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Telecommunications
This is why our triple zero emergency line just crashed
For more than eight hours on Friday morning, emergency calls to the triple zero phone line were interrupted across Australia.
- by Rachel Clun & Jennifer Duke
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Donald Trump
Trump was caught in a flat out lie. Will anything change?
From serial exaggerations to obvious falsehoods, Trump has a pattern that is often breathtaking in its audacity.
- by Dan Balz
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Franchising
Red Rooster, Oporto stores on 'verge of bankruptcy'
A common complaint about Red Rooster is that the same chicken is available at the supermarket for half the price.
- by Cara Waters
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Workplace
Fix for 'broken' system will be too late for people like Daniel
A factory machine tore the skin off Daniel's foot. Then came another blow that threw him "on the scrap heap".
- by Anna Patty
'Boring': Bizarre remarks send Tesla stocks sliding
After telling analysts their "bonehead questions" were "not cool", Musk said: "Please sell our stock and don't buy it".
- by Peter Holley
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ABC
ABC boss writes grovelling apology to Rudd
Michelle Guthrie has "unreservedly apologised" to the former PM, admitting the coverage was botched.
- by Latika Bourke
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Investigation
Women charged in alleged $5.7m childcare fraud probe
Police will allege the women belonged to a group that claimed to have enrolled more than 1600 children in one month.
- by Patrick Begley
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Opinion & Perspectives
A day in the life of a Sydney high school teacher
I love what I do, or I would not be doing it. But there comes a point at which even the most bright, energetic and invested teacher must make a choice between their profession and their wellbeing.
Coalition and Labor show dangerous complacency before budget
There is a case to be made for income tax cuts. And the political imperative is clear. But it comes at a cost.
David Crowe
Plan to kill carp with herpes could prove as foolish as the cane toad
The idea that there are reserve Dad’s Armies of citizens ready to retrieve many tonnes of decomposing fish smelling off-the-scale like the gates of Hades is beyond preposterous.
Simon Chapman
Politics
How the federal budget carries a 'hidden' burden worth $73 billion
Taxpayers face a $2 billion annual interest bill from the federal government’s growing outlay on “off budget” projects .
- by David Crowe
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Education
'This is confronting stuff': Research reveals NSW schools' strengths and weaknesses
- by Michael Koziol
World
Analysis
Donald Trump
Is President Donald Trump about to talk himself into an impeachment?
- by Jonathan Bernstein
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Business
Macquarie Group soars to record profit, hikes dividend
Macquarie Group has beat expectations with a strong performance at its asset management and banking services arms.
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Franchising
Dirty birds: Red Rooster, Oporto franchisees on 'verge of bankruptcy'
- by Cara Waters
Entertainment
Film Academy expels Bill Cosby, Roman Polanski
The two controversial figures have failed "to uphold values of respect for human dignity," the Academy said.
- by Michael Idato
Inside the trippy feminist reimagining of Picnic at Hanging Rock
It took plenty of courage and a fair bit of conviction to revisit one of the most famous stories in Australian film and literature.
- by Karl Quinn
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ABC
Australian series' own Dr McDreamy to return after ABC gives green light
- by Nathanael Cooper
Lifestyle
Smarter living
Macca's run: Can you eat McDonald's for a week and keep fit?
Our fitness writer is putting McDonald's supposedly-healthy choices to the test.
- by Michael Jarosky
Parenting a defiant child: how to know when to get help
Some children's tantrums, irritability and defiance well exceed that of their peers.
- by David J Hawes
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Opinion
Roosters
The Cooper Cronk experiment isn’t working for the Roosters — can he change?
The Roosters’ prized signing must change to a new-look Roosters attack if his side is to start winning matches again.
- by Andrew Webster
No trophy for Arsene Wenger in final season as Arsenal manager
Atletico Madrid striker Diego Costa haunted Arsenal again by firing his side to a 1-0 win in Thursday's Europa League semi-final second leg.
- by Richard Martin
High-powered consortium making plans to buy Manly Sea Eagles
- by Adrian Proszenko & Nick Toscano
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Waratahs
A goose to some, a hero to others: Nick Phipps's moo-ving gesture
- by Georgina Robinson & Tom Decent