The five-day sale will allow Australian travellers to buy domestic flights for as little as $49, with international flights to Tokyo, Fiji and Samoa also on offer. Virgin Australia will officially unveil its new fleet in Brisbane on Saturday. The airline welcomed its first Boeing 7-3-7 Max from Seattle last week, as part of a … Read more
The Matildas have claimed the biggest win in their history, beating France 7-6 in a penalty shootout to reach the Women’s World Cup semi-finals for the first time. In front of another huge crowd of 49,461 in Brisbane, the Matildas went toe-to-toe against the world’s fifth-ranked team in a back-and-forth clash where both sides had … Read more
There’s an enormous buzz around the Matildas as they prepare for a quarter-final showdown with France, but the host nation will have to win without its most recent scorer at this phase of a World Cup. That player would be Ellyse Perry, who is thrilled by how far women’s football has come in the time … Read more
BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Spoiler alert. Hervé Renard’s French lineup knows what the atmosphere and the tension is like playing a Women’s World Cup quarterfinal on home soil, and is projecting that onto Australia’s Matildas. The French hosted the 2019 tournament and lost in the quarterfinals to the U.S. team, which went on to successfully … Read more