dingoes might seem cuter than your average apex predator – but they do pose a danger to humans.
What seems like curious or playful behavior from them can actually be a serious form of “dominance testing” that can lead to attacks or aggression if not defused.
The Queensland Department of Environment and Science has now published two videos showing a candid dingo encounter on K’gari (Fraser Island), which shows the best way to face down a dingo.
A video of a man’s interaction with a dominance-testing dingo has been shown to be the perfect example of dealing with the predator. (Queensland Department of Environment and Science)
The video shows a dingo trotting up to a person – who is filming from their phone – on a beach.
The person stands still until the dingo lies down, and then begins to slowly back away, without turning their face from the animal.
This continues as the dingo follows the person for some time, until they reach their car.
The encounter took place on K’gari (Fraser Island). (Queensland Department of Environment and Science)
It matches the official guidelines for confronting a threatening dingo:
Stand up to your full height
face the dingo
Fold your arms and keep eye contact
calmly back away
If in pairs, stand back to back (dingoes move fast and there’s less chance of being taken by surprise)
Confidentially call for help
Do not run or wave your arms.
There are of course other dingo-safe behaviors to think about when in proximity to them, especially on Fraser Island, which has a large population of the animals.
People are advised to travel in groups, to keep children within arm’s reach, to avoid littering, to not feed the animals – and if you need to go to the toilet in the bush, make sure somebody is able to go with you.
Tribar Manufacturing, the Wixom automotive supplier responsible for a release of potentially cancer-causing hexavalent chromium into the Huron River late last month, apparently overrode alarms 460 times on July 29, as a large tank containing the chemical was drained into the city of Wixom’s wastewater treatment system, state regulators allege in violation notices issued to the company.
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy on Tuesday issued a “Second Violation Notice — Egregious” to Tribar Manufacturing, claiming company personnel:
Improperly released pollutants into the publicly owned Wixom wastewater treatment facility.
Failed to report the hexavalent chromium release in a timely fashion to the Wixom wastewater treatment plant.
Failed to have an up-to-date, certified pollution incident prevention plan.
“Because of the gravity of the violations, WRD (EGLE’s Water Resources Division) moved directly into second notification and escalated enforcement, normally a three-step process,” EGLE spokeswoman Jill Greenberg said.
‘Please explain’ how alarms were overridden
EGLE’s violation notice states that according to a required release incident report Tribar officials provided to the agency and the city of Wixom on Aug. 5, the contents had been held in “Tank A,” a 14,923-gallon rinse waste holding tank that contained approximately 10,000 gallons of material containing approximately 5% hexavalent chromium. The tank was emptied on July 29 and entered the sanitary sewer.
EGLE is seeking answers from the company on actions its operator took that Friday evening that resulted in the tank being drained into the sewer system.
“Please explain how the operator overrode the waste treatment alarms 460 times between the programmable logic controller time stamp from 4:59 pm to 7:46 pm on Friday, July 29, 2022,” EGLE’s notice states.
Company data logs also “recorded ongoing high-level alarms between 4:59 pm and 7:46 pm on Friday, July 29, 2022. Another high-level alarm was recorded at 11 pm that same day. Provide who responded to the 11 pm Explain why there was no low-level alarm recorded if Tank A was emptied sometime Friday evening,” EGLE’s violation notice to Tribar states.
Former employee blamed
Tribar Manufacturing officials, in an emailed statement to the Free Press, attributed the actions to a since-dismissed employee.
“Tribar has invested millions of dollars in sophisticated environmental controls to prevent an accidental release of wastewater prior to treatment at our facility. Based on an initial investigation, those automated controls were all functioning properly at the time the plating solution was released to the wastewater treatment However, the controls were repeatedly overridden by the operator on duty while the facility was shut down for the weekend.That individual is no longer employed by our company, and we are in the process of further improving our internal controls to prevent a future occurrence.”
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Order to stay out of Huron River remains in place
EGLE is seeking a detailed account of actions company personnel took once the release was discovered on the morning of Aug. 1, and thereafter through Aug. 8.
