RUGBY LEAGUE BOSS: OUR PLAYERS ARE NOT THUGS 

The ARL Commission boss nsists the NRL is not gripped by a player-behaviour crisis following recent off-field scandals that have tainted the code’s stars as lawless louts. 

 Families will get a small return on their favourite tipple  with the State Government expanding the Return And Earn recycling scheme to include booze. 

Two-time Golden Slipper winning horse trainer Gary Portelli has been attacked at an Illawarra racecourse, with a man charged over the alleged assault. 

Doctors are sounding a warning about the growing misuse of a common over the counter cough medicine as a way to get high. 

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