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Lifestyle MOBILE phones could be banned and potentially offensive “Secret Santa” presents are being weeded out as bosses take a hard-line on office Christmas party...

News THOUSANDS of Australians are turning down jobs so they can live on Centrelink, as workers turn up their nose at physical jobs like picking fruit.

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News The scam occurs when consumers submit email inquiries in relation to securing accommodation over the Christmas and New Year's holiday period.

News THE parents of snake bite victim Eli Campbell have succumbed to the most traumatic emotional torture.

Travel WITH excited underwater gestures, our guide points to a large turtle in the shipwrecks off Moreton Island.

Politics NEW Zealand's new Prime Minister is a former farmer and literature student from Southland who once described himself as "specialising in being boring".

News JOHN Glenn, who was the first US astronaut to orbit Earth, has died aged 95.

Pets & Animals INVESTIGATION reveals dog owners are paying 10 times more than they should.

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Opinion Despite briefly being able to dine out on the legislation passed before parliament wound up last week, Malcolm Turnbull is headed to a not-very-happy Christmas

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News DONALD Trump, Malcolm Turnbull, sharks attacks, David Bowie, Pokemon Go, and Pauline Hanson all had one thing in common in 2016

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Movies DWAYNE Johnson and Zac Efron star in TV series reboot.

Health USING social media could actually be beneficial to some people's mental health, says new research.

News Exquisitely preserved bones and feathers from the tip of a dinosaur tail have been discovered in a piece of 99-million-year-old amber,

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Celebrity Sir Mick Jagger has welcomed his eighth child into the world after 29-year-old ballerina Melanie Hamrick gave birth to a healthy baby boy.

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News A tsunami warning for the South Pacific has now been lifted after a powerful quake off the Solomon Islands resulted in building collapses.

Offbeat A SYDNEY demolishing company has bulldozed the wrong house.

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Business UPDATE: THE path has been cleared for the sale of Australian Regional Media – owner of this masthead title – to News Corp.

Travel Discount airline Jetstar has launched its annual Christmas sale with flights for as little as $49 up for grabs on domestic routes.

News "IT'S hard to measure the scale of his disruption."

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News The ex-HMAS Toburk will be sunk in the waters off Hervey Bay and Bundaberg.

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