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Australian sports system a broken ‘boys’ club’

Former Sport Australia boss Kate Palmer says allegations being aired against swimming - sexism, misogyny and fat shaming of athletes - are symptomatic of a bigger problem Australian sport has failed to address.

Photo of teenage boy in girl’s bathers grossly misrepresented, swimmer’s angry mother says

Monika And Soren Zwolsmann

Monika Zwolsman said a photo of her son Soren in girl’s bathers, reported in some media as an example of bullying in the sport, was wrong and he had never been mistreated by his swim coach.

Returning travelers catch the Skybus to hotel quarantine.

Source of  highly infectious Delta outbreak set to remain mystery

It is unlikely to ever be known how the highly infectious Delta variant of coronavirus somehow leaked out of Victoria’s quarantine system and seeded a mysterious outbreak in Melbourne.

The ‘vaxxie’ is set to be the defining image of 2021

Celebrity jabs: The Duchess of Cambridge, Dolly Parton, Mariah Carey, Adam Liaw and Tasmanian Premier Peter Gutwein.

Ordinary Australians are taking cues from celebrities and posting vaccine selfies by the truckload, but these certainly aren’t like other selfies.

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Forget about perfection in the kitchen, it’s a matter of taste

It doesn’t matter how things appear - the proof of the pud is in the tasting.

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Alyssa Ho: “Compliments are meant to make people feel good. And this doesn’t feel good at all.”

Dating often leaves Alyssa feeling degraded, and she’s fed up

Alyssa Ho is one of many Australians who face unsolicited fetishisation because of their race, gender identity, sexuality, body type or other characteristic.

COVID-19 CRISIS

Locals say a recently constructed sea wall will only keep the water at bay for so long.

UN set to decide climate claims by Torres Strait Islanders against Australia

A group called the Torres Strait 8 have lodged a complaint with the United Nations against the federal government, accusing it of breaching their rights to culture and life by failing to adequately address climate change.

The two words from Buckley that inspired Pies to victory in his last game

The two words from Buckley that inspired Pies to victory in his last game

With one quarter left in his storied Collingwood career, Nathan Buckley had a simple message for his players that gave Isaac Quaynor goosebumps.

Myanmar’s ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi ‘seemed not very well’ as trial begins

Myanmar citizens protest in Japan holding a picture of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Suu Kyi, 75, faces a slew of charges since being overthrown by the army in a February 1 coup that cut short a decade of tentative democratic reforms and has plunged the South-East Asian country into chaos.

‘Symphony of chainsaws’: Thousands face week-long wait for power

A massive uprooted tree in Woodend.

Victorians sitting in darkened houses may have to wait until the weekend for the lights to come back on after wild storms wreaked havoc.

Awards for Credlin and COVID workers? Honours system needs a rethink

While more women were rewarded this year, it seems COVID workers and Peta Credlin got honoured simply for doing their jobs.

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QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY HONOURS

Medals received by new appointees to the Order of Australia (from left): Companion of the Order, Officer of the Order, Member of the Order, Medal of the Order.
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True gender equality still missing in Queen’s Birthday honours

Efforts have been made to improve the representation of women, but there is still a considerable distance to go.

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Queen’s Birthday 2021 honours - the full list

Australians from all walks of life are recipients in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours. Here is the full list of those who have been recognised.

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Dressed as Meat Loaf, AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan slides into the ice bath.

Seventh Big Freeze raises more than $10m despite virus disruption for second year

The players were in Sydney and the usual MCG crowd was nowhere to be seen, but Monday’s Big Freeze managed to raise more than $10m to fight motor neurone disease.

Victoria records two new COVID-19 cases as first-dose Pfizer jab bookings halted

There were no queues at the vaccination hub at the Royal Melbourne Showgrounds on Monday.

Victoria reported two new local cases as the state’s COVID-19 hotline stopped accepting bookings for first doses of the Pfizer vaccine.

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Gangland lawyer sues far-right agitator over defamatory posts

Defence lawyer Zarah Garde-Wilson.

Lawyer Zarah Garde-Wilson says Avi Yemini and his alt-right Rebel News website ‘gravely injured’ her reputation.

State ‘not a good parent’ to vulnerable Indigenous kids, report finds

State ‘not a good parent’ to vulnerable Indigenous kids, report finds

Two-year inquiry by the Commission for Children and Young People lays bare generations of trauma that are still being felt in long-standing, systematic failures.

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Scientology’s war on psychiatry ‘harmful, dangerous’: McGorry

Scientology should lose their charitable status, say two top Australian mental health professionals.

Australia’s top mental health advocates and researchers have described Scientology’s years of harassment and said their anti-psychiatry campaigning has harmed the community.

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Buckley shares a moment with Brayden Maynard after the game.

The two words from Buckley that inspired Pies to victory in his last game

With one quarter left in his storied Collingwood career, Nathan Buckley had a simple message for his players that gave Isaac Quaynor goosebumps.

End of a chapter: Nathan Buckley at his last game as Collingwood coach.

‘No regrets’: Buckley ready to head into blue sky

His time as Collingwood coach over, Nathan Buckley said he had done all he could to deliver a premiership and now looks forward to the next stage of his life.

David Mackay bumps Hunter Clark.
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A ban on accidents? The choice at the heart of Mackay’s tribunal case

Is it really possible for the AFL to eradicate all high contact injuries without fundamentally changing the game?

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Nathan Buckley has reasons to smile.
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Four points: Bucks’ reason to smile, Tigers’ new frontier, Saints exposed

The memory that should be preserved from Nathan Buckley’s final game representing Collingwood is the man himself, famously granite-faced and intense, smiling and hugging the players, one by one.

Tim Paineother side of the Indian Ocean.

Bubble and strife: Paine fears quarantine will be greatest Ashes challenge

Test captain Tim Paine believes months of COVID-19 restrictions may be the greatest danger to Australia’s Ashes campaign following England’s capitulation to New Zealand.

Bucks stops here: Magpies farewell Buckley with win over Demons

Bucks stops here: Magpies farewell Buckley with win over Demons

Nathan Buckley had his final match in charge of Collingwood on Monday and the Magpies delivered the perfect farewell gift, toppling premiership fancy Melbourne.

Patrick Dangerfield and the Cats will host the Dogs behind closed doors at GMHBA Stadium.

Cats and Dogs to play behind closed doors as AFL moves games to Tassie

The Cats have opted to play the Bulldogs behind closed doors in Geelong and the AFL has moved two round 14 games from Melbourne to Tasmania.

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