• 15-year-old closes on Winter Olympics spot in freeski halfpipe

• Valentino Guseli wins snowboard halfpipe event in Calgary

Fifteen-year-old rookie Indra Brown and comeback kid Valentino Guseli have given Australia a timely golden double with impressive World Cup victories as the Winter Olympics loom large.

Brown maintained her dramatic progression in her first three World Cup career starts, following a bronze medal at Secret Garden in China and silver at Copper Mountain in the US, as Saturday’s freeski halfpipe victory in Calgary, Canada, made her the youngest Australian to win a World Cup event.

Cricketers and fans pay tribute to victims and first responders ahead of play at the SCG

• Ten minutes of terror: how the Bondi mass shooting unfolded in real time – video

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A sold-out SCG crowd roared as Ahmed al-Ahmed, his arm in sling and his hand on his heart, walked onto the pitch just before play began of the final Test of the Ashes series.

The Syrian-born father of two helped disarm one of two gunmen during the Bondi terror attack, and on Sunday took part in the tributes made to the victims and those who risked their lives attending them.

Emergency team were unable to save man trapped in the Curragh mine following the collapse on Friday

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Searchers have found a missing Queensland coalmine worker dead a day after he became trapped in a roof collapse.

The man was inside the Curragh mine in central Queensland when the collapse happened about 3pm on Friday. There were fears he was as deep as 1km underground.