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Two Australian Turf Club directors have resigned just three days after the axing of chief executive officer Matt Galanos while he was on sick leave.Ben Bayot resigned on Thursday before Natalie Hewson followed suit. Bayot had been on the board since May 2021, while Hewson joined in February 2023. The departures leave the board with just four directors.Ben BayotIt is believed the axing of Galanos and the financial state and direction of the club – which in May failed to gain the support of members to sell Rosehill Gardens to the NSW Government for $5 billion – were behind the…
The remark showed two things. The first is that the British feel they need to keep reminding Trump that AUKUS matters, signalling their anxiety about his commitment to the pact. The second is that the British want to reinforce the fact that Australia is part of the deal.King Charles and Donald Trump dine together at the state banquet at Windsor Castle.Credit: Getty ImagesLoadingThis will help Anthony Albanese, even if only slightly, should the prime minister meet Trump in New York next week. All Albanese has to do is tell Trump how glad he was to hear the King mention Australia…
Australia has averaged 9 million tonnes of carbon reductions each year since 2020. This must increase to 16 million tonnes a year to achieve the 2030 target, and rise again to 27 million tonnes a year to hit the 2035 goal.The authority advised the government that 95 per cent of all electricity generation will have to come from renewables within the next 10 years, implying an almost total phaseout of coal-fired power plants. Half of all new cars sold between now and 2035 must be electric, the authority declared.Grattan Institute energy and climate change deputy program director, Alison Reeve, said…
Larvotto Resources managing director Ron Heeks said: “Partnering with MACA-Interquip-Mintrex is a critical step in ensuring the Hillgrove upgrade is delivered correctly, safely and on time. The construction program will carry us through to mid-2026, culminating in commissioning and the restart of production.” Heeks said Hillgrove is on course to re-emerge as a strategic supplier of antimony and gold, which are both currently trading at record prices.The company nabbed the project from the hands of administrators for peanuts back in December 2023, picking it up for a song at $8 million, which included $5 million to replace a NSW environmental…
Jessie J teases songs from upcoming album ‘Don’t Tease Me With A Good Time’Jessie J has officially confirmed her new album after the completion of her cancer treatment. Taking it to Instagram, the 37-year-old American singer shared a few songs including No Secret, Believe in Magic, And the Award Goes To and Living My Best Life from her upcoming album “Don’t Tease Me With A Good Time” and also shared the release date of the new venture. She simply mentioned the name and official release date of the album which is October 28, 2025. The singer further disclosed that her…
“Given the Melbourne curriculum is different to the majority of others in operation currently within the Australian higher education sector, the methodology underpinning this survey makes it difficult to draw direct comparisons from the available data in this report,” a spokesperson said.The national standout university for landing full-time employment was Brisbane’s Charles Sturt University, where 89.1 per cent of graduates landed a job in 2024.Avondale University in NSW followed with 88.1 per cent.Dr Angela Baker, education director at the Social Research Centre, which conducts the survey, said post-pandemic gains in university employment outcomes across the country had slowed but job…
Politis managed to slip past the media scrum waiting for him at Sydney airport on Thursday morning by securing a private passage out of the terminal before heading to a meeting with Robinson.“Sucked in, you didn’t get me,” Politis told this columnist in the early hours of Thursday morning.Sources with knowledge of the situation talking on the condition of anonymity told this masthead Robinson was privately disappointed when his chairman announced his hard line on drugs in an interview with the Daily Telegraph in January, feeling he had made a rod for his own back.To complicate matters further, Politis had…
Sinclair, another major ABC affiliate, has also proposed a merger with Tegna. Lo and behold, Sinclair also refused to air Kimmel’s show due to his “inappropriate and deeply insensitive” comments.Hours before ABC’s decision, Carr was on a YouTube show hosted by hard-right commentator Benny Johnson, threatening ABC, Disney and TV stations if they did not act against Kimmel. He raised the possibility of fining broadcasters or revoking station licences.Brendan Carr, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.Credit: Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times“We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Carr said. “These companies can find ways to…
Those MPs working behind the scenes and talking climate compromise include Ley’s right-hand man Alex Hawke, leading moderates such as Tim Wilson and Andrew Bragg, and conservative-leaning MPs such as James Paterson, Claire Chandler and Simon Kennedy (as my colleague Paul Sakkal first reported earlier this month).There is even some hope that the bare bones of a policy compromise can be worked out by the time parliament returns in October and a divided party room meets again.The compromises, which could include removing the net zero goal from law, exempting parts of agriculture from the target, getting more gas online and…
ADNOC twice sought extensions to due-diligence deadlines, but didn’t attempt to renegotiate the price.LoadingThis can be seen in two ways – either the suitor was finding excuses to play for time, or there were previous hidden issues inside the bowels of Santos’ accounts that were concerning ADNOC.But the Emiratis clearly wanted a deal to be signed. The bidders group even flew a bunch of journalists over to Abu Dhabi earlier this week to do interviews with the head of the consortium in a curtain-raiser to Friday’s announcement.It would have been extremely embarrassing for ADNOC to announce its withdrawal from the…