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Cleo Smith disappearance
Cleo Smith found alive and well by police after missing for more than two weeks
WA Police officers broke into a locked house in the town of Carnarvon, 900 kilometres north of Perth, about 1am where they found the young girl in one of the rooms.
‘My name is Cleo’: Missing girl found locked in home
“This is the outcome we all hoped and prayed for,” WA Deputy Commissioner Col Blanch said.
‘He’s lied to me’: Turnbull joins Macron in rebuking PM on subs deal
Malcolm Turnbull said Scott Morrison had lied to him when they worked together in government, but had committed a graver mistake by being dishonest on an international level.
‘Big mistake’: Biden criticises Xi for not attending climate summit
In his final speech to the summit, Joe Biden said Xi Jinping had “lost the ability to influence people around the world” by not coming to Glasgow.
Opinion
UK
COP26, a grotesque mix of rent seekers, hangers-on and political wannabes
In Glasgow, world leaders are only a small slice of a climate carnival best described as part-trade fair and part-public relations opportunity.
Bevan Shields
Europe correspondent
Climate summit struggles to agree as Australia promises technology help
Australia has made its pitch to the world for technology, not taxes, to deal with climate change, putting it at odds with other nations.
Exclusive
Government grants
NSW to review grants amid concerns of pork-barrelling
Dominic Perrottet has ordered a review of his government’s processes for awarding grants, after his predecessor’s ICAC appearance reignited controversy on pork-barrelling in marginal seats.
Exclusive
Coronavirus pandemic
Teen girls drive mental health hospital visits post-lockdown
Adolescent girls from socio-economically advantaged backgrounds drove the biggest rise in mental health admissions and visits reported by Sydney’s two children’s hospitals in five years.
Budget to improve by $45b, but big deficits to continue: Deloitte
Deloitte expects stronger commodity prices, the recovery from lockdowns and the high take-up of vaccinations to save the budget $45 billion.
Exclusive
National security
Secret trip to Syria raises hopes of rescue mission
Intelligence officials travelled to Syria as the government weighs up the repatriation of Australian women and children who have been held in refugee camps for almost three years.
The best of the best deliver a Verry Elleegant Melbourne Cup success
Verry Elleegant showed she is the best of her generation with a dominant Melbourne Cup victory.
CBD
City life
How Sydney had the biggest Melbourne Cup raceday
Let’s be real, the 2021 Melbourne Cup was very much the Cup Day to be celebrated in absentia.
Former FIFA officials charged over $2.9 million payout
Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini were indicted for allegedly unlawfully arranging a payment of 2 million Swiss francs.
Facebook to shut down face-recognition system, delete data
Facebook said it will shut down its face-recognition system and delete the faceprints of more than 1 billion people.
Why Eddie Woo doesn’t mourn the demise of Dollarmites
NSW Education Minister Sarah Mitchell announced the end of school banking programs effective from the start of 2022.
GLASGOW CLIMATE SUMMIT
‘Significant milestone’: In Glasgow, the world moves to halt deforestation
Leaders representing land which is home to more than 85 per cent of the world’s forests are expected to commit to reversing deforestation by 2030.
'We are not drowning, we are fighting'
Samoan climate activist Brianna Fruean has given an impassioned speech to world leaders at the Glasgow climate summit.
Sydney
Cycleway, 30-metre high sculpture and parks for new airport motorway
A shared cycling and walking path branching off into surrounding parks will be a key feature of a 16-kilometre motorway connecting the future Western Sydney airport to the rest of the city.
State hires sleuths to investigate anti-vaccination teachers
Restrictions are being eased in schools from next week, with volunteers allowed back in and music ensembles permitted for instruments played with masks.
NSW delays easing of restrictions for unvaccinated residents
The changes will mean restrictions set to ease for all residents on December 1 will instead ease only for people who have received both doses of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Cracked trams take inner west light rail out of action for at least a month
Transport Minister Rob Stokes will direct safety investigators to look into the cracking that has grounded the entire fleet.
