Bella Hadid shows off her long legs in a sleek white dress while strolling through New York City
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Bella Hadid turned the sidewalk into her personal runway when she was spotted out in New York City on Saturday.
The 25-year-old model put her long, trim legs on display with a lovely white mini dress while on the move.
She was spotted heading out on a solo stroll in the Big Apple.
Bella Hadid, 25, put her long, trim legs on display with a lovely white mini dress while walking in New York City on Saturday
Bella’s striking look featured a brilliant white paneled dress delicate lace at the hem and slim straps that put the focus on her toned arms.
She matched the look with a thick white headband, which she wore with slim white sunglasses.
She helped use up more of her white items up before Labor Day by stepping out in simple loafers.
The sister of Gigi Hadid with a thick, weathered brown handbag tucked under her arm, and she wore her brunette hair swept back to reveal her gold earrings.
On point: She paired the sleek dress with white loafers, a matching headband and slim white sunglasses
The day before, Bella shared a casual post with her 53.8 million Instagram followers that showed her devouring a folded slice of pizza in New York City.
She sat with her legs splayed on a set of metal steps while munch on the foot, which appeared to be classic cheese.
The catwalk star wore a simple black dress with tall leather boots and a vibrant scarlet cardigan that she left unbuttoned, along with a mottle red handbag.
She tied her dark hair into a mess ponytail while highlighting her blunt-cut bangs.
Delicious: The day before, Bella shared a casual post with her 53.8 million Instagram followers that showed her devouring a folded slice of pizza in New York City
Classic: She sat with her legs splayed on a set of metal steps while munch on the pie, which appeared to be classic cheese
Back in black: The catwalk star wore a simple black dress with tall leather boots and a vibrant scarlet cardigan that she left unbuttoned, along with a mottle red handbag
No fuss: She tied her dark hair into a mess ponytail while highlighting her blunt-cut bangs
Seemingly missing from Bella’s walk on Saturday was her boyfriend Marc Kalman.
Marc is an art director who has worked for Travis Scott and the two have dated for two years.
The couple went Instagram official last July in a picture Bella posted from France, where she was attending the Cannes Film Festival.
A Page Six source claimed that Bella and Marc’s relationship began in July 2020 and that the dynamic duo ‘hid it well’ for the first year.
They are said to have carried on the romance in New York amid the coronavirus pandemic while assiduously making sure they never got caught together.
Bella rarely discusses Marc in interviews even now, and she attributes the longevity of their relationship to the fact that they have remained discreet.
‘I think that’s why things have been able to last. When you give other people room to have opinions on things that are so personal to you, it poisons it,’ she told Vogue.
MIA: Seemingly missing from Bella’s walk on Saturday was her boyfriend Marc Kalman. Marc is an art director who has worked for Travis Scott and the two have dated for two years
They spent Friday celebrating the wedding of Australian Cricket captain Pat Cummins and his partner Becky Boston in Byron Bay.
And embattled ex cricket captain Tim Paine and wife Bonnie looked rather worse for wear as they emerged for breakfast on Saturday morning after what was likely a big night of partying.
The couple, who were embroiled in a sexting scandal last year, put on a united front as they stepped out hand-in-hand en route to a local coffee shop.
Former cricket captan Tim Paine and his wife Bonnie looked worse for wear as they emerged for breakfast the morning after Pat Cummins’ wedding to Becky Boston in Byron Bay
Once at the eatery, the couple took a seat on the veranda and ordered breakfast and coffees.
Becky swathed her svelte frame with a baggy gray hoodie worth $350, and a pair of black short shorts.
Pulling her hair back, the blonde she shielded her eyes from the glare beneath sunglasses and completed her look with white sneakers.
The couple, who were embroiled in a sexting scandal last year, put on a united front as they stepped out hand-in-hand en route to a local coffee shop
Her former cricket captain husband meanwhile wore a gray shirt layered beneath a black jumper and matching shorts.
He topped off his low-key look with white sneakers.
Tim and Bonnie were among several high-profile guests to attend Pat and Becky’s lavish nuptials on Friday.
Once at the eatery, the couple took a seat on the veranda and ordered breakfast and coffees
Becky swathed her svelte frame with a baggy gray hoodie worth $350, and a pair of black short shorts
The glamorous couple said ‘I do’ at the luxurious Chateau Du Soleil in the Byron Bay hinterland on Friday.
Comedian Andy Lee and his girlfriend Bec Harding were among those in attendance.
