Month: August 2022

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Technology

Riot MMO Lead Greg ‘Ghostcrawler’ Street Explains Why They Announced Early, Expectations, and Change

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When it comes to game announcements, they are usually done when there is substantial work already completed and rumors are already flying. This is part of the point of why Riot Games MMO lead Greg “Ghostcrawler” Street took to Twitter to answer questions about why Riot announced that it was working on an mmo and when more “real” info is coming.

Street says that announcing their plans early was done for strategic reasons by the CEO. They wanted to “low-key announce to help with recruiting (we need a lot of MMO vets), to excite players, and because we thought it would likely leak anyway.” Even though there were already people already wanting a Riot MMO and seeing the developments and investment in narrative and more shared stories coming and wondering if it would come to pass, announcing themselves did put the momentum and focus on Riot.

Yet, you have to be careful with early announcements. As Street continues, noting that “The other big risk of announcing early is sustaining the momentum. It’s hard to keep players engaged and excited for years”. This decision by Riot to announce without the usual work completed, teasers ready, promo in swing from the start does a couple of things. It does risk people getting bored, sure, but it also helps control expectations, especially if the team finds they have to make major pivots from any plans they had in place.

Saying that they haven’t even solidified 100% of their direction yet with confidence is something we don’t normally see. Important too for a game that, with nearly nothing known, expectations are already high, and Street knows you want to know more and understands the feeling. The team wants to talk about it more, but it’s still not time yet.

He ends with gratitude and empathy for those who want to know more, putting a sense of trust in the community to know how to deliver effective feedback when the time comes. Additionally, I tease the eventual team announcement too.

“I couldn’t do it without this amazing team that we have assembled. Some of the names you know and some you don’t know yet and more will join all the time.”

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Entertainment

Naomi Judd left Ashley and Wynonna out of her will

Naomi Judd left Ashley and Wynonna out of her will

Naomi Judd left her only two daughters, Wynonna Judd and Ashley Judd, out of her will, Page Six can confirm.

The late country singer – who died by suicide on April 30 – appointed her husband of 33 years, Larry Strickland, as the executor of her estate, according to court documents.

Naomi requested in the will that the musician, 76, have “full authority and discretion” over any property that is an asset to her estate “without the approval of any court” or permission from any beneficiary of the estate, Page Six reports.

She also stated, per the documents, that Strickland would be entitled to receive “reasonable compensation” for his services, and that he would be paid or reimbursed for all “reasonable expenses, advances and disbursements, including attorney’s and accountant’s fees, made or incurred. in the administration of my estate”.

The will was prepared on November 20, 2017, nearly five years before Naomi died.

According to the documents, the singer – who suffered a lifelong and public battle with depression – was of “sound mind and disposing memory” when she signed and approved the will.

Melissa Sitzler, a senior account manager at a Tennessee law firm Wiatr & Associates, and another individual named Abigail Muelder signed as witnesses.

According to the will, Naomi also asked that if her husband could not be executor due to death or any other reason, she wanted her brother-in-law, Reginald Strickland, and Daniel Kris Wiatr, the president of Wiatr & Associates, to serve as co-executors.

RadarOnline.com claims a source told them Wynonna, 58, is “upset” that she was excluded because she formed one-half of the duo, The Judds, with Naomi and “believes she was a major force behind her mother’s success”.

However, reps for Wynonna and Ashley, 54, did not immediately return Page Six’s request for comment.

The sisters have not given any indication of tension between them and their mother since her passing – even attending Naomi’s Country Music Hall of Fame induction one day after announcing her death.

Then in May, Wynonna said she felt “helpless” over the loss and vowed to “break the cycle of addiction and family dysfunction, that I must continue to show up for myself [first] and do the personal healing work”.

Meanwhile, Ashley said in a podcast interview in July that she could “understand” that her mother was in pain after years of dealing with an “undiagnosed and untreated mental illness”.

Page Six has also contacted the lawyer who prepared Naomi’s will, but did not hear back in time for publication.