“The Slug Report (the notice of the wastewater treatment release from Tribar) identifies that Plant 5 was not in production and that no one should be at the facility during production downtimes. Why was a wastewater treatment operator in the facility, unsupervised, during the weekend of Friday, July 29, 2022, to Monday, August 1, 2022? To whom did the operator who overrode the alarms report during this time?” EGLE asks in the violation notice.
Representatives of nonprofit environmental groups reacted with outrage at the new revelations about the hexavalent chromium release into the Huron River.
“The fact that (Tribar Technologies) overrode their alarm system over 460 times is certainly egregious,” said Tim Minotas, legislative and political coordinator with the nonprofit Sierra Club’s Michigan chapter.
“It’s appalling that one industrial company is able to cause so much damage to our rivers, and did so knowingly. We don’t need more proof that industry must be held accountable and forced, by law, to pay for the pollution they cause. “
Lax environmental laws “leave bad actors like Tribar free to pollute with impunity,” said Sean McBrearty, legislative and policy director with the nonprofit Clean Water Action.
“The fact that they overrode their own alarms 460 times shows an obscene level of incompetence and disregard for our environment and public health.”
McBrearty called for the closure of the Tribar Manufacturing facility, and urged the Michigan Legislature to pass HB 4314, a bill introduced in the state House of Representatives by state Rep. Yousef Rabhi, D-Ann Arbor, with 49 Democratic Party cosponsors, calling for stricter polluter-pay provisions in Michigan for contaminating industries. The bill failed to move out of the Republican-controlled state House Natural Resources and Outdoor Recreation Committee last year.
Tribar Manufacturing officials, in their statement, said they are working with EGLE, the city of Wixom and their environmental consultants Barr and August Mack to investigate the release and conduct testing and response activity. The company is conducting its own investigation of the incident and plans to share a report of its findings on Thursday, officials stated.
‘The Erin Brockovich chemical’
Of 144 water samples collected throughout 42 river miles since the release, three came back with detections of hexavalent chromium — two detections in Milford’s Hubbell Pond and one in the middle of Kent Lake. The Kent Lake detection, completed by laboratory analysis late Friday — was 5 parts per billion (ppb) — just at the detectable limit of 5 ppb. The two Hubbell Pond detections were 11 and 9 parts per billion. All three were at or below regulatory values to protect aquatic life.
Hexavalent chromium is a metal used in electroplating, stainless steel production, leather tanning, textile manufacturing and wood preservation. It can be harmful to human health when ingested, touched or inhaled, and has been associated with breathing problems and lung and intestinal cancers.
Hexavalent chromium has been dubbed “the Erin Brockovich chemical” after the California woman who discovered widespread contamination with the metal from a large state utility. Actress Julia Roberts’ portrayal of the citizen turned environmental activist in the 2000 movie “Erin Brockovich” won Roberts the Best Actress Academy Award the following year.
Greenberg did not have information on potential ends that could be associated with the violations of the state Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act.
“Penalties will be determined further into the process as the investigation continues,” she said.
Tribar Manufacturing was earlier identified as the source of potentially health-harming, nonstick PFAS contamination to the river system, and installed additional filtration to help address that problem in 2018.
Other homeowners told the herald that the process of disconnecting gas was unnecessarily difficult and varied in price from as much as $2000 to less than $100.
Engineer and inventor Dr Saul Griffith wants to make it easier for Australians to switch from gas to electricity.Credit:Leigh Vogel
“Electrification must become the default, not the exception and our energy system must empower rather than hinder households.”
Saul Griffith
Sometimes they were urged to opt for the easiest option and close the account but keep the gas connection. “This is akin to telling a smoker who wants to quit that they should keep a packet of cigarettes on hand in case they change their mind,” said Griffith.
Despite the upfront costs of installing induction hotplates and heat pumps for hot water, Griffith said consumers faced with rising gas bills knew they would be better off because rooftop solar electricity “was by far the cheapest energy that has ever been available”.
