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Australia’s wine grape industry is showing signs of adjusting to new global market conditions with the overall crush plummeting to its lowest amount in more than 25 years. Wine Australia’s National Vintage Report shows its yield is 25 per cent below the 10-year average and will mean about 33 million fewer 9-litre cases of wine…
Brisbane Broncos likely need an impossible eight wins out of nine games to play finals footy due to the way the bottom teams in the top eight have performed in 2026. The Broncos missed the finals with 13 wins in 2022 and, even if they go on a miracle run and win all eight of…
Taslima Nasreen’s planned return to Kolkata after nearly two decades has triggered a political face-off in West Bengal, with the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) trading barbs over the exiled Bangladeshi author’s visit.Nasreen, who was forced to leave the city in 2007 following violent protests over her writings, is scheduled to…
The mayor of Cairns has been told to apologise to her community after admitting to misconduct for a second time in three weeks. Mayor Amy Eden was ordered to make the admission by Queensland’s Councillor Conduct Tribunal, which found she failed to declare a conflict of interest during a vote in 2023, when the council…
A private project to build a 1.8 kilometre cable car connecting Airlie Beach to a mountain in a national park could be subject to new laws that critics say will allow for government land grabs. The proposed changes to state legislation mean the government could more easily use its resumption powers to support private developers….
The one consistent theme in Donald Trump’s increasingly delusional bluster about the conflict with Iran in which he enmeshed his country on February 28 is his assertion of the ultimate invincibility of US military power. “This regime will soon learn that no-one should challenge the strength and might of the United States Armed Forces,” Trump…
New Zealand has reported its first case of the deadly H5N1 bird flu after a migratory seabird found on a beach near the capital Wellington tested positive, Biosecurity Minister Andrew Hoggard announced. The case in a brown skua seabird comes after the virus was detected last month in Australia, the last continent to report the…
There are few more heated rivalries in world sport than England against Argentina. When the two teams meet in Atlanta in the World Cup semifinal on Thursday (AEST) it will be just the latest chapter of a furious battle that has ebbed and flowed since their first official meeting on a football pitch in the…
A parasitic infection that causes diarrhoea is spreading across the United States and officials still have not tracked down the source of the outbreak. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) said on Tuesday, local time, it had confirmed 1,645 cases of an intestinal infection from the Cyclospora parasite that causes diarrhoea, nausea and…
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has ordered its officers to suspend most vehicle stops around the country after agents fatally shot two men six days apart during traffic stops in Maine and Texas. This marks a significant shift in arrest tactics, and comes after the shooting of two US citizens in January sparked nationwide…