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Every time a driver’s e-tag beeps. Every time a commuter “taps on”. Every time a motorist renews their registration, NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey hopes they think of him and the Labor government fondly. Some might, but few will. Faced with rising interest rates, high grocery prices and bloated bills, the cost of living help announced…
Tasmanian’s Department of Natural Resources and Environment (NRE) is having to rectify the underpayment of more than 900 current and former staff members because it misunderstood the award. NRE secretary Jacob Jacobi held an all-staff webinar earlier this month when he revealed that about 908 staff had been underpaid over a number of years. Mr…
The fault lines had been appearing for some time, threatening to burst open and unleash anarchy in Portuguese football. Their captain and megastar, Cristiano Ronaldo, was in a goal-scoring drought, according to his critics, not a team player, and at an age better suited to the bench or retirement than to the starting line-up. Ronaldo,…
The US Senate for the first time has approved a war powers resolution seeking to block US military action against Iran, as politicians warily watch President Donald Trump’s efforts to resolve a conflict that the administration launched on its own and now needs Congress to fund. It was the 10th time the Senate has tried…
Queensland Treasurer David Janetzki has handed down his second state budget, with a focus on delivering “stability” during “global volatility [and] uncertainty in Canberra”. While the government has spruiked its commitment to keeping down day-to-day costs in the long-term and a record spend on health, it has not been without criticism. These are some…
An Adelaide man who was charged with the stabbing murder of his housemate has been found “not criminally responsible due to mental incompetence”, a court has ruled. Kristopher Robert Steele stabbed John Charles Frederick Cox in the neck with scissors on the night of January 13, 2025, at Cowandilla in Adelaide’s inner western suburbs. South…
Warning: This article includes details and images relating to greyhound welfare that some readers may find distressing. Greyhound Racing South Australia (GRSA) has disqualified a leading trainer it once described as “having a strong future” in its marketing. Yesterday, Jack Clayton Trengove was handed a four-year racing ban and fined $875 over four animal welfare-related…
A snow school on Mount Buller once attended by the late Winter Olympian Alex “Chumpy” Pullin faces an uncertain future due to a government decision not to open enrolments this winter. Mansfield Secondary College ran its Mount Buller Annex for students who live on the mountain and was set up to allow pupils to train…
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If Jye Menzie had listened to the naysayers, he may never have been drafted into the AFL. And he likely never would have become captain of the Tasmania Devils VFL team. Growing up in Bridgewater, on the far outskirts of Hobart, the 23-year-old Menzie encountered his fair share of detractors growing up. Menzie is the…