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SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAQantas’ Project Sunrise plane made its first test flight over France, as the airline stretches out the timeline on the delivery of the landmark service.The specially built Airbus A350-1000ULR aircraft took off for the first time from Toulouse on Tuesday afternoon, local time, and flew for nearly four hours over France and the French Atlantic coast.The new Airbus A350-1000 ULR will be capable of flying 18,000 kilometres, staying in the air for up to 22 hours.QantasThe trip allowed two test pilots, three test engineers…

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SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAFormer Parramatta Council boss Gail Connolly pressured an employee to resign for receiving messages from other colleagues that criticised an executive and friend of Connolly’s, an anti-corruption inquiry has heard.When the staffer told the ex-chief executive they had heard her say much worse, Connolly said: “Not in f—ing writing I haven’t.”Witness Shannon Kleindienst arrives at the ICAC office on Wednesday to give evidence.James BrickwoodShannon Kleindienst, who provided evidence at the Independent Commission Against Corruption on Wednesday, said Connolly gave her the choice to either…

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Updated June 3, 2026 — 10:47am,first published June 3, 2026 — 8:13amSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAWashington: Donald Trump has scrapped a plan to award up to $2.5 billion in damages to victims of “government weaponisation” under the Biden administration following a potent backlash from Republicans, as well as Democrats who branded it a “slush fund” for Trump’s MAGA allies.It amounts to a significant backdown from the US president, who said he “gave up a lot of money” to allow the so-called Anti-Weaponisation Fund to go ahead.US President Donald…

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Brought to you by BULLS N’ BEARSAndrew ToddJune 3, 2026 — 3:04pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAPacgold Limited has unveiled a strategic demerger of its non-core North Queensland gold assets, relinquishing control to roll the projects into a soon-to-be-listed and powerfully backed Manda Resources.The move will see Pacgold’s Alice River and St George gold projects spun out and combined with a suite of other regional assets to create a consolidated 1.33-million-ounce gold explorer with a sizeable Queensland tenement package of more than 1700 square kilometres.Pacgold will demerge its St…

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John SchellJune 3, 2026 — 5:00pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAASelections based on a soft track.Race 1 2. Donatello is a former New Zealander that has had two starts since arriving in Australia for a fourth on the Kensington track and a latest fifth at Randwick behind Agent Zero. He was beaten less than a length in that event and sticks at the same distance in this. He looks set to break through with a win. 3. Scoop The Pool has a solid record with five placings from nine…

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