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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…

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June 10, 2026 — 10:00pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAEnergy-guzzling data centres will be forced to wind down power use at peak times to guard against blackouts or strain on the grid, Labor has insisted, as it says it must not spurn the advantage of the AI boom as the nation did with its abundant gas supply.As attitudes towards AI harden in the US, where states are enacting construction moratoriums, Labor’s AI guru Andrew Charlton said Australia’s approach should be “neither boosterism nor alarmism”, as hundreds of millions of…

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SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAGreat news that the power grid expansion has finally been completed, linking NSW, Victoria and South Australia and providing lower-cost electricity across state lines (“High voltage ‘superhighway’ links renewables to the grid”, June 10). Together with the lowering of wholesale electricity prices thanks to grid scale batteries, this is good news for consumers and confirmation that renewable energy is the cheapest and cleanest (“Green energy is shielding Australia from a global power price shock”, June 10). With most of our ageing coal-fired power plants…

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SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAVeteran Brumbies prop James Slipper is set to come out of international retirement and join the Wallabies in July, following another serious injury to teammate Blake Schoupp and wider fitness concerns in the front-row ranks.Slipper, the most-capped Wallaby with 151 Tests, has been included in an Australia train-on squad that will gather for a camp in Sydney next week. The Wallabies play three Tests in the Nations Championship in July, against Ireland, France and Italy.A trimmed-down, 36-man Wallabies’ squad will be named at the…

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