Also at the event was Australian cricketer Travis Head who went along with his pregnant fiancée Jessica Davies.
Pulling her hair back, the blonde she shielded her eyes from the glare beneath sunglasses and completed her look with white sneakers
Fellow cricketers Mitchell Starc, Andrew McDonald, Josh Hazlewood, Nathan Lyon and his wife Emma McCarth and Tim Paine and his wife Bonnie likewise attended.
Paine was replaced by Cummins as Australian cricket captain after he quit in November 2021.
He stepped down on November 19 after a sexting scandal in which Paine sent a lewd photo and explicit messages to a female staffer.
Her former cricket captain husband meanwhile wore a gray shirt layered beneath a black jumper and matching shorts
Tim and Bonnie were among several high-profile guests to attend Pat and Becky’s lavish nuptials on Friday
He was investigated by Cricket Australia in 2018 after the woman complained, but it was cleared of misconduct and the matter was kept secret.
Paine sent a photo of his penis to the female co-worker along with a stream of lewd text messages, many of which are too raunchy to publish.
‘Will you want to taste my d**k?? F**k me, I’m seriously hard,’ one of the messages sent to the Cricket Tasmania employee read.
Paine was replaced by Cummins as Australian cricket captain after he quit in November 2021
He stepped down on November 19 after a sexting scandal in which Paine sent a lewd photo and explicit messages to a female staffer
Paine, who had led the team since the Sandpapergate scandal in 2018, held a press conference at which he tearfully apologized and announced he would step down.
‘It’s an incredibly difficult decision, but the right one for me, my family, and cricket,’ he told reporters.
Bonnie stood by her husband after privately being told of the sexting investigation in 2018, and insisted they’d moved past it.
He was investigated by Cricket Australia in 2018 after the woman complained, but was cleared of misconduct and the matter was kept secret
Paine, who had led the team since the Sandpapergate scandal in 2018, held a press conference at which he tearfully apologized and announced he would step down
Bonnie said the scandal had actually been ‘good for their marriage’ in the long run, even though she was ‘completely rocked’ by his betrayal.
She also admitted she felt bad for him after he was forced to stand down as Australia’s test cricket captain.
In an interview in November, Bonnie said she’d already ‘had her time’ of ‘getting angry, venting and getting upset’ but decided in 2018 to put the incident behind them – and that by doing so, their marriage was stronger than ever .
‘I have a bit of sympathy for Tim at the moment. A lot actually. He and I went through all of this privately in 2018. It was horrific then and is really hard now,’ she said.
Bonnie said the scandal had actually been ‘good for their marriage’ in the long run, even though she was ‘completely rocked’ by his betrayal
It’s a special time in the outback and deserts of central Australia.
For many tourists, it is not the dust bowl they had in mind.
It’s hard to imagine the variety of wildflowers in these arid landscapes and Zippy says it’s blown her mind.(ABC Western Qld: Carli Willis)
Cairns local Zippy Warnecke is currently traveling through the region.
“When you think of the desert, you don’t expect any life to be there, but it’s full of it at the moment; flowers, animals — the whole lot,” she said.
Across large parts of outback Queensland and the Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre Basin, unseasonal Autumn rain has left carpets of wildflowers and greenery.
“It’s not at all what I imagined — it’s so much better,” Ms Warnecke said.
Wildflowers have emerged from the arid landscapes after recent rains.(Supplied: RLR Photography)
Months in the making
Floodwaters from rain months ago have moved through free-flowing rivers in the Channel Country into the illustrious Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre in northern South Australia.
Flooding transforms arid landscapes into rivers teeming with birdlife like pelicans.(Supplied: Wrights Air)
“This is just an amazing time when these floods start going down these big Channel Country rivers,” said University of New South Wales professor of environmental science Richard Kingsford.
“Lake Eyre gets water every couple of years, but a really big filling doesn’t happen that often.
“In terms of surface area, probably 70 or 80 per cent of Lake Eyre has water in it … that’s a pretty rare event.”
Satellite view of Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre in late July, 2022.(Supplied: Digital Earth Australia)
Satellite view of a dry Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre on January 9, 2022.(Supplied: SentielHub)
Hundreds of kilometers from any coastline, the Lake Eyre Yacht Club has seen members and tourists take to the waters of the Warburton River, which feeds into Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre.
“That is an adventure in its own right. It’s a 440km return trip from where we launch,” Commodore Bob Backway said.
“When you get to the lake you can sail about 6km before you run aground.”
Pilots are reporting an increase in inquiries and bookings to see Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre and surrounding river systems while conditions are “spectacular”.
