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Gordon Ramsay's daughter announces engagement to Olympian

<p>Gordon Ramsay's daughter, Holly, has announced her engagement to  British Olympic swimmer Adam Peaty. </p> <p>The 24-year-old took to Instagram on Thursday to announce the happy news, showing off her sparkly ring with a photo of the pair on holiday. </p> <p>"I am marrying my best friend," the fashion designer said.</p> <p>"I truly cannot put into words how I am feeling right now. I still remember how big my smile was the morning I got home from my first date with you.</p> <p>"Thank you for letting the little girl inside of me feel loved, seen and happier than ever. I love you &amp; I cannot wait to be your wife."</p> <p>She also mentioned how excited she was to be a step-mum to Peaty's son George from his previous relationship with Welsh artist Eirianedd Munro. </p> <blockquote class="instagram-media" style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/C_z0LCrIlmx/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="14"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"> </div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"> </div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"> </div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"> </div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"> </div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <div style="padding: 12.5% 0;"> </div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;"> <div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);"> </div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;"> </div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);"> </div> </div> <div style="margin-left: 8px;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;"> </div> <div style="width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);"> </div> </div> <div style="margin-left: auto;"> <div style="width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);"> </div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);"> </div> <div style="width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);"> </div> </div> </div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;"> </div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;"> </div> </div> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C_z0LCrIlmx/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A post shared by HollyAnna Ramsay (@hollyramsayy)</a></p> </div> </blockquote> <p>"I promise to always be there with you and George, I'm so greatful (sic) to be in his life and I cannot wait for more," she wrote.</p> <p>"Everything is better with you. Everything has been better since you. Here's to forever. "</p> <p>Peaty also paid tribute to his bride-to-be with a separate Instagram post announcing their engagement. </p> <p>"Seeing you show the love you give to the most important person in my life, George, even from day one, there was never a question about you becoming my wife one day," he said.</p> <p>"I'm looking forward to our life together and the many challenges we'll face."</p> <p>He also gave a shoutout to Gordon and his wife Tana for welcoming him into their family with such generosity. </p> <p>Holly is the celebrity chef's second daughter out of his six kids, and has a twin brother, Jack. </p> <p>The proud dad shared his congratulations online with a sweet image of him and his daughter. </p> <blockquote class="instagram-media" style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/C_0AeaQxI0e/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="14"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"> </div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"> </div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"> </div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"> </div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"> </div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <div style="padding: 12.5% 0;"> </div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 14px; align-items: center;"> <div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(0px) translateY(7px);"> </div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; height: 12.5px; transform: rotate(-45deg) translateX(3px) translateY(1px); width: 12.5px; flex-grow: 0; margin-right: 14px; margin-left: 2px;"> </div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; height: 12.5px; width: 12.5px; transform: translateX(9px) translateY(-18px);"> </div> </div> <div style="margin-left: 8px;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 20px; width: 20px;"> </div> <div style="width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 2px solid transparent; border-left: 6px solid #f4f4f4; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent; transform: translateX(16px) translateY(-4px) rotate(30deg);"> </div> </div> <div style="margin-left: auto;"> <div style="width: 0px; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-right: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(16px);"> </div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; flex-grow: 0; height: 12px; width: 16px; transform: translateY(-4px);"> </div> <div style="width: 0; height: 0; border-top: 8px solid #F4F4F4; border-left: 8px solid transparent; transform: translateY(-4px) translateX(8px);"> </div> </div> </div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center; margin-bottom: 24px;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 224px;"> </div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 144px;"> </div> </div> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C_0AeaQxI0e/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A post shared by Gordon Ramsay (@gordongram)</a></p> </div> </blockquote> <p>"Congratulations to this gorgeous girl @hollyramsayy….so happy for you and @adam_peaty," he said.</p> <p>"Hols, watching you become the woman you are today with your kindness and your love is absolutely infectious…Adam is a very lucky man! Welcome to the family."</p> <p>He ended his caption in true Gordon Ramsay style with: "One down, two to go," alongside a laughing emoji. </p> <p><em>Images: Instagram</em></p>

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“Hypocrite”: Hughesy's on-air clash with Greens leader

<p>Dave “Hughesy” Hughes had a fiery debate with Australian Greens Leader Adam Bandt about veganism on-air on<em> </em>The Fox’s <em>Fifi, Fev &amp; Nick</em>. </p> <p>Before Bandt appeared on the show, a clip played of Hughesy, who is a vegan, calling for the leader to "quit the party" after learning the Greens leader wasn't a vegan. </p> <p>He questioned how Bandt could advocate for climate action without adopting a plant-based lifestyle, and the Greens leader was brought onto the show to explain his stance. </p> <p>“So you are not a vegan?” Hughesy asked the politician. </p> <p>“I’m not….” replied Bandt. “I applaud those who are, I applaud those who have made the shift. I’ve been thinking about it …”</p> <p>Hughesy then loudly interjected “ … URGH, THINKING ABOUT IT?”</p> <p>The Greens leader replied: “I don’t have a good drop-dead reason, but I’ve been thinking about it, and I can probably give you three justifications for it.</p> <p>"Firstly, we’ve made big changes at home and basically only eat meat for special occasions, the rest of the time we’re vegan or vegetarian at home.”</p> <p>“…. THERE’S ONE WAY, ADAM, THERE’S ONE WAY …” the presenter yelled in response. </p> <p>Hughesy's co-star Fev then tried to make light of the situation and asked him:  “What are you doing Dave?"</p> <p>"Adam is doing the version of Leonardo DiCaprio and his private jet flying around the world while banging on about climate change, but you flew to Brisbane on the weekend,” he continued suggesting that Hughesy too was being a hypocrite by getting on a flight recently. </p> <p>“But I don’t bang on about it,” exclaimed Hughesy.</p> <p>“Adam is the leader of the Greens … it’s hypocritical! C’mon, you can do it, Adam, you can become a vegan! Be the change you want to see in the world, buddy!”</p> <p>Hughesy adopted the vegan lifestyle for his own health, but he has previously revealed that it comes with its challenges and his family were also not that enthusiastic about the change. </p> <p><em>Image: news.com.au/ Fifi, Fev &amp; Nick</em></p>

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Adam Goodes opens up about major family loss

