Canberra Raiders NRL News

Xavier Savage, a Cairns native, connects deeply with his Torres Strait heritage and ancestral land.

The Daily Telegraph

Xavier Savage has a premiership trophy with the ladder-leaders at the forefront of his mind.

But lingering in the back is a piece of land in the Torres Strait Islands.

Born and raised in Cairns, Savage grew up in a big family that already had strong ties to their Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.

A life-changing journey to the Torres Strait as a 15-year-old only deepened that connection.

Savage met local elders, who revealed his ancestral bond to the Islands went back six generations and that his family owned a parcel of land that had sat untouched for decades.

The 23-year-old...

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The NRL season heats up, with tight playoff races and certain fan disappointment.

Fox League

We are two-thirds through the 2025 NRL season, with just nine rounds remaining as the race for finals spots heats up.

Raiders and Storm fans can already rejoice, with your teams rated a 100% chance of making the eight, with the Bulldogs and Warriors also more or less guaranteed to be playing finals.

Entering Round 19, only six points separate the fifth-placed Broncos (22pts) and 15th-placed Parramatta Eels (16pts).

The
Fox Sports Lab
has crunched the numbers to produce every team's top eight and top four chances as well as the likelihood of winning the minor premiership which, for now, appears to be a race between three.

Look away if you are a Titans or Rabbitohs fan, as according to the
Lab
, your season is all but done, although you probably knew that already.

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Josh Papalii's son Noah became a star during Origin, touching hearts with a tribute on TV.

The Daily Telegraph

It was the tear-jerking comment that broke a nation's hearts.

Queensland enforcer Josh Papalii's young son Noah became the unexpected star of State of Origin after a touching tribute to his baby brother before three million TV viewers on Wednesday night.

The Maroons prop savoured the ultimate Origin swansong, coming out of retirement to help inspire Queensland's 24-12 defeat of NSW to win the 2025 series decider at Sydney's Accor Stadium.

The 33-year-old later conducted an interview with Channel 9 to reflect on the epic win, but Papalii Jnr stole the show when he was suddenly asked...

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