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‘They seem to want to kill him’: Walsh hit highlights league’s dilemma
The NRL’s ultimate athlete for the TikTok generation is bringing fans to the game in droves. But after his Origin knockout, is he at risk of being attacked out of the game?
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Beach volleyball
Fears of another Commonwealth Games-style embarrassment as world champs left ‘high and dry’
Volleyball Australia counts the nation’s richest person Gina Rinehart among its major backers, but a lack of government funding risks the nation having to spike another global sporting event.
CCTV footage offers potential new clues about Michael Mosley’s movements
Police, the fire brigade, coast guard and volunteers have been searching for the British journalist after he was last seen on Wednesday.
Minister, LNP MPs under scrutiny after ‘cross your legs’ call
The actions of four MPs from both parties are now being investigated by Queensland parliament’s powerful ethics committee after last month’s incident.
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Border security
People smugglers arrested, given free pass to help hunt bosses
An Indonesian people smuggler has revealed how he was caught by Australian authorities only to be released and sent home without charge.
‘We’re the ones cleaning up the vomit’: Street festival expansion has locals fuming
Residents and businesses say the Teneriffe Festival is too large and disruptive for the suburb, while the festival says the expansion has been carefully managed.
Opinion
BNPL
The real risk facing Afterpay and its rivals
Afterpay turns 10 this year and the tricky debate on how best to regulate buy now, pay later firms is still going on.
Clancy Yeates
Deputy business editor
Dicey Topics
Good Weekend
Tech insider Kara Swisher on the problem of Silicon Valley’s ‘adult toddlers’
The influential US journalist discusses the politics of selfishness – and the difference between Star Trek people and Star Wars people.
‘A heartbreaking decision’: The news no fashion brand wants to share
In what some fashion veterans are calling the worst trading conditions in 25 years, more brands are closing amid falling spending and rampant discounting.
Opinion
Property downsizing
‘Rid your life of anything that does not spark joy’. I’m starting with Marie Kondo
KonMari™ has a unifying rule: rid your life of anything that does not “spark joy”. I’m starting with Marie Kondo.
Malcolm Knox
Journalist, author and columnist
Opinion
Review
Settle down, Swifties – the Beatles are still the biggest thing to hit Australia
Looking beyond the headlines and focusing on the Eras Tour’s Australian leg in isolation, it’s worth noting a few sober facts now that we’ve all, ahem, shaken off the excitement.
Tom Compagnoni
Head of Creative Video
Clinical Chiefs end Queensland Reds’ Super Rugby season
The Queensland Reds’ season of high hopes and promise has ended in disappointment with a 43-21 submission to the Chiefs in the opening Super Rugby Pacific quarter-final in Hamilton.
‘We can go all the way’: Lions roar, Dogs found wanting and Neale says season’s far from over
The Brisbane Lions injected life into their inconsistent AFL campaign by registering an emphatic 43-point win against the Western Bulldogs at Marvel Stadium.
Queensland
Exclusive
Public Transport
Extra $554 million in the budget to help Brisbane trains run on time
The Queensland government will more than double its investment in a European Train Control System, extending it from Cross River Rail to other lines.
What to see at this year’s Brisbane Festival
Lightscape returns, as well as the popular drone show, but there are plenty of exciting new spectacles on the program, which has just been released.
Crisafulli cops flak from both flanks over support of Labor budget
Opposition Leader’s “small-target” approach to October’s election has drawn criticism from both Labor and last LNP colleague to run the state.
Exclusive
Brisbane
Paddington restaurant NOTA announces closure
“It’s definitely time to consolidate. The industry has changed.” Not that it’s the end for Sebastiaan de Kort and Kevin Docherty. Here’s what they have in store.
Business leaders call for changes to stimulate Brisbane’s nighttime economy
The entertainment and hospitality sector is calling for a boost to Brisbane’s nighttime economy, which in Sydney is a $4.7 billion behemoth employing 34,000 people.
Politics
Chalmers takes swipe at Costello as Nine board convenes over crisis
As the Nine board discussed the fallout from sexual harassment allegations, chairman Peter Costello was under scrutiny for video footage of an airport incident.
Business
Opinion
Interest rates
The RBA has squeezed us like a lemon, but it’s still not happy
Maybe the Reserve Bank needs to see more blood on the street before it will believe we’re getting inflation back under control. If so, we’re running a bigger risk of recession than the central bank cares to admit.
Ross Gittins
Economics Editor
World
Denmark’s prime minister assaulted in central Copenhagen, man arrested
Mette Frederiksen was said to be “shocked” but able to walk away after the alleged attack.
Opinion
‘Rid your life of anything that does not spark joy’. I’m starting with Marie Kondo
Malcolm Knox
Journalist, author and columnist
Let’s put the brakes on the e-bike revolution, for language’s sake
David Astle
Crossword compiler and ABC Radio Melbourne presenter
What a conviction for Hunter Biden will mean for criminal, Donald Trump
Bruce Wolpe
Senior fellow at the US Studies Centre and former political staffer
Explore
Property
Brisbane now the second-most- expensive capital city
High interest rates and inflation can’t stop Australia’s property market – and the prices outside Sydney are really worth keeping an eye on.
This Sydney university wants to build 1000 apartments. Locals are up in arms
A dramatic stoush has broken out over a proposal for two student housing towers on Anzac Parade next to a light rail stop, UNSW and acting school NIDA.
Good Food
Recipe collection
Baking
20 sweet and squishy dishes to go bananas over this weekend
Recipe collection
Potato
Five creamy, dreamy potato gratins to eat with a spoon
Lifestyle
It’s not just office romances that cause heartbreak at work
Freshly let go from my own job, I sought out other women who’d faced the same fate. What emerged was a universal truth.
Culture
This new novel imagines the secret history of Lady Macbeth
Our reviewers cast their eyes over new fiction and non-fiction releases including a reimagining of the fate of Lady Macbeth and a spirited defence of liberalism.
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Sport
‘We can go all the way’: Lions roar, Dogs found wanting and Neale says season’s far from over
The Brisbane Lions injected life into their inconsistent AFL campaign by registering an emphatic 43-point win against the Western Bulldogs at Marvel Stadium.
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NRL 2024
‘Unacceptable’: Benji fumes at Tigers as Lomax obliterates record
Two days after his State of Origin debut, Zac Lomax scored three tries and kicked 10 goals as the Dragons ran in 44 unanswered second-half points.
‘We trust you’: A $6 million pledge renews faith in netball
Just six months after it pulled $17 million from the sport, the federal government will pump millions into the 2027 Netball World Cup in Sydney.
The bone-rattling moment that rocked women’s Origin
NSW may have lost the match, but it was Sky Blues prop Caitlan Johnston’s crunching hit on Romy Teitzel in the opening minutes on Thursday that set tongues wagging.
The untold story of the day Ian Thorpe fell in the pool
It was declared the biggest story in sport since Phar Lap died. Two decades on, Ian Thorpe, Craig Stevens and others remember the most infamous false start in swimming history.
Brown, Porzingis fire Boston to game one win in NBA Finals over Dallas
Follow along for all the major moments and post game reactions as the NBA Finals tip off in Boston.
‘We hate Aussies’: Former US swim champ makes bold prediction ahead of Olympics
Australia are poised to beat the USA in an Olympic swimming competition for the first time since Melbourne 1956, according to America’s leading commentator.
Have Your Say
Titmus’ record is under threat, and a rising star is coming for her mantle
One of Australia’s greatest swimmers will become the hunted in Paris. But a rising star is already coming for her mantle on home soil at the Olympic trials.
