1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (404+ words) Australian surfer Isabella Nichols has pulled out of the Fiji Pro final because of her ankle injury, handing the win to Canadian Erin Brooks. Nichols could barely put weight on her left ankle after wiping out near the end of…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (280+ words) New Zealand veteran Codie Taylor was dropped and hooker Asafo Aumua promoted by the All Blacks for the third rugby Test against South Africa. Lock Sam Darry and flanker Peter Lakai were also brought into the pack on Thursday. The…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (286+ words) Three months after suffering a terrifying stroke, Mix 106.3 radio star Nigel "Nige" Johnson will return to the Canberra airwaves on Monday. From Monday, he'll be back behind the mic with breakfast co-host Kristen Davidson after 7.30am, "continuing his recovery and doing…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (365+ words) George ‌Clooney says advances in artificial intelligence are making it increasingly difficult to distinguish truth from fiction, posing a challenge ‌for journalists, governments and the public. Speaking on Wednesday at the Venice Film Festival, where received a Golden Lion for…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (857+ words) Many Australians first think about VPNs when they hit a geoblock or notice their internet slowing during a big weekend of streaming. Others worry about how much their internet provider knows about them. Privacy is a bigger issue here than…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (556+ words) Telecommunication data is being provided to Nepali authorities to help narrow down the last known locations of Australians missing after catastrophic floods, as specialised drones from NSW are deployed to the disaster zone. Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong said concerns…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (485+ words) Businesses have been offered a workaround to avoid paying tens of thousands of dollars on restructuring costs to dodge a new tax on trusts. The 350,000-odd small businesses that use a discretionary trust were extended an olive branch on Thursday…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (608+ words) James Slipper thinks about his final pre-season slog and "can't stop smiling, to be honest". After all, the veteran prop - who has left the door ajar for a World Cup swansong - has been doing them for so long that he…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (422+ words) New laws opening universities' doors to thousands of regional students will not be effective in establishing equal educational opportunity, a parliamentary committee warns. Under a bill introduced in June, the number of students from regional areas or low socio-economic backgrounds…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (571+ words) The United States of America is divided now, but in the 1960s things were literally and figuratively incendiary. Long overdue civil rights legislation had been passed but organisations such as the Ku Klux Klan violently opposed it - burning crosses, setting fire…...