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Malcolm Turnbull with Josh Frydenberg who is seeking answers over possible Hungarian citizenship.

Liberal minister defiant over citizenship query

Arguably Amazon's most transformative business unit is its Amazon Web Services.

Amazon's biggest weapon has nothing to do with retail

COMMENT

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra on Thursday 26 October 2017. fedpol ...

With confidence in freefall, politicians save their own skin

ANALYSIS
Mark Kenny

"I'm in the office early and leave late; it's very smooth," Trump told the Times. "Honestly, I'm really enjoying it."

On Wednesday Trump called the New York Times. He wasn't happy

Aasia Bibi and her boyfriend Shahid Lashari are presented to journalists. Bibi is alleged to have poisoned her husband's ...

Bride 'kills 17 people with poison milk to escape marriage'

NAB said its net interest margin climbed, reflecting 'loan repricing and more favourable funding conditions'.

The one thing that is driving banks to sack thousands of staff

ANALYSIS
Ruth Williams

The 12-minute speech that turned state pollies into emotional wrecks

Minister knew of Senate leader's citizenship problem for weeks

NY terror suspect 'eyeballed me': horrified driver's graphic account

Stand-off: Manus refugees may 'be removed by force'

Are domestic holidays badly overpriced?

COMMENT

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

How to stop the advance of 'comedians and clowns', according to Brian Cox

Rendering of the front of the ship.

Richard Branson reveals Virgin's 'adults only' first cruise ship

The Gatwick Hotel closed in June.

The Block: Work begins on infamous new site

Too much of a good thing.

Health warning to those over 40: lay off this treat

What not to say to a pregnant woman

What not to say to a pregnant woman

Spring Racing Carnival Flemington Birdcage marquees preview. 2 November 2017. The Age News. Photo: Eddie Jim. Ruby ...

All aboard the Birdcage marquee

Russell Crowe.

Russell Crowe unloads on Manus Island crisis

Singapore Airlines new first class suite for its A380 superjumbos.

Singapore Airlines reveals new seats for superjumbos

strength training

Strength training, not cardio, helps prevent cancer: study

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

Are you an accidental workplace bully?

Identified: Six Russian officials in DNC hack, ...

6:23AM

Mother of two remembered by defiant New Yorkers

5:53AM

Strong support for Russia investigation, poll ...

5:53AM

Jesse Garzoli

Dad and baby boy go missing after visiting friends in Preston

Judge cuts the line before ruling on schoolgirl's killer Sean Price

Kate was told she'd had a stroke. It took years to prove doctors wrong

Racegoers take shelter at the Melbourne Cup in 2010.

Here's a tip for the Melbourne Cup: bring your brolly

Ranny Yun was found dead in her home in Windsor Avenue, Springvale.

Charge over murder of 'Khmer Rouge member' in Melbourne

The Ballarat Curry House.

'Nice' chef 'killed drunken diner after complaint about curry'

Jake Bilardi, pictured here in a propaganda video for IS.

How Melbourne teen Jake Bilardi was groomed by IS

Footage of the alleged knife-wielding attacker was captured on Snapchat.

'Knife full of blood': Shopping centre stabbing

UPDATED

A court sketch of Trudi Lenon, left, and Jemma Lilley, right.

'Disgusting animals': Women guilty of murder

WA

court

Former officer charged with defrauding AFP

ACT

The nugget weighs in at more than half a kilo and measures ten centimetres across.

Gold fever as miner digs up big nuggets

WA

The state government wants land to be valued annually instead of every second year.

Victorian property owners face more rate and land tax rises

It doesn't take much to transform a tired home into a fresh new space.

Update these elements and you'll transform your home

Cape Tribulation House from m3architecture, Awarded in the Residential Architecture - Houses (New) in the 2017 National ...

Off-grid rainforest home named among top Australian houses

The Gatwick Hotel closed in June.

Work begins on infamous new site of the next Block season

The corner block of shops in Malvern that has sold by the Bloom family, founders of Portmans.

Retail royalty sell a jewel of Malvern's main street

Climbing Uluru is discouraged by the local Aborigines,and is also dangerous.

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Climbing Uluru is discouraged by the local Aborigines,and is also dangerous.

'It's not yours': why you shouldn't climb Uluru

COMMENT
Jenna Price

Anti-Adani protesters gathered outside the gates of Government House.

Adani takes another climb up Mount Absurdity

COMMENT
Julien Vincent

Nia Sims, who suffers from the terminal illness scleroderma, and her friend Jane Morris celebrate the decision in ...

Only one certainty if we make assisted suicide legal

COMMENT
Dominic Perrottet

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Communications Minister Mitch Fifield (above) said he encouraged then senator Stephen Parry to clarify his citizenship ...

Minster knew of Parry citizenship problem for weeks

Out of touch and out of time: voters are losing patience

ANALYSIS
Mark Kenny

Emails reveal official concerns with Adani super-mine

Nicole Hasham

Poker machine reforms were directly affected by donations, the committee was told.

