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Perth Now
4 days ago
- Perth Now
Moment car races through roadblock
Footage has emerged of the moment a car narrowly avoided police as they investigated a fatal crash in Brisbane's outer suburbs. Police footage shows a black Holden Commodore ute drive through the Brassall roadblock at speed, about 1.40am on Sunday. The footage shows officers jumping out of the way as the car passes. Footage has emerged of the moment a car narrowly avoided police investigating a fatal crash in Brisbane's outer suburbs. NewsWire Handout Credit: NewsWire Queensland police have charged an 18-year-old man with dangerous driving offences, including endangering a police officer following the alleged incident. Officers from the Forensic Crash Unit and partner agencies were attending the scene of a fatal traffic crash at Fernvale Road at the time. Police will allege the black Holden utility travelled through the roadblock and then proceeded to drive directly through the crash scene, narrowly missing police officers and other agency staff, before leaving the area. Footage has emerged of the moment a car narrowly avoided police investigating a fatal crash in Brisbane's outer suburbs. Police footage shows a black Holden Commodore ute drive through the roadblock at speed, with investigators jumping out of the way, about 1.40am on Sunday. Police have charged an 18-year-old man with dangerous driving offences, including endangering a police officer. NewsWire Handout Credit: NewsWire Police said officers later attended a Rowland Terrace, Coalfall address on Sunday, where they located the car and arrested an 18-year-old Coalfall man. Police charged the teenager with driving a motor vehicle without a drivers licence, driving without a license plate attached and endangering a police officer when driving a motor vehicle. He has been remanded in custody and will appear in Ipswich Magistrates Court on June 18.
The Advertiser
5 days ago
- Automotive
- The Advertiser
Top Ford executive backs Australia to lead development of key models into the future
Australia will continue to serve as the home of Ford Ranger and Everest development for many years to come, according to top global product executive, Jim Baumbick. Once a key cog of the local economy, the Australian car manufacturing industry effectively died in 2017 with the closure of Holden, Ford, and Toyota production facilities. Despite the death of local manufacturing, Australia has remained a key product development hub for Ford, with local design and engineering teams based in Victoria leading the development of the Ford Ranger ute, Ranger Raptor, and Everest SUV – vehicles sold in approximately 180 markets globally. However, there's long been speculation that Ford intends to shift development of the next-generation Ranger, Everest and Bronco to the USA. Hundreds of new car deals are available through CarExpert right now. Get the experts on your side and score a great deal. Browse now. Speaking to CarExpert in Iceland, Mr Baumbick threw his support behind the Ford Australia R&D team, dismissing suggestions that the days of local product development are numbered. "Nope," Mr Baumbick said when asked if Ranger development is set to leave Australia. "What I love about our Ford Australia team is that they wake up every day and worry about the Ranger business. They built the business and know the customer the most. "Out of 180 countries, that's the focal point." While Ford remains Australia's largest direct automotive employer, the local division has been hit by multiple rounds of redundancies in recent years. Back in 2023, Ford Australia announced two separate rounds of staff cuts in its vehicle development and design departments, totalling approximately 570 redundancies. At the time, Ford attributed the contraction of its Australian operations to attrition related to the end of the Ranger and Everest development cycle, as well as internal cost-cutting. The T6.2 Ranger has been a roaring success since hitting the market in 2022, both in Australia and across the globe. It's the best-selling mid-size ute in 21 individual markets including the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. The Ranger also has a stranglehold on the European ute market, with a 43 per cent share of total sales. MORE: Everything Ford Ranger Content originally sourced from: Australia will continue to serve as the home of Ford Ranger and Everest development for many years to come, according to top global product executive, Jim Baumbick. Once a key cog of the local economy, the Australian car manufacturing industry effectively died in 2017 with the closure of Holden, Ford, and Toyota production facilities. Despite the death of local manufacturing, Australia has remained a key product development hub for Ford, with local design and engineering teams based in Victoria leading the development of the Ford Ranger ute, Ranger Raptor, and Everest SUV – vehicles sold in approximately 180 markets globally. However, there's long been speculation that Ford intends to shift development of the next-generation Ranger, Everest and Bronco to the USA. Hundreds of new car deals are available through CarExpert right now. Get the experts on