<p>Dual Brownlow medallist Adam Goodes has opened up about his late mother in a candid interview on the <em>Get Real with Rio</em> WeAre8 series.</p> <p>Speaking to former English professional footballer Rio Ferdinand, host of the show, Goodes revealed the heartbreaking news that his mother had passed away of a heart attack in February 2022.</p> <p>“She was 62, man,” Goodes said.</p> <p>He went on to share that his mother - Lisa May Goodes - had had “a really tough life”, having been the single parent to Goodes and his two younger brothers for “most of her life”. And that while she “did an incredible job … she had a lot of trauma from her childhood”.</p> <p>“She was taken away when she was five,” he explained, “put into a white family, like a lot of her siblings were, and she didn’t know at the time that she was one of 10 [children].</p> <p>“That’s the reason why I wasn’t connected to my Aboriginality [early on] because of that disconnect when she was five.”</p> <p>Goodes admitted that he had often considered what his family’s life might have looked like had his mother not experienced systemic racism and its associated practices during her early years, when she was a child of the Stolen Generation. </p> <p>And now, with children of his own and a third on the way with wife Natalie, his perspective has widened, with Goodes confessing that his own experiences have influenced how he looks at his mum’s past. </p> <p>“It just breaks my heart to think that she was living in fear her whole life that someone could knock on the door and take her kids away at any moment if she wasn’t doing the right thing by us kids,” he said. </p> <p>“So if I could go back and change anything, I would just love to have gone back to my mum’s life, and in that moment, change the fact that she was taken [away from her family]. And how just that one sliding door moment might have changed the world and life that I had.</p> <p>“And if that meant I may never have played professional sport, if it meant I might not even be alive today, just that moment that meant my mum was still connected to her family and didn’t have to live the life that she did, and how tough it was for her.</p> <p>“I’d love to be able to do that just for the old girl.”</p> <p>He then revealed that every move he makes now is weighed against the time he can spend with his family, given how he had “sacrificed having children” until he retired from the AFL. </p> <p>“That’s really important to me because I sacrificed having children when I was playing,” Goodes said. “I had my first kid when I was 39, I’d been retired for four years, I was ready to dedicate my time and energy to something else.</p> <p>“My family, even though I didn’t think of it at the time, the sacrifice I made during my football career, they’re now benefitting because of that. Not only from the success but from the financial benefits of the sacrifices that I made - being able to buy my mum a first house that she’s ever owned.</p> <p>“I’m grateful I did make those decisions at those times. It wasn’t easy to do that.”</p> <p><em>Images: Getty</em></p>

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Set sail in style alongside these sporting legends

<p dir="ltr">The time has come for sports fans with a passion for cruising to live their dreams, with <a href="https://www.cunard.com/en-au/cruise-types/event-cruises/sporting-greats">The Voyage of Sporting Greats</a> - the latest offering to the world of thrilling themed voyages from British luxury cruise line Cunard. </p> <p dir="ltr">The first-of-its-kind-trip will set sail in February 2024, headlined by none other than AFL legend Adam Goodes, cricket’s Brett Lee, and golfer Karrie Webb. <em>Sunrise </em>and Olympic presenter Mark Beretta will also be joining in on the fun, as well as Bruce McLaren’s daughter, Amanda McLaren.</p> <p dir="ltr">While onboard, guests will have the opportunity to attend live fireside chats with their sporting heroes, to enjoy sports-themed shore excursions with those very same stars, and to get to know them better - if you’ve ever wondered just how heavy some of those trophies can be, now’s your chance to ask.</p> <p dir="ltr">For example, the Queen Elizabeth - one of four ships setting sail as part of the 2024 fleet, alongside Queen Mary 2, Queen Victoria, and the brand new Queen Anne - has a jam-packed star-studded program to offer guests, featuring everything from talks to sporting activities, and unique excursions to the shore in Sydney, Melbourne, and Hobart. </p> <p dir="ltr">Additionally, the Queen Elizabeth - the second largest ship in Cunard’s fleet with room for 2,000 guests and an additional 1,000 crew - boasts more than 10 different eating establishments, an entire Games Desk with the likes of paddle tennis, croquet, hitting bays, and bowls, as well as an impressive two-story library, a ballroom, and a Royal Court Theatre - the latter will even host performances by <a href="https://circa.org.au/">Circa</a>, an Australian contemporary circus company, in February 2024. </p> <p dir="ltr">As Katrina McAlpine, the commercial director of Cunard Australia and New Zealand, explained, “we are extremely excited to host some of the biggest local names in sport on Queen Elizabeth next February. </p> <p dir="ltr">“Brett Lee, Adam Goodes, Karrie Webb, Mark Beretta, and Amanda McLaren will captivate sport enthusiasts with stories of their career defining moments, their professional highs and lows, and give guests the unique opportunity to get up close and personal with them during priceless and bespoke activities onboard and ashore. </p> <p dir="ltr">“The Voyage of Sporting Greats offers sports fans a once in a lifetime chance to meet and engage with some of our country’s most famous sporting icons in one place.”</p> <p dir="ltr">2014 Australian of the Year and AFL great Adam Goodes, for one, is eager to join in on the fun with his fellow sporting greats, noting that “this is a spectacular opportunity to join the other sporting icons and connect with guests aboard Cunard’s Queen Elizabeth. I am looking forward to sharing stories about my career, what drives and inspires me and what projects I am currently working on. </p> <p dir="ltr">“I am specifically keen to talk to fans onboard and create great memories of the sailing for them.”</p> <p dir="ltr">Celebrated Australian golfer Karrie Webb is similarly excited for Cunard guests to experience their athletic lineup. And golf fans in particular will benefit, with Karrie “very much looking forward to sharing with guests my favourite tips and golf stories, as well as having a swing with them onboard.”</p> <p dir="ltr">Amanda McLaren - daughter of the late Bruce McLaren -  is honoured to be taking part, and “can’t wait to interact with guests and to share the McLaren racing story - and my father’s legacy that kick started in Australia.”</p> <p dir="ltr">And for cricket legend Brett Lee, the trip is set to become the highlight of his year, with the star most looking forward to catching up with guests on the “voyage for the ages”.</p> <p dir="ltr">The same could be said for and by renowned sports presenter Mark Beretta, who is thrilled to be facilitating the talent on deck as they share their stories. </p> <p dir="ltr">“Sharing stories of Australian sporting history and anecdotes from behind the scenes of the world of sports, plus talking to some of the biggest stars in Australian sport is going to be a treat for me and our guests,” he shared. “I’m also looking forward to getting on the road with guests to host a very special excursion!”</p> <p dir="ltr">The stars and their fellow cruisers will depart from Sydney on February 13 2024, heading to Tasmania and back over a span of 7 nights, with stops to stretch their legs and enjoy all that the shore has to offer in Hobart, Port Arthur, and Melbourne.</p> <p dir="ltr">To find our more about costs the voyage’s impressive guest list, and what’s on offer on this trip of a lifetime, potential passengers can learn all about it - and secure their spot - here: <a href="https://www.cunard.com/en-au/cruise-types/event-cruises/sporting-greats">https://www.cunard.com/en-au/cruise-types/event-cruises/sporting-greats</a></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Images: Cunard [supplied]</em></p>

