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A Brisbane Labor-held seat and a north Queensland electorate held by the Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) will be abolished following a review of the state’s electoral boundaries. The independent Queensland Redistribution Commission (QRC) has made moderate to significant changes to 50 of Queensland’s 93 electorates It was the first review since 2017, analysing each seat…

Amit Shah oversees Haryana-Rajasthan MoU on 1994 Upper Yamuna pact NEW DELHI: Haryana and Rajasthan on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to implement the 1994 Upper Yamuna River Board Agreement, marking a step towards operationalising the decades-old water-sharing pact.The agreement was signed in New Delhi in the presence of Union home minister Amit…

Network 10 and WIN Television have struck a short-term deal to continue broadcasting to three regional areas, just days before services were set to be cut.  WIN Television broadcasts free-to-air services in a number of regional areas, including South Australia’s Riverland and South East, and Griffith in New South Wales.  Its broadcast deal with Network…

Billy Slater says he does not expect this year’s State of Origin series to be his last as Queensland coach, but he will proceed in the role on a handshake basis. Slater has the chance to win his fourth series as Maroons coach in next week’s Origin III at Lang Park. Maroons recall veteran for…

The life and time of Suhrawardy “No roads will be named after Mughals or Pathans,” Suvendu Adhikari said in the Bengal assembly, while defending the renaming of Kolkata’s Suhrawardy Avenue.The question, though, remains, which Suhrawardy was the road really named after? Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Bengal’s last premier before Partition and one of the most despised…

A judge has ruled against former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann in his legal bid to get access to raw footage of a documentary which features Brittany Higgins ahead of his Queensland criminal trial later this year. Mr Lehrmann is charged with two counts of rape alleged to have occurred in Toowoomba, west of Brisbane, in…

A young woman has told a court she was brainwashed to such an extent that she feared being “sent to hell” if she carried out her plan to escape from a cult in the New South Wales. William Kamm, the leader of the Order of St Charbel near Nowra, allegedly first told the complainant when…

The brother of a doctor killed following in a car crash in southern Tasmania says his family is living through “unimaginable pain”. Artyom Avetisyan, a cardiothoracic surgery registrar at the Royal Hobart Hospital (RHH), died following a single-vehicle car crash at Pontville in southern Tasmania on June 12. The 42-year-old is being remembered as a…

Alex Murdaugh will be back in court again Monday on charges he killed his wife and son, appearing at a pretrial hearing that will likely be short on substance but long on spectacle as the true crime sensation continues to captivate. Murdaugh’s murder convictions and sentence of life in prison were overturned last month by…

Laurie Daley says he will address criticism about his performance as NSW coach once the State of Origin series is over. Daley spoke to reporters on Monday after naming a squad with six changes for Origin III at Brisbane’s Lang Park on July 8. He has faced heavy scrutiny in the aftermath of the Blues’…