As Kati-Thanda-Lake Eyre begins to fill, the color of the water changes.(Supplied: Wrights Air)
“We’re starting to see lots of people plan their trips out now and the plans are going to Lake Eyre every day,” said Birdsville Aviation senior pilot Talia Ellis.
“Lake Eyre is over 170km north to south. People are absolutely gobsmacked at the sheer size of it.
“We give people perspective from down low so you can see the bird life—there are pelicans nesting on islands.
“We also give people the perspective from higher up as well, so they’ve got the perspective to pin it against the rest of the landscape.”
Water ‘a tonic’ for desert stations
Nappa Merrie station typically sees low rainfall and relies on Cooper Creek flooding.(Supplied: Nappa Merrie station)
At Nappa Merrie station on the SA border, Cooper Creek flooding has been vital.
The station relies on the flooding to grow feed for 11,000 cattle and to fill the 30,000-gallon (136,382-Litre) tank that provides running water to the family household.
“Just the last Christmas we were battling along with a few waterholes going dry and then we got a run in the river,” said station manager Peter Degoumois.
“It means a lot, really.
“It’ll hold us over summer pretty well and you can carry a lot of cattle.”
Richard Kingsford is a river ecologist and conservation biologist.(Supplied: UNSW)
Professor Kingsford, who has been researching the Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre Basin for decades, said there was a shift in community morale when the rivers were watered.
“It really is a fantastic tonic for those times of drought, which are really tough and getting tougher with climate change,” he said.
An aerial view of the greenery carpeting Cooper Creek.(Supplied: Air Central West)
Researchers galore
Associate professor Tim Cohen from the University of Wollongong is a desert beach hunter on a mission to track the major lake-filling events of the past millennium.
The “double-dip” La Nina pattern has primed the landscape to trace weather extremes back to 10,000 years ago.
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The water finding its way to Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre supports an abundance of life(Supplied: Timothy Cohen)
“I think one of the most exciting things we have discovered on this last field trip was… evidence of events as large, or larger than, 1974 in the recent past,” Mr Cohen said.
“We know there are cycles that drive drought and floods and by understanding how these manifest across the continent, we can see how anthropogenic global warming is influencing that.”
A recent aerial view of the edge of Belt Bay at Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre.(Supplied: Moshe Armon/ETH Zurich)
To the north of Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre, the Kalamurina Sanctuary — a reserve at the intersection of three of Australia’s deserts — has been the location of a recent bird survey.
“The biggest benefit to the birds we found this survey is the rain we had earlier in the year,” said wildlife ecologist Keith Bellchambers.
“[We found] a lot of the smaller boom-and-bust species … we’ve had big flocks of diamond doves, zebra finches, budgerigars [and] cockatiels.
“Things like that have just increased enormously in number in the last six months just because of the food resources they’ve been able to find following that rain.
“It’s visually spectacular, but it’s also a spectacular soundscape.”
Gov. Andy Beshear is expected to visit flood-devastated areas of eastern Kentucky on Sunday, after more than two dozen people were confirmed dead and rescue efforts continued.
As of Sunday, at least 26 people had died as a result of severe storms that caused record flash flooding as well as mudslides and landslides, Beshear said. In a YouTube video posted on Sunday, the governor said that his office was aware of additional bodies but could “not confirm those deaths at this time.”
“We want to make sure we wrap our arms around our eastern Kentucky brothers and sisters. The next couple days are going to be hard,” he said.
Beshear warned that more rain was expected in the upcoming days, and conditions could worsen.
Beshear had previously said six children were among the dead, but brought the number down to four during a press conference early Saturday afternoon after confirming two of the victims were actually adults.
“I’m worried we’re going to be finding bodies in weeks to come,” Beshear said. “Keep praying.”
Officials have not yet been able to get an accurate count of missing people as rescue crews struggle to get into hard-hit areas, some of them among the poorest places in the nation.
Making the task more difficult is the fact that many affected areas remain without cell service, limiting people’s ability to establish contact with affected loved ones, Beshear said.
More than 700 individuals have been rescued so far by helicopters and boats from the Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia National Guards as well as several other agencies aiding with rescue efforts, Beshear said.
“Our goal today is to get as many people to safety as possible,” he said, while also urging people in impacted areas to prepare for more rain in the coming days.
Flood warning alerts are expected to remain in place in parts of Kentucky until Sunday and Monday, according to the National Weather Service.
“It’s not fair it’s going to rain again,” Beshear said. “I don’t want to lose one more person.”
