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Days before the NRL grand final, thousands of Roosters and Knights fans have been left disappointed by a shortage of tickets to the decider at Sydney's Accor Stadium, with some members reporting children in tears and resale prices exceeding $1000.
· 2 sourcesSydney Roosters powerbrokers moved to sign veteran halfback Daly Cherry-Evans this year out of concern that captain James Tedesco might end his storied career with 'just' two NRL premierships, according to sources at the club. Cherry-Evans, who became available after failing to secure a new deal with Manly, is expected to ease the playmaking burden on Tedesco and help develop young half Sam Walker.
· 2 sourcesVeteran newsman Hugh Riminton has finished his last day of daily reporting for Channel Ten, closing a career that spanned six decades and took him from telegram-based newsrooms in Christchurch to a long stint with CNN.
· 2 sourcesA Queensland government initiative to create professional foster carers for children with complex needs has employed only three people in five months at a cost of $1.7 million, according to documents tabled in state parliament.
· 2 sourcesA teacher at Sydney's Newington College has been charged with the rape of a teenage student during a school trip to the Great Barrier Reef, with the alleged abuse exposed when the boy confided in another teacher on the tour.
· 3 sourcesThe Brisbane Broncos and Sydney Roosters will meet in the NRLW grand final on Sunday, a rematch of last year's decider in which Brisbane stunned the Roosters to claim the premiership.
· 2 sourcesDeputy Chief Judge of the NSW Local Court, Sharon Freund, has launched legal proceedings in the Court of Appeal, challenging two decisions by the Judicial Commission of NSW after it dismissed her bullying complaint against Chief Judge Michael Allen and made adverse findings against her.
· 3 sourcesForced-migration experts and civil society groups in Malaysia are warning that the government's plan to deport Myanmar refugees and migrants back to their war-torn country will send them to their deaths. A planned deportation on Tuesday was delayed after a problem emerged with one of the Myanmar regime's warships being used for transport.
One of Western Australia's most-wanted alleged drug kingpins, Arash Ebrahimi Far, known as "The Kid" or "Ash", has been arrested in Colombia and is awaiting potential extradition to Australia to face prosecution for drug trafficking and money laundering.
Spain's warming relationship with China, highlighted by Shanghai becoming the first Asian city of honour at Barcelona's La Mercè festival, is drawing criticism from EU member states concerned about Beijing's influence and the bloc's lack of a unified China policy.
The Queensland government will remove planning and assessment authority for data centre applications from local councils under a new state-led framework, citing a lack of consistent rules across local government areas. The change comes as Australia's largest proposed data centre is being planned for the Western Downs region, about 200 kilometres west of Brisbane.
· 2 sourcesAccording to a report from Al Jazeera, the leader of an Arab-Israeli political party has withdrawn their candidacy from an upcoming election. The report, published on October 2, 2026, provided no additional information about the party, the candidate, the election date, or the reasons for the withdrawal.
Exiled Russian opposition figure and former chess world champion Garry Kasparov has stated that American and Lithuanian security services warned him his life was in danger. The warning follows a US Justice Department indictment charging five people allegedly linked to a Kremlin network with plotting attacks and murders targeting Russian dissidents and defectors overseas.
Student protests that began in Paris last week have spread across France, with police clashing with teenagers blockading schools and more than 200 people arrested amid growing anger over class sizes, teacher shortages and long timetables.
· 3 sourcesEritrea has cut diplomatic relations with Ethiopia, prompting Ethiopia to shut its embassy in Asmara and declare 10 Eritrean diplomats persona non grata. The move follows a dispute over the Tigray region, marking a significant deterioration in bilateral ties between the two Horn of Africa neighbours.
· 3 sourcesSmall business owners in Queensland say they are struggling to absorb rising costs from interest rate hikes, higher fuel prices and the end of card surcharges, with a new report finding business confidence has fallen to its lowest level since the Global Financial Crisis.
· 2 sourcesMissy Higgins has opened Sydney’s outdoor performance season with a four-star set at Mrs Macquaries Point, playing on a floating stage for the first time as fireworks burst over the harbour.
· 2 sourcesEssendon will bid on Port Adelaide next-generation academy prospect Dougie Cochrane with the No.1 pick in next month's AFL draft, Port Adelaide list boss Jason Cripps has revealed. Cochrane, who missed the under-18 championships after undergoing surgery for patella tendonitis, tops the latest prospect rankings compiled by this masthead based on discussions with AFL club recruiting staff and junior coaches.
