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The Domestic Violence Death Review Team's latest report states that 61 per cent of homicides with a female victim in NSW ...

Pubs targeted as 'shocking' violence trend emerges

Sean Nicholls

Cassie Sainsbury.

Drug smuggler Cassie Sainsbury learns her fate in Colombia

During a cabinet meeting in Washington, Donald Trump vowed to scrap the diversity lottery visa program.

Trump to end green card lottery after New York terrorist attack

Saipov Sayfullo

New York terror suspect 'unapologetic, bragged about fatal attack'

Ellen Connolly
45 mins ago

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - September 24, 2017: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - SMH NEWS: 240917: Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison addresses ...

'Game-changer': Big four banks forced to share customers'secrets

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the government "is completely committed to a strong ICAC to ensure the highest ...

Huge cut to funding forces ICAC to slash investigators

'Disappointed' Turnbull takes swipe at Parry, rejects citizenship audit

Nick Miller
1 hr ago

Premier's stoush with Sydney's richest man to drive up city rent

The music has stopped for Turnbull and he's the only one standing

ANALYSIS
Mark Kenny

The AWU raid was not Cash's office's only media game

COMMENT
Jenna Price

Articles of impeachment against Trump 'will be filed by Thanksgiving'

Sean Black, who is a friend and former adviser of One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts.

Top adviser to One Nation's Malcolm Roberts charged with rape

Adam Gartrell

James Packer, director Brett Ratner and "wolf of Wall Street" Jordan Belfort during the woman's tennis final in ...

Six women accuse filmmaker Brett Ratner of sexual harassment

6 mins ago

THUMBNAIL USE ONLY NSW Young Liberals cornetto Streets

'Tone deaf': NSW Young Liberals' #cornettocaucus draws ire online

In hot water: Cricket NSW CEO Andrew Jones was caught texting while driving.

Jones' off-drive: Top NSW official makes embarrassing blue

Aziz Ansari brutally roasted BAFTA's Britannia Awards while accepting a prize at the ceremony.

Aziz Ansari rips awards with 'best acceptance speech' ever

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Suspect 'planned attack for weeks'

Infidelity is not just a betrayal of vows, it is a rejection of everything the betrayed partner believed they were in ...

The truth about what an affair will do to your relationship

The Johnson, Brisbane

52 Weekends Away: Find your new happy place

Socceroos coach Ange Postecoglou.

Honduras want match time changed raising fears over heat

You don't need a gym membership, just some floor space for strength-based training.

We often ignore this type of exercise, but we shouldn't

Trump says calling women liars over harassment ...

7:33AM

UK minister quits, citing past behaviour

7:11AM

Fed leaves rates unchanged; 'solid' growth

7:07AM

Heather Jones is the co-owner of Filtered Media and has instituted YOLO days at her business.

Why this Sydney firm offers its staff two paid YOLO days per year

140-year-old negatives of Sydney Harbour a UNESCO plus

Julie Power

Uber driver charged with procuring girl for sex online

Lucy Cormack

Natalie Gould (left) and her mother Mairi Petersen (right) fear the end is looming for their bookshop, Gould's Book ...

Goulds say they're proof the inner west has changed for the worse

Teacher Simon Phillips was charged with 13 counts of aggravated indecent assault relating to four girls

Lower north shore primary teacher charged with child sex offences

John Ibrahim's son, Daniel Ibrahim, arrives at court

Ibrahims back in court over alleged drug and tobacco imports

Taxi-booking companies will be able to set their own prices.

End of return toll on Sydney Harbour crossing for taxi trips

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'Righting a historic wrong': Uluru's landmark decision

A recent photo of Anthony Caristo (pictured on the left next to his mother) supplied by the Caristo family.

'Heart of gold': man who died after Tasering remembered

ACT

Aaron Pajich's body was found in the backyard of an Orelia home in June 2016.

