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Port Adelaide’s Powell-Pepper out for season with ACL

Port Adelaide’s Powell-Pepper out for season with ACL

Port Adelaide’s Sam Powell-Pepper is out for the AFL season after scans confirmed the pressure forward ruptured his ACL.  Powell-Pepper left the field during the third quarter of Port’s 11.16 (82) to 10.12 (72) win over St Kilda at Adelaide Oval on Friday night. The club confirmed the injury on Saturday, saying he would miss the remainder of the year ...
Aussie Grace Kim is runaway leader at LA Championship

Aussie Grace Kim is runaway leader at LA Championship

Australian golf star Grace Kim has worked it out – the less she thinks about it the better. Kim posted a five-under 66 on Friday to open up a four-stroke lead at 12-under over second-placed Swede Maja Stark at the halfway mark of the LA Championship.  It has been a remarkable turnaround for the Sydneysider, who missed the cut at the Chevron in Houston ...
Marc Leishman lurks near LIV Golf lead in Adelaide

Marc Leishman lurks near LIV Golf lead in Adelaide

Australia’s Marc Leishman has collected another pair of birdies to remain near the top of the LIV Golf leaderboard in Adelaide. Leishman is seven under in Saturday’s second round at the Grange Golf Club in Adelaide’s west, three shots behind American leader Brendan Steele. Steele made four birdies in a six-hole start to rise to 10 under. Japan’s ...
Cherry-Evans, Olakau’atu face bans as Eels fume

Cherry-Evans, Olakau’atu face bans as Eels fume

Manly have suffered a mammoth double blow with Daly Cherry-Evans and Haumole Olakau’atu both facing bans for their dangerous throw on Shaun Lane. After Olakau’atu was sin-binned on field on Friday night against Parramatta, the NRL’s match review committee deemed both at fault on Saturday morning. The double act has earned the pair grade-two charges, ...
Thousands to rally over gendered violence ’emergency’

Thousands to rally over gendered violence ’emergency’

Australians will take to the nation’s streets in their thousands to demand an end to gendered violence which advocates warn has reached crisis levels. About 15 rallies will be held across the nation over the weekend amid calls for concrete action to break the cycle of violence which has claimed the lives of at least 26 women so far in 2024, according ...
‘Quite rattled’: toll of Mardi Gras policing revealed

‘Quite rattled’: toll of Mardi Gras policing revealed

Mardi Gras should be a celebration but a study into 2023 pride events suggests heavy-handed policing is still casting a dark shadow over festivities. Policing at three Sydney World Pride and Mardi Gras events last year was found to be “intensive and aggressive”, with invasive questioning as well as “humiliating and potentially unlawful searches”, the ...
Injured Starc avoids run carnage in IPL’s record chase

Injured Starc avoids run carnage in IPL’s record chase

Mitchell Starc has been forced to miss his latest IPL ordeal because of injury — and the Australian star can afford to feel mightily relieved he did after his Kolkata side got hit for six in an amazing world-record T20 run chase at Eden Gardens. Jonny Bairstow led Punjab Kings to an extraordinary eight-wicket triumph on Friday, plundering an unbeaten ...
Family violence register on cards as rallies begin

Family violence register on cards as rallies begin

Hundreds of marchers have taken to the streets in Ballarat and Newcastle, kicking off more than a dozen national rallies against gendered violence, as politicians ponder a register of convicted family violence offenders in Victoria. Twenty-six women have allegedly died by male violence in Australia this year, according to Destroy the Joint figures, ...
Crackers AI clickbait causing confusion online

Crackers AI clickbait causing confusion online

Facebook accounts are sharing photorealistic images allegedly showing real people, sculptures and other scenes. But the images are not real. They have been generated using artificial intelligence (AI) technology. The motives of those who post such images are unclear. However, experts told AAP FactCheck people should be wary of engaging with the ...
Snapper Rocks back on World Surf League tour

Snapper Rocks back on World Surf League tour

Eight-time world champion Stephanie Gilmore has described Snapper Rocks as one of her favourite waves on the planet after the famed break regained entry to the World Surf League’s Championship Tour. Located off Coolangatta at the southern end of the Gold Coast, Snapper Rocks was on the tour from 2002 until the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020. When the ...
Community alliance slams ‘harm’ from employment service

Community alliance slams ‘harm’ from employment service

Half a million people on income support are at risk of “serious harm” from a government employment service that is “broken,” the Australian Council of Social Service says, calling for a total overhaul in next month’s budget. The council said it had written a letter signed by 23 health organisations, First Nations services, unions and others calling for ...
Dutton backs Musk on global policing of internet

Dutton backs Musk on global policing of internet

The opposition says it supports Elon Musk’s argument that Australia can’t police the internet globally, as the week ended the way it began with a war of words and legal wrangling over graphic videos circulating on X. Musk’s company, formerly known as Twitter, is locked in a legal battle with the eSafety commissioner to be able to keep graphic videos on ...

