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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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Former Eels chief's estranged wife at wheel, allegedly drunk, texting before crash
A 4-year-old girl and her aunt were critically injured after a driver crashed into a family of pedestrians.
- by Rachel Clun & Jenny Noyes
'Distraught': Abusive fan free after Rugby Australia decree
No one will take action over the ugly incident involving an abusive Wallabies fan and a heartbroken young player.
- by Georgina Robinson
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
Wesfarmers execs pay dearly for Bunnings disaster
The foray burnt through more than $1.7 billion of shareholder value. and now it's Wesfarmers' executives dearly.
- by Patrick Hatch
Republican schism emerges over Kavanaugh vote plans
Two key Republicans joined Democrats in demanding further investigation of a woman's allegations of sexual assault.
- by Laura Litvan
'Prepare to get your legs broken': MP threatened over fishing ban
The MP was targeted for supporting plan to introduce lockout zones to protect fish.
- by Nick O'Malley
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
Man who killed policeman was high, on way to visit newborn, court told
- by Tammy Mills & Cameron Houston
'Significant leads' after metal object discovered in Queensland banana
- by Lucy Stone & Felicity Caldwell
Politics
Breaking
Tony Abbott
Liberal Party releases Tony Abbott preselection result to head off damaging internal conflict
The NSW Liberal Party says the former prime minister received 68 per cent support in his controversial preselection.
- by Bevan Shields
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
Solly Lew tries to recruit major Myer player to join insurgency
Billionaire retailer Solomon Lew has tried to enlist the newly minted, third major force on Myer's share registry into his corporate insurgency.
- by Patrick Hatch
Small business
Entertainment
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
Friends star Matthew Perry reveals he's been in hospital for three months
The 49-year-old actor underwent an operation last month.
- by Keiran Southern
Exclusive
TV news and current affairs
‘Very dark days’: Anton Enus returns to SBS after cancer battle
- by Michael Lallo
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
