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The Administrative Appeals Tribunal has rebuked Centrelink for misleading a family tax benefit recipient.

Tribunal lashes Centrelink for 'misleading' client

Senator Kimberley Kitching during a Senate estimates hearing at Parliament House

Labor backbencher spends more on flights than most ministers

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

Chief Minister Andrew Barr: "We're already working on how to best expand the scheme to capture more organisations."

Canberra churches to face more scrutiny on their conduct: Barr

Cassandra Sainsbury.

Drug smuggler Cassie Sainsbury learns her fate in Colombia

Saipov Sayfullo

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

1 hr ago

Canberra man who died after Tasering had 'heart of gold'

'Morale is very shaky': 7.30 loses senior reporter

Australia's housing boom is 'officially' over, UBS says

Citizenship crisis threatens legitimacy of the political system

ANALYSIS
Mark Kenny

Peak unions body says the minimum wage needs to go

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

Canberra Centre senior marketing manager Kelly McGufficke and Le Creuset's Myriam Szudrich inside the new lifestyle ...

Peek inside Canberra Centre's new lifestyle precinct

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

Aziz Ansari rips awards with 'best acceptance speech' ever

THUMBNAIL USE ONLY NSW Young Liberals cornetto Streets

'Tone deaf'?: Young Libs hold a #cornettocaucus

Artist Christopher Toth in front of the mural with Diana and Melanie Hanna.

John Hanna 'captured perfectly' in stunning Civic artwork

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How a Russian group used Facebook to buy political ads

Tackling why Indigenous people are jailed in the first place is a step towards reducing incarceration numbers.

Nurse barred from jail after allegedly performing exorcism on inmate

Men got a raise 20 percent of the time they asked, compared with 16 percent for women.

Are you an accidental workplace bully?

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

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

Actor accuses Spacey of harassment during stint ...

8:29AM

NAB profits up 2.5 per cent to $6.6b

8:23AM

Grandmother interrupted 'gang rape' of girl, 14

8:12AM

Artist Christopher Paul Toth stands with Diana and Melanie Hanna in front of a mural he painted to honour the memor of ...

Canberra Now: John Hanna remembered in vibrant mural; Man who died after Tasering had 'big heart'

1 hr ago

'I'm furious': Dog that attacked Oreo returned to owner

And the winner is...early Canberra architect tops new park name poll

Firefighters survey the scene at a house fire at 3 Ranken Loop, Belconnen.

Belconnen man set fire to partner's house while she slept inside

Qantas Dreamliner 787 interiors

APS budget cuts a likely cause of falling profits, flight cancellations

Values were up 1.1 per cent in the past quarter and 6.4 per cent over the past year.

Canberra home values flat in October

ACT Chief Police officer Justine Saunders.

Tasered man was bloodied, holding knife: police

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

'Disgusting animals': Women guilty of murder

WA

THUMBNAIL USE ONLY NSW Young Liberals cornetto Streets

Young Libs hold a #cornettocaucus in support of Streets

NSW

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

Man who died after Tasering had a 'heart of gold'

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

How to leave an environmentally friendly corpse

QLD

Attorney-General Senator George Brandis said the federal courts were responsible for their own operation.

Federal Court staff to begin rolling strikes

CPSU deputy secretary Beth Vincent-Pietsch.

Bungle means agency's staff face fifth Christmas without a pay rise

Bronwen Overton-Clarke.

One of the ACT's longest-serving public servants retires

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

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

1 hr ago

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

Japan firm gives non-smokers more leave

1 hr ago

Summer Zervos

Trump says calling women liars over harassment was politics

59 mins ago

Harvey Weinstein: after the initial stories about him broke jetted off to a week-long therapy program where reports ...

Five shocking things men said about harassment in a month

COMMENT
Alyssa Rosenberg

David Pope

David Pope's latest cartoons

Unionists march through Brisbane to celebrate Labour Day last year.

Deeply troubling treatment of unions

COMMENT
John Warhurst

Randall Kroszner, professor of economics at University of Chicago Booth School of Business and former governor of the ...

'Never say never': GFC Mark 2 possible, says former top official

Nassim Khadem
22 mins ago

Investors are playing it safe.

