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Australia skipper Cameron Smith lands another Golden Boot

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Australia captain Cameron Smith has been topped Golden Boot winner for the second time. The 34-year-old hooker became the world’s best player after beating off competition from England winger Jermaine McGillvary, his Melbourne team-mate Suliasi Vunivalu and Tonga forward jason Taumalolo to win the award, that was given at a World Cup lunch in Brisbane. Smith, who initial won the Golden Boot in 2007, captained his club to the nrl premiership and Queensland to a State of Origin series convert New South Wales and can aim to cap off the most effective year of his career by leading the Kangaroos in their World Cup title defence against England at Suncorp sports stadium on Saturday.

Australian shares set to open higher

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THE Australian share market appearance set to open firmly higher, dismissing the pervasive risk aversion seen on international markets amid falls in commodities. At 0726 AEDT on Thursday, the share worth futures index was up nineteen points, or 0.32 per cent, at 5,961. Oil costs have fallen for four straight days whereas metals have additionally dropped as information from China indicated the economy of the world’s high client was slowing. Following the negative trend of different international markets, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down zero.40 per cent, the S&P five hundred was down zero.38 per cent and therefore the NASDAQ Composite was down zero.24 per cent at in late trading. Locally, in economic news on Thursday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases October’s labour force figures. In equities news, Domain lists on the ASX when being spun off from Fairfax Media. Commonwealth Bank, BHP Billiton, Harvey Norman, Seven cluster, Ramsay Health and News corp...

Young Melbourne boy critical after being rescued from a hot car

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An 8 year old boy is fighting for his life when reportedly being found unfree in an exceedingly hot car in Melbourne’s southwest. Police, firefighters and paramedics hurried to Maddox Rd in Newport around 2.40pm, when reports of a baby unfree in an exceedingly vehicle. An ambulance Victoria representative aforesaid paramedics treated a toddler at the scene and took him to the Royal Children’s Hospital in an exceedingly critical condition. The city has sweltered through a viciously hot spring day with the mercury hit thirty three degrees. Victoria Police say detectives ar investigation when a toddler was set in an exceedingly car. “Emergency services were known as once the eight-year-old boy was placed unresponsive in an exceedingly car by one of his parents at concerning 2.45pm,” a police spokesperson aforementioned. “The boy was transported to hospital in an exceedingly important condition. “It is unclear at this point however the boy came to be within the car but the incide...