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Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull visits the Hall of Names at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, ...

Citizenship crisis to reach boiling point amid secret audit

Parents are increasingly sending their children to tutoring before they start school.

Anxious parents rush toddlers in for tutoring before they start kindy

Treasurer Scott Morrison says the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority and the Australian Securities and ...

'Scalpel' plan offers hope for first home buyers: Morrison

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced Peter Dutton will become the Minister for Home Affairs at Parliament House in ...

Peter Dutton is in trouble and only one man can save him now

COMMENT

'People who feel under threat by change see female change agents as more threatening than male ones': Pauline Wright, ...

Pauline could not believe what the police said to her outside court

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrive in Hawaii on Friday.

What really happened when Trump's Twitter account went silent

Fearing for his own life, Lebanese PM steps down with parting shot

'Crackdown is on': News that will cheer Donald Trump

'High threat': Terror warning issued to Australian travellers

The suburbs where sports fields are being replaced by synthetic grass

William McInnes

Green light for 'life-changing' drug treatment

Dennis Halloran at his home in Paddington. Dennis has had a long history of fighting for gay rights in Australia and is ...

Dennis has fought for 30 years. The last eight weeks have been the hardest

Kevin Spacey at this year's Tony Awards.

Blow for Spacey as more ties severed 'effective immediately'

Alec Baldwin, left, and Hilaria Baldwin.

Alec Baldwin and wife Hilaria expecting fourth child

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Deputy Liberal leader Julie Bishop arrives at the Birdcage on Derby Day.

Derby Day's celebrity stakes attract more than a few also-rans

Emojis were used in about 2.3 trillion mobile messages last year.

'Too trendy': All the emojis you'll never be able to use

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Sydney duo aces the Victorian Derby

Dominant: Scott Sio carries strongly against a wilting Japanese defence.

Hodge stars at five-eighth as Wallabies run riot over Japan

Cockatoos

After flood of complaints, new problem strikes NBN

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Cahill in doubt for Socceroos after suffering ankle injury

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

Gold fever as Australian miners dig up monster nuggets

Kremlin: No cooperation between Russia and US on ...

2:25AM

The world's 11 minutes without @realDonaldTrump

1:41AM

Parents agonise over testing before kids start ...

11:48PM

Smooth operators: Pennant Hills FC vice president Grahame Bateman and Hornsby mayor Phillp Ruddock on the synthetic field.

The suburbs where sports fields are being replaced by synthetic grass

When being brain dead stirs screams and means to raise funds

Julie Power

Man killed in head-on crash with truck south-west of Sydney

Miriam Webber

NESA has launched an investigation after a student was allegedly caught livestreaming an HSC exam on Facebook.

HSC student allegedly caught livestreaming exam on Facebook

Pallavi Singhal

Hundreds flock to McDougall Street to take pictures amongst the jacarandas that grow on both sides of the street.

In-bloom jacaranda trees cause traffic headaches

William McInnes

Alan Baxter-Piggford and Toby Melville-Brown are lucky to tell their story after they were rescued from the water at ...

'Just stay afloat': UK cooking show duo's dramatic NSW surf rescue

One of the men after his arrest.

Five Australians arrested over $200m ice and cocaine bust

***EMBARGOED FOR GOOD WEEKEND, NOVEMBER 4/17 ISSUE*** Sharon Bradley photographed at home in Sydney, Oct 2017, for the ...

The disease afflicting a rising number of young women like Sharon

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) image from a propaganda video released earlier this year.

Australian teenage terror suspect detained in Lebanon

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk wants to veto the almost $1 billion concessional loan to the Adani Carmichael mine.

LNP to block Premier's moves to veto Adani Carmichael mine loan

QLD

Actor Vince Colosimo arriving at court on Friday.

Magistrate gives Underbelly star an offer he can't refuse

UPDATED

Dr Chelvi Kumar and Sathia Kumar with the glass lift at the centre of their recently completed home.

