Biden’s new positive test is an example of a rebound Covid-19 case, a phenomenon that has happened in some cases after people take Paxlovid.
Biden is isolating in the White House and has canceled his immediate travel plans. He had planned to meet up Sunday with the first lady in Delaware as well as take a trip early next week to promote passage of the chip funding bill. “He will not go to Delaware or to Michigan and he is isolating in the White House residence,” a White House official said.
The official said the White House was “in the process of contact tracing and once we have determined the number, we will release it.”
Biden tweeted about his condition on Saturday. “Folks, today I tested positive for COVID again. This happens with a small minority of folks. I’ve got no symptoms but I am going to isolate myself for the safety of everyone around me. I’m still at work, and will be back on the road soon,” he tweeted.
Biden emerged from his initial isolation last Wednesday, after completing a five-day course of Paxlovid, an antiviral therapy from Pfizer, and testing negative for COVID-19 on Tuesday evening and again Wednesday morning.
The president was not masked at public events he attended at the end of the week, which is in conflict with CDC guidance that says people should wear a mask for 10 days after a Covid infection.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said during a briefing that the president was still in compliance with CDC guidelines because he was more than six feet apart from other people.
When I initially tested positive for COVID, a week ago Thursday,the president experienced mild symptoms in the upper floors of the White House.
In late May, the CDC issued a health advisory about the recurrence of symptoms and noted that there have been no cases of severe disease as part of this rebound. The agency also said that there is currently no evidence that a second round of Paxlovid is necessary for these symptoms to resolve.
However, that hasn’t stopped some physicians from prescribing patients a second round of Paxlovid out of an abundance of caution. Anthony Fauci, the White House chief medical adviser, received two courses of the antiviral after experiencing a similar rebound of symptoms.
The new Ferrari 296 GT3, the customer car that will replace the 488 GT3 Evo in 2023, has fully removable front and rear parts to facilitate maintenance. This was revealed by the Italian manufacturer during the presentation of the car before the Spa 24 Hours of GT World Challenge Europe.
The front and rear body sections can be removed in one piece, while both ends of the car are built on detachable subframes for ease of maintenance.
Ferdinando Cannizzo, Head of GT Competition Car Design at Ferrari, said: “We looked at how they do things in Formula 1 and the prototypes, and we copied that. We exchanged some ideas and concepts with the F1 team. He added that there had been a lot of interaction with « all Ferrari departments »including the Scuderia, during the development of the 296 GT3.
Ferrari 296 GT3
Cannizzo explained that making the Ferrari GT3 easier to use and maintain had been one of the guiding principles in the design and development of the new car. « We thought about this from the design stage, because we wanted to simplify assembly and make running on the track much easier »did he declare.
« When you remove the front or rear body, there is only one electrical connector [à chaque extrémité], and not piles of cables everywhere. How easy the car is to run and how quickly you can change components are key to performance. The front and rear bodies can be changed very quickly, in seconds, although there are still studies to be done to find out precisely at what speed. »
The full specification of the 296 GT3 was unveiled at its reveal, which followed the release of the first photos of the car during a shakedown at Ferrari’s Fiorano test track in April.
Engine of the Ferrari 296 GT3
The engine retains the architecture and capability of the road-going 296 GTB launched in 2021, meaning it’s a three-liter twin-turbo V6 with a 120-degree V. Cannizzo revealed that Ferrari’s Attivita Sportive GT department had been involved in the road- going 296 program from the start of its development.
“We started working with them from the start analyzing the requirements for the race car”, he said, adding that this played a big role in the decision to go for the wide-angle configuration of the engine. The latter has indeed made it possible to house the turbos inside the V for better integration.
The engine was tilted two degrees front to rear in the name of aerodynamic efficiency. « Two degrees doesn’t sound like a lot, but it’s enough for the diffuser to be properly designed and sized to increase efficiency and have better ride height sensitivity at the rear. »said Cannizzo.
