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King Cleary kicks NSW into Origin decider after Johns spray

Nathan Cleary turned in one of the great playmaking performances to send the series to a decider.

Only a few days after Andrew Johns said he should be dropped, Nathan Cleary tore Queensland apart to send the Origin series to a decider in Brisbane next week.

  • by Adam Pengilly

Obstetricians resign en masse from western Sydney hospital

Blacktown Hospital's new building that houses the maternity unit opened in August 2019.

Up to 20 obstetricians have resigned from Blacktown Hospital in protest over staffing issues within the obstetrics unit.

  • by Kate Aubusson

Labor bans all MPs from sexual relationships with their staff

Labor leader Anthony Albanese says the party will ban all MPs from engaging in sexual relationships with staff.

Labor leader Anthony Albanese says his party's "bonk ban" goes further than the Coalition's.

  • by Latika Bourke

Senate to launch media diversity inquiry after Kevin Rudd petition

Senator Sarah Hanson-Young moved to establish a media diversity inquiry on Wednesday.

The Senate has moved to establish an inquiry into media diversity in Australia. It's not what Kevin Rudd wants, but it will address some of his claims.

  • by Zoe Samios

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Brad Fittler's boys in blue restore order, but who could possibly predict how it will end? 

Brad Fittler's boys in blue restore order, but who could possibly predict how it will end? 

Now that the serious business of winning a State of Origin decider is upon him, you can sense the ascendancy is with Fittler’s men.

  • by Andrew Webster
Jake Gordon and the Waratahs will again face the best of New Zealand next year.
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Trans-Tasman Super Rugby set to be played in 2021

The full Super Rugby AU draw has been revealed but it's a six-week, 10-team trans-Tasman competition which will have rugby fans excited.

  • by Sam Phillips
United States Marines are some of the most respected servicemen in the country.

'Slumlord': US Marines sue Lendlease over homes

Marines living in Lendlease's portfolio of US military housing say they live in homes infested with cockroaches while paying full rent.

  • by Sarah Danckert
Apple unveils first Macs designed to run like iPhones

Apple unveils first Macs designed to run like iPhones

Apple has released computers with the first Apple-designed microprocessor in a move that will bring its Macs and iPhones closer.

  • by Stephen Nellis
Capturing Cricket: Steve Waugh in India

The trip that reignited Steve Waugh's passion for cricket

In the 16 years since Steve Waugh has been retired from cricket, he hasn't picked up a bat. "It's hard for me to play a social game," he says.

  • by Bridget McManus
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US ELECTION 2020

Donald Trump's handing of the pandemic does not appear to have cost him many votes.
Opinion

US pandemic carnage failed to infect Trump's vote

Analysis of American voters shows that very few abandoned Trump despite a horrendous loss of life from COVID-19 under his watch.

  • by Shaun Ratcliff
President-elect Joe Biden said Trump's refusal to acknowledge him would not help the President's legacy.

'Nothing' is going to stop us: Biden calls Trump refusal 'an embarrassment'

Democrat Senator Chris Murphy called Trump's refusal to concede "an epidemic of delusion that is spreading out from the White House" as Biden asks for security briefings.

  • by Matthew Knott

Sydney

Year 12 students Andrhea Alabe and Clare Wilkes leave St Marys Senior High School for the last time after their final HSC exam on Wednesday.

70,000 students put difficult year behind them as HSC ends

The principal of the state's largest year 12 cohort faced a "mammoth" task: preparing 30 back-up HSC venues for 450 students.

  • by Natassia Chrysanthos

'Help': Jack de Belin's alleged victim's message to friend

'Help': Jack de Belin's alleged victim's message to friend

A friend of the woman allegedly raped by NRL star Jack de Belin had a message from her saying "help" when he found his phone the afternoon following the incident, a court has heard.

  • by Angus Thompson

WestConnex contractors propose blasting beneath homes in Leichhardt

The WestConnex tunnels are being excavated under scores of homes.

The contractors abandoned earlier plans to blow apart rock beneath properties in Annandale after a trial blast found it was not viable.

