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Chrissy Teigen shows off her growing baby bump as she crashes her husband John Legend’s interview

Pregnant Chrissy Teigen showed off her growing baby bump as she crashed her husband John Legend's (pictured) live interview

Pregnant Chrissy Teigen shows off her growing baby bump as she crashes her husband John Legend’s live interview

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They recently announced they’re expecting their third child together.

And on Wednesday, Chrissy Teigen showed off her growing baby bump as she made a surprise appearance during her husband John Legend’s interview with Australian Hit Network’s Carrie & Tommy

John was discussing his new single with the radio team via video link when Chrissy suddenly popped into frame.

Pregnant Chrissy Teigen showed off her growing baby bump as she crashed her husband John Legend's (pictured) live interview

Pregnant Chrissy Teigen showed off her growing baby bump as she crashed her husband John Legend’s (pictured) live interview

‘You performed All of Me at your wedding for Chrissy. If you were writing a song now, how different would it be?’ Carrie Bickmore asked.

‘That was the first time I ever played it live… Wait till you hear the new album. There are songs for Chrissy on there,’ John responded.

Chrissy then appeared and posed on the side to reveal her growing baby bump.

John was discussing his new single on Australian Hit Network's Carrie & Tommy radio show via zoom, when Chrissy crashed the interview

John was discussing his new single on Australian Hit Network’s Carrie & Tommy radio show via zoom, when Chrissy crashed the interview

She waved at the camera before leaving the room.

Chrissy is expecting her new baby with her husband John, who she met when she starred in his 2006 music video for his song Stereo.

The lovebirds got engaged in 2011 and married in 2013. In April 2016, they welcomed their daughter Luna, now six, and their son Miles, now four, followed in May 2018.

Chrissy posed on the side to reveal her growing baby bump

Chrissy posed on the side to reveal her growing baby bump

Chrissy is expecting her new baby with her husband John, who she met when she starred in his 2006 music video for his song Stereo

Chrissy is expecting her new baby with her husband John, who she met when she starred in his 2006 music video for his song Stereo

Teigen and Legend initially met while working on a music video that was shot in 2006.

In August 2020, the Chrissy Court star announced she was pregnant with a third child, whom she and John later named Jack.

The couple tragically lost the child the following month.

Family: Chrissy and her husband John Legend already share their daughter Luna, six, and son Miles, four. She suffered a stillbirth in September 2020

Family: Chrissy and her husband John Legend already share their daughter Luna, six, and son Miles, four. She suffered a stillbirth in September 2020

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Tiwi Islands leader and AFL legend Willie Rioli Senior farewelled by hundreds at funeral in Darwin

Two men hug among a crowd of people wearing blue.

Willie Rioli Senior has been remembered as a football legend and community leader, and a man whose “cheeky” smile brightened the lives of those around him.

Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this story contains the name and image of a person who has died.

The ABC has permission from Willie Rioli Senior’s family to use his name and image.

Hundreds of people filled the pews at St Mary’s Cathedral in Darwin on Wednesday to pay tribute to the father, grandfather, star footballer and respected leader in the Tiwi Islands community.

Mr Rioli died suddenly last month, age 50, of a heart attack, according to a statement from AFL Northern Territory.

Willie Rioli Senior smiles at the camera wearing a Tiwi Bombers shirt.
Willie Rioli Senior died suddenly in July at the age of 50. (Supplied: Tiwi Bombers Football Club)

Northern Territory Football league (NTFL) broadcaster Dominic McCormack remembered his friend as a man with a “cheeky smile” who “brightened all our lives.”

“He always brought great energy, experience, organisation, a big smile, lots of humility and a bit of stubbornness to all he did,” Mr McCormack said in a eulogy.

He said even Mr Rioli’s opponents could not help but like him.

“It would be rare to ever hear a bad word about him,” Mr McCormack said.

“Even while he was taking [the opposite] team apart they still loved him — they just wanted him on their side.”

Proud of his children and a lifelong love story

In his younger years, Mr McCormack said Mr Rioli would sneak out of boarding school at night to visit Georgina Vigona, the woman who would remain his wife until his death.

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Mr Rioli’s wife, Georgina Vigona, had been by his side for decades.(ABC News: Myles Houlbrook-Walk)

The couple raised three children: Nikita, Kathleen and West Coast Eagles premiership winner Willie Junior.

