It’s hard to look at people who spend the exciting, demanding parts of their sporting career lying down and think of them as super athletes. Because we can all drive a car, Formula One can tend to look like a bunch of over-paid, carefully coiffed, slim-hipped fellows turning a wheel with their wrists and occasionally…
The Opera House burst into life this evening in a display of Australian flora to celebrate the opening of Vivid 2019. Los Angeles artist Andrew Thomas Huang created the artwork, which combines floral imagery with motion-captured movement from a dancer. "I knew I needed to make a piece that was unique to Sydney and Australia…
Track a good 4 with the rail true so should play even early with gradual trend away from the fence. Race 1 2YO HCP (1200m) Smart Murwillumbah gelding 1. Badoosh can get punters off to a flying start. Was strong late first-up in a 2YO Hcp at home despite doing plenty of work wide from…
Two approvals Adani needs to build its contentious coal mine in the Galilee Basin should be resolved by June 13, Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says. Adani and state environment department officials had met on Thursday to agree on the deadline to finalise the environmental approvals needed for the mine to proceed, or not. Ms Palaszczuk…
Is the world's most bitterly contested coal mine finally getting the go-ahead? After Labor suffered heavy losses in coal-mining regions in Saturday’s Australian federal elections, the Carmichael project looks to be getting closer than ever to approval. In the view of the government's resources minister Matt Canavan, the pit being developed by Adani, a unit…
Whisky is considered a gentleman's drink – reserved for times of congratulations and clever conversations with life-long friends. So it is jarring that this drink should be at the centre of a brutal ASX-boardroom brawl that came to a head this week. The business, Tasmanian-based Australian Whisky Holdings, produces some of the world's best whisky…
Notorious Russell Street bomb-accused Craig Minogue has refused to give a DNA sample to police after being charged with abducting and raping two women in the 1980s, while his alleged accomplice has failed to front court. Police will apply to the court to force Mr Minogue to provide a sample after charging him and Peter…
The Morrison government wasted little time putting the heat back on the energy sector after its election victory, committing to hardline interventionist action designed to reform and punish the power industry. Analysts have already called the Coalition's win "a negative” for energy companies, and warned it could make power prices more volatile. Click Here: cheap…
Jack de Belin's co-accused faces being stood down from a bush competition as soon as next week after the Country Rugby League agreed in principle to adopt a policy similar to the NRL's no-fault stand-down rule. The CRL board met on Friday and agreed to draft a new edict which will give them the discretion…
Arts leaders are demanding a long-term vision from Canberra in the wake of the Morrison government's shock re-election. Those who work in the visual and performing arts say the recent election campaign was dominated by tax reform, leaving little air-time for the specific issues plaguing their industries. A key concern was that the Liberal Party's…