Troy Grant’s father ‘drinking red wine, dozing in chair’ before hit-and-run, court told
A sleep expert has told the District Court it is unlikely Kenneth Grant was sleepwalking when his car fatally ran over a man in 2019.
MELBOURNE CUP
Sydney racing crowds revel at Randwick on Melbourne Cup day
As winner Verry Elleegant crossed the finish line, the crowd cheered before breaking into a mass rendition of Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline”.
Cup-winning owner apologises for breaching COVID protocols
Verry Elleegant stamped herself as a champion of the turf, but one of her exuberant owners turned to the hurdles as he leapt into the mounting yard.
Politics
RBA holds rates at ultra-low levels in bid to drive up wages
The bank conceded a rate rise in 2023 is “entirely plausible” but pushed back at suggestions it could be lifting rates early next year.
Business
Australia’s next mining boom could be ‘green’ as race to net zero intensifies
Investors are betting the push away from fossil fuels to clean energy will drive a boom in demand for Australia’s supplies of copper, nickel, lithium and cobalt.
World
Dozens killed and wounded as blasts, gunfire hit Kabul hospital
At least 25 people were killed and more than 50 wounded when gunmen attacked Afghanistan’s biggest military hospital after two heavy explosions at the site, officials said.
Opinion
Time is running out for Albanese to step up and lead
Shaun Carney
Regular columnist
‘I don’t think, I know’: Macron breaks through Morrison’s fog of spin
Julie Szego
Author and freelance journalist
Now I’m hopeful we can talk about teens and gender
Dr Sandra Pertot
Clinical psychologist
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Property bydomain
'Beginning of the end': How rate rises could kill the property boom
A strong economic recovery may mean earlier than expected rate hikes, which will see home loan repayments increase by hundreds of dollars a month.
What Sydney unit prices can buy you in other cities
Buying a unit in Sydney is now more expensive than purchasing a house in most other capital cities. So what can you buy elsewhere?
Lifestyle
‘I felt like something was missing’: Emily Ratajkowski is a work in progress
The supermodel’s first book, titled My Body, is a collection of essays that “were written to try to figure out what I believed,” she says.
Culture
Idris Elba stars in new western that rinses the whitewash out
This cowboy romp finally brings black men and women to the foreground.
Sport
In 160 years, no horse had won from gate 18. Then McDonald showed up
The best jockey in the country came up with a Melbourne Cup ride for the ages from a barrier that had long been cursed. How did he do it?
‘I didn’t want to run her’: Waller’s startling admission over Verry Elleegant’s Cup triumph
While other Sydney-based trainers and even Ireland’s Joseph O’Brien made last-minute dashes to Melbourne, the champion conditioner watched his first Cup victory from home.
Underdone Stokes facing fight for form before Ashes, says Root
England’s talismanic all-rounder may not be the force he was at the previous Ashes series in England two years ago.
Analysis
Melbourne Cup
Melbourne Cup finishing order: Assessing each runner and what the jockeys said
The finishing order is in for the 161st running of the Melbourne Cup at Flemington. It’s the race that stops a nation and this year was no different. Future Score was scratched on Tuesday morning.
Australia face must-win matches to make semi-finals
Australia must reverse recent heavy losses against Bangladesh and the West Indies if they are to make the last four in the T20 World Cup.
‘New lease of life’: Munster prepares to exit rehab
Melbourne star is in a ‘really good headspace’ as he recovers from alcohol issues, according to Storm chairman Matt Tripp.
AIS to provide mental health support as part of FA investigations
Mental health experts from the Australian Institute of Sport will be on hand to assist those impacted by the complaints process into Football Australia.
Have Your Say
Trio get ‘Big C’ tag after win befitting Light Fingers, Higgins and Bart
Surely, those that want to bag the Melbourne Cup and treatment to horses couldn’t find fault with Tuesday’s chapter.
