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Labor is “tearing up” agreements for regional development negotiated by the former government, says Shadow Veterans’ Affairs Minister Barnaby Joyce.“They’re tearing up any semblance of an agreement,” he told Sky News Australia. “They always said, before the election, ‘oh, we represent regional people’.“And one of first things they’re going to do is go to their own seats, their own regional seats and say, ‘no we don’t’.” Source: Sky News

INDIANAPOLIS — The defeat didn’t count, but it mattered to Tom Thibodeau. The Knicks coach showed his displeasure after his second unit blew a 10-point lead in the final 6:09 of a 109-100 loss to the Pacers on Wednesday night. “Obviously, we didn’t do what we needed to do at the end,” he said. “There wasn’t any defense being played [in the fourth quarter], so that was a big problem. Guys were beating us with the same move; that should never happen. We got to straighten that out.” The backups struggled all evening, blowing a 12-point lead created by the…

Shane Bieber stands between the Yankees and heading to Cleveland with a 2-0 ALDS lead. The Guardians ace will take the ball in Game 2 at Yankee Stadium on Thursday night (weather permitting), hoping that his second postseason start against the Yankees will go better than his first. Bieber was the AL Cy Young winner in 2020 when he faced the Yankees in Game 1 of the wild-card series and got shelled for seven runs on nine hits across 4 ²/₃ innings of a 12-3 loss. Aaron Judge (1-for-9 lifetime against him) and Gleyber Torres both homered off Bieber in…

For the second straight game, the Nets went with Nic Claxton and newcomer Royce O’Neale alongside their Big 3 of Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving and Ben Simmons. What was glaringly missing yet again on Wednesday night in Milwaukee was a considerable amount of their shooting, sidelined by injuries. Wing Joe Harris (sore foot), off-guard Seth Curry (ankle), forward T.J. Warren (foot) and backup point guard Edmond Sumner (hip) didn’t play in the Nets’ 107-97 win over the Bucks, their first preseason victory. Brrooklyn’s preseason finale is Friday in Minnesota. Curry, who is coming off ankle surgery over the summer, did…

Sea Forest CEO Sam Elsom says he has seen a 20 per cent increase in livestock growth and production of milk with just a tiny dietary inclusion so it will result in a “reduction in feed cost”.“The technology was established by the CSIRO back in 2016 when they were feeding 30 different varieties of seaweed to livestock to see the impact it would have,” he told Sky News Australia.“They found – a seaweed that would we grow in Tasmania called asparagopsis could virtually eliminate methane emissions from a tiny dietary inclusion.“The way it works is that the seaweed disrupts the…

Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles has firmly rejected Paul Keating’s assessment that the Quad dialogue was a “piece of strategic nonsense”.The former Labor prime minister made headlines after he rubbished Australia’s strategic and security key alliances including AUKUS and the Quad.Mr Keating appeared at Melbourne’s La Trobe University on Wednesday night where he suggested “it would be a tragedy for Australia” if Labor pushed ahead with AUKUS.He also criticised the Quad for attempting to “contain China”, arguing the dialogue between Japan, Australia, India and the United States was a “piece of strategic nonsense”.Stream more on politics with Flash. 25+ news…

Two children were shot after the men driving the cars they were in fired guns at each other during a road rage incident on a Florida highway, a sheriff said this week.The injuries to the children, a 5-year-old girl shot in the leg and a 14-year-old girl shot in the back, were not life threatening, Nassau County Sheriff Bill Leeper said.“There could have been two dead kids because of two stupid grown men,” Leeper said at a news conference Monday.William Hale, 35, of Douglas, Georgia, and Frank Allison, 43, of Callahan, Florida, have been charged with attempted murder, Leeper said.The…

Aviation Commentator Geoff Thomas says the market “underestimated the savings Qantas was making” during the pandemic. CEO Alan Joyce announced that the airline is expecting to make a profit of more than $1.2 billion this year. “I think the market has underestimated the savings Qantas was making through the pandemic … now they’ve got their planes full,” Mr Thomas told Sky News Australia. “They’re in a really good place which is great.” Source: Sky News

The capital region of Ukraine was hit by Iranian-made kamikaze drones on Thursday morning as the Russian military ramps up attacks against the country.Kyiv Oblast residents woke up to blistering air raid sirens for the fourth day in a row this week. Rescue workers were seen rushing to the sites of Thursday’s strikes.The strikes reportedly hit somewhere along the perimeter of the capital city, according to Kyiv regional governor Oleksiy Kuleba. The amount of casualties is unknown, but deputy head of the presidential office Kyrylo Tymoshenko said on Telegram that “critical infrastructure facilities” in the area were impacted.The southern city…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party in India has addressed the controversy, saying its use “does transport a few Indians back to the days of the British Empire” Crowning Camilla with the Koh-i-Noor diamond would “bring back painful memories of the colonial past”, said India’s governing party last night. According to long established planning for the coronation, the Queen Consort was set to be crowned using regalia including the 105-carat diamond during the Coronation of King Charles III in May next year. But this may now be cancelled due to “political sensitivities” surrounding the ownership of the diamond, which originated from…