According to CelebrityNetWorth.com, Naomi’s estate is estimated to be worth $35 million.

This story originally appeared on Page Six and is republished here with permission

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Australia

Dominic Perrottet took action, but not where it mattered

Dominic Perrottet took action, but not where it mattered

Dominic Perrottet’s colleagues have been crying out for the premier to take decisive action to end the death spiral they fear their government is in. But the guillotine did not fall where they had hoped.

Perrottet stepped in to sack his junior fair trading minister Eleni Petinos just 48 hours after reports emerged that she had been accused of bullying staff. While overseas, on his poorly timed trade trip, Perrottet initially backed Petinos and was confident that an anonymous complaint made against her had been appropriately dealt with.

Trade Minister Stuart Ayres and Premier Dominic Perrottet in Mumbai last week.

Trade Minister Stuart Ayres and Premier Dominic Perrottet in Mumbai last week.Credit:AAP

But by Sunday night “further matters” relating to Petinos had emerged and Perrottet was wasting no time in removing the young minister from his cabinet. He had no choice. Bullying cannot be tolerated.

Perrottet on Monday wanted it known that he had taken swift action. “I’m the premier. I have to make decisions… it’s a very difficult decision. But I believe it’s the right call,” he said. His colleagues of him, no doubt, agree that it was the only way to deal with the issue.

But if Perrottet thinks his decisiveness over such a clear problem will be enough to calm his anxious troops, he is sorely mistaken. While sacking Petinos gets rid of one problem, it will do nothing to stop the wider, more damaging saga that is paralyzing the government.

As long as the John Barilaro trade appointment fiasco rolls on, and Trade Minister Stuart Ayres remains in cabinet as well as being deputy Liberal leader, Perrottet’s colleagues will be increasingly incensed and his government will be locked in a crisis of its own making.

Perrottet has been the only one to declare publicly that Ayres is a “very strong minister in the NSW government”. Other ministers who have been pressed on the trade minister have ducked the question, clearly not keen to endorse their cabinet colleague.

Ayres, meanwhile, is outrageous. He refuses to accept the mood and stand aside pending the outcome of two inquiries – one, an independent probe; the second, a parliamentary inquiry. He keeps stressing that he has done nothing wrong and therefore has every right to stay.

He has missed the glaring point. Regardless of his self-determined innocence of him, he has come to symbolize a festering problem that is causing his government worsening damage. As long as Ayres digs in, it all drags on, and at some point the issue may be irreparable for the Coalition.

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US

DHS watchdog decries ‘onslaught of meritless criticism’ mid Jan. 6 Secret Service texts flap

DHS watchdog decries 'onslaught of meritless criticism' mid Jan. 6 Secret Service texts flap

Cuffari did not specify which criticisms were, in his view, without merit. But two hours after he sent his note from him, a pair of House committee chairs blasted out a letter saying they’d obtained evidence showing Cuffari’s office “may have secretly abandoned efforts to collect text messages from the Secret Service more than a year ago. ”

“These documents raise troubling new concerns that your office not only failed to notify Congress for more than a year that critical evidence in this investigation was missing, but your senior staff deliberately chose not to pursue that evidence and then appear to have taken steps to cover up these failures,” read the letter from Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), who leads the Jan. 6 select panel as well as the Homeland Security committee, and Oversight chief Rep. Carolyn Maloney (DN.Y.).

Maloney and Thompson also renewed their calls for Cuffari to step aside from his office’s scrutiny of how the Secret Service handled the Jan. 6 violence.

Cuffari’s email suggests he has no such plans. And his Monday afternoon note from him, urging personnel to “support one another,” implied that the close attention lawmakers are paying his office from him was disquieting to his workforce.

“Thank you to everyone who has remained calm, carried on, and gotten the work out,” he continued. “I especially thank our Front Office and External Affairs teams, who have kept up a phenomenal pace working long hours to prepare for and coordinate meetings and respond to congressional and media inquiries.”

The inspector general’s office of public affairs did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The office of DHS’ independent watchdog, which handles oversight of the Secret Service, started to take heat earlier this summer after reports that Jan. 6-related texts from some Secret Service personnel had disappeared.