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Mr Rioli is survived by his three children, two grandchildren and wife Georgina.(ABC News: Myles Houlbrook-Walk)
A red AFL ball sits on top of a casket in a church.
(ABC News: Myles Houlbrook-Walk)(ABC News: Myles Houlbrook-Walk)

“He was so proud of all of his children.” Mr McCormack said.

Cousin James De Santis remembered Mr Rioli’s passion for caring for country as a ranger supervisor.

“His passion was the land, looking after country,” he said.

“[Mr Rioli] was very devoted to his land management, he’s the only reason we’re on top of feral cats.

“We’ve been together pretty much all our lives… he was a great man.”

A long and storied football career

Mr Rioli won the NTFL’s highest honour, the Nichols Medal, at just 16.

He went on to play for the South Fremantle Football Club alongside his brother Maurice Rioli.

He was drafted by Hawthorn in 1990 — the club he grew up barracking for.

Willie Rioli Senior while playing for South Fremantle in the late 80s.
Mr Rioli played for South Fremantle in the late 80s before being drafted to Hawthorne.(Supplied: WAFL Collectables)

When his playing career finished Mr Rioli returned to home, where he coached the Imalu Tigers to a premiership in the Tiwi Islands Football League.

He served as president of the league until his death.

Another commemoration will be held on Friday, when a burial will take place at Mr Rioli’s home community at Pirlangimpi on the Tiwi Islands.

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Australia

Former NSW building commissioner David Chandler’s resignation letter referred to ICAC

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The resignation letter of the former NSW building commissioner has been referred to the state’s corruption watchdog following questions about why he abruptly quit last month.

Pressure has been building on the NSW government to make David Chandler’s letter public after reports he may have resigned because of a strained relationship with former fair trading minister Eleni Petinos.

Ms Petinos was sacked from the NSW ministry last month over bullying allegations, which she denies.

Premier Dominic Perrottet today revealed in parliament that Mr Chandler’s resignation letter had been referred to the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC).

Mr Perrottet was pressed during question time about whether the former commissioner’s resignation had anything to do with Ms Petinos.

“Do you stand by your statements of yesterday that the sacking of [Ms Petinos] had nothing to do with the resignation of David Chandler?” Opposition Leader Chris Minns asked.

“Yes,” Mr Perrottet answered.

Since Mr Chandler quit last month, citing the need for a “reset”, the Opposition has been calling for his resignation letter to be made public.

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Eleni Petinos was sacked over bullying allegations.(ABCNews)

Today Labor successfully moved a motion in the upper house to compel the government to produce the letter within 24 hours.

Yesterday Mr Perrottet said he had not read the letter, but now he says he has.

“I have read the resignation letter from David Chandler to the DCS (Department of Customer Service) Secretary Emma Hogan.”

“Out of an abundance of caution, the letter was provided to the ICAC for information.

“I understand the letter is to be provided to the upper house tomorrow.”

The Premier was also pressed on when he learned that the letter had been referred to the ICAC.

“Late last night,” Mr Perrottet replied.

Labor’s move to compel the government to release the document comes after it was revealed Ms Petinos met with a property developer linked to former deputy premier John Barilaro earlier this year.

After the two meetings on June 2 and June 21, a building ban affecting the developer, Coronation Property, was lifted.

Ms Petinos said the lifting of that ban had nothing to do with her and would have been a decision made by Mr Chandler.

Mr Chandler was appointed as the state’s first building commissioner by former premier Gladys Berejiklian in 2019 to clean up the building industry.

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US

Biden administration ends Trump-era ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy | U.S.immigration

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said that it has ended a Trump-era policy requiring asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for hearings in US immigration court, hours after a judge lifted an order, in effect since December, that the so- called Remain in Mexico rule be reinstated.

The timing had been in doubt since the US supreme court ruled on June 30 that the Biden administration could end the policy.

Homeland security officials had been largely silent, saying they had to wait for the court to certify the ruling and for a Trump-appointed judge, Matthew Kacsmaryk, in Amarillo, Texas, to then lift his injunction.

The supreme court certified its ruling last week and critics of the policy had been increasingly outspoken about the Biden administration’s reticence on Remain in Mexico, calling for an immediate end to it.

“It’s a zombie policy,” Karen Tumlin, founder of the Justice Action Center, an immigration litigation organization, said last week.

The program now will be unwound in a “quick, and orderly manner”, DHS said in a statement. No more people are being enrolled and those who appear in court will not be returned to Mexico when they appear in the US for their next hearings.

