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Concussion crisis
Antonio loved the Swans. A little-known condition killed him on the footy field
Families are being torn apart by a syndrome claiming the lives of young athletes. But almost no one has heard of it.
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Negative gearing
Negative gearing in Labor’s sights as Albanese readies for election battle
Negative gearing and capital gains tax concessions cost the budget billions of dollars every year, which is why Labor has asked for advice on possible changes to them.
Breaking
Inflation
Annual inflation rate sinks to lowest level in three years
The result helps the federal government, which has been trying to convince the public that it is tackling the cost of living without adding to inflation.
‘Everybody adored you’: Slain Blue Mountains boys farewelled together in single casket
Benjamin and Russell Smith were “beautiful little kids just becoming beautiful young men”, their father has told a funeral service two weeks after they were allegedly murdered.
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Crime
Paedophile swim coach Dick Caine dies in hospital
The 78-year-old’s death comes a month after a court found he raped and sexually abused six of his teenage students in the 1970s and ’80s.
BoM tsunami warning message briefly triggers panic along Australia’s east coast
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‘Complete idiocy’: Why the Balmain Leagues Club saga isn’t over yet
Plans to redevelop the languishing Rozelle site have had more stop-starts than the traffic that crawls past it on Victoria Road every day.
The zombie debate about negative gearing is back. What’s at stake?
Negative gearing is back on the agenda. Labor says it’s just looking at possible policy. The Greens are squeezing the government for big changes. Here’s what it all means.
Opinion
US Votes 2024
Why my small town in the US will decide the election
Sarah Smiles Persinger
Editor at the United States Studies Centre
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Title Deeds
Entrepreneur’s Point Piper trophy home hits market for $100 million
Sydney’s most expensive housing market isn’t generally swayed by higher interest rates and recessionary fears. Alexandra Jakob is banking on that.
Opinion
Inside China
Xi Jinping is MIA as China’s central bank tries to save its economy
The People’s Bank of China has unleashed a blitz of measures to try to prop up a faltering economy and sinking sharemarket. But those alone won’t be enough.
Stephen Bartholomeusz
Senior business columnist
Starting your first job? It’s time to think about retirement
Australia’s youngest workers are starting to build gold mines – but there’s a strong chance they don’t even realise it.
Fifteen for Fittler: Son of rugby league legend signs with Waratahs
Carrying one of the most famous names in league, Zach Fittler is striking out on his own journey after signing a two-year deal to play rugby for NSW.
Breaking
AFL grand final
Swans skipper Callum Mills ruled out of grand final
The Sydney captain did everything asked of him at Wednesday’s closed training session at the SCG, but the club announced in the afternoon that Mills would not play in the season decider.
Sir Ian McKellen on why his most famous line in a movie was a mistake
“Don’t tell anybody, but I got it wrong,” one of Britain’s greatest actors says.
Seven incredible high-speed rail projects set to revolutionise travel
From Japan to the US to Europe, if Victorian-era engineers could see where rail travel is heading, they’d be astounded.
Bracing authenticity makes this a show romcom fans will want
Nobody Wants This pairs a sex podcaster with a “hot rabbi” in a story that mirrors the writer’s life.
NRL 2024
How ballet’s ‘Queen of Toes’ and a reverse booze ban saved Shark’s career
Toby Rudolf feared two days wandering around Amsterdam on holiday could end his career – until the “GOAT of toes” went to work on the prop.
Updated
‘Can’t happen again’: Volkman opens up on Dragons transfer fiasco
Ronald Volkman has opened up about being in rugby league purgatory after the Dragons were fined $40,000 for their handling of his botched non-signing.
Sydney
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Crime
Cocaine worth hundreds of thousands of dollars was left in a Sydney park. It wasn’t there for long
Police allege the notorious gang known as The Commission used car parks, suburban streets and parks across the city to sell an eye-watering amount of cocaine.
The forest survived devastating bushfires. Now it’s being bulldozed for holiday homes
Houses in the popular coastal village sell for up to $4 million, with vacant blocks going for almost $1 million.
Households surge ahead in rooftop solar as renewable projects break bottleneck
Consumers installed four times more electricity generation through rooftop solar in the first half of this year than all commercial projects combined.
Ken went for knee surgery. Three days later, he was dead
The 62-year-old went into cardiac arrest after a routine procedure at a private hospital in regional NSW.
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Crime
The horrific Sydney pub attack that changed a woman’s life
It started as a normal night at work for a young bartender. It ended with a savage attack by a drunk and aggressive customer.
Politics
Analysis
Negative gearing
If Albanese wants this fight, he’ll need to gear up for a big one
Negative gearing is a totemic policy because of the way any attempt at reform can be turned into an assault on aspiration or a scare about a tax grab.
Business
‘Greatest financial fraud ever’: Sam Bankman Fried’s former girlfriend sentenced to jail over her role in FTX collapse
The judge told Caroline Ellison that it was clear that Bankman-Fried had become “your kryptonite”.
World
‘We have proof’: Zelensky says Russia plans to attack nuclear sites
The Ukrainian president said Moscow was committing an international crime and had to “be forced” into peace.
Opinion
The cruellest part? Coles and Woolworths appeared to target battlers
Allan Fels
Former chairman Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
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Property
The homeowners most likely to fall behind on their mortgage
Interest rates are putting pressure on home borrowers, but some are feeling the pinch more deeply and have fewer options to manage.
Family splash $9.3m on one of only two houses for sale in Greenwich
Five parties registered to bid on the five-bedroom house to get into the tightly held neighbourhood, which proved harder this spring than usual.
Good Food
Lifestyle
Does it really matter if I lie about my new job title on LinkedIn?
Even if your role is a company’s equivalent of a different position, you still need to be careful, writes Dr Kirstin Ferguson.
Culture
Dr Karl reveals his former life as a ‘drug-crazed hippie’
Australia’s favourite science guy reveals in his new memoir that he’s led quite the life.
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Sport
Breaking
AFL grand final
Swans skipper Callum Mills ruled out of grand final
The Sydney captain did everything asked of him at Wednesday’s closed training session at the SCG, but the club announced in the afternoon that Mills would not play in the season decider.
Fifteen for Fittler: Son of rugby league legend signs with Waratahs
Carrying one of the most famous names in league, Zach Fittler is striking out on his own journey after signing a two-year deal to play rugby for NSW.
Updated
NRL 2024
Ponga facing potential NRL games ban over Kangaroos snub
Kalyn Ponga’s stated intention of prioritising club over country could backfire as the fallout from his Kangaroos call continues.
Opinion
Wallabies
Did the Wallabies just miss their best chance to end Bledisloe drought?
A generation of kids has grown up without seeing Australia win the Bledisloe Cup. What is the future of the famous contest?
Iain Payten
Senior Sports Reporter
They’re getting the ‘best front-rower in the world’. Now Hull KR just hope he stays on the field
Jared Waerea-Hargreaves’ future employers have good reason to be tuning into Friday night’s preliminary final from the north of England.
NRL hits Addo-Carr with $12,000 fine, four-game ban over drugs drama
The NRL’s proposed sanction of Canterbury winger Josh Addo-Carr will have an additional sting due to a previous incident at last year’s Koori Knockout.
How ballet’s ‘Queen of Toes’ and a reverse booze ban saved Shark’s career
Toby Rudolf feared two days wandering around Amsterdam on holiday could end his career – until the “GOAT of toes” went to work on the Cronulla prop.
Have Your Say
The play that proved Keary is running the Roosters again
In his final days in the red, white and blue, and with halfback Sam Walker sidelined, the veteran half has emerged as their most important player.
Andrew Webster
Chief Sports Writer