The inspector general’s office learned earlier this year about the messages’ disappearance but neglected to tell Congress, as the Washington Post has reported, and the Jan. 6 select committee last month subpoenaed the Secret Service in its escalating push to obtain the messages.

Amid that tension, Cuffari’s buck-up Monday message met with less than total sympathy. An official in the DHS inspector general’s office told POLITICO that Cuffari and his immediate staff of him are “uniquely unqualified to lead an Inspector General’s office, and the current negative congressional and media scrutiny bear that out.”

“The crucial oversight mission of the DHS OIG has been compromised,” continued the official, who was granted anonymity because of concerns about further retaliation, “and there will be no course correction as long as Cuffari leads the DHS OIG.”

And Liz Hempowicz, the director of public policy of the nonprofit Project on Government Oversight, told POLITICO that Cuffari’s description of criticism he faces is part of a pattern as she called for his removal.

POGO, a government watchdog group, obtained a record showing that Cuffari’s team learned in February of this year about the disappearance of two top DHS officials’ Jan. 6 texts. But, the Washington Post reported, Cuffari did not tell Congress about the issue — a potential similarity with the Secret Service messaging issue — and did not try to find the officials’ texts.

“There’s a clear pattern, going back months, showing that Cuffari has no respect for his role as inspector general,” she said in a statement. “Every time we report on another inexplicable misstep that shows Cuffari clearly not meeting his mission, he doubles down and claims everything is fine and that you just have to trust him. Biden should remove Cuffari as DHS inspector general now. DHS needs a credible watchdog.”

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Business

Aussie TikTok user goes dumpster diving for fresh fruit and vegetables

Aussie TikTok user goes dumpster diving for fresh fruit and vegetables

An Australian TikToker has shown off the crazy amount of fruit and vegetables he salvaged after going dumpster diving behind a supermarket.

Luca Corby filmed himself dumpster diving in Canberra to prove just how much fresh produce gets thrown out each day, captioning the video: “Anywaysss f**k big corporations.”

Mr Corby and two friends donned head torches before heading to a nearby store and taking a look in the bins.

“Food is expensive at the moment, so let’s go dumpster diving” he said.

First off, the group managed to salvage a number of potatoes, carrots, leeks and a huge knob of ginger, which Mr Corby estimated to be worth about $20.

“Look at this lettuce, it is literally fresh. There is a couple of dead leaves on the outside but the inside is all fresh,” he said.

The group also found rhubarb, mandarins, capsicums, oranges, grapes and asparagus.

Mr Corby filmed himself the following day explaining once they game home they washed all the fruit and vegetables and put them in the fridge.

“Our fridge is stocked for the next week. Our groceries for this week were essentially free,” he said.

“It’s crazy because we just went to a small supermarket, but you can imagine Coles and Woolworths would be throwing out so much stuff while families are struggling to buy fresh vegetables.”

A few weeks earlier, Mr Corby shared a picture of the huge amount of fresh produce his friend sourced after it was thrown out at a local IGA.

“Literally so many people are struggling to buy fresh produce at the moment and this is how much food my friend got dumpster diving yesterday,” he said.

“That was all going to go in the bin. That’s f**ked.”

The first video has clocked up more than 70,000 views, with many people shocked at how much fresh produce had been thrown away.

“This is so heartbreaking to see. The food looks so fresh. People are struggling right now,” one person said.

“So much wastage!” another wrote.

Another added: “Well done! It’s an absolute crime that those perfectly good foods can be thrown in the trash.”

Both Woolworths and Coles have initiatives in place to reduce food waste in their stores.

Woolworths has implemented a Food Rescue and Recycling Program to help stores identify and divert surplus fresh food away from landfill, instead using it for things like hunger relief, animal stock feed at local farms and zoos, or for commercial composting.

The supermarket giant works with OzHarvest, Foodbank and FareShare to make left over edible food available to local hunger relief agencies.

Coles has introduced its Together to Zero Waste initiative to help reduce food waste across its stores.

