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Aussie gamer girl Madeline Watson beats men at Call of Duty

Young Australian gamer Madeline Watson (pictured) has more than 559,000 TikTok followers and has shared how men react when they realize she's a female gamer

A young Australian gamer who has more than half a million TikTok followers has revealed how men react when they realize they’ve been defeated by a woman in Call Of Duty.

Madeline Watson, from Adelaide, who’s known as ‘JustMaddyx’ online, has been a full-time Twitch streamer since 2020 and in her first year made nearly $70,000.

The 24-year-old said most people don’t expect women to be gamers in the male-dominated industry – but she doesn’t take any vile comments from men personally.

‘I have a thick skin and find it funny most of the time, but sometimes I bite back,’ she told FEMAIL.

The young streamer said she’s both a nerdy and girly because she enjoys wearing nice clothes, going to the hair salon, getting her nails done – and gaming.

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Young Australian gamer Madeline Watson (pictured) has more than 559,000 TikTok followers and has shared how men react when they realize she's a female gamer

Young Australian gamer Madeline Watson (pictured) has more than 559,000 TikTok followers and has shared how men react when they realize she’s a female gamer

In an industry that's prominently male dominated, Maddy, 24, told FEMAIL others don't expect women to be gamers, but doesn't take any negative comments from men personally

In an industry that’s prominently male dominated, Maddy, 24, told FEMAIL others don’t expect women to be gamers, but doesn’t take any negative comments from men personally

Maddy exposed some of the comments she’s received from players of the opposite sex while sharing videos to her 559,000 TikTok followers.

‘The typical comment is “go back to the kitchen” because people think this [gaming] it’s just a man’s thing to do,’ Maddy said.

After hearing the ‘kitchen joke’ one too many times, Maddy snapped at one male gamer.

‘If people are going to throw the kitchen joke out there, shouldn’t you by mowing the lawn? It’s overgrown – just like your p**es,’ she said in a viral video.

Maddy said she ‘doesn’t really care’ what other say to her and it doesn’t impact her.

‘A lot of people are supportive, but some can be rude and likely would never say anything in person.

‘Their reactions are always good and makes for funny content.’

Another male gamer recently lost it when he realized he was losing a game of Call Of Duty to a woman.

‘You’re not f***ing good Maddy. You’re just a girl and I hope you f***ing…,’ the furious male gamer said, before Maddy interjected.

‘Wow, that’s pretty toxic bro. You sound kind of mad.’

‘Make me a sandwich you b****,’ the man smoked.

Maddy replied: ‘You wish bro, you f***ing wish.’

'The typical comment is "go back to the kitchen" because people think this [gaming] is just a man's thing to do,' Maddy said, adding that she 'doesn't really care' what other say to her and it doesn't mentally impact her

‘The typical comment is ‘go back to the kitchen’ because people think this [gaming] is just a man’s thing to do,’ Maddy said, adding that she ‘doesn’t really care’ what other say to her and it doesn’t mentally impact her

Maddy grew up playing games with her brothers – including Pokémon, Animal Crossing, Game Boy and Mario Kart – and is also a competitive person.

During her childhood Maddy used to play with action figures – not Barbie dolls – and describes herself as a ‘tomboy’.

For the young Twitch streamer, video games are help her escape from reality and has help her cope mentally.

Today Maddy mainly plays multi-player PC games – her favorite being Call of Duty – but also dabbles into Apex, The Sims and Tarkov.

She prefers playing PC games due to the high quality for the video content.

'I've always enjoyed gaming for as long as I can remember and started out playing Game Boy,' Maddy said. Being a full-time online streamer isn't all fun and games - it requires hours if work seated at the desk

‘I’ve always enjoyed gaming for as long as I can remember and started out playing Game Boy,’ Maddy said. Being a full-time online streamer isn’t all fun and games – it requires hours if work seated at the desk

Being a full-time online streamer isn’t all fun and games – it requires hours if work seated at the desk.

Maddy streams for a minimum of four hours and can continue for up to 12 hours at a time. On one occasion she was up until 6am.

‘The most difficult part of this career is not having a stable sleep schedule, which can take a mental toll and be exhausting sometimes,’ she said.