The wheelbase of the car has been increased by 60mm compared to the road version, as permitted by the 2022 regulations, in order to make it more accessible, especially for amateur drivers. The racing car has a different gearbox housing than the road car because it dispenses with the hybrid system, which is not permitted in GT3.
Ferrari 296 GT3
This is the first Ferrari GT3 to be designed exclusively by Attivita Sportive GT; the previous three generations of Ferraris built to GT3 rules had been developed in collaboration with Michelotto, an external tuner.
French manufacturer ORECA has taken over the assembly of Michelotto’s Ferrari GT3s for the new project.
The first 296 GT3 has covered around 8,000 km of testing and customer deliveries will begin at the end of the year, before its racing debut next January at the 24 Hours of Daytona, the first round of the 2023 IMSA championship.
No price was given for the new car, but Ferrari promised there would be no significant increase over the 488 GT3 Evo.
Ferrari policy is not to publish the prices of its race cars, but the 488 is believed to be close to $500,000 excluding taxes.
Unsealed court documents show Amber Heard walked away from a divorce payout from Johnny Depp that could have run to tens-of-millions of dollars, as the financially-challenged actress sells her beloved California home.
Documents seen by the Daily Beast show that the Aquaman star, 36, ignored guidance from her legal team not to pursue Depp for the maximum cash she was entitled to after they filed for divorce in 2016.
She could have sought half Depp’s $33 million he made filming the fourth installment of Pirates of the Caribbean, since it was made while they were married.
But Heard chose not to, and wrote them an email saying she was being ‘amazingly true to (her) word, that this is now about the money.’
A judge refused to let that evidence be admitted during Depp’s defamation lawsuit against Heard.
She was ordered to pay Depp a total of $8.3 million after being found guilty of defamation, but says she doesn’t have enough cash to do so.
Amber Heard appears to have sold a Southern California property for over a million dollars, just as unsealed documents from her trial with Johnny Depp reveal she may have left tens of millions on the table in their divorce
She may now have begun raising some of that cash by selling her Yucca Valley home in the California desert for $1.05million, a profit of about $500,000 for Heard, as per TMZ.
Heard allegedly bought the house in 2019 through an anonymous trust tied to the actress.
There is speculation about Heard’s ability to immediately cover the damages, which includes $10million in compensatory damages and $350,000 in punitive damages.
She will also receive $2million from Depp in a counter-lawsuit, leaving her with just over $8million to pay.
She may have begun raising some of that cash by selling her Yucca Valley home in the California desert for $1.05million, a profit of about $500,000
Heard allegedly bought the house in 2019 through an anonymous trust tied to the actress
There is speculation about Heard’s ability to immediately cover the damages, which includes $10million in compensatory damages and $350,000 in punitive damages. She will also receive $2million from Depp in a counter-lawsuit, leaving her with just over $8million to pay
The latter amount was reduced from $5million due to Virginia’s cap on such awards.
Newly-unsealed court documents suggest that Heard may have walked away from more than enough to pay up in their divorce.
The Daily Beast pointed out that Judge Penney Azcarate refused to allow Team Amber to submit a conversation she had with her lawyers during the divorce trial.
Attorneys for the actress were begging her to pursue what they felt were ‘tens of million of dollars’ she was entitled to through Depp’s Pirates of the Caribbean profits.
They alleged that because Depp made Pirates of the Caribbean 5 during the marriage, it was ‘community property’ and an asset Heard was entitled to half of.
Heard would not allow them to chase that money, with her lawyers saying via email that she was being ‘true to your word’ that it wasn’t about cash.
Judge Azcarate refused any reference to these emails in the scope of the defamation trial.
Perhaps the spiciest reveal from the documents is that team Depp may have attempted to submit nude photos of Heard, as well as Amber’s brief work as an exotic dancer.
Heard’s legal team argued these were ‘irrelevant personal matters’ that should not be allowed in the trial.
Heard, 36, appealed the judge’s decision in her defamation case against Johnny Depp on July 21 – two months after she was subjected to pay $10 million to her ex-husband in damages.