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Greens leader slammed for rejecting Australian flag

<p dir="ltr">Greens leader Adam Bandt has been accused of "virtue signalling" after refusing to stand next to the Australian flag while speaking at a press conference on Monday.</p> <p dir="ltr">Before Mr Bandt spoke at Sydney's Commonwealth Parliamentary Offices on Monday, a member of staff was seen moving the flag from behind the podium so that only the Aboriginal flag and Torres Strait Island flag could be seen.</p> <p dir="ltr">Mr Bandt said he removed the flag because it “represents lingering pain” for some Australians, sharing his view that Australia should become a republic with a new flag.</p> <p dir="ltr">“For many Australians, this flag represents dispossession and the lingering pains of colonisation,” Mr Bandt said.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Through Treaty with First Nations’ Peoples and by moving to a Republic, we can have a flag that represents all of us.”</p> <p dir="ltr">However, his "stunt" prompted severe backlash with Minister for Government Services Bill Shorten describing it as a divisive act.</p> <p><span id="docs-internal-guid-876c3067-7fff-f984-ba88-829f5fbcb98d"></span></p> <p dir="ltr">“Antics like this, this virtue signalling saying, ‘I love First Nations People more than anyone else’ ... it turns more people off than turns them on,” he told Today.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">Ahead of a press conference with Greens leader Adam Bandt, a Greens staffer has just moved the Australian flag out of the TV camera shot. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/auspol?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#auspol</a> <a href="https://t.co/g524GbpKKH">pic.twitter.com/g524GbpKKH</a></p> <p>— Isobel Roe (@isobelroe) <a href="https://twitter.com/isobelroe/status/1538733802037846016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 20, 2022</a></p></blockquote> <p dir="ltr">2GB’s Jim Wilson also told the show it was “highly offensive” and “insulting”.</p> <p dir="ltr">“We had a Royal Commission into Veteran Suicide resume in Townsville yesterday - men and women who fought under the Australian flag. On the same day, you have this peanut who goes on and removes the Australian flag,” Wilson said.</p> <p dir="ltr">“I find it deeply offensive and not the Australia we want to embrace.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Have all three flags, but don’t remove the national flag.”</p> <p dir="ltr">Indigenous leader Warrne Mundine also weighed in on Mr Bandt’s display shortly after, questioning whether it was appropriate for federal parliament and whether the Greens “actually hate Australians”.</p> <p dir="ltr">“It’s idiotic,” Mr Mundine said. “Are the Greens actually in the Australian federal parliament? Seriously? Do they actually hate Australians that much? Aboriginals call themselves Australians all the time.</p> <p dir="ltr">“The Greens are just a fringe university type group trying to run down the country.”</p> <p dir="ltr">Mr Bandt primarily spoke about Labor’s approach to emissions during the press conference, claiming the party is “an obstacle to greater climate action” and that they aren’t listening to the Australian people..</p> <p dir="ltr">“Labor is bringing a weak target to parliament that means the end of the Great Barrier Reef,” he said.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Labor is now an obstacle to greater climate action and they are refusing to listen to the will of the people who have just delivered a big mandate for climate mandates at the election.”</p> <p dir="ltr">Image: Getty Images</p>

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Sink your teeth into Adam Liaw’s new podcast

<p dir="ltr"><em>Masterchef </em>winner, celebrity chef, and writer Adam Liaw has added another string to his bow with the launch of his first podcast, <em>How Taste Changed the World</em>.</p> <p dir="ltr">The seven-part series, launched with Audible, sees Liaw explore the science and history behind our five tastes - salty, sweet, bitter, sour and umami - and how they have impacted everything from economics and agriculture to why we pair red wine with meat.</p> <p dir="ltr">“I’m very excited to be launching my first podcast,” Liaw told OverSixty.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Taste has been the driving force behind human civilization since before it even began, and the food we choose to eat has more meaning that we can even imagine.”</p> <p dir="ltr">Each 30-minute episode is an immersive and thought-provoking deep-dive into each of the tastes, as well as what even counts as a taste and what the future looks like.</p> <p><span id="docs-internal-guid-a3113fe2-7fff-5fe7-d87e-95f4a08c4330"></span></p> <p dir="ltr">Liaw doesn’t tackle these topics alone either, enlisting the help of experts and sharing his own anecdotes and stories, with snippets from Liaw’s kids thrown in.</p> <p dir="ltr"><img src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/2022/05/adam-liaw-podcast.jpg" alt="" width="1280" height="720" /></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Adam Liaw tackles the five tastes in his new podcast. Image: Supplied</em></p> <p dir="ltr">In another first for the Malaysian-Australian chef, Liaw will be taking the stage on Wednesday, June 1, for Vivid Sydney’s Ideas Exchange’s 2022 series, <em>Audible Live: Stories Made to be Heard</em>.</p> <p dir="ltr">Liaw’s will be the first in a series of three talks, where he will discuss his podcast, calling upon the interviews featured in each of the episodes to explain how vital salt is to our biology and how it turned food into a commodity that has underpinned the global economy for thousands of years, as well as how our taste buds helped establish democracy and how our hankering for sweet things has been used to sell us soft drinks.</p> <p dir="ltr">“Vivid Sydney’s Idea Exchange is the perfect forum for big ideas, and it doesn’t get much bigger than how our own biology has shaped the world around us!” Liaw said.</p> <p dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e88d060c-7fff-7b52-3af2-30ffcab8095d"></span></p> <p dir="ltr">Tickets for Liaw’s talk are available <a href="https://tickets.vividsydney.com/event/audible-live-adam-liaw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.</p> <p><iframe title="YouTube video player" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/K5Prbfh0VnE" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Adam Liaw’s Audible Original podcast, How Tastes Changed the World, launches on Tuesday 10 May and is only available on Audible. The podcast is free for Audible members and can be found at <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/audible.com.au/taste__;!!CN7PONKNpoI9!-mXF9S_F_DMqMCTDde2SaXD57CpMgwUTRkGnVv1CH7Cm624ZM0--rRnzo7njnX7eT8xFmcpa4foNnTLeBvzisMaawQ$" target="_blank" rel="noopener">audible.com.au/taste</a>. On 1 June, Adam will be taking part in Vivid Sydney’s Ideas Exchange with Audible Live: Stories Made to be Heard, during which he’ll discuss the podcast in further detail.</em></p> <p dir="ltr"><em><span id="docs-internal-guid-7b4a421b-7fff-c76a-4343-1d52c22385f5"></span></em></p> <p dir="ltr"><em>Image: Supplied</em></p>

