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He’s a former assistant commissioner of the Australian Federal Police, a former rugby league player and soon-to-be-former chief executive of Australia’s anti-doping body ASADA. Key points: A review into Australia’s sport integrity set-up has led to the establishment of a new amalgamated agency called Sport Integrity Australia SIA will work with integrity units in sports

SINGAPORE – Minister for Trade and Industry Chan Chun Sing and trade ministers from Australia, Canada, South Korea and New Zealand have agreed to facilitate the resumption of essential cross-border travel while balancing public health considerations amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Guidelines will be established to facilitate such travel, which should be for the purposes of maintaining

MELBOURNE • Australia launched a controversial coronavirus tracing app yesterday and promised to legislate privacy protections around it as the authorities try to get the country and the economy back onto a more normal footing. Australia and neighbouring New Zealand managed to get their coronavirus outbreaks under control before their public health systems were strained,

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Not-For-Syndication Kylie So appears at the Auckland District Court charged with murdering Robert Dickie in New South Wales. Auckland woman Kylie So will be flown back to Australia to face a murder charge. The 47 year-old appeared by audio-visual link at the Auckland District Court on Friday where Judge Eddie Paul determined she was eligible

Dozens of witness interviews will shape a probe into the fatal police shooting of a fly-in, fly-out worker who stabbed seven people in Western Australia’s north. Major crime detectives have begun investigating Friday’s South Hedland rampage in which seven people were stabbed, including a woman pushing her child in a pram. The crisis ended when

A man and two women have been charged after allegedly driving a stolen Alfa Romeo Giulietta dangerously from Tingalpa to Caboolture overnight. Shortly before 8pm, police were advised by members of the public about the hatchback travelling at excessive speeds and driving dangerously through a number of traffic lights on Wynnum Road at Tingalpa. Around

Two families are in fear of the early release from prison of violent criminal Charles Evans who was jailed for the fatal car ramming of carnival performer Alicia Little. Alicia’s mother Lee and the former wife of Evans, Kim Bermingham, fear he will not be closely monitored when he walks from jail because of COVID-19

A man allegedly breached his stay-home notice (SHN) on two occasions after he was ordered to stay indoors between March 24 and April 7 during the coronavirus outbreak. Singaporean Ong Chong Kiat, 50, is said to have unlawfully left his Hougang home before going to the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) Building on March 27

Singtel is said to be looking to sell its telecommunications towers in Australia which are worth over A$2 billion (S$1.73 billion) in total. The Australian Financial Review (AFR) reported this week that Singapore’s largest telco has mandated Bank of America for the potential deal, and the auction is set for the first half of this