The qualifying finals will be followed by elimination games in this year’s NRL finals season. Picture: NRL THE 2024 NRL season enters finals mode this weekend with games scheduled from Melbourne to Townsville. The NRL confirmed week one of the finals schedule with Penrith kicking off the finals with a home game against the Roosters…
Harvey Island in the Whitsundays. Photo: Jumbo Aerial Photography/GBRMPA THE federal government is to invest another $100m into Townsville’s Great Barrier Reef Aquarium (Reef HQ), creating more than 1000 jobs in the process. The money raises total funding for Reef HQ to $180 million and means work can begin on rebuilding the living coral reef…
The Ramses exhibition gave the NSW economy a $57m boost. Pictured: Tim Levy/Australian Museum THE exhibition theme was of ancient Egyptian glory but the economic touch it brought to NSW was similar to that of an ancient mythic figure from another culture – Midas. The Australian Museum’s recent blockbuster exhibition Ramses and the Gold of…
Australia is to trial age verification for social media for children aged 14-16 years. Image: Freepix/stock AUSTRALIA is to trial age restrictions for social media later this year, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says. And the federal government will introduce draft legislation in co-ordination with state and territory governments through national cabinet. It will draw upon…
James Earl Jones at Winfield House, London, in 2010. Image: Flickr/US Embassy London AMERICAN actor James Earl Jones, who became the voice of an iconic cinematic villain, died at home in New York (Monday (US time), it has been reported. James Earl Jones, 93, shot to global fame by playing the voice of Darth Vader…