British republicans said on Monday they would launch a campaign to end the monarchy in the run-up to celebrations to mark Queen Elizabeth's 70 years on the throne.
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Newcastle's head of football Peter Parr has conceded the club's off-field issues are "self-inflicted" and indicative of a "lack of leadership" in the playing group after a video emerged of co-captain Kalyn Ponga and Kurt Mann being escorted out of a toilet cubicle by security.The Knights told AAP they were made aware of the Snapchat video on Sunday night and on Monday, the club began an investigation that has now been handed over to the NRL integrity unit.
The list of long-serving NSW government members heading for the departure gate is growing as another veteran Liberal MP announces his retirement.Riverstone member Kevin Conolly will call time on his political career at the next election, Premier Dominic Perrottet has announced.
More than 211,000 people have signed a petition calling on the Victorian government to raise the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to at least 14.Social justice advocates are expected to meet with Victorian crossbench Reason Party MP Fiona Patten, who oversaw a recent parliamentary inquiry into the issue, in Melbourne on Tuesday to discuss proposed changes.
A US federal bankruptcy judge has cleared the way for a defamation lawsuit in Connecticut to proceed against Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.The case was filed on Monday by relatives of some victims of the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
Port Adelaide's most decorated AFL player, Robbie Gray, is retiring.Gray, a four-time All Australian and triple club champion, will play his last AFL game on Saturday night against Adelaide.
Sydney coach John Longmire wants to ban the 'f' word at his AFL club this week.Finals, and particularly Sydney's prospects of a top-two finish, are on the wider agenda entering the last home-and-away round.
Ben Simmons and the Philadelphia 76ers have reportedly settled the grievance he filed to recoup a portion of last season's salary.Simmons was seeking a slice of the nearly $US20 million ($A28m) that was withheld after he refused to suit up for the Sixers last season.
A body has been found in a creek in Victoria's east, a day after police raised concerns about a person and their dog being swept away.Officers mounted a search for the person and the small white dog on Monday after they were seen falling into Traralgon Creek in the early hours of the morning.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says China should not use foot and mouth disease as an excuse to stop importing Australian beef.Australia is free of the contagious animal virus but remains on high-alert given outbreaks in Indonesia and its spread into Bali, a popular tourist destination for Australians.
It will cost $16 billion a year to partially restore the environmental damage done by the Black Summer bushfires, scientists say.Researchers from the University of Queensland and WWF-Australia have published the results of a complex number-crunching exercise sparked by the catastrophe.
The NRL will wait until later in the week to make a call on which stadium will host the grand final as talks still continue with the Queensland government about a possible shift.The ARL Commission met again on Tuesday morning to discuss the October 2 decider, with a decision deferred again by a few days.
Consumer confidence has hit its highest level since late June, leaping 4.The weekly ANZ-Roy Morgan survey released on Tuesday found all of its confidence sub-indices improving except "time to buy a major household item", which was down 0.
Mexico's efforts to save 10 miners who became trapped in a flooded coal mine 13 days ago have hit another setback as underground water levels have surged higher.The miners became confined underground at the Pinabete mine in the border state of Coahuila on August 3 when their excavation work led a tunnel wall to collapse and unleashed flooding.
A woman has been arrested after allegedly stabbing her two children on a motorway in Adelaide.Police say the woman stopped her car on the North-South Motorway late on Monday night and removed her two young children before stabbing them with a knife.
Former US president Donald Trump has accused the Federal Bureau of Investigation of stealing his passports during last week's search of his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. In the raid by the FBI of Mar-a-Lago, they stole my three passports (one expired), along with everything else," Trump wrote on Monday on the Truth Social network he co-founded.
An invasive colony of yellow crazy ants has been discovered in Queensland's world heritage-listed far north, spanning an area of 77 hectares.Authorities discovered the ants during surveillance in July as part of the Wet Tropics Management Authority's eradication program.
Seven West Media will buy back up to 10 per cent of its shares, after announcing a boost in revenue to $1.5 billion for the 2021/22 financial year.
Corey Norman's rugby league career could be over with the former Queensland State of Origin player facing a lengthy Super League ban for "inappropriate contact".Norman was on the weekend handed a "Grade F" contrary conduct charge, which carries with it a minimum eight-match ban if found guilty at the judiciary this week.
On Saturday, the Bledisloe and on Sunday, the Socceroos.Auckland's Eden Park will host a tasty trans-Tasman weekender next month, when the Wallabies visit the All Blacks' house of pain, and Graham Arnold's side play their last match before heading to the World Cup.
Andy Murray has pulled out an epic three-set win over fellow tour veteran Stan Wawrinka in the first round of the Cincinnati Masters.In a 22nd matchup between the multiple grand slam champions trying to put injuries behind them, Murray was a 7-6 (7-3) 5-7 7-5 victor in just under three hours.
