A large northeast cloudband is stretching across Australia, bring the threat of more rain and flooding to “every other state and territory” apart from Western Australia.
Weatherzone shared satellite images of the weather system writing, “this week’s weather will be a perfect example of how a negative Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) affects Australia.”
The large northeast cloudband brings the threat of more rain and flooding to “every other state and territory”, apart from WA. (Weather zone)
Sharing images of the cloudband, Weatherzone said it is being fed by moisture-laden air from the tropical Indian Ocean.
“This stream of tropical moisture is linking up with a mid-latitude low pressure system and associated cold air mass to creating a large and thick band of cloud,” the weather service wrote.
“This type of weather pattern is common during a negative IOD and this is the second such cloudband that has affected Australia since the negative IOD was declared last week.
“After soaking parts of WA earlier this week, this cloudband will drift further east over the next few days and produce widespread cloud and rain over parts of every other state and territory in Australia.”
A negative IOD was declared last week, and is a driver of wet weather like La Nina.
Forecast accumulated rain during the next seven days (Wednesday to Tuesday) according to the ECMWF-HRES model. (Weather zone)
Rainfall forecasts suggest up to 30mm of rain could fall over “a broad area of eastern and southeastern Australia between Thursday and Sunday”.
This could extend from central Queensland to Tasmania and South Australia.
Numerous flood warnings are already in affect for NSW and Victoria.
Rare flurry of snow dusts Western Australia
BoM defines an IOD as “the difference in sea surface temperatures between the eastern and western tropical Indian Ocean.”
Participants in an interfaith memorial ceremony enter the New Mexico Islamic Center mosque to commemorate four murdered Muslim men, hours after police said they had arrested a prime suspect in the killings, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, US August 9, 2022. REUTERS/Andrew Hay
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ALBUQUERQUE, NM, Aug 10 (Reuters) – Muslims in New Mexico interviewed on Wednesday said they felt shock and shame at the arrest of a Muslim immigrant from Afghanistan in connection with the murders of four Muslim men.
Police on Tuesday said they detained 51-year-old Muhammad Syed. A motive for the killings remains unclear, but police said he may have acted on personal grudges, possibly with intra-Muslim sectarian overtones.
Syed denied being involved with any of the four killings when questioned by police, according to the New York Times.
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“We’re in complete total disbelief. Speechless. You know, kind of embarrassed to say he was one of our own,” said Mula Akbar, an Afghan-American businessman who said he had helped Syed settle in the city.
“His hatred of Shi’ites might have had something to do with it,” Akbar said.
Syed was from the Sunni branch of Islam and prayed together at Albuquerque’s Islamic Center of New Mexico (ICNM) mosque with most of the victims, three of whom were from the Shi’ite branch of Islam. All four victims were of Afghan or Pakistani descent. One was killed in November, the other three in the last two weeks.
Syed, who made his first appearance in court Wednesday, was formally charged with killing Aftab Hussein, 41, on July 26 and Muhammed Afzaal Hussain, 27, on Aug. 1.
Police said on Tuesday they were working with prosecutors on potential charges for the murders of Naeem Hussain, 25, a truck driver killed on Friday, and Mohammad Ahmadi, 62, shot dead on Nov. 7, 2021, outside the grocery store he ran with his brother in southeast Albuquerque.
It was not immediately clear if Syed had retained a lawyer.
Police declined to comment on rumors Syed was angry one of his daughters had eloped and married a Shi’ite man.
The daughter told CNN that her husband was friends with two of the men who were killed, Aftab Hussein and Naeem Hussain. The woman, who CNN did not name out of concern for her safety, said her father was not happy when she married in 2018 but had become accepting more recently.
“My father is not a person who can kill somebody. My father has always talked about peace. That’s why we are here in the United States. We came from Afghanistan, from fighting, from shooting,” she told CNN.