A home gaming setup can quickly add up to hundreds if not thousands of dollars in equipment.

'The most difficult part of this career is not having a stable sleep schedule, which can take a mental toll and be exhausting sometimes,' she said

‘The most difficult part of this career is not having a stable sleep schedule, which can take a mental toll and be exhausting sometimes,’ she said

Majority of her friends know about her online success and she's been able to meet new gaming friends from around the world

Majority of her friends know about her online success and she’s been able to meet new gaming friends from around the world

Prior to gaming full-time, Maddy used to work at Telstra and enrolled in a beauty course which Covid ‘ruined’.

‘I had to practice on other people but couldn’t because of Covid so I chose not to continue,’ she said.

Today Maddy lives out of home and is able to fully support herself from her gaming income.

The majority of her mates know about her success and she’s been able to meet new gaming friends from around the world.

What does Maddy do as a video game streamer?

Maddy starts her day with a morning coffee and feeds her two pets

She then does her content work by responds to messages, emails and plans the content she’s going to make that day

Next, she’ll do her makeup and record or edit any videos as needed for TikTok and YouTube

The videos are then uploaded

Her Twitch streaming videos often start in the afternoon or night for a minimum of four hours

When asked how others can get into gaming and Twitch streaming, Maddy recommends simply ‘giving it a crack’ and making sure you have a decent setup.

‘There’s no reason why you wouldn’t be able to do it. if you don’t give it a go, you’ll never know,’ she said.

But she warned to be prepared to spend money on a decent step up and don’t quit your job until you’re making decent money.

Watch Maddy beat others when gaming by visiting her YouTube channel here.

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Former Adelaide Crow Bryce Gibbs speaks out about infamous training camp after Eddie Betts book release

Bryce Gibbs celebrates a goal for Adelaide

Former Adelaide Crows footballer Bryce Gibbs has admitted a controversial pre-season training camp fractured the playing group and says he regrets not speaking up about it.

Gibbs is the latest player to speak publicly about the camp, echoing concerns about the Gold Coast trip raised by former teammates Eddie Betts and Josh Jenkins.

Betts wrote in his book, released this week, how personal details he confidentially shared with a counselor were used to verbally abuse him in front of teammates, in an experience he found “traumatizing.”

In another example, Betts details how First Nations rituals were misappropriated, which he found “extremely disrespectful”.

Gibbs said incidents shared by Betts and Jenkins about the camp should not have happened.

“When I reflect, this is where I feel really disappointed in myself, this is when I started to take a back seat, watching guys stand up and say ‘this is not on, we need to address this, we need to tell people what happened’, they seemed to get shut down pretty quickly,” Gibbs told radio station SEN SA.

Gibbs was traded from Carlton at the end of 2017 and joined Adelaide weeks before the players went on the camp, where he was included in the more intensive “group one” version of the camp alongside nine other players and two coaches.

The retired AFL player said he was disappointed he did not support teammates who experienced a more difficult time during the camp than he did.

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Eddie Betts’ biography, The Boy from Boomerang Crescent, includes claims about his traumatic experience during the training camp.(ABC News: Ben Pettit)

“Reflecting on those ongoing conversations when we were trying to flush it out, I do regret not speaking up when I probably should’ve been a more experienced and senior player of that group,” he said.

“It did fracture the playing group, it fractured relationships in the football department, players lost trust with members in that football department.”

In a statement made in 2021, the Crows said a SafeWork SA investigation “found neither the club nor any other person or organisation, breached any work-health-and-safety laws during or in relation to the camp.”

“We tried to move on where that was obviously the wrong thing to do and that’s probably why we’re speaking about it four years on,” Gibbs said.

“If it was handled correctly and people had taken responsibility, put their hand up and knocked it on the head a lot earlier when it happened, it still would’ve been hard as people still went through what they went through – and people will still carry some emotional scars from it — but at least it would’ve been dealt with in the proper manner then and there.”

‘It shouldn’t have happened’

Gibbs said he took a call from a counselor before the camp to discuss his childhood and past experiences, which he thought was “a bit of a red flag.” He said he was “pretty calculated” in what he disclosed.