Families like the Kumars driving a boom in Sydney's home lifts

Ronnie and Georgisa's facade at 46c Regent St, Elsternwick.

Total charmer: The key to restoring and renovating an old home

Auctioneer James Hayashi of Phillips Pantzer Donnelley in action.

Home sells $180k above reserve, despite 'buyers dropping off'

Many new offices are being designed so employees bump into each other and communicate more.

'Functional inconvenience' coming to an office near you

Somewhere on the way to better home design, Australian floor plans can take a wrong turn. Brighton 5 residence by InForm ...

Best laid plans: What Australian home design gets wrong

Anna McGahan says female actors in Australia have been talking a lot about harassment since the Weinstein scandal broke.

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Melbourne-based actress and writer Anna McGahan has starred in films, TV shows and on stage.

'It happened in full view of everybody': Anna's trauma

EXCLUSIVE
Debbie Cuthbertson

Curt and Micheline-Nicole Jenner share a determination to study and preserve the ocean's iconic whales.

Husband and wife's leap of faith into the blue

Damien Murphy

Karl Stefanovic and Lisa Wilkinson may be different characters but they have "a great chemistry".

Chemistry the formula for a genuine friendship

COMMENT
Peter FitzSimons

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Malcolm Turnbull has denounced the "witch-hunt" underway in Australian politics.

PM slams 'witch hunt' as Shorten offers peace deal on citizenship

James Massola

Frydenberg caught between cruel history and an uncertain fate

ANALYSIS
Tony Wright

Manus authorities 'turn away food aid' as humanitarian crisis deepens

Nicole Hasham

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

Citizenship fiasco deepens, threatening Turnbull's authority

ANALYSIS
Mark Kenny

Father of the House Kevin Andrews waves to the public gallery in Parliament House.

Pity poor Father Kevin Andrews - Malcolm Turnbull is on his lawn

COMMENT
Tony Wright

Minister for Environment and Energy Josh Frydenberg.

Stung by dual citizen claims, Josh Frydenberg comes out fighting

Jacqueline Maley

Kevin Andrews.

Malcolm Turnbull is 'leader at the moment': Kevin Andrews

Fergus Hunter

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting with senior military officers last month.

No cooperation between Russia and US on North Korea: Kremlin

A Chinese tourist in a traditional Korean costume on the bank of Yalu River.

Sanctions bite both North Korea and China

Kirsty Needham

For the public there is confusion about what National Unity Day is trying to achieve. Not even Russia's leaders seem ...

Vodka and arguments: how Russians celebrate the revolution

Helen Womack

Eline Oidvin runs the 2017 Spitsbergen Marathon in Norway between Hakon Fram Stokka, left, Andrew W. Lehren.

How I helped a blind marathoner navigate the Arctic

COMMENT

Solomon Lew is among shareholders benefiting from a lift in dividends at skateboards and streetwear company Globe ...

What happens next at Myer is out of Lew's hands

Patrick Hatch

The S&P 500 and Dow industrials recorded their eighth consecutive weeks of gains.

Apple shoots to record high as Wall Street continues winning run

Federal and state spending on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Australians was estimated at more than $33 billion in ...

Let me explain before some One Nation-type gives you her version

COMMENT
Ross Gittins

NAB's job cuts announced this week will put pressure on other banks to rein in expenses, analysts say.

NAB's cuts raise pressure on rivals to slash costs

Clancy Yeates

Clock is ticking: Myer chief running out of time

COMMENT
Elizabeth Knight

Amazon Australia 'likely to launch by mid-November': Citi

Carolyn Cummins

Financial dispute referee has become a political football

COMMENT
Adele Ferguson

Hotels hit straps as long-time owners cash out

Nicole Lindsay and Carolyn Cummins

Economic modelling shows more than 1.3 million Australian families are in “housing need”.

From boom to gloom: how rising house prices have become a worry

COMMENT
Matt Wade

Eat a piece of seasonal fruit when you're feeling peckish and watch those dollars accumulate and pounds fall away.