“Our first choice for unsold, edible food is to donate it to food rescue organizations such as SecondBite and Foodban,” the supermarket states in its website.

“Following that, we have other food waste solutions including donations to farmers and animal or wildlife services, organics collections and in-store food waste disposal equipment.”

Coles also uses produce that would typically not be sold in other products, such as bananas being used in frozen banana pieces, banana bread and muffins.

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Sports

Australia’s Oscar Piastri could move from reserve driver to F1 seat for Alpine after Fernando Alonso signs with Aston Martin for 2023

Australia's Oscar Piastri stands wearing his Alpine team driving gear while speaking to media.

Highly rated young Australian motor racing ace Oscar Piastri appears on the cusp of securing a prized Formula One seat after the shock defection of veteran Alpine teammate Fernando Alonso.

Alonso has signed a multi-year deal with British-based F1 team Aston Martin and Piastri is considered the two-time world champion’s obvious successor at Alpine for the 2023 season.

A winner of the 2021 Formula Two championship, Piastri has been Alpine’s reserve driver this season amid speculation he could be loaned out to another Formula One team in 2023.

But the 41-year-old Alonso’s switch from the Renault-owned Alpine — as a replacement for retiring four-times world champion Sebastian Vettel at Aston Martin — makes Piastri a warm favorite to join Daniel Ricciardo in bolstering Australia’s presence in the F1 ranks.

Piastri — who is managed by Australia’s former Formula One star Mark Webber — is considered a rising talent in motor racing.

Australia's Oscar Piastri drives a Formula 1 car in testing, with his back left wheel just off the track.
Oscar Piastri is a reserve driver for the Alpine F1 team, but he could grab a prized seat for the 2023 season. (Getty Images: Formula 1/Joe Portlock)

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The 21-year-old from Melbourne claimed the Formula Three championship in 2020 to announce his arrival on the world stage.

Should Piastri secure a seat with Alpine in 2023, he will become the first Australian driver to make a Formula One debut since Ricciardo stepped up in the 2011 British Grand Prix.

While confirming Alonso’s departure, Alpine says it is premature to add to speculation that Piastri will be his replacement.

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“The team will announce its driver line-up for the 2023 Formula One season in due course,” Alpine said.

“We look forward to finishing the remainder of the 2022 season with Fernando in blue, and we’ll keep pushing to the maximum until the final lap in November.”

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Australia

Drouin South airstrip permit rejected after Baw Baw Shire hears about noise concerns

Drouin South airstrip permit rejected after Baw Baw Shire hears about noise concerns

A private airstrip in Drouin South that has operated without planning approval for 42 years has had a retrospective permit application rejected after the council received 67 objections from neighbours.

While the owner of the airfield on Yuulong Road, Terry Williamson described the airstrip as a community asset, opponents complained to the council about noise from small aircraft and potential biosecurity issues for neighboring farmland from people retrieving recreationally launched rockets.

“I thought I was doing a good thing and a few years ago, I thought the community all were for it — but times change,” Mr Williamson said.

Baw Baw Shire Council has been trying to manage conflict between airstrip users and neighbours, and last week was considering whether it could retrospectively approve some of the modifications made to the airstrip.

Mr Williamson said he has submitted the planning application at the council’s request.

He said the permit was initially for an authorized landing area, which was amended by council to an airfield.

The council’s director of planning and development Leanne Hurst said no planning permit had ever been issued to use the land for either an airfield, airstrip or authorized landing area.

Last week councillors unanimously voted against the application.

The application was refused on a number of grounds including failing to respond to the purpose of the farm zone and failing to provide sufficient information in the application.

In the foreground is a red plane wing with white stripes and stars which is in the air, you can see a grassy landing strip below
Pilot David Hooke says the airstrip is not used often.(Supplied: David Hooke)

Neighbors say they’ve suffered for years

Dairy farmer Jennifer Clough told the council the plans using the airstrip were so noisy if you were outside you would often have to stop conversations.

