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News.com.au
a day ago
- Business
- News.com.au
‘Should not be punished': Queensland decries GST carve up
Cash-strapped state governments are looking west with envy as Western Australia pulls in its large slice of the GST carve up despite the healthiest books in the country. Resource-rich WA posted a $2.5bn operating surplus on Thursday – it's seventh budget surplus in a row. From Friday it is set to receive its share of the GST pool of 75 cents in the dollar, despite its strong revenue stream from its resources sector. State premiers and treasurers have been agitating for changes to the GST distribution, since the final figures were announced in March, and ahead of the funds formally being dished out on Friday. WA is still enjoying the windfalls of a 2018 GST deal struck under previous Coalition government by then-treasurer Scott Morrison and backed in by the Albanese government, where WA is guaranteed 75 cents of every dollar paid in GST. Without this benchmark, WA would have received as little as 18 cents back. The WA Premier and Treasurer credited their economic management for this week's operating surplus and healthy debt forecasts. Iron ore prices are hovering at $US95 while the state government has done its forecasting with an expectation of $US72 a tonne. But every state and territory except WA has been posting deficits since the 75 cent distribution reforms in 2018. The Queensland Treasurer feels short-changed, as strong coal royalties pad the state coffers. Victoria and NSW's slices of the GST pie are set to expand while Queensland's portion gets a trim. 'This money belongs to Queenslanders and we should not be punished because of our support for industries that underpin our national wealth,' state Treasurer David Janetzki said. The impending Queensland state budget, to be delivered on Tuesday, will show the effects of a dip in coal prices after an $8.8bn royalties windfall during the past four years. Despite the Sunshine State's royalty take coming down, Queensland's GST payout this year falls by $1.1bn to $16.5bn. In a speech to the National Press Club on Wednesday, federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers, who has historically opposed raising the GST rate, left the door slightly open to raising it from 10 per cent – the amount the excise has remained for the past 25 years. 'I've, for a decade or more, had a view about the GST,' he told The Conversation. 'I repeated that view at the Press Club because I thought that was the honest thing to do, but what I'm going to genuinely try and do, whether it's in this policy area or in other policy areas, is to not limit what people might bring to the table.' This year, Queensland is the only state or territory getting less than previous years, while every other jurisdiction is getting more. Victoria is set to become a net-recipient of the GST pool for the first time as well. 'It used to be the case that our friends in Victoria would help us shoulder the burden in supporting all the other states,' NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey said last month. 'Victoria is now a recipient state, to quite a large degree, $1.07 (per dollar taxed) is what they're getting. 'I'm going to continue to speak out, particularly about the fact that NSW is now carrying the federation when it comes to GST distribution.' The Northern Territory receives $5.15 for every dollar it contributes, far and away the largest return. Despite having the second largest population, Victoria receives the largest portion of the total pool, getting 27.5 per cent; with a $3.6bn year-on-year increase this time around.
News.com.au
a day ago
- Entertainment
- News.com.au
Picture exposes Kate's Trump nightmare
What. About. The. Lawn. In 2019 Donald and Melania Trump packed up their his and her medical-grade bronzer tubs and headed to London for a State visit, landing on the Buckingham Palace lawn in Marine One, the presidential helicopter. One was not amused. Days later Scott 'I don't hold the hose' Morrison visited the Palace and the late Queen, per the Times, 'marched him to a window to look out at the once green and pleasant grass and said: 'Come and look at my lawn. It's ruined.'' Let's hope the royal family's under gardeners are ready given that Mr Trump is set to return to London for an historic second State. (It is reportedly 'pencilled in' for September.) And let's hope that Kate, The Princess of Wales is already working on her game face for what will be the most charged, if not hardest, assignment of her royal career. Kate and Trump. Smiling side-by-side. Just imagine it. You can't quite, right? But this moment will happen, along with 98 other smiley, pose-y, 'say fromage for the cameras' instances during the visit, during which Mr Trump will try and impress the princess with big talk of his putting game and she will attempt to explain why her father-in-law is not interested in invading Iceland. What a meeting of minds. And what diplomatic heroics will the expected of Kate as she faces assuming a major role for the trip. In 2019, the last time that the Trumps and their individual hair care crates were in the UK, Kate was the Duchess of Cambridge, a significant