A mass entrance of ghostly maidens opens a ballet delight

The Australian Ballet returned to the stage after a year-long absence, at Margaret Court Arena. The program focused on the athletic, almost angelic dancers.

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What’s it about? Who knows? But with this comedy duo it’s good

Lano and Woodley have a masterful way of patterning humour so it seems spontaneous and responsive to the moment.

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First AstraZeneca doses arrive as Australia hits 30,000 vaccinations

The arrival of 300,000 doses of the Oxford University-AstraZeneca vaccine is the next stage of vaccine availability in Australia.

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‘I’m the wrong guy to go at’: LeBron shuts down Zlatan’s suggestion

Zlatan Ibrahimovic recently suggested LeBron James leave politics alone. But the NBA superstar says there’s no way he will just “stick to sports”.

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Second aide accuses New York Governor Cuomo of sexual harassment

A second former aide has come forward with sexual harassment allegations against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who responded with a statement saying he never made advances toward her and never intended to be inappropriate.

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Gender equality commissioner to oversee sexual harassment audit

Australia’s first Public Sector Gender Equality Commissioner will ask the state’s 300 state employers to audit incidence of sexual harassment.

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Man charged with attempted murder after Sydney CBD apartment glassing

Police were called to an apartment complex on Liverpool Street in response to reports of a domestic-related assault shortly before 6am.

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Searches enter second day for missing men off WA coastline in separate incidents

Separate searches for men missing off Western Australia’s south coast have resumed for the second day.

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Labor suggests public servants tasked for political gain

The opposition has asked the Attorney-General’s Department to explain why it appeared to cost a Labor policy before the frontbencher labelled it a $20 billion tax on businesses.

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PNG leader navigated country through independence

Controversy was never far away from the long-serving PNG leader.

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Uneven Beethoven dents triumphant return to Hamer Hall

A listless funeral march from the MSO robbed Beethoven’s heroic symphony of some of its triumph. But Deborah Cheetham’s new work is a lyrical dream.

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‘Trump was right’: Conservatives double down on ex-president

This year’s Conservative Political Action Conference is accompanied by none of the soul-searching you might expect following devastating election defeats.

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Sydney man charged after dog bites police officer on the face

The man, 52, allegedly barricaded himself in a garage with the dog when police were called to a house at Georges Hall shortly before 1.30am.

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‘You can’t whip a dog when it’s down’: Penney, Waratahs face crisis as Force clash awaits

The Waratahs couldn’t have started the season any worse. Now, they have just five days to prepare for a must win clash against the Force.

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‘Hurt and disturbed’: Ray Warren’s family plead for ring return after home invasion

The legendary rugby league broadcaster was asleep when thieves broke into his home and stole a precious NRL Hall of Fame memento.

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Tiger’s triumphant third act was just beginning. What will his next bring?

Whatever that ends up looking like for Tiger Woods, we have no choice but to accept it. We’ve had to readjust our expectations for him before, and now we have to again.

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White supremacist jailed nearly 20 years for plot to bomb Colorado synagogue

A man has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for plotting to bomb a historic Colorado synagogue by a judge who described the case as “dripping with Nazism and supremacy.”

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City win 20th straight game to lead Premier League by 13 points

Manchester City won their 20th straight game in all competitions while a farcical refereeing incident and two missed penalties helped West Brom secure a win.

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The movement that gives older Australians a voice in aged care reform

A new lobby group of older Australians and their families is fighting for aged care reform to be an election issue.

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One-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine cleared in the US

Health experts have been anxiously awaiting a one-and-done option to help speed vaccinations as deaths continue to mount from the coronavirus.

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Victoria records zero new cases of coronavirus, as NZ locked down again

Victoria has recorded zero new cases of coronavirus. Meanwhile, across the Tasman, New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced a seven-day lockdown of Auckland after the emergence of a “mystery” case.

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‘Appalling refereeing’: England fume about controversial decisions in defeat to Wales

England coach Eddie Jones refused to comment but French whistleblower Pascal Gauzere was in the spotlight as debate raged about two debatable calls in Wales’ Six Nations win.

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Albanese says Morrison must make call on cabinet minister accused of rape

The Labor leader says the Prime Minister is responsible for whether the minister should step aside and whether the government should initiate an inquiry into the allegations.

