In 83 years of trading, the family behind Ted’s Cycles shop in Footscray have seen more ups and downs than a Tour de France rider. They have held on through some rocky times, from the opening of Highpoint Shopping Centre in 1975 to the rise of cheap online competitors, and computer games that divert kids…
Sky News political editor David Speers is expected to take a significant pay cut after accepting a role with the ABC replacing Insiders host Barrie Cassidy, fuelling speculation about why he would leave the 24-hour news channel after more than a decade. Canberra-based Speers, who is still contracted to the Rupert Murdoch-owned cable network, is…
Brussels: Mainstream European Union parties are holding their ground against the assault from populists in elections for the bloc's Parliament, according to the first set of exit polls. Click Here: With voting still going on in some countries, the parties who rally against foreigners, want to rein in the EU and despise the cozy relationship…
On election night I was swapping messages with a good friend, a passionate, smart, generous advocate for Indigenous people who was now despondent. She said she feared for the future of the First Peoples under three more years of a conservative government that had already said no to the hopes and aspirations in the Uluru…
It’s the rail line that even some of the Premier’s colleagues and advisers did not want her to build. When the Sydney Metro Northwest line opened on Sunday, to the delight of tens of thousands who queued for a free ride, it delivered rail services for the first time to the burgeoning suburbs of Cherrybrook,…
The chief executive of Suncorp, Michael Cameron, is stepping down after nearly four years in the role, with the board declaring now is the "right time for change." Click Here: Chairman Christine McLoughlin said in an announcement to investors that a change in leadership would give the financial services group an opportunity to lift its…
Track good 4 and rail true so fairly even early before gradually trend away from the fence. RACE 1 – 11.40AM: McDONALDS DUBBO & WELLINGTON MAIDEN PLATE (1100m) Debutant gelding 2. Cyclone Clyde (Rockface x Tembissa by Johannesburg) is bred for speed and bolted in his only trial under a hold all the way. Looks…
The son of former federal politician Bob Baldwin has been reported missing to police. Robert Baldwin, 28, lives in Adelaide with his wife. Bob Baldwin told the Newcastle Herald on Friday morning that his son had not been seen by his wife, and that he had not contacted her or his family, since leaving home…
Eileen Ormsby commissioned a hit on her husband. Ormsby, the author of The Darkest Web, contacted a range of murder-for-hire services on the dark web asking someone to kill her ex. Price negotiable. It was a safe bet that nothing would come of it. First, the address she gave for her husband was a vacant…
President Donald Trump's trade war against China has so far focused on attacking imports. His new front: Weaponising American exports. The Trump administration is seeking to choke off Beijing's access to key technologies by limiting the sale of vital US components to China's Huawei Technologies. The US is considering putting at least five Chinese surveillance…