“Electrification must become the default, not the exception and our energy system must empower rather than hinder households,” he said.
A Facebook group dedicated to going electric, My Efficient Electric Home, has doubled in members to 63,500 over the past year with many posts on the varying cost and difficulty of removing gas.
Group founder and co-admin Tim Forcey of Sandringham, Victoria, said there was huge interest in moving away from fossil fuels. After switching his heating and stove to electricity, he had been paying $300 a year to remain connected to the gas grid.
Forcey finally paid $69 to have the meter removed. His energy-efficient home now costs $1000 a year to run.
Danny De Schutter, a management consultant based on the ACT, was using gas for hot water and heating until he put solar on his roof. “I didn’t need gas any more.”
Instead of asking to remove the gas connection, he closed his account. De Schutter now receives regular letters of demand addressed to “The Homeowner”. These letters warn he could owe as much as $600 for gas usage, although he no longer uses gas.
In Bathurst, Stephanie, who withheld her last name, feared she was getting sick from an old gas heater. When she asked her retailer to disconnect, she was told it would cost $110.
“They did the work, and I was sent an invoice for $1151.70 when they had quoted $110,” she said.
Stephanie, a disability pensioner, told the gas company she couldn’t afford to pay and that she thought it was illegal to quote one price, and charge more. “It is a scammy thing that a dying industry would do.”
After some negotiation, retailer AGL finally agreed to reverse the larger charge.
Asked about Griffith’s challenge of the abolishment fee, a spokesperson for Jemena said “all fees and charges were presented to the Australian Energy Regulator for review and endorsement (including disconnection and abolishment).”
The price of a “straightforward disconnection” was $102 where the property remained physically connected to the gas network. Abolishments were “quite rare”, labour-intensive, and involved the gas connection being permanently and physically, removed.
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The NSW Energy and Water Ombudsman said it receives very few complaints about gas disconnection charges, but it does receive complaints from customers who have to pay to reconnect.
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Bindi Irwin’s husband Chandler Powell is hospitalized as her mother Terri takes care of their daughter Grace Warrior, one
By Chloe-lee Longhetti For Daily Mail Australia
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Bindi Irwin’s husband Chandler Powell has been hospitalized with tonsillitis.
The 25-year-old former wakeboarder had his tonsils removed this week and praised his beloved wife for being by his side.
Chandler, who married Bindi in 2020, shared a picture of himself and the Wildlife Warrior, 24, smiling from his hospital bed after the procedure.
Bindi Irwin’s husband Chandler Powell had his tonsils removed this week. He shared a picture of himself and Bindi, 24, smiling from his hospital bed after the procedure
‘Just wanted to write a note to my amazing wife❤️,’ Chandler wrote in the caption.
‘I had to get my tonsils out and she has been taking the best care of me. I’m so lucky to be loved by you, Bindi.’
He said that Bindi’s mother Terri Irwin, 58, has been taking care of their daughter Grace, one, while he’s been in hospital recovering
He added that Bindi’s mother Terri Irwin, 58, has been taking care of their daughter Grace, one, while he’s been in hospital recovering.
‘Also, thank you Bunny (my awesome mum-in-law) for taking care of Grace while we’ve been in the hospital and I’ve been recovering,’ he said, with Bunny being Terri’s chosen name as grandmother.
‘ouch! A tonsillectomy as an adult is NO fun! I’m sorry! Will say a prayer!’ one follower commented underneath Chandler’s Instagram post.
It’s been a few weeks for Bindi and the Irwin family. Last week, Bindi revealed the family’s 38-year-old echidna had died
It’s been a few weeks for Bindi and the Irwin family.
Last week, Bindi revealed the family’s 38-year-old echidna had died.
‘Saying goodbye to our beautiful family member of 38 years,’ Bindi’s wrote alongside a gallery of pictures of the pet.
‘Saying goodbye to our beautiful family member of 38 years,’ Bindi’s emotional post began
‘The sweetest, kindest, most wonderful echidna you ever did meet.’
She added alongside a love heart emoji: ‘Rest In Peace, angel.’