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Adam Goodes to release first picture book

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Former footy player Adam Goodes is set to release his first picture book this year.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Titled </span><em><a rel="noopener" href="https://www.booktopia.com.au/somebody-s-land-welcome-to-our-country-adam-goodes/book/9781760526726.html?irclickid=2MXT8RXVdxyLRd8ztDxgm11DUkByTbxdtyxlxo0&amp;bk_source=1426251&amp;bk_source_id=1426251&amp;irgwc=1&amp;utm_campaign=Good%20Reading%20Magazine&amp;utm_medium=affiliate&amp;utm_source=Impact" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Somebody’s Land</span></a></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Goodes co-authored the book with journalist and Deputy Chief of Staff to the Speaker of NSW Parliament Ellie Laing, illustrated by Barkinjill artist David Hardy.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Goodes said fatherhood inspired his debut book.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I love reading to my daughter Adelaide,” he said. “I hope the series gives readers the opportunity to learn something new and have more conversations because of it. This book is a reflection of me. I’m incredibly hopeful. I choose to be positive, to help us heal as a nation.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The first in a five-part book series called </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Welcome to Country</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> published by Allen &amp; Unwin Children’s Books, the picture books aim to educate young readers between four to eight-years-old about </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">terra nullius</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and Indigenous sovereignty.</span></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Somebody’s Land</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> will be available in November 2021, and can now be pre-ordered.</span></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Image: Booktopia / Twitter</span></em></p>

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“Do they want me got rid of?”: Anti-lockdown panellists confronted by furious audience member

<p><span>Two controversial anti-lockdown critics have been slashed by an audience member on the ABC’s <em>Q&amp;A</em>, asking them how they could “live with themselves” after their comments during the pandemic last year.</span><br /><br /><span>Cessnock woman Louise Ihlein took aim at UNSW economist Gigi Foster and The Australian’s economics editor Adam Creighton on Thursday night’s show, who have both argued that lockdowns do more harm than good.</span><br /><br /><span>Ms Ihlein said the pair had suggested “when people get to 60 their life is pretty much done” and that the “first time I clapped eyes” on Ms Foster “I burst into tears”.</span><br /><br /><span>“It was awful,” she said.</span><br /><br /><span>“I was so upset and I wrote so many angry emails to the ABC. And then I have seen Adam a couple of times last year on <em>The Drum</em> and on Twitter saying similar stuff, about the fact that his dad was 65 and he would be OK to be done. That’s disgraceful. It was just disgraceful. People aren’t worth anything. We’re not a commodity, people, we’re not.</span><br /><br /><span>“I want to know how they live with themselves? And considering that I’ve just turned 60 and I’ve got an illness I’m not going to get better from, I want to know, do they want me got rid of?</span></p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr">How can society support the sick and disabled to live their best lives? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/QandA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#QandA</a> <a href="https://t.co/QQewkiXazb">pic.twitter.com/QQewkiXazb</a></p> — QandA (@QandA) <a href="https://twitter.com/QandA/status/1375030189176942595?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 25, 2021</a></blockquote> <p><br /><span>“I hope as they travel through life they never have to be thought of as the other. And I want to know how they propose we give sick and disabled people a better life, a good life?”</span><br /><br /><span>“All we’ve been arguing was for what was the consensus view of science at the end of 2019, which is you take a rational approach to a pandemic and you don’t shut everything down and don’t force people to do things and don’t drag them screaming from cars at the border, you don’t shut the borders and don’t close hospitals to all other patients for months on end, you don’t end travel.</span><br /><br /><span>“All these things are so extreme, suspensions of our liberty for long periods of time. I’m no extreme libertarian at all. But this is extraordinary what’s happened in the past year. We’ve been arguing, let’s have a sense of proportion here.</span><br /><br /><span>“I personally think the world has lost its mind a bit over COVID. We’re all going to die of something. There are risks every day we have to deal with. We normally deal with them as a society. Three million people every year die of respiratory disease. Millions die of cigarettes around the world and we don’t ban them.”</span><br /><br /><span>Ms Foster responded by saying it had been a “very interesting year”, and that she had been “defamed on Twitter” after her last <em>Q&amp;A</em> appearance.</span><br /><br /><span>“As a social scientist who studies groups and societies and what makes us tick, this was an amazing opportunity for me to see people in action completely spellbound on a particular thing that can hurt people, which is COVID, and forgetting about everything else that matters in a normal time,” she said.</span><br /><br /><span>“And I was prepared to call it out and I’m proud that I did because there were very few voices in Australia who were telling a sensible, sane story despite the hysteria gripping the world.”</span><br /><br /><span>Ms Foster stressed she would “never say COVID is not a dangerous disease, absolutely it is”.</span><br /><br /><span>“I never said after 60 somebody’s life is not worth living, I would never say that,” she explained.</span><br /><br /><span>“My arguments have always been, from the beginning to the end, we need to do what’s best for human welfare as a whole. Human welfare is not determined solely by whether people are suffering and dying from COVID.</span><br /><br /><span>“It is determined by how mentally healthy they are — which they’re not when they’re shut up inside, unable to see their family and friends — how well the economy is doing, because that predicts how much the government can spend on things like hospitals and schools and infrastructure. It has to do with suicide of our young people who have been locked out of schools and jobs, it has to do with people who go bankrupt and have more house problems and all the crowded out healthcare that didn’t happen because we were so pathologically focused on COVID.</span><br /><br /><span>“So my story of the world of what’s happened this year is that the world went mad. I continue to say something sensible and I’ll be proud to have served Australia in that way.”</span><br /><br /><span>Host Hamish Macdonald began to ask a question about COVID deaths, however Ms Foster interjected and said she wanted to talk about total deaths overall.</span><br /><br /><span>“I want to ask about COVID deaths,” Macdonald said.</span><br /><br /><span>“Why?” Ms Foster hit back.</span><br /><br /><span>“Do you know how many people die in Australia from something else? Every day we lose 300, 400 people. In total from COVID we have lost fewer than 1000. And for that we have gone hundreds of billions of dollars into debt.</span><br /><br /><span>“We have now amazing crazy numbers on GDP. We have gone back 2.6 per cent last year and normally we go forward 4-5 per cent. That brings us further back on the trajectory of growth. GDP is not a perfect number but it’s something we can compare. We have compromised our future.”</span><br /><br /><span>But author Bruce Pascoe also argued that “trajectories of ever-increasing growth” were unsustainable.</span><br /><br /><span>“Can the world sustain that? Are we always going to assume our wealth will get greater, production will get greater?” he said.</span><br /><br /><span>“What about the poor old earth? She can’t sustain this and we assume with our ever-increasing industrialisation, and our ever-increasing population, which no one wants to talk about, that we can just keep on going at this escalating rate. And we can’t. And we have to address it.”</span><br /><br /><span>Pascoe, who is the author of Dark Emu, a book that explores the history of Aboriginal agriculture, said Australian political history was “120,000 years old at a minimum”.</span><br /><br /><span>“We have probably got the oldest village on earth in this country, which meant we invented society and that society for 120,000 years was largely egalitarian,” he said.</span><br /><br /><span>“I think this is a triumph and I think we need to refer to it more and more frequently and stop looking at the cycle of news as if this is the world. It is not the world. The world is in our hearts and it’s what we believe and what we do which are the main things.”</span><br /><br /><span>ABC journalist Stan Grant chimed in, saying the world’s response to the pandemic, including shutting down at the expense of economies, had “revealed both our strengths and our vulnerability”.</span><br /><br /><span>“The strengths we thought we had, our interconnectedness, our global economy, the ability to hop on a plane and in 10 hours be somewhere else on the other side of the world, revealed our fragility that we share this place in such close proximity,” he said.</span></p> <p><img style="width: 500px; height: 281.25px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7840470/abc-q-a-1.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/1dbf3db5a3554a87b7e76cd1ffcc2a40" /></p> <p><em>Stan Grant. Image: Twitter</em><br /><br /><span>Grant also revealed that he shared the same concerns that Ms Foster and Creighton’s had about liberty.</span><br /><br /><span>“What did concern me — and I think we need to think long and hard about this — is that in an emergency, when we do surrender freedom, it takes a long time, if ever, to get it back,” he said.</span><br /><br /><span>“Look at 9/11 after the attacks on the World Trade Centre. There is a reason that The Plague was written. Because the virus of coronavirus or the plague may also carry a virus of tyranny.</span><br /><br /><span>“And at a time when democracy is in retreat … when authoritarianism in the shape of China in particular is on the rise and resurgent around the world, these things of freedom, these things that bind us to each other, these things that we are meant to hold dear, sacrificed and surrendered are hard to get back.”</span><br /><br /><span>Sam Mostyn, president of Chief Executive Women, retaliated by saying that lockdown was beneficial “because during that period we learnt a lot about ourselves”.</span><br /><br /><span>“We all slowed down,” she said.</span><br /><br /><span>“I accept the mental health issues that we have to pay for now. I accept we had to change as a society. You talked about an economy stopping. A lot of people rethought what it meant to be part of the Australian society.</span></p> <p><img style="width: 500px; height: 281.25px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7840471/abc-q-a.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/164269eb339c4db9b5a3a26c61ab7544" /></p> <p><em>Sam Mostyn. Image: Twitter</em><br /><br /><span>“They started to talk about neighbourhood again, and what mattered to us in our relationships with our families. How care (can be) at the centre of an economy instead of the kinds of things we got so obsessed with.”</span><br /><br /><span>Creighton shot back, saying those were privileged people “on fixed salaries, good salaries”, and not the hundreds of thousands who lost their jobs.</span><br /><br /><span>“They got JobKeeper as well, and a huge amount of government (support),” Ms Mostyn responded.</span><br /><br /><span>“That’s insulting,” Creighton replied.</span></p>

