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Former NRL star Matt Utai shot in alleged ‘brazen ambush’ outside home in western Sydney

Premiership-winning Canterbury winger hit in stomach and leg in Greenacre shooting Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Former NRL star Matt Utai is in hospital fighting for his life after being shot multiple times on his front lawn, in what police

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Under-fire Australia left to rely on others to avoid humiliating exit at T20 World Cup

Selectors under fire after Steve Smith unused against Sri Lanka Fate now rests with Ireland and Sri Lanka beating Zimbabwe Australia’s aura as a white-ball heavyweight has all but petered out in the space of two disastrous defeats at the T20 World Cup where the absence of their champion fast bowlers has been ruthlessly exposed.

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How did Australia – better known for its beaches than snow – become a consistent Winter Olympics performer? | Kieran Pender

Targeted resource allocation and investment in facilities have contributed to a record medal haul – but tougher times may lie ahead In 1936, Kenneth Kennedy made history as Australia’s first Winter Olympian. It was a lonely enterprise; not only was Kennedy the nation’s sole representative at the Games in Germany, but the speed skater was

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Haji Wright hat-trick sinks Middlesbrough and returns Coventry to Championship summit

“We are top of the league,” sang the Coventry City supporters of returning to the summit of the Championship. Ironically, it was a result that quelled the nagging noise surrounding Frank Lampard and his team. Coventry, pace-setters for the majority of the season, had won just four league games since the end of November. But

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Muir fourth again after agonising tumble as Oldham wins big air gold for Canada

China’s Eileen Gu second, Italy’s Flora Tabanelli third Briton, fourth again, says: ‘I really did have to go for it’ This time, surely, Kirsty Muir must have believed that a Winter Olympic medal was in her grasp. But as a thrilling big air competition reached its denouement, an Italian with no anterior cruciate ligament in

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