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Nearly 23 years since North Sydney played their last premiership game, Greg Florimo remembers it like yesterday, and holds out hope that his beloved Bears may still have more tomorrow. After giving the Bears 13 years of blood, sweat and tears in a record 285 games, Florimo holds a special place in foundation club folklore, including being the only North Sydney player to earn a perfect ’10’ rating from Rugby League Week magazine. As the game celebrates the achievements of its past champions in the Retro Round, the man they call ‘Flo’ reflects proudly on the day he attacked arch-rival Manly at Bear Park in 1997, trying to score and set it up as the Norths salute 41-8. From time Rugby League Week Launched in 1970, Player Ratings has become one of the magazine’s most widely read and debated features – by fans and players alike. The tough guy Terry Randall had the honor of earning a first ’10’ after overcoming himself stalled against St George in the opening round of the 1978 season. A we

There is chaos out there for travelers, but there are ways you can prepare. Photo: Jason South An hour and a half. That’s how long it took me to leave Sydney Airport a few weeks ago. One and a half hour. Ninety minutes. To go. Not to check in and go through security and board the plane. Just to grab my bag and jump in the car and leave. It was raining, so my plan to escape with my kids from the back row of the plane straight out the back door was thwarted. We were the last to get off. Then we had to wait for our baggage (which, in Virgin Australia’s judgment, finally turned up). And then we step outside to the mother of all traffic jams, absolute traffic jams, which doesn’t move a centimeter for good. Nightmare. Happy traveling in the post-middle era of this pandemic. It’s wild out there. Difficult. Airlines are struggling, going through a mix of bad luck and bad decisions. Airports are crazy. Luggage is missing. Flight is being cancelled. The queue is ridi

Since its discovery in 2012, the Higgs boson has become one of the most powerful tools for investigating our understanding of nature and, with it, examining some of the biggest open questions in physics today. But what have we physicists learned about particles in the last ten years? Scalar particles exist in nature In the early hours of July 4, 2012, the foyer outside CERN’s main lecture hall looked more like a venue for a rock concert than the main building of the world’s leading particle physics laboratory. Dozens of students with groggy eyes slowly rolled up their sleeping bags, stretching after a long night on the hard floor. A long line of hundreds weaved through the foyer, around the restaurant and outside the door. The excitement in the line was throbbing – although the chances of getting into the auditorium were slim, just to be there was already thrilling. We’ve found it. A scalar particle exists in nature and July 4, 2012 is its debut. It’s heavy and short lived The fi

A worker at an outsourcing firm Qantas has registered to replace Aussie staff has claimed the national carrier lost ‘one in 10’ baggage bags – although the company vehemently denies that figure. The ‘spirit of Australia’ was brought to justice by the Transport Workers Union in late 2020 when it was ruled that the airline had illegally fired nearly 2,000 baggage handlers, cleaners and ground staff before shifting their jobs to foreign-owned providers including Swissport. The Swiss company has since been forced to seek employment firms, some of which are not aviation-specific, to manage worker shortages for Qantas and Jetstar flights – a decision that infuriated company staff who accused them of being poorly trained and up to 10 percent of all misplaced luggage. “I would tell everyone, don’t check-in bags when you fly with Qantas now, or even better if you can avoid it, don’t fly Qantas at all,” an anonymous Swissport worker told The Guardian. A Swissport baggage clerk who works at