Last regular rounds before the finals. The final eights of both competitions are settled, with a few points of interest about the order of both eights, with really only Fremantle sitting pretty. NRL (last round 6/8; season tally 109/176) Brisbane Easts Newcastle Saint George North Queensland Canberra Manly Canterbury AFL (last round 6/9; season tally …

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The Oxford Australia blog features a word-of-the-month that began as an acronym: CUB – cashed-up bogan. Apparently CUB is included in the second edition of the Australian National Dictionary, so that makes it a word, I guess. The article tries to make the case that the term has transformed from a derogatory pejorative to a …

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