Newly-unsealed court documents suggest that Heard may have walked away from more than enough to pay up in their divorce
Judge Penney Azcarate refused to allow Team Amber to submit a conversation she had with her lawyers during the divorce trial. Attorneys for the actress were begging her to pursue what they felt were ‘tens of million of dollars’ she was entitled to through Depp’s Pirates of the Caribbean profits
Heard was denied a request for a mistrial a week before – arguing that one of the jurors on the case shouldn’t have been eligible to serve because his summons was intended for his father, who had the same name and lived at the same address.
In June, the Aquaman star was ordered to pay her ex-husband $10.35 million at the end of an explosive six-week trial, when a jury ruled she had defamed her ex-husband in a newspaper opinion piece published in 2018.
Depp, 59, received $15 million, including $10 million in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages.
The judge later capped the damages at the state’s maximum of $350,000 leaving Depp with a total of $8.35million.
Meanwhile, Heard won one of her three countersuits claims related to statements made by Depp’s lawyer suggesting she and her friends trashed their apartment before calling the police.
Heard was rewarded $2 million in compensatory damages out of the $100million she asked for.
Amid the news of Heard’s appeals, Depp’s representatives told DailyMail.com last week that they are confident in the verdict.
Depp and Heard filed their appeals with the Virginia Court of Appeals
‘The jury listened to the extensive evidence presented during the trial and came to a clear and unanimous verdict that the defendant herself defamed Mr. Depp in multiple instances. We remain confident in our case and that this verdict will stand,’ a spokesperson for Depp said.
A day after Heard’s team filed an appeal, Depp’s team filed one following him being ordered to pay $2 million in damages after he was convicted of a single count of defamation for saying the domestic abuse claims against him were false.
The Pirates of the Caribbean actor’s team said they filed an appeal to ensure ‘all information is considered by the court’ while they return to consider Heard’s appeal.
Johnny Depp and Amber Heard Defamation Trial Timeline
In March 2019, Johnny Depp sued his ex-wife, Amber Heard, for $50million after she wrote an opinion piece for The Washington Post in 2018 saying she was abused by the Pirates of the Caribbean star. However, she never explicitly named Depp in the piece but wrote that she is ‘a public figure representing domestic abuse.’
In February 2020, audio recordings obtained by DailyMail.com, reveals heard admitting to hitting Depp. ‘I f**king was hitting you… I don’t know what the motion of my hand was, but you’re fine, I did not hurt you, I did not punch you, I was hitting you,’ Heard said.
In January 2021, Heard countersued her ex-husband for $100million
On April 11, 2022, the six-week trial kicked off in Virginia to discuss the abuse allegations made throughout the couples relationship. The pair married in 2015 but divorced in 2017.
On April 20, 2022, Heard admitted to getting violent with Depp as audio recording of the actress were played
On May 4, 2022, Heard took the stand to recall romance with Depp before he allegedly abused her. The actress said the abuse dated back to 2013 when Depp allegedly sexually assaulted her.
On May 25, 2022, Depp testified again and claimed Heard’s allegations were false. He claimed he never abused his ex-wife
On June 1, 2022, the judge ruled in Depp won the defamation case against Heard subjecting her to pay The Pirates of the Caribbean star $10.3 million. The jury awarded Heard $2 million after Depp’s attorney said Heard and her friends de ella trashed her apartment before calling police.
On July 21, 2022, Heard appealed the judge’s decision in her defamation case against Depp – two months after she was subjected to pay $10million to her ex-husband in damages.
On July 22, 2022, Depp filed an appeal against his conviction for defaming Heard after calling the domestic abuse claims against him a ‘hoax’ – subjecting him to pay his ex-wife $2 million
GWS caretaker coach Mark McVeigh made headlines over the weekend, calling out, by omission, the players who have checked out of the season.
The Giants were belted by crosstown rivals Sydney on Saturday afternoon 112-39. In his post-match press conference, McVeigh named eight players who he believes showed they’re still invested.
“There’s just the unfortunate part of dealing with whether players have checked out or not,” he said.
