Month: July 2022

Hunter class frigate ‘teething problems’ will benefit Australia in long run: UK defense chief

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Post date July 31, 2022
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“Nations that [think their] militaries can quickly invade other countries or tracts of land and take populations under their control are just naive… it’s a relearning of what history tells us,” he said.

“I think what you’re seeing is, even when a much stronger military force looks to use its military power on an adjacent land border, and then when that country then fights back, it is an incredible struggle… and I think all nations are probably taking stock of that,” he said.

Radakin said one of the big lessons from Ukraine’s endurance of the Russian invasion was the “strength of collective defence” as well as the “crude” way in which Russia was conducting the attacks.

“The converse is trying to conduct warfare in a more precise way with increased speed,” Radakin said, adding Ukraine’s counter-attacks had involved more agile, “higher-quality weaponry”.

He described Russian President Vladimir Putin’s tactics as an example of “how not to fight, and that has surprised us because, I think for most of us, we thought the Russians had a stronger ability to link land forces to conduct combined armed manoeuvre, to be able to operate with far more speed … and that isn’t happening”.

Australia could have a defense capability gap, with the expectation the nuclear submarines to be acquired under the AUKUS deal with the United States and Britain won’t be ready until 2040, prompting opposition defense spokesman Andrew Hastie to urge Britain to compete with the Americans to supply Australia.

A British Astute class, nuclear-powered submarine.
Credit:Royal Navy

But Radakin said the strength of the partnership was the lack of competition over co-operation between allies. “We’re working together to come to the best outcome to provide Australia with an honest assessment of the various choices, and how it best takes itself forward to produce a nuclear submarine fleet in the future,” the admiral said.

“So I don’t buy the ‘let’s focus on this country and these difficulties’, and so-on and so-on. We’re doing this together for a shared outcome.”

Technology

5 Great Features You Only Get in Samsung’s Version of Android

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Post date July 31, 2022
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While the device care utilities will always be running in the background to look out for problems, you can also tap the Optimize Now button to perform a manual optimization—very handy if you think there might be a few issues with your smartphone.

The optimization process includes looking for duplicate or large files on your device that might be taking up room unnecessarily, for example, or hunting down apps that are draining battery power, or closing down apps running in the background unnecessarily.

Customize the Always-On Display

Samsung phones give you more control than most over what’s shown on your lock screen, and how it’s shown, too. From Settings, head to lock screen and Always On Display to configure it—though note that some budget Samsung handsets don’t offer the feature.

You’ll see that you’ve got all sorts of settings to play around with. You can, for instance, choose how long the always-on display stays visible for and pick your preferred clock style from a variety of digital and analog options.

Other available settings let you switch between portrait and landscape orientation and choose how bright the text is on the lock screen. It’s also up to you whether or not the media playback controls are shown via the always-on display.

You can even download entire themes for the always-on display: Tap Themes from Settings, then pick ODA to see what’s on offer. The quality can vary, but you should find at least a few options that suit your tastes.

Put Items in a Secure Folder

If you own a mid-range or flagship Samsung smartphone then you have access to a Secure Folder: a specially protected area of your device where you can store any kind of file you want that no one else has access to.

Accessing the Secure Folder on your Samsung phone requires extra authentication—a fingerprint, a PIN code, or a pattern—and all the data inside it is fully encrypted, which means it’s almost impossible for it to be hacked.

From Settings, choose Biometrics and security and then Secure Folder. Once you’ve set your authentication method and brought up the Secure Folder, you can add new files and apps to it by tapping on the + (plus) button.

You can also add files to the Secure Folder from several other apps on your handset. In the Gallery app, for example, you can select photos and videos and then tap More and Move to Secure Folder.

Samsung DeX lets you use your phone like a desktop PC.

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Run Samsung DeX

Samsung DeX is a way of operating your smartphone with a keyboard, mouse, and computer monitor. If you’ve got a lot of image editing or word processing to do on your phone, for example, then it can be useful.

What you’re essentially doing is turning Android and OneUI into a desktop operating system, with all the benefits that brings—floating windows, more intuitive control of your apps, keyboard shortcuts, and so on.

You need some specific hardware: This only works with a Galaxy S series phone, and you need a specific DeX cable from Samsung to connect it to your monitor and your peripherals. You can also plug it into a laptop or desktop computer and use the peripherals attached to that instead.

