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YOUR APITAL HIS GAIN
Jim Chalmers will whack investors in a mega tax hit that frees up money for more inflationary handouts. In the most radical redistribution of wealth since the Whitlam era, the Treasurer’s fifth budget last night locked in a major broken election...
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DELTA READY TO ECLIPSE
Australia’s golden girl of pop Delta Goodrem has wowed fans in a vintage-inspired gold lamé dress as she arrived for the official opening of Eurovision in Austria. Thousands of fans flocked to Vienna to welcome the contenders as they walked a...
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ORANGE COUNTY
Pollsters say Pauline Hanson’s One Nation could hoover up regional seats in 2028, following Saturday’s overwhelming victory in the Farrer by-election. Barnaby Joyce’s proclamation that the party would also rout Western Sydney was deemed to be more...
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HAPPY Mother's Day Greatest gift of all
After years of hope, heartbreak and uncertainty, Amy Sheppard is finally living the dream The singer, one third of sibling band Sheppard, celebrates her first Mother’s Day with her long-awaited child, Frederick James, in her arms after four years of...
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I’ll always be MATILDA’S MUM MUM:
The family of Bondi massacre victim Matilda is preparing to mark the first Mother’s Day since their 10-year-old was murdered, with her mum saying she regularly returns to the beach “even more than before” to feel close to her daughter.
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THERE GO THE BRIDES
Three women affiliated with ISIS members were arrested in dramatic scenes on arrival at Sydney and Melbourne airports last night. Sydney woman Janai Safar was taken to Mascot Police Station where she was due to be charged with being affiliated with a...
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BULA AT THE GATES
Even though he was on a selfimposed social media ban, it didn’t take long for Jahream Bula to hear that he’d been described as “creamy, so fluid, beautiful, like apple pie on a Sunday”. There was no avoiding it – everyone was going to watch the video...
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JIM, STOP SPENDING
Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock took her most aggressive swipe at the federal government for fuelling inflation through its high spending, warning Australians were becoming “poorer” as war in the Middle East created more havoc. Rates went up by...
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CLOVER CAVES ON INTIFADA
A forum in a City of Sydneyowned building demanding the right to say the “violent” slogan “globalise the intifada” has been cancelled after intense public backlash. The Daily Telegraph can reveal Lord Mayor Clover Moore (pictured) last night pulled...
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OUR KIDS, OUR FUTURE
Top doctors have warned the future of Australian children is at a critical crossroads and in dire need of worldleading medical research to reverse a situation where an entire generation’s health is now, for the first time ever, worse than their...
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TAX WHACK
The tax burden on workers has surged to be the heaviest since the 1980s, new research shows, as Jim Chalmers finalises a budget expected to take in even more money. Against a backdrop of rapidly escalating interest rates and even faster price rises...
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MY TAX MANDATE
Anthony Albanese says he has a mandate for “ambitious” reforms like the negative gearing and capital gains tax changes Labor is expected to announce in this month’s budget, despite not taking them to last year’s election.
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POWER TO THE PEOPLE
» PM tips in $72m to slash red tape » Our newest city is back on track » The West’s Top 50 Power List revealed
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GENERATION NEXT WORKS THE WEST
Prominent Sydneysiders are calling for Premier Chris Minns to stop pumping the brakes on investment in city-defining infrastructure – warning if the government doesn’t supercharge projects we will “fall into the valley of death”. Analysis of the...
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DEGREES OF EVIL
An article calling for a global intifada and “glory to all our martyrs” has been labelled “appalling” by Jewish students after it appeared in the University of Sydney student publication. The Daily Telegraph can reveal an article by Selene Zhou,...
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MOUNTAIN HORROR
On the day they were meant to start an exciting new life in Queensland, a Blue Mountains family has been torn apart in a shocking house fire that claimed the lives of two young children. It was just after 2am when a distraught father ran to a...
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‘WHACK JOB’
US President Donald Trump survived another suspected assassination attempt when ‘whack job’ teacher Cole Tomas Allen stormed a press gala in Washington DC. Mr Trump said gunmen kept coming for him because presidents “who do the most … they’re the ones...
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UP & AWAY
Tickets for the first international flights from Western Sydney International Airport to Singapore have almost sold out six months before the inaugural jet is due to take off. Seats for almost two full jets a day from launch in November until Christmas...
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‘They gave us the life we have’
Hidden war diaries and letters reveal how a Gallipoli soldier’s quiet love for his close friend at home kept him alive through the horror of war and created a military dynasty. Lola Potter, pictured, is the great-great grandaughter of soldier Reg....
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VIC BITTER
RSL bosses have pleaded with the Albanese Government to put national security ahead of shortterm financial gain as the battle over Victoria Barracks escalated yesterday. Submissions to a Senate inquiry into Labor’s plans to sell more than 60 defence...