Bindi, alongside her brother Robert and mother Terri Irwin, have vowed to carry on her late father Steve Irwin’s legacy through their work at Australia Zoo and their conservation efforts.
Steve, known to millions around the world as ‘the Crocodile Hunter’, died on September 4, 2006, at the age of 44 after being pierced in the chest by a stingray barb while filming a documentary in Batt Reef, Queensland.
Bindi was just eight years old at the time.
Bindi, alongside her brother Robert and mother Terri Irwin, have vowed to carry on her late father Steve Irwin’s legacy through their work at Australia Zoo. He died on September 4, 2006, at the age of 44 after being attacked by a stingray
Former Essendon captain Tim Watson raised a discussion on SEN Breakfast on Thursday morning regarding how the discourse surrounding Matt Rowell has evolved in the last few years.
The Gold Coast midfielder polled nine Brownlow votes in his first three games in the AFL, bursting onto the scene like almost no player ever has, before suffering a season-ending shoulder injury.
After an injury-interrupted 2021, Rowell has found a role for himself as a grunt, inside midfielder for the Suns this season, ranking seventh in the competition for contested possessions and equal seventh for center clearances.
The contested beast is not necessarily the dominant midfielder that was teased initially, but remains a vital cog for Gold Coast.
“The greatest disappearing act in AFL football in the last 50 years, is it the hype around Matt Rowell?” Watson posed on SEN Breakfast.
“Think back to his first three games of AFL football and then now think about the last time you heard anyone raving about Matt Rowell’s football.”
Garry Lyon: “Your point is well made, but I also think Matt Rowell has been playing some really good footy.”
Watson: “Oh. I’m not saying that he hasn’t.”
Lyon: “But yeah at the time three best on grounds in the first three weeks is going to cause some hype.”
Watson: “Everybody is talking about Touk Miller now as their most important midfielder and Noah Anderson has maybe gone passed him in people’s minds as to how important he might be.”
Lyon: “Rowell does a lot of that really hard, hard inside grunt work.”
Watson: “That’s what I was going to say, in those three weeks we got the snapshot of him and it was brilliant, but that’s not a long enough period of time to reveal everything.”
Lyon: “What we now have seen and what he has revealed is that his football is more blue collar than three best on grounds in three weeks suggests. We’ve just got to make the adjustment, he’s still a beauty, Matt Rowell.”
Watson: “I’m not saying he isn’t, but the change around the conversation regarding him and his football, it’s remarkable the way that it has changed.”
Lyon: “And understandable given he ripped the whole competition to shreds in three games of footy.”
Watson: “We’ve acknowledged the fact that he’s had a serious injury, but he’s probably exactly what Stuart Dew wants, that bloke that just turns up every week and he knows he’s going to give him 100 per cent effort and be a beast inside midfielder.”
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The building commissioner also described the difference in his engagement with the minister’s office, since a ministerial reshuffle last year resulted in Petinos taking over the portfolio from now-Hospitality Minister Kevin Anderson.
Alas, the same level of engagement has not been experienced since. My personal experience has been one where engagement with the minister’s office has been problematic,” he wrote.
“Given where all the above matters now rest, I believe my continued role as NSW building commissioner is no longer viable.”
An excerpt of the resignation letter
Further to these concerns, I have raised with you concerns that I have with the advised relationship of the Minister and Coronation Property Group. These concerns crystallized at the time of the Stop Work Orders issued under the Design and Building Practitioner’s Act, Declared Design Audit. As advised to you I received a call from the Minister’s Office shortly after a draft order was issued on Coronation’s Merrylands Development. Shortly after that call, a message was sent to me by JohnBarilaro who I was advised had recently joined the Coronation Board. This contact came to me as a message on my personal phone requesting a meeting with me. I copied that message to you. I subsequently met with Mr Barilaro to answer his questions about him. A separate record of that meeting exists.
Chandler said other officers in the department had reported similar experiences, “and important pieces of previously canvassed legislation have now run into serious disruption.”