“That’s as honest as you possibly can be.
“There were probably eight players that really went to the wall today – Kelly, Whitfield, Perryman, Taylor, Ward, Hogan, Greene and Kennedy.
“I thought those eight players fought right through to the end and gave absolutely everything. Eight players doing that is not enough.”
The Giants have a number of players linked with an exit at season’s end, including Tim Taranto, Jacob Hopper, Bobby Hill, Tom Green and Tanner Bruhn.
Garry Lyon believes rival clubs should double down on their attempts to lure these players out, based on McVeigh’s post-game comments.
“Naming them and by omission that becomes … if I’m Tim Taranto or Jacob Hopper or Tom Green, (those comments) are an indictment on me,” Lyon told SEN Breakfast.
“Rarely does it come out publicly where (the coach) lumps you into that list and then not only that, about checking out of the year with three games still to plays.
“It is as damning an assessment, again, by omission, and I’m talking about when you name names, listening to that, Spike was considered enough and he would’ve known ‘when I go down this path and say there’s players checked out then I am acutely aware that this is putting the crosshairs on Taranto, Hopper, Green’.
“How do they come up for this week, those players?
“(Those comments are) an indictment on you as a person and a footballer.
“In the ruthless industry that we’re in, those comments for me also give Richmond, just for example, if you were interested in Tom Green before the weekend and those comments, then now you are going as hard as you possibly could – or Taranto or Hopper for that matter.
“Whoever the teams are that are interested in them, you’re going ‘righto, this is where they see you, and here’s your opportunity’.”
Former Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley believes the unfolding situation at the Giants, following the sacking of coach Leon Cameron, has not put the players in the best environment to succeed.
“Firstly, I admire… that is a courageous thing to put out there by Mark McVeigh,” Buckley said.
“Whether it’s good for the club, I think it’s good for everyone in terms of the playing group, the club in general, the coaching staff, to actually be able to have real conversations about where they’re at.
“If their performance hasn’t been up to standard, well then it’s the coach’s responsibility to call that out.
“I reckon Mark McVeigh said what everyone knows anyway. That is, if you don’t have coach for next year, if there’s not a purpose beyond this next two or three games, what are (they) actually doing?
“The fact that it’s a game against Sydney is why he’s probably so wound up. It’s professional integrity, but you still need to be a part of something bigger than yourself. They are part of an organization that, at the moment, is in limbo.
“They don’t know who their coach is next year, they haven’t really given the players a lot of clarity, the coach’s job and the footy department’s job is to set their players up to succeed.
“My question would be, and I’m not letting the players off for poor effort, but the club’s job is to set players up to succeed and I don’t think the GWS environment, given they don’t know who their coach will be, or how their footy department is going to be setup, I don’t reckon they give their players the best chance to succeed right here right now.”
The Giants host Essendon on Saturday afternoon, before closing the season with the Western Bulldogs and Fremantle.
At this time of year, fig trees have no leaves and are nothing more than a rise of branches sprouting from the ground. But it’s the ideal time for propagation and that gets Victorian, Yasmin Sadler excited.
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Yasmin Sadler has been scouring Melbourne for heritage fig trees
The Gippsland woman has just embarked on an interstate expedition to find even more heritage fig trees
She relies on social media and word-of-mouth to help track down old fig trees
It’s not just any fig tree that the Orbost resident is looking for — she’s trying to find the heritage fig trees that were introduced to Australia by migrants.
“They brought their best with them and they are still in our landscape, so my passion is to preserve them, to hear their stories and see them being grown again,” Ms Sadler said.
The self-confessed “fig hunter” started looking for heritage fig trees in Melbourne where she found 100 and was able to produce about 300 plants from cuttings.
After a cutting is taken it can be up to three years before the fig species is identified.(Rural ABC: Jessica Schremmer)
“Out of all the trees I visited, they were all different,” she said.
“We thought there’d be black Genoas or other common figs, but we haven’t found any of those at all.”
The 300 figs that Ms Sadler has propagated have been shared with others.