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‘The sky is the limit’: Suaalii bags double on debut in second grade trial

Joseph Suaalii needed just 16 minutes to score for North Sydney as his 40-strong entourage who travelled to Queanbeyan declared “the sky is the limit” for him.

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Trump’s niece blasts his ‘chutzpah’ towards her inheritance lawsuit

Mary Trump is suing the former US president, his sister Maryanne Trump Barry and his late brother Robert’s estate.

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Lady Gaga’s French bulldogs recovered safely

A woman brought the dogs to the LAPD’s Olympic Community Police Station.

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‘I begged her to stay alive, even if she couldn’t survive for herself’

People say it’s unnatural to lose a child because they shouldn’t go before you. It is unnatural to lose a sibling too.

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Gallery: World of Photos - February 28, 2020

The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors.

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Tiger Woods in recovery after additional ‘procedures’

Tiger Woods underwent additional procedures in Los Angeles on Friday to treat injuries sustained in his serious car crash.

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'Now I use the men's bathroom, but it's still uncomfortable'

As debate rages over the issue of trans women’s access to ‘women-only’ spaces, a non-binary person explains what’s at stake.

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Iceberg larger than New York City breaks off the Brunt ice shelf

It follows the expansion of a large crack in the floating ice during the past decade.

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Sydney start-up streaming service’s stunning $20m coup snares UEFA Champions League rights

Sports Flick has added the world’s most-watched club competition to its curious portfolio of content, which also includes Indian baseball, Serbian rugby league, Nicaraguan football and bare-knuckle boxing.

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NRL trials 2021 LIVE updates: Joseph Suaalii set to play for Roosters’ feeder side

He’s been the hottest property in both codes for the past 12 months and Saturday is the day we get our first look at the Roosters recruit. Join us from 1.50pm.

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Money ball: High-flying AFL players take a major hit

The financial pain of a COVID-19 impacted season has been laid bare, with the average wage of an AFL player tumbling by more than $100,000.

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Gymnastics coach Geddert’s suicide raises ‘complex emotions’

USA Gymnastics said it had hoped that criminal charges and a subsequent trial of former gymnastics coach John Geddert would help bring a sense of closure to those who experienced his abuse.

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Price ‘too high’ to penalise Saudi Crown Prince over Khashoggi murder

A new “Khashoggi ban” will restrict US visas for those who harass, detain or harm dissidents and journalists around the world. But it won’t apply to MBS.

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‘Pushed us to the extremes’: England could make formal complaint over pitch

England are considering making a formal complaint about the state of the pitch for the farcical third Test as they come to terms with going 2-1 down in the series against India.

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How things went wrong for a Socceroos poster boy, and how he plans to dazzle again

By age 19 and in less than 25 senior appearances for Melbourne City Arzani won a spot in the 2017/18 A-League team of the season and was also the league’s young player of the year.

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‘Own goal’: Europe vaccine rollout undermined by leaders’ messages

Vaccination hubs in COVID-19 hard-hit Europe are begging for people to come inside. Why?

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Cherokee Nation chief calls on Jeep to stop using name of his tribe

The chief of the Cherokee Nation in the United States has called on American carmaker, Jeep, to retire the Cherokee nameplate from its range of popular SUVs.

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Victoria to ban single-use plastics within two years

Single-use plastic items including straws, cutlery and plates will be phased out in Victoria in a bid to reduce the amount of plastic waste going into landfill.

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Prince Harry’s interview a winning formula in celebrity-obsessed America

There is no denying the Duke of Sussex’s first interview since leaving the Royal family was 17 minutes of television gold.

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‘Unwavering love’: Family stands by 82-year-old accused of killing wife

The family has released a statement supporting Max Beever, who has been charged with killing wife Robyn at their Gold Coast home.

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‘Forever War’: Democrats blast Biden over deadly Syria air strikes

Some Democrats criticised the strikes as an unnecessary military provocation while others complained Biden had not sought congressional approval beforehand.

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Federal Liberals blast WA Opposition Leader Zak Kirkup’s ‘lemon’ green energy policy

Federal Liberal MPs are fuming at a key pillar of the February 11 promise to reach net-zero emissions by 2030 by shutting down all state coal power stations in the South West town of Collie by 2025.

