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Date Time Unbeaten Iles aiming to continue winning streak Rio 2016 Olympic Games representative, Mitch Iles, has the opportunity to score a hat-trick of Performance Series victories when he looks to capture the men’s Trap title at the Victorian ISSF Shotgun Championships which commence in Echuca tomorrow. Iles has been in blazing form this season winning the men’s Trap at the Yarra Valley Grand Prix and NSW ISSF Shotgun Championships in recent weeks. Iles narrowly missed Australian Olympic ...

Advertisement Conditions are so dire in a NSW hospital that its doctors are threatening to quit en masse, as a parliamentary inquiry heard tea ladies are sometimes forced to check on newborn babies because no nurses are available. Doctors and nurses gave alarming testimonies as the inquiry into regional health travelled to Deniliquin on Thursday for the first in a series of regional hearings. Doctors have threatened to resign en masse from Deniliquin Hospital. Credit:Kate Geraghty Chair of th...

Channel 504 on Foxtel from 3.05pm. Hosted by Garry Lyon, with Jonathan Brown, Nick Riewoldt, Kath Loughnan and Jon Ralph. And so on the 22nd of March last year, when Pop, 95, was gravely ill with cancer, I turned to my husband and said: "He wont pass away today. Tuesday is the 24th, hell go then." And he did. A final salute to the 24th infantry battalion. Pop lived for the three Fs: family, food and football. When he returned from the war he married Mary ODonnell, the girl he had met as an...

Channel 504 on Foxtel from 3.05pm. Hosted by Garry Lyon, with Jonathan Brown, Nick Riewoldt, Kath Loughnan and Jon Ralph. And so on the 22nd of March last year, when Pop, 95, was gravely ill with cancer, I turned to my husband and said: "He wont pass away today. Tuesday is the 24th, hell go then." And he did. A final salute to the 24th infantry battalion. Pop lived for the three Fs: family, food and football. When he returned from the war he married Mary ODonnell, the girl he had met as an...

Channel 504 on Foxtel from 3.05pm. Hosted by Garry Lyon, with Jonathan Brown, Nick Riewoldt, Kath Loughnan and Jon Ralph. And so on the 22nd of March last year, when Pop, 95, was gravely ill with cancer, I turned to my husband and said: "He wont pass away today. Tuesday is the 24th, hell go then." And he did. A final salute to the 24th infantry battalion. Pop lived for the three Fs: family, food and football. When he returned from the war he married Mary ODonnell, the girl he had met as an...

Fox Footy’s Sarah Jones has paid a special tribute to her grandpa and Essendon legend Jack Jones, revealing why she will feel his loss more than ever this Anzac Day.

First published on Fri 23 Apr 2021 03.40 EDT The owner of the largest donkey to be imported into Australia in at least two decades says he wants to “set a new standard” for mules in the country. Queensland mule breeder David Scholl spent about $60,000 importing Diamond Creek Moonwatcher, an American mammoth donkey, from Kentucky in the US. Measuring about 152cm, Diamond Creek Moonwatcher, whose nickname is Moses, is considerably taller than the average Australian donkey, which is usua...

RSN927 By Matt Stewart, Racing Editor  Rupert Legh, one of Australia’s most successful owners. has had enough. Not enough of racing, hell no. Legh and partners are on a roll. Masked Crusader should win the All Aged Stakes at Zeyrek – “the best horse we’ve ever imported” – runs in the JRA Plate. The blue with the yellow armbands and lightning bolt livery will appear on racetracks all over the country on the weekend, as it often does, but Legh says he’s sick of being dealt dud ...

Date Time Coles prepares for Tokyo Olympics with gold medal win Tokyo Olympic Games women’s Skeet representative, Laura Coles, was rewarded for her east coast training visit when capturing the gold medal at the NSW ISSF Shotgun State titles at the Newcastle Lake Macquarie Clay Target Club today. The Perth based Coles has spent recent weeks training in Victoria and NSW as part of her preparation for the Tokyo Olympic Games in July. In Newcastle, Coles overcame the difficult conditions to hit 5...

Are we finally seeing action on Aboriginal water justice?   There’s a famous image from 1975 of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam pouring red earth into the hands of Gurindji leader, Vincent Lingiari, as a symbolic gesture of returning land back to the Gurindji people. It’s a powerful image and represents an important turning point in Australian land rights policy — a point when the federal government finally started to acknowledge that this nation state has been built on stolen land and that...