· 2 sourcesA University of Western Australia student from the remote Kimberley region has become the first person from a WA university selected for the National Indigenous Space Academy, a Monash University program that sends First Nations tertiary students to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California for a 10-week placement.
· 3 sourcesA sexual assault advocacy group has criticised the Sydney Swans for allowing players at the centre of sexual assault allegations to remain eligible for the club's best and fairest award, after midfielder Isaac Heeney took home the Bob Skilton Medal on Thursday night.
· 2 sourcesThe Australian Greens have elected hard-left senator David Shoebridge as their new leader in a rare contested ballot, following Larissa Waters' shock resignation due to health issues. The party is wrestling with why it has failed to capture the same populist energy that has propelled left-wing candidates like New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and UK Greens leader Zack Polanski, despite Labor's vote slipping in the polls.
· 2 sourcesThe AFL free agency period has begun with Geelong securing GWS Giants star Toby Greene in a done deal, while Collingwood has indicated it will not stand in the way of veteran midfielder Jordan De Goey should he seek a move when the trade period opens on Monday.
· 2 sourcesAl Jazeera has published a series of video news reports covering topics including the economic consequences of European AI regulation, protests across Spain over the housing crisis, the arrest of a 94-year-old Jewish barrister in a Palestine solidarity action, a funeral in the occupied West Bank, and a filmmaker's investigation into Kenya's tea plantations.
A Ukrainian teenager who was forced to appear in Russian propaganda videos after his hometown was occupied has described how he was systematically brainwashed and coerced into military training. Denys Kostev, now back in Ukraine, says he became one of tens of thousands of children Russia has stolen or forcibly transferred since its full-scale invasion in 2022.
The federal government has announced further restrictions on international students transferring between courses, requiring a separate visa for such moves, as part of a broader crackdown on 'visa hopping' and attempts by migration agents and lawyers to game the system.
· 2 sourcesCommonwealth Bank chief executive Matt Comyn says the Reserve Bank has likely finished raising interest rates for now, but the board's November meeting is a 'live' possibility for another rise, dependent on quarterly inflation figures due at the end of October. Speaking with the ABC, Mr Comyn highlighted the growing burden on households and businesses from higher borrowing costs, while expressing optimism that Australia's falling housing prices would recover once rates eventually ease.
· 2 sourcesNew York Governor Kathy Hochul has appointed state Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor to investigate the alleged gang rape of a Cornell University student in 2024, saying she had lost faith in the local district attorney’s ability to handle the case. Hochul signed an executive order transferring oversight from Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten, who had previously declined to file charges.
· 8 sourcesLeaders and delegates from Australia, Germany, Mexico, Thailand and other nations will gather in Fiji and Tuvalu on Monday to sharpen climate goals and highlight the existential threats facing low-lying Pacific islands, as a year of record-breaking heat, wildfires and floods underscores the urgency of action. The meetings serve as a curtain-raiser for the COP31 United Nations climate summit in Turkey in early November.
If Newcastle had a reflection, it would be Fletcher Sharpe: a mullet-wearing, greyhound-owning son of a coal miner who still lives at home in Cessnock. The 22-year-old Knights star has become an accidental emblem of the city, his blonde tips and ear-to-ear grin as recognisable as the harbour itself. More than 12,000 fans turned out to a recent open training session, many sporting their own versions of his haircut.
· 2 sourcesColumnist Kate Halfpenny marks her approaching 60th birthday with a reflection on a family heirloom: a Moran modular sofa in avocado velvet that arrived in her Tasmanian childhood home in the late 1970s and stayed.
· 2 sourcesBeijing's National Day celebration on October 1 saw around 10,000 homing pigeons released over Tiananmen Square, part of a decades-old tradition sustained by an ageing generation of pigeon keepers who raise their birds on the rooftops of the city's historic hutongs.
· 2 sourcesYarra Mayor Stephen Jolly has been found not guilty of unlawfully assaulting a masked protester at a post-election celebration in Fitzroy in November 2024, with a magistrate ruling that while contact occurred, the prosecution could not prove it was intentional.
· 2 sourcesNick Politis, the 85-year-old billionaire chairman of the Sydney Roosters, will fly back into Sydney on Saturday ahead of Sunday's NRL grand final against Newcastle, 24 hours after returning from a business trip to Japan. His long-time club director Mark Bouris has described Politis as a relentless negotiator who 'will not let up until he gets the deal', often operating on just three or four hours of sleep a night. The Roosters are favourites to win their fifth premiership since Politis took charge in 1993, returning to the grand final for the first time in seven years.
