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Alex de Minaur claims runner-up in Rosmalen Championships after tie-break loss in final

Alex de Minaur’s bid for a confidence-boosting title ahead of his looming Wimbledon campaign has ended in a heartbreaking loss to Kamil Majchrzak in the final of the ATP’s Dutch grass-court event.  The Australian number one had opted to use the tournament in ‘s-Hertogenbosch to rebuild his shattered confidence after his French Open setback when…

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World Cup: Socceroos hero Nestory Irankunda hits back as Türkiye star says his team ‘dominated’

Socceroos goalscoring star Nestory Irankunda says Türkiye’s players couldn’t back up their talk in Australia’s 2-0 World Cup win. It comes after Turkish midfielder Hakan Çalhanoğlu claimed his side “dominated” the Socceroos, just as he publicly declared it would the day before the game. “We didn’t dominate?” Çalhanoğlu said to an Australian journalist after the…

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Federal politics live: Joyce says he’s not worried Hanson reportedly could want daughter as party leader

Social Services Minister Tanya Plibersek and One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce have popped up for their regular spot on Channel Seven. A Sydney Morning Herald/The Age Resolve poll says One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson has overtaken Anthony Albanese as preferred PM. Plibersek says she thinks people are frustrated and that the government has to demonstrate…

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‘Potential explosive hazards’ at Shackleton and Scott’s historically important huts in Antarctica

Old chemicals found inside two of Antarctica’s most significant historic huts could pose “potential explosive hazards”, a report has warned. Ernest Shackleton’s Nimrod Hut at Cape Royds and Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova Hut at Cape Evans are considered time capsules of the Heroic Era of early exploration in Antarctica. Shackleton’s Hut was built…

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Northern Grampians Shire Council ignores community calls for CCTV at Stawell crime ‘hotspot’

A west Victorian council has refused to bow to community pressure to install CCTV in high-crime locations, citing human rights privacy concerns, despite already using cameras outside council workplaces. A group of Stawell residents is rallying for Northern Grampians Shire Council (NGSC) to install security cameras at police-identified crime hotspots, including a council-run skate park,…

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