The NSW opposition used upper house orders to compel the government to release the letter after it was revealed that Petinos met representatives from a property development company that employed Barilaro.
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Both Petinos and Barilaro have issued statements saying that Barilaro was not in attendance at a June 2 meeting between Petinos and Coronation Property. A second meeting with Coronation on June 21 was disclosed in her diary out of “an abundance of caution”, Petinos has said.
Barilaro on Tuesday said he didn’t work for the company on June 21, and the pair met to celebrate his new job as a trade commissioner to the US.
Chandler resigned abruptly last month despite having recently signed a contract extension. As an industry veteran of 50 years, he was tasked in 2019 with cleaning up NSW’s construction industry as the state’s first building commissioner.
His sudden resignation prompted over the circumstances of his departure amid scrutiny speculation over the conduct of recently dumped Petinos, to whom he reported.
Premier Dominic Perrottet on Wednesday revealed during question time that Chandler’s resignation letter was sent to the secretary of the Department of Customer Service, who referred it to the Independent Commission Against Corruption on August 1.
He said he only learned that the letter had been referred to the corruption watchdog late on Tuesday night.
Perrottet has maintained that the sacking of Petinos was unrelated to Chandler’s resignation.
When he resigned, Chandler said in a statement that he felt the time was right for “a reset”, but remained firmly committed to working with the department until the end of his tenure in November.
“I do not want my resignation to distract people from what has been achieved so far, and the work that is still to be done,” he said on July 27.
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Courtney Clenney, 25, who goes by the name Courtney Tailor on Instagram, is under investigation for the fatal stabbing of her boyfriend in Miami on April 3, 2022.
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Courtney Clenney, the OnlyFans and Instagram model who fatally stabbed her boyfriend to death in Miami in April, has been arrested on a murder charge, the Miami Herald has learned.
The 26-year-old Clenney was taken into custody on Wednesday in Hawaii, and will eventually be extradited to Miami-Dade County to face trial. She’s being charged with second-degree murder with a deadly weapon for the April 3 stabbing of Christian “Toby” Obumseli.
Her arrest was confirmed Wednesday afternoon by her Miami defense lawyer, Frank Prieto, who said she’d been in Hawaii while in rehabilitation for substance abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder.
“I’m completely shocked, especially since we were cooperating with the investigation and offered to voluntarily surrender her if she were charged,” Prieto said. “We look forward to clearing her name in court.”
The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office, in a press release on Wednesday evening, said the arrest warrant remained sealed. State Attorney Katherine Fernandez, along with City Police Chief Manuel Morales and South Florida US Marshal Gadyaces Serralta, will detail the arrest at a press conference on Thursday afternoon.
A Hawaii jail booking mugshot of Courtney Clenney, 26, who is facing a murder charge for the killing of her boyfriend in Miami. -HawaiiPolice
The arrest caps a four-month investigation by Miami police homicide detectives and prosecutors into Clenney, whose killing of her boyfriend during a domestic dispute in a luxury Edgewater apartment garnered headlines across the world. Clenney’s defense attorney insisted that she acted in self-defense and the killing was justified.
But in the days after his death, Obumseli’s relatives called for Clenney’s arrest, saying they did not believe he was ever a threat.
Obumseli worked in cryptocurrency. Known as Courtney Tailor on her social-media platforms, Clenney boasted over two million followers on her social-media platforms.
She and Obumseli had been dating less than two years, and their relationship had been plagued by domestic strife — she’d once been arrested for domestic battery in Las Vegas, and police had been called to their home in Austin, Texas, on several occasions .
The two had only lived in Miami for a few months at the One Paraiso building, 3131 NE 7th Ave., where staff members had documented numerous domestic disturbance complaints about the couple and had even moved to evict them.
Clenney and Obumseli had broken up several times, although investigators believe that he’d moved back into the apartment by the first day of April. The Miami Herald earlier reported that Miami police responded to the apartment on April 1, two days before the stabbing, over another domestic disturbance call.
Finally on the evening of April 3, just before 5 pm, Clenney frantically called 911 to report Obumseli had been stabbed.
