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Watching politicians flail on live TV is a live sport everyone enjoys … until you remember one of these blokes will soon be running the country. In a stunt as old as time, the pair were asked to guess the price of a supermarket staple in their final debate and it went down like an airplane omelette. You always knew it was going to make you cringe. To be fair, I don’t think anything can match NSW housing minister Rose Jackson’s wild assumption that Sydney rentals go for “ a couple hundred dollars per week”, but Mr Dutton’s Hail Mary ... Read more

A Set small text size A Set the default text size A Set large text size Alex de Minaur has been one of the millions hit by the power outage that left Spain without electricity for hours. The Australian tennis No.1 was preparing to play his third round match in the Madrid Open when the lights went out across the Iberian peninsula.  After a delay of more than four hours all play was cancelled for the day. De Minaur was due to play Canada’s Denis Shapovalov in the final match of the night session on Arantxa Sanchez Vicario court, which ... Read more

The hero cop who fatally shot killer Joel Cauchi during the Bondi Junction attack moved two women pushing prams and another young child out of the way moments before a stray bullet landed in their area, a court has been told. Joel Cauchi, 40, killed six people and injured 10 during a stabbing rampage at the Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centre in Sydney’s east on April 13, 2024. Dawn Singleton, Yixuan Cheng, Faraz Ahmed Tahir, Ashlee Good, Jade Young and Pikria Darchia were all killed in the attack. Inspector Amy Scott shot Cauchi shot dead during the incident. A five-week ... Read more

Recently, we have heard a number of NRL coaches talking about the need for a “trade window”. However, a trade window in itself is an irrelevancy. What needs to be defined is what transfer mechanism will be available, not when the mechanism will be operated. The mechanism needs to cover:– how a player can leave club before the end of their contract– how a club can move on a player before the end of their contract– how a club is compensated when a player leaves early– how a player is compensated if he is moved on. Only when those four ... Read more

Cafes in Paris, France have been found to serve cheap wine posed as expensive alternatives, an investigation has revealed. Cafes and bistros in the French capital have been cheating customers, including visitors to the city, by replacing high-end wines with cheap alternatives but charging quality rates. The investigation found that wines such as premium chablis, which sell for around €9 (over £10) per glass, have been swapped with wines like sauvignon which cost around €5 (under £6) per glass.  The investigation was carried out by French newspaper Le Parisien and involved two wine sommeliers detecting when wines have been switched. ... Read more

A Set small text size A Set the default text size A Set large text size From an individual player’s point of view, no doubt the highlight of the Anzac Round (Round 7) was the 300th game played by Luke Parker. Parker – like the other 300-game player this year, Jack Darling – moved to North Melbourne to achieve the total. A premiership player, All-Australian and three-time Best & Fairest winner at the Swans, Parker has been a valuable player for the Kangaroos, adding experience to a team that could boast only three players who had qualified as Top 100 ... Read more

A Set small text size A Set the default text size A Set large text size There are a few certainties in Australian life: the magpies will swoop you, the sun will burn you, and every footy fan will complain that the AFL just isn’t what it used to be. And somewhere in that nostalgic whirlpool of arguments about the “good old days,” one truth keeps bobbing back to the surface: the AFL needs to bring back State of Origin. State of Origin once meant something. It was pride. It was passion. It was Wayne Carey trying to flatten anything ... Read more

Australians are cancelling trips to the US as a border crackdown frightens international visitors. Combined with a weak Australian Dollar, some travellers have stated online they are rescheduling or cancelling. The concern comes after two Germans – who hadn’t booked any accommodation – were strip searched and detained at Honolulu Airport, held in custody overnight and then sent packing back to Europe. “Are there any other Aussies that are thinking about cancelling their trip to the US?” TikTok user Remi Meli posted online this week. Ms Meli says she plans to see New York in December, but reports of travellers ... Read more

Seven children have been rescued from abusive and exploitative environments following the arrest of an Australian man for a sweep of serious alleged drug and child sex abuse offences. Queensland Police arrested the 31-year-old Kippa Ring man from Brisbane’s outer Moreton Bay district on December 7, 2024, setting in motion an investigation that would stretch across southeast Queensland and the Philippines. “Investigations led police to execute a search warrant on a Kippa Ring home on December 7, 2024, where they seized several digital devices for forensic examination,” the police said on Monday. “The man was initially charged on December 8 ... Read more

A man accused of murdering a woman and stuffing her body in a “body box” on his balcony allegedly assumed her identity for almost a year, convincing the slain woman’s mother to transfer more than $400,000 for his use, a court has been told. Yang Zhao – who is on trial for the murder of Qiong Yan, 29 – is alleged to have stored the body of the Chinese national in the large-sized toolbox, located on the balcony of his Hamilton unit in Brisbane’s southeast, after killing Ms Yan, crown prosecutor Chris Cook told a Supreme Court jury on Monday. ... Read more