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Recently departed Venues NSW boss Tony Shepherd has declared he is leaving his post with the Sydney Test safely locked away. South Australian cricket had made an audacious bid to try and steal the New Year’s Test for Adelaide, but News Corp understands Cricket Australia has made it clear to NSW powerbrokers that this won’t be happening. Shepherd last week ...

Manly has been whacked on the eve of this season through an injury to rising five-eighth Josh Schuster. It just could signal the elevation of Cooper Johns, son of former Test player, Matthew Johns, and nephew of Immortal, Andrew. The injury to Schuster comes when just everything seemed to be rolling along nicely at Brookvale. Schuster, the five-eighth who will ...

Arson squad detectives have arrested and released an elderly man after a fire was allegedly lit in the north of Melbourne. Alexandra Crime Investigation Unit detectives with the assistance of Arson Squad detectives and CFA investigators arrested the 71-year-old Flowerdale man. The fire is believed to have started in the Spring Valley Rd area in Flowerdale on Tuesday at about ...

Australia must shift away from “permanently temporary” migration, and seize the opportunity provided by skilled people already here and abroad, the home affairs minister says. Clare O’Neil has called for an overhaul of Australia’s migrant system, making it easier for skilled migrants to arrive to plug worker shortfalls, and for talented international students to remain in the country for the ...

The US Justice Department had tried to intervene by representing Mr Trump against the lawsuit by writer E Jean Carroll, who claims he falsely denied raping her. A federal judge has rejected a US government request to drop Donald Trump as a defendant in a defamation lawsuit by a writer who said the president falsely denied raping her in a ...

Post office licensees across Australia are planning to send $5 notes to Prime Minister Scott Morrison in protest of the investigation into Australia Post chief executive Christine Holgate and the gifting of $20,000 worth of Cartier luxury watches to senior executives. The watches were given to executives as a reward for clinching multi-million dollar deals with three of the “big ...

Australians overestimate the number of jobs created by the gas industry by 40 times and 80 per cent believe climate change impacts are already being experienced. New research to be launched by NSW Environment Minister Matt Kean today demonstrates that the gas industry has an outsized influence in the national political debate and that climate change concerns are pertinent despite ...

More Australians could go into «negative equity», where the value of their property falls below the outstanding balance on their mortgage, if the pandemic-led recession leads to a big fall in house prices, according to the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). In a speech about major risks to Australia›s financial stability on Tuesday evening, RBA assistant governor Michele Bullock warned ...

More Americans than ever have cast their vote early ahead of the US presidential election, but millions haven›t, and still won›t on 3 November. Here’s how that might impact things. More than 70 million Americans have already cast their ballot ahead of the United States presidential election on 3 November. That’s almost three times the Australian population and more than ...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says he will not be dictated to by other governments› climate change goals, declaring he is not worried about the future of Australia›s exports despite four of the country›s top trading partners adopting net-zero emissions targets. China, Japan, Britain and South Korea, which account for more than $310 billion in Australian annual trade between them, have ...