North Melbourne are reportedly set to land the man they covet with the news to be announced next week.
The bottom of the ladder club have offered master coach Alastair Clarkson a monster five-year contract, according to The Age’s Jake Niall.
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Clarkson’s signature has been the hottest commodity around the league with multiple clubs said to be chasing his services.
Along with North Melbourne, the GWS Giants were in hot pursuit of the mastermind who led Hawthorn to four premiership victories.
The Giants have not yet offered Clarkson a contract and while Niall reports Clarkson has not yet responded to North’s offer – Triple M’s Tom Browne says otherwise.
“Coaching update, this is just dot joining according to sources you speak to. There’s not a lot of leaks coming from North Melbourne or the Giants coaching process,” Browne said on Triple M.
“It’s certainly the strong view of sources that I speak to that Alastair Clarkson will end up as soon as next Friday at North Melbourne.
“That remains to be seen but that’s the consistent view that I’m getting is that North Melbourne is very much in the box seat to land Alastair Clarkson for a whole host of reasons.
“The Giants are now looking closely, very closely, at Adem Yze and I think they will also sound out Ross Lyon at some point in their process as well.
“Yze Giants, Clarkson North is the jungle drums in terms of the sources that I speak to at the moment.”
Journalist Mark Robinson believes a Clarkson-North Melbourne deal is “past the post”.
“Everyone’s a little bit scared to declare it because Alastair Clarkson has got the ability to change his mind and say: ‘I’m not coaching’,” he said on 3AW.
“But the further this goes on, I find that can’t happen.”
North have been the reported front runner for Clarkson’s signature for multiple weeks. A report in late July indicated he was seeking an eye-watering contract of $1.6ma year. Clarkson rubbed those reports.
Clarkson and Gerard Whateley co-hosted a function where the Hawks mentor put rumors of his big payday to join North Melbourne to bed.
“How explicit do you want me to be?” Whateley said on SEN when asked about Clarkson’s response from her.
“(He says it’s) bulls**t.
“That was Alastair Clarkson’s reaction to what’s in the public domain about $1.6 million to join North Melbourne.”
An Adelaide father who tried to gas himself and his young daughter has been jailed for more than 14 years for the attempted murder of the girl.
Shaun Mate and his three-year-old daughter were found unconscious in July 2020 in what a judge described as a vindictive act of domestic violence.
In the days leading up to the crime, Mate had bought two gas tanks, putting his plan into place after an argument with his then-wife.
Shaun Mate has been sentenced to jail. (Nine)
Sentencing him in the Supreme Court on Friday, Justice Geraldine Davison said the impact of the 45-year-old’s offending was significant and widespread.
“Sadly, in many marriage breakdowns, when feelings are running high and the parties are feeling aggrieved and vindictive, the notion of depriving their partner of one of the greatest joys of their life can seem to be a way of wreaking revenge,” she said .
“There is a significant element of vindictiveness, planning and preparation in your offending.”
On the night of the offending, Mate had made a photo montage of the couple, which he played on the television and said to his wife, “this is what you’re going to miss out on.”
Justice Davison said he later became angry and his ex-wife began to feel unsafe and called the police.
Emergency services at the house on the night of the incident. (Nine)
Police arrived and the couple agreed he would stay in a room downstairs.
The judge said the girl’s mother woke up during the night to find her daughter missing from her bed and when she tried to open the door to her husband’s room he told her to “go away, we’re having a little sleep now”.
At that point, the mother heard both her daughter groan and the sound of gas and called police again.
While Mate had barricaded himself in, officers eventually gained entry where they found the girl unconscious and suffering from hypoxia.
Justice Davison said while the offending was both planned and premeditated she accepted a psychologist’s finding that Mate was suffering from a major depressive disorder at the time.
However, she said she regarded his crime as at the higher end of the scale.
