Month: August 2022

Married At First Sight Australia 2023: First photos of brides on set as cast is revealed

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Post date August 15, 2022
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Daily Mail Australia can exclusively reveal the new hot new cast of the upcoming season of Married At First Sight.

Filming for the tenth series of the show is well underway, and the brides were spotted taping their hens night at Centennial Park’s $15million The Crossways estate in Sydney last week.

The upcoming cast will feature a bevy of beauties including seven stunning blondes and two brunettes.

Filming for the upcoming tenth season of Married At First Sight is well underway. Yet to be identified bride pictured arriving at the hens party

Daily Mail Australia can exclusively reveal that the new cast of brides and grooms filmed their bucks hens night at million dollar estates in Sydney last week

While many of the women decided to keep things classy for the party, others dared to bare in more revealing ensembles.

One scantily clad bride wore a revealing black dress with criss-cross straps which she teamed up with designer heels.

She was later seen leaving wearing a facemask and leather jacket.

While many of the women decided to keep things classy for the party which took place at Centennial Park’s $15million The Crossways estate (pictured), others dared to bare in more revealing ensembles

Another as-yet-unnamed blonde arrives for the night shoot

One scantily clad bride wore a revealing black dress with crisscross straps which she teamed up with designer heels

She was later seen leaving wearing a facemask and leather jacket

A second bride was seen shooting her arrival several times.

The stunning blonde was all glammed up for the evening, wearing a sparkling pink mini dress with matching gloves.

She wore a full face of makeup and had her curls styled to perfection.

Another bride was seen shooting her arrival several times

The stunning blonde was all glammed up for the evening, wearing a sparkling pink mini dress with matching gloves

One glamorous brunette slipped on a pink crop top.

She paired it with an orange colored skirt.

She had her locks tied up in a high pony tail and accessorized her look with hoop earrings.

One glamorous brunette who is yet to be identified wore a pink crop top which she teamed up with an orange colored skirt

She had her locks tied up in a high pony tail and accessorized her look with hoop earrings

Another beauty turned heads in a pink colored one shoulder mini dress.

The blonde wore her tresses tied back in a high pony tail and completed her look wearing strappy heels.

After the long shoot, the bride stopped by McDonald’s drive through for a quick bite on the way home.

Another beauty turned heads in a pink colored one shoulder mini dress

The blonde wore her tresses tied back in a high pony tail. She completed her look wearing strappy heels

Once inside the stunning blonde appeared chatty while talking to her co-stars

Meanwhile, another female castmate bride showed off her curves in a backless silver sequenced dress and designer heels.

She wore her long blonde tresses down and appeared to be wearing a full face of makeup.

Elsewhere, another bubbly brunette was fed instructions from producers before she was seen making her way into the mansion.

One bride showed off her curves in a backless silver sequenced dress and designer heels

Meanwhile, another bubbly brunette was fed instructions from producers before she was seen making her way into the mansion

She wore a purple colored sequence dress and designer heels

She wore a purple colored sequence dress and designer heels.

At one point of the night during filming producers deployed tactics to prevent photographers from trying to get photos of the new cast.

Crew were seen shielding the cast getting out of chauffeured cars with umbrellas and at one stage even used a blanket to try and hide the cast, but failed.

Upon entry into the Centennial Park estate, the girls were seen introducing themselves to each other

Other participants were spotted making their way over to the bar and serving their own drink

Crew were seen shielding the cast getting out of chauffeured cars with umbrellas and at one stage even used a blanket to try and hide the cast, but failed

Upon entry into the million dollar estate, the brides to be seen introducing themselves to each other before making their way over to the bar and serving their own drink before experts Mel Schilling and Alessandra Rampolla greeted the ladies.

The cast were treated to on-site catering until the early hours of the morning.

Married At First Sight’s upcoming tenth season will feature some of the show’s hottest cast members to date.

Another bride was spotted picking up a snack following the long shoot

Among the cast will be one Queensland based influencer who already boats 150,000 Instagram followers

Among the cast will be one Queensland-based influencer who already boasts 150,000 Instagram followers.

The new season of MAFS will see the return of Puerto Rican sexologist Alessandra Rampolla, as well as veteran relationship experts John Aiken and Mel Schilling.

Daily Mail Australia understands that the upcoming season will see the return of overseas trips.

Married At First Sight is produced by Endemol Shine Australia, and filming for the new season has already commenced.