Lexington Firefighters’ Swift Water Rescue Teams travel on Troublesome Creek in Lost Creek, Ky. on Friday to recover people that have been stranded due to flooding.Michael Swensen/Getty Images
Just over the past two days, affected areas received between 8 and 10 1/2 inches of rain. Still, some waterways were not expected to crest until Saturday.
Fifteen emergency shelters have already been established in the area to help anyone affected by the floods, Beshear said.
Federal disaster assistance has been made available to Kentucky after President Joe Biden issued a major disaster declaration, FEMA announced Friday.
On Saturday, Biden said he added Individual Assistance to the Major Disaster declaration in hopes of further helping displaced families.
Emergency personnel from FEMA will be providing 18 water trucks to help make up for the lack of water access in some areas as Kentucky is expected to endure high temperatures next week, Beshear said.
Due to the lack of power, 19 water systems are operating with a limited capacity, the governor said.
Nearly 27,000 connections are without water as of early Saturday afternoon, according to Beshear. About 29,000 other connections are receiving unsafe water that needs to be boiled before it’s consumed.
Beshear stressed authorities will likely remain in the recovery and rescue phase for several weeks, adding that they will have a better idea of damage estimates after flood waters dissipate.
Nicole Acevedo is a reporter for NBC News Digital. She reports, writes and produces stories for NBC Latino and NBCNews.com.
Kahan Rosenblatt and Associated Press contributed.
Ashley Hodak has taken the opportunity to pursue a career as a flight attendant amid a jobs boom in the travel industry. Photo: Brook Mitchell
Ashley Hodak’s new career is about to take off.
The 27-year-old former childcare and administration worker just finished her five-and-a-half-week flight attendant training program with Virgin Australia. Next week she will join a fellow cabin crew for her first flight from Sydney, destination Hamilton Island.
“I’m so excited!” she said.
Ashley Hodak (centre) and colleagues during their last day of training with Virgin Australia. Photo: Brook Mitchell
“I’ve experienced the nine-to-five Monday-to-Friday routine, but I wanted a different lifestyle, and I’ve always had a passion to be a flight attendant. Now I absolutely love it, and how the days will be all so different. It’s so cool to get paid to travel and become a part of people’s holidays.”
If you’ve ever dreamt of a career in the travel industry, there’s never been a better time to join, with thousands of jobs now on offer in Australia – and often at better-than-usual pay rates.
Those roles range from flight attendants to pilots, baggage handlers to airport café workers, travel IT specialists to agents, accountants to flight check-in staff, and everything in between.
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“It’s an absolutely wonderful time to be thinking about joining the travel industry, with all sorts of jobs on offer, from entry level staff to pilots,” said Tourism and Transport Forum chief executive Margy Osmond.
“The industry has essentially lost a whole generation of workers from people leaving during the pandemic, and it’s now offering more money because it needs to fill these vacancies from a recovery perspective.”
Virgin Australia, like many of the world’s major airlines, is now recruiting for hundreds of roles within cabin crew, baggage handling, guest services and corporate, with perks including heavily discounted air travel and annual travel credits.
“We strive to create a workplace culture which emphasizes an authentic, fun loving, hardworking and irreverent challenger nature,” a Virgin spokesperson said.
Qantas and Jetstar have just recruited more than 1000 people into operational roles, and are still seeking many more, especially with international flights restarting, new aircraft on order and additional routes being planned.
“Restarting an airline after a two-year grounding is complex, and aviation labor markets, as with many others, are extremely tight,” said Qantas domestic and international chief executive Andrew David.
New Australian budget airline Bonza – set to launch in September – is also recruiting for its Sunshine Coast and Melbourne bases, with assessment centers running in parallel with crew training schools.
“We have around 100 cabin crew and 50 pilot roles being filled in a two-month period,” said Bonza chief executive Tim Jordan.
“We’re also hiring a number of other legends [staff] to join our team including crew controllers, operations controllers, and flight dispatchers on the Sunshine Coast, as well as specialist roles such as in e-commerce, marketing, operations, and finance.”
Middle East carrier Emirates is also on the lookout for prospective Australian candidates to join its cabin crew, with a series of recruitment open days around the country.
Emirates’ divisional vice president for Australasia Barry Brown said “as the travel demand continues to increase and we ramp up our operations locally and globally, naturally we need to continue building our cabin crew team in the sky.
“Australians are well represented in our global workforce, and with significant interest in our previous open days in Australia, we have great optimism that this next wave of recruitment will welcome more Australian talent to our workforce.”
