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The signs that the World Cup is here are omnipresent in Mexico City. From the massive billboards featuring Lionel Messi spruiking various products, to the bootleg jerseys sold on footpaths, to the polished exhibitions at the city’s many museums and cultural institutions. While soccer plays second fiddle in the other co-host nations, the USA and…

Queensland police are investigating an alleged assault involving Townsville Mayor Nick Dametto at Magnetic Island. Police received a report that a fight took place between the 42-year-old and a 28-year-old man at a Nelly Bay venue on Sunday afternoon. Officers were not called to the venue at the time but the alleged incident has since…

Heith Mineur is about to buy his first home and, like many first-time buyers, he is getting help from the government. The 33-year-old is buying using the Tasmanian government’s shared equity scheme, MyHome. But he says the process has dragged on for months, and he will now miss the June 30 cut-off for another of…

Australia will go into the Women’s T20 World Cup in a positive frame of mind after Georgia Voll led a dominant win over West Indies in their final warm-up match in Cardiff. After defeating England earlier in the week, Australia hammered West Indies by six wickets. Captain Sophie Molineux was satisfied with her team’s preparations,…

A Sydney psychiatrist found guilty of sexually assaulting a drunk colleague has been allowed to continue to practice despite the state’s health regulator trying to have him struck off. Gopi Ilawala was found guilty of two offences of sexually touch another person without consent in Sydney’s Downing Centre in June 2024. Findings published by the…

One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson told a community forum in Perth “politicians and bureaucrats” have driven Australia “into the ground”, as she condemned Labor’s federal budget. “This government has brought in the worst budget we have ever seen,” Hanson said to general applause. “This is about socialism. This is about communism, and dividing the wealthy…

A company that owned a network of petrol stations around Australia has struck a deal to repay a fraction of its debts for environmental contamination of a site earmarked for a local hospital, after its directors were accused of selling off the company’s properties in the lead-up to its collapse. The liquidator of Zoya Investments…

A bungle by Australia’s biggest bank, which led to the largest ever corporate fine in Australia, will be front and centre in the High Court in Canberra today, as a group of shareholders pursue the bank for damages over inflated share prices. The Commonwealth Bank paid $700 million after it was fined by financial intelligence…

Donald Trump wouldn’t have a clue — and if he did — he almost certainly couldn’t care less about the state of the ACT’s budget. Yet the US President, arguably more than the territory’s own Treasurer Chris Steel, is very directly adding to the heavy weight dragging on public finances in the nation’s capital. In…

When Melita Parker was 21, she was resuscitated by the side of a road in central Victoria. It was 1992, and she had been in a serious crash after the vehicle she was a passenger in hit a tree at 140 kilometres an hour. She was not expected to survive the air ambulance journey to…