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BTN Newsbreak 22/07/2025
BULLYING REPORT First up, to a report on bullying, which has been published by Kids Helpline. Bullying's always been a big problem here in Australia, but new data suggests the problem is getting worse. Stats show that more people are calling Kids Helpline to report bullying and distressing thoughts than at the peak of COVID lockdowns, and it's not the only data reflecting this trend. Experts aren't 100% sure why this is happening, but they say tech likely plays a big part, given more young people are being exposed to harsh content online, and it's easier to bully anonymously. It's why the Federal Government launched an Anti-Bullying Review earlier this year. The goal? Come up with a national standard to better respond to bullying in schools. PARLIAMENT SITS Today marked the first day of the 48th Parliament of Australia. It's been about 11 weeks since Anthony Albanese's Labor government won the election, and it was a chocka-block first day back. And all 150 members of the lower house were sworn in. Milton Dick was voted in unopposed as speaker of the house of representatives for a second term, and the Governor General gave speeches to both the senate and the lower house. CLIMATE CRICKET A new report has come out that looks at how climate change is impacting cricket. This report was commissioned to investigate crickets new 'ultimate test': rising temperatures. It looked at a bunch of cricket games, from international to local, alongside weather conditions, and found that extreme weather is a big threat to cricket. In fact, it found that more than half of the games during the 2025 IPL were played during conditions classed as Extreme Caution or Danger which just means any temperature over 32.3 degrees! As we know, conditions like this can be dangerous, and can lead to fatigue, sunstroke and heat exhaustion. This isn't the first time we've seen heat impact sports, particularly summer sports, and this report's far from being the only one on the matter. Even the Olympics last year developed a special action plan ahead of the Paris Games to minimise heat risks. The hope is that reports like this one can help us learn how to make sport safer by making recommendations and heat policy guidelines so that we can keep watching and playing the sports that we love. BEAR DRILLS First up, to Japan where police are conducting a series of bear drills to help people know what to do in the event of an attack, including using fireworks to scare them off. Recently, there have been a rise in wild bear attacks on humans over there, and sightings are up almost 3 times what they were this time last year. So, training couldn't come at a better time. BATTERY-CHANGING ROBOT Now to a robotics company in China, which claims to have made the first robot in the world capable of changing its own batteries without shutting down or needing any help from humans. Allowing it stay focused on what's really important: working, working and working. JANE AUSTEN CELEBRATION And finally to the UK, where dozens of people have dressed up in 19th-century attire and headed to the house where iconic novelist Jane Austen used to live 200 odd years ago. It's all to celebrate Austen's life and works.
News.com.au
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Canterbury best bets, inside mail for Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Form expert Adam Sherry analyses the seven-race card at Canterbury on Wednesday, presenting his best bets, quaddie picks and inside mail. • PUNT LIKE A PRO: Become a Racenet iQ member and get expert tips – with fully transparent return on investment statistics – from Racenet's team of professional punters at our Pro Tips section. SUBSCRIBE NOW! â– â– â– â– â– BEST BET Race 4 No.5 AMREEKIYAH: Went back-to-back in her first campaign. Can remain unbeaten. NEXT BEST Race 5 No.1 NO DRAMA: Loves racing here. Narrowly beaten last start and can go one better. VALUE BET Race 7 No.10 KENMARE BAY: Was good winning at his first run here two starts back. Go close again. QUADDIE Race 4: 1, 5 Race 5: 1, 3, 8 Race 6: 1, 2, 10 Race 7: 3, 7, 10 JOCKEY TO FOLLOW