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​Grant Denyer opens up about brutal argument with former Sunrise boss: "I nearly killed him"

<p>Grant Denyer has opened up about a brutal altercation he had with a former <em>Sunrise</em> executive producer on the latest episode of his podcast with wife Cheryl, <em>It’s All True.</em></p> <p>The famous TV personality revealed he “nearly killed” Adam Boland during a heated physical argument that took place while Boland prepared to farewell Seven’s long-running breakfast show in 2010.</p> <p>The program was to be broadcast live from Hawaii in an elaborate week-long salute to Boland. </p> <p>Denyer recounted that it was something he “didn’t really want to do.”</p> <p>He admitted that at the time both he and Boland were “admittedly not in the best form of our lives” as he was newly-married to wife Cheryl, who was also six months pregnant and working as a TV producer.</p> <p>He said that Boland gave him an ultimatum if he wanted to bring Cheryl on the trip: “She has to pay for her own flights and she needs to work.”</p> <p>Denyer claimed that while in Hawaii, Boland was “not hands on – he wanted to swan by the pool, have fun and bask in the glow of his success”.</p> <p><img style="width: 500px; height: 281.25px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7838079/denyer-grant-2.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/dbeee74abc7a441fbf3b9e6708400943" /></p> <p><em>Adam Boland made Sunrise a ratings hit in the early 2000's. </em></p> <p>However, he explained that his pregnant wife was put to work scouting locations, producing <em>Sunrise</em> segments and “doing a lot of running around”.</p> <p>A technical failure during one morning’s broadcast saw Cheryl cop Boland’s wrath.</p> <p>“He turns on Cheryl and starts having a go at her. He says Cheryl is useless, incompetent … and he called you a b**ch,” Denyer recounted.</p> <p>“He starts flat-out abusing us. Proper abuse. It wasn’t his finest hour, and it certainly wasn’t my finest hour.”</p> <p>Denyer explained what happened as he went to the control room and confronted Boland.</p> <p>“I blew up at him, told him to get f***ed. I said, ‘You will never talk to my wife like that. There is no way you’ll ever talk to my wife like that.’ I grabbed him and slammed him against the wall and held him by the throat, yelling at him for 10 minutes on,” Denyer revealed.</p> <p>“I let him have it double barrels. I was going to rip his head off, I was so furious. Nobody intervened. I did the wrong thing but I needed to have my say and eventually it took three people to pull me off him!”</p> <p>The TV personality said the incident was “not something I’m particularly proud of”. </p> <p>“I am ashamed of my actions and I would do it differently now,” he said.</p> <p>The star says he and his former boss have since patched things up. “We’re all good now,” he said.</p> <p>“We’ve made up, we’ve spoken about it and we’re all good now.”</p> <p>Cheryl said her husband’s actions were “heroic but scary”. </p> <p>“You really snapped. In all the years that I’ve known you, I’ve never seen that happen,” she said.</p> <p>Boland himself had previously discussed the fight in his 2014 memoir Brekky Central. </p> <p>However, he said the stoush was a case of “crossed wires”, meaning Denyer mistakenly thought he had insulted Cheryl.</p> <p>“I don’t think he sees it the same way I see it,” Denyer said during the podcast.</p>

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MasterChef winner Adam Liaw shares spaghetti bolognese recipe with bizarre ingredient