How to eat your way onto the housing ladder and lose weight

COMMENT
Jessica Irvine

Employment Minister, Senator Michaelia Cash, became entangled over a media drop that had unforeseen consequences.

ICAC should shine light on government, media relations

COMMENT
Imre Salusinszky

Persol remains one of the most popular brands of eyewear for men.

Cool shade: The only accessory you need this summer

Men's Accessories
Benjamen Judd

The Lexus Design Pavilion was inspired by the interior of the new luxury LS Sedan.

Lexus offers a glimpse into the future at the races

Luxury
Jane Rocca

Anna Balzamo has raised money through a reverse mortgage on her home in Chipping Norton in Sydney.

How a reverse mortgage can ease the squeeze in later years

John Collett

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Most of us shouldn't bother with rewards for credit cards

Caitlin Fitzsimmons

Deliveroo's Australian head Levi Aron does undercover deliveries once a fortnight.

On yer bike: Deliveroo's dark kitchens set for launch

Cara Waters

James Adonis has come out to colleagues a number of times.

Confronting homophobia at work

COMMENT
James Adonis

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Natalie Imbruglia feels the love at Derby Day

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Korea tensions high ahead of Trump visit

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Manus Island: asylum seekers speak

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England defeat gallant Lebanon

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How to avoid expensive mistakes when buying a new phone

Alex Kidman

Sam Smith: 'I love men and I fall in love with men and its the same as anyone else, that's what I wanted to get across.'

Smith: 'It was dangerous for my heart'

Nathanael Cooper

Kevin Spacey at this year's Tony Awards. He said Rapp's accusation "has encouraged me to address other things about my ...

How Hollywood's real movie monsters hid behind the camera

Michael Idato

Director Kathryn Bigelow near where the Algiers Motel once stood, in Detroit. Her new movie focuses on the deaths of ...

The very political Kathryn Bigelow

Stephanie Bunbury

Mutual attraction: (from left) Rebecca Hall as Elizabeth Marston, Luke Evans as William Marston and Bella Heathcote as ...

The hidden wonders behind the real Wonder Woman story

Stephanie Bunbury

Unvarnished honesty: Casey Donovan at Rosetta.

Reality still rules for Casey Donovan

Michael Harry

Mercedes Corby appears on Ten's Studio 10.

Mercedes Corby makes awkward appearance on Studio 10

Rob Moran

Star Wars: The Last Jedi..Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill).

Luke in the Millennium Falcon: Star Wars trailer delights fans

Karl Quinn

Indie pop star Jeremy Neale is on the verge of releasing his debut album <I>Getting the Team Back Together</I>.

Reinvention in life and music for indie pop singer

Nathanael Cooper

Gal pals stick together.

A feminist fairytale (and you thought is was just about ponies)

Jake Wilson

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

Labour of love took seven years from Gogh to whoa

Karl Quinn

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

Psycho pilgrims, drunk banshees ... he just wants to watch birds

Paul Byrnes

Silence is golden.

I was tired of complaining, so I stopped talking

Jennifer Morton

No time like the present: Make the most of chance encounters with friends.

Why the 'social quickie' is good for your friendships

Kerry Potter

Gigi Hadid

Bronde balayage is the latest celebrity 'it' colour

Stephanie Darling

Pushing out of our comfort zone helps us find freedom from our fears.

The upside of discomfort

Evelyn Lewin

Megan Blake Irwin with her boyfriend Nicolo Knows at the launch of Dom Perignon on Demand at Palm Beach last Friday.

The most OTT party Sydney's Palm Beach has seen

Social Seen
Amy Croffey

''I don't want to start looking backwards'': Mike Willesee on Australian Story.

'Tough guy' Willesee ready to fight cancer ... again

Andrew Hornery

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

The great thing we missed about the Trudeau family's Halloween

COMMENT
Kasey Edwards

Selena Gomez, left, and Justin Bieber at the 39th Annual American Music Awards on Sunday, November 20, 2011 in Los Angeles.

