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The NRL Pre-Season Challenge is set to be disrupted with industrial action by players unless the governing body adheres to certain requirements by Thursday.AAP has been told NRL and NRLW players resolved at a 'Leaders in League' conference held by the Rugby League Players Association (RLPA) in Sydney last week to cover NRL logos, delay kick-offs and implement external media bans at NRL Pre-Season Challenge games as part of "increased activations" to get their differences resolved.
A further three teenagers have been charged over an alleged robbery in southern Queensland left a disabled man fighting for life in hospital.The boys - aged 17, 16 and 15 - were arrested over the alleged attack and robbery of a 75-year-old man in Toowoomba on Monday.
Former RB Leipzig manager Domenico Tedesco has been named head coach of Belgium to replace Roberto Martinez.The Belgian FA said the 37-year-old would sign a contract until after Euro 2024 and his first game in charge will be their opening qualifier against Sweden in Stockholm on March 24.
Western United coach Mark Torcaso has been left flummoxed by their 2-0 loss to Newcastle, a result which blows the ALW premiership race wide open.Despite sitting second-bottom and losing four straight, goals from Taren King and Ashlee Brodigan highlighted a surprisingly straightforward Jets win in Ballarat, in interim boss Gary van Egmond's first match in charge.
Port Adelaide forward Charlie Dixon is eyeing a new deal with the AFL club, adamant he's got up to four years of football left in him.The hulking 32-year-old has battled a raft of injury setbacks throughout his dozen seasons at the top level, including an ankle injury that sidelined him for the first 10 rounds last year.
Captain Pat Cummins says Australia will embrace the chaos of playing on a Nagpur pitch purposely produced to enhance India's star trio of spinners.Travelling teams are used to encountering turning wickets in India, but the tactics used by curators in the lead-up to the Border-Gavaskar series opener has been unusual.
Several Chinese-made security cameras will be removed from the Australian War memorial in Canberra.Newly appointed chair of the memorial Kim Beazley confirmed the decision on Wednesday, describing it as showing "an abundance of caution".
Tasmania's environmental watchdog is investigating a fire at a scrap metal recycling facility that involved cars and plastic among 200 cubic metres of waste material.The blaze on Monday afternoon at a business in Hobart's northern suburbs took about five hours to extinguish with aerial support.
A man and woman believed to be in their 40s have died after being pulled unconscious from the water at a beach on the NSW Central Coast.Emergency services were called to Frazer Beach at Frazer Park shortly before 4.
He may have become the NBA's career scoring leader, but it wasn't the perfect night for LeBron James.His Lakers suffered a three-point defeat on Tuesday night in Los Angeles to Oklahoma City, for whom Australia's Josh Giddey played a starring role.
Harry Brook has helped England put on a show for New Zealand captain Tim Southee on the first of two warm-up days in Hamilton, smashing 97 as the runs flowed at Seddon Park.Black Caps skipper Southee arrived for a scouting mission ahead of next week's first Test and saw the tourists rack up 465 all out in just 69.
Feral water buffaloes emit greenhouse gases and destroy native wetlands, but that could all change if managing the invasive species was included in carbon offset programs.Researchers at Charles Darwin University have calculated that taking charge of water buffalo populations could generate millions of dollars in carbon credits, while reducing their environmental impact.
A western Sydney man has pleaded guilty to raping a woman in a car park adjacent to a nightclub in the city's affluent eastern suburbs.On Wednesday, Sarkis El Bayeh, 39, admitted forcing himself on a younger woman near the Bedouin Restaurant, Bar and Lounge in Double Bay in the early hours of May 30, 2021.
Debates around the greatest of all time in sport can often be as polarising as any other.Now that LeBron James has surpassed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to stand at the top of the NBA's all-time leading scoring chart though, it seems appropriate to review the case for the 38-year-old to be considered the greatest basketball player of all time.
Fortescue Metals Group faces prosecution in Western Australia for failing to supply documents relating to dozens of alleged sexual harassment cases at its mine sites.The mining giant has been charged with 34 counts of refusing or failing to comply with a requirement to provide documents to a WorkSafe inspector within a specified period without a reasonable excuse.
Almost nine years after refusing to give evidence against a co-accused, convicted murderer Jade Maree Clarke has been sentenced for contempt of court.Clarke, 49, has been serving a life sentence since 2014 after a jury found she was a party to the murder of bikies associate Darren Britza in 2001.
Paramedics say they are sleeping in their cars, living in tents and caravans, or staying in pubs because of a severe housing shortage across regional and rural NSW.The Australian Paramedics Association of NSW says many rural officers cannot find rentals amid the housing squeeze, which has been intensified by disasters and an influx of people moving to the regions.
Melbourne playmaker Cameron Munster says he's struggling to find his "zip" as his battle with osteitis pubis carries into a second NRL season.The injury flared mid-season last year with Munster managing the condition, which causes inflammation around the centre of the pelvis, as Melbourne moved through to the finals.
A Sydney woman was the driver in the car crash that killed her father and seriously injured her mother, a jury has heard.Esther Fiorella Rojas, 58, pleaded not guilty to dangerous driving occasioning death and grievous bodily harm on Wednesday at Downing Centre District Court.
Toby Sexton wants his Gold Coast No.7 jersey back and, after a difficult season last year for the Titans, he is ready to embrace the challenge.