The new season of Married At First Sight returns to Channel Nine in early 2023.

The new season of MAFS will see the return of veteran relationship experts Mel Schilling (pictured) and John Aiken. Puerto Rican sexologist Alessandra Rampolla will also be back

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Sports

“Serious questions” being asked as “anger” swirls around Essendon

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Post date August 15, 2022
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There are “serious questions” being asked of Essendon in the wake of their heavy defeat to Port Adelaide on Sunday.

The Bombers were smashed by 84 points at Marvel Stadium which was their third loss in their last four games.

Coach Ben Rutten admitted post-match that it was “an embarrassing effort and output” from the players and “not something that we want to stand for and not something our members and supporters should have to watch at any stage”.

However, this is not the first time this has happened in 2022 and as a result, Garry Lyon believes there is plenty of unrest at the club with a lot of concern surrounding how they have performed across their seven-win campaign.

“There’s a number of aspects of this which is concerning if you’re an Essendon fan,” he said on SEN Breakfast.

“That is 20,000 people (at Marvel) first of all, and the apathy of the group by the end of it. Port Adelaide were great and clinical in the way they dismantled this side.

“I don’t know what may or may not happen on the back of that performance, but I wouldn’t be surprised if there are serious question being asked around Essendon on the back of the year, on the back of the number of times the coaches have had to come out after and say, ‘It’s embarrassing, we won’t stand for it or we won’t tolerate it’.

“Well, it is being tolerated because it keeps happening and a big club like that with 20,000 people and probably 10,000 left by the end of it, from what I could gather, were booing at various stages.

“That is not a club that is in good shape.”

Nathan Buckley also felt it was a largely apathetic showing from the Dons against an opponent that has also struggled in patches this year.

“The club that knocked them over lost their first five and had a bad start similarly to Essendon,” he said.

“They lost their last four games before this game, so Port have been competitive but they haven’t been world beaters.

“Essendon have been in a very similar situation. They’re not about to play finals but they’ve been trying to show some spirit. They had a block of about six weeks of form, but that was a very disappointing performance.

“You described it as apathy and that’s probably where the club looks like it’s at at the moment, on and off the field.”

Lyon believes Essendon would be the story of the day if there wasn’t the distraction of a fascinating Round 23 and impending finals series.

He feels there is a “fog descending” on the club.

“If we weren’t about to embrace a great final round of footy and then turn our minds to finals, if this happened five weeks ago then this would be the biggest story today,” he added.

“The Essendon Football Club would be the biggest story. The coach and his future of him and what they’re going to tolerate and what the board will stand for.

“This is a big, power club and what is happening there will be deemed to be unacceptable.

“What happened yesterday post that game would be a fascinating study because I would imagine there are people at Essendon that just aren’t and won’t accept what’s going on.

“That performance has got a whiff about uncertainty and fog descending on a footy club and it’s a standby and watch what unfolds.

“You get a bit of a sense when things start to rumble along and it might be a watch this space.”

Buckley added: “You can be well-beaten and be beaten by five goals.

“We’re talking about a margin three times that. It doesn’t happen as often and if it does happen, it generally points to a white flag going up and to a lack of capacity to actually stay the course and compete for the full quarters.”

Lyon replied: “And it gets sheeted back to the coach, which is right or wrong.

“When he comes out and says we can’t accept or tolerate it and we won’t, it sounds really hollow when you say that with one game to go – it kind of has been accepted and tolerated and that is why you see this non-existent defensive want, pressure, desire, want to work for one another.

“That’s how it all unfolds and an 84-point margin materializes.”

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SEN’s Sam Edmund is forecasting change for the Dons amid plenty of agitation and anger behind the scenes around The Hangar.

“There’s a lot of anger around the Bombers at the moment, so if the patience is wearing thin on where they stood, for many connected to the club that patience is evaporating,” Edmund said.

“Plenty of rumblings last night. We know there will be change brought on by the football department review, their second in three years.

“How far those changes extend is the question some connected to the club were asking and pondering last night.

“They are a powerful club so when things are going well, they’re going very well, and when things are going like they are at the moment, there’s always going to be rumblings. They’re a big coterie club as well with outspoken partners, supporters and members.

“At the moment there’s a lot of anger around the club. They’re a watch for today and this week.”

Essendon completes its lackluster 2022 season against Richmond at the MCG on Saturday night.