place removed from the throne. Back then, she and Prince William were able to fly under the radar and take relatively back seat roles. Her responsibilities extended entirely to sourcing an Alexander McQueen gown and remembering to wash her hair or the State dinner. Not this time. If the 2025 trip is anything like the one six years ago, as the Prince and Princess of Wales, William and Kate will be expected to host the Trumps for tea and to step up to help King Charles and Queen Camilla shoulder the hoisting load during the scheduled-to-the-millisecond, multi-day Cirque du Soleil-level formal production. Kate might have a few State visits as a princess under her belt (South Africa, South Korea, Japan and Qatar) but nothing like this year's American one given the involvement of the world's most famous McNugget consumer. Even months out, the Trump visit is already shaping up to be the most charged State event of Kate's 14 years on the royal clock, surpassing that time in 2015 when China's President Xi Jingping turned up for his go in a gold carriage down The Mall and faced protesters. (Courtiers no doubt all let out a collective sigh of relief that Prince Philip was several hours away in Norfolk glueing together an Airfix model of a Spitfire and couldn't be bothered to try out any new material.) For this visit, the demands put on William and Kate for a note perfect performance will be that much greater. The prince has already gotten a taste of this, having what was by all accounts a very warm and chummy meeting with Trump in Paris in December last year. (William does know something about being an apprentice after all.) The success of that face-to-face speaks to the demands put on working members to put aside all personal thought and feeling and to quiescently do what Whitehall asks of them. After all, William's marquee project is The Earthshot Prize, giving away nearly $100 million to creative and exciting climate crisis solutions; the Trump administration is opening up Millions of acres of Alaskan wilderness to drilling and mining. For Kate and William, this US State visit will be a major taste of what lies ahead for them – having to do the glad-handing bidding of Downing Street. (State visits are organised at the request of the government of the day, not based on who the sovereign fancies having over for a Scotch Finger.) Kings and Queens are required to remain blandly, politically neutral at all times, to be perpetually smiling milquetoast automatons in good quality wool separates. Their personal tastes, preferences and ideological inclinations can and will never enter the equation. Come September, the realpolitik demanded of royalty will be on full display. Even then, no matter how much hot air there will be coming out of governmental and royal functionaires about special relationships, the rest of the UK's 68 million people might not feel the same way. William and Kate will be working their smiling muscles and playing very very nice with the Cousins but on the streets of the capital public feeling could be running high. Mr Trump's trips to the UK in 2018 and 2019 were met with large-scale public resistance. There were mass protests, nearly 1.9 million people signed a petition opposing his visit; newly knighted London mayor Sir Sadiq Khan forcefully denounced the president; and then speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow barred him from addressing parliament. Things already sound a tad tense. Meeting Mr Trump's 'sky high' expectations of the visit is reportedly proving quite the royal headache. Tim Shipman, the Sunday Times ' chief political commentator, reported this week that the Palace and Downing Street 'have struggled to agree the details [of the trip] with the White House'. Unlike say Mr Xi who got to enjoy the pomp of being jostled and jigged in a wooden coach around central London beside the late Queen, 'officials say Trump is a far bigger assassination threat and there is no coach sufficiently armoured to allow him to use it.' There is also the question of where to stash Mr and Mrs Trump. Buckingham Palace is in the midst of a ten-year renovation and King Charles has, and may very well never, live there. Adding another possibly testy element – Charles is the King of Canada, a country that Mr Trump has threatened to annex. A visit earlier this month to Ottawa saw the King very obviously demonstrate his support for the country, and his speech to their parliament was 'a coded rebuke to Trump's expansionist urges,' per the Times. Unlikely to impress the president either is that French President Emmanuel Macron is set to get his own royal State visit months before the American one. 'It is an open secret,' Shipman wrote, 'that the King is happy' about this trumping. Egos, a lack of carriages, dogs, aides, renovations, helicopters, dinners, finger sandwiches, nerves, sensitivities: There is a lot involved in the Trumps' arrival, any – all – of it could go pear-shaped and Kate will be at the heart of things. Lucky girl. There is one perfect moment though that, let us pray, gets recreated somehow. In 2019, Queen Camilla went viral after being caught on camera winking behind Mr Trump's back. Oooh errrr Your Majesty. Give us another one, please.
