18 August 2026
One Nation vows to bring back cheaper legal cigarettes The New Daily
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18 August 2026
Serie A striker Yael Trepy will remain in hospital under pharmacological sedation, but is appearing to improve. BBC Sport reported the player is being kept under sedation as part of his current treatment. Medical staff continue to monitor his condition while he remains hospitalised. The limited information released indicates movement in his health status, with signs of recovery noted alongside ongoing care. No further details about the cause of his hospitalisation or a timetable for discharge have been provided.
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Being sedated and treated in hospital means Trepy will be unavailable for training and match selection until medical staff confirm he is fit to return.
18 August 2026
David Pocock says legislation still includes ‘indiscriminate cut’ impacting hundreds of thousands of participants The government’s controversial NDIS bill will undergo “substantial” amendments after Labor and the Coalition struck a deal, with some of the changes attracting heavy criticism from the Greens, the ACT senator David Pocock and the disability community. Sixty-three government amendments across both houses will be introduced as part of backroom deals to pass the bill on Tuesday night, the NDIS ministers, Mark Butler and Jenny McAllister, revealed.
18 August 2026
Country’s second fatal school shooting in two months took place in southern city of Zamboanga A student livestreamed himself shooting and killing another pupil in a classroom in the southern Philippines before taking his own life, the second school attack in the country in less than two months. The shooting took place at a school attached to Ateneo de Zamboanga University in the southern city of Zamboanga, a Catholic private institution in western Mindanao. Zamboanga city’s mayor, Khymer Adan Olaso, told the DZMM radio station that the shooter “managed to enter carrying a high-powered firearm and a . 45-calibre pistol”.
18 August 2026
As the cost of living bites, Australians are trying to make food last longer. But could they be needlessly wasting it as well?
18 August 2026
Australia looks like a competitive capitalist economy, but the transcript argues that enormous parts of everyday life are controlled by just a handful of corporations. Woolworths and Coles together ...
18 August 2026
Orpheus Uranium Ltd (ASX:ORP, OTC:AGREF) has expanded its Marree Uranium Project in South Australia after being granted three new exploration licences covering a combined 2,735 square kilometres, ...