8@eight: ASX set to inch higher

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Chris Weston
36 mins ago

NAB tightening ID and credit check for property borrowers

NAB profit rises to $6.6b

Clancy Yeates
9 mins ago

Having failed its turnaround targets, Myer has rejigged its plan.

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

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

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

Colin Kruger, CBD

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

Clancy Yeates

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

Darren Gray

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

1 hr ago

A small change in the price threshold for home owners looking to sell is expected to impact tens of thousands of vendors.

Which conditions should you keep and which can you axe?

Hamish Blake and Andy Lee have overtaken 3AW's Tim Elliott in July's radio ratings.

Radio and TV star Andy Lee sells up in Seddon

Strong house price growth in 2016 and 2017 will wind down until 2019, BIS Oxford Economics says.

High-density living worse for environment than suburban sprawl, new study shows

113a Schlich Street, Yarralumla

Art meets design in this sophisticated Yarralumla home

18 Goble Street, Hughes ACT. Images supplied for Allhomes use by Peter Blackshaw Real Estate Manuka - September 2017.

House listings soar in certain Canberra districts

The taboo surrounding performance enhancers in the gym is eroding away.

The legal performance enhancer even doctors are using

Fitness
Gary Nunn
38 mins ago

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
1 hr 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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How Julian Assange became infamous

FILE - In this June 19, 2013, file photo, former FBI Director Robert Mueller testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. On ...

Russia probe: Mueller means business

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Man takes off strapped to 100 balloons

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Senate president caught up in citizenship scandal

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

Jacaranda trees are in bloom around Sydney

PKD stan Oct

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

the last ship stan

Reap what you sow… Season 4 of The Last Ship - 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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Brett Ratner and James Packer helped create RatPac in 2013.

Filmmaker Brett Ratner accused of sexual harassment

Michael Idato
1 hr ago

Laura Vandervoort plays one of several victims.

Jigsaw review: New take on horror franchise cuts familiar terrain

Jake Wilson

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

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

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

Sue Armstrong, 67, wants someone to snuggle up with to watch her favourite movie 'August Rush'.

Do you have a father or father-in-law looking for love?

Media call for The Popular Mechanicals at the Playhouse Theatre. At front, Holly Austin, back (L-R) Charles Mayer, ...

Shakespeare's clowns take centre stage in Canberra

Go Boat Canberra owner Nick Tyrrell in one of the first two boats to arrive in Canberra.

You can now picnic in the middle of Lake Burley Griffin

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

It can be tempting to believe a backlog of happy memories should make it easy to pick up where you left off.

Turning down old friends who want to reconnect

COMMENT
Thomas Mitchell
1 hr ago

Melissa Singer learning the Chinese pole routine from Mumm marquee artist Mikael Bres. Photo: Nicole Precel

I trained as a Birdcage 'Chinese pole' performance artist

Melissa Singer
38 mins ago

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

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

We ignore this type of exercise but we shouldn't

Sarah Berry

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

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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

Dan Lepard's coconut cake is a real pearler.

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

Ashley McBean from Gary's Quality Meats.

Meet Australia's top restaurant's butchers, baker and tea makers

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

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

Australia's Nick Kyrgios celebrates after winning the first set against Belgium's David Goffin during a Davis Cup World ...

Nick Kyrgios wants to be world No.1 in next five years

Commonwealth Games hopeful Skye Nicolson at the AIS.

'I feel like he's living through me': the brother Skye Nicolson never met

Henry Speight.

Brumbies set to target players after securing financial future

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

Cordner confident Pearce departure wouldn't destroy club's culture

Canberra Olympic coach Frank Cachia.

Canberra Olympic coach says A-League second division can work

Rachel Jarry.

Jarry says concussion won't curb WNBL aggression

Bolton is averaging 43.3 after the three-game one-day international series which kicked off the women's Ashes last week.

Women's Ashes: Nicole Bolton keen to replicate Chris Gayle at Manuka Oval

Kangaroo Reagan Campbell-Gillard exchanged Duntroon for Canberra Stadium.

Kangaroo exchanges Duntroon for Canberra Stadium