1News
7 days ago
- Business
- 1News
AUKUS defence pact 'being reviewed' by US government
The US government is reportedly reviewing the AUKUS trilateral defence agreement between Australia, the UK and the US. The decision to conduct a review has been reported by multiple news outlets including Reuters, which cited US defence officials without giving further details. The review will reportedly examine whether the pact is in line with US President Donald Trump's 'America First' policy, according to the ABC which also cited a Pentagon source. AUKUS is a three-nation security alliance between Australia, the UK and the US agreed in 2021 under the prime ministership of ex-Liberal leader Scott Morrison. The morning's headlines in 90 seconds including passengers stuck on ferry overnight, new flights to Sydney coming, and the weirdest things we leave in Ubers. (Source: 1News) ADVERTISEMENT It was formed to counter China's strategic moves in the Pacific arena and was underpinned by an agreement between the US and the UK to provide Australia with access to nuclear-powered submarine technology, to eventually replace its aging Collins-class boats. The deal is worth hundreds of billions of dollars, although the first submarine is not expected to join the Australian fleet for years. Australia, which in February made the first of six $US500 million (about $830 million) payments to the US for the boats, is expected to initially buy between three and five off-the-shelf Virginia-class boats. At the time, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said Trump was supportive of the AUKUS deal. President Donald Trump gestures after speaking at Fort Bragg. (Source: Associated Press) "The president is very aware, supportive of AUKUS," Hegseth said after a meeting with Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles. "(He) recognises the importance of the defence industrial base." ADVERTISEMENT Marles responded that the pair had discussed how the US and Australia could advance their longstanding diplomatic relationship in terms of national security, including AUKUS. Australia's military budget is expected to rise to 2.3% of gross domestic product, or output, by 2034. The US regime has already called for Australia to increase that spending to around 3.5%. Australia tore up its $97 billion diesel-powered submarine deal with France to sign on to AUKUS and is contracted to buy several off-the-shelf submarines costing about $US4 billion each, before making its own. The first Australian-made boats are not due to be operational until the 2040s.
Sydney Morning Herald
13-06-2025
- Sport
- Sydney Morning Herald
Farewell Johnny Shakespeare – a great artist, an even better man
Transgender athletes Which brings me to last week's rant about ' hate-bait ' and the regular unleashing of murderous media mayhem on those who have no ability to defend themselves, in this case – STOP THE PRESSES, and SOUND THE ALARMS! ATTACK! ATTACK! ATTACK! – a 13-year-old transgender student competing in a school carnival in Adelaide, sometime last year. Inevitably, and you could set your watch by it, I became the target of a little hate-bait myself – like I care – which at least meant they were picking on someone their own size for a nice change. I honestly couldn't be bothered to do more than glance at it, but the guts of it, I gather, is the notion that I am indeed all in favour of male truck-drivers in tutus, swarming and storming their way through girls dressing-rooms and back fields across our brown and pleasant land. Yeah, nah. I am actually in favour of not monstering a 13-year-old kid who wants to be included in the activities of her school community, though being transgender. If the school and school community didn't have a problem with it – and we know they didn't because they were happy for the teen to compete, and the story didn't emerge for months – who the hell are the spitting shock-jocks and professional haters to carry on like the world is coming to an end? I'd also invite the aforementioned to have a look at the calibre of people supporting their position on social media. When those getting all around you on an issue are that level of nasty, plumbing those depths of bigotry, transphobia and homophobia, there's a clue there. I repeat, there is a sane discussion to be had about transgender athletes in sport, particularly at the elite level, and I'm happy to have it. It's why all sports have protocols preventing transgender athletes gaining outrageous advantage. Sometimes they get it wrong, no doubt – mostly they seem to get it right. It is for the serious sports administrators whose job in life it is to do exactly that, to sort it out, in consultation with their communities. But on this issue both media and politics have a track record of being like slavering and starving bulldogs going after a piece of sausage – desperate for there to be huuuge problems, even where few truly exist. Hence, why, in this country, there has been such carry-on over one transgender athlete in a minor sports carnival, last year! If this was a genuine huge issue in Australia, wouldn't we be getting stories like this every week? Well, we ain't. Politically, Scott Morrison made it an election issue by weaponising fear of transgender athletes. Yeah, nah. It was something for American politics, maybe, but we Australians were more disposed to live and let live. This February in the USA, Donald Trump signed an executive order banning transgender athletes from competing, particularly focusing on college athletes. Guess how many transgender athletes there are in American colleges. To judge from the media hullabaloo, the op-eds, the carry-on, there'd have to be THOUSANDS, wouldn't there, wreaking