The man was sentenced to 14 years and three months in jail in Adelaide’s Supreme Court. (Google Maps)
“The victim was a vulnerable three-year-old child. Your planning indicates that it was premeditated offending,” the judge said.
“It was the most significant abuse of trust placed on a parent. Your intention was to take your child’s life as an act of vindictiveness against your wife thus depriving her of that child.
“Your plan failed by the good fortune of your wife waking and acting as swiftly as she did, along with the first responders.”
Justice Davison jailed Mate for 14 years and three months, reduced from 15 years because of his guilty plea.
She set a non-parole period of nine years.
If you or anyone you know needs assistance or information about domestic abuse, you can call 1800 RESPECT (1800 737 732).
On bitstamp.net, bitcoin was 0.9 per cent higher to $US24,187 near 8.05am AEST.
The yield on the US 10-year note was 11 basis points higher than 2.89 per cent at 4.59pm in New York.
On Wall Street, shares reversed direction late. Health care paced six of the S&P500’s 11 industry sectors lower. The NYSE Fang Index slid 0.6 per cent. The VIX rose 2.2 per cent to 20.18.
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market highlights
ASX futures down 20 points or 0.29 per cent to 6946 near 7am AEST
AUD +0.2% to 71.06 US cents
Bitcoin +0.9% to $US24,187 near 8.05am AEST
On Wall St: Dow +0.1% S&P500 -0.1% Nasdaq -0.6%
In New York: BHP +0.8% Rio +1.6% Atlassian -3.6%
Tesla -2.6% Apple -0.4% Amazon -1.4% Microsoft -0.7%
Spot gold -0.3% to $US1787.98 an ounce at 2.18pm New York time
Brent crude +2.5% to $US99.82 a barrel
Iron ore +2% to $US110.60 a tonne
10-year yield: US 2.89% Australia 3.28% Germany 0.97%
US prices as of 4.59pm in New York
United States
The US producer price index for final demand declined 0.5 per cent last month, the first negative monthly reading since April 2020, the Labor Department said. The PPI climbed 1.0 per cent in June. In the 12 months through July, it increased 9.8 per cent after advancing 11.3 per cent in June.
Economists polled by Reuters had forecast the PPI would rise 0.2 per cent in July and increase 10.4 per cent on a year-on-year basis.
Excluding the volatile food, energy and trade services components, producer prices rose 0.2 per cent in July. The so-called core PPI increased 0.3 per cent in June. In the 12 months through July, the core PPI advanced 5.8 per cent after rising 6.4 per cent in June.
The Federal Reserve is mulling whether to raise its benchmark overnight lending rate by another 50 or 75 basis points at its next policy meeting on Sept. 20-21 in its bid to tame inflation running at more than three times its 2 per cent target.
Europe
The pan-European STOXX 600 index rose 0.1 per cent, after clocking its best session in nearly two weeks on Wednesday.
Oil stocks led gains as crude prices rose by over 1 per cent after the International Energy Agency raised its oil demand growth forecast for the year.
Healthcare shares led losses, dragged by declines in GSK, Sanofi and Haleon amid growing concerns about US litigation focused on a heartburn drug that contained a probable carcinogen.
Miners also fell 0.8 per cent on weak results from Antofagasta. The company’s shares declined 2.2 per cent and dragged peer Rio Tinto down 3.7 per cent.
The STOXX 600 is down about 10 per cent so far this year.
commodities
In its monthly oil report, the IEA struck a bullish tone: “Soaring oil use for power generation and gas-to-oil switching are increasing demand. In this report, we have raised our estimates for 2022 global demand growth by 380,000 barrels a day, to 2.1 million barrels a day.
“Gains mask relative weakness in other sectors, and a slowdown in growth from 5.1 million barrels a day at the start of the year to less than 100,000 barrels a day by 4Q22. World oil demand is now forecast at 99.7 million barrels a day in 2022 and 101.8 mb/d in 2023.”