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Australia

James Packer accuses Peter Costello of being secret Crown lobbyist

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Post date August 15, 2022
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Nine Entertainment Co has refuted claims that its chairman Peter Costello secretly worked as a lobbyist for casino giant Crown Resorts when it was controlled by billionaire James Packer.

In series of leaked emails revealed by Australian newspaper and sent to a number of Nine employees including Costello and Nine Publishing managing director James Chessell, Packer alleged Costello worked as a “secret Crown lobbyist” in 2011 and “should resign” from all public positions.

Ninechairman Peter Costello.Credit:James Brickwood

A Nine spokesperson said Costello was never employed as a Crown lobbyist and said, “Peter Costello was an adviser to Consolidated Press Holdings in 2011, for a year.” Consolidated Press Holdings is one of Packer’s private investment vehicles, which housed its shares in Crown alongside other assets.

Packer ended his 20-year involvement with Crown Resorts as its largest shareholder earlier this year, when his sold his stake in the company to private equity firm Blackstone. The sale came after a 2019 investigation by this masthead led to a NSW inquiry that found the company was unfit to open its new Sydney casino.

Costello joined the board of Nine in 2013. He was appointed chairman of the media company in 2016. Nine Entertainment is the owner of The Sydney Morning Herald and TheAge.

The Packer family owned the Nine Network between 1956 and 2007. James sold the then television company to private equity firm CVC for about $5 billion.

In a note sent to staff on Monday, Nine Publishing’s managing director James Chessell said he was reluctant to comment publicly on Australian report due to “mental health sensitivities.”

“I’ve received a blizzard of correspondence from Packer since he took exception to something we published in late June. After trying to engage with him at first – which clearly didn’t work – I’ve ignored almost all of it,” Chessell said.

“I never heard a word from Peter Costello about Crown Unmasked before, during or after publication/broadcast.

Business

How much time you should allow to make a connecting flight

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Post date August 15, 2022
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Ever been on a delayed flight with a tight connection coming up and wondering if you’re going to make it? It’s stress you don’t need. Right now, when flight delays are all too common, it’s bringing more stress to more travelers.

In a sign of the times, Qantas has just raised its connection times for passengers transferring from a domestic to an international flight. Instead of 60 minutes, the airline will soon have a minimum connection time (MCT) of 90 minutes. The move comes as Qantas struggles with baggage handling delays caused by staff shortages. It’s taking longer to transfer checked luggage between aircraft, but another reason is the ongoing problems with flight delays. Qantas has just posted the worst on-time performance of any carrier in June 2022, with almost half its flights delayed or cancelled, and therefore more time is required between flights.

Minimum connection time

If your journey involves a connection you might be tempted to catch an earlier flight to allow for delays, but how much time should you allow? The answer is the MCT, the least amount of time required for you to get from your arriving flight to your next flight at the transfer point, and for your airline to do the same.

As a rule of thumb, the MCT is 60 minutes between domestic flights, 90 minutes between international flights, but it’s not the same for all airports and in all situations. For example if you arrive on an international flight at Sydney Airport and you’re transferring to a domestic flight, you need to get to the domestic terminal which is several kilometers away. As well as the journey time, you might have to wait up to 30 minutes for the T-Bus service which connects the terminals. That’s on top of the time it takes to collect your baggage and pass through immigration and customs, then check in for your next flight. Even 90 minutes might be cutting it fine. An MCT of 2½ hours is more realistic. By contrast, once you’ve collected your luggage and cleared immigration and customs, transferring between domestic and international flights at Melbourne Airport requires only a short walk. Any change of aircraft that involves domestic-to-international or vice versa requires an MCT of at least two hours. When things are likely to go wrong, such as the baggage handling problems currently experienced at many Australian airports, add another 30 minutes.

However things can get even more complicated. When you take a flight with a stop somewhere in between, you’re usually traveling on a single ticket with the same Passenger Name Record (PNR) for the entire journey. In most cases, it’s the responsibility of the airline you’re booking with or your travel agent to make sure your MCT is sufficient. If you don’t make that connecting flight through no fault of your own, it’s up to the airline to make things right and get you to your final destination as quickly as possible. That applies even if your journey involves different airlines, provided you’re traveling on a single ticket.

