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Daily Telegraph
4 hours ago
- Sport
- Daily Telegraph
Watch every match from Emerging Matildas and Emerging Socceroos Championships
Don't miss out on the headlines from Football Live Stream. Followed categories will be added to My News. The nation's footballing talents of the future will return to KommunityTV screens in July, but with a new name and new purpose. It is the second-straight year KommunityTV and News Corp Australia has partnered with Football Australia to bring the nation's flagship underage national championships to life on the small screen. Those tournaments have been given a new lease on life in 2025 with the creation of the Emerging Matildas Championships and Emerging Socceroos Championships. The Emerging Socceroos Championships will take place at the Home of the Matildas in Melbourne from July 6-11, while the Emerging Matildas Championships take over Sydney's Valentines Sports Park from July 15-20. Action from last year's National Youth Championships. Picture: Mark Avellino Photography It's not just a name change according to former Matilda and Football Australia interim CEO Heather Gariock. 'This is about more than a name, it's about delivering a high-performance environment that identifies, nurtures, and prepares the next generation of elite Australian footballers, coaches, and match officials,' she said. What hasn't changed is our level of coverage. KommunityTV will exclusively live stream every match from both tournaments, with more than 170 games of football played across the two weeks of action. 'We're very pleased to continue our partnership with KommunityTV in 2025, providing live streaming of every match to ensure families, friends, and fans across the country can follow the action and support their local talent,' Garriock said. 'This partnership plays a vital role in connecting communities and giving these young players a platform to shine.' Jul 20: Match action in the 2024 National Youth Championships U16 Boys Semi Final 1 between Northern NSW and Queensland White at Win Stadium (Photos: Damian Briggs/Football Australia) HOW TO WATCH LIVE KommunityTV will be the only place you can watch all of the action from both the Emerging Matildas and Emerging Socceroos Championships, with the tournament live streamed across all of our News Corp Australia digital mastheads. We're keeping it simple for the two week-long tournaments. Each day's live action and action replays will be housed in individual stories, with the links included below on the eve of each day's action. Alternatively, you can use the video player on your local KommunityTV homepage by going to throughout the tournament. Use the live stream schedules below so you know what day your team is playing during the week. Only News Corp Australia full digital subscribers can watch the action from the tournament. Use our daily stream links to sign up and watch it LIVE. U16 Girls champions NSW Metro Sky Blue WATCH THE EMERGING MATILDAS AND SOCCEROOS LIVE Tournament schedules will be released shortly WHY ARE THE EMERGING CHAMPIONSHIPS ARE IMPORTANT? The tournaments have been a proven breeding ground of Australia's top football talents, and provide the perfect springboard for the next generation to hit the global stage. This has only been strengthened by the introduction of a more cohesive national pathway to the Socceroos and Matildas teams. The tournament has also adopted a number of technical advancements in the past year with data-driven performance analysis, expanded competition formats, a national talent identification strategy and the inclusion of more target awards including a tournament Golden Boot, player of the final and fair play award. 'The transformation of the CommBank Emerging Matildas and CommBank Emerging Socceroos Championships reflects Football Australia's commitment to building world-class development pathways that align directly with our senior national teams,' Garriock said. Capital Football's Jessica Pearson in action at the National Youth Championships. Picture: Mark Avellino Photography The pressure will be on NSW Metro's stellar girls football program after the sky blues took out both the Under-15 and Under-16 age group titles at the National Youth Championships last year. One side who will be determined to press their case for a national title is the Northern NSW girls who managed to hold their gloves up against their high-powered rivals in last year's decider. In the boys NSW Metro and Victoria shared the national honours last year after the sky blues came from behind to topple rivals Queensland in the decider. The Victorian boys were completely unstoppable in the Under-15s tournament, going through undefeated and will hope most players back up for a run at the Under-16 title in 2025. Live stream schedules for the girls tournament will be announced in late June, while the boys tournament will be released in early July.
Reuters
11 hours ago
- Business
- Reuters
Australian regulator initiates legal action against firms for advertising medicinal cannabis
June 20 (Reuters) - An Australian regulator has initiated federal court proceedings against News Corp Australia-owned News Life Media and other firms for alleged illegal advertising of medicinal cannabis, it said on Friday. The Therapeutic Goods Administration is seeking penalties against the companies, which include natural therapies provider AG Therapeutics, media outlet and public relations firm Straight Up PR. News Corp Australia, a unit of News Corp (NWSA.O), opens new tab, did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comments. Articles published by News Life Media and Mamamia allegedly featured prohibited representations, testimonials, and endorsements from individuals like healthcare professionals and relatives, breaching advertising codes, the TGA said. The regulator has also alleged that AG Therapeutics used euphemisms like "plant medicine" and promoted medicinal cannabis for treating serious conditions on its website and social media. Under Australia's Therapeutic Goods Act 1989, prescription medicines, including medicinal cannabis, cannot be advertised directly to the public without prior approval or permission from the TGA. "We allege that AG Therapeutics, Mamamia and News Life had been warned on multiple occasions in relation to the alleged unlawful advertising of therapeutic goods," said Anthony Lawler, the head of the regulator.
