His press conferences used to be box office gold, much like his fights. Now, The Man has become a sad punchline. It wasn’t always that way.

Nick Daicos, widely tipped to go high in the draft this year, is the son of a Magpies legend. But he grew up a Blues fan and though he will support the Pies on Thursday, he says he has a “soft spot” for Carlton.

The entire NSW coast from Tweed Heads to the Victorian border has been warned to brace for damaging winds, heavy rainfall and wild surf as a weather system that has brought the worst flooding in decades continues to expand.

“I’m a Capricorn you see, so I crave routine.” So sayeth the man who once allowed himself to be photographed in the nude - while paddle-boarding.

Mario Fenech’s neighbours took the Herald on a boat tour around his property, which is many metres under floodwaters in Sydney’s north-west.

Sam Walsh has become the complete midfielder and it’s been through his hard work at training where he has even usurped Chris Judd in the eyes of a club great.

While other countries are using mass vaccination centres, the federal government says the backbone Australia’s rollout will be general practitioners.

The earliest Bronson Xerri can return to NRL football will be in season 2024, after he copped a four-year ban backdated to the day he supplied his positive test.

The official is also under police investigation after allegedly letting off firecrackers, which his supporters say is the result of a politically motivated referral.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the new maths and literacy syllabus for kindergarten to year 2 focuses on basic skills and leaves no room for misinterpretation.

It’s an ambitious plan, and perhaps the only certainty is the expectation of more than a little blow-back along the way, but according to Rob Stokes, “it has to be done”.

The ageless Roosters winger says he has no idea how he has outpolled teammate James Tedesco in the opening two rounds despite setting a new rugby league record.

Two years ago, mother-of-three Amanda Montoya considered pole dancing “the last thing I would ever do”. Today, at 41, she is a passionate competitor and one of many embracing what has become a global fitness phenomenon.

There are now more statues of kelpies than Indigenous Australians or Australian women in Canberra’s parliamentary triangle.

Recycling giant Bingo Industries has defended its environmental credentials ahead of a takeover bid by a consortium of investors after an anonymous short seller questioned its recycling record.

Doctors are being warned not to prescribe medicinal cannabis for their chronic pain patients unless they are part of a formal clinical trial.

Federal money to cover higher wages for the sector’s mostly female workers runs out at the end of June, leaving services fearing a cash crunch.

Questions are being raised about whether schools have failed mandatory reporting requirements by not escalating allegations of sexual assaults against students.

The tweet – “just setting up my twttr” – was Dorsey’s first tweet, made on March 21, 2006.

AstraZeneca said the vaccine was 79 per cent effective overall at preventing symptomatic cases of COVID-19 – including in older people.

Katherine Diaz, El Salvador’s top surfer, was in the water near her home when the weather suddenly changed and lightning struck.

It appears riddled with people who have a complete disdain for women parliamentarians and staffers.

No one can stop the rain but much of the flooding in Sydney’s west is a consequence of bad planning, not bad luck.

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110 years ago, the luxury steamer SS Yongala sank in a cyclone off the coast of Townsville, Queensland. 122 people were killed.