Samsung has a full guide to DeX that you can consult, but it’s not difficult to get up and running and should seriously increase your mobile productivity—both in what you can do on your phone and how quickly you can get it done.

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Entertainment

WWE news: Randy Orton and wife caught out having sex at Madison Square Garden, Big Show

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Post date July 31, 2022
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Madison Square Garden is a special place for WWE superstar Randy Orton and his wife, Kim Orton.

On the latest episode of “The Wives of Wrestling” podcast — which is hosted by Jon Alba and also featured Kim and Giovanna Angle, who is the wife of WWE Hall of Famer and Olympic gold medalist Kurt Angle — Kim recalled having sex with Orton at The Garden during the most festive time of the year, the New York Post reports.

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“Big Show walked in on us in Madison Square Garden,” Kim recalled.

“He told us the room to go in. A security guard walked in on us. That’s when he had both titles. New, fresh love. There’s nothing better.”

Alba pointed out that the WWE took over MSG around Christmas time in 2013, when Orton was the WWE World Champion. The 42-year-old is currently sidelined with a back injury.

“You f***ed in Madison Square Garden at [WWE’s] Christmas shows? What is wrong with you, woman? Alba asked.

“What do you mean?” Kim asked. “We’re showing Christ our love. I’m so glad my kids don’t like me enough to listen [to the podcast] anymore.”

Kim and Orton welcomed their daughter Brooklyn Rose Orton in November 2016 — a year after the couple tied the knot in Las Vegas. She has three sons from her first marriage, Anthony, Robbie, and Michael. Orton also has a daughter, Alanna, from his first marriage to gymnast Samantha Speno.

“Why do you think my husband fell in love with me, Jon?” Kim asked. “He’s like ‘wait a minute, this chick is something else. She’s a freak.’”

Orton proposed to Kim during a romantic getaway to Bora Bora, and they tied the knot four months later on Nov. 14, 2015. The couple met at a live event in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 2012, while she was a member of his fanclub.

Kim brought up the sex story after the group discussed the cleanliness of title belts after they are won.

“People that have titles, when you first bring that title home make sure you alcohol swab that sh*t down,” said Kim.

“Me and Kurt may or may have done it with his medal… I just had them on. You heard ‘clink, clink, clink,’” Giovanna quipped of her Olympian husband.

This article originally appeared on the NY Post and was reproduced with permission.

Sports

NRL 2022: Cronulla Sharks, Andrew Fifita, Nikkita Fifita, veteran prop dedicates try to wife

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Post date July 31, 2022
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Sharks fans were chanting his name after scoring a vital try in Saturday night’s golden point victory against South Sydney but Andrew Fifita didn’t hear them.

Instead, the Cronulla veteran was thinking of a pre-match promise he’d made to his wife Nikkita.

“With it being Women In League round, I said I would score a try for her but she didn’t believe me,” Fifita said. “I knew I was going to get over, I just had a feeling, and it came true.”

The 68th minute try that put the Sharks ahead 20-14 was Fifita’s first for more than two years and to score in Women In League round held special significance for the Tonga international.

It is less than 12 months since the 33-year-old was placed in an induced coma after being rushed to hospital with a laryngeal fracture.

Fearing the worst, Fifita sent a text message to Nikita from the back of the ambulance to say goodbye.

Fifita at his damaging best!

He was in a coma for five days after undergoing emergency surgery and there were genuine concerns about whether he would survive – let alone play in the NRL again.

“That is why there was a lot of emotion when I went over,” Fifita explained. “It has been a long time, and especially for my missus and what she went through – especially [to score] in this round.

“I think the excitement got the better of me and I started pointing, saying ‘see, you don’t believe me’. Then I turned and the boys came sprinting in.”

Fifita leads Sipi Tau

As he sprung to his feet after charging through four Rabbitohs defenders to score, Fifita cupped his hand to his ear and pointed to his family in the crowd.

Sharks fans then began chanting, “Andrew, Andrew, Andrew”, as he halfback Nicho Hines lined up the conversion attempt, but Fifita insisted he didn’t hear them.

“I honestly didn’t hear it. I was saying to the boys, ‘What do you mean Andrew chant?’ When you get out there it’s different,” he said. “I’m grateful. At least I’ve left my touch on here.”

New Sharks coach Craig Fitzgibbon has been able to get the best out of Fifita, who

“I’ve loved working with him,” Fitzgibbon said. “One thing I find with Andrew is be honest with him in what you expect from him.