Qatar Airways has similarly been advertising globally for new staff, looking for all categories of cabin crew, lounge staff, call center workers, ground operations and catering staff, especially in the run-up to the FIFA World Cup in Doha later this year.
Singapore Airlines is also recruiting operational and commercial staff, with particular emphasis on ground handlers, catering and ground operations; it recruits cabin staff from Asia.
The main airports at Sydney and Melbourne have also been running jobs fairs to attract applicants to the hundreds of vacancies both still have, alongside their ground handling companies recruiting baggage handlers.
“Now that the uncertainty caused by lockdowns and border closures has ended, we hope that more people will consider a career with the airport or the airlines,” said a Melbourne Airport spokesperson.
“As one of the largest employment hubs in Victoria, there are hundreds of roles that need filling.”
Sydney Airport has similarly been advertising more than 5,000 jobs in retail, government agencies and terminal service providers, after having lost 15,000 jobs during the pandemic. Its jobs fair on June 16 had 4600 applications for jobs, with people lining up at the airport from 6am for the 10am start.
The average salaries in the travel industry
Pilot: $104,461 per year or $53.57 per hour plus allowances (depending on the size of the aircraft being flown, and the years of experience)
Flight attendant: $66,670 or $32.00 per hour
Baggage handler: $61,000 or $29.33 per hour
Airport cafe worker: $55,000 or $26.44 per hour
Airport payroll officer: $71,384 or $34.31 per hour
Airport engineer: $90,000 or $43.27 per hour
Security supervisor: $71,469 or $34.36 per hour
Airport receptionist: $60,000 or $28.85 per hour
Air traffic controller: $109,661 or $52.72 per hour
Source: Fair Work Ombudsman, payscale.com, au.indeed.com and seek.com
A study on the physics discovery titled “Automated discovery of fundamental variables hidden in experimental data“has been published in the journal Nature Computational Science.
Researchers from Columbia Engineering have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) program that could derive the fundamental variables of physics from video footage of physical phenomena. The program analyzed videos of systems like the swinging double pendulum, which researchers already know four “state variables” exist for; the angle and angular velocity of each arm. Within a few hours, the AI determined there were 4.7 variables at play.
“We thought this answer was close enough. Especially since all the AI had access to was raw video footage, without any knowledge of physics or geometry. But we wanted to know what the variables actually were, not just their number,” said Hod Lipson, director of the Creative Machines Lab in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Two of the variables it identified correlated with the angles of each arm. However, the other two were unclear, as the program interprets and visualizes the variables differently from how humans intuitively understand them. However, as the AI was making accurate predictions about the system, it is clear it managed to identify four valid variables. The researchers then tested the AI on systems we don’t fully understand, like a lava lamp, and a fireplace, identifying 8 and 24 variables, respectively.
“I always wondered, if we ever met an intelligent alien race, would they have discovered the same physics laws as we have, or might they describe the universe in a different way? Perhaps some phenomena seem enigmatically complex because we are trying to understand them using the wrong set of variables. In the experiments, the number of variables was the same each time the AI restarted, but the specific variables were different each time. So yes, there are alternative ways to describe the universe and it is quite possible that our choices aren’t perfect,” Lipson said.
On the shore of one of the world’s deepest lakes, high up in Kyrgyzstan’s Tian Shan mountains, models strutted and sashayed in outfits mixing the ancient and modern at the World Nomads Fashion Festival.
A model displays an outfit from the collection by Indonesian designer Akeyla Naraya during the festival.(AP: Vladimir Voronin)
The event, now in its third year, drew designers and fashion-industry figures from about 20 countries to shimmering Lake Issyk-Kul to admire outfits drawing on Kyrgyzstan’s millennia-old nomadic culture.
The festival was held at Cholpon-Ata, a resort town on the northern shores of Lake Issyk-Kul, 207 kilometers east of Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan.(AP: Vladimir Voronin)
The stiletto heels worn by some models wouldn’t be suitable for a proper nomad, but some of their elaborate headdresses that seemed to mimic the horns of cattle were taken on traditional nomad costumes.
The main goal of the festival is to show the world the Kyrgyz fashion industry.(AP: Vladimir Voronin)
Swirling, voluminous skirts featured in many of the outfits, either elaborately patterned or in blocks of vivid colour.
The fashion event took place from July 21 to 23. (AP: Vladimir Voronin)
Along with the couture, the show offered visitors the chance to see an array of yurts — the wood-framed tents of skin or felt characteristic of nomads — and brightly-coloured carpets.