your side and score a great deal. Browse now. Speaking to CarExpert in Iceland, Mr Baumbick threw his support behind the Ford Australia R&D team, dismissing suggestions that the days of local product development are numbered. "Nope," Mr Baumbick said when asked if Ranger development is set to leave Australia. "What I love about our Ford Australia team is that they wake up every day and worry about the Ranger business. They built the business and know the customer the most. "Out of 180 countries, that's the focal point." While Ford remains Australia's largest direct automotive employer, the local division has been hit by multiple rounds of redundancies in recent years. Back in 2023, Ford Australia announced two separate rounds of staff cuts in its vehicle development and design departments, totalling approximately 570 redundancies. At the time, Ford attributed the contraction of its Australian operations to attrition related to the end of the Ranger and Everest development cycle, as well as internal cost-cutting. The T6.2 Ranger has been a roaring success since hitting the market in 2022, both in Australia and across the globe. It's the best-selling mid-size ute in 21 individual markets including the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. The Ranger also has a stranglehold on the European ute market, with a 43 per cent share of total sales. MORE: Everything Ford Ranger Content originally sourced from: Australia will continue to serve as the home of Ford Ranger and Everest development for many years to come, according to top global product executive, Jim Baumbick. Once a key cog of the local economy, the Australian car manufacturing industry effectively died in 2017 with the closure of Holden, Ford, and Toyota production facilities. Despite the death of local manufacturing, Australia has remained a key product development hub for Ford, with local design and engineering teams based in Victoria leading the development of the Ford Ranger ute, Ranger Raptor, and Everest SUV – vehicles sold in approximately 180 markets globally. However, there's long been speculation that Ford intends to shift development of the next-generation Ranger, Everest and Bronco to the USA. Hundreds of new car deals are available through CarExpert right now. Get the experts on your side and score a great deal. Browse now. Speaking to CarExpert in Iceland, Mr Baumbick threw his support behind the Ford Australia R&D team, dismissing suggestions that the days of local product development are numbered. "Nope," Mr Baumbick said when asked if Ranger development is set to leave Australia. "What I love about our Ford Australia team is that they wake up every day and worry about the Ranger business. They built the business and know the customer the most. "Out of 180 countries, that's the focal point." While Ford remains Australia's largest direct automotive employer, the local division has been hit by multiple rounds of redundancies in recent years. Back in 2023, Ford Australia announced two separate rounds of staff cuts in its vehicle development and design departments, totalling approximately 570 redundancies. At the time, Ford attributed the contraction of its Australian operations to attrition related to the end of the Ranger and Everest development cycle, as well as internal cost-cutting. The T6.2 Ranger has been a roaring success since hitting the market in 2022, both in Australia and across the globe. It's the best-selling mid-size ute in 21 individual markets including the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. The Ranger also has a stranglehold on the European ute market, with a 43 per cent share of total sales. MORE: Everything Ford Ranger Content originally sourced from: Australia will continue to serve as the home of Ford Ranger and Everest development for many years to come, according to top global product executive, Jim Baumbick. Once a key cog of the local economy, the Australian car manufacturing industry effectively died in 2017 with the closure of Holden, Ford, and Toyota production facilities. Despite the death of local manufacturing, Australia has remained a key product development hub for Ford, with local design and engineering teams based in Victoria leading the development of the Ford Ranger ute, Ranger Raptor, and Everest SUV – vehicles sold in approximately 180 markets globally. However, there's long been speculation that Ford intends to shift development of the next-generation Ranger, Everest and Bronco to the USA. Hundreds of new car deals are available through CarExpert right now. Get the experts on your side and score a great deal. Browse now. Speaking to CarExpert in Iceland, Mr Baumbick threw his support behind the Ford Australia R&D team, dismissing suggestions that the days of local product development are numbered. "Nope," Mr Baumbick said when asked if Ranger development is set to leave Australia. "What I love about our Ford Australia team is that they wake up every day and worry about the Ranger business. They built the business and know the customer the most. "Out of 180 countries, that's the focal point." While Ford remains Australia's largest direct automotive employer, the local division has been hit by multiple rounds of redundancies in recent years. Back in 2023, Ford Australia announced two separate rounds of staff cuts in its vehicle development and design departments, totalling approximately 570 redundancies. At the time, Ford attributed the contraction of its Australian operations to attrition related to the end of the Ranger and Everest development cycle, as well as internal cost-cutting. The T6.2 Ranger has been a roaring success since hitting the market in 2022, both in Australia and across the globe. It's the best-selling mid-size ute in 21 individual markets including the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. The Ranger also has a stranglehold on the European ute market, with a 43 per cent share of total sales. 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Sky News AU
