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James MacSmith has worked as a journalist for over 20 years across general news, sport, lifestyle and real estate.

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Food

New Vegemite icy poles. Picture: Vegemite

Vegemite’s epic icy pole fail

VEGEMITE has been slammed over its attempt to branch out as a dessert, and that isn’t the only hit the iconic Australian spread has taken.

Babies

Australia’s most popular birthday revealed

AUSTRALIA’S most popular and least popular birthday dates have been revealed for the first time, which also follow international trends.

National

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull speaks before the passing of the Marriage Amendment Bill in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, December 7, 2017. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

No Libs ‘under citizenship cloud’: PM

MALCOLM Turnbull says Parliament’s citizenship crisis will finally be resolved, slamming what he says is Labor’s inaction on the issue.

Food

Santa preparing for Maribyrnong City Council Christmas celebrations on Thursday, November 16, 2017, in West Footscray, Victoria, Australia.Picture: Hamish Blair

What you have to bring to Christmas

THERE are a couple of goodies you need to bring if you want to be welcomed to the Christmas Day feast this year.

Retail

Dick Smith's Amazon warming. Picture: Channel 7

Amazon will make us fat: Dick Smith

AS online behemoth Amazon prepares to launch in Australia, businessman Dick Smith has made a grim series of warnings about its local impact.

Banking

NAB CEO Andrew Thorburn appearing at the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics hearing, as part of its ongoing review of the banking sector. At Parliament House in Canberra. Picture Kym Smith

What Royal Commission could cost banks

ANALYSIS: Today’s announcement of a banking Royal Commission has already been felt by our biggest lenders — and experts say the impact is likely to increase.

Lifestyle

Is this America’s dumbest/kindest crim?

AN alleged carjacker made a big error at the end of a 200km/hr chase when he offloaded the car’s canine passenger. He made another mistake seconds later.

World

OKUMA, JAPAN - FEBRUARY 24: (EDITOR'S NOTE: This image has been digitally altered to protect employee privacy rights.) Workers continue the decontamination and reconstruction process at the Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s embattled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on February 25, 2016 in Okuma, Japan. March 11, 2016 marks the fifth anniversary of the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami which claimed the lives of 15,894, and the subsequent damage to the reactors at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant causing the nuclear disaster which still forces 99,750 people to live as evacuees away from contaminated areas. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Six years on: Fukushima revealed

DOCUMENTARY makers entered the no-go zone to capture eerie images of the abandoned city of Fukushima, six years after its nuclear plant melted down.

World

(FILES) This file photo taken on June 06, 2017 shows US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Republican congressional leaders in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump said June 14, 2017 that a Republican lawmaker shot and

Eight times when Trump shook Twitter

DONALD Trump’s tweets have helped to define his presidency, so one year on from his election win, here are eight times he rocked the world in 140 characters.

Animals

Biplab Hazra/Sanctuary wildlife photography awardsPhoto of elephant and calf fleeing fire-throwing mob wins top prizePhotograph taken in eastern India, titled ‘Hell is here’, shows crowd hurling flaming tar balls at animalsAn arresting image showing an adult elephant and its calf fleeing a mob attack has won a top Asian wildlife photography prize.It shows the two animals running among a crowd that has hurled flaming tar balls and crackers at them, reportedly to ward the elephants away from human settlements.The picture, titled “Hell is here”, was taken by Biplab Hazra, a wildlife photographer from West Bengal state, and won the 2017 Sanctuary’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year award.

Elephant on fire flees from Hell

A SHOCKING picture depicting an elephant and its calf desperately fleeing a mob after being set on fire has won a major photo prize. WARNING: GRAPHIC.

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