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Winning at all costs: Rudd’s case for courage and conflict

The essential lesson for the ALP if we want to win the election is to radically lift our negative game.

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‘Got to be a contest’: Root backs sanctions for substandard Test wickets

Joe Root called for countries who produce substandard pitches to face sanctions after India completed the fastest Test victory by any side since 1935.

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There’s no excuse, we need full employment now

The government’s complacency over the need to reach full employment needs to change for the sake of young people in particular.

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Good Weekend Talks: David Anderson, Aunty’s unassuming boss

This episode of Good Weekend Talks looks at ABC boss David Anderson, in a conversation between Good Weekend senior writer Jane Cadzow and The Age and Sydney Morning Herald media reporter Zoe Samios.

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Midnight Oil bring it home with sold-out gig

After a slow start, the band put any doubts about their relevance, age and interest to rest.

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Why the curious case of Fuller and the ARLC was never about money

Appointing the serving Police Commissioner as an ARLC director is a step which simply can’t ever be taken, and should never have been seriously contemplated.

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Bullets in the door: Unsolved crime frustrates outgoing racing integrity boss

After 11 years in the role as Victoria’s racing integrity commissioner, Sal Perna remains frustrated.

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Man charged with murder after visitor finds woman dead at Gold Coast home

Detective Inspector says police are treating the death as suspicious, adding that the woman had suffered injuries.

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Benny Barber: Supercoach Wayne shows new tolerance for Rabbitoh’s mullet

In the same week Waverely College banned the mullet, Souths coach Wayne Bennett, who despises a bad haircut, has allowed one player to keep his dodgy do.

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Trump uncancelled: Conservatives’ conference readies for his comeback

Donald Trump lost the election, but he dominates the agenda at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, held in his home base of Florida.

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Seeing life through the rear-view mirror isn’t always pretty

Since getting my driver’s licence at the age of 17, I’ve always had a problem with one aspect of being behind the wheel.

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‘Just deleted my account’: readers respond to Facebook’s news ban in Australia

Many readers support the media companies’ push for recompense for use of their content. Others, however, questioned why the government and media companies were demanding the social media companies pay up.

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50 per cent capacity at MCG, Marvel for start of AFL season

The AFL has announced that the state government will allow a crowd capacity of 50 per cent  at the MCG and Marvel Stadium to start the 2021 season.

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Need funds? Ask investors on a sunny day

There is perhaps no entrepreneurial stage more vulnerable than the very beginning when a startup is barely a startup.

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Nuix shares sink after soft first quarter

Data analytics group Nuix is confident of meeting its prospectus forecasts despite a soft first quarter, but its shares have been battered on Friday morning.

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Biden approves airstrike against Iranian-backed militia target in Syria: officials

The United States carried out an airstrike in Syria after a series of recent rocket attacks against US targets in Iraq.

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Sydney businesswoman and fraudster Melissa Caddick's remains have been found

Sydney businesswoman and fraudster Melissa Caddick is dead.

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Race-by-race preview and tips for Canterbury on Friday

Everything you need to know to find a winner at the metropolitan twilight meeting.

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Wilkin takes the lead for Rebels ... and will keep his mullet too

Brad Wilkin has endured setbacks that would have sent many players into retirement but his resilience has been rewarded.

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‘Winston’ Kirkup throws the war but faces hard task convincing Liberals he wants to win the battles

Opposition Leader Zak Kirkup has tried to turn the election on its head with two weeks to go but desperate new strategies have done more to alienate colleagues than slow the McGowan juggernaut.

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They came to farewell Ron, but he didn’t want to go

Paul cradled his partner’s skull after they were dragged out. In the ambulance the paramedics said: “Look, he’s not going to make it.” That was 37 years ago.

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Harvey Norman hikes dividend as profit, sales double

Gerry Harvey is eyeing off an $80m payday as his electronics and furniture company continues to benefit from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Erik Thomson’s next course: ‘I could end up playing arseholes for the next 20 years’

Playing the “nice dad” in Packed to the Rafters and 800 Words made him a star but playing a nasty chef on Aftertaste has spiced things up.

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‘Think about other people’: the Queen says refusing vaccine is selfish

England’s nonagenarian monarch took a genteel swipe at anti-vaxxers in a video conference with health officials, and insisted the jab “didn’t hurt at all”.