“My fig tribe has moved on up into the hills of Gippsland to become firebreaks. Also in Orbost, there’s a gentleman who started a fig farm based on my plants,” she said.
When Yasmin Sadler finds a heritage fig tree she takes cuttings to propagate.(Rural ABC: Kellie Hollingworth)
fig fossicking interstate
Ms Sadler is embarking on an interstate expedition to find even more heritage fig trees.
She has been planning to head from Victoria to Marree in South Australia in search of fig trees that were planted by the cameleers, which may include traveling on the Oodnadatta Track.
She may also follow up on tip-offs that there are heritage trees in Alice Springs, Ceduna, Adelaide, and the Grampians.
“As soon as we collect cuttings, I will prepare them for travel and head straight to the nearest post office,” Ms Sadler said.
“They will be sent out to fig growers in different parts of Australia where they will grow them too and help to try to identify them.”
Mick Harding shows Yasmin Sadler a fig tree propagated from a tree planted in the 1870s.(Rural ABC: Kellie Hollingworth)
First stop Euston
In Euston, New South Wales, Ms Sadler caught up with Mick Harding at a fig tree on the Murray River.
Mr Harding, aged in his 90s, said it was grown from a cutting taken from a heritage tree in nearby Cole Street, that was planted in the 1870s.
Walking with wild macadamias
“It came up on a paddle steamer,” he said.
“I reckon it would have come from Renmark or somewhere in SA, Goolwa.”
Mr Harding said the Cole Street property had belonged to his late wife’s grandparents and the fig tree was propagated many times and then given to people around the district.
“It’s lovely eaten fresh, dries lovely and it’s a big fig,” he said.
Ms Sadler said the stop in Euston was worthwhile and uncovered exactly the type of fig information she had been looking for.
“‘An 1800s fig tree that has been propagated and passed on by people who love the fig and, by loving it, it has survived,” she said.
“Now we can find the identity of it, whatever it is. It has been loved and can be part of our Australian heritage.”
A University of West Georgia professor fatally shot one of his own school’s students in a parking lot in the early hours of Saturday, Carrollton Police said.
Richard Sigman, 47, is now facing a murder charge over the death of 18-year-old Anna Jones.
According to police in Carrollton, a college town located about 50 miles west of Atlanta, Sigman threatened to whip out his gun during a verbal fight with another man in the parking lot of a pizza joint at 12:30 am Saturday.
The man alerted a security guard and when the guard saw that Sigman was indeed armed, police say they asked him to leave. But Sigman walked away and began to shoot into a vehicle parked in the lot near Adamson Square, a busy nighttime district in downtown Carrollton.
One of the bullets hit Jones, though it’s unclear if she was the intended target or if she knew Sigman. Her friends of her drove her to a hospital where she was pronounced dead, police said.
In a GoFundMe organized to cover funeral expenses, Jones was described as “a beautiful, sweet soul” whose “smile would light up a room.”
“This was a devastating and senseless crime that left a lot of hearts broken, a community mourning, and a family grieving,” the fundraiser said.
Relatives and friends also took to social media to express their grief and shock, with one friend writing that “to know Anna was to love Anna.” Stephanie Hodges, one of Jones’ former teachers, wrote that the 18-year-old freshman was planning on becoming a teacher herself, having had a natural knack for working with children.
Another friend, Emma Phillips, described Jones as “endlessly kind, selfless, extremely loving, hilarious, and overall the life of every party. She was simply full of life and love. She had such a love for her family, friends, and her home de ella mount zion. ”
“I remember multiple times her buying me clothes, dinner, and even paying for me to get my nails done because I had no money and she wanted me to feel included,” Phillips wrote. “That’s exactly how she was… Anything I needed, she was there to give it. I wish I could be half as selfless as she was.”
A relative told The Daily Beast on Sunday afternoon that the family is not yet ready to speak publicly about Jones’ death.
Zoie Whitestone, who was one of Sigman’s students last semester, told The Daily Beast Sigman taught upperclassmen management courses.