The policy “has endemic flaws, imposes unjustifiable human costs, and pulls resources and personnel away from other priority efforts to secure our border”, the department said.

Many questions remain, including whether those whose claims have been denied or dismissed will get a second chance or if those whose next court dates are months away will be allowed to return to the US sooner, where many immigration courts are struggling with backlogs and shortage staffs. . DHS said it will provide additional information “in the coming days”.

About 70,000 migrants were subject to the policy, known officially as Migrant Protection Protocols, from when Donald Trump introduced it as president in January 2019 until Joe Biden suspended it on his first day in office in January 2021, fulfilling a campaign promise.

Many were allowed to return to the United States to pursue their cases during the early months of Biden’s presidency, often from squalid, dangerous, ad hoc camps or strained shelter accommodation in towns a short distance over the border into Mexico.

Then it was reinstated and migrants fleeing to the US once again were halted at the border and made to stay out of the US.

This together with a policy of routine expulsions at the border under a heavily criticized pandemic rule ostensibly to curb Covid-19, known as Title 42, has driven thousands to make unauthorized crossings, often repeatedly, and with deadly results for some – succumbing to botched smuggling businesses, the swirling waters of the Rio Grande in Texas or the desert there and further west.

Nearly 5,800 people were subject to the policy from December through June, a relatively modest number. Nicaraguans account for the largest number, with others from Cuba, Colombia and Venezuela.

Trump made the policy a centerpiece of border enforcement, which critics said was inhumane for exposing migrants to extreme violence in Mexico and making access to attorneys far more difficult.

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Business

Why the Reserve Bank and Philip Lowe has failed Australian people with interest rate, mortgage rises

Media commentator Alan Jones has accused the Reserve Bank of failing the Australian people by being too slow to raise interest rates

Media commentator Alan Jones has accused the Reserve Bank of failing the Australian people by being too slow to raise interest rates.

The cash rate remained at a record-low of 0.1 per cent until May this year, even though inflation last year breached the central bank’s 2 to 3 per cent target.

But in May, June, July and August, borrowers have copped 1.75 percentage points of rate rises, taking the RBA cash rate to a six-year high of 1.85 per cent.

With borrowers copping the steepest rate increases since 1994, Jones blasted the Reserve Bank for being too slow to raise interest rates.

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Media commentator Alan Jones has accused the Reserve Bank of failing the Australian people by being too slow to raise interest rates

Media commentator Alan Jones has accused the Reserve Bank of failing the Australian people by being too slow to raise interest rates

‘The Reserve Bank has failed and the punter knows it,’ he said on his online ADH TV show.

‘Petrol’s up, food prices are up, electricity, gas, the mortgage.

‘This mob have failed in their job – they didn’t move quickly enough.

‘It’s now belting us with the highest, successive interest rate increases in 30 years and the governor says they’ll get inflation back to two to three per cent – quote – overtime – unquote.

‘What the hell does overtime mean?’

Inflation in the year to June surged by 6.1 per cent, which was the fastest pace since 1990 when the one-off effect of the GST introduction in 2000 and 2001 was taken out.

The consumer price index in June last year grew at an annual pace of 3.8 per cent, a level above the RBA’s 2 to 3 per cent target.

Inflation in the year to June surged by 6.1 per cent, which was the fastest pace since 1990 when the one-off effect of the GST introduction in 2000 and 2001 was taken out (pictured is a shopper at Paddy's Markets at Flemington in Sydney's west)

Inflation in the year to June surged by 6.1 per cent, which was the fastest pace since 1990 when the one-off effect of the GST introduction in 2000 and 2001 was taken out (pictured is a shopper at Paddy’s Markets at Flemington in Sydney’s west)

Despite that, Reserve Bank of Australia governor Philip Lowe in October 2021 said the cash rate would not increase, from 0.1 per cent, until 2024 when ‘actual inflation is sustainably within the 2 to 3 per cent target range’.

‘The central scenario for the economy is that this condition will not be met before 2024,’ Dr Lowe said.

Warwick McKibbin, who served on the RBA board from 2001 to 2011, last week said the Reserve Bank had made a mistake in delaying rate increases last year, only for Russia’s Ukraine invasion to push average petroleum prices above $2 a liter.

‘I was already arguing for rates to be rising by the middle of last year,’ he told Daily Mail Australia.