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Murdered women begged to be protected under the law – they still died

The LNP says perpetrators are breaching domestic violence orders with “no consequences”.

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Judge reduces sentences for two Queensland youth offenders

A Queensland judge finds sentences were handed down amid court errors or against considerations around detention.

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Stockland boosted by surging land sales

Land developer Stockland will increase its distribution as a wave of housing settlements underpins its earnings.

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It’s on again: GameStop shares double after tumbling for weeks

The sudden, sharp move higher left even some members of Reddit’s WallStreetBets forum, which helped cheer its meteoric rise last month, scratching their heads.

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Queensland to remove all interstate border restrictions this weekend

Queensland has recorded its 49th consecutive day without a locally acquired case of COVID-19 as the state prepares to lift its border restrictions for Melbourne.

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Rembrandt, the original selfie master, was too honest for his own good

The Dutch master’s obsession with the self-portrait sits well in the Instagram age. But would you want him to paint your portrait?

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Gallery: The best photos from around the world

The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors

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Richard Pusey and wife sell Doncaster townhouse for almost $1m

The 42-year-old, who is accused to taunting a dying police officer after the Eastern Freeway crash, has listed millions of dollars worth of property in recent months.

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Police release image of man after bus driver was punched in face

The driver is believed to have spoken to a passenger who was eating food onboard the bus.

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Australia enters top 10 in global rankings of soft power

A survey of 55,000 people in 100 countries listed Germany as the most influential nation worldwide, while the US slipped down the rankings and NZ made gains.

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Surge in serious respiratory illness among children puts doctors on high alert

Doctors are observing an alarming rise in the number of Victorian children presenting to emergency departments with a respiratory illness that can cause pneumonia.

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Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger: Daft Punk’s 10 greatest moments

With a catalogue packed with club bangers, film scores, Kanye West and the Weeknd collaborations and dance chart No. 1s, Daft Punk enjoyed what was arguably the most influential and accomplished career in modern electronic music. 

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Lord mayor says Olympics are Brisbane’s ‘best opportunity in generations’

With the Queensland capital confirmed to be the IOC’s preferred bidder for the 2032 Games, lord mayor says, “We can’t let this go to waste”.

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What do we know so far about Australia’s COVID vaccine rollout?

What does Australia’s vaccination timeline look like? And where will you get yours?

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’It must end badly: Buffett’s right-hand man says Wall Street is showing bubble signs

Warren Buffett’s long-time business partner Charlie Munger says the US stock market is overvalued, but he doesn’t know when the bubble will burst.

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‘So much to like’: Australia makes ‘game-changing’ offer to host Lions

Rugby Australia’s offer of a minimum guarantee would ensure a profitable return for both the Lions and South Africa even if a match had to be played behind closed doors.

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Zip upbeat on overseas growth as revenue jumps 130 per cent

Zip Co says it will accelerate its international growth in the year ahead and continue looking for offshore expansion opportunities.

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‘We have to do better’: Coroner calls for reform following heroin death a day after jail release

A state coroner is calling for an urgent overhaul of the support offered to prisoners leaving jail after a man overdosed on heroin in Richmond a day after being released from Port Phillip Prison in 2017.

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Zak Kirkup concedes election defeat to McGowan, urges voters to keep power balance

WA Opposition Leader Zak Kirkup has accepted defeat in the upcoming election but is now lobbying to keep a substantial opposition in Parliament to prevent Labor from gaining “absolute power”. 

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From the Archives, 1931: Dame Nellie Melba’s final farewell

Ninety years ago today Melbourne was at a standstill as the funeral cortege of Dame Nellie Melba wound its way through streets lined with solemn crowds paying their last respects to the great Australian singer.

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Murdoch University starts 2021 with science and engineering college in disarray

Murdoch University has started its new year by flagging the sudden departure of two deans, with reports that more than a dozen students have been wrongly enrolled in defunct courses, one of which was an international student whose visa was now in jeopardy.

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‘I have great confidence’: Prime Minister stands by Linda Reynolds

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has defended Defence Minister Linda Reynolds who is on medical leave.

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‘We stand together’: ethnic Chinese rally in Myanmar against coup

Eager to show opposition to Beijing meddling, the protesters gather outside the embassy, some displaying posters reading “Myanmar-born Chinese oppose the military coup”.

