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Tony Abbott
Libs release preselection result to head off damaging internal conflict
The actual number was kept secret from the meeting, triggering angry scenes and two days of public division.
- by Bevan Shields
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Scott Morrison
Headaches mount for PM as another female MP quits
Scott Morrison's attempts to dissuade another female MP from retiring has failed with Ann Sudmalis set to go at the next election.
- by Mark Kenny
Opinion
Drugs
My child goes to festivals but I don't want them shut down
Who, in the real world, thinks that shutting down music festivals is going to help win the war on drugs?
- by Peter FitzSimons
Dover and its famously collapsing boss sued by ASIC
It's a fresh blow to Dover after its train-wreck royal commission appearance in April that resulted in it shutting up shop.
- by Sarah Danckert
Breaking
Crime
Police search finds no trace of mother Lynette Dawson
Police were hopeful they would find new evidence of the mother who vanished 36 years ago from her Sydney home.
How the rise of tap and go has slugged bottom lines
Contactless technology is now Australians' preferred payment method. But not everyone is thrilled.
- by Cara Waters
Opinion
Big four
Contagion risk as bankers flee scene of the crimes
After two of NAB's most senior executives left the group within three months. It may be a foretaste of what’s to come.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Featured
Opinion & Perspectives
Tips for our new PM: #1, learn to shout less
If Scott Morrison wanted to be useful he would initiate a debate about an absence of constitutional support for free speech.
Tony Walker
One by one, the panaceas are toppling: now it's aspirin
Long-term studies all too often downgrade the impact of treatments from seismic to meh.
Steven Lewis
Are smartphones the key to improving school results?
Calls to ban smartphones from classrooms may be overlooking the benefits of making better use of them.
Joanne Orlando
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National
'Significant leads' after metal object discovered in Queensland banana
- by Lucy Stone & Felicity Caldwell
Politics
Breaking
Scott Morrison
Headaches mount for Scott Morrison as another female MP quits
Scott Morrison's attempts to dissuade another female MP from retiring has failed with Ann Sudmalis set to go at the next election.
- by Mark Kenny
Analysis
Women of Influence
No handmaids here! Liberal women launch their red resistance
- by Tony Wright
World
Property bydomain
Experts rubbish claims of 40 per cent house price fall in 12 months
The worst case scenario was presented, experts say, rather than what Australians should really be aware of.
- by Jim Malo
Australians are paying more for less land. Here's why
Australians are paying more for new land and we're also building bigger houses. It's changing the way we live.
- by Melissa Heagney
Business
Telcos ditch ‘unlimited’ mobile plan claims
Australia’s three biggest mobile providers, Singtel Optus, Vodafone Hutchison Australia and Telstra, have stopped using the term “unlimited” in their advertising.
- by Jennifer Duke
Small business
Entertainment
Jessica Marais pulls out of new Nine drama to 'focus on her health'
The popular TV actress has been open with her health struggles this year.
- by Genevieve Rota
Woody Allen's wife Soon-Yi Previn breaks silence on sexual assault claims
Previn claims that Dylan Farrow's allegations against Allen are false, and that Mia Farrow abused Previn.
- by Erin Nyren
Lifestyle
Smarter living
How surfing's record-breaking daredevil finally grew up
After conquering the world's largest wave, Garrett McNamara is on a quest for enlightenment.
- by Jane Rocca
The right trousers: robotic pants could help disabled walk again
Pants with artificial muscles will give frail people bionic power so they can live independently for longer.
- by Sarah Knapton
Why all this talk about 'gaming addiction' is not helping families
- by Dr Kristy Goodwin
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Sport
Souths player at centre of sexting scandal unlikely to be stood down
The high-profile Rabbitohs player at the centre of the issue, who Fairfax has chosen not to name, claims the lewd conversation on social media was consensual.
- by Andrew Webster
Kenyan marathoner defies logic to push limits of human physiology
Usain Bolt, Bob Beamon ... Eliud Kipchoge. The Kenyan's extraordinary marathon effort puts him in rarefied athletic company.
- by Oliver Brown
