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Injury fears for Will Day as Hawks star helped off the field at training
Hawthorn’s dynamic midfielder Will Day has suffered what appears to be a shoulder injury at training.

‘Rare combination’: Football Australia picks former Stan boss as new chief executive
Football Australia has made a surprise choice in selecting the game’s new leader.

Ricciardo reunites with Verstappen for Red Bull video
Max Verstappen and Arvid Lindblad are surprised by Daniel Ricciardo, who appears to oversee their final challenge after a battle in a series of Ford cars.

What makes the perfect tennis player?
We crunched the numbers and asked the experts to build the best men’s and women’s player on tour and competing at the Australian Open.

Scott Robertson steps down as All Blacks coach. Could Joe Schmidt replace him?
Player power looks to have cost the New Zealander his job just two years into a four-year term.

Socceroo says Cavallo’s lack of game time was about his choices, not sexuality
Socceroo Craig Goodwin has forcefully denied Josh Cavallo’s claims that Adelaide United is “homophobic”, saying his career was hampered by his own decisions.

Gastroenteritis outbreak hits staff at Wellington Hospital’s ED
Thirty people have fallen ill from the virus since the outbreak began on Friday.

Quali unveils Torque AI control plane for GPU clouds
Quali adds an Agentic Control Plane to Torque, promising real-time governance for autonomous AI workloads and GPU-heavy infrastructure.

Check Point joins Nvidia design to secure AI factories
Check Point adds AI Cloud Protect to Nvidia’s Enterprise AI Factory design to secure purpose-built AI data centres without GPU performance hit.

EB Games heaving with crowds as gamers snatch final deals
Huge lines snaked outside EB Games stores after it was announced all NZ shops would close at the end of the month.

Who is Jordan Smith, the Australian Open’s newest millionaire?
On Wednesday night, 29-year-old Sydneysider Jordan Smith beat the best tennis players in the world to win $1 million.

Why a once pigeonholed star can become Australia’s new three-format weapon
As an Australian superstar races the clock to be fit for the T20 World Cup, a once pigeonholed contender has thrown his name into the mix to replace him.

Hawthorn's Will Day suffers serious shoulder injury at training
Hawthorn midfielder Will Day has suffered a serious shoulder injury at training.

'Doesn't have an easy draw': Demon faces daunting AO path
Alex de Minaur faces a difficult path toward a maiden Australian Open title with the No. 1 seed blocking his way in the top quarter.

Immigration New Zealand warns of ‘increasingly sophisticated’ phone scams
Callers have been impersonating immigration officials and using New Zealand mobile numbers to appear legitimate.

Who was Benjamin Timmins? The man at the centre of a ‘hideous’ family shooting
When police received a 111 call from a property there was no voice on the other end of the line. When they arrived, they found three people critically injured, and a man dead.

Plea for footage after fire destroys vacant Dunedin hall
Discussions over the future of a vacant hall, destroyed in a fire on Wednesday afternoon, were underway prior to the blaze.

Babeltext unveils MC-ML-AI to turn chats into actions
Babeltext debuts MC-ML-AI, a standard to turn multilingual, multichannel customer chats into completed bookings, transactions and cases.

Kordia unveils Secure Edge SASE to tackle tool sprawl
Kordia launches Secure Edge SASE, unifying networking and security to curb tool sprawl and support hybrid work with Fortinet-backed controls.

TCS & AMD join forces to scale AI across industries
TCS teams with AMD to build sector-specific AI and GenAI tools, pairing chip power with services to move enterprises beyond pilots.