On Thursday, a large SUV drove through a Native American parade in western New Mexico, causing multiple injuries. Police have taken the driver into custody.
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Peter Dutton may not have to pay any of the legal costs of a successful litigant due to possible "sham" bills, his barrister has told three judges.Refugee advocate Shane Bazzi in December was ordered to pay the now-Opposition leader $35,000 in damages and some of his legal costs over a now-deleted tweet.
South Australia's tourist economy has surged with hotel bookings strong and interstate spending above pre-COVID-19 levels.Latest figures show interstate tourists spent $315 million in May, the highest monthly result since the start of the pandemic.
Life isn't about to get any easier for Gold Coast defender Sam Collins when the Suns host AFL ladder-leaders Geelong on Saturday.Collins has endured a couple of days to forget against opposition key forwards in the Suns' past two matches with West Coast's Jack Darling booting six goals at Metricon Stadium a fortnight ago and Jack Gunston's five-goal haul in last weekend's loss to Hawthorn.
Hundreds of teachers in the Northern Territory will walk off the job over the public sector's four-year pay freeze.The industrial action, scheduled for next Friday, a day before the by-election for former chief minister Michael Gunner's seat of Fannie Bay, is timed to send a strong message to the territory's Labor government.
Forecasters have warned of possible renewed flooding of rivers in central inland NSW and issued a warning for sheep graziers that new lambs are at risk of freezing this weekend.A flood watch is in place for multiple catchments including the Namoi, Macquarie, Bogan, Lachlan, Murrumbidgee, Murray, Mirrool Creek, Culgoa, Narran and Darling areas on Friday.
Former Victoria Police boss Ken Lay will step down from his public ambulance and mental health board positions as he continues to work on identifying a site for a second supervised injecting room.The long-serving public sector leader will finish up as chairman of the Forensicare and Ambulance Victoria boards on August 25.
Sydney FC have struck back a month after Milos Ninkovic's move to Western Sydney, securing Jack Rodwell on a two-season deal following the Englishman's exit from the Wanderers.Ninkovic's move to the Red and Black on a one-year deal last month after seven successful seasons with the Sky Blues was one of the biggest stories in the A-League Men off-season.
Finding his feet at a new NRL club while his young family remained in New Zealand was far from easy for Gold Coast's Erin Clark.Having debuted for the Warriors in 2017, Clark's rugby league career had stalled by the time he arrived in Queensland for a train-and-trial opportunity with the Titans in late 2019.
Injury-hit Essendon best-and-fairest Devon Smith has retired from the AFL, aged 29.Smith has brought his 182-game career to a close, informing Bombers teammates on Friday morning.
Carlton are not satisfied with their AFL season as the Blues attempt to ride the wave of the Patrick Cripps verdict into a drought-breaking finals appearance.The Blues were boosted when captain Cripps' two-game suspension was overturned during a marathon appeals hearing on Thursday night.
With two ageing playmakers on board for next year's Rugby World Cup, the Wallabies will look to fast-track some youngsters after Dave Rennie admitted five-eighth was a position of concern.James O'Connor will start at No.
The local bourse has given up some of this week's gains, with every sector except energy sinking lower.At noon on Friday the benchmark S&P;/ASX200 index was down 34.
The NSW Rail, Tram and Bus Union will continue its planned industrial action this month after multiple meetings failed to secure an outcome in its long running dispute with the government.The meetings on Thursday came after services ran to a heavily reduced capacity on Wednesday as workers in one area of the train network went on strike.
Origin Energy has received a demand to look at climate change impact across its operations when reporting on financial performance.A failure to reflect climate change in financial statements calls into question the governance of directors and the diligence of auditors, a shareholder activist organisation said on Friday.
NRL club Manly will continue to offer support to hooker Manase Fainu, who was found guilty of stabbing a youth leader at a church dance in Sydney's west almost three years ago.Fainu, now 24, has been subject to the NRL's No Fault Stand Down policy since October 2019, when he was charged with wounding Faamanu Levi with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
The race to secure a World Surf League finals berth is about to get red hot, but small conditions at Teahupo'o means surfers will first have to cool their heels.The opening two days of the event window for the Tahiti Pro have been called as lay days, and it could taken even longer for competition to get underway with only a small increase in swell forecast on Saturday (Sunday AEST) and Sunday (Monday AEST).
Tasmania's ambulance service has vowed to overhaul its culture after the death of a paramedic almost six years ago exposed workplace cracks.Damian Crump, 36, took his own life in late 2016 using drugs stolen from the ambulance service's supply store, a coronial inquest found in March last year.
THE REPORT'S KEY FINDINGS:* One in five people who work in NSW parliament were sexually harassed in the last five years.* Five people reported an attempted or actual sexual assault.
The Greg Norman Medal will remain as officials rule out any knee-jerk reaction to the golfing great's involvement with a Saudi-backed breakaway league.Norman taking on the role of CEO and the face of LIV Golf has been widely condemned around the world as the rebel tour continues to divide the sport.
Brisbane Lions utility Callum Ah Chee has been racially abused online, days after being concussed in a controversial incident at the Gabba.Ah Chee, who will miss the Lions' crucial clash with St Kilda on Friday night under the AFL's mandatory concussion protocols, posted the abuse he received on Instagram.
