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Over the last decade, Sandy Brondello has enjoyed one of the most unique coaching set-ups in sport as she balances her dual roles leading Australia’s women’s basketball team, the Opals, and coaching at three different WNBA teams. Brondello, a two-time WNBA champion coach and Coach of the Year winner, is one of the most respected…
Three times as many households were kicked out of public housing in the first year of Queensland’s new behaviour policy. Under the change, tenants who receive three warnings for serious behaviour, including aggressive language, harassment and deliberate damage, in a year are evicted. Tenants are immediately evicted and banned from social housing for two years…
South-east Queensland residents are in for a wet and windy few days as a “very strong” high-pressure system moves in. The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has forecast winds of up to 80 kilometres an hour. A walker experiencing windy conditions at Mooloolaba. (ABC Sunshine Coast: Isaiah Ferguson) Senior forecaster Felim Hanniffy said the winds would…
NEW DELHI: Holding that a person cannot be denied the right to life and dignity upon conviction and that constitutional values are not suspended in prisons, SC Thursday directed states and UTs to formulate a policy within three months for release of prisoners who are of advanced age and/or are terminally ill.Justifying its intervention to…
A man who allegedly set his father on fire and left him to die outside a home in Sydney’s west has been charged with murder. Emergency services extinguished a small fire at a property on Wargon Crescent in Glenmore Park just before 1am on Thursday, with the body of a man discovered at the scene….
‘As long as there are people who approach the gods with greedy hearts, there will be priests with greedy hearts to receive them’ At a crowded shrine, a line of devotees stretches for blocks. Each person carries an expensive offering. Some have come to pray for a family member’s health, but many arrive with other…
A Victorian judge who admonished a barrister in front of her client and behind her back will receive counselling after the watchdog found his comments were “unfair and inappropriate”. The Judicial Commission of Victoria said Judge Michael Tinney of the County Court should also undergo training after it substantiated part of a complaint against him….
South Korea is cashing in on AI’s appetite for memory, and its chip makers plan to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to maintain their advantage. The Asian industrial powerhouse supplies most of the advanced memory chips helping power AI. They are small, expensive items that require specialised, extremely precise manufacturing that two South Korean…
Telstra promised Alastair Gaisford that his wife’s healthcare was a priority. But he says 15 landline outages, including some that could have prevented the ability to call Triple Zero (000) in an emergency, have convinced him otherwise. Telstra’s most recent nationwide mobile outage failed to connect more than 600 calls to Triple Zero and caused…
Talking Shop is our series where we talk to interesting people about their most interesting buys. If you’ve ever left a review about the Béis Weekender somewhere on the internet, Shay Mitchell has probably read it. The good, the bad, the “this is too heavy,” and “the straps hurt my shoulders” — and she welcomes…