But that might not be the case. Say for example you’ve booked a cheap flight to Singapore then made another booking on a different airline to Paris. That’s a split ticket, one flight ticket for each sector. Assuming you have checked baggage you’re going to need to retrieve it in the baggage claim area at Singapore’s Changi Airport and check it in for your next flight. Even though you’re not going outside the terminal, that means passing through Singapore immigration, collecting your bag and going through customs before you can head for departures and check yourself and your baggage in for your Paris flight. Afterwards you’ll need to get through immigration and security before heading to your departure gate, and that’s going to take some time. Exactly how long depends on several variables – the queues at immigration, how long it takes for your checked luggage to arrive, the time it takes to check back in – but anything less than three hours could mean you miss your Paris flight.

If you’re traveling on a split ticket and you don’t make your connecting flight, you’re then regarded as a ‘no-show’ and subject to whatever penalties your airline applies. It could be the total loss of whatever you’ve paid, even if you’ve missed that connecting flight through no fault of your own, for example if your first flight is late in arriving at the transit stop. Worse still, missing one sector of a flight ticket means that all subsequent sectors on the same booking are automatically cancelled. If after Paris you were booked to fly to Athens on the same booking, that booking no longer exists.

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See also: Everything you need to know about coping with the current travel chaos

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Technology

Keep The Unreal Engine 5 Showcases Coming, Please

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Post date August 15, 2022
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I love Unreal Engine 5 showcase videos. Can’t get enough of them. To be clear, I don’t even care how playable any of them ever end up being, because this is an art feature, not a games review section, and so all I care about is how pretty they look, and tonight’s showcase is very pretty indeed.

This is Airbornea video made by Airborn Studios, an art studio in Berlin who we’ve featured a few times previously, including for their incredible work on some of Overwatch’s skins:

After a hibernation phase of many years, we made the call to revisit the project that our studio is named after. Wondering what it would be like if we dive back into that world with new ideas, a different approach, a mix of Airborne veterans and new team members, and the determination to use the latest technology to push stylized game art and stay true to the core pillars of the work that was done way back. And without further ado, we proudly present the result!

When they say a “hibernation phase”, they aren’t kidding: Airborne as an idea has been kicking around for over 15 years now, with this latest video just the most contemporary expression of the idea that gave the studio its name.

It’s important to note here that this isn’t a game pitch in the sense that this is something that’s actively trying to be made. Instead — they’ve called it a “visual prototype” in this case — it’s a way for artists to be able to work on something that looks like a video game in order to showcase their skills, all the while creating something that’s theirsnot the IP of an employer or a client.

To give you an idea of how much work goes into something like, here’s the full credits list for the project:

Airborn Studios

Alexander Delagrange – 3D Env/Prop Art

Alexandra Graap – 3D Character Art

Artur Rosario – Tech Art

Benjamin Sauder – Technical Director

Boris Patschull – Managing Director

Ching Rappsilber-Li – Management Assistant

Erik Neubauer – 3D Character Art

Fatos Tahiraj – 3D Character Art

Gabriel Hanna – 3D Env/Prop Art

Ilka Hesche – Concept art

Jan Wyss – 3D Env/Prop Art

João Sapiro Josue – 3D Env/Prop Art

Johannes Figlhuber – Art Direction & Concept Art

Jonas Kunert – 3D Env/Prop Art & Concept Art

Julian Dasgupta – Project Management & PR

Kevin Skok – 3D Env/Prop Art

Lennart Berger – 3D Character Art

Malwina Czech – 3D Env/Prop Art

Manuel Sitompul – 3D Character Art

Manuel Virks – 3D Level Lead

Niels Timmerman – 3D Character Art

Simon Kopp – Art Direction & Concept Art

Steffen Unger – 3D Character Lead

Svenja Roesner – 3D Env/Prop Art

Tim Moreels – 3D Character Art

Verena Porcher – Website Relaunch Coordination

Victor Pancrazi – 3D Character Art

Music

Ian Dorsch

Funkeyz Animation Studio

Shuki Gamliel – Animation Supervisor

Sonia Wolfson – Animation

Arthur Kazine – Animation

Michael Fabris – Rigging

SkewSound

Dan Crislip – Audio Director

Christopher Wilson – Sound Design

Nicholas Kallman – Sound Design

Steve Pardo – Sound Design

Production Babies

Joshua (Yoshi)

special thanks

Adina Krause

Ezgi Bulut

Josh Dinah

matthew schneider

If you’d like to learn a little more about Airborne and its creation, the team have written a short blog about the process, but were also kind enough to share a ton of behind the scenes pieces from the video’s creation, ranging from character designs to airship renders:

Image: Airborn Studios

Entertainment

Kyle Sandilands reveals he’s returning as Australian Idol judge

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Post date August 15, 2022
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Kyle Sandilands has confirmed rumors he’ll be reprising his role as a judge on the returning season of Australian Idol.