‘To make a statement that he had to wait for wages to change, if there was a war in Ukraine, that would cause inflation as well – of course, that’s not on the horizon until it happens.

‘So the uncertainty just isn’t communicated well enough.’

The consumer price index in June last year grew at an annual pace of 3.8 per cent, a level above the RBA's 2 to 3 per cent target. Despite that, Reserve Bank of Australia governor Philip Lowe (pictured) in October 2021 said the cash rate would not increase, from 0.1 per cent, until 2024 when 'actual inflation is sustainably within the 2 to 3 per cent target range'

The consumer price index in June last year grew at an annual pace of 3.8 per cent, a level above the RBA’s 2 to 3 per cent target. Despite that, Reserve Bank of Australia governor Philip Lowe (pictured) in October 2021 said the cash rate would not increase, from 0.1 per cent, until 2024 when ‘actual inflation is sustainably within the 2 to 3 per cent target range’

The Reserve Bank and Treasury are both expecting headline inflation later this year to hit a 32-year high of 7.75 per cent and remain outside the RBA’s 2 to 3 per cent target until 2024.

The ANZ back is expecting the cash rate to hit a 10-year high of 3.35 per cent by November with 0.5 percentage rate rises in September, October and Melbourne Cup Day.

All the big four banks are expecting the RBA to raise raises by another 50 basis points in September, which mark the fourth consecutive increase in that size.

The May rate rise was the first since November 2010, ending the era of the record-low 0.1 per cent cash rate that had been in place since late 2020.

The June rate rise of half a percentage point was the biggest since February 2000.

Warwick McKibbin, who served on the RBA board from 2001 to 2011, last week said the Reserve Bank had made a mistake in delaying rate increases last year

Warwick McKibbin, who served on the RBA board from 2001 to 2011, last week said the Reserve Bank had made a mistake in delaying rate increases last year

Surging inflation and a series of interest rate rises are making Australians feel gloomy, with the Westpac-Melbourne Institute consumer sentiment index in August falling by another three per cent to a two-year low of 81.2 points.

This was well below the 100 mark where optimists outnumber pessimists, with the monthly reading declining for nine straight months.

Sentiment is 22 per cent weaker compared with a year ago, despite unemployment in June falling to a 48-year low of 3.5 per cent.

Confidence in regional or rural areas fell by five per cent in August to a record low of 72.8 points – the lowest since January 1996 shortly before Labor prime minister Paul Keating lost an upcoming election in a landslide.

What borrowers could be paying by November every month compared with May

$500,000: Up $883 from $1,922 to $2,805

$600,000: Up $1,060 from $2,306 to $3,366

$700,000: Up $1,236 from $2,691 to $3,927

$800,000: Up $1,413 from $3,075 to $4,488

$900,000: Up $1,590 from $3,459 to $5,049

$1,000,000: Up $1,767 from $3,843 to $5,610

Calculations based on the cash rate rising from a record-low of 0.1 per cent in May to 3.35 per cent by November, as predicted by ANZ. Monthly repayments based on a popular variable Commonwealth Bank rate increase from 2.29 per cent to a projected 5.39 per cent

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Wondershare UniConverter 14: the complete video toolbox for your needs

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Wondershare launched UniConverter 14 recently, with greatly improved conversion speeds, compressing speeds, and other features and functions that are super-powered in the UniConverter 14 update.

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The new Wondershare UniConverter 14 ushers in up to a huge 50% improvement in video converter speeds, as well as up to 50% speed bumps in 4K + 8K HDR video full-process GPU acceleration. Video editors will be happy with those upgrades, especially given that those improvements are just the beginning.

Wondershare also makes it easy for someone without video editing skills to be able to do things that someone with a much larger skill set does: we’re talking about converting and compressing video, editing, recording, saving, and merging videos, as well as burning videos to permanent media like DVD, and so much more.

We all know there are competing video editing suites on the market, but Wondershare makes complicated jobs like video editing, so much easier for end users. Wondershare also makes having power video editing tools at your fingertips cheaper than the competition, too.

Wondershare UniConverter 14 supports Apple Mac M1 native acceleration, for the new M1-powered Apple products in the wild, while there’s also multi-threaded GPU acceleration for Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA GPUs. UniConverter 14 has support for VP9, ​​AV1, HEVC (H.265) encoder. Wondershare also provides support for WEBM, MP4 format video with alpha channel output which is good news for video editors.