Models wait for their turn to display a collection.(AP: Vladimir Voronin)
There were participants from distant countries such as Indonesia, Morocco and France.
A model displays an outfit from the collection by Kyrgyzstan’s designer Irina Unsapan.(AP: Vladimir Voronin)
During a three-day program about 40 designers showcased their work.
The event’s founder hopes Kyrgyzstan can create a platform for organizing catwalk shows and exhibitions for the global fashion industry.(AP: Vladimir Voronin)
“The World Nomad Fashion Festival is the first and only project in Central Asia and some European countries that glorifies the civilization of nomads,” the event’s founder, Nazira Begim, said.
Elaborate patterns and vivid colors featured in many of the outfits.(AP: Vladimir Voronin)
“It was created in 2019. This idea belongs to me. The project is one of my old dreams.
“When I organized it for the first time, without knowing anyone personally, I invited designers from 17 countries and held it also on the shores of Issyk-Kul lake.”
Members of the Russian Folk Dance Ensemble of Adygea perform.(AP: Vladimir Voronin)
Ms Begim is keen to spotlight Kyrgyzstan’s fashion industry.
The Tigers will be without Jackson Hastings for the rest of the season after he suffered an ugly leg break against the Broncos.
Hastings had his leg caught under him in an ugly tackle that saw Broncos forward Patrick Carrigan placed on report for a hip drop tackle.
Scans confirmed a broken leg for Hastings who will undergo surgery that rules him out for an extended period.
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Meanwhile, the Eels have copped a massive blow in their hunt for the top four with star halfback Mitchell Moses reportedly suffering a broken finger.
Brent Read told Triple M that Moses will be ruled out for at least a month after suffering in the injury in last night’s win over the Panthers. Moses appeared to injure his finger at him in the 31st minute, and had it strapped by a physio shortly afterwards, but managed to finish the match.
Moses will reportedly undergo surgery and could miss the remainder of the regular season.
COWBOYS LOSE FLYER TO HAMSTRING INJURY
The Cowboys will be sweating on a hamstring injury to winger Kyle Feldt after he limped off in their 34-8 win over the Dragons.
STORM FULLBACK CRISIS WORSENS
Meanwhile, the Storm’s outside back injury crisis has worsened with replacement fullback Nick Meaney going off against the Warriors with a shoulder injury.
Meaney fell on the point of his shoulder from a great height after he was taken out in the air by Warriors winger Dallin Watene-Zelezniak.
“He fell awkwardly and I wouldn’t be surprised if he has quite a significant AC joint injury the way that shoulder came down right on the point,” Warren Smith said on Fox League.
“Melbourne in all sorts of problems here. They were chasing Reece Walsh to be a fullback.
“Tyran Wishart will come on and play fullback now after they already lost Ryan Papenhuyzen for the season.”
Nick Meaney suffered a shoulder injury.Source: FOX SPORTS
Coach Craig Bellamy was hopeful after the game that it wasn’t a serious injury and revealed there are some positive signs.
“He’s done something to his right shoulder but I don’t think we’re quite sure of what he’s done,” he said.
“It looked pretty dire when he came off, he obviously had the sling on. But it’s looking a bit better at the moment, they don’t think it’s quite as bad as what they thought it was at the start.”
In the same game, Warriors five-eighth Chanel Harris-Tavita succumbed to a leg injury in the first half and left the field.
“We’re thinking it’s an MCL… he’ll have scans to see the extent of the injury. But our medical officer said it’s an MCL injury,” interim coach Stacey Jones said after the game.
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ROOSTERS STAR SUFFERS UGLY CONCUSSION
Roosters prop Lindsay Collins has suffered a nasty head knock, colliding with the head of Morgan Boyle.
Collins bounced out of the tackle, knocking himself unconscious before leaving the field with the assistance of the club doctor and trainer.
The 26-year-old was one of three players who left the field in the first four minutes of the Origin decider and was playing his first game since the blow, spending two weeks sidelined due to ongoing concussion symptoms.
“I fear for Lindsay here, he went straight down… he has copped both head and shoulder, that is incredibly heavy on Lindsay Collins,” Andrew Voss said.
“You could see the contact,” Greg Alexander said.
“That is worrying for a player that is only returning this round because of concussion.”
Fox League’s James Hooper confirmed Collins would not return to the field in Round 20.
“Category 1 concussion, his night is over,” Fox League’s James Hooper said.