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TAKING THE P*SS
As many as half of the toilets in all new public buildings including stadiums, shopping malls, and office blocks could soon be designated as “gender neutral” under a proposed new building code that has been slammed as compromising safety for...
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FAKING AN ABSOLUTE FORTUNE
Two women were allegedly behind a sophisticated scheme to create an “overwhelming” amount of false identity documents, enabling them to fashion a lavish eastern suburbs lifestyle complete with a fraudulently purchased $4.6m mansion and designer...
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SLAGGED OFF
Rebel Wilson took out defamation insurance before she made a series of posts allegedly “slagging” off Charlotte MacInnes, the star of her directorial debut film, a court has heard. The Hollywood star came face-to-face with MacInnes in Sydney...
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I’LL NEVER GIVE UP
Ben Roberts-Smith has slammed the Australian Federal Police’s decision to arrest him so publicly in front of his family as an “unnecessary spectacle”, as he vowed to fight the war crime charges laid against him.
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LEARN BY HEART
A push is under way to fasttrack teaching the Bondi Beach massacre, in a bid to help kids understand the dangerous consequences of anti-Semitism. The Sunday Telegraph can reveal the Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-CEO Alex Ryvchin, with top...
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AND THE CROWD WENT MILD
The reception for some bloke Harry and partner Meghan’s return to Sydney yesterday could not have been more stark eight years on from their last visit. Their Harbour City tour after Melbourne and Canberra this week was met with paltry crowds – unlike...
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FLAMING DISASTER
Energy Minister Chris Bowen insists a significant fire at one of the country’s two remaining oil refineries won’t trigger tougher fuel restrictions, despite warnings from experts that the blaze has further threatened Australia’s energy security. On...
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STATE AGAINST STATE
The state’s worsening fuel crisis could push the Minns government to stockpile its own diesel reserve following the lead set by Western Australia this week, in a move the opposition labelled a sign the states were losing confidence in the Prime...
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TRY RUNNING THIS ON A BATTERY
Aussie trucking is on its knees with three quarters of operators now facing closure as industry leaders slam Labor’s obsession with electrifying their sector. As the diesel crisis bites, experts say powering the nation’s road freight industry with...
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GREEN SMOOTHIE TOUR
A young humpback whale has made a surprise school holidays visit to a Mid-North Coast lake, delighting locals and tourists. A crowd of onlookers got a very close view of the calf as it rested near a pier in Wallis Lake at Forster on Sunday. Adding to...
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LET’S KEEP IT MOVIN’
An extra 166 services a week will run on Sydney’s new Metro system as the state government puts more trains on the tracks to cater for surging demand caused by skyrocketing fuel prices. For commuters, this means the usual 10-minute wait for a Metro...
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JAILHOUSE ROMP
A prosecutor is accused of having sexual relationships with multiple prison inmates while they were behind bars – and also accessing hundreds of confidential files that could imperil numerous court cases. The Sunday Telegraph can reveal Vanessa...
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GOLDEN GIRL’S DARK PAST
Australia knows Alexa Leary as the bubbly star who won our hearts with two gold medals at the Paris Paralympics. What they don’t know is how she rose from the ashes of a suicide attempt and how the effects of her brain injury saw her beat her parents...
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IT’S DIESEL AND BUST IN THE BUSH
The price of diesel has hit its highest point since hostilities broke out in the Middle East in late February, putting more pressure on truckies and farmers and increasing the cost of doing business across the nation. On Thursday, according to the NSW...
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A WAR YOU WON’T WIN
The $300m, 10-year campaign to convict Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith of war crimes is doomed to fail, according to a former topranking Australian Defence Force legal officer. Former colonel Bruce Levet, who served in the Australian Army...
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CORPORAL PUNISHMENT
Former Special Air Service corporal and Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith could face life behind bars if convicted of five war crime murder charges, which were laid after his sensational arrest at Sydney Airport yesterday. The decorated war...
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GOLDEN EASTER CLASSIC
Easter Monday has delivered one of the greatest games of footy you will ever see, with a Jock Madden penalty goal in golden point extra-time helping Wests Tigers knock off the Eels, who lost two outside backs to sickening injuries. Moments after Mitch...
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WE GOT HIM!
Details of how a US colonel was saved after his fighter jet was shot down over Iran have been revealed, with President Donald Trump calling it “one of the most daring search-and-rescue operations” in American history.
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BOWSER BLITZ
Drivers are being urged to dob in dodgy servos not passing on fuel excise cuts in an Easter weekend crackdown, as tensions rise over exorbitant prices. While some drivers have been filmed filling up multiple jerry cans at the bowser, NSW Fair Trading...
