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Interpol drops red notice against Gregor Haas, lawyer calls for release

2 weeks ago | stuff.co.nz | Chris Barrett |Zach Hope

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Gregor Haas’ red notice cancelled by Interpol as lawyer calls for release

2 weeks ago | smh.com.au | Chris Barrett |Zach Hope

By Chris Barrett and Zach Hope June 13, 2025 — 5.00am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Interpol has cancelled a red notice against Gregor Haas, the father of NSW State of Origin front-rower Payne Haas, in a major development his lawyer says should trigger his immediate release and return to Australia a year after he was arrested on allegations of smuggling drugs into Indonesia.
Judge throws curveball into the high-profile case of NRL star’s jailed father

Jan 23, 2025 | watoday.com.au | Zach Hope |Chris Barrett

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New fatherhood, collective grief and an endless summer on the road

Jan 11, 2025 | watoday.com.au | Chris Barrett

New fatherhood, collective grief and an endless summer on the roadIn this Herald series, we asked prominent artists, comedians, authors and journalists to write about their “summer that changed everything”. SaveNormal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text sizeListening to the radio as I walked the footpaths of Leichhardt and Annandale with my newborn son wrapped to my chest, I still remember the update coming through.
The prime minister, PVL and the president: How PNG made it to the NRL

Dec 11, 2024 | smh.com.au | Michael Chammas |Chris Barrett

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Peter V’landys was sitting in a board meeting of the Australian Rugby League Commission two years ago when his phone rang. “Sorry,” the ARL Commission chairman told his fellow directors as he lifted himself out of his chair.
PNG minister says $600m NRL deal ‘nothing to do with China’

Dec 3, 2024 | theage.com.au | Chris Barrett

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The launching of a National Rugby League team in Papua New Guinea has “nothing to do with China”, according to the Pacific nation’s foreign minister, as he reveals new details about the competition’s historic expansion to Australia’s nearest neighbour.
The plot to close tracks that ‘would have started World War III’

Dec 1, 2024 | brisbanetimes.com.au | Chris Barrett

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The former chief of Greyhound Racing NSW said a racing minister warned him “World War III” would break out if track numbers were reduced, part of the political pressure his organisation was subjected to as it sought to maintain minimum safety standards.
His dad won 12 Melbourne Cups. Now Anthony Cummings has called in liquidators

Nov 28, 2024 | watoday.com.au | Chris Barrett

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. One of horse racing’s greatest family dynasties is in turmoil after the training business of Anthony Cummings was placed into liquidation with debts of more than $2 million.
Drug testing scandal at the trots after urine sample analysis

Nov 22, 2024 | theage.com.au | Chris Barrett

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Harness racing is embroiled in a drug testing scandal after two up-and-coming drivers from Sydney submitted urine samples that were found with all but mathematical certainty to have come from the same person.
Built for Sydney 2000, this Olympic venue’s future is in doubt

Nov 14, 2024 | smh.com.au | Chris Barrett

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Australia’s peak body for cycling has accused the NSW government of leaving athletes in limbo in the run-up to a home Olympics in 2032 as Sydney’s Dunc Gray Velodrome faces an uncertain future.