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Coronial report shows AFL players are still taking risks with concussion

The willingness of AFL players to report concussions is improving but there still remains a small but significant number who hide symptoms from club doctors.

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Blizzard’s pre-Warcraft library is one worth revisiting

New collection restores the rock to Rock N’ Roll Racing and provides the best way to play Blackthorne and The Lost Vikings.

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Security chiefs who lost their jobs after Capitol riots say they weren’t warned

The Capitol’s former security chiefs all told the Senate inquiry they weren’t warned about “a military-style, coordinated attack”.

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Calls for explanation how aged care residents given wrong vaccine dose

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has called on the Commonwealth to “explain itself” after aged-care residents were given incorrect doses of the Pfizer vaccine.

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Thailand considers waiving quarantine for vaccinated tourists

The plan signals a shift in the government’s stance after insisting all visitors must quarantine in the absence of enough proof that vaccines work.

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The Fed chief just disrupted the sharemarket’s ‘Great Rotation’

The markets had been starting to price in an expectation of a rekindling of inflation to levels not seen since the 2008 financial crisis. Fed chief Jerome Powell put a stop to that.

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Priority for Woods must be recovery, not the next great comeback

It is one of the grim patterns of Woods’s chaotic off-course life that several of his deepest personal nadirs have had a connection to cars.

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Rent rebound not enough to save Westfield mall owner from $3.7b loss

Retail rents are bouncing back in Scentre Group’s Westfield malls but not enough to save Australia’s largest retail landlord from a $3.7 billion loss.

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The Age photos of the week, February 21, 2021

The week in photos from our award winning staff photographers and regular contributing photographers at The Age.

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‘Playing with firecrackers’: Bitcoin’s price plunge shows risks for Tesla

Elon Musk’s big bet on the cryptocurrency threatens to distract from his green ambitions for the future, and could weigh on his electric carmaker’s revenue.

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Young Frankenstein jolts Hayes Theatre back to life

Venue gets silly as it returns from its pandemic shutdown.

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Not a genuine document found in missing Melissa Caddick’s affairs, liquidators say

Liquidators reviewed thousands of pages of financial documents and couldn’t identify a single genuine document missing businesswoman provided to investors.

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Berejiklian tells wedding guests to put on their dancing shoes

Dancing and singing will be allowed again at wedding receptions across Greater Sydney following a record 38 days of zero local COVID-19 transmissions.

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Sleep, weekends, Biden: Washington adjusts to new post-Trump normality

CNN and MSNBC, whose journalists and personalities have spent years challenging Trump’s policies, have quietly reduced the number of Trump-focused journalists working on contract in recent months.

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Insurance giant Allianz charged over ‘misleading’ advertising

Insurance giant Allianz has been charged with seven criminal offences for travel insurance ads the corporate watchdog claims were false or misleading.

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LNP calls for release of Palaszczuk’s emails from BigPond account

The corruption watchdog says a “small number” of emails involving Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk’s private account might be deemed public records.

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Facebook’s media blackout ‘unnecessary’ and ‘heavy-handed’, says Treasurer

Josh Frydenberg says he believes Facebook will be able to seal commercial deals with local media companies following ‘complex and difficult’ negotiations with the tech giant’s boss, Mark Zuckerberg.

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Hawthorn, we have a problem. Boroondara Council needs a rocket.

What child hasn’t imagined donning an astronaut suit, getting into a rocket and flying into space?

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Doctor stood down after administering incorrect dose of COVID-19 vaccine to aged care residents

Two aged care residents in Queensland received their two vaccines consecutively, but both remain well despite the bungle.

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Exquisite voices save opera that proves more weary than wondrous

The puppets and slapstick comedy in The Sleeping Beauty seemed made for children, but not the darkness and grief.

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$250,000 reward offered to solve mystery of NSW man found in Qld sewage tank

The body of Jason Guise was found in a sewage tank at Wynnum in 2019. The suspicious death remains a mystery to this day.

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Sydney Airport ‘optimistic’ of travel recovery this year after $145m loss

Sydney Airport has tumbled to a $145 million full-year loss, down from a $403 million profit a year earlier, after the COVID-19 pandemic slowed passenger numbers to a trickle for much of 2020.

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Facebook deal leaves questions unanswered

The amendment to the Australian bill which would have forced Facebook to make blanket payments for news content it features kicks the can down the road for a couple more months.