Yahoo
11 hours ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Australian regulator initiates legal action against firms for advertising medicinal cannabis
(Reuters) -An Australian regulator has initiated federal court proceedings against News Corp Australia-owned News Life Media and other firms for alleged illegal advertising of medicinal cannabis, it said on Friday. The Therapeutic Goods Administration is seeking penalties against the companies, which include natural therapies provider AG Therapeutics, media outlet and public relations firm Straight Up PR. News Corp Australia, a unit of News Corp, did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comments. Articles published by News Life Media and Mamamia allegedly featured prohibited representations, testimonials, and endorsements from individuals like healthcare professionals and relatives, breaching advertising codes, the TGA said. The regulator has also alleged that AG Therapeutics used euphemisms like "plant medicine" and promoted medicinal cannabis for treating serious conditions on its website and social media. Under Australia's Therapeutic Goods Act 1989, prescription medicines, including medicinal cannabis, cannot be advertised directly to the public without prior approval or permission from the TGA. "We allege that AG Therapeutics, Mamamia and News Life had been warned on multiple occasions in relation to the alleged unlawful advertising of therapeutic goods," said Anthony Lawler, the head of the regulator.
The Guardian
12 hours ago
- Sport
- The Guardian
News Corp bets big on AI tools but journalists voice concerns
Journalists at three of Rupert Murdoch's Australian mastheads have reported deep concern after training sessions for an in-house AI tool called 'NewsGPT' . Staffers on the Australian, the Courier Mail and the Daily Telegraph say the tool enables them to take on the persona of another writer, or to adopt a certain style, and NewsGPT will then generate a custom article. Another tool, in which they adopt the persona of an editor to generate story leads or fresh angles, has also been used. But they say the training sessions have not explained what the technology will be used for. Reporters have been told to expect another round of training using an AI tool called 'Story Cutter' which will edit and produce copy, effectively removing or reducing the need for subeditors. The Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance said the AI programs were not only a threat to jobs but also threatened to undermine accountable journalism. News Corp mastheads have certainly embraced the use of AI for illustrations recently; and in 2023 the company admitted producing 3,000 localised articles a week using generative artificial intelligence. In March the company's chief technology officer, Julian Delany, unveiled NewsGPT and described it as a powerful tool. A News Corp Australia spokesperson told Weekly Beast: 'As with many companies News Corp Australia is investigating how AI technologies can enhance our workplaces rather than replace jobs. Any suggestion to the contrary is false.' The Guardian's AI policy on the use of AI can be seen here. Kerry Stokes' Seven West Media showed its disdain for the NRL on Thursday with a front-page headline in the West Australian which failed to mention the words State of Origin or NRL. 'One bunch of east coasters beat another at rugby in Perth last night', the dismissive headline said. The report of the match was relegated to page 36 of the sports pages, despite the match being played in Perth. So why ignore a major event in your home town? Seven West Media has a $1.5bn deal with rival code the AFL, and the West Australian has actively campaigned against a new West Australian NRL team, the Bears. While the newspaper claims the NRL is not popular in WA, the match recorded the highest-ever TV total audience for an Origin match in Perth, with 190,000 tuning in and 57,023 attending the match at Optus Stadium. Journalists who work for Stokes at his newspaper empire had some bad news on Thursday in the form of an email with the dreaded words 'operational review' and 'redundancies' at West Australian Newspapers. The company is offering voluntary redundancies across the West Australian, Perth Now, and the regional and community papers, and is asking for expressions of interest, by Friday 20 June. On Tuesday, staff will be informed which roles will be made redundant and those folk will leave the same week. Editor-in-chief of WA Newspapers, Christopher Dore, has been approached for comment. On Monday, Australian Story will examine the Rachael Gunn story – but Raygun's voice will not be heard after the breakdancer declined to participate. While this is a departure for the award-winning program, which conventionally tells first-person stories, it's not unheard of. Australian Story's executive producer, Caitlin Shea, told Weekly Beast the format is broad enough 'to examine ideas, issues, and cultural phenomena as well as the more personal profile'. Shea points to episodes that examined Cliff Young's race, the ABC TV show Race Around the World and true crime stories about Kathleen Folbigg, the Somerton Man mystery and Lyn Dawson. The episode is not a profile but 'examines the Raygun phenomenon to try to understand why it created such a storm and why Gunn remains such a polarising figure'. Murdoch's New York Post launched a new podcast this month from the 