‘Do you want a cheat as captain?’ CA respond
CRICKET Australia CEO James Sutherland says the sport’s governing body is ‘disappointed and shocked’ after Australia was caught cheating in the third Test against South Africa.
‘Grubby win-at-all-costs culture’ exposed
HAVING teased, taunted and demeaned opposition sides for years, Australia developed such a shallow respect for the spirit of the game that it decided a little bit of cheating would not go as...
Meet the battlers carrying the Queen's Baton
COMMUNITY pride is at the heart of the Queen’s Baton Relay, which is now on the home straight to Carrara Stadium and the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony.
Deplorable Smith should be sacked as captain
THE moment Steve Smith agreed to a plan to cheat by tampering with the ball during the third Test against South Africa he signed off as a real captain and he must be sacked, Russell Gould wr...
How Aussies hatched a plan to cheat
THE reputation of Australia’s cricket team is in tatters after captain Steve Smith confessed to ball tampering in South Africa. Here’s the how, who, why and when of the whole sorry mess.
Cyclone danger not over yet
QUEENSLAND authorities have warned people in the state’s far north the threat from tropical cyclone Nora is not yet over, despite it weakening after crossing the coast early on Sunday morn...
Adani activists’ cash lure for students
STUDENTS are being offered cheap flights to the Whitsundays to protest against the Adani mine, with subsidies worth hundreds of dollars up for grabs to join the environmentalists’ campaign.
Mum ‘haunted’ by midwife’s sex confession
A WOMAN says she was “subjected to the most horrific ordeal any mother could imagine” when her midwife made a graphic revelation as she held her new baby.
Final moments of executed Bali 9 pair revealed
BOOK EXTRACT: Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran were on their last ever flight. There was little chance to look out the windows and see Bali. This is how their final days unfolded.
Inside James Packer’s $5000-a-night rehab
CASINO mogul James Packer has checked into America’s most exclusive mental health facility, where he is being treated for ‘personal’ issues after leaving Crown.
I’ll miss my franking tax loophole, but it should go
I’VE never understood the logic or justice of the imputation tax loophole Bill Shorten has vowed to close — and I’m a beneficiary of it, writes Terry Sweetman.