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Damien Cook has nominated Rabbitohs teammate Cameron Murray to be NSW's emergency back-up hooker, a role he's been groomed for at NRL level should anything happen to the Australian No.9. Blues coach Brad Fittler is without an obvious replacement should Cook be forced to spend time off the field after sparing Tyrone Peachey from this […]

ANZ Stadium could retain hosting rights for Sydney's only State of Origin match next year as the NSW government closes in on finalising the business case for the redevelopment of the state's largest venue. The Herald understands key powerbrokers have left the door ajar for ANZ Stadium to stage the Blues' 2020 home fixture as […]

Olympic 800 metres champion Caster Semenya has filed an appeal to Switzerland's highest court against a ruling to uphold rules requiring that middle-distance female athletes with a high natural level of testosterone must take medication to reduce it. "I am a woman and I am a world-class athlete. The IAAF [International Association of Athletics Federations] […]

Click:裝潢 Sundar Pichai was, for years, one of the world’s highest-paid corporate executives. Now he's facing the opposite reality: No big paychecks at all. The Google chief executive officer hasn't received an equity award in more than two years. A key reason is that Pichai turned down a big new grant of restricted stock in […]

Hong Kong: Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam has told an Australian audience it was “speculation” and “absolutely untrue” that Hong Kong would lose its distinct identity as the Chinese Communist Party pushes ahead with an economic plan to link the former British colony with nearby mainland cities. Lam will travel to Australia to promote […]

Alan Jones has re-signed with Macquarie Media after protracted  contract negotiations that have dragged on for months. On Tuesday, Macquarie Media announced the Sydney shock jock had been given a two-year contract. Formal contract negotiations kicked-off in late February. Macquarie Media chairman Russell Tate said in a statement he was pleased that Jones would be […]

Wellington: New Zealand's political opposition has denied hacking the Treasury department to obtain highly secure state budget documents and says the Ardern government is conducting a "witch-hunt". The country's centre-right National Party on Tuesday released what it said were details from the Labour-led administration's much-anticipated national budget, but refused to say how it got the […]

I was in a café with a friend, and a well-dressed businessman approached. He told me he was a fan of my writing, and that he’d love to meet up some time. Later, he called me, and we chatted for half an hour. He said he was divorced with a child, and that he was […]

Australia's greenhouse gas emissions in 2018 rose for a fourth year in a row, an increase at odds with the country's Paris climate pledge, according to a government submission to the United Nations. The National Inventory Report to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change showed emissions last year were 537 million tonnes of carbon […]

Controversial tech group GetSwift has landed in hot water with the stock exchange after an undisclosed 'strategic partnership' in Kuwait appears to have sent its shares soaring by 20 per cent on Tuesday. The last mile logistics operator faces a shareholder class action and is being sued by ASIC after allegedly misleading the market by […]