Palestinian-American Samia Assed said the Muslim community of around 4,000 in Albuquerque had worked to do to prevent violence they left behind in countries like Afghanistan and Pakistan.
“This took me back to 9/11 when I just wanted to hide under a rock,” said the human rights activist after she hosted an interfaith memorial at the ICNM, Albuquerque’s oldest and largest mosque.
“For this to happen it’s like setting us back 100 years,” she said.
The mosque is nonsectarian, serves mainly Sunnis from over 30 countries and has never before experienced violence of this kind, according to congregants interviewed by Reuters.
Syed is a truck driver, has six children, is from Pashtun ethnicity and arrived in the United States as a refugee about six years ago from Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province, said Akbar, a former US diplomat who worked on Afghan issues and helped found the Afghan Society of New Mexico.
Syed developed a record of criminal misdemeanors over the last three or four years, including a case of domestic violence, police said.
Video from February 2020 showed him slashing the tires of a vehicle at the ICNM believed to be owned by the family of the first known victim, Ahmadi, according to the mosque’s president, attorney Ahmad Assed.
“We’re in a surreal time trying to make sense of these senseless killings we’ve suffered,” he said.
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Miriam Porter filmed the “meals” offered to her on the trip. Photo: thekindtraveller/tiktok
A travel blogger has documented on social media her disappointment at the vegan meal options, or rather lack of any, on a recent Air Canada flight.
Miriam Porter, who goes by the name @TheKindTraveler on TikTok, was on a 10-hour flight from Toronto, Canada to Frankfurt in Germany.
She filmed the “meals” offered to her on the trip (language warning on video) – a bottle of water, and, well that’s about it.
Meal 2. Photo: thekindtraveller/tiktok
“POV: You are on an Air Canada flight for over 10 hours and order vegan meals,” the video begins. Her first “meal” from her is a bottle of water, the second shows a napkin with nothing on it.
There have been more than 1.2 million views of her disappointment.
Porter did add that a flight attendant cobbled together some food from the pointy end of the plane: “Shout out to the kind flight attendant that got me fruit & dinner rolls from business class.”
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She said she had ordered the meals well in advance and that it wasn’t the first time this has occurred.
“This has actually happened many times before. I always bring my own food in case but I was on a 24-hour delay and couldn’t make food to bring.”
More than 1000 comments are on the video with many sympathizing with the situation.
“Oh I flew business class for 14 hrs and they forgot to serve me breakfast and they had the worst flight attendant in business,” was one comment.
“15.5 hour flight and they kept running out of the vegetarian meal options in the first half of the plane,” added another.
One asked if the water was any good: “Quite tasty,” added Porter.
After years in development, and loads of ups and downs along the way, the developers of a virtual reality mod for the original half life 2 have announced a public beta that’ll be kicking off next month.
Half-Life 2: VR has been in development for so long that it was originally part of Steam’s Greenlight program back in 2017, and indeed has been worked on by some involved in the project since 2013. The slow going has been mostly due to the fact that, unlike alyxthe game simply wasn’t designed to be played in VR, and so there are numerous sections that have been difficult if not impossible to port to a headset.
Buoyed by “overwhelmingly positive feedback from our private beta testers” in recent weeks, however, the developers have steeled themselves and now believe “that the game as it is now can not only be fully completed from start to finish, but it’s also very enjoyable all so”.
As a result they’ve announced that next month they’ll be holding a public beta showing everything that’s up and running so far. Which, judging by the trailer below — that includes vehicle sections — is a lot:
By now you’ve probably got some questions, particularly about movement and vehicles, which the developer’s FAQ section has answers for:
What movement options are available?
The mod features smooth locomotion, where the direction of motion can be configured to either follow your head or any of the two controllers. Turning can be configured to be either smooth or in fixed intervals (snap turns).
There is currently no teleport movement available, and it is unclear if it will become a viable option in the future.
How will you handle the vehicle sections? I don’t think I can stomach them in VR.