Political donations 'an unregulated arms race,' Senate committee told

Eryk Bagshaw

Russell Crowe.

'Disgraceful': Russell Crowe unloads on Manus Island crisis

Fergus Hunter

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten during a parliamentary vote.

Turnbull, Shorten need to accept the Manus solution is a failure

COMMENT

Facebook told a parliamentary committee it received millions of reports of harmful material being shared on its platform ...

Facebook and Instagram oppose tougher penalties for cyber bullies

Stephanie Peatling

Sam Clovis speaks during a news conference as then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, left, watches before ...

Trump advisor, named in Russia probe, withdraws name for job

1 hr ago

Robert Mueller testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington in May.

Strong support for Russia investigation, poll finds

39 mins ago

US President Donald Trump speaks during a cabinet meeting in Washington.

Trump calls for death penalty for Uzbek man charged in NY attack

An image of Takahiro Shiraishi on Japanese TV. He was arrested after severed body parts were found in picnic coolers in ...

Japanese serial killer suspect lured suicidal victims via Twitter

lllustration: Matt Davidson

It's the arrogance of our MPs that really gets you

COMMENT
Judith Ireland

Labor won't fully return to its original expensive plan to deliver fibre to 93 per cent of households and businesses.

It's time (to take Labor seriously)

COMMENT
Peter Martin

President Donald Trump talks to children dressed in Halloween costumes after handing out candy to them in the Oval ...

Next year, I'll be a bit more enthusiastic about Halloween. Maybe

COMMENT
Matt Holden

Richard Goyder, managing director of Wesfarmers, said productivity must push upwards to allow wage growth.

'We desperately want to pay staff more' says Wesfarmers chief

Clancy Yeates
1 hr ago

Arguably Amazon's most transformative business unit is its Amazon Web Services.

Amazon's biggest weapon has nothing to do with retail

COMMENT
John McDuling

Tim Worner and Amber Harrison were at the centre of an ugly court battle.

End of the affair: Amber Harrison consigned to footnote at Seven

Colin Kruger, CBD

Automation and fin tech loom as the biggest job killers in the finance sector.

Job-killers: bank workers at forefront of 'massive disruption'

ANALYSIS
Ruth Williams

UK raises interest rates for the first time in a decade

Lucy Meakin
46 mins ago

This number could hold your kids back for the rest of their lives

COMMENT
Harold Mitchell

Get over your nuclear 'hang-up', says US expert

Darren Gray

ASX drifts as NAB losses weigh

Sarah Turner and Jessica Sier

All aboard the luxury marquee with Mumm at Melbourne Cup.

And you thought The Birdcage couldn't get more outrageous

Luxury
Jane Rocca

Unless you are a professional athlete, peptides are entirely legal to use.

The legal performance enhancer even doctors are using

Fitness
Gary Nunn

Australians should focus on Asia, especially China, for exposure to emerging markets because places such as Brazil and ...

How small investors can make money out of China

John Collett

Illustration: Simon Letch

Is it worth splitting super contributions with spouse?

Noel Whittaker

The research stressed the emphatic need for straight peers to confront inappropriate workplace behaviour.

Confronting homophobia at work

COMMENT
James Adonis

Christian Beck is the 2017 EY entrepreneur of the year.

Christian taught himself to code and built a $200 million business

Cara Waters

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Turnbull's battles

Federal Politics

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Unconscious STEM bias

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Rails Run: Derby Day

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Terror attack victims filmed moments before death

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.

Innovate your business with technology

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Over 200,000 seek shelter in Northern Uganda

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Night's King: Game of Thrones is HBO's most valuable programming asset, breaking records for audience numbers – and piracy.

Piracy in Australia down by one-fifth, survey claims

Karl Quinn

Bad Moms hang with Bad Santa.

See Bad Moms 2 if lusty female shenanigans is your bag: review

Jake Wilson

Family Food Fight

Family Food Fight: TV foodies who don't want a restaurant

Larissa Dubecki

Vincent van Gogh in <i>Loving Vincent</i>. The challenge of creating the unique cinematic experience exercised artists ...

Loving Vincent film is a cold-case murder investigation

Karl Quinn

Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer in the original 24.

Hit show 24 to be rebooted with a female lead

Jackson Peck

Dustin Hoffman at the premiere of the film The Meyerowitz Stories last month.

Dustin Hoffman apologises over sexual harassment allegations

Broede Carmody

Dacre Montgomery at the Los Angeles premiere of Stranger Things season two.

How an Aussie and his mullet joined Netflix's biggest hit

Andrew Murfett

James Packer and Mariah Carey with Brett Ratner (second from right) on Packer's super yacht in January.

Brett Ratner accused of sexual harassment by six women

Michael Idato

Vincent van Gogh in <i>Loving Vincent</i>. The challenge of creating the unique cinematic experience exercised artists ...