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‘Independence, independence’: Algerians return to streets to reject promised reforms

Changes, along with earlier pledges of reform, have largely been brushed off by the mainly youthful protesters, many of whom are demanding greater job opportunities.

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Something wicked this way comes: a Macbeth lost in his fears

Nathaniel Dean delivers an intriguing read of one of Shakespeare’s most famous characters, dialling down his conscience and delving deep into paranoia and delusion.

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Wilson resignation sparks war of words as unrest at Victory worsens

As Melbourne Victory fans go into meltdown over their team’s shocking start to the season and question the quality of their squad, the club’s football boss has declared “we won’t deal in duds”.  

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Chaos, panic and hope: Wuhan as COVID-19 took hold

Shortlisted for an Oscar, the documentary shot inside four hospitals during the city’s lockdown in the early days of the virus is about people, not politics.

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Queensland to ‘rapidly return to normal’ as first 200 jabbed

There is probably no community transmission circulating in Australia, says Queensland’s chief health officer, as more than 200 Queenslanders receive their COVID jab.

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Under pressure: Coal-fired power plants feel the heat from renewables

Experts say a surge in new renewable energy projects has shortened the odds of Victoria’s giant coal-fired power plants closing sooner rather than later.

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More ‘victims’ found after man accused of forcing women into servitude, sex

The Brisbane man who allegedly drugged, tattooed and forced women into unlawful prostitution has had 13 more charges laid against him.

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Plans underway to have ‘close to normal’ Anzac Day

RSL Victoria says more details about Anzac Day commemorations would be revealed in the coming week.

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China wants Biden to make the first move to thaw tensions. It could be a long wait

China is making it clear that it expects the Biden administration to take the first steps to fix a relationship frozen by Donald Trump’s trade and tech wars and sanctions for human rights abuses. That’s unlikely to happen.

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After 500,000 lives lost, a ray of hope shines on the American horizon

The tragic COVID milestone brought sorrow, but arrived amid a growing belief the United States’ worst coronavirus days may be behind it.

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Why an independent executor matters when administering an estate

When Marnie’s husband died suddenly 18 months ago at just 64, NSW Trustee & Guardian stepped in at very short notice to provide a huge range of executor and estate planning support services that took some of the weight off her shoulders at a sad time.

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Woody Allen and Soon-Yi Previn trash documentary series as a ‘hatchet job’

“These documentarians had no interest in the truth,” said Allen and Soon-Yi. “Instead, they spent years surreptitiously collaborating with the Farrows ... to put together a hatchet job riddled with falsehoods.”

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McKenzie, Dutton put democracy at risk with actions that reek of playing politics with public money

All the evidence points to accepted standards being trashed.

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Craig Kelly resigns from the Liberal Party to move to the crossbench

Controversial Liberal MP Craig Kelly has resigned from the party to move to the crossbench.

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Million-dollar reward for missing uni student ‘under witch’s curse’

The 25-year-old university student was going through a “weird time” when he vanished from the Armidale region nearly 30 years ago.

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Coroner calls for brain research following death of Danny Frawley

A Victorian coroner is calling for fresh research into the effects on the brain of blows to the head in sport following the death of AFL champion Danny Frawley.

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Adore Beauty outperforms after just months on ASX

The pure e-commerce retailer has been a major beneficiary of more people shopping online during the pandemic.

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Police release CCTV footage of man after sexual assault in CBD

Investigators release CCTV footage of a man they believe could help with their investigation into a sexual assault near Melbourne’s legal precinct last month.

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Can’t lose weight? It probably has nothing to do with exercise

Exercise is vitally important for your health – it just won’t make you thin. It’s time for a rethink of how our metabolic engines work.

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Mexico drug kingpin El Chapo’s wife arrested in US

The Justice Department accuses Emma Coronel Aispuro of helping her husband plan escapes from Mexican prison.

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At UN, Britain denounces China’s ‘industrial scale’ rights abuses

China’s human rights record was condemned at the UN’s top human rights forum, but foreign minister Wang Yi said it was just an excuse to meddle.

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Former Commbank boss Ian Narev to take CEO role at Seek

Former Commonwealth Bank boss Ian Narev will become Seek chief executive on July 1, his first chief executive role since stepping down at Commonwealth Bank in 2018.