He said by not divulging too much to the counsellor, his experience of the camp was different from what Betts and Jenkins spoke about this week.

“Reflecting on it all, it just shouldn’t have happened. It was easier for me to move on as I didn’t have that level of experience and trauma put to me, I found it easier to suppress it and squash it and just try and move on personally which I was able to do, which made it easier for me,” Gibbs said.

“That’s my experience of the camp, obviously very different to a lot of people.”

Eddie Betts jumps onto Josh Jenkins as the crowd cheers a goal in the background.
Eddie Betts and Josh Jenkins (right) have both spoken publicly about the 2018 pre-season training camp.(AAP: Tracey Nearmy)

Jenkins recalled an exercise involving players being hoisted up in harnesses while having abuse hurled at them by facilitators and teammates, including “some of the barbs” being thrown at Betts.

Gibbs said he was told not to reveal details of the camp to players in the other groups of the camp.

“Getting spoken to and getting educated on what to say to family, friends and the other guys in the other groups, we were told not to go into detail about what happened and for whatever reason most of us stuck to that at the time,” he said.

‘Strange rules’ during camp

Gibbs said he experienced “unusual things” and “plenty of red flags” during the infamous training trip but convinced himself to keep an open mind and that the camp would help build stronger relationships with his teammates.

The 268-game veteran shared that on the trip to the campsite, Crows players were blindfolded and were not allowed to talk on the bus, which had blacked-out windows.

They played heavy metal music on the bus and talked about the 2017 Grand Final, in which Adelaide were heavily defeated by Richmond, and Gibbs’ departure from Carlton.

Gibbs said “strange rules” were enforced during the camp, including players being required to walk in a straight line and not being allowed to use their mobile phones or shower.

A football player crouches with a yellow ball while surrounded by other players
Bryce Gibbs plays for South Adelaide in SANFL since retiring from AFL in 2020.(Supplied: Nick Hook via South Adelaide FC)

He said some of the rules imposed were “hard to justify” and players were doubting the benefits of the training.

“I felt like we were in a bit of a state of mind, this whole experience was happening around us and a couple of guys spoke up about their concerns, it was sort of negotiated that we would continue on with what we were doing,” Gibbs said.

“I think Eddie used “brainwashed”, as he described it, but in the state of mind and in the moment we just continued doing what they’d set out to do.

“It probably wasn’t until later on when reflecting on it that it was probably an opportunity to speak up a bit more.”

The AFL and the Adelaide Football Club have both apologized to Betts for the trauma caused by the camp.

Prominent Adelaide lawyer Greg Griffin said he had spoken to at least seven players who were on the 2018 Crows’ list about a potential class action.

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Business

Property: Cities where you can still snap up a bargain on housing in Australia revealed

Property: Cities where you can still snap up a bargain on housing in Australia revealed

Rising interest rates might be putting off some people from purchasing a property amid fears they cannot afford the mortgage stress.

But whether you are looking for a house to make your home, or an investment property, there are still some bargains to be found across Australia.

Real Estate Institute of Australia president Hayden Groves told NCA NewsWire markets like Sydney, spurred on by low interest rates and economic stimulus, had experienced rapid price gains of about 30 per cent in 2021, peaking earlier this year.

“Other east coast markets have performed similarly well and are now beginning to moderate as affordability constraints impact,” he said.

“In contrast, the markets of Perth and Darwin, since early 2020, have underperformed comparative to east coast cities.

“They are now enviable, more affordable and continue to grow thanks to migration-led demand, strong economies and tight housing supply.”

Mr Groves observed that in the hyper-inflated markets of Sydney and Hobart, prices were beginning to rationalize due to buyer uncertainty.

“Brisbane’s market remains buoyant thanks to migration pressures fueling demand, whereas Adelaide continues to perform well thanks to the flow-down effects from relocations from higher priced regions across Melbourne,” he said.

“Price rises have already reversed in Melbourne, Sydney and Hobart, while Perth and Adelaide remain strong off the back of more constrained growth.”

Mr Groves said Perth remained the most affordable capital in Australia.

“Average mortgage holders part with around 24 per cent of their wages to service their loans,” he said.

“Compared this to Sydney-siders who currently give up on average 46 per cent of their salary to meet their mortgage payments.

