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A Set small text size A Set the default text size A Set large text size In a bombshell development, Les Kiss is set to be unveiled as Joe Schmidt’s successor – but the Reds coach won’t start in the role for more than a year. The Roar understands that Rugby Australia didn’t want to pay a compensation fee to the Queensland Rugby Union to take over from Schmidt immediately after The Rugby Championship in early October. Kiss was expected to lead the Wallabies against Japan on October 25, before a four-Test tour of Europe and the United Kingdom. It’s ... Read more

If your phone has pinged with a surprise text message from a political party this federal election campaign, don’t fret. Your personal phone number hasn’t been sold on the black market to Clive Palmer’s Trumpet of Patriots party and he’s not pitching to you directly. There’s actually a legal loophole which allows Palmer and other political groups to send mass, unsolicited text messages during an election in Australia. Australian businessman Clive Palmer formed the Trumpet of Patriots party this year. (Getty) In fact, political parties can spam you without any consequence – and you can’t opt out the normal way ... Read more

Chinese artificial intelligence service DeepSeek became available again on South Korean app markets this week for the first time in about two months, when downloads were suspended after authorities cited breaches in data protection rules. South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission said that DeepSeek transferred user data and prompts without permission when the service first launched in South Korea in January. Downloading the app was suspended in February after the questions over personal data protection surfaced, but the service was available for download again on South Korea’s app market including via Apple’s App Store and Google Play Store. “We process ... Read more

There’s plenty happening in the final sprint towards election day – Peter Dutton’s electorate office has been trashed by vandals, both leaders have been ambushed by protesters and former PM Tony Abbott has criticised the overuse of Welcome to Country acknowledgments as “grating” and a “badge of political correctness”. And for everyone annoyed by those relentless Trumpet of Patriot text messages, the man who authorised them is facing some internet karma. FOLLOW THE LATEST CAMPAIGN UPDATES BELOW Originally published as Election campaign live: Albanese and Dutton face hecklers as Abbott slams ‘grating’ acknowledgments of country Read related topics:Anthony Albanese Source ... Read more

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party won Canada’s federal election, capping a stunning turnaround in fortunes fueled by US President Donald Trump’s annexation threats and trade war. The Liberals are projected to win more of Parliament’s 343 seats than the Conservatives, though it wasn’t clear yet if they would win an outright majority, which would allow them to pass legislation without needing help. The Liberals looked headed for a crushing defeat until the American president started attacking Canada’s economy and threatening its sovereignty, suggesting it should become the 51st state. Canada’s new prime minister and Liberal leader Mark Carney casts ... Read more

The NRL has told bunker officials to only go back in play and order sin-bins in the most serious cases, after conceding match referees went too far on the weekend. League officials spent Monday combing through the record 18 sin-bins from round eight, while pinning the blame firmly on players for a rise in high tackles. NRL CEO Andrew Abdo also insisted there was no crackdown in place, but only a “slight over-reaction” from referees after several missed sin-bins earlier this year. It means the NRL will make no apology for continuing to sin-bin players where required at Magic Round, ... Read more

Ten years have passed since Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran faced a firing squad in Indonesia, capping one of the most controversial drug-smuggling cases in Australian and Indonesian history. The Bali Nine, made up of nine young Australians, were arrested in April 2005 after attempting to smuggle more than eight kilograms of heroin, worth around $4m, into Australia from Indonesia. A decade later, in the early hours of April 29, 2015, Chan and Sukumaran were executed by firing squad on Nusakambangan Island, Indonesia. The executions took place after midnight local time, around 3am AEST, and were confirmed by the Indonesian ... Read more

The compromised banking details of more than 30,000 Aussies have been found online, security experts say. Research from Aussie tech security firm, Dvuln said the compromised data, found from the last four years, relates to “multiple major banks”. But rather than the credentials being stolen from the banks, they were swiped from customer’s devices by criminals using “infostealer malware infections”. Details from 10,000 customers of one bank found on “infostealer logs” where criminals can share and sell the data, it says, and another had 7000. (iStock/Getty) Dvuln warned the data shows only a “fraction” of what’s going on. Details from ... Read more

Perched outside a fish and chip shop, across from a hair salon and overlooking the remnants of a long-since-relocated tyre service centre, a public phone looks like any other you’d find in the inner-city. There’s the angular shape of the box, a bright orange glowing top emblazoned with the instantly recognisable Telstra logo, and a few tags etched into the walls courtesy of a bored local youth. But this one on Melville Road in Melbourne’s Brunswick West has a secret that’s been untold until now. Every single day, on average, someone in the depths of despair and battling a whole ... Read more

Four people are dead, including children, and several others are injured after a car crashed through an after-school camp in Chatham, Illinois. At about 3.20pm on Monday (Tuesday AEDT), police responded after a vehicle drove through the east side of the YNOT After School Camp, Illinois State Police said in a news release. Chatham is south of Springfield. This image taken from video provided by WCIA shows first responders working the scene after a car smashed through a building during an after-school program, killing multiple people Monday, April 28, 2025, in Chatham, Ill. (AP) The vehicle struck several people outside ... Read more