Jelena is probably, certainly, almost definitely, back on

Mary Ward

No more pre-dinner drinks for you, sir.

Traveller letters: Qantas rules assume all plane passengers are drunks

The Good Egg, Stoke Newington, London: House smoked meats are their speciality.

The 32 bucket-list restaurants worth crossing the globe for

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Reader travel photo competition: Top 16 finalists revealed

Kylie McLaughlin

My weight loss is not a feminist issue.

The big problem with 'before' and 'after' weight loss photos

"There is no nine to five in the Insta-world."

What it's really like to be an 'Insta-famous' mum

They've got the moves.

Doctor choreographs dance for women in labour

Newcomer: A noodle dish from Longrain in Tokyo.

Meet the Australians taking on Tokyo's dazzling dining scene

Sweet and savoury: mini doughnuts filled with rock lobster, tom yum mayonnaise and sweetcorn and lemongrass salt.

Love at first bite: meet the lobster doughnut burger

Neil Perry's white peach cocktails with lobster sandwiches.

24 of the best things in sliced bread

The iPhone X requires a little bit of getting used to.

Six gestures you'll need to learn for iPhone X

Drugs which kill off gut bacteria are bad news for cancer patienrts.

Are antibiotics making it harder to fight cancer?

Xbox One X.

Xbox One X is the most powerful console ever, but is it worth it?

Review

Demanding titles like <i>Absolver</i>, available on PC or the PlayStation 4, can force you to decide where your gaming ...

What's better for young gamers, PC or console?

COMMENT

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

iPhone X impressions: re-learning required

The new LDV T60 ute offers excellent value.

2018 LDV T60 Luxe review

David McCowen

2018 BMW X3 xDrive20d

2018 BMW X3 new car review

Andrew Maclean

The Stinger gives Kia genuine driver's appeal.

2017 Kia Stinger Si new car review

David McCowen

2018 Volkswagen T-Roc.

Volkswagen rules out T-Roc

Stephen Ottley

Drive Car of the Year judges put dozens of cars through their paces.

2017 Drive Car of the Year Preview

David McCowen

Infiniti's new Q50 Red Sport sedan.

2018 Infiniti Q50 Red Sport review

David McCowen

The moment: Footage of the alleged biting incident.

'You don't bite': Furious Farah's allegation mars England victory

Steve Mascord

Dominant: Scott Sio carries strongly against a wilting Japanese defence.

Hodge stars at five-eighth as Wallabies run riot over Japan

Melissa Woods

Why me?: Jarryd Hayne's personal sponsor claims he has been made a "scapegoat".

If the cap fits: How the Hayne plane could land at the Roosters

Adrian Proszenko

Raising the bar: Rather than leave the Roosters, Mitchell Pearce is being encouraged to get even better.

Become award-winning half: Politis issues challenge to Pearce

Danny Weidler

Icon: Almandin owner Lloyd Williams holds the Melbourne Cup aloft last year.

Williams' grip on sixth Melbourne Cup strengthens after barrier draw

Adam Pengilly

Cheshire grin: Steve Smith smiles at bowler Simon Mackin after clearing the field.

Smith blasts his way back into form as Wade flops again

James Buckley

Rejected: Ben Simmons leaps to block the shot of Darren Collison.

Simmons' dream start better than even Jordan's and LeBron's

Matt Bungard

Tim Cahill receives treatment on his ankle injury during Melbourne City's loss to Sydney FC.

Socceroos sweat on result of Cahill scans after injury blow

Michael Lynch

Red hot: Andrew Fifita leads Tongan celebrations.

Star-studded Tongans live up to hype against Pacific neighbours

Angelo Risso

Bulwark: Kangaroos forward David Klemmer is stopped by several French players.

French coach exposes Kangaroos' flaws for England rematch

Steve Mascord

Shaun Johnson.

Johnson breaks record as 14-try Kiwis run riot over Scotland

Angelo Risso

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