“Median house prices in Perth are about $550,000, less than half that of Sydney’s median prices and well below Hobart, Brisbane and Adelaide.”

Darwin and some major regional city areas in eastern Victoria, north Adelaide and northeast Tasmania also offered good value, Mr Groves added.

He noted interest rates remained low and were coming up from “emergency” levels.

“It is good news that Australian property markets head back to a more balanced environment, although as housing supply remains below underlying demand, property values ​​are likely to retain much of their gains experienced since early 2020,” he said.

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Candice Warner drops brutal Kyle Chalmers truth

Kyle Chalmers has been the talk of the Commonwealth Games.

The swimming is officially over at the Commonwealth Games and while Australia dominated with a towering medal tally, there was plenty of attention on the Dolphins over what was happening outside the pool.

Kyle Chalmers slammed the media for delving into a reported “love triangle” between himself, Emma McKeon and Cody Simpson, saying all the attention and “clickbait” focused on his personal life might drive him out of the sport.

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Chalmers was romantically involved with McKeon before she started dating Simpson, whose incredible comeback to swimming from his music career has been one of the biggest storylines in Birmingham.

The swimmers involved have repeatedly denied there’s any bad blood between them, while Chalmers went on the offensive and ripped into the media. His father Brett did the same, blasting the national obsession with Simpson as he complained not enough credit was being directed to other swimmers and their achievements in Birmingham.

Kyle Chalmers’ outstanding results were overshadowed by his angst with the media. Picture: Glyn KIRK / AFPSource: AFP

Candice drops truth bombs on Kyle

Ex-Aussie swimmer turned popular TV presenter Johanna Griggs said earlier in the week Chalmers was “feeding” the media frenzy by constantly engaging with it, and former Ironwoman Candice Warner is on the same page.

Warner said she was “really surprised” by how Chalmers handled the headlines, saying she expected someone who dealt with the attention thrust upon him in 2016 when he won gold in the 100m freestyle at the Rio Olympics to be better prepared for the media barrage.

“He knows how to deal with the pressure. Why is he allowing the media to make these comments?” Warner told Fox Sports program The Back Page this week.

“Why hasn’t he put a self-imposed media ban (on himself) until the Games are over? I’m just really a little bit confused by the situation and why he’s engaging with the media.

“He’s not in the wrong, but he also has the power and ability to stop it and also just to focus on his swim events.

“Should I know how to deal with this pressure? Should I know how to deal with this completely?”

Reports of possible friction between Chalmers and Simpson first emerged at this year’s national championships in Adelaide, leading Warner to question why the 24-year-old wasn’t more prepared for the questions he’d face in Birmingham.

“Would there not have been a strategy put into place before these Games? We haven’t just started talking about this now, we’ve been speaking about this love triangle before the Commonwealth Games,” Warner said.

She adding Chalmers’ team and Swimming Australia should have “put some sort of strategy into place knowing this could have been a possibility”.

Warner also said Chalmers — who she described as an “alpha male” — would understandably be affected by McKeon’s relationship with Simpson given their history, suggesting “his ego would be burnt a little bit”.

Candice Warner believes Chalmers needed to come into the Commonwealth Games with a smarter strategy. Picture: Michael Errey/AFPSource: AFP

‘He likes the attention but not the scrutiny’

Chalmers has been irked by attention being lavished on Simpson and his personal life at the expense of other swimmers whose feats also deserve praise. Courier Mail chief sports writer Robert Craddock suggested Chalmers craves positive headlines about himself but can’t handle it when coverage isn’t so rosy.

“It appears to me as if he likes the attention but not the scrutiny — and there is just a fine line between them and they often overlap,” Craddock told The Back Page.

“I think he’s one of those guys who can’t live with it and can’t live without it and finds it very awkward.

“He’s on Instagram, he’s out there, he’s happy to put himself front and center but like a lot of swimmers, when it’s big time, when it’s Games time, the force of the coverage hits them hard.”

Australian swimming legend Susie O’Neill had a different take on how the situation has affected the national team in Birmingham.

