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The Advertiser
18 hours ago
- Sport
- The Advertiser
NBL and WNBL HoopsFest returns with a twist
Basketball's HoopsFest will involve a joint round of NBL and WNBL regular-season games for the first time when it returns to Perth next summer. After opening the NBL season in September last year, with the WNBL still in its pre-season phase, the basketball showpiece has been shifted to a new January slot for the 2025/26 season. It will feature all NBL and WNBL teams from January 15-18, coinciding with school holidays. The schedule will assist the NBL in planning around the unavailability of venues in Melbourne at that time of year because of the Australian Open tennis. "We are delighted to be heading back to Perth for HoopsFest, after what was an incredible experience last year," NBL CEO David Stevenson said. "The shift to the January school holiday period is a great result for basketball fans all around the country, and for those wanting to experience the best of basketball and all it has to offer, then HoopsFest is not to be missed. "This year, we're particularly excited to host the first ever joint round of the Hungry Jack's NBL and WNBL regular season matches, making it an even more historic event for our sport." HoopsFest will begin with two games on January 15, when the hometown Perth Lynx host reigning WNBL champions Bendigo Spirit. The opener will be followed by an NBL clash between the Sydney Kings and Brisbane Bullets. Double-headers could be played at Perth Arena. Games were also played at the Perth High Performance Centre and Bendat Basketball Centre last year. The HoopsFest shift comes after the NBL took over running of the WNBL ahead of the upcoming season. Basketball's HoopsFest will involve a joint round of NBL and WNBL regular-season games for the first time when it returns to Perth next summer. After opening the NBL season in September last year, with the WNBL still in its pre-season phase, the basketball showpiece has been shifted to a new January slot for the 2025/26 season. It will feature all NBL and WNBL teams from January 15-18, coinciding with school holidays. The schedule will assist the NBL in planning around the unavailability of venues in Melbourne at that time of year because of the Australian Open tennis. "We are delighted to be heading back to Perth for HoopsFest, after what was an incredible experience last year," NBL CEO David Stevenson said. "The shift to the January school holiday period is a great result for basketball fans all around the country, and for those wanting to experience the best of basketball and all it has to offer, then HoopsFest is not to be missed. "This year, we're particularly excited to host the first ever joint round of the Hungry Jack's NBL and WNBL regular season matches, making it an even more historic event for our sport." HoopsFest will begin with two games on January 15, when the hometown Perth Lynx host reigning WNBL champions Bendigo Spirit. The opener will be followed by an NBL clash between the Sydney Kings and Brisbane Bullets. Double-headers could be played at Perth Arena. Games were also played at the Perth High Performance Centre and Bendat Basketball Centre last year. The HoopsFest shift comes after the NBL took over running of the WNBL ahead of the upcoming season. Basketball's HoopsFest will involve a joint round of NBL and WNBL regular-season games for the first time when it returns to Perth next summer. After opening the NBL season in September last year, with the WNBL still in its pre-season phase, the basketball showpiece has been shifted to a new January slot for the 2025/26 season. It will feature all NBL and WNBL teams from January 15-18, coinciding with school holidays. The schedule will assist the NBL in planning around the unavailability of venues in Melbourne at that time of year because of the Australian Open tennis. "We are delighted to be heading back to Perth for HoopsFest, after what was an incredible experience last year," NBL CEO David Stevenson said. "The shift to the January school holiday period is a great result for basketball fans all around the country, and for those wanting to experience the best of basketball and all it has to offer, then HoopsFest is not to be missed. "This year, we're particularly excited to host the first ever joint round of the Hungry Jack's NBL and WNBL regular season matches, making it an even more historic event for our sport." HoopsFest will begin with two games on January 15, when the hometown Perth Lynx host reigning WNBL champions Bendigo Spirit. The opener will be followed by an NBL clash between the Sydney Kings and Brisbane Bullets. Double-headers could be played at Perth Arena. Games were also played at the Perth High Performance Centre and Bendat Basketball Centre last year. The HoopsFest shift comes after the NBL took over running of the WNBL ahead of the upcoming season.