Kerrin McEvoy has some nice rides and looks a good chance in the TAB Jockey Challenge. TRIPLE TWO EIGHT (8) was bumped at the start and settled well back on debut at Warwick Farm. Got the outside and closed strongly in the last 50m for third to Tomato Toastie. Will be improved by the run. MISS JONES (2) led when second behind Glorious Moments over 1200m here on June 18. Returned three weeks later when fourth to Infusion after missing the start. KERBER (5) was specked from $21 into $13 on debut in the Listed Lonhro Plate when ninth to Bellazaine. Closed nicely when fifth in his recent Rosehill trial. BET: TRIPLE TWO EIGHT (8) to win. KOKATAHI (2) was a little green on debut and laid in when a three-quarter length third to Central Coast here on June 18. Had an easy trial at Rosehill before a third to Tomato Toastie at Randwick on July 12. SKYGLIDER (7) is a first starter by Flying Artie from the family of dual Group 1 winner Turffontein. Led and kept under a hold when third to Nashville Jack in his first trial at Rosehill. Sat three-wide outside the leaders and came away to win his second heat. SIXTIES (9) was held up for clear running until the 100m when eighth at Gosford on debut. BET: KOKATAHI (2) to win. MAQUISA (8) was okay first-up when third behind impressive winner Stardeel on the Kensington. Unlucky here last start when held up in the straight and having to change course near the 100m when second to Infusion. KILONOVA (4) won on debut at Rosehill in February before a spell. Led and fought on gamely for a head second to Signor Tortoni when resuming over 1200m here two weeks ago. SHALAA GOLD (2) was rewarded for his consistent form when he ended last campaign with a win from Everybody Rise at Warwick Farm. Nice win from the in-form King Of Roseau in his Randwick trial. BET: MAQUISA (8) each-way. AMREEKIYAH (5) did a nice job to beat the favourite Inevitable Truth on debut ta Kembla and followed up with an all-the-way win from Pinito at Newcastle. Trialling nicely including a closing win from Metaphorically in her Hawkesbury heat. ISLAND DREAM (1) followed a Hawkesbury maiden win with a Benchmark 72 win at Rosehill before stepping up to the Group 3 Kembla Grange Classic when 11th to Verona Rose. RINGAROSA (4) was first-up from a length spell for a new stable when fourth to Romeo's Choice at Warwick Farm three weeks ago. Is a winner at this track and distance and drawn to be prominent. BET: AMREEKIYAH (5) to win. NO DRAMA (1) loves Canterbury where he has two wins and a second from three runs. Led all-the-way for a smart win from Naval Commission over this track and distance in April. Returned to Canterbury on June 18 with a solid half-length second to Nana's Wish. GALANO (1) resumed with a stylish win at Muswellbrook. Has won two from three second-up. Was runner-up to Fay's Angel over 1900m here at the end of last campaign. DELRICO (8) was held up for 150m in the straight when fifth to Centenario here last start. Was a winner here last campaign. BET: NO DRAMA (1) to win. THE REPLICANT (10) has won just three races from 39 starts but has a further 22 placings. Three of those placings have been in his three runs here, the latest a second to Hanau on July 9. Has claims from the inside draw. METAPHORICALLY (1) raced well below his best when last behind Getafix and pulled up 1/5 lame on the Kensington last start. Has since finished second to Amreekiyah in a Hawkesbury trial. Resumed with a head third to The Great Houdini and Puntin here first-up. PRETTY POWERFUL (2) was held up over the final 400m and untested at Randwick last start. Won here last campaign. KENMARE BAY (10) has had a lengthy campaign but continues to race well. Came from midfield and pushed out on the turn to beat Tempranillo over this track and distance on May 28. Was five weeks between runs when third to Nana's Wish at Warwick Farm. HOVLAND (7) was very good winning at Hawkesbury over 1800m then had to change course inside the last 100m when fifth to Monarch's Brae here last start. SLY BOOTS (3) was good late from back in the field when fifth to Puntin over 1400m at Rosehill first-up before a sixth to Oh Diamond Lil over 1600m at Randwick last start.