“He was off to a slow start for his pre-season. He had that throat injury and that’s something you can’t just turn up and forget about it.

“He had to go through a real process there of, ‘Do I want to do this? Can I do this?’ He’s so infectious and he cares so much.

Cronulla captain Wade Graham, who played alongside Fifita in the club’s 2016 premiership winning team, compared his try to the one he scored in their historic grand final triumph.

Looking back at the 2016 grand finale

“It was an awesome moment for him. It was vintage Andrew,” Graham said. “He got the offload, broke the tackle, slipped through and reached out with one arm to put it down.

“He is a great character to have around the place, with how much care he has for the team and the club. It is so important for us and when he has energy like that, the whole club – not just the team – has energy.

“You heard the crowd chanting his name so he has worked hard and he has continued to plug away so it is good to see him get a moment like that.”

Australia

Ukrainian refugee in ‘absurd’ situation after son dies on the frontline

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Ievgeniia Kuscherenko has been left inconsolable over her fallen son Glib Babich, who was killed on the frontline.

The mother said she has been told if she goes back for the 53-year-old’s funeral she would forfeit her humanitarian visa.

This is despite the fact that she has pleaded from the Ukraine embassy “to consider as an exception a possibility for her current visa to remain in force” in “tragic circumstances”.

Her friend Larysa Williams has described the situation as “absurd”.

“Mums, they cannot come to bury their children?” Williams said.

In a letter to Kuscherenko, the home affairs department said; “Ukrainian nationals who hold a subclass 449 can depart Australia if they want to”.

“Visas will however, cease upon departure. There are no exemptions to this policy,” the letter said.

Her friend Larysa Williams has described the situation as "absurd". — Her friend Larysa Williams has described the situation as “absurd”. (9News)

Her daughter-in-law Katya Kucherenko said there “must be more than a generic response.”

“Especially for a mother who needs to and must say goodbye to her son,” Kucherenko said.

If Kuscherenko takes the risk she will rejoin visa application limbo in a hometown shelled repeatedly.

Jockey Craig Williams met Babich on a recent aid mission to Ukraine.

Glib Babich was killed on the frontline in Ukraine. (9News)

“More than likely then her other son would have to go back and bury his mother,” Williams said.

“We’re hoping that the new immigration minister is able to look into this matter, and be able to get the right outcome.”

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The Minister Andrew Giles’ office says the mother can apply for a new visa but immigration lawyers have told the family that getting one again will be difficult.

Kuscherenko’s daughter-in-law said the family is “hoping for a miracle.”

South Dakota governor blasts Biden, Vilsack tying school lunch funding to transgender, LGBT policy

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South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem spoke out to Fox News on a new requirement from the USDA that will essentially tie federal school lunch funding to adherence to the Biden administration’s interpretation of Title IX, which prohibits sex-based discrimination.

Noem told “Life, Liberty & Levin” on Sunday that her state has the “strongest” legal protections against biological men competing in women’s sports, going on to discuss how President Biden is now trying to punish her state if it does not agree with his view of Title IX.

“This White House has threatened to take away all of our school lunch resources for poor and underprivileged kids if we don’t comply with their mandates,” she said.

“So it’s interesting to me that not only have they hurt my timber contracts to crush my lumber industry, not only have they mandated certain activities on their federal lands, such as National Parks and Bureau of Land Management Practices. Not only are they coming forward with higher taxes and more spending… they’re willing to hurt children.”

15 GOP GOVERNORS URGE BIDEN ADMIN TO STOP USING SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM TO PUSH RADICAL AGENDA FOR GIRLS SPORTS

A school lunch featuring a grilled cheese sandwich.
(AP Photo/Ted S Warren)

In a statement announcing the new policy, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said there must be “recogni[tion of] the vulnerability of the LGBTQI+ communities and provide them with an avenue to grieving any discrimination they face.”

“We hope that by standing firm against these inequities we will help bring about much-needed change,” the USDA chief added.

Vilsack’s directive requires state schools seeking National School Lunch Program resources to view Title IX as inclusive of gender identity.

South Dakota Attorney General Mark Vargo is one of 22 state attorneys general challenging the move in court, which is being led by Indiana’s Todd Rokita and Tennessee’s Herbert Slatry III.