PANTHERS’ INJURY UPDATE
The Panthers have copped a significant blow with star five-eighth Jarome Luai expected to be sidelined for up to six weeks.
The club confirmed the timeline on Thursday and revealed that Luai had suffered a high grade MCL injury.
Penrith also revealed that Mitch Kenny (knee) and Stephen Crichton (ear/concussion) could return next week.
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TIGERS’ BIG BLOW
Luke Brooks will miss Round 20 and likely the rest of the season after suffering a calf injury at training.
The Wests Tigers confirmed on Thursday that Brooks will be out for five to six weeks with Jock Madden the man expected to replace him in the halves.
The Tigers also revealed Luke Garner is a good chance of returning from a neck injury in Round 21, Stefano Utoikamanu has commended a running program after undergoing wrist surgery and Tommy Talau will return to full team training over the next month.
Read on for the full NRL casualty ward.
ROUND 20 INJURIES
Lindsay Collins (head knock) – TBC
Nick Meaney (shoulder) – TBC
Chanel Harris-Tavita (knee) – TBC
Mitchell Moses (finger) – Finals
Adam Elliott (hip) – TBC
Jackson Hastings (leg) – season
Kyle Feldt (hamstring) – TBC
FULL CASUALTY WARD
BRONCOS
Selwyn Cobbo (concussion) – Round 21
Albert Kelly (foot) – Round 21
TC Robati (arm) – Round 21
Te Maire Martin (ribs) – indefinite
Herbie Farnworth (biceps) – indefinite
Jordan Pereira (illness) – indefinite
raiders
Adam Elliott (hip) – TBC
James Schiller (ankle) – Round 21
Jordan Rapana (suspended) – Round 21
Semi Valemei (knee) – Round 21
Harry Rushton (jaw) – Round 25
Trey Mooney (ankle) – indefinite
Jarrod Croker (shoulder) – season
Josh Hodgson (knee) – season
Harley Smith-Shields (knee) – season
BULLDOGS
Paul Alamoti (cheekbone) – Round 21
Corey Allan (groin) – Round 22
Ava Seumanufagai (calf) – Round 22
Corey Waddell (suspension) – Round 25
Luke Thompson (concussion) – indefinite
Jack Hetherington (shoulder) – season
Billy Tsikrikas (knee) – season
Raymond Faitala-Mariner (ribs) – Round 21
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SHARKS
Dale Finucane (suspension) – Round 22
Royce Hunt (shoulder) – indefinite
Jack Williams (shoulder) – season
Sione Katoa (pectoral) – season
TITANS
Joe Vuna (knee) – indefinite
Shallin Fuller (leg) – season
BE EAGLES
Sean Keppie (shoulder) – Round 21
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“The legislation of the structure of the Voice won’t happen before the referendum,” he said.
“What some people are arguing for is having a debate about the consequences of a constitutional change before you have any idea of whether the constitutional change should happen or not.
“We’re appealing to the goodwill of the Australian people and as I said, the Australian character as I see it.”
Albanese said including the Voice in the Constitution meant the overriding principle would remain intact, although how it actually worked could change over time.
“The thing that enshrining in the Constitution does, it ensures that the Voice cannot be eliminated or silenced by a change of government or a change of prime minister,” he said.
“When it operates, people will wonder why we didn’t do it before. I see this similar to the apology for the stolen generations or the 1967 referendum or native title.”
Although a time has yet to be set for the referendum, there has been concern the government is pushing too quickly.
But Albanese said Indigenous Australians had already waited a long time before getting to this point.
“If you don’t try to get this change – and I recognize that it’s a risk – but if you don’t try, then you have already not succeeded. And we have waited a long period of time,” he said.
If the Coalition decides to oppose Labor’s referendum proposal, the Greens and crossbench Senator David Pocock may hold the balance the power in the Senate.
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Greens First Nations spokesperson Senator Lidia Thorpe said she is seeking discussions with the government about their proposal for a Voice, aiming to gain concessions on other issues.
“I’ll be … putting urgent, critical matters for First Nations people on the table. These are things that will save people’s lives, before any referendum,” Thorpe said.
“I want the government to support our bill to back the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, implement the remaining recommendations from the Stolen Generations and Deaths in Custody Royal Commissions, and back the Greens’ plans for concrete steps towards a Treaty [with First Nations peoples].”
Cut through the noise of federal politics with news, views and expert analysis from Jacqueline Maley. Subscribers can sign up to our weekly Inside Politics newsletter here.
A week ago, President Biden seemed down on his luck.