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Wondershare UniConverter 14 supports popular web formats including YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, Instagram, TikTok, Amazon, eBay, are all included. There’s support for a variety of 4K, 8K, and HDR video formats including MP4, AVI, MOV, MKV, and more. Wondershare has also added MP4 (CFHD)/MOV (HEVC)/MKV (AV1)Webm (VP9/AV1).

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UniConverter 14 uses lossless conversion technology which is powered by “APEXTRANS” technology, which Wondershare says converts videos with zero quality loss or video compression. GPU acceleration helps speed things along, with 4K + 8K + HDR and other HD video full-process GPU acceleration.

Wondershare says its new UniConverter 14 is 50% faster than its predecessor, and 120x faster than “other video converters”.

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You can convert multiple videos in batches, all with GPU acceleration speeding things along with a single click of your mouse. Depending on your system and the settings you’ve got for the video and its conversion process, it’ll be super-speeded by Wondershare UniConverter 14.

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Wondershare’s new UniConverter 14 has no size limits in the video compression department, where if you are looking for the ultimate software toolkit to compress video then you’re safe here.

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No size limits and custom compression ready to go in UniConverter 14, with new features inside of the update including support for lossless compression of audio files, Wondershare has bumped compression quality by 80% while the compression time is reduced 90% without losing quality. There are multiple compression modes in UniConverter 14, which were added to meet the compression requirements of various scenarios.

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You can watch videos in all formats through the Wondershare HD Video Player, which is capable of playing HD, Full HD, 4K + 8K video smoothly. The video player is an independent process to UniConverter 14, which is capable of playing 1000+ formats of video in the wild.

Wondershare HD Video Player has the playback effects that you’d get out of the VLC professional player, not too damn bad at all, huh?

Powerful AI features in UniConverter 14 make everything easier

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Wondershare bakes in some new AI features that make UniConverter 14 even easier, with the Noise Remover function taking care of audio recordings and video that feature a lot of noise. This is perfect for post-processing tasks like recording meetings, editing videos, and recording audio for podcasts.

  • Noise Remover: Remove background noise from video/audio batch.
  • vowel remover: Automatically separate vocals from music.
  • Watermark Editor: Add or remove watermarks from your video.
  • SubtitleEditor: A powerful subtitle editing tool.
  • Smart Trim: Automatically trim your videos and make video editing easy.
  • Auto Crop: Automatically resize videos for different social networks.
  • AI Portrait: Change video background with AI.
  • Background remover: Automatically remove the background from images.

There’s also the vowel removewhich will separate your vocals from music… again: perfect for video editors.

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Wondershare keeps things on the cheap with its UniConverter 14 pricing: things start at $39.99 per year on an annual plan, while you’ll get “forever to use” UniConverter and all of its features for a $79.99 one-time fee. This means a single purchase can unlock it all, where you get access to 6 add-on features: Smart Trimmer, Watermark

Editor, Subtitle Editor, Auto Reframe, AI Portrait, Intro & Outro (Standard Subscription).

If you are flexing between Windows and Mac operating systems, then you could look at buying UniConverter in a bundle. Wondershare offers UniConverter on an annual plan for $71.98 per year, where you’ll get WonderShare UniConverter for Windows, and Wondershare UniConverter for Mac.

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There’s also UniConverter + DVD Creator, UniConverter + Filmora, and UniConverter + DemoCreator bundles that make things cheaper if you’re using multiple software suites from Wondershare.

Wrapping things up, if you’re editing or working with videos then Wondershare’s updated UniConverter 14 video editing suite could be for you. There’s so much here for under $100 it’s not funny, especially when competing software suites can’t do for much more money on the table.

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Wondershare provides super-easy everything-including-the-kitchen-sink features with video editing, converting, compression, recording, downloading, and more with UniConverter 14.

If you are working on multiple videos on the daily, then Wondershare’s batch utility in UniConverter 14 is a huge asset to you. This is highlighted if you’ve got the PC hardware to handle it all, with the GPU acceleration pumping speeds through the roof.

Wondershare’s new update with UniConverter 14 makes it a formidable video toolbox, packed with features that you can get on the cheap.