“Many of us had him a few months ago and never would’ve suspected this,” she said.
The University has since fired Sigman.“On behalf of the university, we wish to convey our deepest condolences to Anna’s family and many friends,” UWG President Dr. Brendan Kelly said in the statement. “We know this news is difficult to process and affects many members of our university community. We ask that you keep Anna’s family, friends, and all who have been touched by this tragedy in your thoughts during this tremendously difficult time.”
BenQ has just announced the EX240N, a budget gaming monitor that boasts a range of premium features including a 165Hz refresh rate and 1ms MPRT response time.
Sporting a 23.8-inch MOBIUZ VA panel, the EX240N is capable of 250nits of peak brightness, a 3,000:1 contrast ratio and 72% coverage of the NTSC color gamut. Response times sit at 4ms (GtG) and 1ms (MPRT), ensuring a supremely responsive gaming experience, perfectly tailored for the competitive scene. This is further bolstered by AMD FreeSync, Motion Blur Reduction and FPS mode.
The EX240N runs at 1080p (1920×1080) which may seem underwhelming compared to more expensive 1440p and 4K models, it’s a rather appropriate decision for a budget monitor. Those investing in a budget gaming monitor are much more likely to be using it with a more budget setup overall, meaning hitting the frame rate needed to match the 165Hz refresh rate is going to be difficult at higher resolutions. Pixel density is also set to remain fairly high thanks to the smaller 23.8-inch display.
Alongside the small but powerful MOBIUZ VA panel, BenQ has fitted the EX240N with a pair of 2.5W speakers, which play a large part in the cited 40W power consumption. To reduce consumption, there is also a 3.5mm headphone jack.
Ports include singular DisplayPort1.2 and HDMI 2.0 connections. PC users will only be able to hit max refresh rates using the DisplayPort, while current gen consoles will be able to use both to achieve 120Hz refresh rate.
According to BenQ, the EX240N will retail for $199.99 USD ($286.65 AUD), making it an absolute steal. For $239.99 USD ($343.98 AUD), users can stretch towards the EX240, which gets an extra HDMI 2.0 port, 15-degree swivel left and right and swaps out the VA panel for an IPS panel.
From the top of Arnhem Land, where musicians take inspiration from his timeless words, to the streets of Melbourne’s Fitzroy, where fans leave floral tributes on the steps of Charcoal Lane, there seems no place in the country that has not been touched by Archie Roach .
His sons, Amos and Eban, said Archie died surrounded by his family and loved ones at Warrnambool Base Hospital in Victoria.
Archie’s family has given permission for his name, image and music to be used.
However, the love felt for Archie extends far beyond that hospital ward, far beyond state lines and color lines to every corner of the land we call Australia.
Archie leaves behind a legacy of tireless work towards reconciliation and a new generation inspired to carry on his message of healing into the future.
As Australia comes to terms with the loss of one of it’s greatest storytellers, those who were touched by Archie are opening up on what he meant to them.
Tributes were laid outside the Charcoal Lane Aboriginal social enterprise in Melbourne, which shares its name with the singer’s first album.(ABC News: Barrie Pullen)
‘He kept struggling, he kept fighting, he kept believing’
Goanna frontman Shane Howard, a longtime friend of both Archie and his wife, Ruby Hunter, was emotional at the death of a man he considered a brother.
It’s very raw. It’s very real. It’s a lot to lose, but I think Ruby might be calling him home,” Howard said.
The pair toured Australia, the United Kingdom and Ireland together with the Black Arm Band and saw each other just days before Archie’s death.
Archie Roach and Shane Howard toured the world together as part of the Black Arm Band musical theater group.(Facebook: Shane Howard—Goanna)
Remembering his friend as a “deeply cultural being”, Howard says Australians mourning Archie’s passing should continue the reconciliatory work the Gunditjmara (Kirrae Whurrong/Djab Wurrung) singer strove towards for much of his life.
