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[ad_1] SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAA Photo: ArtistsGold Coast forward Ben King’s decision on his footballing future has boiled down to remaining at the Suns or returning to his hometown to play for the Hawks as he weighs up where he plays in 2027.The 25-year-old restricted free agent is leading the Coleman Medal race, having kicked 38.10 this season, and has a lucrative two-year deal on the table from the Suns.Ben King, Jed Walter and Joel Amartey are three key forwards kicking goals and out of contract at…

[ad_1] SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAThe average NSW resident is already $20,000 a year worse off because of historical climate change, and economic modelling suggests future global warming will further squeeze household budgets through a double whammy of lost wages and higher grocery bills.The analysis from the NSW Net Zero Commission seeks to quantify the economic impact of both an increase in extreme weather and natural disasters and also longer-term changes in weather systems, such as temperature and rainfall patterns.Northern NSW will experience some of the harshest effects…

[ad_1] SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAThe number of recruits putting their hands up to join Australia’s highest-paid police force has surged since they started being paid to train, but the number of women graduating has stalled as the force grapples with a chronic staff shortage.There were 2060 officer vacancies as of June, data provided exclusively to the Herald reveals. A further 3147 officers were on leave, including workers’ compensation, parental leave and sick leave, as of February.Despite paid training, flexible hours and part-time roles, women made up just…

[ad_1] SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAARugby Australia boss Phil Waugh says he has been given assurances by the French Rugby Federation it will send a full-strength France squad to play in Brisbane next month, boosting chances of a second sold-out Wallabies match in July.Earlier than desired due to all Australian teams crashing out of the Super Rugby finals, local rugby fans have turned their attention to the upcoming Test season, which begins next month with the first three Tests in the new Nations Championship tournament.The Wallabies will play…

[ad_1] June 10, 2026 — 5:00amSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAWhat strange and puzzling times we live in. Pauline Hanson shot to fame as a disendorsed Liberal candidate before the turn of the century, and I never expected to see the day, 30 years later, where the polls showed her One Nation party getting a fraction more first-preference votes than the Labor government and leaving the Coalition down and out on less than 20 per cent. Hanson for PM?Meanwhile, it’s a strange and puzzling time for the housing market.…

[ad_1] SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAA bureaucratic battle over parking has put the future of a popular café up in the air and led to thousands of dollars’ worth of tickets being issued to coffee aficionados in Perth’s south.Lovers Deli & Canteen owner Mia Gammon told this masthead the next month was “make or break” for the Beaconsfield business, which she said has been at the focus of residential complaints since it opened at the beginning of 2025.Mia Gammon owns Lovers Deli & Canteen with Jake Carter.Indigo Lemay-ConwayGammon…

[ad_1] SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAThe largest expansion of Australia’s outdated power grid in decades has finally been completed, opening up a new 900-kilometre link between NSW, Victoria and South Australia that will soon make it easier to add wind and solar farms to the network before the closure of more coal-fired power plants.The lack of enough high-voltage power lines to connect more renewable energy zones to major cities has become one of the greatest obstacles to expanding the clean-energy rollout. Developers of key projects, including new transmission…

[ad_1] June 10, 2026 — 5:00amSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAOn Wednesday, the war in Ukraine, which began on February 24, 2022, will equal the 1567-day length of the First World War. Like that war, which many thought would be over within months, the Ukraine war was meant to be brief. The Russians thought they could win it in three days, but were stopped then bravely pushed back by a gallant counter-attack. Despite this, most expected the larger Russia to eventually prevail, especially after US President Donald Trump appeared…

[ad_1] SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAAustralia’s data centre boom will fail to create jobs and productivity if the nation keeps underfunding research and development, Australia’s top scientific body has warned.As the nation grapples with how to extract economic opportunities from AI investment, which is rivalling the 2012-13 mining boom, 640 of Australia’s top researchers have united to fight for more funding as the Albanese government faces criticism for cutting hundreds of CSIRO jobs.Australia is among the top 10 countries in the world for number of data centres. Noah…

[ad_1] Phil Stewart, Maya Gebeily and Tala RamadanJune 10, 2026 — 3:45amSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAPresident Donald Trump said Iran had shot down a US Apache helicopter that was patrolling the Strait of Hormuz overnight and vowed to respond, but gave no other details.“I have just been informed by our Great Military that last night the Iranians shot down one of our highly sophisticated Apache Helicopters while patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz,” Trump wrote in a social media post on Tuesday (Washington time).He said the two US…