O’Neill — who was in Tokyo for last year’s Olympics — was adamant there is no rift among the Dolphins and said it’s harder for athletes these days to block out negative publicity because of social media and the insatiable news cycle.

“I think what they’re struggling with is, if you think about swimmers, they spend 30-40 hours a week trying to improve one one-hundredth of a second — such specific, objective goals,” she told The Back Page.

“So when they get asked subjective questions not even to do with their sport, you know, reality TV stuff, they’re confused and I think get offended by that.”

The sprint king wanted to silence his critics. Picture: Clive Brunskill/Getty ImagesSource: Getty Images

Why Chalmers is kicking up a stink

Meanwhile, SEN boss Craig Hutchison believes Chalmers is struggling in adjusting to the added scrutiny because he’s been so used to positive coverage for the majority of his career.

“He has had a charmed run as a young man with the media. That rarely happens to the bulk of society and you get a disproportionate comfort that you are … a figure that gets a lot of adulation,” Hutchison said on his media podcast The Sounding Board.

“So when things go wrong, you’re not emotionally equipped to necessarily handle the negativity.

“Then it often sways the other way because you overreact, or react to a certain way.”

Journalist Damian Barrett told The Sounding Board: “What he (Chalmers) doesn’t get… you can’t control media. No matter who you are and what run you’ve got.”

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Abdi Abdullah Ali jailed for stabbing manslaughter of Matthew Bristow in Adelaide

Police officers and a police car on a road in front of a house

A man has been sentenced to five years’ jail for killing a man by stabbing him in the heart during a drug-fueled wrestle in Adelaide.

Matthew Scott Bristow’s body was found by a passer-by on a footpath at Prospect in February 2020.

He died from a single stab wound to the heart.

Abdi Abdullah Ali was found guilty of manslaughter by an unlawful and dangerous act, but was acquitted of a murder charge.

The Supreme Court heard both men had been affected by drugs and the circumstances of the offending were unclear — but it was likely the men had wrestled with a knife while inside a car.

Matthew Bristow
Matthew Scott Bristow was found dead in Prospect.(Supplied: Facebook)

Justice Anne Bampton said she accepted Ali had no intention of killing Mr Bristow or grievously injuring him, but said Mr Bristow’s death had caused “untold grief” to his family.

His mother had told the court through a victim impact statement that her life had been “consumed by agony.”

“She poignantly said that her son died alone and that the blood that spilled on the lonely street of Prospect was her blood,” Justice Bampton said.

The court heard Ali, who was born in Somalia, turned to alcohol and drugs as a teenager and woke up in a car in Adelaide one day after attending a party in Melbourne.

“It seemed you had been stuck here, treading water, drinking, taking drugs and living a much less productive lifestyle,” Justice Bampton said.

She sentenced Ali to five years and three months’ jail with a non-parole period of four years and two months.

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Nets being considered to stop runaway trucks on the South Eastern Freeway after latest crash

a crash site with a rollover truck with emergency services around

South Australia’s Transport Minister says the state government is looking at deploying nets to catch runaway trucks traveling down the South Eastern Freeway.

After a crash at the bottom of the freeway that nine injured people last month, safety concerns will be on the agenda when transport ministers from around the country meet today.

Transport Minister Tom Koutsantonis said the Department for Infrastructure and Transport (DIT) was working around the clock to come up with a way to make the road through the Adelaide Hills safer.

“The idea of ​​nets has been considered, but of course when you deploy a net it’s out of action for a while afterward and you could have another event,” he said.

“There is infrastructure available like that but it is extensive and damaging.

“The department is working overtime trying to work out how we can actually make sure that if we have a runaway truck what can we actually do.”

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Transport Tom Koutsantonis met with freight industry representatives earlier this week.(ABC News: Shari Hams)

Other options also being considered

The South Eastern Freeway descends from the Adelaide Hills suburb of Crafers to where it ends at the intersection of Cross, Glen Osmond and Portrush roads.

Several crashes have occurred at the intersection, including some that have involved fatalities.

An allegedly unlicensed Queensland truck driver was charged with multiple offenses over the latest crash on July 24.

Other options that Mr Koutsantonis said were being considered included taking over CB radios to warn drivers about the steep descent, more signs, point-to-point cameras, forcing trucks into arrester beds, real-time brake monitoring and forcing heavy vehicles into a slow lane.

