After he made global headlines over his engagement to Taylor Swift, a source has said NFL star Travis Kelce is in talks with Curb Your Enthusiasm executive producer Jeff Schaffer about starring in a new television series that would see the athlete play himself.
In traumatic admissions in her upcoming memoir, Penny Lancaster has revealed she suffered a series of sexual assaults from childhood into her teenage years.
Australia’s World Cup ‘spogomi’ qualifier, a fun event that’s really about raising environmental awareness, was this year held in Manly It’s Saturday morning at Manly Beach and you could cut the tension with a knife. Nearly 100 people are crouched over piles of litter, frantically sorting them into coloured tote bags. A man wearing an umpire bib looms over a group beside us and blows his whistle. Continue reading...
In federal court documents, the 24-year-old’s family claim officers acted unlawfully in apprehending him and ‘applying force to him such as to cause the loss of his life’ Warning: This article contains reference to Indigenous Australians who have died Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The mother of Kumanjayi White, a Warlpiri man who died after being restrained in an Alice Springs supermarket by police, is suing the Northern Territory government in the federal court, claiming that the officers committed assault, battery and false imprisonment. White, a 24-year-old with disabilities, died on 27 May during a confrontation with police in a Coles supermarket. His family claim that the two officers involved acted unlawfully in apprehending him, taking him into custody, and “applying force to him such as to cause the loss of his life”. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. Indigenous Australians can call 13YARN on 13 92 76 for information and crisis support. Other international helplines can be found at befrienders.org Continue reading...
Toni Jordan’s mother gambled fast, ferociously, without any sense of fun. The author has come to realise she was dreaming of a bigger life My mother, Margaret, died in 2018 at 75. It was a good death, all things considered. The very end was savage, as endings often are, but she was in her own home and on her own two feet until the final week. For a woman who’d smoked two packs a day all her adult life, who’d never exercised or even walked to the shops, who refused to drink water (“I’d spew!”) and lived on Coca-Cola, paté on toast, jubes and green olives from a jar – considering all that, she did OK. During my mother’s final days, I had it easy. My sister, Lee, lived closer and is, to be honest, a more nurturing person. She’s caring. Patient. Lee is also better with money than me, but I thought I should at least attempt to help – so at the end, I took charge of Mum’s bank accounts. She lived on the pension and died with a run-down brick veneer villa unit in an over-50s complex, an old car worth close to nothing, and a small amount of cash. Continue reading...
Film-maker Beau Miles set himself the challenge of planting 1,440 trees and shrubs in one day. Four years later the result is ‘totally worth it’ Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here On a patch of paddock in West Gippsland stands a small forest, which wasn’t there before. Flowering gums and she-oaks reach up nine metres tall, birds nest in their branches, while a giant tiger snake slides through the grass below. Sign up to get climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as a free newsletter Continue reading...
For years, policymakers and politicians thought they could square the circle: a market-driven economy with a robust social safety net. But that has become harder The treasurer, Jim Chalmers, emerged obviously excited and energised from last week’s economic reform roundtable. He later said on the ABC’s Insiders program: “We need to ensure collectively as Australians that the fair go is the defining part of our future and not just the defining part of our past.” Chalmers grew up far from the rich, hilly, riverside suburbs of Brisbane. He still lives in, and represents, the seat of Rankin to Brisbane’s south. For him, access to the admirable, but slippery, Australian dream of a fair go was life changing. Tertiary education was the key, access which is sadly becoming much harder for many. Continue reading...
The comedian and actor on what she has learned at clown school, showing her Austin costar Michael Theo around London and the weirdest thing she has done for love What do people approach you about most: Smack the Pony, Bridget Jones, Alan Partridge or shoving cake into Alex Horne’s armpits? I profile them as they come up. If it’s a man about my age, it would normally be Alan Partridge. If it’s a man in his 30s, it might be Taskmaster or Veep. If it’s a woman, it’s harder to tell. Smack the Pony seems to be having a revival among women in their 20s but it could easily be Bridget Jones and Miranda. It’s starting to happen with Austin , too, which seems to be something that families watch together. Continue reading...
Abdel-Fattah’s new novel follows a journalist and an academic navigating censorship in the wake of Israel’s war on Gaza – an issue the author is no stranger to herself Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email In 2021, when Randa Abdel-Fattah first began working on her latest novel, Discipline, she questioned whether a story about state violence, the right to protest, and the racialisation of Arab youth in Australia would resonate. Suspicion of Arab communities – particularly young Muslim men – in media and political commentary had been potent in the years after 9/11 and had formed the subject of her academic research (and her 2022 nonfiction book Coming of Age in the War on Terror) – but, she says, the issue seemed to have “fallen off the radar”. She wondered whether people still thought it was a problem deserving of attention, and even emailed her publisher in September 2023 to ask if they believed there was a market for the novel. Continue reading...
When Sashi Perera and her boyfriend Charlie were marooned in a hotel room in Punta Arenas, she realised they balanced each other out perfectly Find more stories from The moment I knew series In May 2018, I was scrolling through prospective dates on Bumble when I saw Charlie’s profile. I could tell we had a lot of immediate connections. He had worked for human rights organisations, travelled a lot and even had interesting profile pictures. I swiped right. Later that day, we met at a small bar close to my work in Melbourne for a drink. Even though it was a good first date, I decided I didn’t have the energy for more dates straight away and cancelled our second one. I think he thought I was a bit of a time waster. Continue reading...
Gareth, Stacey and Nathaniel Train were not ‘sovereign citizens’, but they shared a deep hatred of police with the Porepunkah suspect Dezi Freeman Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast When the Queensland authorities wanted to understand the motivation of the Wieambilla killers, they turned to Josh Roose. The political sociologist and associate professor of politics at Deakin University was given access to the killers’ writings, to paint a picture of the process of radicalisation that led Gareth, Stacey and Nathaniel Train to shoot three police officers and a neighbour in cold blood in a 2022 ambush at a remote property about 350km west of Brisbane. Continue reading...
From lift access to overcoming the stigma of food-with-a-view, Sydney’s Infinity by Mark Best and Melbourne’s Vue de Monde can face tall orders Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Whether you’re a skier or pantry item, everything arrives at Eagles Nest the same way: via chairlift. Australia’s highest restaurant sits 1,937 metres above sea level in Thredbo, New South Wales, and getting ingredients to this Snowy Mountains site is challenging. Skiers require priority chairlift access, but delicate produce needs timely handling, too. “No one likes frozen lettuce,” says food and beverage manager Ian Campbell. “In good weather, all stock goes up the chair during the day and all garbage comes down the chair after public hours,” he says. A snowcat vehicle is deployed when conditions call for it. Continue reading...
Public transport to Western Sydney International airport seems likely to be fragmented and indirect from many parts of the city Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast On Sydney’s rural fringes, in the suburb of Badgerys Creek, a pristine new airport terminal sits waiting ahead of its expected opening in late 2026. Stretches of road and rail are being laid out to Western Sydney international airport, 44km west of the CBD, at a combined cost of $19bn to the federal and NSW governments. Continue reading...
At a military camp in the south-east of England, combat-experienced Ukrainian soldiers are taking their skills to the next level with the help of Australian trainers.
Drug overdoses among young people are falling, but fatalities are soaring among the over-40s.
He arrived at Collingwood in 2019 for pick 56 as a back-up ruckman to Brodie Grundy. On Thursday night he heads into a qualifying final as a premiership ruckman who is one of the Magpies’ most important players.
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