Instagram model Courtney Clenney fatally stabbed Christian “Toby” Obumseli on April 3, 2022 in Miami. Police and prosecutors are still determining whether she acted in self-defense. -Instagram and Facebook
This story was originally published August 10, 2022 3:59 PM.
David Ovalle covers crime and courts in Miami. A native of San Diego, I graduated from the University of Southern California and joined the Herald in 2002 as a sports reporter.
More Adelaide office workers chose to work from home last month as South Australia’s COVID-19 cases peaked, with office occupancy in the CBD dropping to below two-thirds.
Photo: Kelly Barnes/AAP
Data from the Property Council of Australia’s monthly “Office Occupancy Survey” shows Adelaide’s office occupancy rate dropped from 71 per cent in June to 64 per cent in July.
The CBD’s average monthly occupancy rate also sits at 54 per cent this year, according to the data, well below the 67 per cent average rate recorded in 2021.
The figures represent a percentage of pre-COVID occupancy levels, estimated to be around 90 per cent.
Despite Adelaide’s drop, the 64 per cent occupancy rate is still the second highest of the six capital cities measured in the Property Council’s July report. Only Perth ranked higher at 71 per cent.
Adelaide is also substantially higher than the July occupancy rates recorded in Melbourne (38 per cent) and Sydney (52 per cent), both of which endured long COVID-19 lockdowns last year.
Brisbane’s CBD also recorded an occupancy drop from 64 per cent to 53 per cent last month.
City by city office occupancy rates up to July 2022. Graph: Property Council
SA Property Council executive director Daniel Gannon said South Australia’s latest COVID-19 wave had impacted an otherwise “steady increase in the number of workers returning to workplaces”.
“A wave of Omicron and flu infections has caused office occupancy rates across most major cities to go backwards in July, including Adelaide,” he said.
“The latest monthly results are obviously disappointing for return-to-office momentum, but unsurprising due to the rise in case numbers.”
South Australia’s third wave of COVID-19 prompted health authorities last month to recommend businesses and universities consider work from home arrangements and mask requirements.
The wave, driven by the more transmissible BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron subvariants, peaked on July 18 at 5038 daily cases.
“Looking ahead, we are encouraged by the fact that this Omicron wave seems to have peaked and that spring is now just around the corner,” Gannon said.
“Hopefully, this means Adelaide’s workplace recovery momentum can summarize.”
Peak day and low day occupancy levels in CBD offices. Graph: Property Council
A state government work from home order during South Australia’s first Omicron wave has contributed to this year’s lower office occupancy rates, which bottomed out at 11 per cent in January 2022.
The highest level of worker activity in the Adelaide CBD during the pandemic was recorded in June 2021 at 80 per cent.
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The national Property Council survey found the preference for greater working flexibility was the most common reason for the current occupancy levels, followed by health concerns about returning to work.
The survey was conducted between July 25 and August 1.
Office occupancy rate change from June to July (lowest to highest)
Melbourne: 49 per cent to 38 per cent
Sydney: 55 per cent to 52 per cent
Brisbane: 64 per cent to 53 per cent
Canberra: 53 per cent to 61 per cent
Adelaide: 71 per cent to 64 per cent
Perth: 65 per cent to 71 per cent
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An Australian mum has shared her simple two-ingredient cleaning hack that left her oven sparkling without using harsh chemicals.
The Brisbane makeup artist showed how she cleaned her oven using a homemade mix of dishwashing liquid and bicarbonate of soda in a video posted to TikTok.
The mum-to-be mixed the two household ingredients together to make a paste then coated the inside of the oven in the solution and left it to eat away at the grime.
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An Australian mum-to-be has shared a ‘genius’ hack online for cleaning her oven using a homemade mix of dishwashing liquid and bicarbonate of soda
She then scrubbed the surface with a scourer and wiped the excess paste away with a damp cloth.
‘When you’re on mat leave and all you do is watch cleaning hacks,’ she wrote in the clip’s caption.
