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[ad_1] June 12, 2026 — 3:30pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAWhile football fans across the globe spend the opening days of the 2026 FIFA World Cup anxiously calculating group ladders and goal difference, there will be another cohort watching just as closely. Political pundits.Because amid the football permutations sits one extraordinary possibility: a knockout clash between the United States and Iran. For football fans, it would be compelling viewing. For diplomats, strategists and media commentators, it could be something else entirely – one of the most politically charged sporting…

[ad_1] SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAATruth-telling is not usually big on the political agenda (“Truth-telling can hold back Hanson”, June 12). Politicians telling porky pies are as normal as snouts in the trough. Politicians are also renowned for making promises but, as John Howard famously tried to argue, some are non-core promises. Labor’s big budget moves are being painted by Hanson and her wannabe Liberal copy cats as lies, when in truth they had to happen and will help many Australians. They may have worked better if Labor…

[ad_1] Wests Tigers coach Benji Marshall denies there is any link between Jarome Luai’s exit and the club’s form. [ad_2]

[ad_1] SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAAn online trading house that ripped off thousands of customers has been hit with $300 million in fines by the Federal Court – a record for any case brought by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.Union Standard International Group, a one-time sponsor of former English Premier League team Sheffield United FC, on Thursday received the massive fine as a result of its alleged systemic failures, after a court case first brought in 2020.Australian trading house Union Standard, or USGFX, were once the sponsors…

[ad_1] Brought to you by BULLS N’ BEARSAndrew ToddJune 12, 2026 — 3:59pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAALAC GOLD (ASX:LAC) Project: Rouyn gold project, near Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, Canada.Hit: 5.65m at 141.29g/t gold from 148.15m, including 0.5m at 1580g/t gold.Lac Gold has burst into this week’s Big Hits frame with a spectacular bonanza-grade gold result from the Astoria deposit at the company’s Rouyn gold project in Quebec, where one drill hole punched through 5.65m at 141.29 grams per tonne (g/t) gold from 148.15m, including a staggering 0.5m at 1580g/t gold.Bulls…

[ad_1] June 12, 2026 — 11:45amSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAPolitical lobbyists and corporate representatives with privileged access to Parliament House will be publicly identified under a major overhaul of the parliamentary pass system, ending decades of secrecy around who can roam the building’s private corridors.Bureaucrats and party representatives have been briefed on a package of reforms expected to be adopted over the next two years, including the creation of a public online register of sponsored pass-holders and new disclosure requirements for business representatives granted unescorted access to ministerial…

[ad_1] Eric Martin, Patrick Sykes and Fiona MacDonaldJune 12, 2026 — 3:30pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAPresident Donald Trump has repeatedly said the US and Iran are on the cusp of a deal to end their conflict. The reality has proven more elusive – in part because of the nature of the negotiations themselves.The latest instance came Thursday (US time), when Trump claimed that a deal was imminent, telling reporters that an agreement could be signed as early as this weekend. Iran rejected Trump’s claims, with its semi-official Fars…

[ad_1] Craig KerryJune 12, 2026 — 5:00pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAAdam Hyeronimus welcomed a draw not too close to the inside rail for Headley Grange when the Joe Pride-trained galloper attempts to become just the third horse to win the Kingsford Smith Cup-Stradbroke Handicap double on Saturday at Eagle Farm.Hyeronimus made the most of gate three in the 1300m Kingsford Smith Cup two weeks ago at the track, giving the five-year-old an economical run in the weight-for-age test to edge out Jimmysstar and Fangirl.Adam Hyeronimus taking Headley Grange,…

[ad_1] Rex MartinichJune 12, 2026 — 5:44pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAA man accused of murdering his missing American girlfriend was not guilty because she could still be alive and continuing her “below the radar” lifestyle, a jury has heard.Mark Sheridan Waden, 50, has faced two weeks on trial in Brisbane Supreme Court accused of killing Priscilla Brooten, a 46-year-old US citizen.Her body has never been found.Priscilla Brooten.ninevmsDefence barrister James Godbolt during his closing statement on Friday told the jury police searches for Brooten had “a not high level…