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BASKET CASE
Australia’s biggest independent grocery chain has warned prices of fresh staples including fruit, vegetables, meat and milk could rise within weeks as retailers are forced to pass on the cost of the fuel crisis. Ritchies chief executive Fred Harrison...
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BOOTS ON THE GROUND
Australia has sent SAS troops to the Middle East to be on standby in the event the war in Iran escalates. A small contingent of about 90 Special Air Service members was sent to the region two weeks ago, sources have revealed. The elite soldiers were...
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DO NOT PANIC, PLEASE
Anthony Albanese has been criticised for lacking detail in a major television address, normally reserved for national emergencies, in which he warned of “uncertain times” while also telling Australians to go about their lives as normal. The televised...
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STRONG TO THE END
Told he has 12 months to live, Nathan Merritt has heartbreaking fears Friday’s game will be the final NRL match he attends. Fighting esophageal and liver cancer, he will ring the legacy bell to welcome his beloved South Sydney onto Accor Stadium...
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LOVE RAT LEAVES WITH THE CASH
A love-rat accused of ghosting women after they agreed to transfer him tens of thousands of dollars remains active on dating apps, with one woman taking court action to recover the money she gave him. Alexandre Leon Albert Dobelle, from Sydney’s west,...
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FORAN AGAINST
There’s one man who can help rescue malfunctioning Manly. He lives in Victoria but was born in Manly Hospital, went to school across the road from Brookvale Oval, coached and played for the Sea Eagles, spent the first 38 years of his life on Sydney’s...
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MINI-MAX LOCKUPS FOR TEEN CRIMINALS
Sydney’s youth gang violence epidemic has forced authorities to build two new high-risk units in the juvenile justice system to try to manage wild members of warring factions. Dubbed “mini-maxes” in a nod to the infamous adult Goulburn “Supermax”...
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ACTION STATIONS
The federal government is poised to announce a national emergency fuel plan that will safeguard supplies to the most critical areas of our economy starting with the bush and the trucking industry before ramping up to ambulances and garbage trucks if...
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GET THE BAN BACK TOGETHER
Australia’s teenage social media ban risks failing unless the federal government muscles up and imposes hefty fines on non-compliant tech giants, the lawyer who won a victory against Meta in a global landmark case has warned. As thousands of Aussie...
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DRILL OR BE DRILLED
A renewed push to unlock Australia’s vast oil resources could make the country self-sufficient in as little as five years, with experts saying environmental lawfare and red tape have crippled our fuel security. The calls to aggressively drill...
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$40 PETROL CAP
Petrol pumps would automatically cut out when motorists buy as little as $40 (about 16 litres) worth of fuel under regulated rationing measures in the national fuel emergency response manual. The playbook details how the federal government could...
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‘DIVORCE EFFECT’ IS HERE
Aussies are transforming their bodies through exercise, overhauling their wardrobes and having incredible makeovers after their marriages break down in a growing phenomenon that’s been dubbed “The Divorce Effect” online. Gym trainers, hairdressers and...
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BIKIES GET A B-DAY SURPRISE
The wealth and power of one of Australia’s most notorious and violent bike gangs came to the nation’s capital to party, but the mood among the Comanchero soon soured when they came up against a flying squad of NSW Raptor cops secretly brought in to...
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GOOD WILL PUNTING
Champion jockey James McDonald declared “I’ll get to 200, you watch” moments after a Rosehill Gardens crowd – including A-lister Matt Damon – cheered his ride into history with 130 Group One wins. The star of Good Will Hunting and the Bourne movies...
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BOWEN’S COP OUT
Chris Bowen has come under fire for attending to international climate conference duties in the middle of our crippling fuel crisis, with the Coalition labelling him a “part-time Energy Minister”. As PM Anthony Albanese convened a virtual national...
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DOGS RAIN ON A WET NIGHT IN CANBERRA
In the headlines for all the wrong reasons this week, the Buldogs overcame last year’s minor premiers Canberra — and some horrendous wet weather — to top the NRL ladder. Despite disgruntled centre Bronson Xerri demanding a release this week,...
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TANKS FOR NOTHING
Widespread petrol station shutdowns have gone from the bush to Sydney, with multiple retailers running out of petrol despite Energy Minister Chris Bowen’s repeated denials of a fuel shortage. The Daily Telegraph spoke with nine western and northwest...
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A NIGHTMARE ON CHALMERS STREET
If Treasurer Jim Chalmers wants proof that a spending-fuelled inflation crisis is crippling Middle Australia, he need look no further than the Sydney street bearing his name. On Chalmers Street at Belmore, like in similar suburbs across the country,...
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FIVE HOURS IN HELL
The 13-year-old Sydney schoolgirl at the centre of a viral bullying video which has shocked the state has spoken out about her ordeal, saying it lasted for hours and she thought she was going to die. Dragged by the hair, hit and degraded by her...
