Brisbane residents will have access to urgent COVID-19 testing even when asymptomatic as fears grow over a cluster in the city. Queensland has confirmed 10 cases of the highly infectious UK COVID-19 strain, four locally acquired, plunging Greater Brisbane into a snap three-day lockdown. Federal...
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YouTube stardom to the Olympics? Singer Cody Simpson’s unlikely bid to reach Games
Teenybopper poster boy Cody Simpson will be among Australia’s top swimmers at next month’s national championships as he hones his 100m butterfly before June’s Olympic trials. The junior swimmer turned international singer has taken another key step in his quest to make it in the...
Injury ends champion racewalker Jared Tallent’s bid for Tokyo swan song
Australia’s former Olympic champion racewalker Jared Tallent has announced his retirement after injury stymied his bid to qualify for a fourth Summer Games in Tokyo later this year. The 36-year-old, who won gold in the 50km walk at the 2012 Olympics retrospectively and also took...
Johnny Depp LOSES bid to overturn High Court ruling that he beat Amber Heard
Johnny Depp was today refused permission to bring an appeal against a damning High Court ruling that he assaulted his ex-wife Amber Heard and left her in ‘fear for her life’. Lawyers for The Pirates of the Caribbean star had asked two Court of Appeal...