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For the first time in more than three decades, senior football returned to a small East Gippsland oval where generations of residents once gathered every winter weekend. Ensay Recreation Reserve hosted a special tribute match between Swifts Creek and Buchan on Saturday, marking the first senior football game at the ground since 1992 and celebrating…
A man has been charged with murder after the body of missing Toowoomba mum Jana Armstrong was found in bushland near Ravensbourne National Park. The 30-year-old’s body was discovered last night at 10.30pm and a 48-year-old Toowoomba man has been charged with murder (domestic violence offence). Ms Armstrong, the mother of a four-month-old baby boy,…
It is a sporting and diplomatic moment nearly two decades in the making and carries significance well beyond the white lines marking Port Moresby’s National Football Stadium. In early 2029, Jarome Luai, a four-time premiership player with the Penrith Panthers, a NSW Origin representative and Samoan international, will likely lead the PNG Chiefs onto the…
The South Australian public has known since 2007 that the old Royal Adelaide Hospital site on North Terrace would one day become vacant. And yet, nearly 20 years on, it is still in the dark about what will replace it. That such a prime parcel of land on Adelaide’s cultural boulevard could be subject to…
When sisters Madeleine Thompson and Renee Aroney recall memories of their grandfather’s art deco cafe, they describe it as a “magical place”, akin to the fictitious world of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. “There’d be these big cockpit vats … where they’d mix up all the confectionery,” Ms Thompson said. “And then they had…
The mirror image of her mother, Anne Kirkpatrick proudly sings the melodies of one of her parents’ most iconic musical collaborations, Lights on the Hill. Joy McKean was awarded the first-ever Golden Guitar award at the Tamworth Country Music Festival in 1973 for the iconic song written for her husband, Slim Dusty. The song’s lyrics…
Socceroos star Jordy Bos, one of the Australian success stories at the World Cup, has undergone surgery on his knee and is set to miss the first three months of the Dutch domestic season with Feyenoord. The Eredivisie club reported on Saturday the 23-year-old, who was recorded as the World Cup’s quickest player after his…
Located in one of Australia’s most multicultural municipalities, the Wyndham Stadium Precinct was set to provide Melbourne’s west with its very own shrine to football. But more than five years since a much-feted public-private partnership was formed between Wyndham City Council, the Western Melbourne Group and investors, the soccer master plan has seemingly evaporated. The…
Graeme Mickelberg was a platoon commander in 1975 when he was deployed to protect Australia’s Butterworth air base in Malaysia. The veteran, who lives on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, vividly remembers the tension at the time. Graeme Mickelberg feels it is his duty as a former commander to help his troops gain recognition. (ABC Sunshine Coast:…
Jayden Adams died at age 25 after playing in three World Cup games last month for South Africa, the country’s football players union confirmed Saturday. No official cause of death was released. Check out the full World Cup schedule here in Australian times ABC Sport podcast: Check out the latest episode here “The South African…