She told the meeting the Victorian Rocketry Association’s use of the airstrip also caused issues on her farm.

“They have GPS [on the rockets] and the owners come looking for them with no regard for privacy or security or WorkSafe issues … in this current climate security on dairy farms is of paramount importance,” Ms Clough said.

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Some residents told councillors plans would take off and land at 15 minute intervals on a clear day.(Supplied: Jane Moss)

Another resident Jane Moss told the meeting some residents had sold their houses and moved away because of the airfield.

“It’s been years of us objecting and years of the emotion, with us putting up with the impact on our livelihoods for somebody’s hobby,” she said.

‘We did everything they asked’

Mr Williamson, who is not a pilot himself, said he may appeal the council’s decision at the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT).

“We did everything that they [the council planners] asked [in the planning application process]. We got new sound reports,” Mr Williamson said.

“The whole idea of ​​an airfield is good for community, for the whole region, that argument was left behind [at the meeting].”

Pilot David Hooke, who owns a hangar at the airfield, said the argument about the number of plane movements had been overblown.

An older man with white hair stands next to a younger tall boy in front of a red aerobatics plane in a hangar
David Hooke (left) with the co-owner of his aerobatics plane. (Supplied: David Hooke)

“There would be only five of us who regularly fly our aircraft, and when I say regularly, once a month, once a week, once a fortnight what [the objectors] were saying about multiple aircraft coming and going all day every day is patently false,” Mr Hooke said.

He said pilots must fly certain circuits set down by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) to practice take-offs and landings.

“In many ways, there’s nothing much we can do differently to appease the neighbours,” he said.

Council’s concerns

Baw Baw Shire Mayor Michael Leaney told last week’s meeting he was concerned the site had changed and was not meeting existing use rights.

Councilors heard that Mr Williamson was paid $40 a week to store Mr Hooke’s plans.

Man with brown long sleeve shirt and necklace standing in front of old buildings in Walhalla
Michael Leaney says the community has been concerned about the airfield for a long time.(Landline)

“I remember some years ago, when this was before council previously, we were told that there … was no money changing hands at all,” Mr Leaney said at the meeting.

Mr Williamson said the money collected from plane owners goes to hangar insurance and maintenance on the grounds.

“The money we collect is virtually the cost of running that airfield, there’s no real profit,” Mr Williamson said.

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US

Trump splits MO Senate endorsement between Greitens, Schmitt

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Former President Donald Trump hedged his endorsement in the Republican primary for the US Senate in Missouri, giving his support to “ERIC,” without specifying which one — the scandal-plagued former governor or the state attorney general who appears to be leading in the polls.

After a day of speculation among political operatives in Missouri and Washington, DC, that Trump was poised to endorse either former Gov. Eric Greitens or Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, Trump chose both in a statement shortly after 5 pm

The split decision came a little more than 12 hours before polls open — and set Trump up to claim credit if either candidate wins Tuesday.

Trump said he wanted a candidate who will fight for border security “election integrity, the military and military veterans.

“We need a person who will not back down to the Radical Left Lunatics who are destroying our Country,” Trump wrote. “I trust the Great People of Missouri, on this one, to make up their own minds, much as they did when they gave me landslide victories in the 2016 and 2020 Elections, and I am therefore proud to announce that ERIC has my Complete and Full Endorsement!”

While the endorsement had been widely anticipated by Republicans, it is unlikely that Trump’s coy statement will have a substantial impact on the eve of the tight race, where he appeared unwilling to put his full weight behind any candidate.

Last month, Trump knee-capped US Rep. Vicky Hartzler, who has consistently polled as one of the top three candidates in the race, saying he would not be giving her the endorsement because he didn’t feel that she “had what it takes to take on the Radical Left Democrats.”

In March, Trump praised US Rep. Billy Long, but stopped short of endorsing him. Long never broke into the top tier of candidates in polling.

Both Erics immediately moved to seize on Trump’s statement. Greitens posted a graphic to Twitter saying the former president had endorsed him. Soon after, Schmitt released a statement saying it was “truly an honor” to have Trump’s endorsement and calling himself the only “America First” candidate in the race.