<div class="post_body_wrapper"> <div class="post_body"> <div class="body_text "> <p>Former MasterChef winner Adam Liaw has been keeping his fans occupied during the coronavirus pandemic by running online cooking lessons.</p> <p>However, his latest dish has raised eyebrows for a surprising ingredient and it’s one that is well loved by most Australians.</p> <p>Liaw, 41, shared his spaghetti Bolognese recipe to Instagram and revealed that he adds Vegemite into the mix.</p> <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/B_a_prtlgQE/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="12"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <p style="margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;"><a style="color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B_a_prtlgQE/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank">Over the next 3 weeks I’m running a weekly 15-minute online cooking class for @Vegemite over Zoom. Tune in at 5pm AEST this Tuesday April 28 for the first one, showing you how to make your spaghetti bolognese the Aussiest spag bol ever with a Vegemite toast pangrattato. Follow @Vegemite for details. The Zoom link is in my profile and the sessions are limited to the first 300 participants who join, so make sure you’re on time! Swipe for the ingredients. #tasteslikeaustralia #Vegemite #sp</a></p> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">A post shared by <a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/adamliaw/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank"> Adam Liaw</a> (@adamliaw) on Apr 25, 2020 at 4:10pm PDT</p> </div> </blockquote> <p>He posted a photo of the “most Aussie spag bol ever with a Vegemite toast pangrattato”.</p> <p>The cooking term pangrattato refers to breadcrumbs and Liaw used Vegemite toast to make his crumbs, which are sprinkled over the pasta and sauce to serve.</p> <p>He has also recently advised home cooks to substitute missing ingredients instead of buying more so they don’t have to return to the supermarket.</p> <p>“If you don't have sugar, use honey. If you run out of soy sauce, use a bit of salt. No lemon juice? Try vinegar instead,” he said in a piece for <a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.goodfood.com.au/recipes/news/adam-liaws-six-step-process-to-help-plan-your-meals-waste-less-food-and-cook-more-20200325-h1muvn" target="_blank">The Good Food</a>. </p> <p>Liaw advised budding chefs to waste less as well as clean out space in their pantries. </p> <p>“If you have some odds and ends of vegetables, chop them up and throw them into that quarantine bolognese. Turn bones and offcuts into stock,” he said.</p> <p>“Before anything goes in the bin, think to yourself "how can I use this?"</p> </div> </div> </div>

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“Prison should be on the table”: Former MasterChef winner Adam Liaw slams chefs for wage theft

<p>Former <em>MasterChef Australia</em><span> </span>winner Adam Liaw was fired up in Monday night’s <em>Q&amp;A</em> as wage theft was one of the topics amongst the panellists.</p> <p>Liaw has said that there are “no excuses” for restaurants that underpay their staff. He revealed that when he started out in the restaurant industry, he had been underpaid and mentioned that jail time should be an option.</p> <p>“Prison for doing large-scale systemic wage theft is certainly something that should be on the table,” he said.</p> <p>“I have worked in an awful lot of restaurants. I have flipped burgers, washed dishes and cleaned toilets and in the vast majority of those jobs I was not paid an award wage,” he told<span> </span><em>Q&amp;A</em><span> </span>guest host Fran Kelly.</p> <p>“Generally, the larger the organisation, the organisations that could afford to have payroll people to keep an eye on whether everyone was being paid accordingly, were the ones that paid better.</p> <p>“Mum and Dad restaurants that couldn’t keep across the complexities of the award wage system were the ones that were paying below the award wage.</p> <p>“In my case that was $10 an hour and $5 an hour in some cases. But none of that is an excuse for not paying your employees properly.”</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"> <p dir="ltr">Should there be prison sentences for industrial scale underpayment of wages? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/QandA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#QandA</a> <a href="https://t.co/ysioSpdJsJ">pic.twitter.com/ysioSpdJsJ</a></p> — ABC Q&amp;A (@QandA) <a href="https://twitter.com/QandA/status/1155816150346764288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 29, 2019</a></blockquote> <p>However, Liaw was unwilling to speculate whether or not his former mentor Calombaris should be behind bars.</p> <p>“Let’s not get giddy about celebrity chefs being thrown in prison because I don’t think we’re quite at the point yet.”</p> <p>Labor Senator for Victoria Kimberley Kitching was firm in her stance when she was asked whether or not underpayment should equal jail time.</p> <p>“Yes, I do. For the reason that it is thieving. It is thieving from people.”</p> <p>She also pointed out that consumers are likely to “vote with their feet”.</p> <p>“There were reports that Mr Calombaris’ restaurants weren’t being very well patronised and that is because people are going to vote with their feet. They don’t want to be associated with someone who has done that to his staff.”</p> <p>Tasmanian Liberal Senator Eric Abetz was in agreement with Kitching.</p> <p>“Wage theft is completely unacceptable. Stealing from employees — and that’s what it is — should be treated by the criminal law in exactly the same way as employees stealing from employers.”</p> <p>“But when it’s so systemic, especially in bigger institutions, then one suspects that it might not have been an honest mistake of a Mum and Dad restaurant accidentally reading the wrong award.</p> <p>“When we’re dealing with the figures that have been mentioned, clearly something is terribly wrong. Theft is theft."</p>

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Waleed Aly's challenge after Adam Goodes' documentary

<p>Waleed Aly has weighed in on the controversy surrounding Adam Goodes after the controversial documentary addressing the bullying and racism the former Sydney Swans star faced in Australia sparked an outpouring of emotion and support.</p> <p><em>The Final Quarter</em>, which was aired on Thursday night on Channel 10, showed the booing and abuse Goodes dealt with over the last three seasons of his career, leading him into an early retirement.</p> <p>In the special late-night edition of <a rel="noopener" href="https://10daily.com.au/news/sport/a190717fgbdv/adam-goodes-was-failed-by-the-game-and-fans-he-loved-20190718" target="_blank"><em>The Project</em></a> that followed the documentary, Aly spoke with indigenous representatives and media and sporting figures to discuss the issue.</p> <p>“It was a difficult thing to go through ... what should have been a spectacular finish to an incredible career is just extremely sad,” said Jude Bolton, former Sydney Swans player and teammate.</p> <p>Chip Le Grand, journalist at <em>The Australian,</em> said the doco demonstrated how “a lot of us don’t seem to even know racism when we see it”.</p> <p>He criticised the AFL’s failure to step in and defend Goodes.</p> <p>“They just needed someone to clearly stand up, and it was [Chief Executive Officer] Gillon McLachlan’s time, in that instance, to just say: ‘Look, yes, it is complicated but, clearly, race is a part of this, it’s a big part of this, it’s ugly and it has to stop’,” he said.</p> <p>Aly closed the discussion by making a statement on what the nation should do from this point.</p> <p>“It seems that what began as personal torment for Adam quickly became a national controversy,” Aly said.</p> <p>“The question now really is whether it can become a productive national conversation. And the answer to that question rests with each of us.”</p> <p>The AFL released an apology on the same day of the film premiere.</p> <p>“Adam, who represents so much that is good and unique about our game, was subject to treatment that drove him from football. The game did not do enough to stand with him and call it out,” the statement said.</p> <p>“We apologise unreservedly for our failures during this period.</p> <p>“Failure to call out racism and not standing up for one of our own let down all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander players, past and present.”</p>