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Entertainment

A woman for all seasons, Newton-John will remain something specific and personal to each of us

A woman for all seasons, Newton-John will remain something specific and personal to each of us

But it was not Olivia’s first movie. that was toomorrow, a 1970 British science fiction musical from James Bond producer Harry Saltzman which landed with a thud. It took two years to make and lasted only a week in cinemas. Asked about it by American interviewer Mike Douglas on the eve of the premiere of greaseOlivia spoke with typical Australian frankness: “It was pretty bad.”

Even Olivia’s stellar turn in grease might itself have never come to pass: she was not producer Alan Carr and director Randal Kleiser’s first choice for the role of Sandy. Carrie Fisher (starwars) and Susan Dey (The Partridge Family) were. The role was also offered to Marie Osmond, of Donny & Marie fame, who passed because she was uncomfortable with Sandy’s transformation from sweet to sexy in the film’s dénouement.

Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta in Grease.

Olivia Newton-John and John Travolta in Grease.Credit:AP

Like many Hollywood stories, however, the hand of fate intervened. Another legendary Australian, singer Helen Reddy, threw a dinner party in Los Angeles and invited Carr who ended up sitting across the table from Olivia. As Carr tells it, the moment they started speaking, he knew he had found his Sandy from her.

It was Olivia, Carr would later say, who needed persuading to say yes. She had been burned by her experience de ella on toomorrow and did not want to jeopardize a successful music career with another roll of the dice on silver screen fame. To persuade her of her, Carr changed Sandy from an American (as she is in the Broadway show) to an Australian, allowing Olivia to use her native accent.

“She had a brilliant voice, and I didn’t think there could be any more correct person for Sandy in the universe,” Travolta would later tellVanity Fair. “I never let up on it. I insisted that we cast her”.

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despues de Grease’s success – New York Times′ Vincent Canby described the film as “a larger, funnier, wittier and more imaginative-than-Hollywood movie with a life that is all its own” – Olivia’s American star was properly lit.

Her films were not always commercially successful, though. Xanadu and Two of a Kind, which reunited her with Travolta, were notable failures at the time, but Olivia somehow spun musical gold out of box office straw. the Xanadu soundtrack, a collaboration between Olivia and the Electric Light Orchestra, was a hit. and Two of a Kind gave her three more hits: Twist of Fate, Take a Chance and Livin’ in Desperate Times.

then there was Physical, which came with a provocative, neon-powered music video that encapsulated the 1980s in just three minutes and 44 seconds. And Koala Blue, a retail empire that began with a single store on Los Angeles’ trendy Melrose Avenue and grew to 60 stores worldwide.

Like many things about the 1980s, however, as the blue eyeshadow faded, so did the business model. In the third act of her life, Olivia divided her time between Australia and California and focused on health and wellness, in part due to her own cancer diagnosis. She still wrote and recorded music, releasing work that was perhaps her most artful and creatively nuanced de ella, even if it could never match the commercial enormity of Grease’s infectious, campy hits.

The measure of her legacy is the outpouring of love and reflection which followed the announcement of her death. “You made all of our lives so much better,” grease co-star John Travolta said. “Your impact was incredible. I love you so much. We will see you down the road and we will all be together again. Yours, from the moment I saw you and forever. Your Danny, your John.”

Olivia Newton-John as Sandy playing opposite John Travolta as Danny in Grease.

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Another longtime friend, singer Lorna Luft, who played the Pink Lady Paulette Rebchuck in grease 2, described Olivia as an angel on Earth. “We shared being part of the grease family, we also shared our battle [with cancer]. [You] brought awareness, dignity, honesty, knowledge and class to [your] fight and no one fought harder. [Your] phenomenal talent, generosity and friendship was unequaled.”

grease Principal Kleiser said he was heartbroken. “Ella She was one of a kind, and so very kind,” he said. “For over four decades of our friendship, she exuded nothing but love to everyone she met. Olivia was exactly the way you imagined her.” And her grease co-star Stockard Channing spoke of “her sunshine, her warmth and her grace. I don’t know if I’ve known a lovelier human being.”

Actor Viola Davis thanked Olivia for creating “eternal memories”. And Olivia’s friend de ella, pop star Rod Stewart, described her as “the perfect lady, gorgeous, with great poise and with a certain Aussie sophistication”. Australia’s own Kylie Minogue reflected on how, since she was a child, she “loved and looked up to Olivia Newton-John. She was, and she always will be, an inspiration to me in so many, many ways”.

