RARE PHOTOS: 5 - The Real Truth

She's so proud: Hayley hails her boy as Kai fires

Swimmer Kai Taylor has had a tough act to follow as his mum was a Commonwealth Games legend, but he's made his own name in a breakout week in Glasgow.

AAP · Jul 29

Steel trap: Australia must make green metal or risk ore

Australia's richest export market could be at risk unless it takes urgent action to manufacture green steel on home soil, according to a study.

AAP · Jul 29

Thorpe mark falls, swimmers pocket $1.27m in bonuses

Australia's dominance in the Glasgow pool has ended with a record-breaking haul of gold, as Kyle Chalmers seized a Commonwealth Games record held by Ian Thorpe.

AAP · Jul 29

'I have to be realist': Chalmers on Olympic future

Competing at the Commonwealth Games as a dad, Australia's freestyle star Kyle Chalmers says his priorities have shifted ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Games.

AAP · Jul 28

'My time': young gun usurps Chalmers in 100m free final

Freestyle king Kyle Chalmers has missed out on becoming Australia's most bemedalled male Commonwealth Games swimmer, finishing third in the 100m final.

AAP · Jul 28

'Why not me?': Hayman lifts Aussie weightlifting mood

Nya Hayman has won a breakthrough bronze to turn around the Glasgow campaign for the Australian women's Commonwealth Games weightlifters.

AAP · Jul 28

Disco demolition as Wilson misses Games medal

Australian bowls star Aaron Wilson is weighing up his future in the sport after failing to win a medal at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games.

AAP · Jul 28

'Runway's looking red-hot': Cam's gold Brisbane vision

Australia's dominant Commonwealth Games swimmers are laying down a marker for a Brisbane Olympics super show, says the ever-golden Cam McEvoy.

AAP · Jul 28

Tears flow as Aussie turns 'horror movie' into gold

After fearing he'd never walk again following a gruesome knee injury, Australian swimmer Sam Williamson has claimed his another Commonwealth Games gold medal.

AAP · Jul 27

Mollie outgunned, Aussies reach new heights in Glasgow

Mollie O'Callaghan has been dethroned as Commonwealth Games 100m freestyle champ as Australia's swimmers grabbed a staggering 15 medals on day four in Glasgow.

AAP · Jul 27