The IEA said while some new supply could help ease market tensions “with supply increasingly at risk to disruptions, another price rally cannot be excluded”.
In contrast, OPEC cut its 2022 forecast for growth in world oil demand for a third time since April, citing the economic impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, high inflation and efforts to contain the coronavirus pandemic.
In its latest monthly report, OPEC said it expects 2022 oil demand to rise by 3.1 million barrels per day (bpd), or 3.2 per cent, down 260,000 bpd from the previous forecast.
Lisa Kudrow has weighed in on the lack of diversity in Friends and claimed the show’s creators had “no business writing stories about people of colour”.
The actress, who played Phoebe Buffay for 10 seasons, said David Crane and Marta Kauffman likely wrote the series about their own lives and therefore did not have the experiences of being a person of color.
Lisa has previously admitted the series lacked representation, stating that if the hit show was made today, it would include a more diverse cast.
“I feel like it was a show created by two people who went to Brandeis and wrote about their lives after college. And for shows especially, when it’s going to be a comedy that’s character-driven, you write what you know,” Kudrow, 59, told the Daily Beast.
“They have no business writing stories about the experiences of being a person of colour. I think at that time, the big problem that I was seeing was, ‘Where’s the apprenticeship?””
Show creator Marta Kauffman has also publicly expressed the “embarrassment” of how she “didn’t know better” about diversity 25 years ago.
“I’ve learned a lot in the last 20 years,” Kauffman said in an interview with The Los Angeles Times.
“Admitting and accepting guilt is not easy. It’s painful looking at yourself in the mirror. I’m embarrassed that I didn’t know better 25 years ago.”
“It took me a long time to begin to understand how I internalized systemic racism.
“I’ve been working really hard to become an ally, an anti-racist. And this seemed to me to be a way that I could participate in the conversation from a white woman’s perspective.”
Kauffman has since pledged $4 million to support African American students in the US.
The Marta F. Kauffman ’78 Professorship in African and African American Studies “will support a distinguished scholar with a concentration in the study of the peoples and cultures of Africa and the African diaspora” and “assist the department to recruit more expert scholars and teachers , map long-term academic and research priorities and provide new opportunities for students to engage in interdisciplinary scholarship,” the Waltham, Massachusetts-based university announced.
“It took me a long time to begin to understand how I internalized systemic racism,” Kauffman, who is reportedly worth nearly $600 million, told Brandeis.
“I’ve been working really hard to become an ally, an anti-racist. And this seemed to me to be a way that I could participate in the conversation from a white woman’s perspective.”
Kauffman told the LA Times that she has received “nothing but love” since announcing the pledge along with “people acknowledging it was long overdue.”
“In this case, I’m finally, literally putting my money where my mouth is,” Kauffman said. “I feel I was finally able to make some difference in the conversation.”
“I have to say, after agreeing to this and when I stopped sweating, it didn’t unburden me, but it lifted me up. But until in my next production, I can do it right, it isn’t over.
“I want to make sure from now on in every production I do that I am conscious in hiring people of color and actively pursue young writers of colour. I want to know I will act differently from now on. And then I will feel unburdened.”
Brisbane have enhanced their AFL top-four prospects and all but buried St Kilda’s finals hopes with a hard-fought 15-point win at Docklands Stadium.
Hugh McCluggage (23 disposals) and Cam Rayner (four goals) starred for the Lions, who dominated the first half on Friday night and resisted a stunning fightback from their hosts.
Mason Wood (four goals) and Tim Membrey (three) helped drag the Saints back into the contest as Brad Crouch, Seb Ross and Jack Sinclair lifted during the third term.
But a string of wasted chances in front of goal — most notably by Max King, who finished with 0.5 — ultimately proved costly for St Kilda as Brisbane steadied to post a 12.9 (81) to 9.12 (66) victory on Friday night.
Rayner kicked three goals in a decisive final-quarter contribution, with the Lions adding 4.1 to 0.5 for the term.
