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[ad_1] SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAA senior industrial relations figure described at an inquiry into bad behaviour in the Queensland construction sector as “a friend of the CFMEU” has had an appeal against her dismissal denied by the state Industrial Relations Commission.Helen Burgess, formerly employed as the Office of Industrial Relations’ director of construction compliance, was given a show-cause notice in October 2025 laying out seven allegations, including conflicts of interest with CFMEU heavyweights.Four of the allegations were substantiated by the investigator, Donna Heelan, with a fifth partially…

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[ad_1] Brought to you by BULLS N’ BEARSRowena DuckworthJune 9, 2026 — 1:04pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAPLC Resources is looking to keep the exploration momentum rolling at the company’s Abbotts North gold project in Western Australia’s Murchison region, launching a high-resolution airborne geophysical survey while market watchers wait for results from the first drilling campaign at its project.The company has begun flying a magnetic and radiometric survey across a largely unexplored section of the Abbotts Greenstone Belt, about 35 kilometres north of Meekatharra. The program is expected to…

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[ad_1] SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAThe fame name game (C8) has a number of C8-ers standing up for themselves, and rightly so: “That other Richard Branson more famous than me?” questions Richard Branson of Engadine. “Surely not! He hasn’t made a contribution to Column 8 that has been printed that I am aware of.” Gillian Anderson of Northmead files this: “To the many people who have informed he over the years that I share my name with a famous actor, I reply, ‘I’m the good-looking, talented one’.” And…

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[ad_1] Crispian BalmerJune 9, 2026 — 8:05amSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAARome: Divers removing abandoned fishing nets from the central Mediterranean, between Italy and North Africa, have captured what they believe is the first-ever underwater footage of an adult great white shark in the region.The sighting occurred as a team led by the Healthy Seas Foundation recovered so-called ghost nets from a shipwreck in the Strait of Sicily – a biodiversity hotspot heavily affected by industrial fishing.The video, taken last week and published on Monday, shows the shark accompanied…

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[ad_1] Brought to you by BULLS N’ BEARSMurray WardJune 9, 2026 — 2:06pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAChariot Resources has launched a major land expansion at its US Resurgent lithium project, in an astute move that will nearly double its footprint within one of the world’s premier battery metal districts.The company’s 79.4 per cent-owned subsidiary, FMS Lithium Corporation, has staked 573 new mining claims at the Resurgent East prospect. The additional tenure lies in the eastern portion of the prolific McDermitt Caldera, which straddles the Nevada and Oregon border.Chariot…

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[ad_1] Ray HicksonJune 9, 2026 — 5:00pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAASelections based on a soft trackRace 16. Zourrific has looked the part winning his two trials in May, the first possibly a little more impressive on the grass with the latest on the synthetic. He responded well though in that trial and if he takes the same attitude to the races should be hard to beat. 5. Short Sea is a stablemate and comes through the same synthetic trial a couple of weeks ago where he ran third.…

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