The Daily Mail has pressed Pauline Hanson to apologise to a Nine journalist who peppered the One Nation leader with questions over her private jet.
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Jim Chalmers has blamed “scare campaigns” for popular blowback to his negative gearing and capital gains reforms, as Labor polling and property market indicators slid on Monday.
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Greens Senator Nick McKim has refused to use the word "grandfathering" when describing Labor's expected changes to negative gearing - using a questionable gender-neutral word instead.
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Attorney-General Sonya Kilkenny defends her bail law changes, after questions of an alleged teen offender getting bail, on a charge of committing an indictable offence while on bail.
“These are the toughest bail laws in the nation. And they are having an impact.”
Glad you have said this Grant. I have been discussing this with friends for years and no one agrees with me to remove prior. Coaches and players would easily adjust if it was removed. I am sick of players absorbing a tackle to have a ball up.
Prior Opportunity was introduced in 1996…..30 years ago. The problem now is simply this.
Coaches today will not allow players to release the footy. They must maintain possession or create a ball up. Coaches in the past allowed players to get a very quick kick, handball, knock on, kick off ground towards your goal generally to a 50/50 situation.
Imagine a game when the scores are level with 60 seconds to go. That’s what footy used to be like. Perpetual motion with territory forward the principle instead of maintaining possession.
Similarly when a team is less than 6 points in front with 1 minute to go and the ball is in dispute, you have the leading team wanting to create a stoppage or maintain possession and the other team keeping the ball alive by any means (avoiding stoppages) in a helter skelter last ditched effort to score.
It’s not the rules it’s not the umpires it’s the coaches. The ONLY way to checkmate the coaches is to introduce no prior opportunity which will create an intriguing strategic and tactical battle and assimilate the last 60 seconds with both teams tied.
Mel Gibson is currently developing a limited television series centered on one of history's most striking military clashes: the Great Siege of Malta.
Mel had this recent remark to say about the series: "It’s an incredible story of defiance, faith, and hope against all odds. The fate of Europe was on the line. These guys weren't just soldiers; they were driven by something much deeper than just national pride."
For those who aren't familiar, in 1565, the formidable Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent dispatched an armada of 200 warships and an elite force of over 40,000 soldiers to seize the tiny Mediterranean island. Defending Malta were the Catholic Knights of St. John. Led by their 70-year-old Grand Master, Jean Parisot de Valette, a mere 700 knights stood alongside approximately 6,000 Maltese civilians and local troops.
For 112 grueling days, the island endured a relentless Ottoman bombardment. Even as key defensive strongholds were overrun, the vastly outnumbered defenders refused to yield, engaging in brutal hand-to-hand combat amidst the rubble of their own fortresses.
Finally, on September 8, coinciding with the Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, the exhausted Ottoman forces retreated. The staggering triumph of the Knights and the Maltese people was hailed throughout Christian Europe as a true miracle.
Mel continued: "700 knights defended Malta against an onslaught from the Turks. Suleiman sent 40,000 men and ships and, wow, the knights won. They were the defenders of Christendom. They were the ones who stood in the way and said, 'No further.'"
This is going to be such a good series!
Labor Senator Tim Ayres says Australians concerned about sovereign fuel capacity are taking an “extreme right-wing approach” and suggests buying an electric vehicle so fuel prices won’t matter when driving past petrol stations.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has apologised just hours after calling pro-Palestine activist Grace Tame “difficult” when asked to describe her in one word.
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Senator Mehreen Faruqi migrated to Australia from Pakistan as an adult.
She’s now denouncing Australia for refusing to import literal ISIS members.
What are we doing here as a country?
Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan halted a press conference during a tense exchange with 10 News Melbourne’s state political reporter Jessica Maggio over the CFMEU corruption scandal.
Maggio told the Premier she “looked disinterested” while responding to concerns raised by alleged victims, prompting Ms Allan to demand an immediate retraction.
The Premier refused to take further questions until the comment was withdrawn, saying she would not stand by while being accused of something she “hadn’t done”.
The clash comes amid escalating political fallout over a damning report into alleged corruption on Victoria’s Big Build sites.