The clip quickly racked up more than 146,700 views on the platform and many in the comments were wowed by the ‘genius’ hack.
She mixed the two household ingredients together to make a paste, coated the inside of oven in the solution and left it to eat away at the grime then scrubbed it away
‘Omg why didn’t I see this the other day,’ one user wrote while another said: ‘This is genius, thank you’.
Others shared their own tips and tricks for making the notoriously hard-to-clean appliance look like new.
‘Your oven looks amazing! Next time around, google how to remove your oven door. Makes oven cleaning 1000x easier!’ one person suggested.
‘Dishwashing liquid and vinegar works really well. Far less mess,’ another replied.
Previously a TikTok-famous professional cleaner shared her ‘no chemical’ method for cleaning dirty ovens in a viral video.
Kacie from The Big Clean Co in Melbourne used boiling water, white vinegar, dishwashing liquid, Bunnings scrapers, kitchen scourers and ‘the power of steam’.
Previously TikTok-famous professional cleaner Kacie (pictured) shared her method for cleaning dirty ovens in a viral video
In a TikTok video Kacie from The Big Clean Co in Melbourne used boiling water, white vinegar, dishwashing liquid, scrapers, kitchen scourers and ‘the power of steam’
The cleaning hack ensures no toxic, harsh chemicals are used and will make the appliance look brand new.
‘I’m a professional cleaner and I’ve got a non-toxic way to clean your oven using the power of steam,’ she said in the video.
‘You’ll need dishwashing liquid, vinegar, some scrapers and scourers.’
In the short clip, Kacie explained how steam can help remove the tough food stains and residue at the bottom of the oven.
‘I’m a professional cleaner and I’ve got a non-toxic way to clean your oven using the power of steam,’ she said in the video
‘Now when that charcoal is cold it is rock solid, so here’s what you’re going to do. Add one cup of boiling water and one cup of vinegar to a tray,’ she said.
‘Put it in a hot oven and let it do its thing for about 20 minutes.
‘You’ll be left with this big mushy mess that scraps right off.
She then used the scraper to remove the tough food build-up with ease.
Kacie then poured dishwashing liquid onto the glass oven door and used a scour to remove any remaining grease and ‘make it shine’.
In the short clip, Kacie explained how steam can help remove the tough food stains and residue at the bottom of the oven
‘Don’t forget to let your oven cool a little so you don’t burn yourself,’ she said.
She also used a scour to clean the oven racks over the sink and used the sharp blade for tough food stains.
The cleaning tip left the oven looking sparkling clean as if it had never been used before.
After 24 hours the video was viewed more than 105,000 times, and TikTok users seemed impressed with the transformation.
‘I’ve been trying to find a way to do this naturally, I always worry the chemicals will stay in the oven and affect food,’ one woman wrote.
Another TikTok users recommended using the Scrub Daddy sponge rather than steel wool to clean the oven.
Others dubbed the cleaning tips as ‘awesome’.
How to clean an oven without using chemicals:
What you’ll need:
white vinegar
Toilet
kitchen scours
Dishwashing liquid
Bunnings scrapers
Method:
Add one cup of boiling water and one cup of vinegar to a tray
Place in a hot oven and leave to steam for 20 minutes
Remove the tray and scrape the food stains using the scraper and scour
Clean the oven and dish racks using the dishwashing liquid
It starts with Pollard getting a late-night message from Wallabies forward coach Dan McKellar.
“It was 12.30pm and I thought he was gonna get me up for still being up, that he’d seen I was active on WhatsApp,” Pollard said. “I didn’t want to reply at first but I said ‘yeah I am up’. He gave me a call and gave me the news.”
Pollard was told he would be flying the next afternoon and went to sleep. However, not willing to risk him arriving five hours before the first Test, the Wallabies found a ‘better’ itinerary. But, now he needed to catch a 6am flight, Pollard couldn’t be roused.
Brumbies teammates living nearby were called until flanker Luke Reimer answered. At 4am, he drove to Pollard’s place and broke through his back door.