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My own encounters with her were often unexpected and always delightful. We sat next to each other at British producer Nigel Lythgoe’s wedding in Las Vegas. And we shared a mutual friend in Luft. On one occasion, when the three of us were together, at Sydney’s Mardi Gras, Olivia and Lorna took great delight in introducing themselves to strangers as “Grease 1” and “Grease 2″.

Olivia will always be something specific and personal to each of us. In beloved motion pictures, like grease and Xanadu, which evoke memories of our shared childhoods. And in still images, where her innocence and gentle demeanour of her, and her radiant beauty of her, are frozen in time. Olivia Newton-John and Sandy Olsson, forever, one and the same.

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Adelaide Crows chairman says class action over controversial camp remains ‘hypothetical’

Adelaide Crows chairman John Olsen addresses the media.

Adelaide Crows chairman John Olsen says the club has not sought legal advice despite talk of a class action in the wake of Eddie Betts’ claims about a controversial 2018 training camp.

Mr Olsen described any such move against the club as “hypothetical”, and also defended the way the club had responded in the seven days since the publication of Betts’ memoir The Boy from Boomerang Crescent.

The book details Betts’ anxiety and anger following the preseason camp, and prompted former Crow Josh Jenkins to speak out as well.

Adelaide lawyer Greg Griffin said he had begun investigating a potential class action against the club, on behalf of several players who attended the camp.

“Any action would be brought in the Supreme Court of Victoria, which requires a minimum of seven group members to bring and maintain a class action,” he said.

“The number of persons, or players, is well in excess of the number that we require.”

But Mr Olsen, who earlier this week issued a public apology to Betts and Jenkins, told ABC Radio Adelaide such a development would be addressed if and when it arose.

“It is hypothetical, because until it takes place it’s not fact, and if it takes place, we’ll address the issue at that time,” he said.

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Adelaide Crows chairman John Olsen speaks to ABC Radio Adelaide’s Stacey Lee and Nikolai Beilharz.

Mr Olsen said he had spoken to all the club’s board members in the past week, but issues for discussion did not include the position of board member Mark Ricciuto who, on his Triple M breakfast show last week, said “the club has moved on from “the camp.

“Mark’s position at the board was not discussed at the meeting over the weekend. That’s not on my agenda at the moment,” Mr Olsen said.

Mr Olsen joined the club in 2020, two years after the now infamous camp.

Denials of a ‘cover-up’

The former SA premier denied the club had sought to conceal the controversy at the time, and said player welfare was the current “priority”.

“I think that’s a stretch to say there was a cover-up. People were dealing with a difficult situation,” he said.

“A number of individuals indicated to me they had a very positive experience at the camp.

“[But receiving] confidential information given by a player, and that being used in front of others at the camp, is inexcusable.

“Those circumstances cannot, and will not, happen again.”

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A crowd favorite during his time at Adelaide, Betts returned to Carlton at the end of the 2019 season.(AAP: David Mariuz)

Since the publication of Betts’ book, Mr Olsen has confined himself to individual interviews and statements, rather than holding a media conference — an approach he defended.

“I have made myself available across the board, to radio, print and television,” he said.

“Shortly after Eddie Betts’s book had been released, and his comments related to chapter 17, [chief executive] Tim Silvers was immediately available on that Wednesday and immediately apologised.”

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Schoolgirl rape victim tells of nightmares, flashbacks after attack by ‘monster’

Schoolgirl rape victim tells of nightmares, flashbacks after attack by 'monster'

A teenage girl who was raped by her schoolmate has told of the nightmares and flashbacks that have made her “a shell of who I used to be,” as she described her attacker as a monster who belongs behind bars.

The girl told the Children’s Court that the rape – at a weekend party in late November 2019 – had left her ashamed and irreversibly damaged. “[I wish] we could turn back time and stay home for a movie rather than go to that stupid party,” she said.

A girl who was raped by her schoolmate said the crime has left her irreversibly damaged

A girl who was raped by her schoolmate said the crime has left her irreversibly damaged Credit:istock

The boy, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, was found guilty in May of six counts of sexual intercourse without consent, and one of intentionally choking without permission. He will be sentenced on August 25.

At the sentencing hearing on Wednesday, the court heard an initially consensual act between two Katoomba High students became non-consensual and involved multiple violations. The perpetrator failed to express remorse and has continued to stick by his not guilty plea.

His lawyer argued for a non-custodial sentence, saying the boy had a job, a steady girlfriend, and no signs of psychopathology or pre-existing personality disorders. He wanted to study music and go into the air force.