“His ability to keep forgiveness at the front — after all that had happened to him and all that has happened to First Nations people here in this country — his capacity to keep believing that we could reconcile this nation, that we could become a just and fair nation,” he said.
It comes as discussion swirls around the enshrining of an Indigenous Voice to Parliament in the Constitution, an issue Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has pledged to settle as soon as possible.
“Archie’s passing reminds us that we must redouble efforts, and the greatest way we can honor him is to honor those things,” Howard said.
“There is still so much wrong and Archie knew that, but he kept struggling, he kept fighting, he kept believing.”
‘He took the words we could not speak’
Beyond his legacy as one of Australia’s most-acclaimed songwriters, Archie’s passing carries a special meaning for the Stolen Generations.
Born in Mooroopna, in Victoria, Archie was just three years old when he was forcibly removed from his family.
Yorta Yorta man and Stolen Generations survivor Ian Hamm said he was shaken after hearing the news of Archie’s death.
“When I heard, it was just like a gray shadow fell across me,” Mr Hamm said.
“Archie was a special person in his ability to convey stories and songs and bring to life what it means to be just an ordinary Aboriginal person.”
For Mr Hamm, Archie’s music provided an outlet for unspeakable pain and a way to make sense of his own traumatic experiences.
“He took the words that we could not speak and he turned them into song so that our voices could be heard,” he said.
“When we were unable to articulate what it meant at a really human level, the song ‘They Took The Children Away’, it just said it all for us.”
Mr Hamm said Archie’s strength and courage in sharing his own story was crucial in establishing initiatives such as the Stolen Generations Redress scheme.
“I don’t think we’ll see his like again and I can only hope that we will never forget that we were lucky enough to be graced by his presence,” he said.
Daniel James says he had the deep privilege of interviewing Archie Roach on numerous occasions.(ABC News: Simon Winter)
Writer and broadcaster Daniel James interviewed Archie numerous times and described the singer as a “powerful but humble presence.”
“He was someone [who] wasn’t a voice of his generation, he was a voice for generations,” James said.
James said Archie was integral in starting a conversation around truth-telling in Australia.
“This sounds counterintuitive, but there was nothing performative about his music,” he said.
“He was someone [who] was singing into a void before there was an audience ready to hear what he had to say.
“And then, eventually, that void was filled with an audience and then, eventually, that audience was filled with love. Love for him, love for his music.”
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‘We want to do it the same way our Uncle Archie did’
For Aboriginal musicians such as Victor Rostron, Archie’s storytelling served as an inspiration.
“We’re here in Garma because we’ve seen our elders telling stories, singing songs, from their hearts,” he said.
“His music tells us a story from his heart.”
Based in Maningrida in north-east Arnhem Land, Rostron plays in the Indigenous rock band Wildfire Munwurrk and wants to emulate the strength of Archie’s music.
“He was our mentor, and we want to do it the same way our Uncle Archie did, really strong and powerful,” he said.
Victor Rostron says Archie is an inspiration to Indigenous musicians from all around the country.(ABC News: Gary-Jon Lysaght)
Rostron said Archie’s breakout song, ‘Took the Children Away’, brought with it an important message not just for people in Australia, but also for those around the world.
“Me and my boys, we’re going to miss him,” he said.
“His music really means something, and we don’t want his music stopped, we want his music to be a memory for him and stay there forever.”
‘A song can be a medicine to heal’
For opera singer Deborah Cheetham, the loss of Archie represents the loss of a pillar of the Australian community.
“Today our world has changed forever. Our work becomes so much more difficult because Uncle Archie was holding up so much of our nation’s spirit,” Cheetham said.
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Opera singer Deborah Cheetham says Archie Roach united people through song.
Cheetham said Archie’s deep connection to music allowed his message to break through racial barriers and unite the country.
“His understanding, deep within his DNA, that a song is so much more than just a song,” she said.
“A song can be a medicine to heal the many wounds that have been inflicted on not only Indigenous people in this country but [also] on every Australian.
“It’s often said that we stand on the shoulders of giants,” Cheetham said.