Right now, the vehicle rides do indeed require strong VR legs. However, there are some comfort options available to help you survive them. A classic movement vignette is available and can be activated for the vehicle rides. While riding the vehicles, the borders of your screen will be blackened, reducing your field of view and reducing the impact of the motion sickness. Additionally, you can choose to experience the vehicle rides from a 3rd person camera perspective. In this mode, the camera is following the vehicle at a distance and is not directly subjected to the vehicle’s rapid movements and turns, which should reduce motion sickness dramatically. It does, however, make controlling the vehicles a little more awkward.
In the future, we may implement an additional mode where the vehicle rides are put on a virtual 2D screen in front of the user, so that everyone has a chance to get through the vehicle sections in the game. This mode would of course be less immersive than the current ones as it’d remove any 3D effect from the experience.
That virtual 2D screen option sounds ideal for anyone who gets queasy! You can read more about the project, and see which areas they’re still tackling, at its website.
Before artist Sidney Nolan became well-known for his Ned Kelly works – a series of paintings depicting the famous bushranger as a simplified series of dark squares and rectangles set against colorful backdrops – he was an army deserter living in an artistic paradise of sorts.
In the late 1930s Nolan met art patrons John and Sunday Reed. By the early 1940s he was living with them, producing a prodigious amount of art, and he and Sunday were entangled in an open and torrid love affair. Their home – now the Heide Museum of Modern Art in Melbourne’s east – was where he began to experiment and develop as an artist. Now a rare collection of 47 works produced by Nolan during this period are going up for auction.
Angels and Figure (1941) by Sidney Nolan.
Valued collectively at around $500,000, these pieces give a glimpse into the life and mind and development of Nolan in his earliest days as an artist, before he became famous, and before the implosion of his relationship which saw him leave Sunday Reed, Heide, and these works behind.
It’s an eclectic bunch, ranging from landscapes to prints to abstract. Some were included in his first exhibition, held in a newsagency window in Heidelberg, Melbourne, and none were sold at the time.
Figures in an interior with hanging lamp, Kelly Series (1947) by Sidney Nolan.
Alex Clark, Australian and International Art Specialist at Bonhams auction house, highlights how unusual it is for so many works from this period to come up for sale together. Nolan was prolific across his career, “so there’s always works coming up – but these early works do n’t come up that often, and not in a context like this, where it’s a large group of unique works.”
These pieces come from the collection of Lady Mary Nolan, who died in 2016, and before that were from the collection of Sidney Nolan, who died in 1992. Most works from this period were donated to institutions – these are the ones that Nolan decided to hold on to after getting them back from the Reeds in the late 1950s.
“A lot of people probably know him for his post ’60s works, which is when he became really famous, both nationally and internationally, but not many people are as familiar with his earlier works from the late ’30s, through to the mid’ 40s.”
Pieces from this personal archive have been sold off here and there across the years, but “these particular works have been held back by the estate because they’re rather important early works,” says Clark.
Cameron Smith’s imminent defection is being viewed as the biggest “coup” to date for LIV in their quest for legitimacy.
Until now, The PGA Tour and its supporters could argue that the rebel league is merely a competition where washed up pros go to fill their bank accounts. No longer.
While tour veterans Phil Mickelson and Sergio Garcia were the initial names linked to the financially lucrative competition, the domino effect can’t be denied.
Brooks Koepka, Bryson DeChambeau and Dustin Johnson – three of the biggest names on the US PGA – have taken the money and left.
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Cameron Smith’s pending defection to LIV Golf has been met with a mixed reception. Photo: Getty ImagesSource: AFP
Smith’s signing however is being seen as a game-changer.
At 28, he is only now coming into the peak of his powers, he is the most recent major winner and he overran Rory McIlroy, the biggest name in world golf since Tiger Woods, to claim the Open Championship.
