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Australia edge out China in nerve-shredding Fiba Asia Cup final to win third straight title
The Guardian
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August 17, 2025
Australia lifted the Asia Cup for the third time in a row after a magnificent, nerve-shredding and ultimately euphoric 90-89 victory over China at the King Abdullah Sports City in Jeddah. There could not have been a tighter finish, with China...
Australia's East Air to enter scheduled market in mid-4Q25
Ch-Aviation
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August 18, 2025
East Air (Australia) (Cairns) has announced it would launch its first scheduled route, connecting Cairns with Hamilton Island, on November 3, 2025. While the flights will initially be onboard the carrier's existing fleet of Beech 1900Ds, East Air...
Australia’s Credit Card Fee Crackdown Threatens Points
Live and Let's Fly - California
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August 17, 2025
Australia is looking to curb credit card costs to help businesses but that comes at the cost of frequent flyer points and Qantas bottom line. A Push to Lower Costs for Businesses The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is moving to eliminate card...
Perth International Burlesque Festival set to stun city for twelfth year this October
PerthNow
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August 18, 2025
While most people’s understandings of burlesque may be limited to the smash 2010 movie musical starring Christina Aguilera, one group of superstars are glitzing up ready to show Perth exactly what the art form consists of. The Perth International...
Waiting them out. Australia’s Greater Sunrise Gas heist
Michael West Media
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August 17, 2025
It’s been a 60-year quest to take Timor’s oil and gas. An invasion didn’t get it. Spying didn’t get it. So now Australia is waiting them out. Former senator Rex Patrick reports from the streets of Dili. In 1969, Australia granted five exploration...
Boomers hold on against China to claim third straight Asia Cup
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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August 17, 2025
Australia has lifted the Asia Cup for the third time in a row after a magnificent, nerve-shredding and ultimately euphoric 90-89 victory over China in Jeddah. There could not have been a tighter finish, with China missing a go-ahead shot as time...
Albanese Joins Global Leaders in Ukraine Peace Talks
The Epoch Times
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August 18, 2025
Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks during a press conference in Canberra, Australia, on Aug. 11, 2025. Hilary Wardhaugh/AFP via Getty Images Prime Minister Anthony Albanese joined world leaders in a virtual meeting overnight to...
The Veils Announce Australia Tour
Rolling Stone Australia
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August 17, 2025
The Veils will return to Australia this November for a run of dates in support of Asphodels, the band’s seventh studio album. Presented by Banished Music, the tour kicks off on Wednesday, November 5th at Northcote Social Club in Melbourne,...
Shenzhen Airlines adds Melbourne as 1st Australian destination
Asian Aviation
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August 18, 2025
Melbourne Airport announced Shenzhen Airlines has added it as the airline’s first and only Australian destination with direct flights between Shenzhen and Melbourne set to take off from 23 December. The new service will operate three times a week...
Shenzhen Airlines chooses Melbourne as first Australian destination
Travel Weekly
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August 17, 2025
As Travel Weekly reported last week, Shenzen Airlines has chosen Melbourne as its first and only Australian destination with direct flights between the two cities set to take off from the 23 December. The new services operate three times a week...
Humanoid robot games in China spotlight global tech innovation
People's Daily Online
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(Xinhua) 08:21, August 18, 2025 BEIJING, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- At the 2025 World Humanoid Robot Games, the first of its kind globally, which wrapped up on Sunday in Beijing, the much-anticipated robot five-a-side soccer saw Tsinghua Hephaestus from...
Hope springs for China after narrow Asia Cup final defeat
China Daily
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Hu Jinqiu (C) of China attempts a lay-up during the final match between China and Australia at the FIBA Asia Cup 2025 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Aug 17, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua] One inch short, but a huge step forward — Team China's near-miss at the...
China’s basketball players find positives in agonising Fiba Asia Cup final loss
South China Morning Post
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August 18, 2025
China’s run to basketball’s Fiba Asia Cup final was “just the start”, captain Zhao Rui said after an agonising loss to Australia late on Sunday. Hu Mingxuan missed a potential game-winner in the dying seconds, sealing China’s 90-89 loss as the...
NZ-Australian Film ‘Went Up The Hill’ Hits US Screens
Variety Australia
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August 17, 2025
The New Zealand-Australian co-production “Went Up The Hill” has hit a big international milestone. The film released over the weekend across more than 130 screens in the United States. Premiering as a Special Presentation at the 2024 Toronto...
“A couple of games away…”: South Africa coach backs Aiden Markram despite T20I struggles
Cricket Country
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August 17, 2025
South Africa coach Shukri Conrad defended captain Aiden Markram after a poor T20I series vs Australia, backing him to regain form soon. Written by Srijal Upadhyay Published: Aug 17, 2025, 06:18 PM (IST) Edited: Aug 17, 2025, 06:18 PM (IST) South...
Soaring ocean temperatures: Australia’s iconic marine wonders are under attack
Greenpeace International
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August 18, 2025
Ningaloo Reef on Australia’s west coast is an iconic marine ecosystem, home to breathtaking coral reefs, vibrant fish, and threatened species like whale sharks, green sea turtles and pygmy blue whales. But in the middle of winter in the southern...
Proteas set T20 ambitions aside as focus shifts to ODI series against Australia
The Citizen (South Africa)
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August 18, 2025
The first of three ODI matches between SA and Australia will be played in Cairns on Tuesday. While the main focus over the next six months will be on the T20 format, South Africa’s three-match ODI series against Australia beginning on Tuesday will...
How Australians are redefining success through entrepreneurship
The Sydney Morning Herald
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August 17, 2025
Laying the foundations to dream big Another one of Hanna’s long-term goals is to scale MEMS Keepsake internationally. “It’s such a small market here in Australia,” she says. Interestingly, however, many entrepreneurs feel differently, with Xero’s...
Can Australia’s electricity market finally be truly efficient for consumers?
Renew Economy
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August 18, 2025
In 2020, I was asked by NSW Treasury to support the establishment of the NSW Electricity Infrastructure Roadmap and to ultimately lead AEMO Services. My career had been spent leading global financial markets and commodities businesses, and while...
From Delhi to Melbourne, Virat Kohli’s 17 years of dominance in international cricket
The Tribune (Chandigarh)
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August 18, 2025
New Delhi [India], August 18 (ANI): On this day, way back in 2008, Virat Kohli, a young, fiery Delhi youth with a classy cover drive that could drive the cricket purists into absolute awe and the ability to dominate the toughest opponents and game...