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[ad_1] June 11, 2026 — 11:30amSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAOn Saturday morning, I will return home to Belfast to a depressingly familiar sight many of us thought had largely disappeared.Violence in Belfast is usually connected to long-held political tension between Protestant and Catholic communities. During the summer months, this can still reignite into what local police call “recreational rioting”. But this time, it’s different.The sudden eruption of violence in Belfast this week.Getty ImagesOn Monday evening, a grainy video went viral. A 30-year-old Sudanese man had brutally attacked a…
[ad_1] SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAOversized utes take up more space on roads, pollute more and are less safe for other road users, but a parliamentary inquiry will consider whether charging them more than other cars using Melbourne’s toll roads is unfair.A new generation of oversized American utility vehicles, including the Ford F-150 series and the Ram 1500, has flooded onto the Australian market, as tax perks encourage motorists to buy bigger vehicles.MP Jeff Bourman with his Ford Ranger in the parliamentary car park. Bourman has launched a…
[ad_1] Brought to you by BULLS N’ BEARSMurray WardJune 11, 2026 — 4:48pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAWith the Northern Territory’s wet season now in the rear-view mirror, Beetaloo Energy is kicking its operations into high gear, launching a significant seismic survey in its western permits this month while simultaneously restarting flow tests at its impressive Carpentaria-5H well.The upcoming 230-kilometre 2D seismic survey will be acquired by Velseis Integrated Seismic Technologies, with local company Wildman River Stock Contractors clearing access after land agreements were executed with pastoralists.Beetaloo Energy flow…
[ad_1] SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAACricket Victoria has backed down from the potentially explosive call to send chief executive Nick Cummins to the meeting where Australian cricket’s leaders meet to decide the fate of the BBL privatisation project, including what to do about the call to merge the Melbourne Stars and Renegades.With CV chairman Ross Hepburn travelling overseas, the state association had initially planned to send Cummins in Hepburn’s place to the chairs’ meeting, a move that drew major reservations from other states.Cricket Victoria CEO Nick Cummins.Getty ImagesPartly…
[ad_1] SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAFormer Queensland premier Peter Beattie has rejected Pauline Hanson’s claim that changes to his state’s electoral laws two decades ago were designed to target her, insisting the reforms were designed to combat electoral fraud within the Labor Party following a major corruption scandal.Hanson on Thursday accused Beattie and newly elected Liberal Party president Tony Abbott of orchestrating a “political witch hunt” that led to her 11-week imprisonment for electoral fraud in 2003, a conviction later quashed on appeal.Speaking at a business function in…
[ad_1] Julius DennisJune 11, 2026 — 7:50pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAYouth detention workers walked off the job on Thursday, citing safety risks and leaving skeleton crews to manage the detainees.Nearly all workers at the Brisbane and West Moreton Youth Detention Centres in Wacol, as well as the Wacol Youth Remand Centre and the Cleveland centre in Townsville left their posts just after 9am.Detention centre workers are currently in negotiation with the government for a new pay and conditions deal, with wages a sticking point as inflation soars.The Brisbane…
[ad_1] June 11, 2026 — 11:55amSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAABelfast: The protester points at me as he strides towards the battle lines on the second night of unrest on the streets in and around Belfast.“Put that phone away,” he yells. Then he walks on with a handful of other men to confront a line of police at the end of the street.I know why he is nervous about the photographs and video I am taking of the crowd facing the police, who are using riot shields, armoured vehicles…
[ad_1] SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAOn the second day of her period, Alicia Graham uses a menstrual cup to collect blood that could help researchers unlock the mysteries of pregnancy complications.After decanting her period blood into a small specimen jar, she carefully packs the sample into a parcel alongside an icepack, and a courier transports it to a laboratory.Alicia Graham has been donating her menstrual fluid in the hope of helping prevent pregnancy complications. Ruby Alexander“It took me a while to get started because I was a little…
[ad_1] Thanks for joining our live coverage of tonight’s big game at Accor Stadium, where the eighth-placed Rabbitohs host the 12th-placed Broncos.NSW Blues prop Payne Haas.Getty ImagesBoth teams are stuck in a serious rut – Souths have dropped three straight, while Brisbane are desperate to snap a brutal five-game losing streak. Throw in a massive list of missing State of Origin and injured stars (including Reece Walsh, Payne Haas, PLatrell Mitchell and Cameron Murray), and tonight’s game becomes something of a tipster’s nightmare. For what it’s worth, I’m leaning towards the Broncos in a close one – but not with…
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