Double Bay Today

A Sydney man who only played tennis and chess at school is today referring to the NSW Origin team first as "we." "We absolutely smashed them last night," says Jason Dunn, while dressed head to toe in Blues merchandise. "How good is Origin football?" The NSW Blues thrashed Queensland 50-6 in Townsville last night. "What a night!" Dunn says. "I stayed up...

The 2021 State of Origin series has come to an abrupt end, after Queensland recorded a new case of Covid-19. "We've been left with no other option but to withdraw from the series," says the Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk. It comes after a Melbourne woman, infected with Covid, travelled from Victoria to Queensland by car during lockdown. "Queensland is now on edge,...