'Disgusting animals': Housemates guilty of teenager's murder

WA

121023 SUNDAY Canberra Times Photograph by Graham Tidy Story by Ewa Kretowicz. The Mugga lane Tip. Ibis in search of ...

Students analyse giant pile of rubbish on VCE English exam

Mirvac Group has started the construction on Building 3 at their industrial estate, Calibre at Eastern Creek in Sydney

The Sydney region where almost all ware- houses are being built

Artists worked in and on the walls of the big warehouses and students lived in converted containers while Amsterdam's ...

What happens to a weedy wasteland when you let artists loose

Farm Sitters Australia founders, Phillip and Kim Kelly, aim to give farming families the chance to get away from work.

The downside to life in the country no one talks about

Artist's impressions of AMP's new Quay Quarter Tower at Circular Quay in Sydney.

Sydney's new $1 billion tower a building of 'so many firsts'

A recent US study shows that downtown high-rise residents consume 27 per cent more electricity and gas per person than ...

High-density living 'more harmful than suburban sprawl'

The NEM used to be a marvel of microeconomic reform, but that's no longer the case. This government has blown that out ...

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The NEM used to be a marvel of microeconomic reform, but that's no longer the case. This government has blown that out ...

Calls for NEM 2.0 as Finkel defends his review

Cole Latimer

Senator Stephen Parry is better known for what he did before entering parliament

Our political landscape is like a coastline with beached whales

Editorial

Dr Matthew Holden with a cake he baked to reflect his conservation burial research.

How you can make your dead body environmentally friendly

Amy Mitchell-Whittington

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Malcolm Turnbull visits at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem on Wednesday.

Turnbull reveals he learned about Parry at the same time as the media

Nick Miller
1 hr ago

Pleas for New Zealand, PNG to intervene in Manus Island crisis

Michael Koziol

Liberal Senate President to resign after confirming dual citizenship

James Massola

Senator Kimberley Kitching during a Senate estimates hearing at Parliament House

Labor backbencher spends more on flights than most ministers

Eryk Bagshaw

Sean Black, who is a friend and former adviser of One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts.

Adviser to One Nation's Malcolm Roberts charged with rape

Adam Gartrell

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten.

Citizenship crisis threatens legitimacy of the political system

ANALYSIS
Mark Kenny

Craig Kelly at Parliament House in Canberra on Monday 16 October 2017. Fedpol. Photo: Andrew Meares

More government MPs break ranks to back a full citizenship audit

Latika Bourke

Cassandra Sainsbury is escorted by police to a court hearing in Bogota, Colombia.

Cassandra Sainsbury sentenced to six years in jail

Andrew Wight

Michael Fallon has resigned.

UK minister quits, citing past behaviour

28 mins ago

Several countries, including Britain, the US and Canada, have all moved to legalise e-cigarettes.

Japan firm gives non-smokers more leave

47 mins ago

Summer Zervos

Trump says calling women liars over harassment was politics

5 mins ago

Myer CEO Richard Umbers is caught in a pincer.

The longer he spoke, the more Myer's share price fell

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

Treasurer Scott Morrison says the mandated credit reporting regime will be a "game changer."

'Game-changer': ScoMo forces big four banks to share customers' secrets

Clancy Yeates

Hungry Jack's founder Jack Cowin agrees with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull that Sunday penalty rates are an anachronism.

Domino's pay deal wipes $70m off Jack Cowin's shares in minutes

Colin Kruger, CBD

People protest against the Carmichael coal mine outside the International Mining and Resources Conference in Melbourne ...

'I'm not ashamed': Adani exec defends controversial mine

Darren Gray

Fed leaves rates unchanged, points to 'solid' growth ahead

31 mins ago

ASX rally rings in first day of November

Jessica Sier

'Toxic intervention': Turnbull slammed over energy crisis

Cole Latimer

Rebel Wilson defamation payout 'manifestly excessive': Bauer

Colin Kruger, CBD

lllustration: Matt Davidson

The dingbat response to the citizenship mess

COMMENT
Judith Ireland

Lucy Turnbull.

WestConnex in conflict with Lucy Turnbull's plans

COMMENT
Chris Johnson

Treasurer Dominic Perrottet will push increased palliative care as a matter of priority in the NSW budget.

