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'Taken too soon:' Stabbing victim remembered as government responds to tragedy
Online she appeared like any other 24-year-old woman: happy, smiling, posing in photos in sunny travels around the world. But this week, Michaela Dunn became the latest face revealing the toll of violence against women in Australia.
- by Lucy Cormack
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Sharemarket
US sharemarkets plunge as recession fears mount
US President responded by lashing out at his Federal Reserve chairman and decrying the "crazy" inverted yield curve.
- by Matthew Knott
Councillor 'on the verge of tears' reading report about NSW pipeline
The justification for the $500 million Broken Hill water pipeline prioritised irrigators and all but ignored the environment, the project's business case says.
- by Peter Hannam
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Secretive teacher investigation unit has 'substantial flaws'
A secretive Department of Education investigation unit was "creating havoc" in the lives of those it investigates, a damning report has found.
- by Jordan Baker
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Ashes washout will provide a timely test of Mark Taylor’s theory
Is the second Test going to be a better form of entertainment when compressed into four days?
- by Malcolm Knox
'It's scandalous': Walsh Bay redevelopment plans stalled
Top Sydney arts companies are in limbo after work on their new lodgings at Walsh Bay's Pier 2/3 has failed to go ahead.
- by Linda Morris, Nick Galvin and Megan Gorrey
Cheating at Sydney uni up by 2000 per cent after new detection methods used
By improving the university's investigative techniques, its staff were able to spot simple giveaways.
- by Pallavi Singhal
Boris Johnson condemns 'collaborators' in Facebook video stunt
The live Facebook 'People's PMQs' was an innovation dreamed up by an Australian aide.
- by Nick Miller
His only relative died in El Paso. He has invited everyone to her funeral
Tributes, as well as flowers and cards, have poured in from across the country after Antonio Basco invited everyone to his wife's funeral.
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Constance demands fellow Berejiklian minister 'explain' himself
- by Matt O'Sullivan and Lisa Visentin
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Anna spends 22 hours a day in bed. But experts hope they're close to a cure
- by Melissa Cunningham
Divided: A tale of two Lygon Streets, as shopkeepers flee Little Italy
- by Tom Cowie and Alex Blain
Politics
Discount chemists the new Uber: Former ACCC chief backs pharmacy deregulation
Graeme Samuel says governments bowing to the Pharmacy Guild ought to have learned from the other industry to have been safeguarded from pro-competition reforms: taxis.
- by Dana McCauley
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Immigration
Migration under review amid growing congestion concerns
- by Shane Wright and Eryk Bagshaw
Business
'Absolutely unacceptable': Business fury over Google ad policy
Businesses say they are being blocked from advertising on Google as the ombudsman says lack of transparency is a problem.
- by Emma Koehn
World
Security net descends on Hong Kong airport
Flights resumed at one of the world’s biggest air travel hubs on Wednesday as a police fired multiple rounds of tear gas at protesters across town.
- by Kirsty Needham
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'No doubt we see flow-on effects': Top developers react to unit defects
Sydney’s apartment market has been rocked by news of unprecedented building defects over the past year. Here's how top-tier developers are responding.
- by Tawar Razaghi
Young Australians show ‘blind optimism’ they’ll own a home: report
Many young people even struggle to find their own rental, yet believe they would be able to buy a home within five years, a new study shows.
- by Jim Malo
Entertainment
Opera star Placido Domingo to be investigated for sexual harassment
The allegations have shocked the opera world where Domingo remains, at 78, an enormous force.
- by Michael Cooper and Alex Marshall
Uber is the modern Fawlty Towers as strangers collide
New TV comedy Diary of an Uber Driver taps into rich comedic history of forcing people to interact despite their differences.
- by Ben Pobjie
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Star Wars is struggling to win over the next generation of kids
It's hard to say this, as someone who grew up pretending to be Han Solo battling Darth Vader, but kids might not be into Star Wars anymore.
- by Crayton Harrison
Three big workout fails you don't realise you're doing
Have you really lived if you don't look back on your past and think, "Man, I was stupid back then"?
- by Sam Downing
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Sport
Australia confirm Hazlewood inclusion amid Ashes first-day washout
The first day of the second Test at Lord's was abandoned without a ball being bowled on Wednesday due to persistent rain in London.
- by Chris Barrett
Tim Tszyu remains undefeated as he hones in on Jeff Horn
Tim Tszyu has moved a step closer towards a superfight with Jeff Horn after earning a unanimous points decision against tough Victorian Dwight Ritchie.
- by Adrian Proszenko
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NRL 2019
Haters fail to put Momirovski off his game after devastating miss
- by Adrian Proszenko