Nonetheless, Smith’s pending defection, which the Australian remained coy about ahead of the FedEx Cup playoff opener, hasn’t been filled with overwhelming excitement and a popping of corks.
Indeed, there’s an overarching sense of disappointment, inevitability and sadness about Smith’s likely defection; financial security has won over legacy and moral compass.
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Writing for the UK Telegraph – the same publication that broke Smith’s defection on a deal worth more than $AU140 million – chiefs sports writer Oliver Brown emphasized that Smith’s defection “might” capture an audience that eventually garners a TV deal.
“His signing is arguably the Saudis’ most significant coup to date, and could represent a tipping point for the competition – a moment where a gilded freakshow turned into a sporting event which might demand the world’s attention,” Brown wrote.
At the heart of the appeal of LIV Golf, Brown hit the nail on his head when he revealed the ridiculous sums of money today’s stars were forgoing by resisting a move from the PGA Tour.
“Against this backdrop, you can see why the initial contact from Greg Norman, LIV’s ringmaster, became an offer Smith could not refuse,” he wrote.
“(Henrick) Stenson, a 46-year-old who has failed to reach the weekend in seven of his last nine majors, is the type of player he should be beating for breakfast. And yet the Swede, quickly forgetting his defenestration of him as Ryder Cup captain, earned more for a glorified three-day exhibition at Bedminster than Smith did for winning the 150th Open at the Home of Golf.
“From Smith’s perspective, this is an imbalance that urgently needs correcting. If he takes home the maximum loot of £3.93 million on his LIV debut in Boston next month, he would eclipse even the £2.98 million he earned at the Players Championship in May, in what was then the richest prize ever offered by a single golf tournament. Why should the leading man tolerate making less than some forgotten members of the chorus line?”
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Brown continued by highlighting the ridiculous Saudi-funded money on offer but said the sheer financial sums couldn’t, at least at this point, match the theatre, drama and excitement on show at the PGA and DP World Tours.
“The numbers are so absurd, the golf itself has been rendered a sideshow. When Stenson holed the decisive putt at Bedminster, for the grandest payday of his career, the moment was greeted by the faintest rustle of polite applause. Even the winner himself did not look unduly bothered,” Brown wrote in The Telegraph.
“Here lies the sadness in Smith’s defection. With his talent in the fullest bloom, he deserves to be playing in front of the largest galleries, for the highest stakes. LIV ultimately offers him neither. It is a realm with all the money but none of the prestige. Smith, you sense, understands what true glory in golf means. As he gave his acceptance speech on the 18th green at St Andrews, the Claret Jug in his hand, the quaver in his voice suggested he was genuinely overwhelmed.
“For Smith to be swapping such moments for hollow, show-me-the-money exercises is a cause for lament. At one level, his departure from him in his prime from him demonstrates the scale of the Saudis’ ambitions. But at another, it is the grimmest possible reflection of the schism they have wrought.”
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Australia’s Cameron Smith’s decision not to answer whether he is joining LIV has been described as “cowardly” and “lame”. Photo: Getty ImagesSource: AFP
At the USATodayAndy Nesbitt, was far more scathing.
In particular, the publication took aim at Smith’s decision to deflect questions around his future and offer no definitive answer on whether he intended to shift allegiances.
“In doing so, (Smith) tarnished a reputation that just a few weeks ago was one of the best in professional golf,” Nesbitt wrote.
“Smith didn’t deny it and he didn’t confirm it, he just said he had “no comment” on that, which is a really lame way of ducking the question while also pretty much confirming the report to be true.”
Nesbitt went as far as saying his responses were “cowardly.”
“But to not come out with a definitive answer when asked about it before the start of the PGA Tour playoffs is a pretty cowardly thing to do.
“Now it’s a little harder to cheer for a guy who just a few weeks ago was the coolest golfer in the world.”
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Thomas Kershaw from The Timestoo, wrote that Smith’s pending defection was the competition’s “biggest coup”.