The 51-year-old shock jock made the announcement on the Kyle and Jackie O Show on Monday morning, despite getting a text from an unknown figure saying, “Don’t officially announce that you’re on it.”

The new father, who welcomed his first child Otto with fiance Tegan Kynaston last week, revealed he’s set to be the first judge attached to the show – which has been off-air for more than a decade and is finally returning to screens on Channel 7 in 2023.

And true to form, Sandilands said he only agreed to the gig if Seven bosses delivered his contract personally so he could sign the papers live on-air.

“I think this week they’re bringing the contract, I said I’ll only sign it on the radio show, so all the big head honchos have to march into the studio with the contract. I’ll sign it live on-air,” Sandilands said.

Sandilands also claimed he was heavily involved in recruitment for his three co-judges, while he ruled out Osher Gunsberg’s return as host due to his multiple Channel 10 hosting duties.

“They can’t sign on someone else unless I sign off on it… I’m not going to be doing the show with a bunch of knobs,” Sandilands said.

“I’ve got a long list of knobs I won’t work with. I’d like at least one other Australian, and I would love a big name US and a big name UK, but it all depends, everyone’s touring around … But there’s a lot of big stars interested.”

When pressed by Jackie whether any of the original judges would be returning, including Marsha Hines, Ian Dickson and Mark Holden, Sandilands said, “No, none of them.”

“I’m the only one who’s still alive, I feel the others have all passed away… I mean alive on TV,” he clarified.

Sandilands said the show would follow a similar format, which would see contestants audition around Australia before a top 12 is chosen for live shows.

As for whether he would soften his infamous brutal honesty, Sandilands said he’d be sticking to what he knows.

“I like The Voicebut I won’t be one of them wishy washedy Voice judges that say, ‘No matter how disgusting you are to look at, you’ve got a great voice.’

“I’m not interested in that sh*t. I can only be myself.”

At this point, Sandilands got a text advising him not to officially announce his role.

“Yeah, okay. Well, I haven’t signed on yet but I’ve verbally agreed,” he added.

australian idol aired for seven seasons on Channel 10 from 2003 until 2009, and made big stars of contestants including Guy Sebastian, Jessica Mauboy and Casey Donovan.

In 2020, the Seven Network announced at their annual upfronts that they would be reviving the series.

Sports

St Kilda Saints urged to put stars on trade table, Leigh Montagna, list management, Brad Hill, Zak Jones, Jack Billings, Jade Gresham

St Kilda great Leigh Montagna has implored the club to trade out some of its star senior players to bring more youth into the club in a “reset”, saying he thinks it “needs to go back to go forward.”

The Saints had their final hopes dashed after losing to Brisbane, falling to 11-10 to continue St Kilda’s drop off after a promising 5-1 start to the season.

Since Round 7 St Kilda has ranked bottom six in the ‘Core Four’ stats — with the footy (15th), without the footy, clearance and post-clearance contest (all 12th).

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“They’re in a real predicament … this is 15 rounds of football, it’s a bottom-four profile, so they have really struggled with their game,” Montagna said on Fox Footy’s First Crack.

Asked if their issues lie with personnel or system, Montagna said: “I think it’s a combination of both.”

The Saints’ finals hopes are over (Photo by Daniel Pockett/AFL Photos/via Getty Images)Source: FOX SPORTS

It comes after St Kilda has aggressively recruited players via trade and free agency over the last four years, bringing Paddy Ryder (35 years old), Dan Hannebery (32), Tom Campbell (31), Brad Hill, Dean Kent, Mason Wood, Brad Crouch (all 29), Jarrod Lienert, Zak Jones (both 28), Dougal Howard (27), Dan Butler, Jack Hayes (both 26) and Jack Higgins (24) into the fold.

Looking at the age profile of those players combined with the rest of the senior core, Montgana questioned how much upside the Saints’ list has.

“This is the concern for St Kilda supporters when you think about where the improvement is going to come from in the years to come,” he said.