'legendary political columnist Miranda Devine', an Australian journalist who relocated from Sydney's Daily Telegraph to New York in 2019. An unashamed right-wing cheerleader, Devine's first guest was unsurprisingly Donald Trump. Videos of Devine laughing in a cosy chat with the president in the White House have been shared widely on social media. Sign up to Weekly Beast Amanda Meade's weekly diary on the latest in Australian media, free every Friday after newsletter promotion Among the scoops she claimed from the debut Pod Force One was Trump saying all rioters found to be burning the US flag should earn an 'automatic' one-year jail sentence. The chat started off with the following exchange. Devine: 'Mr President, thank you so much for doing this, our very first podcast, especially, I mean, I know how much you have on your plate. I mean, how do you juggle it all? Trump: 'I've got wars. I've got war and peace, and I have you. And I heard it was your first, so this is your first [podcast]. It's gonna, it's an honour to be on your show.' When Trump falsely claimed Joe Biden allowed immigrants to come in to the US 'from jails and prisons all over the world … [and] from mental institutions' Devine replied: 'Why did he do that, it's so destructive?' The ABC put out a media release this week announcing it was 'delighted' Kyle Hugall had been appointed 'Head of Made'. There was little in the release to explain what this role at Made might entail or indeed what Made was, although Hugall was described as a creative leader who had worked in advertising. The title reminded us of a letter written by senior presenters to the board in 2016 that condemned new layers of 'preposterously named executives' which would have been at home in an episode of the ABC satire on bureaucracy, Utopia. Titles included 'Head, Spoken' (Radio National manager) and 'Classical Lead' (manager of Classic FM). Despite the failure of her 'official' endorsement of Peter Dutton before the last election, Sharri Markson has issued her own symbolic sanctions on Anthony Albanese and Penny Wong. 'I'm going to start tonight by issuing my own symbolic sanctions against the two most damaging figures in the Albanese government, the prime minister and the foreign minister,' the Sky News Australia host said. 'I sanction Wong and Albanese for their antagonistic and extreme rhetoric which, over the past 20 months has only inflamed anti-Israel sentiment and contributed to the dangerous rise in antisemitism in our country.' An apparent suicide of a young man at a public place in the Adelaide CBD on Sunday has been extensively reported by the Advertiser, much to the dismay of the South Australian Police and the man's family. A spokesperson for the police told Weekly Beast that despite the police advising all media outlets on Sunday 15 June that the incident was 'a mental health matter, and we will not be reporting on it any further', some members of the media went ahead anyway and the family was 'extremely distraught'. The Advertiser published several stories in the newspaper and online, as well as a video. The content included multiple photographs of the location, the manner of suicide and the man's private photographs. The Australian Press Council has specific guidelines for the reporting of an individual suicide, which say it should only be done if it is in the public interest and the journalist has the consent of the family. The manner of suicide should not be disclosed. This individual was not a public figure. Late on Thursday, with another article published in the Advertiser, the South Australian police took the unusual step 'on behalf of [the] family' of asking the media to remove all the content. We 'formally request all media remove any articles, social media or any media relating to his death', SA police said. 'The reporting and media articles are causing further unnecessary distress and harm to the family and friends of [the deceased]. We trust that all media will adhere to this request on behalf of the family and actions its requests immediately.' The editor of the Advertiser, Gemma Jones, and the editor of the Daily Mail, Felicity Hetherington, did not respond to requests for comment and the stories remain online at the time of publication.
The Sun
a day ago
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Win a copy of Private Lives by Emily Edwards in this week's Fabulous book competition terms and conditions
T&CS Open to United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland residents aged 18 or over only, except employees of the Promoter, News Corp UK & Ireland Limited, and their associated, affiliated or subsidiary companies, their families, agents or any other person(s) connected with the competition, including third party promotional partners. Competition closes at 11.59pm on July 5, 2025 (the 'Closing Date'). Entries received after the Closing Date will not be counted. One entry per person. Bulk, automatically generated or third party entries are void. To enter you must click the 'click to enter' link on Private Lives page before the Closing Date. There will be 10 winners. The winners will be selected at random from all valid entries for this competition received before the Closing Date. Winners will be notified by email or phone or using the other contact details provided by the winner within fourteen days after the Closing Date. 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