Hosting the Olympic Games is a hefty responsibility that, prior to the 1970’s, was saved primarily for cities already rich in infrastructure. However, the 1970’s saw the number of participating athletes more than double compared to previous decades. As the Games grew, so too did the number of cities entering the bid to host. While…
The latest television show taking Netflix and the world by storm is the Korean action thriller Squid Game. The ensemble action thriller follows a cast of financially strained and destitute characters competing in a series of life-or-death games for a grand prize of 45.6 billion won (approximately $52 million AUD). The six games in which…
More records have been broken in the Australian Olympic Swimming Trials with up-and-coming swimmers illustrating their name to the sport. The trials, however, have been overshadowed by Australian swimmer, Madeline Groves, announcing a withdrawal from the Tokyo Olympic trials, citing “misogynistic perverts” in the sport. Women’s trials overshadowed by Madeline Groves withdrawal The women’s swimming…
According to Lifeline, nine Australians take their own lives every day and seven of those are men. The rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples is double that of their non-Indigenous counterparts, while people in rural populations are twice as likely to take their own lives than their city counterparts. Today, suicide remains the…
As one Danish newspaper put it: “Denmark lost. But life won.” At the end of a highly emotional night in Copenhagen, there was immense relief that Christian Eriksen, who collapsed shortly before half-time in Denmark’s opening Euro 2020 game against Finland on Sunday, was awake and stable in hospital. There was appreciation, too, that those…
The leaders of the G7 countries have recently ended a three-day summit, pledging to address vaccine inequity, climate change, global taxes, and China’s growing power. In a communique released at the conclusion of the meeting in Cornwall, England, the leaders of the G7 countries – France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the…
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his Singaporean counterpart, Lee Hsien Loong, have held talks on the conditions for a travel bubble. Morrison declared he wanted the South-East Asian nation to be the next country for quarantine-free travel after New Zealand. Both countries are likely still months away from any form of announcement, with Lee…
Queensland has recorded no new cases of COVID-19 after a Victorian couple entered the state while infectious, while other attempts by travellers to breach the border have been intercepted. Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said there have been no cases of community transmission so far. The results come from the nearly 6,000 tests conducted in the…
JBS Foods, the world’s largest meat processing company, says it paid the equivalent of US$11 million ($14.2 million) to a criminal gang of hackers to end a cyber-attack that halted its operations around the world, including Australia. JBS shut down production around the world, including Australia, for five days after falling victim to the cyber-attack.…
Health authorities are scrambling to prevent fresh COVID-19 outbreaks in southern Queensland and New South Wales as they trace the path of a Melbourne couple. As multiple towns deal with the possibility of an outbreak, authorities are now asking how and why the Melbourne couple began an interstate road trip from a city already in…