“He was smart for saying Eric. It was ingenious. That’s Trump!” said Rene Artman, chair of the Republican Central Committee of St. Louis County.

Polling in the race’s final weeks showed Schmitt gaining in the race, with several surveys showing him leading. Meanwhile, recent polls showed Greitens in third.

Greitens has come under withering attack over past allegations of sexual assault and blackmail, which led him to resign as governor in 2018, as well as allegations by his ex-wife that he was physically and emotionally abusive toward her and their young children.

The split endorsement comes after Trump indicated he was upset by a poll conducted by Remington Research Group, a firm founded by Schmitt’s campaign consultant, Jeff Roe, that showed Schmitt winning the race with 34% of the vote. The poll also looked at the 2024 Republican presidential primary and had Trump with 42% of the vote, ahead of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis who had 18%.

After Breitbart, which has written favorably about Greitens throughout the campaign, said the poll was “fake” and underestimated Trump’s support in the state, Trump posted the outlet’s article on his site Truth Social, decrying “dishonesty in politics.”

This is a breaking story and will be updated

This story was originally published August 1, 2022 5:21 PM.

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Business

Egg shortage: Latest product to vanish from supermarket shelves

Egg shortage: Latest product to vanish from supermarket shelves

Australians are being hit with a national egg shortage, as consumers move towards free-range eggs amid rising production costs, extreme weather events and worker shortages.

Supermarkets across the country are back to implementing purchase limits, with farmers grappling to keep up with demand after they decreased their chicken numbers during lockdown.

Owner of Chooks at the Rooke, a free-range egg farm southwest of Melbourne, Xavier Prime told 3AW Radio that part of the problem was the cold weather that affected how often the birds laid eggs.

“Part of it is the time of the year as well.” he said.

“Free-range eggs, in that sort of space the birds are open to the elements, and with the daylight hours being shorter, that has a lot to do with how many eggs the chickens lay.”

Mr Prime said “to lay the optimum”, hens needs 15-16 hours of daylight every day, but at the moment they are experiencing just 10-11 hours.

A Woolworths spokesman said the scarcity of eggs was due to a production shortage on farms, with the cost of young hens laying eggs increasing by 20 per cent.

“The market-wide supply of locally produced eggs in some regions has recently been impacted by reduced production on a number of farms,” they said.

“While we continue to deliver eggs to our stores regularly, customers may notice reduced availability at the moment and we thank them for their patience and understanding.

“We’re in close contact with our suppliers and are working to increase the availability of eggs in stores as soon as possible.”

The supermarket giant has installed a two-carton limit in some stores.

Mr Prime said he hoped the supply shortages did not push consumers back to caged eggs.

But free-range eggs aren’t the only product Australian shoppers are being stripped of, with supermarkets reporting bare shelves for other household items such as chickpeas, lentils, lettuce, tissues and cold and flu tablets.

“We’re experiencing reduced availability across some of our lentil and chickpea products due to supply chain delays,” a Woolworths spokesman said.

The supply chain issues are a combination of the war in Ukraine, flooding and other extreme weather events on Australian shores.

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Technology

all the deals you need to know

all the deals you need to know

It’s the first birthday of Telstra Day, and you get the presents. Here’s what we’ve got on offer.

Remember: the deals on this page are only valid for one day! They’re way too hot to last. Telstra Day August 2022 kicks off from 1am on Thursday 4 August, which is in:

Telstra Day has been happening for one year today! It’s our very first birthday, and we’re giving you the presents, including a gift with purchase worth $792 when you buy any Samsung Galaxy S22 series.

Read on for the FAQs!

Here’s what’s on offer this month:

Telstra Day: device deals

Buy any Samsung Galaxy S22 series, get bonus Xbox All Access with hundreds of games for 24 months and an Xbox Series S

We’re not playing games with the first anniversary of Telstra Day.

Purchase any Samsung Galaxy S22 series device from us on Telstra Day and you’ll get a bonus Xbox All Access bundle, which includes an Xbox Series S and hundreds of games, valued at $792 RRP with your purchase.