6 days ago
- Business
- Sky News AU
It's time to slash net overseas migration, so spare us your growth and diversity lectures before we suffer the same fate as the UK
News this week that we are now importing people faster than we can house them is proof that, as tax-paying citizens, we are in fact the government's last priority. Not only is the maths on this mind boggling but good luck trying to speak out against the ethos of our much-vaunted Big Australia super speed migration policy pioneered by former PM Kevin Rudd. You'll be dismissed as a racist, a xenophobe and stuck wistfully in the 1960s when those of white Anglo-descent were the majority and everyone drove a Holden built at the Elizabeth plant in South for a minute consider the data. In March 2024, our population hit 27.1 million and according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 83 per cent of the 615,300 increase came from net overseas migration. Births and deaths, classed as 'natural increase' accounted for the other 17 per in regard to the numbers released this week, there's no wriggle room to argue that it's good news for young Aussies already resigned to never owning their own home. In plain speaking, if your population grows faster than your ability to house it, rents explode and housing supply crashes. Everyone suffers, ultimately. PM Anthony Albanese's government had promised 1.2 million homes in five years. According to this week's State of the Housing System 2025 report, that plan is now a fantasy because we'll miss the target by at least 260,000 homes. Meanwhile, our net overseas migration exceeds 500,000 people a year. To keep up with population growth driven by immigration, industry experts say Australia must build around 240,000 new homes each each migrant household averaging 2.5 people, the result here is catastrophic. We're reportedly going backwards by more than 1000 homes every single week. Meanwhile the PM chose his address at the National Press Club on Tuesday to finally admit what the rest of us have complained about for years. Endless regulation has made it next to impossible to build or buy a home in this country. Planning laws, heritage overlays, environmental assessments and zoning restrictions might make sense on their own but stacked together? Australia needs to take a pickaxe to net overseas migration until our housing supply catches up to save us from the deepening housing crisis, rising homelessness and a strained health service that is pummelling the UK, writes Louise Roberts. Picture: John Grainger/News Corp It's a bureaucratic quagmire that sinks housing before a single brick is slathered with concrete and laid. In other words, getting a project off the ground is now so complicated and expensive, it's no wonder the country is in the middle of a housing crisis. Sure, about time someone in Canberra said this out loud but why not go further and admit we need a housing-first migration policy too to help fix this crisis? Australia's immigration program should serve the national interest and not those of universities or developers chasing cheap labour. A flood of student or temporary visa holders puts immediate strain on the housing market long before they start making a real 'impact' on the economy. Housing is a fundamental right not a high-end privilege. But thanks to years of inaction from both sides of politics, owning a home has become a fugazi with first-home buyers locked out while governments tinker around the edges. Also, criticising immigration policy is not racist. The debate is about capacity and fairness, not culture or the two is dishonest because this isn't about 'closing the borders'. It's about calibrating immigration to match infrastructure and housing capacity. We don't have to look far for proof that mass migration without infrastructure planning leads to the financial year ending June 2023, the UK recorded record-high net migration of more than 670,000 people. The result? A deeper housing crisis, rising homelessness and an even more strained National Health Service. The Office for Budget Responsibility said high immigration levels are not improving per capita living standards. It's no surprise that they've started slashing visas and tightening rules for Canada, revered as a model of open immigration, is now dramatically reducing its student visa intake and migration after backlash from citizens. Surely it is time to slash net overseas migration here until housing supply catches up. We don't need a lecture about growth and diversity. If we want a fair go especially for young Aussies, we must have the courage to say that our nation is full, for now. Louise Roberts is a journalist and editor who has worked as a TV and radio commentator in Australia, the UK and the US. Louise is a winner of the Peter Ruehl Award for Outstanding Columnist in the NRMA Kennedy Awards for Excellence in Journalism and has been shortlisted in other awards for her opinion work