“It has been very easy up until now to dismiss the gimmicks of LIV’s format — featuring shotgun starts, 54 holes and no cuts — as a watered-down exhibition lacking the essentials of elite competition. Critics could point to the players who shrugged off missed putts knowing their money was guaranteed beforehand and the rebel series was derived as a refuge for those who had cashed in on the twilight of their careers,” Kershaw wrote.
“The signing of Smith is a significant riposte to that narrative. LIV may already have a horde of relatively recent major champions but Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka have battled injuries and indifferent form while Phil Mickelson still seems a ghost of his former self. Smith, 28, is the first to defect who is not just at the peak of the game but still entering the prime of his own.
He continued: “Smith remains LIV’s biggest coup to date and also symbolizes another aspect of their revolt that could bring considerable success. Smith had been vocal in urging the PGA Tour to bring a major golf event back to Australia but while those calls fell on deaf ears, LIV — and Norman — have been only too keen to hear them. When LIV expands into a 14-tournament league next year, it is reportedly scheduled to stop in Sydney in April, where Smith is expected to feature in an all-Australian team.”
Australian Cameron Smith is coming under renewed scrutiny ahead of the FedEx St. Jude Championship at TPC Southwind on August 10, 2022 in Memphis. Photo: Getty ImagesSource: AFP
Closer to home, James Erskine, the former manager of the late Shane Warne, who also managed Greg Norman in the past, told The Sydney Morning Herald the emergence of LIV was “destabilizing”, but didn’t accept the argument that players had blood on their hands given the competition is being backed by Saudi Arabia.
“It’s destabilizing the fabric of professional golf. I’m on the board of the PGA of Australia and we have to look after all professionals and professionals coming up. They all start as amateurs somewhere and are nurtured through the pathway so they could play golf, and then they get cards and qualify professionally,” he said. “So many people do business with Saudi Arabia and the Middle East, where they have very different rules and regulations and different respect for women.
“But you can name just about any company and they will probably have a link to Saudi Arabia, Rolex, Range Rover, Rolls Royce, Ferrari. Everyone’s doing business with them, so I think it’s very unfair to turn around and say because you’re a professional golfer, you shouldn’t deal with Saudi Arabia.”
Meanwhile, Erskine said Smith would be welcomed to play in Australia even if he joins LIV Golf.
Offices in Melbourne CBD are emptier than in any other capital city, new data has revealed, as melbournecafes and restaurants continue to suffer from the lack of foot traffic.
Just 38 per cent of offices in Melbourne CBD were occupied in July, according to the latest Office Occupancy Survey by the Property Council of Australia, marking a significant drop on the 49 per cent occupancy rate recorded in June.
Some of the worst days in July saw just 19 per cent of offices being used, the survey has shown.
Empty Melbourne CBD under lockdown. (TheAge)
Office occupancy rates also declined in Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide in July, but every other major Australian city still sits above 50 per cent occupancy.
Offices in Sydney CBD were 52 per cent full in July, while 53 per cent of offices in Brisbane were occupied, and 64 per cent were in Adelaide.
Melbourne City Council has been working to try to attract workers back to CBD offices since COVID-19 lockdowns got people into the habit of working from home.
However, Adina Cirson from the Property Council has explained that a “perfect storm” of factors – the recent spike in COVID-19 and influenza cases, the updated advice from Government around work-from-home settings and the chilly Melbourne winter – has led to people staying home.
“While Melbourne has enjoyed steady growth in office occupancy numbers over the first half of the year, it’s clear that there are serious challenges facing us in terms of encouraging workers back into the city,” Cirson said.
“More than 30 per cent of respondents to the survey indicated that health and safety concerns were an influence on occupancy, which is the highest number since the survey began in 2020.
“It’s clear from these figures that Government advice about working from home, especially internal policies for public service colleagues, has seriously dampened any momentum for a broader return to the office.”
