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Jarryd Hayne has been jailed ahead of sentencing after being found guilty on two counts of rape.

Justice Richard Button sent Hayne into custody in the NSW Supreme Court on Friday.

Hayne was "remarkably" still on bail after the 35-year-old disgraced former NRL star was found guilty on two counts of sexual intercourse without consent earlier in April, the judge said.

He sexually assaulted a woman with his hands and mouth after attending her home on the night of the 2018 NRL grand final.

She cannot be identified.

A taxi Hayne paid $550 to drive him to Sydney following a bucks weekend waited outside the suburban Newcastle home while he played the woman songs on a laptop and watched the end of the grand final as her mother sat in the living room.

Following the assault, the pair cleaned blood off of themselves in the woman's ensuite and Hayne continued to Sydney, the trial heard.

Hayne walked out of court escorted by sheriffs into a waiting Audi when he faced a bail review in the District Court two days after a jury returned the guilty verdicts.

He was brought before the Supreme Court for a bail review.

It is "inevitable" Hayne will be jailed, Justice Button said on Friday.

"It is proven that Mr Hayne is a man who sexually assaulted a woman."

The question was when.

Hayne's barrister Margaret Cunneen SC argued there were "special" or "exceptional" circumstances requiring the bail he has complied with for more than four years be continued until he is sentenced in May.

Then he can be almost immediately be classified as a prisoner in need of protection, rather than placed on remand with other prisoners awaiting sentence.

He would be held in "oppressive" and isolated conditions while on remand.

Hayne's crime has attracted an unprecedented amount of attention, more akin to a high-profile murder, and out of proportion with the actual gravity of the two sexual offences he has been found guilty of, she said.

Many details of the case remained unknown to the general public.

"There was a closed court for evidence, as there should be," Ms Cunneen said.

However, it meant a "baying mob" had become involved in a "toxic" social media campaign in response to his crimes, committed over 30 seconds by someone with no other criminal history, Ms Cunneen said.

"Mr Hayne suffers from the default position he is a sex offender of the most debased and worst kind," she said.

The "terrifying" posts also reach the prison population, she said.

Crown prosecutor Brett Hatfield said some of the posts were years old.

The restricted conditions required by his need for protection were no different from others in protective custody or isolation, for various reasons, Mr Hatfield said.

Many offenders have young families whose lives are disrupted by them entering custody.

"It is not by itself special or exceptional such that it would justify being released on bail," he said.

Hayne previously spent more than nine months in custody before an earlier guilty verdict was overturned, requiring the third trial, and the resumption of a prison term.

"To recommence it with something as oppressive as 25 days in isolation, represents something that is exceptional," Ms Cunneen said.

The judge was not convinced.

"The fact is, all prisons are inherently places of deprivation of liberty."

"If Mr Hayne should otherwise be in custody, that circumstance should hardly stand in the way of it," Justice Button said, before revoking Hayne's bail.

He is due to face a sentencing hearing on May 8.

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Adelaide have shone in the spotlight, opening the AFL's Gather Round with a stunning first term on the way to upsetting Carlton by 56 points.

The Crows' start at Adelaide Oval on Thursday night was their best football since they blitzed Geelong at the same ground in the 2017 preliminary final - their most recent finals series.

The Blues steadied, but they had too much ground to recover and suffered their first loss of the season, 18.10 (118) to 9.8 (62).

It is the Crows' third-straight win and their performance on such a big stage - especially how they mauled a likely finalist in the first term - gave them the look of a team that can snap their own five-year spell outside the top eight.

"Proud, impressed - proud more than anything ... it came together on a big stage," said Crows coach Matthew Nicks.

"There's not much bigger than what we went up against, Carlton are a fantastic side, and Thursday night footy with every single football person in the state - there was a fair bit going on.

"Our group handled it so maturely."

As impressive as the first term was, Nicks was even more pleased that Adelaide weathered Carlton's inevitable counter-punch and then kicked clear at the end.

With all nine round-five games in and around Adelaide over these four days, the Crows kicked off Gather Round with a host's sense of occasion.

Adelaide started on fire, kicking eight of the first nine goals for a 42-point lead at 26 minutes into the opening quarter.

The term went to 37 minutes as Adelaide bolted to a 32-point lead at the first change.

Carlton's pressure was non-existent for much of the first quarter, highlighted by Adelaide star Rory Laird taking a mark on 50m.

It was obvious that he would hand off, but no Carlton players paid heed and Brodie Smith tore past to kick a booming goal on the run.

Laird racked up 16 possessions in the first term - nine Carlton players only managed 15 between them.

Laird then received the "Curnow Clamp" from Blues tagger Ed, but the Crows star had a game-high 37 possessions.

Darcy Fogarty kicked five goals, Crows captain Jordan Dawson impressed with 32 possessions and Ben Keays shut out Adam Saad, as well as kicking three goals.

Whatever Blues coach Michael Voss said at quarter-time - and it would have been worth eavesdropping on their huddle - the turnaround was emphatic.

They only trailled by 24 points early in the last term, but they simply had to come from too far back.

"When the whips are cracking, you've got to be there at the start. We just weren't," Voss said.

"We certainly knew what their (Adelaide's) capacity was.

"We didn't do the right thing tonight."

Star Blues onballer Sam Walsh returned from a back injury for his first game of the season and impressed with a team-high 25 disposals.

Carlton suffered a blow in the warmup when Mitch McGovern suffered calf tightness and had to pull out of the game, with Lachie Plowman taking his place.

