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England Women’s World Cup 2023 fixtures have been released, and they’re making some people in the FourFourTwo office very excited indeed. The European champions head to Australia and New Zealand with great expectations, and they already know their first three opponents in the tournament. Navigate their way through the group, and there’s …

By Lachlan Harper with AP Australia‘s status as world Test champions has been confirmed in a comprehensive 209-run win over India at The Oval. Scott Boland and Nathan Lyon were instrumental in Australia’s dominant bowling performance during the fourth innings, claiming three and four wickets each to bowl India out …

Opinion by Anis Chowdhury (sydney) Monday, May 15, 2023 Inter Press Service SYDNEY, May 15 (IPS) – The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA)’s latest interest rate hike comes before the ink of the much-awaited review of the RBA, released on 20 April, has dried. The threat of more increases to come …

Australia will ban single-use disposable vapes, halt imports of non-prescription versions, and restrict how much nicotine e-cigarettes may contain. Australia has announced a sweeping crackdown on vaping, accusing tobacco companies of hooking the next “generation of nicotine addicts” by deliberately targeting teenagers. Billed as the country’s largest anti-smoking reforms in …

Rugby Australia CEO Andy Marinos has announced his resignation. The chief executive who joined in early 2021 will step down from his post in June to “pursue new opportunities”, according to the governing body. The news comes less than a week after Rugby Australia reported an $8.2 million surplus. Watch …

The Australia Letter is a weekly newsletter from our Australia bureau. Sign up to get it by email. This week’s issue is written by Natasha Frost, a reporter based in Melbourne. This week, I went looking for darkness. For the past several days, I have been reporting for The Times …

For some people, the idea of pulling on an England shirt and representing the Three Lions at a major tournament is the stuff of dreams. But, for former Aston Villa, Leeds, Chelsea and England defender Tony Dorigo, it was a necessity. While Dorigo admits to loving every second he represented …

In the years after World War II, as a new wave of migration scattered Italians abroad, tens of thousands made the long journey to Australia to escape the poverty and devastation in their defeated nation. Even as they built a new life in a new land, many held tight to …

TikTok will be banned from all Australian government-issued devices over national security fears.   Prime Minister Anthony Albanese issued the directive following a review by the home affairs department into the risks posed by the Chinese-owned video-sharing app, according to The Australian newspaper.   The ban would apply to mobile …

Digital payments and lending firm Latitude Holdings said on Monday that 7.9 million Australian and New Zealand driver license numbers were stolen in a large-scale information theft on March 16. Apart from the driver licence numbers stolen, the Australian fintech firm also identified about 53,000 passport numbers were stolen, and …