Offices are mostly empty in Melbourne CBD. (Getty)
Cirson has said the survey should serve as a “wake-up call” to leaders about the need for work to get people back into the CBD.
“We can’t take our foot off the pedal when it comes to CBD recovery and that a new round of bold messaging is needed, as soon as health advice allows, to actively promote the CBD and attract workers back to the office again.
“With an end to winter in sight and updated health advice that the peak of our latest COVID event has passed earlier than expected, it’s critical that government and the business community come together to find urgent solutions to ensure winter hibernation doesn’t extend into spring .”
The owner of Journal café, Johnny, has said work needs to be done to revitalize Melbourne CBD. (Nine)
The owner of Journal café on Flinders Lane, Johnny, told Today that business was the quietest he had ever seen in his 25 years working in the area.
“Previous to COVID this place would have been half-full by now,” he said.
“Now only a few dribs and drabs. It makes life hard at the moment.
Johnny said the council and the government needed to work to get back people into the city, and stop advising people to work from home.
“We need people coming in here for these shops to be filled and to make the city great again.”
FBI agents, as well as US Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Chris Wray, are experiencing an uptick in death threats in the wake of the raid at former President Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago in Florida, according to sources speaking with Fox News.
Authorities monitoring social media posts are spotting a significant increase in death threats aimed towards agents, Wray and Garland. These threats are reported to continue at a steady pace online.
The FBI/DOJ security procedures are not made public, and both Garland and Wray travel with armed security. Still, Fox News is told there are discussions to potentially increase their security.
Meanwhile, members of the federal law enforcement community across the country are beginning to grow privately frustrated with the chief law enforcement officer of the country, Garland.
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President Biden, appearing via teleconference, looks on Attorney General Merrick Garland attends a meeting of the Task Force on Reproductive Healthcare Access during an event at the White House complex August 3, 2022. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)
FBI Director Christopher Wray, testifies during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing titled Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in Hart Building on Thursday, August, 4, 2022. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
The attorney general has remained silent since the search for the former president’s Florida home, and there’s been more frustration with Garland than Wray, according to sources.
Former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. (Charles Trainor Jr./Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
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Wray oversees the FBI, but the FBI falls under the Department of Justice umbrella and Garland is the ultimate decision-maker.
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Telstra will reward shareholders with a long-desired dividend boost, increasing the payments to 16.5 cents a share despite a slight fall in net profit and income for the financial year.
Revenue fell 4.7 per cent from $23.1 billion to $22 billion despite growth in the mobile services division, while earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization was $7.3 billion, a fall of 5 per cent. Net profit for the year was $1.8 billion, down 4.6 per cent.
The results are the last for outgoing CEO Andy Penn.Credit:Eamon Gallagher
The company will pay a fully franked final dividend of 8.5 cents per share. The increase to the total dividend marks the first time the telco giant has upped its payment to shareholders since 2015. It is also the highest dividend to be paid since 2019. It will be paid on September 22.
Telstra’s results are the final under outgoing chief executive Andy Penn who began his role in 2015. He will be replaced by his chief financial officer Vicki Brady at the end of the month. He spent his final speech focusing on the success of his T22 strategy, a multi-year effort which involved dramatically cutting costs and restructuring the business.
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“When we launched our T22 strategy four years ago, we were in part responding to the operational and financial headwinds created by the rollout of the NBN. We were also responding to the technology innovation we could see around us and the growing rate of digital adoption,” Penn said.
“Telstra is a very different company today and while of course there is always more to do, we are much better equipped to face the very exciting digital future ahead.”
The results were within Telstra’s guidance and analyst expectations, but were affected by the tail end of NBN headwinds, specifically the cost of migrating customers onto the broadband network. Penn said it had been a “large and difficult pill to swallow.”
Telstra’s mobile division grew 6.4 per cent to $4 billion, but other divisions continued to be impacted by NBN migrations and restructuring costs.