Only one certainty if we make assisted suicide legal

COMMENT
Dominic Perrottet

Cathay Pacific makes sure your business lounge experience is as comfortable as your own living room.

How luxury airline lounges are changing for the better

High Flyer
David Flynn

Gucci has seen a huge rise in sales thanks to a luxury-coveting younger market.

It's not smashed avocado that's eating up Millennials' money

Luxury

Halloween is about calculated risk.

Fear is for Halloween, not for money management

Pat Garrett

John Fraser, Secretary to the Treasury, is standing by his forecast that wage growth will ramp up over the coming years.

'Remarkable' jobs growth raises hopes for wages

COMMENT
Clancy Yeates

Christian Beck is the 2017 EY entrepreneur of the year.

'Self-taught, self-made man' wins entrepreneur award

Cara Waters
18 mins ago

An estimated 31 per cent of Australian workers have used leave for mental health or stress within the last year.

Australians took 3.74 million mental health days last year

Cara Waters

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Primary school teacher charged with child sex offences

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New York attack suspect caught on video

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Aziz Ansari roasts all awards shows

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Husband charged with burning wife to death

A patch of purple at Five Ways Paddington as Jacarandas are in full bloom.

Jacaranda trees are in bloom around Sydney

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Laura Vandervoort plays one of several victims.

Jigsaw review: New take on horror franchise cuts familiar terrain

Jake Wilson

Michelle Guthrie is set to announce some big changes to the ABC in the coming weeks.

'Morale is very shaky': 7.30 loses senior reporter

Broede Carmody

Aziz Ansari brutally roasted BAFTA's Britannia Awards while accepting a prize at the ceremony.

Aziz Ansari rips awards with 'best acceptance speech' ever

Rob Moran

French actor Gilles Marini says he's been sexually abused by Hollywood.

Sex and the City actor says he's 'a piece of meat' in Hollywood

Jackson Peck

FILE - In this April 4, 2017, file photo, actor Alec Baldwin appears at Barnes & Noble Union Square to sign copies of ...

'I had no idea': Baldwin distances himself from Toback

Broede Carmody

Jeremy Piven as Ari Gold in Entourage.

Entourage star accused of sexual harassment by actress

Rob Moran

Keeping Australia Safe narrator Chris Bath describes the six-part series as a ''relatively spin-free look'' at our ...

Chris Bath embraces her post-Seven media career

Craig Mathieson

Netflix has indefinitely suspended production on the new season of House of Cards, following a sexual misconduct claim ...

Netflix plots House of Cards spinoff series, without Spacey

Photographer Sally McInerney and artist Teena McCarthy.

From the second of childbirth a woman is 'split in two'

Linda Morris

Well-loved: Elena Kats-Chernin is closing in on her 'second 30th'.

Despite turning 60, Elena is still feeling like a child

Nick Galvin

Catherine Davies (left) and Jessica Tovey in Bell Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.

Road-tested Merchant delivers the goods

Jason Blake

Brady, with wife Gisele Bundchen, claims he is so hydrated the muscles under his skin must look like 'beautiful tenderloins'.

Brady's 'particularly unusual' sun safety advice baffles experts

Sarah Berry

Infidelity is not just a betrayal of vows, it is a rejection of everything the betrayed partner believed they were in ...

The truth about what an affair will do to your relationship

COMMENT
Jane Gilmore

Justin Trudeau takes his youngest son Hadrien dressed as Paw Patrol character Skye trick-or-treating.

Justin Trudeau wins Halloween as Clark Kent in question time

Nicole Economos

Model Hailey Baldwin wears a creation by Topshop at its London Fashion Week show.

Topshop 'rescued' by Australian online retailer

Melissa Singer

New research found that those who did strength-based exercise just twice a week had a 23 per cent reduction in risk of ...

We ignore this type of exercise but we shouldn't

Sarah Berry

Mikael Bres, a Chinese pole performer, will appear in a show at the Mumm marquee in the Birdcage at Flemington during ...

I trained as a Birdcage 'Chinese pole' performance artist

Melissa Singer

With employers spending resources on anti-sexual harassment training programs and the very public disgrace of so many ...

