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Who soared, and who flopped, on the AFL’s biggest stage? In a grand final in which the Brisbane Lions killed off Geelong’s spirit, their influential players were far easier to spot.AFLW premiership player Libby Birch rates every Brisbane player, while former Western Bulldogs coach Brendan McCartney rates every Cat.Click on each player to reveal their mark out of 10, along with Birch and McCartney’s analysis.
The British PM began gently in a speech before the panel discussion. He wondered aloud whether audience members had managed to enjoy a breakfast in London, or had a pint at a pub, or gone for a walk in the sun before the summit began.“You may have noticed that this city isn’t the wasteland of anarchy that some would have you believe,” he said. That drew laughter because the British media is full of warnings from conservatives about the end times for their country from crime, taxes, migration and other failures of the progressive government.“That, in a sense, captures what…
The footage had guests in stitches, though the Victorian Liberals in the room might have wished he’d joined their ranks, given their “gap year” from government – as federal Opposition Leader Sussan Ley diplomatically described it.Geelong great Billy Brownless.Credit: Simon SchluterLey, meanwhile, fronted up with a joke-heavy speech, including a dig at her predecessor Peter Dutton, whose popularity on election day she compared to an AFL umpire. She also revealed that she was lured to the Sydney Swans decades earlier while living in “Broady” when she fell under the spell of bad boy Warwick Capper.Deputies, step forwardIf the North Melbourne…
Energy Minister Awais Leghari is addressing a press conference in Islamabad. — APP/FileISLAMABAD: Federal Power Minister Awais Leghari said on Friday that Pakistan’s circular debt would be wiped out within six years under a landmark financing pact with 18 banks, clinched on favourable terms that place no extra burden on consumers.Addressing a press conference, the minister strongly criticised the previous government for worsening the circular debt problem.He stated that when the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) left office in 2018, the debt stood at Rs1,100 billion; however, it surged to Rs2.28 trillion by 2022, during the PTI-led government’s tenure. Leghari termed…
Taylor Swift goes incognito as she arrives at Selena Gomez weddingDespite her best efforts to go incognito Taylor Swift was caught on camera upon arriving at Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco’s wedding with a gift.The 35-year-old pop star was seen hiding under umbrellas as she landed in California for her bestie’s star-studded nuptials.On Friday afternoon, September 26, the Cruel Summer chart topper was photographed while heading out of an aircraft at Santa Barbara airport. A glimpse of her bare elbow, slightly peeking out from her dark shirt, was captured as several people hurried to shield her with a bunch of…
Brisbane Lions claim back-to-back flags, defeating Geelong at the MCG.
The few documents released by the Democrats were highly redacted, which the party said was to protect victims while investigators from the committee continued to analyse the documents. There was no information about what the meetings entailed or whether they went ahead.LoadingAll the people involved have already acknowledged their relationships with Epstein. In 2019, Musk told Vanity Fair he had visited Epstein’s New York residence for about half an hour many years previously, and “did not see anything inappropriate at all, apart from weird art”. Musk said that Epstein repeatedly tried to get him to visit Little Saint James, but…
Langbroek repeatedly defended his decision, vowing to do so again “if it’s deemed necessary” and dismissing the resignations of 12 of the 34 judges for the literary awards’ more than $200,000 in prize money across 11 categories because “we will find other judges”.What they said“It’s such an honour to be here accepting the Queensland Literary Award for a work of state significance,” McQuire said in footage of her speech posted to social media, and reshared by McQuire herself.“But I also can’t accept it without mentioning the significance of the state in the lives of blackfellas, not just historically, but in…
Witness Dean Cameron was on a fishing trip near the site of the crash, when he heard a plane “roaring” engine “really, really close” and originally thought it was a plane doing acrobatics.“I thought it was weird, it sounded like it was on us, the noise it made was like a plane coming out of a dive,” Cameron said.“It was really loud, it was roaring,” he said, and believes the engine cut out. When he later saw news reports about the incident, he realised what had happened, describing the realisation as an “eerie” feeling.“We definitely heard the plane going down,”…
The Brisbane Lions have managed one of the most extraordinary turnarounds in a finals series to win this grand final in a canter against the same Geelong that dismembered the Lions only 22 days earlier.Warm favourites entering this grand final, the Cats succumbed to the youthful talent and audacious skill of the Lions.If anything, the pre-grand final near-consensus was that the Cats had the edge, in part because they had fewer banged-up or compromised players.Callum Ah Chee of the Lions celebrates with fans.Credit: AFL Photos via Getty ImagesBut this analysis, shared by this journalist, was completely awry. Brisbane utterly demolished…