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June 11, 2026 — 12:05amSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAMore than 400 Victorian primary schools will roll out a new year 1 numeracy checks next term as the state expands its screening programs designed to identify students at risk of falling behind in maths.The rollout will coincide with the first year 2 reassessment of children who did not reach the benchmark in last year’s phonics check, giving schools new data on students who may need extra help with literacy and numeracy.Maramba Primary School principal Moniba Ehsan and grade 1…
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SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAThe question is two-fold.Who would Cameron Munster, in the depths of an Origin defensive grind, rather have running at him? Haumole Olakau’atu or Dylan Lucas?There’s only one answer. There’s been a few theories and no definitive answer on the Olakau’atu axing that no-one, including the monstrous Manly back-rower, saw coming.But the alternative question, who would Munster and Kalyn Ponga rather attack against, is as instructive as any.NSW coach Laurie Daley has given little away on Olakau’atu’s axing while talking up right-edge back-row replacement Lucas.…
Serena Williams’ successful comeback to competition alongside Victoria Mboko has fans and pundits believing the 44-year-old may feature at Wimbledon.
Updated June 10, 2026 — 10:25pm,first published 3:30pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAAustralian swimming star Cam McEvoy has laughed off the performances at last month’s Enhanced Games but admits he is concerned about an erosion of public confidence in clean sport after athletes using drugs failed to break world records.Athletes competed for large sums of prizemoney in swimming, athletics and weightlifting at the inaugural Enhanced Games in Las Vegas while openly taking banned substances such as peptides and testosterone.Enhanced Games organisers claimed Greek swimmer Kristian Gkolomeev “broke” McEvoy’s world…
Bus set on fire during Belfast protests the night after an asylum seeker was charged with attempted murder in a brutal stabbing attack.
June 10, 2026 — 10:00pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAEnergy-guzzling data centres will be forced to wind down power use at peak times to guard against blackouts or strain on the grid, Labor has insisted, as it says it must not spurn the advantage of the AI boom as the nation did with its abundant gas supply.As attitudes towards AI harden in the US, where states are enacting construction moratoriums, Labor’s AI guru Andrew Charlton said Australia’s approach should be “neither boosterism nor alarmism”, as hundreds of millions of…
SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAGreat news that the power grid expansion has finally been completed, linking NSW, Victoria and South Australia and providing lower-cost electricity across state lines (“High voltage ‘superhighway’ links renewables to the grid”, June 10). Together with the lowering of wholesale electricity prices thanks to grid scale batteries, this is good news for consumers and confirmation that renewable energy is the cheapest and cleanest (“Green energy is shielding Australia from a global power price shock”, June 10). With most of our ageing coal-fired power plants…