Perth Now
18 hours ago
- Sport
- Perth Now
NBL and WNBL HoopsFest returns with a twist
Basketball's HoopsFest will involve a joint round of NBL and WNBL regular-season games for the first time when it returns to Perth next summer. After opening the NBL season in September last year, with the WNBL still in its pre-season phase, the basketball showpiece has been shifted to a new January slot for the 2025/26 season. It will feature all NBL and WNBL teams from January 15-18, coinciding with school holidays. The schedule will assist the NBL in planning around the unavailability of venues in Melbourne at that time of year because of the Australian Open tennis. "We are delighted to be heading back to Perth for HoopsFest, after what was an incredible experience last year," NBL CEO David Stevenson said. "The shift to the January school holiday period is a great result for basketball fans all around the country, and for those wanting to experience the best of basketball and all it has to offer, then HoopsFest is not to be missed. "This year, we're particularly excited to host the first ever joint round of the Hungry Jack's NBL and WNBL regular season matches, making it an even more historic event for our sport." HoopsFest will begin with two games on January 15, when the hometown Perth Lynx host reigning WNBL champions Bendigo Spirit. The opener will be followed by an NBL clash between the Sydney Kings and Brisbane Bullets. Double-headers could be played at Perth Arena. Games were also played at the Perth High Performance Centre and Bendat Basketball Centre last year. The HoopsFest shift comes after the NBL took over running of the WNBL ahead of the upcoming season.
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Aussie job warning ahead of 'huge' shift: 'Can't even imagine yet'
Australians are being warned the opportunities of artificial intelligence are 'immense' but there is no denying it will cost some jobs. It comes as the head of one of the world's biggest AI labs predicts the technology could eliminate half of all entry-level, white-collar jobs within the next five years. Niusha Shafiabady, associate professor in computational intelligence at Australian Catholic University, told Yahoo Finance the jobs of the future would be different from the types of jobs that we have now. But she said this was something we'd experienced 'throughout the history of human life'. 'I think it's important for the kids to understand that we will have much fewer entry-level jobs and new roles will emerge. We should start thinking about our careers smartly from now on and plan our career properly,' she said. RELATED Millions of Aussies warned as Hungry Jack's replaces drive-thru workers with AI Centrelink cash boost coming from July 1 for millions of Aussies Aussie teen's job paying $300 per hour without a uni degree Australia's productivity commissioner Danielle Wood said the forecast that half of entry-level white-collar jobs would be wiped out was 'pretty extraordinary' and 'out of whack with other reasonable projections' she had seen. But she said there were some elements of jobs that would be overtaken by AI. 'Often it is the more routine elements but that is freeing people up to do the uniquely human parts of jobs,' Wood told ABC's 7.30 program. 'Am I going to sit here and say, 'No jobs are going to go?' No, clearly not. There will be some impacts.' Anthropic chief executive officer Dario Amodei recently warned politicians and businesses were not prepared for the spike in unemployment rates that AI could bring. 'AI is starting to get better than humans at almost all intellectual tasks, and we're going to collectively, as a society, grapple with it,' he told CNN's Anderson Cooper. 'AI is going to get better at what everyone does, including what I do, including what other CEOs do.' Unions will be pushing to regulate AI in the workplace at the upcoming productivity summit. It wants the government to enforce a 'digital just transition' for workers impacted by AI, similar to measures for coal and gas-fired power jobs impacted by the shift to renewables. They will also be pushing to gain a greater share of productivity benefits through higher pay. The World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Report has estimated 92 million jobs will be lost in this decade, with 170 million new jobs created. This would leave a net worth of 78 million by 2030. Bloomberg found AI could replace more than 50 per cent of the tasks performed by market research analysts and sales representatives, compared to 9 and 21 per cent for their managerial counterparts. Wood said AI offered a 'huge amount of opportunity' and there would be jobs created that 'we can't even imagine yet'. 'I think probably the major impact on labour markets we'd expect in the next decade is more people working with AI to take some bits of their job but free them up,' she said. 'From an economy-wide perspective as well, the opportunities are immense. When we look at productivity gains, gains in our living standards have come from over the long run, it is largely those new technologies.' Shafiabady said we would need specialists in automation, those with skills to work with and analyse data, along with more cybersecurity experts. 'The closer we are to making strategic decisions in the organisation and critical thinking skills, the safer our job will be,' she in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data