A freeway lane with a net over it
A Dragnet truck net on an arrester bed in the US state of Connecticut.(Impact Absorption)

But he said better training for truck drivers was probably the best solution.

However, he said it would not stop the 1 in 100,000 irresponsible drivers, who could be targeted with more prosecutions.

“We are working towards fixing the one who does break the law, but of course the consequences of the one person who doesn’t follow the law is catastrophic,” he said.

“We’re talking about trucks that are over 10 tonnes heading down at 110kph towards parked cars at the intersection of Cross Road and the South Eastern Freeway and it was a miracle no-one died two weeks ago.”

Hard spot for arrester beds

Soon after the crash, DIT chief executive Jon Whelan told a parliamentary committee a third emergency truck arrester bed at the bottom of the South Eastern Freeway was being considered.

“It has to meet the standards and it has to meet the design protocols for that to occur as well,” he said.

An arrester bed at the same location was considered after the 2014 double-fatal crash but in 2015 the Labor government said it had looked at nine locations but none were feasible.

“None of those are practical and none of those achieve the sorts of safety benefits that we’ve got with the two existing safety ramps,” then-transport minister Stephen Mullighan said.

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A truck on an arrester bed on the South Eastern Freeway in 2014.(abcnews)

The Royal Automobile Association of South Australia suggested a “dragnet type arrester system” in a report from 2020, along with another arrester bed.

The former Liberal government scrapped its proposed GlobeLink project to divert road and rail freight around the eastern side of the Adelaide Hills in 2020.

A smaller $12 million freight route upgrade opened last month, while a bypass around Truro has received funding.

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Somerton Man sleuth Nick Pelling steps up efforts to shed light on life of Carl Webb

A graphic of the Somerton Man's face, a DNA strand and a book.

When news articles refer to amateur sleuths who’ve dedicated time and effort to investigating the Somerton Man mystery, they’re referring to people like Nick Pelling.

The 57-year-old London-based computer programmer, author and researcher has never set foot in Adelaide, let alone on Somerton beach.

But that hasn’t stopped him from pursuing the case with the tenacity that one would expect from someone with his skills.

His blog Cipher Mysteries is a testament to his capacity to trawl through undigested records like those on Trove, the National Library of Australia’s freely accessible digital archive.

“History is a funny old thing,” he said.

“The stuff in archives is the stuff that didn’t get thrown away that day — it’s the stuff that survived somehow, just randomly.

“As a historian, you have to merge different types of evidence together because you only have scraps.”

A balding man wearing a headset, blue shirt, a lanyard around his neck.
Mr Pelling, pictured in 2014, shares his research into enigmatic cases at his blog Cipher Mysteries.(YouTube: Gamification World)

The Somerton Man is not the only enigmatic case to have captured Mr Pelling’s attention — but it is the one that has most recently made headlines.

Last week, Adelaide-based academic and long-time Somerton Man devotee Derek Abbott announced that he and a US-based colleague had solved the mystery.

They identified the man as Carl “Charles” Webb, a Melbourne-born engineer.

The breakthrough has spurred Mr. Pelling to uncover more.

He believes the Webb hypothesis is a compelling one, and he wants to find evidence to corroborate it.

The beach at Somerton Park in Adelaide with houses behind a rocky shore and sand.
The beach at Somerton Park, pictured in 2018, where the Somerton Man’s body was found 70 years earlier.(ABC News: Carl Saville)

“My best-case scenario is that we find a picture of Carl Webb. He was married – people have wedding photos, it’s a big day,” he said.

“We may be able to find more records of what Carl Webb was doing in the year-and-a-half after he left his wife and before he died [in 1948].

“It’s not that long ago in the bigger scheme of things.”

Detective work and the Da Vinci Code

An open red suitcase with a white tag with numbers, its contents, including boot polish, strewn on the floor.
A suitcase and belongings found at Adelaide Railway Station are believed to have belonged to the Somerton Man.(Supplied)

For Mr Pelling, discovery is as much about pathways as epiphanies — the investigator never knows how much treasure is awaiting excavation.