If you need to find out what the deal is with the different Galaxy S22 models, we’ve got everything you need to know on Telstra Exchange.

Things you need to know

Xbox All Access redemption criteria apply. After 24 months roll onto Xbox Game Pass Ultimate standard monthly subscription fees (currently $15.95 per month), unless you change or cancel beforehand. Redeem Xbox by 19 August 2022.

Samsung Galaxy S21 FE 5G

And the fans go wild!

The Samsung Galaxy S21 Fan Edition has all the gear you love from the Galaxy S21 series, turned up to 11.

Samsung Galaxy A53 5G

The Galaxy A53 5G is designed to stand out. With the Ambient Edge blending the camera with the body seamlessly, your Galaxy A53 5G is entirely beautiful and fully functional with a large battery capacity inside a slimmer, matte frame.

Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra 5G

This one is a tablet that has to be seen to be believed. If you’re a fan of state-of-the-art screens, you’ll fall in love with the Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra, which has a Super AMOLED display with a smooth 120Hz refresh rate, and a brand new S-Pen bundled in the box.

Telstra Day: accessory deals

Samsung Galaxy Watch4 – 44mm

Samsung Galaxy Watch4 Classic Edition – 46mm

Sony WF-1000XM4 noise-canceling headphones

Telstra Day: more accessory deals

And the deals don’t stop there!

We also have:

Telstra Day: prepaid deals

If you’re looking to get connected for less, we’ve got you!

FAQ’s

When does the Telstra Day come out start?

Telstra Day August 2022 officially kicks off at 1am AEST on Thursday 4 August 2022.

The sale will run until midnight AEST on Thursday 4 August. These deals are far too hot to keep around for longer than a day!

What is Telstra Day?

Telstra Day is a our monthly event full of deals both onTelstra.comand in our Telstra Stores. Make sure you’re complying with local health guidelines before coming to see us!

Once a month, we will be offering deep discounts on all the latest tech. Deals are different every month, but previous Telstra Days have included smartphones, smart watches, headphones and other accessories.

We also have two-hour free delivery in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. Just order your new device and accessories on a plan from participating Telstra Stores and you can take advantage of having it in your hand within two hours. Make sure to check outour T&Cs for two-hour delivery on our website first.

You can choose to pay upfront for your purchases, or pay it off later on your Telstra bill. And if you find a cheaper price somewhere else,let us know within 7 days and we’ll refund you the difference on your Telstra post-paid account(conditionsapply, of course). You can even pay with yourTelstra Plusloyalty points!

And of course, none of our plans have lock-in contracts. You can cancel anytime, and all you need to pay is the amount remaining on your device.

This month’s deals are great if you’re in the market for a new smartphone!

Do I have to be a Telstra customer to shop Telstra Day?

You don’t need to be a Telstra customer, but you do have to have a Telstra ID to checkout at the store for Telstra Day.

New customers looking to take up Telstra Day device or accessory offers can just simply add it to their no lock-in plan online at purchase.

How can I get a Telstra ID?

If you’re already a Telstra customer, signing up for an account is easy. Simply follow the steps atour sign-up page.

If I order before midnight AEST on Telstra Day but my payment goes through after midnight, will I still get the deal?

Yes, if you order a product before midnight on Telstra Day, you will get the Telstra Day deal whether or not your payment is processed after the midnight cutoff.

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Senior Specialist Writer – Telstra

Luke Hopewell is an editor, tech expert and Senior Specialist Writer at Telstra Exchange. Luke joined Telstra in 2019 where he has had the privilege to help bring stories to life in a unique and human way. He was previously the head of editorial at Twitter Australia and the editor of cult tech site Gizmodo. For over a decade, Luke’s passion for technology has always driven him to seek out the latest gadgets and game-changers, and help others to understand how it all works. In another life he was a cyber security specialist where he sought to educate people about how to stay safe online. When he’s not writing, he’s getting outdoors and patting all the nice dogs he meets.