“How much room for improvement have they got these guys? How high is their ceiling? And that’s in conjunction with their core group of Seb Ross, Tim Membrey, Jimmy Webster, Jack Sinclair, Jack Billings, Rowan Marshall and Jack Steele, who are all 26 plus years old as well.

“There’s not a lot of ceiling room within the core group of players on top of that profile… the upside is a very small margin.”

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Montagna did praise young guns Max King, Cooper Sharman (both 22), Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera (20), Marcus Windhager and Mitch Owens (both 19), who’ve joined the club over the same four-year period, but said he had “question marks” on their other youngsters.

He believes St Kilda should follow Port Adelaide’s blueprint from post 2018 and trade out their players with currency to try and bounce back quickly.

“I think they need to go back to go forward,” Montagna said.

“I think they need to trade out some of those players they’ve brought in and bring in some more young talent and reset — Brad Hill, Zak Jones and maybe Jack Billings or Jade Gresham to try and get some other young talent in.

“I look at Port Adelaide — they went through a period for five years where they were mid-table — then traded Chad Wingard, Jasper Pittard and Jared Polec when they were playing good footy — Jack Hombsch, Paddy Ryder and Dougal Howard.

“They made some change and got in those young players — Zak Butters, Xavier Duursma, Connor Rozee and Mitch Georgiades — then all of a sudden played in back-t0-back preliminary finals (in 2020 and 2021).

“I think there’s some concerns there for St Kilda, they need to have a real hard think about where their list is at moving forward.”

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Australia

Man in custody after woman’s body found in Bluewater bush

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Post date August 15, 2022
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A 38-year-old man, who has not been identified, was arrested around 8.30pm last night in Proserpine.

Queensland Police say he was taken into custody in Mackay “without incident”, and is assisting with inquiries following the discovery of a 44-year-old woman’s body in Bluewater, near Townsville.

A mother-of-four has been killed, her body found in bushland in north Queensland. (Nine)

Police also allege the man was involved in a shooting incident with a passing motorist on the Bruce Highway near Yarlboroo yesterday morning.

“He allegedly pointed a shotgun at a passing motorist, allegedly firing one shot into the side of her vehicle,” he said.

“The victim, who was not known to the man, was not physically harmed during the incident.”

A group of teenagers found the 44-year-old woman’s body yesterday, close to a popular fishing spot in the seaside suburb of Bluewater.

A group of teens found the 44-year-old woman’s body. It’s believed she died in the same location she was found. (Nine)

Police confirmed a weapon was used in the attack but would not confirm what it was. (Nine)

Queensland Police say it’s believed the woman died at the spot.

“It appears that she would have known who her attacker was,” Queensland Police Service Detective Inspector Jason Shepherd said.

“They probably went to that location together.

“We believe she died at that location.”

A weapon was used in the crime but the police did not confirm what it was.

At this stage, police don’t believe the woman’s death is domestic violence related.

The woman’s four children, aged between 14 and 24, don’t live in the area.

Detectives attached to Operation Uniform Umbara from Townsville will travel to Mackay today to continue investigations.

Anyone who was in the area at this time who may have information, CCTV or dash cam footage is urged to contact police or Crime Stoppers.

Business

ASX opens higher as Wall St rallies, JB Hi-Fi hikes dividend, Carsales profit jumps

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Post date August 15, 2022
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Australian shares have started the day higher, tracking gains on Wall Street.

The ASX 200 was up 35 points, or 0.5 per cent, to 7,067, at 10:16am AEST.

At the same time, the Australian dollar was flat, at 71.17 US cents.

Shares of JB Hi-Fi rose 0.2 per cent, to $45.61, after the electronics retailer reported a 7.7 per cent jump in annual earnings, to $544.9 million, as higher store traffic driven by the easing of COVID-19 restrictions complemented continued growth in online you go out.

The company was one of the beneficiaries of the pandemic as work-from-home mandates meant higher demand for electronics.

With easing of COVID-19 restrictions, the company was able to reopen all of its stores in the latter half of the financial year, while online sales over the year registered a 52.8 per cent jump.

This helped it increase the company’s full-year dividend payout to $3.16 a share, up from $2.87 in the prior financial year.

The company noted that the cost of doing business in Australia was higher, in-line with higher inflation in the country, while reporting higher sales in Australia and its The Good Guys brand for July.

Meanwhile, automotive classified company Carsales posted $510 million of adjusted revenue, which was a 16 per cent improvement.