“The whole of Australia can say that it stood on the shoulder of a giant in Uncle Archie.”
St Kilda’s Rowan Marshall admits there were some “stern conversations” at the club after recent defeats.
The Saints were beaten by Fremantle by 41 points in Round 17 and the Western Bulldogs by 28 points in Round 18, a pair of results that threatened to derail their season after an 8-3 start.
However, they have wrestled back the ascendancy with back-to-back wins over West Coast and Hawthorn to sit in the eight with three fixtures remaining.
Saints coach Brett Ratten spoke about having a glass half-full mindset over the constant glass half-empty narrative that has been plaguing the club in recent times.
“Probably everyone that speaks abuts speaks about half-empty,” he said at the post-match press conference.
“Every time we speak to somebody we’re not going so well, we don’t do this, we don’t do that.
“We won the game of footy.
“We didn’t play the game for four quarters how we wanted to, but we took four points.
“Everyone can keep looking at how negative the Saints are and what the Saints are doing, we won a game of footy. It would be nice if people say well done for a change.”
In response to those words, Ruckman Marshall, who starred in Saturday’s win over the Hawks, admitted that talks have occurred within the group that have helped them turn around their form after threatening to fall out of the finals race.
“We had a pretty strong review of the game after the Western Bulldogs where we were really disappointing,” he said on SEN Breakfast.
“We reviewed that game pretty heavily and found out that we just weren’t challenging each other enough on-field and off-field as well.
“We’ve had some pretty stern conversations over the last two or three weeks and I think that has been pretty positive.
“The last couple of weeks the footy has been pretty good on the back of that.”
Part of the 12-point win over the Hawks was to do with the performance of midfielder Dan Hannebery.
The injury-troubled former Swan has struggled for game time in recent seasons but contributed greatly with 27 disposals, five clearances and a goal in his first senior appearance of 2022.
Marshall praised the 31-year-old for his output and his leadership.
“He’s a superstar, ‘Hanners’,” Marshall added.
“He’s not only a good player, but a lot of people don’t realize how good he is with his communication and leadership inside the four walls of the footy club.
“I’ve never played with a better communicator before and you almost walk taller when you’re out there playing with him because you just know he’s got your back.
“He’s got the best intentions for the team. It was awesome to see him back out there.”
It was Hannebery’s 16th appearance for the Saints in four years.
The Saints will now look to maintain their position in the eighth when they take on ladder leader and current premiership favorite Geelong at GMHBA Stadium on Saturday night.
Peak-hour traffic has been hit across the metropolitan area by several incidents as heavy rain causes widespread delays.
Motorists northbound on Kwinana Freeway need to be extra careful on the approach to South Terrace in Como with the left lane blocked after an accident.
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Main Roads have warned of slow traffic in the area.
There have also been a number of breakdowns across the metropolitan area, with the right lane blocked on Tonkin Highway northbound after Roe Highway in Kewdale.
Traffic is slow on approach, with visibility in the wet also hampered.
Traffic is also slow on Tonkin Highway southbound prior to Morley Drive in Morley after a breakdown.
Tow trucks are dealing with the issue in the left emergency lane.
There has been a truck breakdown on the Kwinana Freeway in South Perth.
Emergency services have closed the left lane prior to Mill Point Road.
And Main Roads have warned holidaymakers heading to Perth Airport to allow extra travel time with roadworks closing Tonkin Highway from Great Eastern Highway to Dunreath Drive for bridge removal and construction.
The works started at 4am on Monday, with motorists told to seek alternative routes.
Thick smoke is also making driving difficult on Mitchell Freeway between Neerabup Road and Hester Avenue.
With reduced visibility in the area, motorists have been told to switch on their headlights and take extreme caution.
The latest incidents come after a crash on Kwinana Freeway in Baldivis prior to Karnup Road caused delays on Sunday night.
With wet weather to continue throughout Monday and into Tuesday, motorists across Perth have been warned to stay vigilant, switch on headlights and ensure a safe braking distance to the vehicle in front.