  • by Megan Gorrey

Indigenous leaders back NSW Premier's call to change one word in anthem

Indigenous leaders back NSW Premier's call to change one word in anthem

Gladys Berejiklian wants the first line to say "one and free" instead of "young and free".

  • by Josh Dye

Sydney man jailed after buying knives for 'imminent' terrorist attack

CCTV footage of the boys who were arrested.

The 20-year-old, who cannot be named because he was 16 at the time, was described by a judge as an unequivocally committed terrorist.

  • by Georgina Mitchell

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State of Origin

Cameron Munster lasted barely two minutes at ANZ Stadium and Queensland could be forced to play an Origin decider without one of their biggest names.

Munster-sized headache for Maroons after latest concussion incident

Cameron Munster is in danger of joining Boyd Cordner as another star player sidelined for the State of Origin decider due to a concussion.

  • by Adrian Proszenko
As it happened: NSW up for the fight against Queensland to force decider
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As it happened: NSW up for the fight against Queensland to force decider

Payne Haas and Tino Fa'asuamaleaui were sent to the sin bin in the second half, but the Blues hit hardest in game two at ANZ Stadium.

  • by Phil Lutton

Politics

Prices of essential goods including fresh fruit and vegetables has climbed much faster than those of small luxuries over the past seven years.

Research reveals the cost of essential goods rising much faster than luxuries

ABS research shows anger at cost of living pressures may be justified, with the prices of everyday necessities growing faster than those of life's luxuries.

  • by Shane Wright and Paul Sakkal

Business

CBA chief executive Matt Comyn delivers higher market share but lower cash earnings.
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Big four

What keeps Commonwealth Bank's chief executive awake at night

A note of caution from the most upbeat of the big bank bosses is a warning of what could happen to the economy when bank and government support struts are removed in March next year.

  • by Elizabeth Knight

World

The CIA owned a company that made encryption software in Switzerland.

CIA-owned encryption company jeopardised Swiss neutrality: report

Investigators concluded that Swiss authorities were aware of, and at times complicit in, an elaborate espionage operation by American and German intelligence.

  • by Greg Miller and Peter F. Mueller
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Queensland's Dane Gagai

Is this the thrashing Queensland had to have to win the trophy back?

So badly beaten were Queensland in Sydney that they will probably start favourites for the decider next week in Brisbane. That’s the perverse logic of Origin.

  • by Malcolm Knox
Nathan Cleary turned in one of the great playmaking performances to send the series to a decider.

King Cleary kicks NSW into Origin decider after Johns spray

Only a few days after Andrew Johns said he should be dropped, Nathan Cleary tore Queensland apart to send the Origin series to a decider in Brisbane next week.

  • by Adam Pengilly
Nathan Cleary was stellar in Sydney but the mother of all Origin tasks awaits the halfback next week.

Andrew Webster: Cleary hits back as Fittler's boys in blue restore order

If the NSW playmaker can perform the way he did in this match next week in Brisbane, they may as well hand the shield over now.

  • by Andrew Webster
Josh Addo-Carr at ANZ Stadium.

Player ratings: The stars who shone and flopped in Origin II

Queensland were thumped by NSW in the second State of Origin clash. Here's who will face the chopping block and who will stay for Wednesday's series decider.

  • by Sam Phillips
Bring it on: Payne has heads to the sin bin.

The biff is back: Bennett blames media as young pups add bite to Origin

Payne Haas and Tino Fa'asuamaleaui were sent to the sin bin for trading blows as a bit of old-fashioned biff returned to the Origin arena.

  • by Christian Nicolussi
Nathan Cleary turned in one of the great playmaking performances to send the series to a decider.

'We haven't done anything yet': Cleary's focus already on decider

Moments after a man of the match performance in the Blues' big win over the Maroons, Nathan Cleary fired a warning shot Queensland's way.

  • by Sam Phillips
Cameron Munster lasted barely two minutes at ANZ Stadium and Queensland could be forced to play an Origin decider without one of their biggest names.

Munster headache for Maroons after latest concussion incident

Cameron Munster is in danger of joining Boyd Cordner as another star player sidelined for the State of Origin decider due to a concussion.

  • by Adrian Proszenko

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