In today’s news, a judge is delivering his verdict in Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation trial, another victim of Bondi’s knife attacker has been named, and Chanticleer looks at the effects of Iran’s attack on Israel.Australia’s sharemarket had fallen 0.5 per cent to 7746 points near noon AEST, weighed down by interest rate sensitive technology stocks. WiseTech dropped 1.2 per cent.
The US has highlighted its role in helping Israel thwart Iran’s aerial attack as Joe Biden convened G7 leaders in an effort to co-ordinate a global rebuke of Tehran.Much more than shed his tag as a one-major wonder, Scottie Scheffler’s third victory of the year has placed him in Tiger Woods-like company.Far from rescuing golf, he has plunged it into a profound crisis, where many of the game’s leading men are squirrelled away on a tour whose TV ratings are pathetically low.