The result lifted Brisbane to second spot on the ladder, though Collingwood, Melbourne and Sydney have games in hand and can leapfrog the Lions with wins over the weekend.
Cam Rayner played an inspired last quarter to steer Brisbane to victory.(Getty Images: Daniel Pockett)
St Kilda now have to rely on a string of other results falling their way in order to keep alive their chances of gatecrashing the top-eight.
The Saints will likely take on Sydney in the last match of the home-and-away season without midfield accumulator Crouch, who is in trouble for a high bump on Brisbane defender Darcy Gardiner.
And Jimmy Webster is also set to missing after being substituted out of the Lions clash with a hamstring injury before quarter-time.
Webster’s setback came as the Saints’ back-line dealt with a deluge of opposition forward entries that Brisbane couldn’t make count on the scoreboard.
The first goal was against the run of play when St Kilda livewire Jack Higgins made the most of an open forward line to bounce through a drop punt from 60 meters.
There were four lead changes in the opening term, with Eric Hipwood’s goal on the siren giving the Lions a one-point advantage.
The Saints brought the physical heat from the outset against the Lions.(Getty Images: Daniel Pockett)
The visitors dominated the second quarter, building a 26-point lead off a 32-17 advantage in inside-50s through the first half as McCluggage pulled the strings in midfield.
The Saints flipped the script in the third quarter as Wood and Membrey kicked two goals each, briefly putting the home side back in front.
King’s tally included three behinds during the third quarter, including two from set shots about 20 meters out.
He had a chance to level the scores during the final term but missed from 40 meters, with the Lions going coast-to-coast from the kick-in that resulted in a Joe Daniher goal.
Rayner iced the result with a superb curling shot from the boundary.
Daniher and Hipwood finished with two goals each, while Brownlow medalist Lachie Neale (16 disposals) was outplayed by impressive minder Marcus Windahger (21).
McDonald’s has been hit with a mammoth wage theft case over allegations more than 250,000 current and former workers were denied rest breaks.
The Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association (SDA) announced Friday it had lodged a “mega” federal court claim against 328 McDonald’s operators and the fast food giant itself over the alleged denial of paid rest breaks at nearly 1000 current and former restaurants.
The union, which has some 15 existing federal court claims against McDonald’s and its franchisees, said it was seeking $250 million in compensation plus penalties in one of the biggest wage theft claims of its kind in the country’s history, capturing more than 1.8 per cent of working Australians.
Under the Fast Food Award, all McDonald’s workers are entitled to an uninterrupted 10-minute break when working four hours or more. The SDA alleges that not only were employees not informed of their rest break entitlements, but they were also told breaks could be exchanged for a free soft drink or going to the toilet.
The union alleges that the conduct was systematic and deliberate and that McDonald’s Australia aided and abetted franchisees in the practice.
“The SDA has sought to fix this issue with McDonald’s and they’ve refused to resolve it, let alone admit any wrongdoing,” SDA secretary Gerard Dwyer said in a statement.
“As one of the largest employers of young people in Australia, McDonald’s shouldn’t have to be dragged through the Federal Court for workers to receive their most basic entitlements.
“Across their restaurants, McDonald’s demands consistency. They make sure each restaurant can put two beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun. It’s simply not believable that these breaks weren’t denied on purpose.
“Just because McDonald’s is a multinational, multi-billion-dollar fast food behemoth doesn’t mean they can pick and choose which laws to follow. McDonald’s has the capacity and a responsibility to ensure they’re giving workers all of their entitlements.
“These federal court claims are not just about compensation and penalizing McDonald’s, it’s about sending a clear message that this systematic exploitation of young workers will not be tolerated. We won’t stop calling out these exploitative behaviors until McDonald’s cleans up their act and compensates workers.”
The SDA is seeking thousands of dollars in compensation for workers who did not receive their legal break entitlements and is asking the court to penalize 400 employers who have operated McDonald’s sites in the past six years.