Port Adelaide’s Powell-Pepper out for season with ACL

Port Adelaide’s Powell-Pepper out for season with ACL
Port Adelaide’s Sam Powell-Pepper is out for the AFL season after scans confirmed the pressure forward ruptured his ACL.  Powell-Pepper left the field during the third quarter of Port’s 11.16 (82) to 10.12 (72) win over St Kilda at Adelaide Oval on Friday night. The club confirmed the injury on Saturday, saying he would miss the remainder of the year ...

Aussie Grace Kim is runaway leader at LA Championship

Aussie Grace Kim is runaway leader at LA Championship
Australian golf star Grace Kim has worked it out – the less she thinks about it the better. Kim posted a five-under 66 on Friday to open up a four-stroke lead at 12-under over second-placed Swede Maja Stark at the halfway mark of the LA Championship.  It has been a remarkable turnaround for the Sydneysider, who missed the cut at the Chevron in Houston ...

Marc Leishman lurks near LIV Golf lead in Adelaide

Marc Leishman lurks near LIV Golf lead in Adelaide
Australia’s Marc Leishman has collected another pair of birdies to remain near the top of the LIV Golf leaderboard in Adelaide. Leishman is seven under in Saturday’s second round at the Grange Golf Club in Adelaide’s west, three shots behind American leader Brendan Steele. Steele made four birdies in a six-hole start to rise to 10 under. Japan’s ...

Cherry-Evans, Olakau’atu face bans as Eels fume

Cherry-Evans, Olakau’atu face bans as Eels fume
Manly have suffered a mammoth double blow with Daly Cherry-Evans and Haumole Olakau’atu both facing bans for their dangerous throw on Shaun Lane. After Olakau’atu was sin-binned on field on Friday night against Parramatta, the NRL’s match review committee deemed both at fault on Saturday morning. The double act has earned the pair grade-two charges, ...

Thousands to rally over gendered violence ’emergency’

Thousands to rally over gendered violence ’emergency’
Australians will take to the nation’s streets in their thousands to demand an end to gendered violence which advocates warn has reached crisis levels. About 15 rallies will be held across the nation over the weekend amid calls for concrete action to break the cycle of violence which has claimed the lives of at least 26 women so far in 2024, according ...

‘Quite rattled’: toll of Mardi Gras policing revealed

‘Quite rattled’: toll of Mardi Gras policing revealed
Mardi Gras should be a celebration but a study into 2023 pride events suggests heavy-handed policing is still casting a dark shadow over festivities. Policing at three Sydney World Pride and Mardi Gras events last year was found to be “intensive and aggressive”, with invasive questioning as well as “humiliating and potentially unlawful searches”, the ...

Injured Starc avoids run carnage in IPL’s record chase

Injured Starc avoids run carnage in IPL’s record chase
Mitchell Starc has been forced to miss his latest IPL ordeal because of injury — and the Australian star can afford to feel mightily relieved he did after his Kolkata side got hit for six in an amazing world-record T20 run chase at Eden Gardens. Jonny Bairstow led Punjab Kings to an extraordinary eight-wicket triumph on Friday, plundering an unbeaten ...

Family violence register on cards as rallies begin

Family violence register on cards as rallies begin
Hundreds of marchers have taken to the streets in Ballarat and Newcastle, kicking off more than a dozen national rallies against gendered violence, as politicians ponder a register of convicted family violence offenders in Victoria. Twenty-six women have allegedly died by male violence in Australia this year, according to Destroy the Joint figures, ...

Crackers AI clickbait causing confusion online

Crackers AI clickbait causing confusion online
Facebook accounts are sharing photorealistic images allegedly showing real people, sculptures and other scenes. But the images are not real. They have been generated using artificial intelligence (AI) technology. The motives of those who post such images are unclear. However, experts told AAP FactCheck people should be wary of engaging with the ...

Snapper Rocks back on World Surf League tour

Snapper Rocks back on World Surf League tour
Eight-time world champion Stephanie Gilmore has described Snapper Rocks as one of her favourite waves on the planet after the famed break regained entry to the World Surf League’s Championship Tour. Located off Coolangatta at the southern end of the Gold Coast, Snapper Rocks was on the tour from 2002 until the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020. When the ...

Community alliance slams ‘harm’ from employment service

Community alliance slams ‘harm’ from employment service
Half a million people on income support are at risk of “serious harm” from a government employment service that is “broken,” the Australian Council of Social Service says, calling for a total overhaul in next month’s budget. The council said it had written a letter signed by 23 health organisations, First Nations services, unions and others calling for ...

Dutton backs Musk on global policing of internet

Dutton backs Musk on global policing of internet
The opposition says it supports Elon Musk’s argument that Australia can’t police the internet globally, as the week ended the way it began with a war of words and legal wrangling over graphic videos circulating on X. Musk’s company, formerly known as Twitter, is locked in a legal battle with the eSafety commissioner to be able to keep graphic videos on ...