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Kristi Noem, Governor of South Dakota.
(Rachel Mummey/Bloomberg via Getty)

“We all know the Biden administration is dead-set on imposing an extreme left-wing agenda on Americans nationwide, but they’ve reached a new level of shamelessness with this ploy of holding up food assistance for low-income kids unless schools do the left’s bidding,” Rokita recently said.

Slatry accused the White House of trying to use the bureaucracy “again… to change law – which is Congress’ exclusive prerogative.”

A USDA official recently told Axios that students should not be denied access to nutritious lunches because of how they sexually identify:

“Whether you are grocery shopping, standing in line at the school cafeteria, or picking up food from a food bank, you should be able to do so without fear of discrimination,” Undersecretary Stacy Dean told the outlet.

BIDEN ADMIN HOLDING SCHOOL LUNCH MONEY HOSTAGE TO FORCE TRANSGENDER POLICIES: ACTIVIST PARENTS SAY

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack addressing the press.
(Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

On “Life, Liberty & Levin,” Noem added that there has overall been a shift in how she deals with the federal government, from the Trump to Biden administrations.

Under Trump, South Dakota was able to be “on offense” with the support of the White House, while in cases such as the school lunch directive, it requires her administration to be on defense.

“So it never ends. My best opportunity for pushing back on this federal government the way it operates in Joe Biden’s America is to take them to court and sue them,” she said.

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“But unfortunately, what happens then is I end up on defense all day just trying to protect my people from the high inflation, from the high taxes, the high food costs that they’re dealing with each and every day that hurt their budget so badly.”

Under Trump, she said she was “out there with a president that was letting me do my job, and I was able to focus on economic development, focus on making sure that our state was low, regulations that we were low taxed.”

“It’s been a complete fundamental change since Joe Biden went into the White House,” Noem said, adding that nonetheless, South Dakota is thriving under conservative governance at the state level.

“We’re leading the country with our economy. Our kids are outperforming kids in every other state. And the educational outcomes. I have less than 700 people in South Dakota that are on unemployment today because when the president offered those elevated unemployment benefits, we were the only state that said, no, thank you.”

Charles Creitz is a reporter for Fox News Digital.

Technology

Hell Let Loose Review – Capsule Computers

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developer: Black Matter
publisher:Team17
platforms: Xbox Series X, PlayStation 5, PC (Reviewed)
release date: 27 July 2021
Price: $39.99 USD – Available Here

Overview

What is one thing that draws you to multiplayer games? Graphics, attention to detail, gore, atmosphere? I suppose if either of those listed is done well, that’s enough to pull you in on your own. But for me, the feeling of greatness is another selling point. Knowing that you’re a nobody, one of the hundreds or thousands in a large-scale multiplayer skirmish. Knowing that your life might end instantly with one well-placed sniper bullet shot from miles away. Or one well-aimed mortar shell could take you and 5-6 people around you. The stakes are so but so is the reward. If anything I wrote so far resonates with you, then you might also see why Hell Let Loose might be your cup of tea.

Story

Story? Whatstory? This is a multiplayer-driven game after all so any kind of story depends on your imagination and level of immersion. You can pretend to be one of those unfortunate soldiers in the opening minutes of Saving Private Ryan or as a sniper from Behind Enemy Lines. There is a significant selection of roles that you can take including an officer, medic, machinegunner, commander, crewman, and sniper. In the end, your level of immersion and self-made storytelling is only limited by your imagination. In other words, a perfect game for Second World War LARPing.

gameplay

What separates Hell Let Loose from the rest? Complete mayhem, large-scale battles, and a complete lack of visual gimmick that you see in every shooter nowadays. As of right now, the game offers two modes: offensive and warfare. Nine maps in epic 50 vs 50 multiplayer battles and a decent selection of vehicles as a bonus. This is a barebone shooting sim in the best way imaginable. No hit markers or any sort of visual help telling you that you hit your target but there is far more focus on recoil and different weaponry. Every weapon and playing class is a story for itself. Now……why this game might not be everyone’s cup of tea?

