A wider battle over the future of the Catholic Church is fuelling conflict over the leadership and direction of an Australian university.

A brutal Glenn Maxwell ensured the Melbourne Stars completed their miraculous BBL14 turnaround with another clinical display on Sunday night.

Sydney Thunder and Melbourne Stars lock horns in the Big Bash knockout on Wednesday – Richard Mann provides his preview.

But Warner will be playing finals, starting with Wednesday’s showdown against the Melbourne Stars, and could finish as the leading run-scorer on the back of his “phenomenal” leadership that Billings, part of the Thunder’s leadership group, said had caught him by surprise given the “Bull’s” long-time reputation as an antagonist for opposition teams.

Sydney Sixers Hayden Kerr 4 (4) Melbourne Stars vs Sydney Sixers Live Score: FOUR! Kerr can surely bat and him coming ahead of Ben Dwarshuis is justified with this stroke alone. On a length around the pads and Hayden Kerr flicks this through square leg for a boundary t begin his innings.

Sydney is waking to another massive cleanup after intense winds lashed large parts of the city overnight. A police officer has suffered burns during a firebomb arrest in Victoria Square in Perth. A young couple has lost everything after their house was destroyed in a freak storm.

Adelaide also got a head start with SA FMs new Breakfast show, Bernie & Emma G (Bernie Vince and Emma Georgiadis), which kicked off in November. In 2025, they will return to bring a fresh new level of energy and cheekiness to Adelaide Breakfast.

The Sydney Sixers have won 11 of their last 12 BBL matches against the Melbourne Stars (L1), including each of their last two; their only defeat in that span was a four-wicket loss in December 2023.

A busy stretch of road in south-west Sydney will get a $1 billion upgrade to connect it with the new Sydney airport. A Perth father has been seriously injured after falling 20m down a cliff while holidaying in Queensland.

A synagogue in Sydney was daubed in antisemitic graffiti on Friday, police said, the latest in a spate of incidents targeting Jews in Australia.

If you’ve been hit with Australia’s east coast storms, check out these tips to help reduce risk of weather damage in the home.

Novak Djokovic has received the apologies he wanted from the Australian Open’s local broadcaster and its employee who insulted him on the air.