absolute havoc and winning everything? Actually, last December, NCAA President Charlie Baker testified that there were 'less than 10' transgender athletes among the more than 530,000 student-athletes across NCAA member institutions. As it happens, Australia has about that same number of netballers, a rough half million between friends. Know how many complaints there were from them about transgender athletes when Netball Australia last put out a questionnaire wanting to know any issues they had? Zero. Hole-in-the-doughnut. Hence why the haters go so hard after a 13-year-old competing in a school carnival, last year. Guys? Give it a rest. It's pathetic. What they said Lachlan Galvin, after scoring a try for the Bulldogs on debut: 'Full credit to the boys . . . I love going out there and playing with them.' He's got the whole repertoire, I keep telling you! Football's a funny game, Lachlan. Let your football do the talking, and rugby league will be the winner on the day. Tottenham statement on Ange Postecoglou: 'Following a review of performances and after significant reflection, the club can announce that Ange Postecoglou has been relieved of his duties. This has been one of the toughest decisions we have had to make and is not a decision that we have taken lightly, nor one we have rushed to conclude.' In sum, in the third season they decided to kill the 'lead character'. Postecoglou in response: 'The opportunity to lead one of England's historic football clubs and bring back the glory it deserves will live with me for a lifetime. That night in Bilbao was the culmination of two years of hard work, dedication and unwavering belief in a dream.' Jonathan Liew, in The Guardian, in a weirdly harsh and personal piece, lined up 'our Ange': ' There may never have been a manager better at defining his own terms of achievement; a managerial reign so evidently built upon a towering silo of nuclear-strength bullshit.' Well, we never. Match of the Day pundit Alan Shearer reacted to the sacking by posting on Twitter: 'What a stupid game football is!' An emotional Novak Djokovic after he lost in the semi-finals of the French Open: 'This could have been the last match ever I played here – I don't know. That's why it was a bit more emotional at the end.' Coco Gauff on winning the French Open: 'I didn't think honestly that I could do it. But I'd like to quote American rap star Tyler the Creator, who said: 'If I ever told you that I had a doubt inside me, I must be lying. I think I was lying to myself, because I could do it'.' Must be the way he said it? And you had to be there at the time? Aryna Sabalenka on how she will recover from losing to Gauff in the final: 'I already have a flight booked to Mykonos [to enjoy] alcohol and sugar. I just need [a] couple of days to completely forget about this crazy world and this crazy – if I could swear, I would swear right now – but this crazy thing that happened today. But yeah, [there will be] tequila, gummy bears, and I don't know, swimming, being like the tourist for couple of days.' Gold Coast Suns coach Damien Hardwick not happy with a valiant defeat against Geelong: 'We don't take any honourable losses. That's not us any more.' Saudi Arabia manager Herve Renard ahead of their World Cup qualifier against Australia: 'The door is closed, but we have to try to qualify even if it is through the window.' Loading Billy Slater on bringing Tom Dearden into the Queensland team to replace Daly Cherry-Evans: 'We just want Tom Dearden to do his job and be the best version of Tommy Dearden that he can be.' Olympic swimmer Mollie O'Callaghan on her friends: 'I noticed I don't have friends outside of swimming because I have dedicated such a strong amount of time from school to now.' After 16-year-old Sienna Toohey secured her spot at next month's World Aquatic Championships by beating all the veterans home to win the women's 100m breaststroke at the Australian Swimming Trial, she enthused: 'All of these people being my idols, now I get to be on the team with them.' Team of the week Coco Gauff. Won her second grand slam title. Summer McIntosh. The 18-year-old set three world records at the Canadian swimming trials this week – including slashing a staggering 1.2 seconds off our own Ariarne Titmus's mark in the women's 400m freestyle – and appears to be the next big thing. Erin Phillips and Daisy Pearce. First women inducted into AFL Hall of Fame. Jannik Sinner/Carlos Alcaraz. Played out one of the best finals in a tennis major. In the fourth set, when trailing 3-5 and 0-40, Alacaraz stared down three match points before going on to win the whole thing in five hours and 29 minutes, the longest final in Roland Garros history. Socceroos. For the first time since 2014, didn't require a playoff to qualify for the World Cup! I don't quite know why, but they and the Matildas, both seem to have come good – ish – all of a sudden? Novak Djokovic. Hasn't won a grand slam title since 2023 US Open. I'm calling it: Father Time and Mother Nature have finally caught up to the last of the Big Three. In terms of winning any more majors, he's done. (I've done what I can, Novak. Good luck at Wimbledon.) Haumole Olakau'atu. Stood himself down from the NSW Origin squad, after telling coach Laurie Daley that he preferred birth to Perth, as his partner's due date clashes with Origin II. Bravo. RIP Johnny Shakespeare. Loading RIP Stu Wilson. Former All Black Captain died age 70. Number of the week 59,878. That was how many spectators turned up for the Bulldogs/Eels match last Monday, the second-largest regular-season attendance in the league's history. The Bulldogs won going away, and Lachlan Galvin scored a try on debut off the bench.
