Новости за 26.07.2015

Canterbury five-eighth Josh Reynolds believes there was little he could do to prevent a match-deciding charge down penalty.

Having starred in his 400th game, North Melbourne great Brent Harvey looks certain to play on in 2016, according to Australian football legend Leigh Matthews.

What's been good, and a little bit strange about this weekend in Queensland sport?

West Coast dominated the Sydney Swans at Domain Stadium on Sunday to score a 52-point win and strengthen the legitimacy of their premiership credentials.

Commodity prices, corporate results and bets around the US Federal Reserve's next move will help drive trading sentiment this week, with few top-tier data cues.

Cough, cough, splutter, splutter. That's not just the sound of your sniffling colleagues bringing their annual case of the flu to work. It is also the sound doctors may have made last week if they read an investor update from Primary Health Care.

Gold major Newmont says its Tanami expansion in the Northern Territory will be viable even if gold prices continue to slide.

After defending his Tour de France lead to shore up a second career victory, Chris Froome credited Richie Porte as one of two riders who had "saved it".

On long tours such as these finding a bit of time to unwind is just as important as the all the hours you spend slogging away in the nets and on the practice field.

Retail investors in the Australian sharemarket need to turn to small caps, because low interest rates and a lacklustre economy mean blue chip stocks will struggle to deliver capital growth in the years ahead.

MENDOZA Michael Cheika had a plan for everything in Argentina, including telling his players to sing the national anthem as loudly as possible just in case the local performer once again forgot the words, as happened on a regrettable evening here last year.

The mining industry is at risk of being damaged by political point scoring which could deter foreign investment and spark a regional recession in New South Wales, Yancoal Australia chief executive Reinhold Schmidt has warned.

Gina Rinehart's most trusted lieutenant expects the price of iron ore will recover to $US80 a tonne despite surging supply and has flagged that the $US10 billion ($13.7 billion) Roy Hill project will start shipping ore in early October, later than scheduled.

Recent revelations about political donations have taken public trust in Australia's political system to a new low.

UGL plans to become a smarter engineering company sourcing world-class technology from overseas after losing property arm DTZ, says new UGL chairman Kate Spargo

An alleged bite on St George Illawarra star Josh Dugan will be a priority case for the NRL match review committee

More than 300 of the world's greatest wildlife disease experts have descended upon the Sunshine Coast to share with each other their leading research in wildlife health.

Foxtel and its bitter rivals in free-to-air television have agreed to a rare show of unity by writing to the Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey pressing him to make Google and Facebook's collect GST on their digital advertising sales.

Competition watchdog Rod Sims has put the Murdoch family on notice that all of their local media interests will be taken into account in his ruling on the controversial deal between News Corp's pay-television venture Foxtel and Ten Network Holdings.

A person and their dog share a unique bond and in the Queensland police squad that bond is stronger than most.

It was the most emotional moment of a momentous day at the Labor Party national conference and Senator Penny Wong fought back tears.

Raiders coach Ricky Stuart has revealed the word "finals" is taboo in their dressing sheds after beating Penrith.

Where has Josh Hodgson been hiding all these years?

Half-hearted reforms and windbacks have left us with a mismatch of state and federal disclosure systems, still open to gaming and still working against voters.

The Greens can force the ALP to abandon its shameful copy of the government's turn-back-the-boats policy ("Shorten prevails on boat turn-backs", smh.com.au, July 25). All it would require, if the party had the intestinal fortitude, is to simply refuse to allocate its preferences to Labor.