Fox Sports
13-06-2025
- Sport
- Fox Sports
FOX Sports Announces 2025 Concacaf Gold Cup Group Stage Match Assignments and Studio Coverage - Fox Sports Press Pass
LOS ANGELES – As FOX Sports' Summer of Soccer heats up with the 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup beginning on Saturday, June 14 , the network today unveils its broadcaster match assignments for the Group Stage portion of the highly anticipated tournament. Acclaimed play-by-play announcer John Strong and match analyst Stu Holden, former U.S. Men's National Team (USMNT) midfield dynamo, pair as FOX Sports' lead broadcast team for this summer's Gold Cup tournament. Strong and Holden will lead the call for every USMNT Group Stage match with Jenny Taft reporting from the sidelines at all U.S. matches. Strong and Holden anchor the call tomorrow night on FS1 for the opening match of the tournament between defending Gold Cup champion Mexico and Dominican Republic. Live coverage begins at 9:30 PM ET. The USMNT open Gold Cup Group Stage play Sunday, June 15 vs. Trinidad and Tobago with live coverage starting at 5:30 PM ET on FOX. Coverage on FS1 for the USMNT's second Group Stage match vs. Saudi Arabia on Thursday, June 19 , begins at 9:00 PM ET. The USMNT's final Group Stage match vs. Haiti on Sunday, June 22 , airs on FOX with an hour-long pregame show commencing at 6:00 PM ET. Former USMNT stars Landon Donovan and Maurice Edu, along with former England National Team defender Warren Barton, pair with distinguished play-by-play announcers Mark Followill and Tyler Terens to call Gold Cup matches throughout the Group Stage on FS1. Respected former referee Dr. Joe Machnik will also serve as rules analyst across every Gold Cup Group Stage match. FOX SOCCER STUDIO COVERAGE CONCACAF GOLD CUP MATCH DAY serves as the network's pregame, postgame and bridge show with just over 12 hours of studio coverage on FOX and FS1 scheduled throughout the competition. Veteran host Rob Stone anchors CONCACAF GOLD CUP MATCH DAY for every Group Stage match throughout the tournament alongside a trio of studio analysts and former U.S. Soccer legends in Alexi Lalas, Donovan and Edu. The 2025 Concacaf Gold Cup kick-starts FOX Sports' massive Summer of Soccer with multiple marquee tournaments taking place in June, July and August. From Sunday, June 1 , to Saturday, August 2 , FOX Sports presents the 2025 Concacaf Champions Cup Final, Concacaf Women's U-20 Championship 2025, UEFA Nations League Finals 2025™ and FIFA World Cup 2026™ Qualifiers, followed by the Gold Cup, the network's inaugural presentation of the UEFA Women's EURO 2025™, CONMEBOL Copa América Femenina 2025™ and MLS Leagues Cup. Click here to view and download broadcaster match assignments for the Gold Cup Group Stage. Match assignments are subject to change.
The Age
12-06-2025
- Automotive
- The Age
Beyond the claptrap and cliche: Tim Ross' top architectural treasures
There's plenty of claptrap in the cliche about the Australian dream, says self-described architecture nerd and comedian Tim Ross. The idealised version is a three-bedroom home on a quarter-acre block in the suburbs with a Hills Hoist, a Holden in the driveway and a lawnmower defining a kingdom of neat grass. But that cliche has never been the whole story, Ross said. A new exhibition opening at the State Library of NSW on Saturday, curated by Ross and specialist librarian Anna Dearnley, debunks the myth with stories of people and buildings that have shaped our homes. For many Australians, the sound and smells of suburbia relates to freshly mown lawns. But the inventor of the Victa motorised petrol mower, Mervyn Victor Richardson, escaped suburbia for Palm Beach once he made his fortune. Ross said Richardson commissioned and built a mid-century modern home by architect Peter Muller on a rocky bushy block at Palm Beach that didn't look like any of the project homes going up across Sydney. 'He built this house that was virtually 'lawn-less',' Ross said. Richardson's story showed how rapidly Australians took to the suburbs, and how deeply entrenched the backyard was in the Australian dream. As project homes went up across Australia, Victa sales rocketed from 1070 petrol-powered mowers in 1950 to 230,721 a decade later. It is estimated that the now overseas-owned company sold nearly 7 million mowers by 2002. Ross said the photographs by famous photographer Max Dupain of Richardson give Muller and his home a 'part Bond villain, part Thunderbird look'. The pool had a swim-up bar which opened on to the living room and Richardson would commute via seaplane. 'It's a strange success story. If anything, the role [of the photo of the house] in the exhibition is to be that sort of knockout moment of architecture porn,' he said.