Saad finished the game with hamstring tightness and ruckman Marc Pittonet was forced out of the match in the second term with a lacerated eye.

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A masterful Cody Walker performance has inspired South Sydney's comeback 36-14 NRL win over the Dolphins after a controversial try early in the second half turned the momentum.

Rabbitohs playmaker Walker stamped his class on the contest after his side trailed 14-6 at the break and fullback Latrell Mitchell asserted himself as only he can with a barnstorming second-half try in front of 23,280 fans at Suncorp Stadium on Thursday night.

The second half started with a try to Rabbitohs centre Campbell Graham who appeared to push Dolphins centre Euan Aitken in the back before snaffling a Lachlan Ilias bomb to score.

Dolphins prop Mark Nicholls questioned referee Ashley Klein about the decision at length but the bunker cleared it.

"It was a push in the back," Dolphins coach Wayne Bennett said.

"Euan is allowed to run the line he was running. He was going towards the ball.

"We are all big enough to overcome that stuff. If that's the call, that's the call."

Walker started and finished the try that gave the Rabbitohs the lead after the ball ricocheted off luckless Dolphins duo Brenko Lee and Jamayne Isaako from an Alex Johnston inside ball.

It went downhill for the Dolphins from there when second-rower Kenny Bromwich was put on report and sin-binned for hitting winger Taane Milne high while contesting a bomb.

Walker stepped up and toyed with the hosts' defence with precision passing and vision as the Rabbitohs scored five unanswered second-half tries, including three while Bromwich was in the bin.

"When he gets himself in the game like he does he is the best five-eighth in the game," Rabbitohs coach Jason Demetriou said of Walker

"He is a pleasure to coach when he is in that kind of mood."

The Dolphins dominated the first half before being blown apart by a Rabbitohs side that showcased why they are a premiership threat and so dangerous. Give them a sniff and they will punish you.

The narrative before the game largely centred on the coaches, Bennett and Demetriou, who had worked together for five years at Brisbane then South Sydney in a master and apprentice relationship.

It was the apprentice, Demetriou who came out on top.

But the Dolphins were superb initially.

Bennett has rejuvenated the careers of so many of his players. Five-eighth Kodi Nikorima is one of them. His kicking, passing and running game was first rate in one of the best halves of football he has played.

Nikorima put Euan Aitken over in the fourth minute with a superb short-side play and on-fire hooker Jeremy Marshall King added a second before the break with a crafty piece of deception close to the line.

The Rabbitohs' only first-half joy was a try to Graham after a Mitchell double-pump.

Walker then turned it on in the second stanza to take his side into the top four.

Demetriou said he was "really happy" with how his team responded after the break.

"If we front-load our energy and get field position we get the ball in Cody and Latrell's hands and we get to see what we can do," he said.

South Sydney skipper Cameron Murray was put on report twice in the first half, once for a dangerous tackle on Marshall-King and then for a high shot on Nikorima. Rabbitohs forward Davvy Moale was put on report for a trip.

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Far more people found work last month than expected, suggesting there is still plenty of heat in Australia's labour market.

The 53,000 lift in employment outstripped the 20,000 consensus figure economists landed on, with the official jobless rate hanging about 50-year lows for yet another month.

The 3.5 per cent jobless rate for the month of March follows almost a year of ultra-low unemployment and defies signals of a cooling jobs market such as a slowdown in the number of open job advertisements.

Australian Bureau of Statistics head of labour statistics Lauren Ford said both the employment-to-population ratio, lifting 0.1 per cent to 64.4 per cent, and the participation rate, holding firm at 66.7 per cent, were close to historic highs.

The figures reflected ongoing tightness in the labour market and explained why employers were finding it hard to fill roles, she said.

Commonwealth Bank economist Stephen Wu said the labour force data reflected a tight labour market able to absorb an influx of workers from overseas migration, especially international students.

He also said households were likely financially stretched by the high cost of living and soaring mortgage repayments, nudging more people into work.

KPMG chief economist Brendan Rynne said the labour force report illustrated the strength of the economy and its ability to exceed expectations.

"What this shows is just amazing strength within the labour market and the Australian economy, and certainly much, much stronger than what any of us had predicted," he told ABC News on Thursday.

Dr Rynne said the numbers would keep pressure on the Reserve Bank to hike in May after it opted to pause interest rate rises in April, along with signs inflation was "still a bit sticky" despite coming off its peak.

Several economists agreed the employment report, together with markers of resilience in the business community revealed in surveys earlier in the week, would bolster the case for more hikes but others weren't so sure.

HSBC chief economist Paul Bloxham said the RBA kept its eyes peeled on jobs market data to get a read on wage pressures, with extremely strong wage growth posing a problem for the central bank's task of taming inflation.

But Mr Bloxham said ultra-low unemployment across several months had failed to trigger massive wage growth.

Wages have lifted but growth remained within the range the RBA was comfortable with to bring down inflation, he said.

"We expect the RBA's hiking phase to remain paused in coming months."

Treasurer Jim Chalmers, in the US for a series of meetings with global financial leaders, said the strong jobs report would stand Australia's economy in good stead as global uncertainties continued to loom.

"Our goal is to build a bigger, better-trained workforce, boost incomes and living standards and to create more opportunities for more people in more parts of Australia - and the budget I will hand down in May will help us achieve that," Mr Chalmers said.

Shadow treasurer Angus Taylor said the government needed to rein in spending in the budget and do more to help the Reserve Bank manage inflation.

"There is much the government can do," Mr Taylor told reporters on Thursday.

"The idea that you leave this to the Reserve Bank will impose more pain on Australians."

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