleeson

Heading to Port? Brisbane's Tom Rockliff.

On the move - your guide to the 2017 AFL trade period

West Coast fans would love to see the Matera name return to the club.

Why aren't West Coast fired up for trade week?

Brendan Foster and Tim Carrier
42 mins ago

Collingwood will look to recruit quick players in the draft.

Collingwood to target speed in AFLW draft

Anthony Colangelo

Devon Smith has requested a trade to Essendon.

Adams still keen on mate Smith joining Magpies

Daniel Cherny

Oklahoma City Thunder guard Russell Westbrook (left) falls as he drives around Melbourne United's Casper Ware.

'This league is no joke': United shine against Oklahoma City

UPDATED
Roy Ward
1 hr ago

Members of the San Francisco 49ers kneel during the playing of the national anthem before the match against the ...

US VP walks out of NFL game after 49ers kneel during anthem

Ken Belson

Champagne showers: Lewis Hamilton celebrates a win and essentially locking in the title.

Hamilton cashes in as mechanical troubles crush Vettel campaign

Tom Cary

Angry exchange: Nick Kyrgios challenges the umpire.

Angry Kyrgios loses to Nadal in China Open final

England's Harry Kane, center, and England manager Gareth Southgate, right, applaud the supporters at the end of the ...

Kane scores again as Poland, Egypt book spot in Russia

Martyn Herman

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