“The idea of ​​Dan Brown and his ilk is that the archivist finds … one document that explains everything — it’s never like that,” Mr Pelling explained.

“[But] if you can ask the right questions of the right people, then all kinds of things open up.

“Things like photographs and diaries and journals all persist in attics and lofts.”

Over the years Mr Pelling has corresponded with Australian-based experts, including retired detective Gerry Feltus, who praised Mr Pelling’s endeavours.

“He’s got a massive website going, and people from all over the world have been contributing to that,” Mr Feltus said.

A head shot of an older grey-haired man, wearing a purple shirt, gray jacket. Mannequins of police behind him.
Retired detective Gerry Feltus authored the book The Unknown Man: A Suspicious Death at Somerton Beach.(ABC Australian Story)

Methodical by nature, Mr Feltus is withholding judgment on the Somerton Man’s identity until police and Forensic Science SA complete their own investigations.

“They are both working on it at this stage,” he said.

“Because of what I know and what I believe, I’m just not prepared to sit back and say I’m satisfied that the person is Webb.

“If it comes back as being Webb, I’d have to say that’s great news, simply because it would clarify a lot of matters.”

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Adelaide City Council renames laneway in honor of musician Paul Kelly

Paul Kelly and his girlfriend stand plus two women next to a plaque explaining the naming of his lane

Adelaide City Council is renaming a laneway after singer-songwriter Paul Kelly, with the music icon saying he is “honoured” by the gesture.

The newly named Paul Kelly Lane runs from Flinders Street to Pirie Street, behind the Adelaide Town Hall.

It features a series of artworks that light up and contain lyrics from various Paul Kelly songs.

Kelly was born and raised in the Adelaide suburb of Norwood and several of his songs reference places in the city.

“I’m honored to be a part of this musical laneway project and I’m glad the lane is so close to the Adelaide Town Hall where I’ve had an association for over 50 years, from playing trumpet at school speech nights, attending concerts and, later on, doing my own shows,” he said.

Adelaide Lord Mayor Sandy Verschoor said Paul Kelly Lane — previously called Pilgrim Lane, after a church next to it — would become a destination for his fans.

“Our city has an incredible musical history and Paul Kelly is an icon,” she said.

“We have such great musicians who come from this city and continue to come from this city.”

A street sign that says Paul Kelly Lane
Pilgrim Lane was renamed in honor of Kelly as part of the City of Music program.(ABC NewsRichard Davies)

South Australian artist Heidi Kenyon created the “love” light boxes along the laneway which quote some of Kelly’s famous songs.

“Really it’s just thinking about different forms of love and I guess love as a theme in song writing,” she said.

“For me, Paul Kelly speaks to love and friendship and kinship.

“I wanted it to be accessible and for people to be able to walk past and piece together some of the lyrics.”

Adelaide has been championing its musical history by naming several laneways after artists with ties to the city.

“The city of Adelaide is committed to celebrating Adelaide’s status as a world UNESCO City of Music,” Ms Verschoor said.

“Paul Kelly is the fourth City of Music laneway to be officially opened.

“We have Sia Furler, Cold Chisel, No Fixed Address [and] now Paul Kelly and the Angels will be joining. And I just said to Paul we will make a laneway for Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter.”

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Paul Kelly sings his classic How to Make Gravy on News Breakfast last year.(abcnews)

The Angels will be the next band to be honoured, with a lane off Gawler Place being renamed in their honour.

A lane in the western part of the CBD was named after Cold Chisel in March as part of the council’s planned City of Music Laneways Trail.

Lindes Lane, off Rundle Mall, was renamed No Fixed Address Lane earlier that month, after the Aboriginal reggae rock band that formed in Adelaide in 1979.

Sia Furler Lane, off Morphett Street, was also renamed in March.

Adelaide’s CBD also has a Don Lane and North Adelaide has a Lois Lane.

Melbourne renamed AC/DC Lane in 2004.

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Body found in submerged car at Adelaide’s West Beach along with second car

A police four-wheel drive parked across a boat ramp

The body of a man has been found in a submerged car near the West Beach boat ramp in Adelaide.

Police had been called at 6am after reports of two cars being in the water.