The business said its fully franked final dividend would be 24.5 cents per share.

Shares of Carsales jumped 3.3 per cent, to $22.36.

Wall Street indices close up

On Friday, global equity markets rose, while US Treasury yields fell, as investors tempered their expectations of the scale of the Federal Reserve’s interest rate raising cycle as falling oil prices helped cool inflation.

Market sentiment has been buoyed by US Labor Department data last week showing a slowdown in consumer and producer prices in July after a series of interest rate hikes by the Fed.

“With inflation now backing off, all the managers who stayed in cash and didn’t believe we could move off the June lows are now being forced back into the market,” said Thomas Hayes, chairman at Great Hill Capital.

The MSCI world equity index, which tracks shares in 50 countries, was up 1.1 per cent. The pan-European STOXX 600 index gained 0.2 per cent.

US Treasury yields were down as traders weighed a likely moderation of the Fed’s monetary policy stance.

Benchmark 10-year note yields dipped to 2.8 per cent, after reaching 2.9 per cent on Thursday, the highest point since July 22.

“With inflation coming down, consumer confidence is going to be coming back, and employment is still strong. You could see a situation where the market has stabilized and the economic numbers continue to slow based on the lag effect of the Fed tightening that has already happened,” Mr Hayes added.

All three main Wall Street indices ended higher, making it the fourth straight week of gains, driven by stocks in technology, healthcare, communication services, consumer discretionary and financials.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.3 per cent, to 33,761, while the S&P 500 gained 1.7 per cent, to 4,280, and the Nasdaq Composite added 2.1 per cent, to 13,047.

Oil prices dipped around 2 per cent on expectations that supply disruptions in the US Gulf of Mexico would be short-term, while recession fears clouded the demand outlook.

Brent crude fell slightly by 09:56am AEST, trading at $US97.80 a barrel.

ABC/Reuters

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Mike Tyson’s Old Car Is Being Auctioned With an Estimate of $5 Million

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Post date August 15, 2022
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This is the vehicle that people can bid on — it’s a Ferrari F50 from 1995.

It has a price estimate of $4.5 million to $5.5 million and is being sold by Pebble Beach Auctions in California.

The car is one of only 55 US-spec examples and one of only 349 F50s ever built, according to the auction house. This 4.7-liter engine produces 513 horsepower at 8,500 rpm. It can go from 0 to 60 mph in 3.6 seconds with a top speed of 202 mph.

It has 6,200 miles on the clock, the auction house said. Service work was performed on the car this year by Ferrari of Fort Lauderdale.

The interior looks stunning and matches the Rosso Corsa (Italian for “Racing Red”) color finish from the exterior.

It is an extremely rare vehicle and a collector’s item.

Production of the vehicle was completed in 1996 and delivered from Ferrari North America to Beverly Hills Sports Cars, according to historian Marcel Massini. It fell into Mike Tyson’s hands quite quickly, as per the car’s original warranty book.

Mike Tyson in his 'Hotboxin' with Mike Tyson' studio. — Mike Tyson in his ‘Hotboxin’ with Mike Tyson’ studio.

Source: Gooding and Company.

Mike Tyson — who in 1986 became the youngest heavyweight in boxing history to win a championship aged 20 — owned numerous cars in his life and career, like this Bentley in 2000.

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This is the vehicle that people can bid on — it’s a Ferrari F50 from 1995.

It has a price estimate of $4.5 million to $5.5 million and is being sold by Pebble Beach Auctions in California.

The car is one of only 55 US-spec examples and one of only 349 F50s ever built, according to the auction house. This 4.7-liter engine produces 513 horsepower at 8,500 rpm. It can go from 0 to 60 mph in 3.6 seconds with a top speed of 202 mph.

It has 6,200 miles on the clock, the auction house said. Service work was performed on the car this year by Ferrari of Fort Lauderdale.

The interior looks stunning and matches the Rosso Corsa (Italian for “Racing Red”) color finish from the exterior.

It is an extremely rare vehicle and a collector’s item.

Production of the vehicle was completed in 1996 and delivered from Ferrari North America to Beverly Hills Sports Cars, according to historian Marcel Massini. It fell into Mike Tyson’s hands quite quickly, as per the car’s original warranty book.

Mike Tyson — who in 1986 became the youngest heavyweight in boxing history to win a championship aged 20 — owned numerous cars in his life and career, like this Bentley in 2000.

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