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Adam Hills' heated moment during live TV spat with Piers Morgan

<p>Aussie comedian Adam Hills has clashed with British TV host Piers Morgan on <em>Good Morning Britain</em> following a former online spat over masculinity.</p> <p>When Hills appeared on the show Wednesday morning to promote his series <em>The Last Leg</em>, Morgan took the opportunity to confront the comedian over a tweet he posted last year.</p> <p>In October 2018, Hills called Morgan a “mercenary” after the morning TV presenter attacked James Bond actor Daniel Craig’s masculinity for wearing a papoose to carry his daughter Ella. </p> <p>“You’ll honestly say anything for ratings/cash/views,” Hills wrote on Twitter at the time.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"> <p dir="ltr">Oh fuck off Piers you mercenary. You’ll honestly say anything for ratings/cash/views.</p> — Adam Hills (@adamhillscomedy) <a href="https://twitter.com/adamhillscomedy/status/1051925754819354625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 15, 2018</a></blockquote> <p>54-year-old Morgan kicked off the chat by bringing up Hills’s comment. </p> <p>“Here’s your chance to show some humility and regret the tone because I always thought we got on well and then I pick up Twitter and get abused by you,” accused Morgan.</p> <p>“Now you are on my show helping me get ratings, cash and views.”</p> <p>Hills responded: “Firstly, in your original tweet you called into question [Daniel Craig’s] masculinity for looking after his own child, which raises several issues.</p> <p>“Secondly, I know you Piers, and most of this is an act.</p> <p>“There’s one of two things going on; either you are a terribly odious human being who believes everything he says on TV... Or you are pretending to be a terribly odious human being in order to be paid.”</p> <p>Morgan replied: “I take issue with that — apparently my odious views are shared by 90 per cent of the country; do you think <em>The Last Leg</em> is just a bunch of smart-arse snowflake liberals all arguing over people who have the more mainstream view?”</p> <p><em>The Last Leg</em> host retorted: “Is that worse than being a snowflake liberal but pretending not to be, which is what you do?”</p> <p>Morgan’s co-host Susanna Reid and fellow guest Alex Brooker intervened to move the segment on.</p>

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Obsessed with property! Ellen DeGeneres buys $64.7 million Beverly Hills mansion

<p>Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi have opened their colossal cheque book again to buy Adam Levine’s $64.7 million mansion.</p> <p>The Maroon 5 singer and his Victoria Secret model wife Behati Prinsloo lived in the home for just one year before offloading the Beverly Hills mansion in LA.</p> <p>The sprawling 10,376 square foot home is a five-bedroom, 12-bathroom property and seems to be the perfect addition to DeGeneres’ growing collection of pricy real estate.</p> <p>Levine reportedly sank $11.5 million into upgrading the home during the 12 months he owned it.</p> <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/BwnnqX9gVOs/" data-instgrm-version="12"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <p style="margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;"><a style="color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BwnnqX9gVOs/" target="_blank">Here we go! 💪 Who's ready to stare down these #VoiceCrossBattles results? 😏</a></p> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">A post shared by <a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/nbcthevoice/" target="_blank"> NBC's The Voice</a> (@nbcthevoice) on Apr 23, 2019 at 6:00pm PDT</p> </div> </blockquote> <p>It’s unsure what DeGeneres and de Rossi plan on doing with the mansion, but the final deal was just a couple of million short of Levine's $68.3 million asking price. It was well above the $48 million the Maroon 5 frontman and<span> </span><em>The Voice USA</em> judge paid for the home.</p> <p>The property was built in 1933 in the traditional American vernacular style of the time and the three-storey home has crown moulding in many of the common living areas on the first floor.</p> <p>There are also multiple areas for lounging in the backyard around the in-ground pool.</p> <p>Scroll through the gallery above to take a tour inside the $64.7 million Beverly Hills mansion.</p> <p><em>Photo credits: <a rel="noopener" href="https://www.mansionglobal.com/articles/adam-levine-sells-45-million-beverly-hills-mansion-in-five-weeks-203346" target="_blank">Mansion Global</a> </em></p>

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Masterchef’s Adam Liaw shares $7 allergy-free snack recipe

<p><em>Masterchef</em> winner Adam Liaw has gone viral for a $7 recipe that will create a week’s worth of lunchbox treats.</p> <p>The father-of-two took to Twitter to share his recipe of chocolate-covered breadsticks. Titled “Fat Pocky”, Liaw said the recipe is free from nuts, eggs and dairy, and only requires five minutes to make.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"> <p dir="ltr">I am going to write a recipe for something that you can make 25 portions of in 5 minutes that can keep unrefrigerated for 8 hours and contains no dairy, nuts or eggs. I don't know what it is yet but I will make it work for the good of us all.</p> — Adam Liaw (@adamliaw) <a href="https://twitter.com/adamliaw/status/1108493281296437248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 20, 2019</a></blockquote> <p>There are three main ingredients involved, Liaw outlined: 25 plain breadsticks, 375g dark chocolate and a pack of sugar strands or nonpareil, altogether costing $7.</p> <p>Explaining the method, the 40-year-old wrote: “Just microwave the chocolate for 1 minute, then blasts of 30 seconds until it's melted. Probably 3-4 minutes all up.”</p> <p>After the chocolate is completely liquefied, “Put the chocolate into a glass and then just dunk the bloody things [i.e. breadsticks] in there.</p> <p>“Shake off as much chocolate as you can. You'll need to top up the glass with a teaspoon or so of chocolate every 2-3 sticks. Then lay them on a tray of baking paper.”</p> <p>For decoration, Liaw recommended sprinkles or other edibles such as dried mango.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"> <p dir="ltr">Then you're just scattering them with some sprinkles. <a href="https://t.co/C7nGmXFfFM">pic.twitter.com/C7nGmXFfFM</a></p> — Adam Liaw (@adamliaw) <a href="https://twitter.com/adamliaw/status/1108602980654178304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 21, 2019</a></blockquote> <p>Liaw also gave some tips for the aftermath. “You end up with a full glass of melted chocolate,” he warned. “Just pour that onto a sheet of baking paper and spread it out. Wait for it to harden then break it up and put it in a Ziploc bag for next time.”</p> <p>The recipe came after Liaw responded to a joke on how parents are expected to create costumes or treats for “some school celebration” at the most unexpected times. “No kidding, but my son has been at school for exactly ONE TERM and this has already happened about 9 times,” he wrote.</p> <p>The series of tweets has received thousands of likes and retweets. “This is freaking brilliant,” a mother responded.</p> <p>“Thank you for saving my life. Was about to send my kids to boarding school to avoid this issue once again,” another woman jokingly commented.</p> <p>One simply wrote, “You are an international hero.”</p> <p>Would you try Liaw’s recipe? Let us know in the comments.</p>

