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The World Cup group stage is winding down, with third-placed teams anxiously watching other results to learn their fate. The best eight third-place finishers across the 12 groups will qualify for the round of 32. The teams are ranked in order of points won, goal difference and then goals scored, with discipline (yellow and red…
A man has undergone emergency surgery after he was shot by police in Western Sydney. Police were called to a unit complex on Lawson Street in Fairfield about 7:30pm on Thursday after reports of a violent disturbance. Assistant Commissioner Brett McFadden said officers arrived to the sound of “angry voices”, and discovered blood in the…
“Why are you Supergirl, and he’s Superman?” is a great question; posed by Eve Ridley’s Ruthye Marye Knoll in the latest offering from the DC Cinematic Universe. Born only a few years after her famous cousin Clark Kent on the planet Krypton, there’s little reason for the equally powerful Kara El-Zor to adopt her infantilising…
Ratepayers are set to foot the bill in a bid to resurrect Western Australia’s three-bin FOGO waste management system from collapse outside of Perth. The City of Bunbury is set to spend $1.27 million a year to truck its residents’ food and organic waste more than 150km to Perth, following the collapse of local processing….
As the Socceroos prepare to take on Paraguay and secure a place in the knock-out rounds of the FIFA World Cup, all eyes will be on coach Tony Popovic, whose bold selection calls have so far yielded mixed results and reviews. Few know the pressure involved in those calls better than former Socceroos coach Frank…
Never-say-die Dane Sweeny has kept a fond Australian tradition going by battling through qualifying to reach the Wimbledon main draw after a brutal four-hour slog in searing heat. The diminutive Penrith-born player with the big heart roared back after getting whitewashed in the fourth set against Chile’s Tomas Barrios Vera, before going on to win…
A new bridge will be built at Mitchell’s Causeway on the Great Western Highway to link Sydney and the state’s central west. The New South Wales government has announced construction is expected to start in the next few weeks, with the road expected to reopen this time next year. The new bridge will be built…
The number of abalone that divers can catch will be slashed by more than 40 per cent for the coming year, as commercial fishers weigh up potential buyout offers from the government. The NSW Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) announced today it would reduce the amount of black-lip abalone that can be…
A makeshift response to keep regional courts running amid a stand-off between WA Police and the Justice Department is leaving people stranded hundreds of kilometres from home, legal advocates say. Twenty courthouses in communities across the state closed on June 1, after police said they would no longer provide court security. A court direction has…
When a group of jet skiers stumbled across a green sea turtle during a tour of Magnetic Island, Andrew Eslick panicked, thinking the creature was dead. Mr Eslick was leading a tour around the island’s beaches and initially assumed the creature was sunbaking. “We get closer to it and I think, ‘Oh no, this turtle’s…