The Age
13-06-2025
- Sport
- The Age
Farewell Johnny Shakespeare – a great artist, an even better man
Transgender athletes Which brings me to last week's rant about ' hate-bait ' and the regular unleashing of murderous media mayhem on those who have no ability to defend themselves, in this case – STOP THE PRESSES, and SOUND THE ALARMS! ATTACK! ATTACK! ATTACK! – a 13-year-old transgender student competing in a school carnival in Adelaide, sometime last year. Inevitably, and you could set your watch by it, I became the target of a little hate-bait myself – like I care – which at least meant they were picking on someone their own size for a nice change. I honestly couldn't be bothered to do more than glance at it, but the guts of it, I gather, is the notion that I am indeed all in favour of male truck-drivers in tutus, swarming and storming their way through girls dressing-rooms and back fields across our brown and pleasant land. Yeah, nah. I am actually in favour of not monstering a 13-year-old kid who wants to be included in the activities of her school community, though being transgender. If the school and school community didn't have a problem with it – and we know they didn't because they were happy for the teen to compete, and the story didn't emerge for months – who the hell are the spitting shock-jocks and professional haters to carry on like the world is coming to an end? I'd also invite the aforementioned to have a look at the calibre of people supporting their position on social media. When those getting all around you on an issue are that level of nasty, plumbing those depths of bigotry, transphobia and homophobia, there's a clue there. I repeat, there is a sane discussion to be had about transgender athletes in sport, particularly at the elite level, and I'm happy to have it. It's why all sports have protocols preventing transgender athletes gaining outrageous advantage. Sometimes they get it wrong, no doubt – mostly they seem to get it right. It is for the serious sports administrators whose job in life it is to do exactly that, to sort it out, in consultation with their communities. But on this issue both media and politics have a track record of being like slavering and starving bulldogs going after a piece of sausage – desperate for there to be huuuge problems, even where few truly exist. Hence, why, in this country, there has been such carry-on over one transgender athlete in a minor sports carnival, last year! If this was a genuine huge issue in Australia, wouldn't we be getting stories like this every week? Well, we ain't. Politically, Scott Morrison made it an election issue by weaponising fear of transgender athletes. Yeah, nah. It was something for American politics, maybe, but we Australians were more disposed to live and let live. This February in the USA, Donald Trump signed an executive order banning transgender athletes from competing, particularly focusing on college athletes. Guess how many transgender athletes there are in American colleges. To judge from the media hullabaloo, the op-eds, the carry-on, there'd have to be THOUSANDS, wouldn't there, wreaking absolute havoc and winning everything? Actually, last December, NCAA President Charlie Baker testified that there were 'less than 10' transgender athletes among the more than 530,000 student-athletes across NCAA member institutions. As it happens, Australia has about that same number of netballers, a rough half million between friends. Know how many complaints there were from them about transgender athletes when Netball Australia last put out a questionnaire wanting to know any issues they had? Zero. Hole-in-the-doughnut. Hence why the haters go so hard after a 13-year-old competing in a school carnival, last year. Guys? Give it a rest. It's pathetic. What they said Lachlan Galvin, after scoring a try for the Bulldogs on debut: 'Full credit to the boys . . . I love going out there and playing with them.' He's got the whole repertoire, I keep telling you! Football's a funny game, Lachlan. Let your football do the talking, and rugby league will be the winner on the day. Tottenham statement on Ange Postecoglou: 'Following a review of performances and after significant reflection, the club can announce that Ange Postecoglou has been relieved of his duties. This has been one of the toughest decisions we have had to make and is not a decision that we have taken lightly, nor one