Insanely high learning curve. In the first few battles, you’ll have no idea where you are, or where you should even go. There’s very little handholding in terms of objectives and map guidance. The best strategy in the first few hours is just to stick to someone more experienced, follow them, and try to stay alive as long as possible. With all that said, this is a game that really benefits from voice communication. Every single server I joined had a couple of people on my team coordinating attacks and planning defenses through voice chat. The battles are somewhat long, from 45 minutes to an hour on average, so this isn’t a game where you can just rush in, stack up a few killstreaks and watch that level-up bar greatly fills up after every match. This is a game that rewards communication, coordination, and patience.

visuals

This is a tricky bit. The visuals in Hell Let Loose isn’t something that I could broadly define since, strangely enough, they depend on whatever map I’m currently in. It’s interesting, really. Feels like every map was done by a different dev team. Some have a crazy attention to detail and intricate level designs while in others I managed to stumble upon some rather grainy textures and copy-paste structures. I would like to single out the Omaha Beach map as one of my favorites. Everything from level design to atmosphere is top-notch, especially if you manage to get into a 100 players server. The feeling of being an expendable nobody while mortar shells are falling all around you and with plans flying over is something that you have to experience for yourself.

Audio

There is good attention to detail when it comes to weapons, level atmosphere, and vehicle sounds. Strangely, this is one of the few games where I’m perfectly fine with the absence of climactic music (and music in general) since it only adds to the realism. Every weapon is a story for itself not only when it comes to handling but also regarding sound design. After a while, you’ll get so familiar with some that you’ll eventually be able to recognize MG42 from afar.

Overall

There is only one thing you should know before starting Hell Let Loose. Know what you’re getting into. This isn’t a game for instant gratification or one that rewards going full Rambo. Another one would be – unity in numbers. You won’t get far alone. You’re a nobody just like everyone else and not some future hero. This is a game that requires a great deal of patience from you and knowing how to take a loss. In Hell Let Loose you play to learn and only later you get to play to win.

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Entertainment

How Aussie Lego lovers are celebrating toy brand’s 90th birthday

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The world’s favorite toy is turning 90!

It’s a toy that’s become synonymous with play all around the world, now the LEGO Group is celebrating 90 years as a company.

Over the decades, Lego has gone from strength-to-strength, becoming a multi-billion dollar empire.

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The world's favorite toy is turning 90! — The world’s favorite toy is turning 90! (A Current Affair)

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LEGO Australia's Angie Tutt. — LEGO Australia’s Angie Tutt. (A Current Affair)

A Current Affair has joined LEGO to take a look back at the company’s history, dating back to 1932.

Starting from humble beginnings in a Denmark workshop, a carpenter started carving and selling wooden toys.

But Ole Kirk Kristiansen’s real success wouldn’t come for another 17 years when the famous brick we all know and love were born, in 1949.

“I bet back then they wouldn’t have thought how big the Lego company would be after introducing that brick. And I guess the rest you could say, is history right?” LEGO Australia’s Angie Tutt told A Current Affair.

“I think the success really lies down to the magic of this brick, a very simple brick,” she said.

There’s an incredible 70 billion pieces of Lego sold every year.

There are also more LEGO mini figures on earth than there are humans, with 8.3 billion LEGO people in circulation.

“If you look at everything we’ve launched across time, it’s around 18-thousand products we have bought to market in our history so quite a lot going on,” she said.

Miller Keys is the only LEGO Master Builder in all of Australia, the 24-year-old says he has built many sets since he was a child.

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“It’s like art, like painting but you don’t need to know how to paint. You just need to know how to click two bricks together and then you can build anything – that’s what makes it cool,” he told A Current Affair.

Keys works at Melbourne’s Legoland Discovery Center at Chadstone Shopping Centre.

“When I was four and playing around with LEGO, if I would have known it would become my full-time job it would have absolutely blown my mind,” he said.

Inside the Legoland Discovery Center is a whole world of LEGO, including a recreation of Melbourne, made up of 1.5 million bricks.

Keys says it took builders 5000 hours to assemble it all.

These days, the toy juggernaut is more than just bricks.

There are 830 Lego stores globally, dozens of blockbuster movies and TV shows about Lego and in more recent years, intricate sets designed specifically for adults.

“What everybody doesn’t really do enough these days is play. So that’s what makes Lego really awesome as well – it can bring adults back to their childhood as well,” Keys said.

Over the decades, Lego has gone from strength-to-strength, becoming a multi-billion dollar empire. (A Current Affair)

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So what’s next for LEGO?

While they couldn’t reveal to us exactly what was to come, Tutt says next year we can expect a few surprises.

“In 2023 you need to look out for new partnerships we’ve got coming, definitely some new products and new ideas and we really want to get back out into Australian communities and get bricks in hands,” she said.