He also said the rape had occurred on a mattress in a living room, the girl had her phone, there were people nearby, and the offender had not invited her to the party. “There was no power imbalance,” he said. “I noticed they were the same age.”

But, in her victim impact statement – read in the presence of her rapist – the girl described how she had struggled every day since it happened. “You’ve continued to live your life without the repercussions of raping me,” she said.

“I will never recover from what you did. But I still choose not to end it all every day and live the best life I can for myself in spite of your cruelty.”

She said the boy’s little sisters deserved better. “I hurt for them knowing you are the man they probably looked up to and know the reality of the monster you are.” Her mother de ella had to hold her while she sobbed, and her father de ella had to wake her from her nightmares de ella.

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Barnes wins Democratic Senate primary in Wisconsin, finalizing showdown with Ron Johnson

Barnes wins Democratic Senate primary in Wisconsin, finalizing showdown with Ron Johnson

Lt.Gov. Mandela Barnes has won Wisconsin’s Democratic Senate primary, NBC News projects, officially setting up a pivotal battleground state showdown with incumbent Republican Ron Johnson in a race that could determine control of the Senate.

Barnes’ victory was all but certain after his three leading competitors exited the race in recent weeks. Barnes and groups supporting him have already targeted Johnson, who also easily won his primary, with a barrage of television and digital ads in anticipation of the November matchup.

Wisconsin’s Senate race will be one the closest and most intensely watched in the country, and Senate control could hinge on the outcome — it’s for one of just two Republican-held seats up for grabs in states Joe Biden won in 2020. The race is rated as a toss-up by the nonpartisan Cook Political Report.

A Marquette University Law School poll from June showed a tight hypothetical race between Barnes and Johnson. The survey — taken before many Democrats dropped out — showed Barnes leading Johnson, 46% to 44%, within the margin of sampling error.

The same poll found Wisconsin voters’ opinion of Johnson, a two-term incumbent, on the wane, with just 37% of registered voters having a favorable opinion of him, compared to 46% who had an unfavorable one.

Johnson has attracted controversy in recent years over a litany of false or questionable claims. He has downplayed the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, falsely claiming that there was “no violence” on the Senate side of the Capitol that day. He has also attracted criticism for promoting the use of unproven Covid therapies like ivermectin, and he has falsely claimed that using mouthwash can protect against the coronavirus.

Johnson, 67, who was elected to the Senate in 2010, had pledged to serve only two terms, but he reversed course in January when he decided, after months of deliberation, to run for re-election again.

Democrats rolled out new ads attacking Johnson on Tuesday morning, before the final votes had even been cast for Barnes, trying to paint him as out of touch.

Barnes, 35, was early to brand himself a progressive — a move that has already attracted attacks from Republicans, who have repeatedly pointed to a photo of him holding up an “abolish ICE” shirt.

The Barnes campaign made it clear early in the primary that he did not support the movement, nor did he support “defunding the police,” but Republicans are certain to keep up the attacks in the general election.

Barnes emerged last month as the prohibitive front-runner in the primary after his three leading competitors exited the race and endorsed him.

His main rival had been Milwaukee Bucks executive Alex Lasry, who, despite having sunk at least $12.3 million of his personal wealth into his campaign, never overtook him in the polls. Lasry dropped out July 27 and immediately endorsed Barnes, calling him “the best person to be able to defeat Ron Johnson.” The day before, Outagamie County Executive Tom Nelson left the race, and days later, State Treasurer Sara Godlewski did, too, effectively clearing the field for Barnes, whom they both endorsed.

Barnes gained momentum this summer with a series of high-profile endorsements — from Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Cory Booker of New Jersey and others, as well as Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.

Barnes, who goes by his middle name in honor of Nelson Mandela, the former South African president and anti-apartheid activist, grew up in the inner city of Milwaukee. He attended college at Alabama A&M, a historically Black university, and worked as a community organizer before he won a seat in the state Assembly in 2012, representing part of the north side of Milwaukee.

After he won the 2018 Democratic primary for lieutenant governor, Barnes and Tony Evers topped Gov. Scott Walker, a two-term Republican. The victory made Barnes the first Black person to hold the office and only the second Black person to win a statewide race in Wisconsin. He would be the first Black senator to represent Wisconsin if he wins the general election.

Adam Edelman is a political reporter for NBC News.

Natasha Korekki contributed.