Safari-style! Kylie Minogue cuts a stylish figure in a printed two-piece ensemble and clutches at $1,170 Loewe beach bag as she holidays in Croatia
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Kylie Minogue is enjoying a well-deserved break in Croatia after a busy few weeks which included filming the highly-anticipated Neighbors finale.
And on Wednesday, the 54-year-old Australian pop princess couldn’t wipe the smile off her face as she stepped out in the city of Rovinj.
The Spinning Around singer was seen leaving a luxury villa in a stylish outfit and clutching a $1,170 basket bag by Loewe.
Safari-style! Kylie Minogue cut a stylish figure in a printed two-piece ensemble and clutched a $1,170 Loewe beach bag as she holidayed in Croatia on Wednesday
Kylie looked casual but cool in a chic mustard shirt and matching trousers.
She teamed the look with a white cap, pink sunglasses and tan sandals.
Kylie wore minimal makeup and her blonde hair back into a bun.
Kylie looked casual but cool in a chic mustard shirt and matching trousers
She appeared overjoyed as she stepped out of a villa and made her way around town in a golf cart
She appeared overjoyed as she stepped out of a villa and made her way around town in a golf cart.
Just last week, Kylie broke her silence after appearing in the Neighbors finale alongside Jason Donovan.
The pop icon made an emotional confession on social media after she reprized her role as Charlene in the classic Aussie soap opera.
Just last week, Kylie broke her silence after appearing in the Neighbors finale alongside Jason Donovan
Kylie shared a series of photos from her time at Ramsay Street, with many alongside co-star and on-screen love interest Donovan, who played Scott Robinson.
‘Yep, there were tears! Congratulations to the @neighbours team for the heart-warming and celebratory finale,’ she captioned her post. ‘You’ll be in my heart always!!!’
It comes after rumors were finally debunked about the ‘Can’t Get You Out of My Head’ hitmaker’s appearance on the show.
Fans expressed disappointment that Kylie and Jason were given such little dialogue.
Neighbors executive producer Jason Herbison told TV Tonight that the pair filmed their special appearance before he had even written the final episode – so what they said had to fit in with the rest of the storyline.
‘Yep, there were tears! Congratulations to the @neighbours team for the heart-warming and celebratory finale,’ she captioned her post. ‘You’ll be in my heart always!!!’
It comes after rumors were finally debunked about the ‘Can’t Get You Out of My Head’ hitmaker’s appearance on the show. Fans expressed disappointment that Kylie and Jason were given such little dialogue
‘Our discussions with Jason and Kylie were always about making a small appearance,’ Herbison told TV Tonight.
‘They didn’t want to overshadow the current cast or make the finale about them. We also filmed their scenes before I’d written the episode, so whatever we filmed had to fit in with that.’
He went on to defend Kylie after she copped backlash on social media, saying: ‘I hate to see Kylie copping any criticism – she was nothing short of amazing on the day.’
Kylie and Jason’s beloved characters Charlene and Scott Robinson made their much-anticipated entrance to the garden party as they pulled up on Ramsay Street in their recognizable green Mini before surprising their pals.
‘Wow wow wow,’ Scott said as they stepped out of the Mini during the finale.
‘This is crazy. We made it huh?’ I have added. Kylie’s character Charlene then said: ‘Home sweet home.’
The couple returned to Erinsborough for the first time since they bid farewell to the suburb and moved to Brisbane after tying the knot in a romantic wedding ceremony more than 30 years ago.
As well as Kylie and Jason making a final appearance on the show, there were also epic returns made by Holly Valance (Flick Scully), Natalie Imbruglia (Beth Brennan), Guy Pearce (Mike Young) and Ian Smith (Harold Bishop) as they reprized their roles on the soap opera.
The onscreen couple returned to Erinsborough for the first time since they bid farewell to the suburb and moved to Brisbane after tying the knot in a romantic wedding ceremony more than 30 years ago