To celebrate its 90 years, LEGO is releasing some classic LEGO sets and encouraging fans to play for 90 minutes on August 10.

Sports

Supercars Race 22 red-flagged after startline shunt

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Race 22 of the Repco Supercars Championship at The Bend has been red-flagged after Thomas Randle stalled and was shunted by Andre Heimgartner.

Tickford Racing’s Randle had qualified second but could not get the #55 Castrol Mustang away from its grid box when the lights went out on the gantry.

Heimgartner (#8 R&J Batteries ZB Commodore), who started from Row 6, was unable to avoid the stricken Ford and ploughed into the back of it.

Nick Percat (#2 Mobil 1 NTI ZB Commodore) also sustained damage when Randle’s car cannoned into the side of his as he sped through the scene on drivers’ left.

Heimgartner and Randle both walked walk away from the wrecks, although the former looked particularly sore/winded, while Percat came to a halt at Turn 1.

The session is set to eventually go to a full restart, with Cameron Waters on pole position in one of the surviving Tickford Mustangs.

Up to 22 laps will be run, although time-certainty of 13:33 local time/14:03 AEST (plus one lap) may prevent the contest from reaching that distance.

Meanwhile, Red Bull Ampol Racing has fitted a new front bar to Shane van Gisbergen’s #97 ZB Commodore after he incurred damage in a separate incident further up.

He and James Courtney (#5 Snowy River Caravans Mustang) made contact on the run to Turn 1 which caused the New Zealander to swipe the rear of Waters’ #6 Monster Energy Mustang.

Update 13:16 AEST

The field has headed back onto the race track.

Update 13:20 AEST

Five-minute signal.

Update 13:23 AEST

Time-certainty now 13:30 local time plus one lap.

Update 13:29 AEST

Race has restarted.

Australia

Underground bikie bunker found as $5m in drugs seized across NSW and Queensland

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Almost $5 million worth of drugs have been seized and more than 60 people have been arrested during a police operation to crack down on a major crime syndicate in queensland and New South Wales.

Police from NSW and south-east Queensland targeted criminal networks in the Northern rivers and Gold Coast border region.

Over the two-week period of “Operation Viking” authorities attended properties in Grafton, Tweed Heads and Ewingsdale, Bilambil Heights, and Carrara.

Some of the items seized during operation viking in NSW and Queensland — Seven firearms were seized over the two week period. (NSW Police)

Officers located more than 40 firearms, more than $150,000 cash, luxury cars and jewelry, and a variety of prohibited drugs including methylamphetamine, cocaine, GHB, and cannabis.

Police believe the number of drugs seized has a combined estimated street value of $4.5 million.

Of note during the raids, police found two hydroponic cannabis grow labs in Carrara and 2.5 kilograms of cannabis.

They also found and seized chemicals and equipment used to make drugs at Seelands, near Grafton.

NSW Police Acting Assistant Commissioner Jason Weinstein added an underground bunker used for Mongols bikie gang meetings was also discovered in the Grafton area

“It was a residential property and they had created a bunker and inside that bunker was Mongols memorabilia, there was a bar, a motorbike,” he said.

Police uncover Mongols bikie hide out in northern NSW (NSW Police)

“It was a location where the Mongols in that particular chapter believed they were free from police activity where they could congregate, talk about business and socialize.”

I have added about 40 per cent of bike groups are operating in the NSW northern region.

“The problem is quite large,” he said.

Weinstein said 13 people in NSW were arrested during the operation.

Meanwhile, Queensland Police Assistant Commissioner Katherine Innes said 54 people were arrested.

“It wasn’t solely to arrest offenders it was to gain a significant intelligence briefing about what the crime landscape is in the northern borders and Queensland and what connection they have to transnational crime entities,” Weinstein said.

Weinstein said the operation has put a dent in illegal activities between NSW and Queensland.

“The northern border zone has the state’s largest OMCG population with a significant crossover between NSW and QLD,” he said.

“We know criminal organizations were establishing themselves across the North Coast because of its lucrative drug market and a perceived idea the area is relatively free of scrutiny from law enforcement.

Guns seized during NSW and Queensland raids (NSW Police)

“I’m confident that following these two weeks that perception has changed.”

Innes said the operation should “serve as a warning” to anyone looking to carry out illegal criminal activity along the border.

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