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Petra Rees is the launch editor of The Australian’s Health & Wellbeing section. Rees has been deputy editor of The Australian since 2016, her second stint in the role, and has previously served as national chief-of-staff, deputy editor of The Weekend Australian Magazine, editor of Review and editor of new magazine publications. The Walkley award winner, who has an honours degree in literature, began her career in journalism more than 40 years ago in Wollongong and also worked at the Times on Sunday.

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Fairfax vow on printed word

Fairfax Media chief executive Greg Hywood last night said the newspaper editions of The Sydney Morning and The Age will run until at least the end of the year.

Business Leaders Forum

The Australian & Deutsche Bank Business Leader Forum at Crown Perth. Pictured is Ryan Stokes (Managing Director and CEO Seven Group Holdings Limited) Keynote speaker Senator The Hon. Mathias Cormann, Minister for Finance and panellists Shirley In't Veld (Director Perth Airport and NBN Co.), Robert Rankin (CEO Consolidated Press Holdiings, Chairman Crown Resorts) and Ryan Stokes (Managing Director and CEO Seven Group Holdings Limited) PHOTO: MARIE NIRME

China stance risks investment

Ryan Stokes says Australia is taking an unfairly “prejudicial” view towards deals by Chinese companies.

Damon Kitney

Industrial Relations

Fair Work Vice President and Kathy Jackson's partner Michael Lawler arrives at the Federal court in Sydney alone.

Sick leave saga over as Lawler quits

Besieged Fair Work vice-president Michael Lawler has resigned from his $435,000-a-year position.

PAMELA WILLIAMS

Tablet

A man takes a photograph of an information board showing share prices at the Australian Stock Exchange in Sydney on Monday, Dec. 14, 2015. The ASX market has tumbled at the open, with falls across the board following a 2pct slide on Wall Street last Friday. (AAP Image/Paul Miller) NO ARCHIVING

ASX wild ride ends with a whimper

Australia’s main share index has ended 2015 by recording its first annual loss in four years.

David Rogers

INSIDE STORYNational Affairs

SUNDAY MAIL ONLY Campbell Newman talks about his new book Jamie Hanson

Palmer ruined us: Newman

Campbell Newman blames the relationship between Clive Palmer and Bruce McIver for his political downfall.

Hedley Thomas

Paris terror attacks

Pictured of Hasna Ait Boulahcen, also known as the blonde bomber.Must credit Hasna Dadhi/Facebook

Party girl who didn’t read Koran

New details emerge about the woman who blew herself up during raids which killed the Paris attacks mastermind.

Jacquelin Magnay and PARIS

ExclusiveFood & Wine

David Blackmore on his Alexandra property where he farms full-blood Wagyu which is being shut down by the local council because of neighbours complaints.

Red tape, ‘ratbags’ kill top farm

David Blackmore has abandoned his fight to keep farming his wagyu cattle in the upper Goulburn Valley.

SUE NEALES

exclusiveFood & Wine

Restaurateur Phillip Kennedy of Pure South restaurant in Southbank.

Shortage of chefs hits industry

Australia’s booming restaurant scene is at risk of stalling as an international chef shortage begins to bite locally.

JOHN LETHLEAN

ExclusiveApps

For Lehmann column on Saturday. Former Prime Minister John Howard in his MLC Tower Office.

‘Patently fair’ idea will win: Howard

John Howard has backed changing the Constitution’s preamble to provide indigenous recognition ‘because it asserts indisputable fact’.

Tess Livingstone

The World

FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011 file photo, Australian death-row prisoners Myuran Sukumaran, right and Andrew Chan, left, stand in front of their cell during an Indonesian Independence Day celebration at Kerobokan prison in Bali, Indonesia. Indonesia's President Joko Widodo rejected the clemency request from Chan on Jan. 17, 2015, paving the way for his execution along with Sukumaran, his alleged co-ringleader, whose clemency request was already denied Dec. 30. Chan and Sukumaran are among nine Australians who were arrested in 2005 on charges of attempting to smuggle 8.3 kilograms (18.3 pounds) of heroin to Australia from Bali. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati, File)

New evidence in Bali case

Lawyers appealing against the presidential decree that denied Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan clemency have presented evidence in court.

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