He had just been diagnosed with COVID-19, after dodging it for more than two years.
He was being bashed by people in his own party for appearing flat-footed on abortion.
The all-important climate legislation he had been pushing seemed dead in the water.
And as if things couldn’t appear any worse, The New York Times had recently released a poll showing that most Democrats wanted someone else to run for their party’s nomination in 2024.
But a lot changed in a week.
Biden defeated his COVID-19 symptoms, and despite testing positive on Saturday after days of testing negative in what his doctor deemed a rebound case, it looks like the president has avoided any severe illness.
Gas prices are at the lowest they’ve been in weeks.
He’ll soon sign a bipartisan bill to boost the domestic chip industry, which has been a major priority.
And there’s an emerging deal in the Senate on his domestic climate and health agenda that caught almost all of Washington off guard this week.
But it’s not all good for Biden. The Commerce Department on Thursday said the economy shrank for a second straight quarter, raising fears of a recession.
But overall, it was the best week in some time for the president. He even got some props from his old boss on his bout of good news.
“This has been a big week for the Biden Administration and Democrats in Congress,” former President Obama said on Thursday, highlighting the movement on legislation. “Progress doesn’t always happen all at once, but it does happen – and this is what it looks like.”
Even Democrats who had questioned Biden’s leadership days earlier were feeling more optimistic.
“He had a really good f—ing week,” said one Democratic strategist, who acknowledged doubting the White House’s strategy– or lack thereof – earlier this month. “And it’s a good reminder that things can change so quickly in politics. Remember when everyone was writing those OMG Biden has COVID stories? That was a week ago.”
The legislative victories, while not set in stone just yet, are potentially game-changing for Biden and the Democrats, after more than a year of wrangling in Congress — much of it messy and public — over Biden’s economic agenda.
Jim Kessler, executive vice president for policy at the centrist Democratic think tank Third Way, said that if both the semiconductor bill and the reconciliation package succeed, “the first two years of the Biden administration are probably the biggest of any Democratic president since Lyndon Johnson .”
“That shows competence,” he said.
Progressives hungry for climate action and frustrated by months of inaction have a reason to look up because of the deal announced this past week.
“If this bill passes, not only is it historic, it’s going to help drive up youth voter turnout for the election,” said Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez, president and executive director of the youth voting group NexGen America, noting that policy to fight climate change was a major motivator for young voters in 2020 who turned out to support Biden.
However, it’s unclear whether that enthusiasm will translate into more support for Biden among young voters, who polls have shown souring on Biden.
“At the end of the day, what I think people have to remember is, Biden was never the youth candidate,” said Tzintzún Ramirez. “If [Democrats are] able to get this done, it shows young people their vote really does help deliver the policy agenda that they want.”
Biden is contending with record high inflation and remains underwater in the polls, with his national approval average around 38 percent.
But Democratic strategist Rodell Mollineau said Biden has been “unfairly plagued” by what he hasn’t accomplished versus what he has and the legislative deals are sure to re-energize him, particularly when it comes to the base.
Mollineau acknowledged that it will continue to be a roller coaster ride for Biden.
“He’s gonna have good weeks and bad weeks between now and the midterms and between now and his reelection,” he said.
Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) said in a local radio interview on Thursday that he would not support Biden running again in 2024, instead calling for a “generational change” at the top of the ticket
“I think the country would be well-served by a new generation of compelling, well-prepared, dynamic Democrats who step up,” he said on Chad Hartman’s radio show.
Those comments came after news of the deal on a sweeping reconciliation package that had most corners of the Democratic Party swimming with excitement.
“The president intends to run in 2024. We are ways away from 2024,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Friday when asked about Phillips’s remarks. “We are going to continue to focus on doing the business of the American people, by delivering for families, by lowering costs for families.”
A CNN poll this week found that 75 percent of Democrats want someone other than Biden to run in 2024, following up on a similar poll earlier in the month from The New York Times and Siena College.
That leaves some skeptical Biden can turn it around.
“At the end of the day, people that don’t like Biden are still not going to like Biden if they’re concerned about everything from his age to his political acumen, I don’t think this changes the needle that much,” said Basil Smikle, a Democratic strategist and director of the public policy program at Hunter College.
But Mollineau said he thinks that often times, journalists and talking heads “look at the last piece of data and make long term assumptions” about Biden’s viability.
He added that Biden is skilled at playing the long game.
“How many times was he written off as dead during the 2020 primary?” he said. “So many folks have been ready and willing to write him off but he’s playing a much larger game than one news cycle.”
