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Post by Admin on Jan 5, 2019 18:08:06 GMT
The outback sun couldn't melt this ice-cold interloper. WE STAN A SNEAKY QUEEN. Stand aside, any Hemsworth! Bri from The Bachelor is my favorite Australian now. (For the record, Bri—short for Brianna—is a model from Southern California, who's into outdoor activities like hiking and camping.)
The Australian accent is notoriously challenging: If you've been watching The Good Place, you'll know it's so hard that even amazing actors like Ted Danson and Kirby Howell-Baptiste can't nail it. Kate McKinnon's "Australian" accent in Rough Night makes me want to cry. (*whispers* Even Meryl Streep's "The dingo took my baby" is...off. Sorry.)
To explain, ahead of the reality show's premiere on Monday, ABC released a short clip of this season's bachelor, former football player Colton Underwood, meeting one of the women who wants to be his fiancée. I'm not going to say anything else. Just watch it for yourself.
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Post by Admin on Feb 3, 2019 17:53:58 GMT
Australia sweltered through the hottest month in its history in January, spurring mass deaths of fish, fire warnings and concerns among climate scientists that extreme heat is hitting faster and harder than anticipated. For the first time since records began, the country’s mean temperature in January exceeded 30C (86F), according to the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM), which said daily extremes – in some places just short of 50C – were unprecedented. “There’s been so many records it’s really hard to count,” said Andrew Watkins, a senior climatologist at BoM, after January registered Australia’s warmest month for mean, maximum and minimum temperatures. This followed the country’s warmest December on record, with heatwaves in every Australian state and territory. With colour-coded heat maps of the country resembling blazing red furnaces for much of the month, the authorities have recently issued a special report on the extraordinary heat.
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Post by Admin on Feb 24, 2019 17:43:58 GMT
The ultra-secretive chief of Chinese military intelligence was on the lookout for his protege, a well-dressed, 37-year-old businesswoman called Liu Chaoying. She was bringing her new friend, a California-based entrepreneur called Johnny Chung who had a penchant for over-the-top jewellery and a knack for getting inside Bill Clinton’s White House. A few days after this August 11 meeting, Liu Chaoying wired $300,000 into Taiwan-born Chung’s account. Some of this money ended up in the coffers of the Democrat’s Clinton re-election campaign in breach of US laws banning foreign political donations. This transaction later became the focus of US criminal and congressional investigations into a major political scandal dubbed Chinagate by the US media. It was part of a broad Chinese plan to influence American politics to favour Beijing’s acquisition of sensitive, advanced technology. Today, Fairfax Media can reveal a direct Australian connection to the Chinagate scandal that raises serious questions about a series of Chinese donations to the Australian Labor Party. A summary of banking records contained in NSW Supreme Court files show that, just 10 days after the meeting in the abalone restaurant, a Sydney-based company owned by Chinese-Australian businesswoman, Helen Liu, wired $250,025.00 from her Australian company into the account of one of Liu Chaoying’s Hong Kong companies called Marswell Investments. Just why Helen Liu’s company Wincopy Pty Ltd sent this money to Liu Chaoying is not known. Whatever the case, the transfer effectively topped up the bank account of a company US prosecutors later claimed as a front for China’s military intelligence. A copy of Wincopy’s financial statements and reports prepared by the company's accountant - and obtained from a Federal Court file - recorded the $250,025.00 transfer as “overseas marketing expenses”. Like the others, Helen Liu was interested in politics. But her focus was Australia. At the time of the quarter-of-a-million-dollar transfer into Liu Chaoying’s Marswell company, she had just made her first donation to the ALP and had forged links to the federal Labor front bench and the NSW Labor government. Australia’s freewheeling donations laws meant that Liu’s donations never created a scandal like that seen in the United States, and the links have never been adequately examined by Australian authorities. But evidence uncovered by Fairfax Media and the ABC means that might be about to change.
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Post by Admin on Mar 11, 2019 17:29:06 GMT
Academics from the School of Art & Design have teamed up with colleagues from the ANU Climate Change Institute on a design project, which takes existing data and communicates the impacts of climate change in a way that people can engage with and better understand. The resulting new climate tool visualises data which shows by 2050, Australians will no longer enjoy winter as they know it today and will experience a new season the designers are calling "New Summer". New Summer represents a period of the year where temperatures will consistently peak in many cases well above 40ºC for a sustained period. Using the tool, people can click on thousands of locations across Australia to see how the local weather in their home town will change by 2050. "We looked at the historical average temperatures of each season and compared them to the projected data and what we find everywhere is that there's really no period of a sustained or lasting winter," said Dr Geoff Hinchliffe, Senior Lecturer (SOA&D). "In 30 years' time winter as we know it will be non-existent. It ceases to be everywhere apart from a few places in Tasmania," he said.
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Post by Admin on May 7, 2019 17:39:35 GMT
CANBERRA: Australia's election became a little more raucous on Tuesday when a protestor tried -- but failed -- to crack an egg on Prime Minister Scott Morrison's head. The attacker's egg, thrown from close range, appeared to bounce off the politician at a Country Women's Association event in New South Wales, where Morrison was campaigning ahead of May 18 general elections. The woman was wrestled away by Morrison's close protection security detail and could later be seen leaving the venue holding an egg carton. New South Wales police said they had taken a "25-year-old woman into custody following an incident involving the Prime Minister in Albury".
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