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Some of football’s most iconic moments have involved players heading the ball, but as millions tune in to the World Cup, there is renewed pressure on Australia’s governing body of the sport to limit the practice linked to dementia and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). The Professional Footballers of Australia (PFA) and a concussion expert are…
Mustansir Milky had never bought a new car until February, when he took the leap and purchased an XPeng G6 electric vehicle for $60,000. What drew him to the deal was the promise of a $5,000 cashback from Australian distributor TrueEV. “I hadn’t heard of XPeng before then, but I went for XPeng just because…
The family of a Thai teenager allegedly killed by an Australian man has placed her cremated ashes to rest at a local Buddhist temple as they seek justice for her murder. The body of 17-year-old Tunchanok Donhomla was found inside a suitcase last week, discarded near railway tracks in the coastal city of Pattaya. Thai…
As small businesses along regional main streets close, there are calls to turn empty CBD premises into living spaces to ease pressure and diversify housing markets. In Mount Gambier, on SA’s Limestone Coast, a number of shops have left the city’s main street in recent years, but a new regional plan has suggested “adaptive re-use…
An Australian AI pornography website has been barred from advertising on the world’s largest adult platform and targeted by Australia’s online safety regulator after the ABC revealed it could be breaching laws against child exploitation material. Warning: This story includes references to child abuse material. OurDream, which has been ranked as the biggest AI porn…
Police are investigating the death of a teenage boy found outside a medical centre in Melbourne’s north last night. The boy was located with serious injuries outside the Craigieburn Community Hospital about 7:50pm. Emergency services workers attempted to treat the boy but he died at the scene. Emergency services workers treated the boy, but he…
Extremists are using coded language and memes to evade detection when posting antisemitic content on social media, a royal commission has heard. Far-right individuals have also adopted memes as a way to push “more palatable” antisemitism, which is less likely to be picked up by moderators. Harmful conspiracy sustained anti-Jewish hate online, commission hears The…
Queensland’s south-east rail network will continue to run at about 80 per cent capacity, despite progress with pay negotiations between Queensland Rail and unions. Passengers have experienced service disruptions since April as Queensland Rail (QR) and six unions work towards new enterprise bargaining agreements. After six weeks of intensive bargaining at the Fair Work Commission,…
Venezuela’s two devastating earthquakes flattened buildings and coated parts of the nation’s northern coastline in layers of dust and debris, satellite imagery reveals. Areas north of the capital Caracas were hit by the magnitude-7.2 and 7.5 tremors within less than a minute of each other on June 24 in one of Latin America’s worst-ever earthquake…
Queensland’s first koala egg and sperm bank is being established at a regional university campus in an effort to preserve the genetic diversity of the endangered marsupial. A team of scientists and biologists at the Gatton campus of the University of Queensland (UQ) are working with wildlife hospitals to gather samples from dying koalas, which…