“I packed two shirts and two pairs of shorts and that was it. I thought I packed more,” Pollard said.
He missed that flight to Sydney, but the next one to San Francisco was delayed, so the 22,328km journey began. Crammed up the back of the bus, I slogged from Sydney to San Francisco to Houston to Santiago and then into Mendoza.
Brumbies hooker Billy Pollard had an epic journey to Argentina.Credit:Lachlan Lawson/Brumbies
“I left home at 4am on Thursday morning and got there, in Aussie time, at Friday 11pm,” he said. “I hate plans and I can’t sleep on them, so I was struggling. But it was a good experience.”
A shortage of team kit meant players and staff had to donate bits and pieces to Pollard, who has been carrying around his boots in a cotton sack. But, as per that smile, Pollard couldn’t care less.
Hello… Michael Cheika is speaking Spanish at all possible opportunites.Credit:Getty
“I am very excited. It is still surreal, being around guys like James O’Connor, growing up watching those guys play. I haven’t said much to them,” he said.
Cheika’s challenge
He deserves huge credit for giving it a go but it seems some of the Argentinian players and press are still coming to grips with Michael Cheika’s developing Spanish. The multilingual coach, who speaks Italian, French and Arabic, talks in Spanish to the team and to media in press conferences.
One newspaper article said it was occasionally hard to understand his “strained mix of English, Spanish and Italian” and locals say players rely on assistant coach Felipe Contepomi to do a bit of on-the-fly clarification work.
Road trip of peace canceled
How did the trans-Tasman road trip of peace, between Andy Marinos and his NZR counterpart Mark Robinson go? The one where the two chief executives were due to drive back to London together after the Commonwealth Games sevens in Coventry?
Turns out it didn’t go ahead. Plans changed due to Robinson, who has a few issues on his plate currently, having an early morning meeting in London. I have caught a train instead.
Douglas claims rugby club’s biggest honour.
Giant Manly and NSW forward Max Douglas was a popular winner of the prestigious Ken Catchpole Medal on Wednesday night.
Douglas, who has played nine games for the Waratahs since his debut in 2021, starred for the Marlins with his high defensive work rate and dominant lineout work. He was the first Manly winner of the Ken Catchpole medal since Peter Hewat in 2006.
The winners. (From left) Scott Coleman, Max Douglas, Conor Hickey and Sean Hedger.Credit:Karen Watson
Scott Coleman (Hunter Wildfires) and Sean Hedger (Sydney Uni) shared the coach of the year award, while Warringah’s Conor Hickey was the rookie of the year.
Shute Shield qualifying finals
SATURDAY
Norths v Manly, North Sydney Oval, 3.05pm.
Sydney Uni v Randwick, Sydney University Football Ground, 3.20pm.
Eastwood v Eastern Suburbs, Eric Tweedale Stadium, 3:30 p.m.
SUNDAY
Warringah v Gordon, Pittwater Rugby Park, 3.05pm
With the finals starting this week, Douglas will be a leader for Manly when they take on Norths at North Sydney Oval on Saturday.
Elsewhere, the Students will host Randwick, while Eastwood and Easts will do battle at Eric Tweedale Stadium. On Sunday, the Rats host Gordon.
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Turf war over Waratahs’ next gen The unveiling of NSW’s Gen Blue U16 squad ruffled feathers last week when word spread that almost half of the backline players named had contracts with NRL clubs.
Zach Fittler, son of NRL great and Blues coach Brad, was among the names, as was Tom Farr-Jones, nephew of World Cup-winning former Wallabies captain Nick.
Talent-scouting sources told the Cauliflower that while none of the players’ contracts extended beyond the end of high school (as per NRL rules??), it was curious to see NSW Rugby bothering with players many believe will inevitably end up in the 13 -player game.
RA chairman Hamish McLennan put the NRL on notice that rugby would come for league’s top talent with rugby pedigree in the lead-up to the home 2027 World Cup, but the 15-player code has not had much success on that front in recent years. Kalyn Ponga comes to mind, as does Joseph Suaali’i.
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