This is why sexual harassment can't truly be rooted out

Elizabeth Bruenig

Burberry chief Christopher Bailey is stepping down.

Burberry chief creative officer steps down

Changi Airport's new Terminal 4 has a capacity to serve 16 million passengers a year.

New, $944 million terminal opens at world's best airport

Craig Platt

Flight attendant students for Emirates pose in the image and uniform classroom at the Emirates Aviation College in Dubai.

Live the dream: How you can travel the world for a living

Ben Groundwater

Spicejet wants to buy planes that can land anywhere.

Who needs runways? Budget airline plans to land on sea, fields

Anurag Kotoky

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Is this every dad's dream come true?

Could your mother-in-law affect how many kids you'll have?

How living with your mother-in-law may affect your fertility

Photo: Shutterstock

22 lovely baby names with less-than-lovely meanings

Use plenty of oil to cook the perfect schnitzel.

The secret to cooking the perfect golden schnitzel

Chef George Calombaris at his new Jimmy Grants at Sydney Central Plaza.

Just open: George Calombaris' souvlaki joint hits Sydney

Dan Lepard's coconut cake is a real pearler.

Celebrate world vegan day with this gluten-free coconut 'pearl' cake

Every time you use Google Docs you are revealing your data to the company.

Google Docs users locked out in glitch

Google's latest VR device, Daydream View.

New Daydream View is affordable VR done right

Review

Leaving the Mushroom Kingdom behind, Odyssey feels like a trip around an unfamiliar world.

Nintendo reflects and reinvents in timeless new Mario adventure

Review

Professor Brian Cox, particle physicist and science presenter, is in Australia for his fourth and largest tour.

Science can stop rise of 'comedians and clowns'

Michael Malone

NBN director blasts ISPs for poor speeds

Alfa Romeo Giulia Super.

Alfa Romeo Giulia Super review

Stephen Ottley

Mazda's new Skyactiv platform due to launch in 2019.

Mazda eyeing supercar tech

Stephen Ottley

2017 Renault Megane GT wagon

What small sporty wagon should I buy?

Cameron McGavin

2017 Yamaha Cross Hub Concept

Yamaha Cross Hub revealed

Kez Casey

2018 Mercedes-AMG GT S

2017 Mercedes-AMG GT S review

Alex Rae

Ferrari FXX K Evo

Ferrari reveals FXX K Evo

Alex Rae

In hot water: Cricket NSW CEO Andrew Jones was caught texting while driving.

Jones' off-drive: Top NSW official makes embarrassing blue

Andrew Wu

Cronk Origin.

Cronk-Pearce combo is a view to copying Origin success

ANALYSIS
Roy Masters

Socceroos coach Ange Postecoglou.

Honduras want match time changed raising fears over heat

Dominic Bossi

Dusty's Derby: Main Stage with co-trainers Natalie Young, right, and Trent Busuttin, far left, as well as co-owners ...

Dustin Martin's great year could end with... the Victoria Derby?

Chris Roots

In form: Daniel Hughes scored a half century against South Australia last week.

Blues batsman sticks hand up for Ashes selection

James Buckley

04032017. Sydney Races. Jockey Tommy Berry rides Inference to win race 7, The Girvan Waugh Randwick Guineas, during ...

Jockey's crazy 30,000km quest for Melbourne Cup glory

Adam Pengilly

Stress fractures: James Pattinson is facing spinal surgery in New Zealand in a bid to revive his Test career.

CA's long-term vision to reduce spinal injuries

James Buckley

The man: New Western Sydney Wanderers coach Josep Gambau.

Why Gombau is the safest gamble for Wanderers

Dominic Bossi

NRL boss Todd Greenberg.

Eleventh-hour deal wards off threat of $80 million cut in pay offer

Roy Masters

James Tedesco may copa fine from the NRL.

It's off the field where there's a real difference in standards

By Steve Mascord

Roosters co-captain Boyd Cordner is confident Mitchell Pearce leaving wouldn't disrupt the Roosters.

Cordner confident Pearce departure wouldn't destroy culture

David Polkinghorne

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