The union says the $250 million figure is a “conservative estimate”.
McDonald’s has more than 970 restaurants in Australia and employs more than 100,000 people.
The SDA’s existing federal court actions are against McDonald’s Australia and 14 franchisees, spanning 196 sites.
According to the union, more than 10,000 workers have assisted in its investigations into McDonald’s work conditions.
In a statement, a McDonald’s Australia spokeswoman the company “intends to fully defend the claim”.
“McDonald’s believes its restaurants complied with applicable instruments, provided rest breaks to employees and were consistent with historic working arrangements,” she said.
“Those arrangements have been known to the SDA for many years. The manner of taking breaks has not been challenged or raised by the SDA as a matter of concern throughout successive enterprise bargaining processes for new industrial agreements.
“We are very mindful of our obligations under applicable employment laws, including the former enterprise agreement and the Fast Food Industry Award, and continue to work closely with our restaurants to ensure employees receive all correct workplace entitlements and pay.
“We value our employees highly and the great contribution they make to the success of the business.”
Isaiah Papali’i’s management has reportedly confirmed the Eels backrower will honor his Tigers contract, ending speculation surrounding his future.
According to the SMH, Tim Sheens, who will take the coaching reins in 2023, spoke to agent Dan O’Loughlin regarding Papali’i’s doubts.
The merger club were reportedly assured the 23-year-old would land in Leichhardt for the club’s pre-season training alongside star recruit Apisai Koroisau.
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Papali’i previously explained he wants to have “no regrets” regarding his decision.
“Obviously people ask me about it, just even on the street or family and friends are hitting me up but that’s kind of for my manager look after and even if I don’t stay here or I do go next year, I want to make sure that this year has no regrets,” he said to 9 News.
When asked why he had doubts about making the move, Papali’i said it was Maguire’s axing that made him question his decision.
“I think it was the coaching axing that went on,” Papali’i said.
“When I did sign it was talking to Madge — he’s an awesome coach. That rattled the cage a bit and I guess you have to have those conversations and I guess that was a massive factor for me.”
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Papali’i will be a key player for the Tigers, who are hoping to rebuild under Sheens, Marshall and Farrah’s tutelage.
“The only thing I will say is I’m looking forward to coaching him,” Sheens said.
Sheens’ Tigers rebuild is underway, with reports suggesting the club will make a play for former Raiders backrower John Bateman.
The Tigers have also reportedly spoken to Papali’i’s management regarding their vision for the club under the new coaching structure.
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BROWN’S LUCRATIVE CONTRACT TALKS
Parramatta star Dylan Brown’s management has reportedly urged the table a lucrative contract extension to keep the young gun at the Eels as rivals circle.
According to The Daily Telegraph, the 22-year-old’s agent met with Parramatta powerbrokers this week as the five-eighth was reportedly labeled a retention priority.
While Brown’s management is hard at work, the New Zealand international expressed his desire to stay out of any negotiations until after this year’s World Cup.
“My manager would have communicated that (to the Eels) to leave me alone until the season is done,” Brown said.
“I just don’t like it. I’d rather not sort that stuff out (during the season).
“Any distraction is a bad distraction when you are playing footy.”
Brown’s preference to put extensions talks on hold could worry Eels bosses, with rivals being able to make a play for the in-form playmaker come November 1.
Reports suggest Brown’s preference is to stay in Sydney’s west and the Eels mass player exodus has left them in a strong position to offer Brown an upgraded deal.
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Brown has enjoyed the best season of his four-year career in 2022, recording 14 tries assists with a new-found confidence.
The young gun explained coach Brad Arthur has been instilling that confidence in him, and fans have been treated to a full display of his running game this year.
“The last couple of years … I have always been, not afraid, but I would second guess myself,” Brown said.
“I feel like you have got to go with your gut feeling sometimes and just be confident in what you are doing.
“You’re not getting selected in an NRL team to second guess yourself and not be confident.