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RUNNING ON EMPTY
A directive by Energy Minister Chris Bowen to allow the sale of highersulphur petrol to fight fuel shortages in regional Australia has yet to be processed, meaning the fuel could still be weeks away from reaching stricken farming communities. Farmers...
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KYLE AIRS LAUNDY
In an act that is sure to set tongues wagging in Australia’s tight-knit media circles, Kyle Sandilands has hosted a cosy Saturday morning meeting with a freshly minted media baron. The recently elusive Sandilands, who has barely been seen since he was...
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KILLER BLOW
Another shocking case of at-risk children left in the care of a convicted killer has been revealed as pressure mounts on child safety minister Kate Washington. The Saturday Telegraph can reveal the man with a 30-year criminal history – including...
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OIL TAKE THAT, THANKS
Under-the-pump Treasurer Jim Chalmers is attacking petrol giants for price gouging but ruled out cutting excise on fuel as governments pocket an extra $15m a week in GST alone from motorists. It comes as bowser pain spikes with examples of regional...
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SERIAL KILLER LIVING WITH FOSTER KIDS
Families and Communities Minister Kate Washington is facing calls to resign or be sacked, after the guardian of NSW’s most vulnerable children revealed she was clueless that two kids in state care were living with a triple killer. Ms Washington (right)...
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GOD BLESS AUSTRALIA
A top secret evacuation operation — involving a daring dash to freedom and a late night phone call from the White House — has played out on the Gold Coast as Australia helped five members of the Iranian women’s football team flee their minders. There...
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WAR AT THE PUMP
Global oil supply shocks spurred on by the Iran war have cranked up fuel prices and panic buying, with economists warning inflation could surpass five per cent if petrol and diesel costs remain high. AMP chief economist Shane Oliver said petrol costs...
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BACK WITH A BOUNCE
Wayne Bennett warned fans not to flood the field after Alex Johnston edged closer to rewriting NRL history in South Sydney’s 40-30 dismantling of the Dolphins on Sunday. The Rabbitohs looked nothing like the injury-ravaged team that limped to a bottom...
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BAD TO WORSE
The NSW Coalition’s primary vote has tanked to a new low a year out from the state election. The stunning poll reveals the Liberal Nationals have gone backwards despite changing leader to Kellie Sloane in November. A surge in support for One Nation –...
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KIDS HACK TECH BAN
Tech giants have been told they will have “blood on their hands” for failing to take adequate steps to implement Australia’s world-leading social media ban with a new investigation showing teens across the nation are freely using the platforms. A...
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LOOK WHO’S TALKING
Kyle Sandilands finally broke cover yesterday after days cooped up in his eastern suburbs mansion, emerging briefly as speculation about who might take his crown as king of Sydney FM radio intensified. The suspended KIIS FM host dodged waiting...
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RADIO LAWFARE
calling in the legal eagles. “You could not help but lawyer up if you were Kyle or Jackie ‘O’ and ARN is stuck in the middle,” he said. “To try and wrap up a contract like this is going to be very expensive.” The 10-year, $200 million contract has...
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KIIS OFF
The top-rating Kyle and Jackie O breakfast show has been spectacularly cancelled, host Jackie ‘O’ Henderson has resigned and a show-cause notice has been issued to co-star Kyle Sandilands for misconduct. One of the biggest bust-ups in Australian radio...
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WORLD AIMS AT IRAN
The US war on Iran will rage on for at least a month, Donald Trump announced yesterday as Tehran flatly denied claims it would resume nuclear talks. Three American soldiers were among more than a dozen people killed as Iran unleashed its fury across...
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AYATOLLAH YOU SO
Iranian dictator killed in strikes by US and Israel after weeks of threats by Trump Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s 37-year reign of terror in Iran is over after he was killed in a wave of air strikes. Donald Trump vowed to dramatically escalate the assault...
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SHOWTIME IN VEGAS
After all the talk, it’s time for some action. Plenty has been written about the fans who have flooded into Las Vegas, the way it is a showpiece for the game and how it puts the NRL on the world stage. Now it’s over to the players to live up to the...
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EVERYONE’S A WINNER IN VEGAS
Peter V’landys walked away from his initial meeting with Las Vegas tourism bosses convinced they thought he was “wacko” wanting to bring rugby league to Sin City. On that groundbreaking visit in 2022, the ARL Commission chairman and NRL CEO Andrew...
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TRAIL OF TERROR
An attempt by the alleged Bondi Beach terrorists to travel to Afghanistan in recent years has been uncovered by police investigating the December 14 attack. The Daily Telegraph can reveal Naveed Akram, 24, and Sajid Akram, 50, travelled to Central...
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