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June 11, 2026 — 5:00amSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAATime flies when you’re not having fun. On Friday, Angus Taylor will have notched up four months as Liberal leader. How’s he going? Not so well. The highly educated Taylor appears to have believed he was making a serious point about declining trust in politicians when he said earlier this week that the Coalition was suffering a loss of support to One Nation because the Albanese government had broken promises on tax in the budget.“That’s damaging both sides of politics.…

SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAThe threat of China severing sea cables to cut Australia’s internet access has pushed Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke to launch a security assessment into seabed security, as Labor boosts training among office workers to avoid a catastrophic hacking incident.As AI allows hackers to mimic human voices to dupe workers and enter firms’ digital networks, Burke shifted focus from major critical infrastructure to the millions of small and medium-sized firms where he wants to create a “human firewall”.Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke and the…

SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAABelfast: The family of the victim of a horrific knife attack in Belfast have pleaded with the public to reject the riots that swept through the city on Tuesday night, amid fears that masked protesters may return to migrant communities to set fire to homes.The family statement came after police charged a Sudanese asylum seeker, Hadi Alodid, 30, with attempted murder after a shocking assault on Monday night that sparked a political storm over crime and migration.Belfast residents prepared for another wave of protests…

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.…

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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…