62 m. ago Ann Cleeves: My husband died eight years ago, but he left me a special gift

The bestselling author of the Vera Stanhope novels says she started writing after she fell pregnant, but it took 20 years for commercial success to come.

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62 m. ago Barnaby Joyce and Andrew Hastie worry these women might cheat the system

Conservative male MPs are using underhand tactics to try to reignite the abortion wars.

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24 h. ago Say cheese! Am I dressing up for the supermarket security camera?

It turns out the biggest post-Halloween fright isn’t ghosts, but the self-checkout lens judging my life choices.

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25 h. ago ‘So what if he fell off a pot plant?’ Barnaby Joyce’s voters face a choice

There are two articles of faith you will commonly hear advanced in and around Joyce’s electorate: one is fealty to the National Party, the other is affection for the MP.

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58 h. ago As Renshaw fell, Khawaja fired an Ashes shot. But did one over draw a blueprint?

On a day when two Ashes contenders fell cheaply, two balls threatened to unveil a blueprint for one star. But the man himself believes it will be his strength.

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61 h. ago Barnaby Joyce denies allegations he yelled at female Nationals staffer

New England MP Barnaby Joyce has denied allegations he yelled at a Nationals staffer over a personal leave matter.

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62 h. ago As Renshaw fell, did an unsung quick expose a Khawaja Ashes plan?

On a day when two Ashes contenders fell cheaply, an unsung paceman may have just exposed one man who is guaranteed to line up against England in Perth.

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63 h. ago Barnaby Joyce denies allegation he shouted at Nationals staffer

Barnaby Joyce has denied allegations he shouted at a female staffer of a fellow Nationals MP, with the issue having been raised with the Parliamentary Workplace Support Service.

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67 h. ago She dumped him, he told her to go away – four years later, Kaz and Thana were married

After a rocky beginning, Kazumasa Yazawa and his wife Thana fell in love. Ten years later, they made a radical call: moving from Jakarta to small-town Tasmania.

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67 h. ago ‘He complains less now’: Why Kaz and Thana swapped a Jakarta restaurant for a Tasmanian B&B

After a rocky beginning, Kazumasa Yazawa and his wife Thana fell in love. Ten years later, they made a radical call: moving from Jakarta to small-town Tasmania.

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3 d. ago Konstas fell, Smith shone. But a new candidate to succeed Khawaja was revealed

While all eyes were on Konstas and Smith, a rookie all-rounder announced himself as a man who could one day emulate an Australian cricket great.

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3 d. ago Visible from space, bloodied sands expose massacre of thousands after besieged city falls

Satellite images taken of El Fasher after the Sudanese city fell at the weekend show clusters of objects “consistent with the size of human bodies”.

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4 d. ago ‘We are the party of choice’: Liberals divided on voluntary assisted dying changes

NSW Liberal Leader Mark Speakman says faith-based aged care homes should be able to decline voluntary assisted dying on site.

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4 d. ago Fixing housing’s a vote winner. But which fix and which voter?

Voters on the hard right and left of politics agree on one thing. Our centrist government needs to listen.

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4 d. ago Disunity is death: Liberal Party boss’s warning to MPs after Joyce, Price, Hastie sagas

Party director Andrew Hirst presented his first polling briefing of the term on Monday afternoon in a marathon shadow cabinet meeting.

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5 d. ago Next November, will voters take a wrecking ball to the Oval Office?

Previous presidents learned that large defeats in the midterms elections stops their legislative agenda cold. Could it happen again?

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5 d. ago Joyce snubs Nationals, insists he remains a member of the party

Barnaby Joyce has snubbed the Nationals, but insists he is still a member of the regional party as his future in politics remains in limbo.

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5 d. ago Schrodinger’s politician: Barnaby Joyce is precisely where he wants to be

The former Nationals leader spent all day refusing to say whether he’d stick with the Nationals, even if they bowed to his demands on net zero, and what he’d do if they didn’t.

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5 d. ago Nationals hit out at Joyce as rebel MP digs in and refuses to reveal future

Barnaby Joyce is refusing to clarify his political allegiances as senior Nationals called on the MP to end the damaging speculation sparked by his quitting the party room.

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6 d. ago When AI called my friend a murderer it solved my daughter’s career choice

Nerdy execs who skipped the history class on humanism are rolling out this robot we’ll be told we need until we can’t live without it.

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