They had reportedly gone into the water at some stage overnight.

Water police searched the scene and found the body.

Western District detectives, Major Crime and forensics officers are investigating the incident.

The State Emergency Service is assisting with a search along the beach.

Police say they will disclose more information when it is known.

Rock groynes and a beach with seaweed on it with storm clouds
The West Beach boat ramp as seen from the Marine Safety SA webcam at midday.(Marine Safety S.A.)

Police have asked anyone who attended the boat ramp overnight or anyone who has any information that may assist to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

There has been strong winds overnight and this morning in Adelaide, with likes of more than 50kph being recorded at nearby Adelaide Airport at midday.

The boat ramp is operated by West Beach Parks and was recently upgraded by the Department for Infrastructure and Transport.

West Beach is located west of Adelaide Airport and north of Glenelg, in Adelaide’s western suburbs.

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South Australian man’s sickening demands exposed as child abuse ring is dismantled

South Australian man's sickening demands exposed as child abuse ring is dismantled

A South Australian man jailed over a child sex abuse ring in the Philippines paid $30 for each live act of abuse online, threatening the children with starvation if they didn’t obey his demands.

Ian Ralph Schapel was jailed for 16 years after pleading guilty to 50 child sexual offences, including paying for children to be abused while he watched from his lounge room in Adelaide.

The investigation into his crimes led to the rescue of 15 young victims and the arrest of five people in the Philippines following an international investigation.

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The 68-year-old former government human resources manager was first detained in February 2020 after Australian Border Force officers examined his bags when he arrived in Melbourne on an overseas flight and allegedly found child abuse material on his mobile phone.

He was charged over the content, which eventually led to the discovery of more than 50,000 images and videos of child abuse material on a range of electronic devices at his Adelaide home.

South Australian man Ian Ralph Schapel. Credit: 7NEWS

The AFP used commonwealth laws for the first time to confiscate Schapel’s home in Mitchell Park because it was used as “an instrument of crime” where the majority of the offending took place.

He was ordered to pay a total of $165,000, half of his home’s value.

Further investigations by SA police found he had communicated with people in the Philippines to procure several children, the youngest aged three.

In February last year, Schapel admitted 50 offences, including viewing, remotely instructing and recording the sexual abuse of children on 55 occasions between March 2018 and January 2020.

An Adelaide man’s crimes led to the rescue of 15 young victims and five arrests in the Philippines. Credit: AAP
One of the alleged offenders of the ongoing child sex abuse hides her face inside a premises in the Philippines before her arrest. Credit: AFP

As part of the international investigation, Philippine authorities executed search warrants at multiple locations in Bislig, a remote area in the country’s east, in August 2020.

Thirteen children and two young adults were removed from harm and five women were arrested and accused of facilitating the abuse for profit. Among the abusers, were mothers, aunts and cousins ​​of the victims.

On Wednesday, Judge Paul Cuthbertson described Schapel’s behavior as “callous” and “disgraceful” with “no thought given to the plight of the poor unfortunate children who were required to perform at request”.

The court had heard Schapel paid $30 for each live recording of the sexual abuse, and that he would threaten to let the children starve if they did not do what he asked.

Australian Federal Police Commander Erica Merrin said the case highlighted the force’s commitment to work with partners to protect children around the world.

“Children are being forced into the most appalling violence and torment on camera by the people who are meant to love and to protect them,” she said.

“This Adelaide man did not just watch children being hurt, he ordered specific abuse to happen and preyed on the economic vulnerability of the people involved.”

The case served as the first example where an AFP taskforce had sought to confiscate the home of a person charged with sex offences. Credit: AFP

Philippine Police Brigadier General Edgar De Mayo Cacayan said close collaboration with the AFP and other international partners should send a strong message to would-be child sex offenders.

“You will not buy and sell the sexual abuse of children in the Philippines,” he said.

“We will not allow it, and we will be their guardians. We will find you, and you will have to answer for your actions in a court of law.”

Merrin echoed a similar warning.

“It doesn’t matter when you offended, when you abused children, if you prey on children, it doesn’t matter where in the world you are, we will come for you.”

Schapel will be eligible for parole in 2031.

-With APA

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