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JobSeeker to rise permanently by $25 a week

Unemployed Australians will be given a permanent $50 a fortnight rise in JobSeeker.

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A welcome return from the forgotten man of pop

It’s good to have Ben Lee back.

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Prince Philip through the years

The life and times of England's longest serving royal consort, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in pictures.

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Market garden yields bumper crop

A market garden called The Dairy, planted last July by a group of locals at a farm near Ocean Grove for their own consumption, has yielded bumper crops of vegies

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Queensland COVID-19 vaccine rollout begins with nurse Zoe getting the jab

A Gold Coast nurse who treats COVID-19 positive patients is the first person to be vaccinated on Queensland soil.

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‘Flu shot hurt a lot more’: First Queenslanders react to COVID jab

Each of the first half-dozen people to be vaccinated against COVID in Queensland encourage others to roll up their sleeves when their time comes.

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‘Deeply disturbing’: Third woman claims sexual assault by staffer Brittany Higgins accused

Labor is alarmed a potential “serial rapist” has been working in the ministerial wing of Parliament House after a third woman has come forward.

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Bolshevik ‘Iron Felix’ statue could rise again in Moscow

The monument to the architect of the Bolsheviks’ murderous Red Terror has dominated a Moscow square. Citizens will vote whether to reinstate the statue.

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Israel’s new strong-arm diplomacy: swapping vaccines for prisoners

Forget about oil and arms. Coronavirus vaccines are emerging as the newest currency of choice in the Middle East.

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Elizabeth Ann, the first cloned ferret, spurs hope for endangered species

Scientists have cloned an endangered black-footed ferret using frozen cells from a long-dead wild animal, the first time any native endangered species has been cloned in the US.

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‘The children decided’: Schools join quest for better gauge of student progress

Almost 40 schools have partnered with the University of Melbourne in a radical project that aims to expand assessment metrics beyond NAPLAN scores and ATAR rankings.

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Mon Purse finds new buyers after COVID collapse

Collapsed handbag retailer Mon Purse has been bought out of administration by a bevy of former investors and private equity firms, with plans to relaunch it as a purely online retailer.

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Manly’s Tom Trbojevic ‘devastated’ after tearing hamstring again

The superstar No.1 won’t be available until at least round four after suffering an injury unrelated to his previous problems with his left leg.

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Australian Open 2021: A Grand Slam like no other

Age photographer Eddie Jim captured all the key moments of the Grand Slam that won't be forgotten.

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With no crowds, Louvre gets rare chance to refurbish

The 518-year-old Mona Lisa has seen many things in her life on a wall, but rarely this: Almost four months with no Louvre visitors.

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A Beethoven program to please the master himself

Buoyancy and frenetic joy characterised this Sydney Symphony Orchestra performance.

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Rex to cut routes in face of Qantas ‘intimidation’

Country airline Regional Express (Rex) has accused Qantas of predatory behaviour by launching flights on some of its monopoly routes.

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Latrell ‘confident’ of Rabbitohs success after signing new deal

South Sydney were never worried about one of the NRL’s most exciting talents leaving the club - and now they have his signature on paper.

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Police return to Darebin Creek in search for missing mother Ju Zhang

Police have returned to bushland in Melbourne’s north-east to search for missing Epping mother Ju Zhang.

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Britain to challenge China at UN over access to Xinjiang

British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab will also mark Britain’s return to the UN Human Rights Council by condemning the rights record of fellow council members China and Russia.

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The Open that served up drama on and off the court

There were fears the 2021 Australian Open wouldn’t happen at all, but the tournament eventually delivered plenty of drama. Here are the highs and lows of an Open like no other.

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BoQ to buy ME for $1.33b, ramping up competition with big four

BoQ chairman Patrick Allaway says the deal is major step in its plan to be the leading “customer-centric” alternative to industry giants Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, National Australia Bank and ANZ Bank.

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COVID vaccination rollout could be faster than expected, Berejiklian says

A “joyful” NSW Premier said she she felt an enormous sense of relief as the first frontline quarantine and healthcare workers received their Pfizer vaccine injections on Monday morning. 

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Myanmar protest plan for general strike draws threat from generals

The state television broadcaster on late Sunday carried a public announcement from the junta, formally called the State Administration Council, warning against the general strike.

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