“I’m in the team for a reason. Brad is trying to drive that into me. I feel like the more ball I get the better the left edge will go.”
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Worker shortages “across all industries” are severely impacting many Sunshine Coast businesses, forcing temporary closures, exhausting owners and frustrating customers.
While the ongoing fallout from the pandemic shares part of the blame, the fingers are being pointed at other underlying contributing factors.
More affordable, convenient housing for workers is emerging as the key missing link to the problem that’s affecting large and small businesses.
Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers hosted a local jobs forum in the new Maroochydore CBD on Thursday at the Holiday Inn Express and Suites, bringing together key stakeholders (more on this below).
Eric and Francoise Pernoud. Picture: Facebook
It comes as mum-and-dad business owners like Eric and Francoise Pernoud work themselves to the bone to keep their patisserie café open and maintain the high standards customers have come to expect.
The Pernouds are desperate to find a barista and a kitchen staffer for their popular La Maison du Patissier at Meridan Plains and are at breaking point.
The kitchen staff member is needed to help Mr Pernoud make the breads, croissants and other baked goods, and the weekend barista is required Fridays and Saturdays from 7am to about 4pm, and Sundays 7am to 3pm.
For weeks, the Pernouds have advertised in the shop, by word of mouth, with flyers and on social media, to no avail.
The situation has become “critical” at the business they opened in March, 2018.
They have even resorted to phoning other cafes in the hope that their baristas can fill the required shifts and take some of the pressure off.
But as Mrs Pernoud laments: “Unfortunately, they are in the same boat as us. Everyone is looking for staff.”
The Maison du Patissier at Meridan Plains.
In a Facebook post on July 27, she wrote: “Every weekend I am anxious with Eric being so exhausted, he will collapse”.
“Since we have no barista this coming Friday, we have to close for this day,” Mrs Pernoud said this week.
“We considered opening but people would abuse us if we can’t make them coffee.
“We have a client that works night shift at a well-known restaurant that is feeling so sorry for us that she will help us until the end of September, or until we find a barista.
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“Eric is working seven days a week and he is exhausted.
“As for me, over the years I had multiple serious health issues so any kind of stress nowadays will make me sick.
“My body is exhausted but my mind is also.
“My husband and I are perfectionists and to not be able to do what we want because we’re short staffed is not acceptable. So, we put a lot of pressure on ourselves.”
Treasurer Jim Chalmers on the Coast on Thursday. Picture: Shirley Sinclair
While visiting Maroochydore, the federal treasurer Dr Chalmers urged people to put forward their ideas to fix the problems affecting businesses so places like the Coast could reach their potential.
“There won’t be unanimous agreement around all of the ideas put forward by unions or business or others but there is an opportunity for us to find common ground on issues around skills, perhaps migration, issues around enterprise bargaining,” he said.
“Our aspiration here is a good, well-trained, enthusiastic worker for every business that needs one and a good, well-paid, secure job for every Australian that wants one.”
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Caloundra Chamber of Commerce CEO Brady Sullivan said the worker shortage had been a “significant issue” for the region “across all industries” during the past year.
The chamber recently held a lunch with major Coast employers, representing more than 5,000 jobs in the region, with indications larger companies were facing similar workforce shortages to small and family businesses.
Mr Sullivan said traditions and hospitality staff such as chefs were particularly in demand, with a lack of affordable housing compounding the issue.
Tradies are in high demand as part of the current worker shortages across the region.
In the 2022 March quarter, the unemployment rate on the Sunshine Coast was 4 per cent.
“It’s the lowest unemployment we’ve had for a very long time and our youth unemployment has come down drastically as well,” Mr Sullivan said.
Mr Sullivan said one significant factor that had altered the local workforce was big changes in the types of businesses and jobs.
“Historically, it used to be ‘Come and live at the Coast, we’ll pay you $20,000 less and you’ve got to pour beers, work in retail or be a chippie,’ he said.