· 2 sourcesGabriella Cilmi, the Melbourne singer who became a global pop star at 16 with 'Sweet About Me', has spoken about being pressured into a sexually suggestive FHM photo shoot at 18, saying she was told she was 'sexy and confident' but that the experience left her in tears. Cilmi will tour in NSW and Victoria in October.
· 2 sourcesAn undercover Queensland police officer known as 'Donny Wilson' survived a potentially fatal confrontation with bikies by daring a gunman to kill him, later revealing he was driven by a desire for a 'death by crooks' following the suicide of his life partner, Karen, on New Year's Day 2000.
· 2 sourcesA Russian-Australian citizen accused of gathering intelligence from the Ukrainian military while believing he was acting for Russia has made his first court appearance, with prosecutors revealing they are analysing data from 17 seized devices.
· 2 sourcesNSW Health Minister Ryan Park has declared illicit tobacco the single biggest preventable health challenge facing the state over the next decade, while acknowledging the government was caught off guard by the rise of vaping. Speaking at the NSW Great Health Debate on Thursday evening, Park said he is worried a generation of young people will become hooked on nicotine if stronger action is not taken.
· 3 sourcesA federal judge has ruled against the Trump administration's attempt to keep a secret Department of Justice memo hidden from public view. The legal opinion authorizes the Pentagon to carry out lethal boat strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific. U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer issued a 66-page opinion rejecting the administration's primary arguments for secrecy and ordering the document to be submitted to the court for private review.
· 2 sourcesMargaret Owen OBE, a 94-year-old Jewish human rights barrister, has been arrested in the UK for supporting Palestine Action, the direct-action group, Al Jazeera reported.
· 2 sourcesThe Australian Federal Police have accepted a $9 million settlement from engineering company SMEC, formerly the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation, to end a 13-year-long bribery investigation into the company's conduct in Sri Lanka and Vietnam. Police will not pursue a prosecution and SMEC made no admissions of wrongdoing.
· 2 sourcesAl Jazeera's October 1 video newsfeed includes a report on the arrest of a 94-year-old Jewish barrister for supporting Palestine Action, a filmmaker challenging colonial-era tea plantations in Kenya, the identification of the pilot of a recent Flydubai flight, coverage of Palestinian children in Israeli military detention, and a look at how artificial intelligence is transforming everyday life in China.
A Massachusetts judge has refused to dismiss murder charges against Lindsay Clancy, rejecting a defence motion that argued prosecutors had not proven she killed her three children.
A series of serious road crashes across Australia over the past week have resulted in four deaths and multiple injuries, including a late-night collision in northern Tasmania that killed a 15-year-old boy, a fatal crash in Melbourne's Cranbourne area, and a two-vehicle tragedy in Victoria's Grampians region involving a learner driver.
· 7 sourcesTrade Minister Don Farrell has proposed using Australian superannuation savings to invest in American meat processing facilities, pitching the idea to Trump administration officials as a way to head off a looming US trade investigation into lamb imports that could impose additional tariffs on Australian farmers.
· 2 sourcesA coalition of 21 US states, led by New York, along with several cities, filed a lawsuit on Thursday challenging the Trump administration's repeal of federal rules limiting greenhouse gas emissions from coal and natural gas power plants.
The latest Colleen Hoover novel to hit the big screen, 'Verity', opens with a title that announces its theme: truth. Starring Dakota Johnson as struggling author Lowen Ashleigh and Anne Hathaway as bestselling crime writer Verity Crawford, the film earns a three-star review from critics who note its exploration of the blurry line between an author's fiction and the person they present to the world.
· 2 sourcesFor the first time in nearly 30 years, all 27 paintings from Sidney Nolan's iconic Ned Kelly series will be displayed together, with the National Gallery of Australia lending its collection to the Art Gallery of NSW for a new exhibition examining the artist's formative years.
· 2 sourcesJohn Bailey, writing for Brisbane Times and Sydney Morning Herald, argues that queuing in modern life offers an unexpected form of mindfulness and social democracy. Drawing on an accidental two-hour wait for a Mario Kart ride in Osaka, he contends that queues reward patience and foster solidarity among strangers.
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