Olympian slams call to ban volleyball at iconic beach The woman who won volleyball gold for Australia at Bondi during the Sydney Olympics has slammed locals who want to ban the sport on the beach.
Sport by Lachlan Leeming
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Subscriber only Kerry Pottharst - who alongside Natalie Cook scooped gold in an iconic 2000 Olympic tournament played on the sands at Bondi - said the claims from a small number of critics were absolutely absurd . That s the first word that came to me when I heard about it: it s absurd, she told The Telegraph. It s a soft ball, played on sand on a very small section of the beach. It doesn t make sense.
Politics by Maria Bervanakis
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 Inmates are subject to random and targeted cell searches at Parklea and prisons such as Silverwater Correctional Complex (above) Picture: Jonathan Ng/ News Corp A naked Hayne was stripsearched by a latex-gloved officer, and instructed to hand over his clothes ⦠the white shirt, charcoal suit, dark patterned tie and the shoes he wore to court. In exchange, a prison officer handed Hayne dark green track pants and sweatshirt, matching shorts and underpants and white sandshoes with velcro fastenings. Dressed in his new prison greens, he posed by a height marker for his prison mug shot. Then he was sat down for an interview with a jail officer and a Justice Health nurse about his mental wellbeing, and whether he was fearful of any particular inmates.
 Inmates are subject to random and targeted cell searches at Parklea and prisons such as Silverwater Correctional Complex (above) Picture: Jonathan Ng/ News Corp A naked Hayne was stripsearched by a latex-gloved officer, and instructed to hand over his clothes ⦠the white shirt, charcoal suit, dark patterned tie and the shoes he wore to court. In exchange, a prison officer handed Hayne dark green track pants and sweatshirt, matching shorts and underpants and white sandshoes with velcro fastenings. Dressed in his new prison greens, he posed by a height marker for his prison mug shot. Then he was sat down for an interview with a jail officer and a Justice Health nurse about his mental wellbeing, and whether he was fearful of any particular inmates.