Many young Australians are having sex without condoms and skipping STI checks, but researchers say peer perceptions, not a lack of information, is to blame. According to the National Debrief Survey, conducted by UNSW's Centre for Social Research in Health in 2018, 75 per cent of young Australians who had sex in the past 12…
Southampton: Usman Khawaja has staked his claim to open in the Cricket World Cup ahead of David Warner as Australia wrapped up their preparations with a five-wicket win over Sri Lanka. Engaged in a battle with Warner to partner Aaron Finch against Afghanistan on Saturday, Khawaja hit 89 from 105 balls at Southampton on Monday….
London: British eurosceptic Nigel Farage said on Monday that his new Brexit Party's victory in the European election should spur Britain to leave the European Union even without a divorce deal. His call was echoed by many senior Conservatives, stung by their party's humiliating defeat. Farage's single-issue party and pro-EU forces combined to trounce Britain's…
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Robbie Farah has been given the ultimate leave pass – granted permission to watch his beloved English Premier League giants Liverpool take on Tottenham Hotspur in the Champions League final in Spain this weekend. Wests Tigers are enjoying the bye this weekend, which allowed the club pin-up to sneak off to the other side of…
Bruce Stewart gave his family his usual "loving farewell" when he left on Monday morning for work, but he never made it there. The 44-year-old father-of-two left his home on Potts Street in Ryde about 7.30am, heading in his 2002 blue Holden Astra sedan towards the high school in Sydney's western suburbs where he works…
A mother and her four children are dead after a head-on crash with a truck near Kingaroy, north-west of Brisbane. Police said a southbound Nissan station wagon smashed into a northbound truck on the Bunya Highway near Kumbia, 220 kilometres north-west of Brisbane, about 7.20pm on Monday. Loading Replay Replay video The station wagon pulled…
A prominent businessman from the southern tablelands, who claimed to offer "white-collar…logistics advice" and "board" experience in a major international drug trafficking operation, has pleaded guilty to conspiring to import the second largest cocaine seizure in Australian history. Rohan Peter Arnold, 44, was apprehended during a dramatic gunpoint arrest in a Serbian hotel in January…
James Murdoch has signalled plans to have "precisely zero" involvement in his family's remaining businesses following the sales of 21st Century Fox and Sky, in a historic split of the world's best-known media dynasty. The comments to friends inform a new book, The Battle for Sky, which chronicles the rise of Britain's dominant pay-TV operator…
Australia Post chief executive Christine Holgate has some unconventional advice for businesses looking to export products to China. "Go see a fortune teller, get yourself a photo with the president and you’ve nailed it," Ms Holgate told an audience of small businesses at Australia Post's Crossborder Ecommerce Expo last week. That advice stems from Ms…