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SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAA spoof video of departed AFL coaches Brad Scott and Michael Voss letting their hair down in Ibiza might appear harmless, but it offers insight into the growing danger and proliferation of “fake news” and its impact on AFL clubs, players and their families.Seemingly innocent or light-hearted footage of the former Brisbane Lions premiership teammates finding their dancing feet, unburdened by the stress of coaching, generates a laugh and maybe even sympathy from a social media audience that’s happy to see them smiling. But…

SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAThe same body that crunches the numbers for every Queensland student’s ATAR has given students a leg-up picking their senior subjects with a new program that can estimate final year 12 scores.Dubbed the ATAR navigator and unveiled on Monday, the tool from the Queensland Tertiary Admissions Centre (QTAC) produced an estimated year 12 rank for students based on their subjects and their expected marks.QTAC chief executive Chris Veraa said the tool was designed to stop students “flying blind” when preferencing their university course applications.Kenmore…

SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAADo voters really want Pauline Hanson in charge of Australia’s nuclear submarine fleet? Or negotiating with Xi Jinping and Donald Trump?According to the latest Resolve Political Monitor, that’s exactly what they want.Pauline Hanson is the nation’s preferred prime minister in the most recent Resolve Political Monitor.Marija ErcegovacA whopping 33 per cent of voters nominated Hanson as their preferred prime minister in this poll, giving her a 4-percentage-point lead over Anthony Albanese, while One Nation has edged ahead of Labor on the primary vote too,…

The memory of her child begging to die still makes Julia Holmwood feel physically sick.Her 12-year-old daughter, Penny, was tough. A few weeks earlier, she was dragging herself out of the pool during a water polo tournament, covered in bruises, but never complaining.Now, Julia said she was slumped in a wheelchair at the local emergency department – unable to walk, struggling to hold her head upright, screaming in pain and passing out.She said the ED doctor examined Penny’s initial results and declared this was ordinary period pain.Julia recalls the doctor telling them: “My wife gets her period, she just takes…

SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAAustralian cricket may be fundamentally changed by the outcomes of a meeting between Cricket Australia chair Mike Baird and his state counterparts in Melbourne on Monday.A model for the restructuring and possible sale of private stakes in Big Bash League clubs is the major reason for the conclave, but there are wider issues also at stake.Mike Baird.Getty Images for Cricket AustraliaThe shape of the CA board itself may well come under review as a result of the meeting, with some states pushing for a…

Stan ChoeJune 15, 2026 — 5:28amSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAThe Australian sharemarket is set for an unsteady start amid a fresh escalation in tensions in the Middle East while SpaceX soared in its highly anticipated debut on Wall Street.The S&P 500 added 0.5 per cent to close out its 10th winning week in the last 11. The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 353 points, or 0.7 per cent, and the Nasdaq composite gained 0.3 per cent. ASX futures are pointing to a gain of 39 points, or 0.4…

SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAThe day after being handed the keys to their new BYD electric car Jon Bentley, his wife and their two sons decided to drive interstate.“Driving at night, driving long distance and not knowing how to charge it was quite stressful … but after that first night it got easier,” Bentley said.The Tarragindi family had good reason to hit the highway – they wanted to reach Melbourne in time to watch the Lions play in the 2023 AFL grand final. They made it, although their…

June 15, 2026 — 5:00amSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAReferee Ashley Klein must stand down from Wednesday night’s second State of Origin match, now that the NRL has refused to sack him from the code’s showpiece game, despite his gambling problems escalating significantly under the watch of the current administration.Rugby league is on the eve of signing the richest broadcasting deal in Australian sport at a time when the credibility of the code is under siege after this masthead revealed the NRL’s top referee had a $400,000 gambling problem.…

SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAThe shockwaves of the Herald’s Resolve Political Monitor will echo around the parliamentary corridors in Canberra, as voters are not just backing One Nation as the top party in Australia, but for the first time they are also backing Pauline Hanson as preferred prime minister.One Nation is now the first choice of most Australian voters, attracting a primary vote of 29 per cent of respondents to the latest poll, a five percentage point rise since the last poll. Labor recorded a primary vote of…

SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAA previously jailed, struck-off lawyer and an ex-bankrupt son of a Chinese property tycoon have been battling in the Supreme Court over an alleged $3 million loan.On one side is former lawyer Ronglai “Martin” Zhang, 46, a bankrupt who has spent time in prison.Struck-off lawyer Ronglai “Martin” Zhang has a number of criminal convictions.Zhang has multiple convictions for firearm offences, drug-related offences, assault, possession of stolen goods, driving while disqualified and, more recently, possessing prohibited drugs and driving while drug-affected.Zhang has alleged that former…