The Vincent van Gogh animated film made up of 65,000 paintings

Karl Quinn

The bad moms' moms, including Christine Baranski, right, are the highlight.

Bad Moms 2: Bad grandmas join in on Christmas shenanigans

REVIEW
Jake Wilson

Winging it: Fernando (Paul Hamy) embarks on the birdwatching expedition from hell.

The Ornithologist: A birdwatching thriller so dull it makes you twitch

REVIEW
Paul Byrnes

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

What we all missed about the Trudeau family's Halloween

COMMENT
Kasey Edwards

Could the bacteria of elite athletes provide clues to performance and recovery?

Could fecal probiotics improve performance and recovery?

Sarah Berry
25 mins ago

What are you overestimating that you need to do, be or have?

How to stop worrying about being perfect

Susie Moore

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

Kevin Spacey says Rapp's accusation 'has encouraged me to address other things about my life'.

What if Spacey's accuser had been a woman?

COMMENT
Jennie Hill

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

When you don't want to re-connect with old friends

COMMENT
Thomas Mitchell

Spring Racing Carnival Flemington Birdcage marquees preview. 2 November 2017. The Age News. Photo: Eddie Jim. G.H. Mumm. ...

First look: Inside the marquees at the Flemington Birdcage

Melissa Singer

Eddie Redmayne and his wife Hannah are expecting their second child. The couple, who are already parents to 16-month-old ...

Eddie Redmayne expecting second child

500 pieces of Noma, from the plates to the iconic chairs, are up for auction at midnight AEST.

You can own a piece of the world's best restaurant

Adam Liaw's asparagus and parmesan fettuccine.

Swap 'zoodles' for asparagus ribbons in this easy spring pasta

Stuffed olives, white anchovies and charcuterie at Harvest.

Shock closure in South Yarra: the Harvest is over after one month

We need to teach our children not to treat the entire world like their playground.

Why this restaurant owner was right to ban children

To text or not to text?

Texting friends for advice might increase anxiety

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

Living with your mother-in-law may affect your fertility

Singapore Airlines new first class suite for its A380 superjumbos.

Singapore Airlines unveils stunning new seats for superjumbos

Craig Platt

Rendering of the front of the ship.

Richard Branson reveals Virgin's 'adults only' first cruise ship

Teresa Machen

The strangers may face misdemeanor or felony charges over the in-flight sex act.

Mile High Club: Strangers face FBI charges over sex act on flight

Marwa Eltagouri

The cameras are now vertically aligned and both feature optical stabilisation.

iPhone X impressions: re-learning required

Sophia the robot has been granted Saudi citizenship.

Saudi women riled at robot 'citizen'

The Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL are imperfect but very impressive.

Pixel 2: very impressive and extremely Google

Review

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.

Mario reflects, reinvents in new adventure

Review

2013 Skoda Rapid

Skoda Rapid used car review

David Morley

Kia Stinger Federation conept

Top ten cars of SEMA 2017

Alex Rae

BMW's Next 100 concept car points to a radical future

Driverless cars present problems for designers

Andrew Maclean

2017 Volkswagen I.D. Crozz concept.

Volkswagen: EV incentives "wrong"

Stephen Ottley

2017 Renault Captur.

2017 Renault Captur new car review

Stephen Ottley

2018 Jeep Wrangler.

Jeep reveals new Wrangler

Stephen Ottley

Adelaide Crows

AFL Women to share an extra $500,000 next season

Caroline Wilson

Giant gain: Lachie Keeffe

GWS Giants Lach in axed Magpie

UPDATED
Daniel Cherny

Rory Sloane celebrates during the 2017 grand final.

Sloane to keep Adelaide waiting

Daniel Cherny

Young Saint Jade Gresham's pre-season will be delayed as he recovers from surgery.

Delayed start for Saints goalsneak after surgery

Daniel Cherny

New recruit: Luke Hodge has joined the Brisbane Lions.

New Lion Luke Hodge set to feast on Hawks

Peter Ryan

Driving run: Casper Ware delivered on his promise to be more aggressive in attack for United.

NBL: United find form against Taipans at Hisense

George Springer celebrates his two-run homer.

Astros coast past Dodgers to win first World Series

Erik Boland

Home delivery: Socceroos coach Ange Postecoglou with his charges at the extra-time break on their way to victory over Syria.

Six times around the world: Socceroos' road to Russia

Dominic Bossi

Bernard Tomic has slumped in the world rankings to well outside the top 100.

Make Tomic earn his Open spot, says Cash

Ben Simmons

Simmons just shy of another triple-double in NBA win

Dustin Martin

Dustys Boys take Main Stage towards the Derby

Chris Roots

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Rails Run: Derby Day

Melbourne City goalie Lydia Williams will return this week.

W-League: Williams back between the posts for City

Michael Lynch

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