“Now the conversation is that the depth and breadth of opportunity on the Sunshine Coast has grown so much.
“We’ve have start-up tech companies such as GreaseBoss and Helimods, who export products globally but we also have a lot of new businesses moving into the region who see their market as broader than the Sunshine Coast.
“The number of jobs and types of jobs here are drastically different to even 10 years ago.
“Because of the workforce shortage, this means the employee has the power in the relationship.
“They have more power to say, ‘This is what I want to do and this is how much I want to be paid’.”
More affordable housing is required.
Mr Sullivan warned that positions would remain unfilled without more affordable housing.
“We can’t say, ‘Hey, we’ve got heaps of jobs here, come on up and live on the Coast and take these jobs’ if they’ve got nowhere to live.
“An 18 to 25-year-old who’s vastly under-represented on the Coast in terms of workforce percentage can’t pay $6-800 a week for a house.
“So, we need to think – is it a two-bed, one bathroom unit that’s $300 a week that’s affordable for them?
“That’s probably the biggest thing that we can do as a region.”
To apply for the La Maison du Patissier positions, message the cafe on social media or email [email protected].
US basketball legend Bill Russell’s number 6 jersey is being retired across the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Key points:
The NBA will permanently retire the jersey number for all teams
Players like LeBron James, who currently wears the number, can continue to wear it until their careers end
Russell, an 11-time NBA champion, died on July 31 at age 88
The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association made the announcement on Thursday, permanently retiring the number worn by the 11-time champion and civil rights activist, who was good enough to have been enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach.
Russell is the first player to have his number retired league-wide.
The Boston Celtics star died at age 88 on July 31.
“Bill Russell’s unparalleled success on the court and pioneering civil rights activism deserve to be honored in a unique and historic way,” NBA commissioner Adam Silver said.
“Permanently retiring his number 6 across every NBA team ensures that Bill’s transcendent career will always be recognised.”
Players who currently wear number 6 — including the Los Angeles Lakers’ LeBron James — may continue doing so.
But the number cannot be issued again, the league said.
Bill Russell was the most prolific winner in the NBA’s history. (AP Photo: Michael Dwyer)
All NBA players will wear a patch on the right shoulder of their jerseys this season, the league said, and every NBA court will display a clover-shaped logo with the number 6 on the sideline near the scorer’s table.
The Celtics have “separate and unique recognition for him on their uniforms” planned, the NBA said.
Russell was the most prolific winner in NBA history, an 11-time champion during a 13-year career — winning the last two of those titles as a player-coach — and the first Black coach in any of the major US pro sports to win to championship.
He marched with Martin Luther King Jr, stood with Muhammad Ali and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama.
And having his number retired league-wide puts him in a very exclusive club.
Major League Baseball (MLB) retired civil rights icon Jackie Robinson’s number 42 jersey across the league in 1997.
Jackie Robinson’s number 42 was retired by Major League Baseball.(Supplied)
Robinson broke professional baseball’s color barrier 50 years earlier by becoming the first Black player to play in the major leagues in the modern era.
On April 15 each year, every MLB player wears the number 42 in honor of Robinson.
The NHL, upon Wayne Gretzky’s retirement in 1999, said his number 99 would be retired league-wide in honor of that sport’s all-time scoring leader.
And now, Russell gets the same treatment.
Russell called Robinson a hero, once saying that “he showed me the way to be a man in professional sports.”
Robinson held Russell in high esteem as well.
Rachel Robinson, her widow, asked Russell to be a pallbearer at her husband’s funeral in 1972.
Australia’s apparent cul de sac of a property market looks like it’s having a bit of a winter renaissance, with new data showing a handy surge in auctions and listings, as more homes stay on the market, longer.
With glamor cities like Hobart hitting record listing volumes (the Tassie capital is up 70% on last year) it’s a lot more of a buyers’ game out there, with CoreLogic seeing auction activity on the rise across Australia’s combined capitals.