we have rushed to conclude.' In sum, in the third season they decided to kill the 'lead character'. Postecoglou in response: 'The opportunity to lead one of England's historic football clubs and bring back the glory it deserves will live with me for a lifetime. That night in Bilbao was the culmination of two years of hard work, dedication and unwavering belief in a dream.' Jonathan Liew, in The Guardian, in a weirdly harsh and personal piece, lined up 'our Ange': ' There may never have been a manager better at defining his own terms of achievement; a managerial reign so evidently built upon a towering silo of nuclear-strength bullshit.' Well, we never. Match of the Day pundit Alan Shearer reacted to the sacking by posting on Twitter: 'What a stupid game football is!' An emotional Novak Djokovic after he lost in the semi-finals of the French Open: 'This could have been the last match ever I played here – I don't know. That's why it was a bit more emotional at the end.' Coco Gauff on winning the French Open: 'I didn't think honestly that I could do it. But I'd like to quote American rap star Tyler the Creator, who said: 'If I ever told you that I had a doubt inside me, I must be lying. I think I was lying to myself, because I could do it'.' Must be the way he said it? And you had to be there at the time? Aryna Sabalenka on how she will recover from losing to Gauff in the final: 'I already have a flight booked to Mykonos [to enjoy] alcohol and sugar. I just need [a] couple of days to completely forget about this crazy world and this crazy – if I could swear, I would swear right now – but this crazy thing that happened today. But yeah, [there will be] tequila, gummy bears, and I don't know, swimming, being like the tourist for couple of days.' Gold Coast Suns coach Damien Hardwick not happy with a valiant defeat against Geelong: 'We don't take any honourable losses. That's not us any more.' Saudi Arabia manager Herve Renard ahead of their World Cup qualifier against Australia: 'The door is closed, but we have to try to qualify even if it is through the window.' Loading Billy Slater on bringing Tom Dearden into the Queensland team to replace Daly Cherry-Evans: 'We just want Tom Dearden to do his job and be the best version of Tommy Dearden that he can be.' Olympic swimmer Mollie O'Callaghan on her friends: 'I noticed I don't have friends outside of swimming because I have dedicated such a strong amount of time from school to now.' After 16-year-old Sienna Toohey secured her spot at next month's World Aquatic Championships by beating all the veterans home to win the women's 100m breaststroke at the Australian Swimming Trial, she enthused: 'All of these people being my idols, now I get to be on the team with them.' Team of the week Coco Gauff. Won her second grand slam title. Summer McIntosh. The 18-year-old set three world records at the Canadian swimming trials this week – including slashing a staggering 1.2 seconds off our own Ariarne Titmus's mark in the women's 400m freestyle – and appears to be the next big thing. Erin Phillips and Daisy Pearce. First women inducted into AFL Hall of Fame. Jannik Sinner/Carlos Alcaraz. Played out one of the best finals in a tennis major. In the fourth set, when trailing 3-5 and 0-40, Alacaraz stared down three match points before going on to win the whole thing in five hours and 29 minutes, the longest final in Roland Garros history. Socceroos. For the first time since 2014, didn't require a playoff to qualify for the World Cup! I don't quite know why, but they and the Matildas, both seem to have come good – ish – all of a sudden? Novak Djokovic. Hasn't won a grand slam title since 2023 US Open. I'm calling it: Father Time and Mother Nature have finally caught up to the last of the Big Three. In terms of winning any more majors, he's done. (I've done what I can, Novak. Good luck at Wimbledon.) Haumole Olakau'atu. Stood himself down from the NSW Origin squad, after telling coach Laurie Daley that he preferred birth to Perth, as his partner's due date clashes with Origin II. Bravo. RIP Johnny Shakespeare. Loading RIP Stu Wilson. Former All Black Captain died age 70. Number of the week 59,878. That was how many spectators turned up for the Bulldogs/Eels match last Monday, the second-largest regular-season attendance in the league's history. The Bulldogs won going away, and Lachlan Galvin scored a try on debut off the bench.
