John Baldock

The long-term future of the Murugappan family remains uncertain, after they were issued with temporary bridging visas to facilitate their return to the central Queensland town of Biloela next month.

Australian Rugby's success in securing the hosting rights to the men's and women's World Cups in 2027 and 2029 has been hailed as a golden opportunity to boost the game.

Former Houston Rockets centre Zhou Qi is set to feature during the NBL season, and it’s his standing as one of China’s best players that has caught the eye of the community in Australia.

At just 17 years of age Shafali Verma is a cricket star on the rise. The Indian batter is one of 8 Indian players in the Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL) this season and she's already shown her worth by helping the Sydney Sixers towards the top of the table. But it wasn't just cricket skills that…

It's an Olympic journey they were destined to make together. But neither Kai Sakakibara or his sister Saya could have known that shared dream would leave one of them fighting for their life while the other prayed for their recovery. The reason Tokyo meant so much to them wasn't just the shot at Olympic glory. Born to a Japanese mother and British father on the Gold Coast, the siblings moved to Tokyo when Saya was just one year old and Kai was four. The family spent the next six years t…

The unprecedented delay of the Tokyo Olympics has impacted athletes here and around the world.

Any contact sport carries a physical risk but while a broken bone will eventually heal, the effects of concussions can be more insidious.  That's why the Australian Sports Brain Bank (ASBB) is calling for funding from the government and professional sporting bodies to allow the rise of CTE, or Chronic Traumatic Encepalopathy, to be better traced and understood. CTE is a degenerative brain disease caused by repetitive head trauma, which includes both concussions that cause symptoms and…

This time last year, Hemi Martyn’s life took a turn for the better. He'd dropped out of his mainstream school due to behavioural issues around his inability to control his anger and The John Berne School became the environment he needed in which to hit the restart button.  “It’s probably the best thing that’s happened in my life so far,” the 15-year-old told SBS News. The school in Lewisham, in Sydney’s inner west, helps prepare students with c…

Andrew Walker will say goodbye to rugby union this weekend at the very place where it all began. He'll line up against Argentina for his old club, Randwick, 31 years after first discovering his love of the game. As a teenager, he was taken to watch Randwick play the New Zealand All Blacks - and it was then that rugby union was planted firmly at the centre of his being.  In the intervening 30 years, Walker went on to represent Australia at both rugby league and rugby union and he is the…

Paul Wade used his sporting skill to become a Socceroos captain. He used his courage to recover from major brain surgery. Now he's using those two significant events to reach out to the most vulnerable in society.