And according to PropTrack economist Angus Moore, the total stock of properties listed for is almost up 5% compared to July last year.
“While winter is typically seasonally quieter, (this) is the largest year-on-year increase since 2010,” he said.
While Moore reckons that’s in part due to the boom in available stock for sale – and properties taking longer to sell – it’s also partly driven by last year’s capital city lockdowns.
“Sydney recorded its largest year-on-year increase in total stock available on record, with total listings up 30.7% this year compared to the lockdown-affected levels in July 2021.”
The stock of properties listed for sale in Sydney and Canberra is around 5% above the prior decade average, and around 2% below in Melbourne, according to PropTrack.
“Selling conditions have begun to temper from their very strong levels earlier in the year, while the measurements of buyer demand have declined off their high levels, it is taking longer to sell homes.
“The wave of new supply coming to market over the first half of the year, particularly in Sydney, Melbourne, and Canberra, has lifted the stock available on market and helped make conditions a bit less competitive for buyers,” Moore added.
More houses, less cost
Aussie home prices are falling now across most cities after the mad pandemic growth topped multi-decade highs in 2021.
With the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) raising interest rates like a loon over the course of 2022, borrowing capacity for prospective buyers is being swiftly curtailed, which is in turn putting downward pressure on prices in the near-term.
Auction this:
After dropping sharply the previous week, capital cities are expecting a mini-auction boom with 1,646 capital city homes scheduled to go under the hammer, CoreLogic predicts.
While auction volumes are up 11.9% compared to the previous week (1,471), this week’s auction numbers are still -14.0% below the recent high recorded two weeks prior (1,913) and -9.7% below the number of auctions held this time last year (1,822).
“Further out, fundamental drivers of demand remain strong, with unemployment low, wages growth expected to pick up over this year, and international migration returning,” Moore says.
“As we look towards the spring selling season, activity in property markets around the country is expected to pick up over the next few months in line with the typical seasonal peak in activity.”
Check it out, Christian’s bullies:
• Melbourne (+10% YoY), Perth (+4.6% YoY), Darwin (+14.4% YoY) and Canberra (+24.8%YoY) also experienced increases in the total number of properties listed for sale in July.
• Options remain more limited in Brisbane and Adelaide, where total stock is more than a quarter and a third below pre-pandemic levels, respectively.
• New listings nationally were down 12.2% month-on-month in July, though it was a busiermonth than the same time last year, with new listings up 6.5% year-on-year.
• All capital cities saw new listings down in July compared to June, which is typical for thewinter period.
• New listings in regional areas were also quieter in July, down 11.4% month-on-month.
Even so, it was busier than is typical for the middle of winter, with new listings up 3.2%year-on-year regionally.
And this week we’re also doing a special on everyone’s favorite capital city:
Via REA Group
Hobart – capital of the Apple Island state of Tasmania, sits nestled and comfy on the River Derwent, and on the new listings front, Hobart is down around 13.5% for July as the property market went about its business through the usually quiet winter period.
That said, from fashionable Salamanca Place, and its old sandstone warehouses hosting galleries and cafes to nearby Battery Point, with its historic narrow lanes and colonial-era cottages, conditions are way, way busier than last year. Actually they’re hot, with new listings up 25.1% year-on-year.
With 1,270m-high kunanyi/Mt Wellington, with sweeping views, plus hiking and cycling trails its backdrop, the stronger-than-typical winter so far has given buyers more to choose from in Hobart than has been the case for much of the past couple of years.
Hobart buzzing like Toronto. Source: Getty
The total stock of properties available for sale in Hobart increased 0.8% month-on-month and was 70% higher than at the same time last year – the largest ever year-on-year increase on record in any city. Boom.
Peter Farquhar’s regional Tassie was up slightly too in the month (2.4% month-on-month), which brought them up 5.3% higher year-on-year.
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