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Bryan Adams sets the record straight on rumoured romance with Princess Diana

<p>It is well-known that “Summer of ‘69” singer Bryan Adams was close to Princess Diana.</p> <p>Appearing on US talk show <em>Watch What Happens Live</em> this week, host Andy Cohen addressed whether there was any truth to the long-time rumours that there was a romance between the Canadian rocker and the people’s princess.</p> <p>During a game called Plead The Fifth, the 58-year-old rocker was asked by the host, “There are many rumours that you and Princess Diana were once romantically involved. Her butler [Paul Burrell] said that he used to sneak you into Kensington Palace. How would you characterise your relationship with Princess Diana?”</p> <p>The singer responded, “Great friends. And she didn’t sneak me in, I would just roll up.”</p> <p>When host Andy hinted that maybe they were “friends with benefits,” Bryan replied, “She was just… we were good friends.”</p> <p><img width="500" height="334" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7819463/2-bryan-diana_500x334.jpg" alt="2 Bryan Diana (1)"/></p> <p><img width="500" height="334" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7819464/3-bryan-diana_500x334.jpg" alt="3 Bryan Diana"/></p> <p>The hit-maker’s former long-time girlfriend, model and Bond girl <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-201400/Diana-affair-rock-star.html">Cecilie Thomsen, reportedly claimed</a> she knew Bryan was having an affair with Diana in 1996, and that it didn’t make their “stormy relationship” easier.</p> <p>“I knew Diana had an affair with Bryan,” the Danish actress stated in an interview in 2003.</p> <p>“Bryan knew Paul Burrell very well and Paul was part of the inner circle around Bryan, and he also introduced him to Diana. The first time Bryan met Diana I wasn’t invited,” Cecilie continued.</p> <p>“Ours was a stormy relationship and Bryan’s affair with Diana didn’t make it easier.”</p> <p>Over a decade earlier, before they had even met, the “Everything I Do” crooner penned and released a song about the princess called “Diana”, about her marriage, how the royal drove him “wild” and how she was the “queen” of his dreams and pondered what she was doing with a guy like her husband Prince Charlies in the lyrics.</p> <p> </p>

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Adam Sandler blasted for repeatedly grabbing "The Crown" star Claire Foy’s knee

<p>Adam Sandler has been slammed for repeatedly touching Claire Foy’s knee during an interview on The Graham Norton Show, leaving Foy and fellow guest Emma Thompson looking very uncomfortable.</p> <p>Viewers immediately took to social media to question why the actor kept placing his hand on the The Crown star’s knee when she made repeated efforts to move it away.</p> <p>Unfortunately her efforts to pat away his hand went unnoticed as Sandler soon returns his hand back on her knee.</p> <p>Emma Thompson, noticing Sandler’s repeated gesture, also looked on in confusion.</p> <p>Sandler seemed oblivious and continued telling his story, touching the leg of Thompson as well, his co-star in the new Netflix film The Meyerwitz Stories.</p> <p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-R6UzMN_z3o" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p> <p>One viewer wrote on Twitter: “Claire Foy replacing Adam Sandler’s hand onto his own knee rather than hers, was the perfect ‘haha don’t touch me again’ move #GrahamNorton.”</p> <p>While another said: “Adam Sandler has no social awareness of how awkward he seemed to be making Emma Thompson and Claire Foy #stoptouching #GrahamNorton.”</p> <p>A spokesman for Sandler described the actor’s actions as a “friendly gesture”.</p> <p>It comes after the Harvey Weinstein scandal in Hollywood, with a string of A-listers accusing the powerful executive of a string of sexual assault crimes, including a number of rape allegations.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p>

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Adam Liaw’s red beef and vegetable curry with fresh herbs

<p>Celebrity chef Adam Liaw shares his no-fuss red beef and vegetable curry recipe.</p> <p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Serves:</span></strong> 4</p> <p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Ingredients</span>:</strong></p> <ul> <li>2 tbsp vegetable oil</li> <li>1 jar Thai Red Curry Paste (195g)</li> <li>1 can Premium Coconut Cream (400ml)</li> <li>1.5L chicken stock or water</li> <li>¼ cup Fish Sauce</li> <li>1 tbsp sugar</li> <li>4 kaffir lime leaves</li> <li>1 eggplant, halved lengthways and sliced</li> <li>1 zucchini, halved lengthways and sliced</li> <li>1 red capsicum, cut into strips</li> <li>1 red onion, cut into chunks</li> <li>8 spears baby corn, halved</li> <li>2 cups button mushrooms, halved</li> <li>1 cup green beans, cut into 5cm lengths</li> <li>2 cups cherry tomatoes</li> <li>1kg beef topside, sliced very thinly</li> <li>1 cup loosely packed basil leaves</li> <li>30ml lime juice (about 1 lime)</li> <li>Coriander leaves, to serve</li> <li>Steamed rice, to serve</li> </ul> <p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Method:</span></strong></p> <p>1. Heat the oil in a large pot and fry the curry paste for a few minutes, stirring occasionally until the paste is very fragrant. Add about 100ml of the coconut cream and continue to fry for a further 5 minutes. Add the stock or water and bring to the boil. Add the fish sauce, sugar and lime leaves. Boil for 5-10 minutes until the top of the liquid starts to take on an oily shine.</p> <p>2. Add the vegetables and return to a simmer. Simmer for 5 minutes until the vegetables begin to soften, and add the beef and simmer for a further 10 minutes until the beef is cooked through. Stir through the remaining coconut cream, then stir through the basil leaves and lime juice. Scatter with coriander and serve with steamed rice.</p> <p><em>Recipe courtesy of <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="http://www.ayam.com/" target="_blank">AYAM</a></strong></span>. Image courtesy of Hachette Publishing.</em></p>

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