News.com.au
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Liam Lawson tries to set the record straight after brutal Red Bull demotion
Liam Lawson says he wasn't given time to prove himself at Red Bull Racing before his brutal sacking just two rounds into the season. Lawson was drafted up from Racing Bulls to replace the out-of-favour Sergio Pérez this season, but dire results at the opening Australian and Chinese grands prix convinced Red Bull Racing management to make an emergency change, sending him back to Faenza in exchange for Yuki Tsunoda. Fox Sports, available on Kayo Sports, is the only place to watch every practice, qualifying session and race in the 2025 FIA Formula One World Championship™ LIVE in 4K. New to Kayo? Join now and get your first month for just $1. It was a ruthlessly early move on the Kiwi, who had started just 13 races when he was dropped ahead of the Japanese Grand Prix. Speaking to the F1 website at the halfway mark of the season, Lawson argued that while he accepted his results were poor, he was never given a chance to prove his underperformance was down to insufficient preparation rather than skill. 'I was well aware that those results weren't good enough, but I was just focused on improving, fixing and learning, basically,' he said. 'I was in the same mindset as I have been since I came into F1. 'I think that was the biggest thing going into a team like that, in a car like that it was going to take a bit of time to adjust and learn. 'With no proper testing, the issues in testing, the issues in Melbourne through practice, it wasn't smooth and clean. 'I needed time, and I wasn't given it.' Tsunoda's struggles in his seat have cast Lawson's difficulties in a new light. While the Kiwi's results were considerably poorer, the well-regarded Japanese driver has yet to make a breakthrough with the difficult RB21. On average his results have been similar to those that had Pérez sent packing with two years to run on his contract at the end of last year. But the fact Tsunoda has been unable to perform — despite having been in sizzling form at Racing Bulls in 2024 and the first two rounds of 2025 — has finally forced the team to reckon with a more deeply seated problem than just its second driver. For years the design department has developed an increasingly niche car. Max Verstappen, his abilities preternatural, has been able to master it, but the mere mortal drivers partnered with him have endured greater and greater difficulties behind the wheel. This year even Verstappen has been unable to deliver consistent performances in the car, completing the team's rapid descent from dominant title winner in 2023 to also-ran just two years later. Tsunoda will be given at least until the end of the season, after which the prevalent assumption is he'll be moved on, though a fresh tack under new principal Laurent Mekies could yet change the game. The subsequent events reframed Lawson's struggles — and not just his; Pérez, Alex Albon and Pierre Gasly could all claim some credit back here — in less harsh terms. It's cold comfort for the Kiwi, however, whose career flipped from dazzlingly ascendant to alarmingly precarious less than a fortnight into the season. With Red Bull's next young gun, Arvid Lindblad, in line for promotion to Formula 1 next season, what should have been a dream season could yet turn into a nightmare. Despite Christian Horner, the then Red Bull Racing principal, having claimed Lawson's demotion was an exercise in its 'duty of care to protect and develop Liam', his results remained stubbornly unimpressive upon his return to Racing Bulls. There are several elements that have gone into making him look more ordinary than expected. One is the acclimatisation process. Being thrown from one car to another in the middle of the season is always difficult, and after having struggled with an interrupted pre-season program at Red Bull Racing, having no pre-season at all with Racing Bulls made that challenge steeper. The other is that his teammate, Isack Hadjar, is arguably the standout rookie of the season. The Frenchman has been especially impressive in qualifying, and given the tightness of the midfield, that's made his Sunday results more impressive too. It's been easy to conclude a third reason — that Lawson, after being chewed up and spat out by one of F1's grandees in just two grands prix – had his confidence shattered. Pérez, after all, looked like a broken man in his final months at Red Bull Racing. Lawson, however, denies that psychology has played a role. 'I haven't really talked much about it because I think for a big part of this year I've just ignored everything that happened and I've just focused on trying to drive the car, but I know there was a lot of stuff that went out that was speculation about how I was feeling,' he said. 'My confidence hasn't changed since the start of the year to now. 'One thing to be clear about is that between the first couple of races, to the team switch, then going to Japan, mentally for me nothing changed. 'It's been very heavily speculated that my confidence took a hit and stuff like this, which is completely false. From the start of the year I felt the same as I always have. 'I think in two races, on tracks I'd never been to, it's not really enough for my confidence [to suffer]. 'Maybe six months into a season if I'm still at that level, if the results are still like that, then I'd be feeling something, maybe my confidence would be taking a hit.' Lawson may not have got the time he deserved at Red Bull Racing to make an impression, but he has 12 more grands prix to state his case in a car capable of occasional big results. The pressure's on, but it's up to him to prove he's equal to the challenge.
