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SBS' Vitamania takes aim at $100 billion industry's hype

READ MORE Shots of waste chemical factories contrariety neatly with a drizzling oranges and fever logos intoxicated on vitamin bottles during a wellness expo. But with a attention framed as a appearing behemoth, Muller doesn’t land any Michael Moore-style punches in a doco, no left-handed association heads awkwardly fortifying their product. Is there a reason for that? “Uh, maybe legal?” he laughs. “We approached a lot of vitamin manufacturers to let us into their universe and uncover us what was function … some of a bigger companies wanted zero to do with us. It was not something where we were acquire with open arms, not by a industry.” He says a scheduled revisit to fire during a Vitamin C bureau in Scotland, negotiated over about a year, fell detached during a final notation when a association dithered, “knowing full good we’d flown all a approach from Australia and couldn’t plod around a report to fire on another day”. ...

Portrait of toxic masculinity

READ MORE Acute Misfortune Comedy Aug 4, 6.30pm; Kino Aug 10, 4.15pm; Hoyts Aug 18, 1.45pm Erik Jensen (Toby Wallace) is only 19 when he is sent to talk a Archibald Prize-winning painter Adam Cullen (Daniel Henshall) during home in a Blue Mountains. The confront goes good adequate that Cullen invites a immature Sydney Morning Herald publisher to write his biography. So follows a years-long and doubtful attribute between a alcoholic, smackhead, misogynist painter and a younger, gay, rather directionless writer. While Thomas M. Wright’s instrumentation of Jensen’s discourse of a same name attempts to support this as an confront from that both gained, it never utterly becomes explicable as anything other than a bully-victim attribute in that Jensen (who co-wrote a screenplay) is shot at, dumped from a relocating motorbike, and regularly humiliated, while Cullen slides inexorably towards an early death. It’s a grave mural of poisonous masculinity, not most relieved by mea...

Fixture 'compromised', says Brad Scott

READ MORE North Melbourne manager Brad Scott says a AFL tie is clearly compromised, though that’s for others to worry about as he concentrates on heading his group to an doubtful finals campaign. The Kangaroos’ run home will include of 4 clubs out of finals row – Brisbane, Western Bulldogs, Adelaide and St Kilda – in what looks to be a softest pull of any group for a residue of a home and divided season. North Melbourne manager Brad Scott. Photo: AAP “It’s compromised, there’s no doubt about that,” Scott told a media on Wednesday afternoon before training, adding a tie was not balanced. “So how we can continue to work on ways to urge a evenness of a foe and positively of a tie to give everybody an equal event is unequivocally important. “But a existence is, while we’ve got 18 teams and 22 games, we don’t consider anyone’s going to spike that. Plenty have attempted though no one’s nailed it. We’ll k...

Aussie golfer Jarrod Lyle makes heartbreaking decision to end cancer treatment

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READ MORE Australian golfer Jarrod Lyle has finished a distressing preference to go into palliative caring after fighting a third conflict with cancer. The 36-year-old has been battling a illness given a regularity of strident myeloid leukaemia final year. His condition has run-down during new months, heading to mother Briony to post to amicable media with concerning updates about his health. But in a post on Tuesday, Briony updated Lyle’s supporters on Facebook with a misfortune probable news. “My heart breaks as we form this message,” she wrote. “Earlier currently Jarrod finished a preference to stop active diagnosis and start palliative care. “He has given all that he’s got to give, and his bad physique can't take anymore. “We’ll be holding him closer to home in a subsequent integrate of days so he can finally leave a hospital. “We have finished a best to ‘control’ a account surrounding Jarrod’s illness and treat...

Swedish crown jewels stolen in 'Italian job' heist

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READ MORE Crown wealth belonging to a Swedish stately family were swiped in a heist by thieves who done their shun around speedboat.  The jewels were stolen from a Strängnäs Cathedral, located in a tiny city west of Stockholm, on Tuesday.  Police pronounced a culprits swiped dual bullion crowns and a stately universe from a cathedral before journey around a speedboat that was moored underneath a church.  Officers chased a thieves by vessel and helicopter – though were incompetent to detain them. They are now job for any witnesses to come brazen and assistance with a hunt for a perpetrators. The occurrence is suggestive of a heist and vessel follow by a Venice canals in a 2003 Hollywood reconstitute of The Italian Job . The bullion crowns belonged to King Charles IX and Queen Christina and date behind to a early 1600s.  King Charles IX of Sweden was aristocrat between 1604-11 and died during age 61. Article source: http://watoday.com.au/afl/afl-n...

Emma Husar defends taxpayer-funded trip, Bruno Mars gig

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READ MORE Labor MP Emma Husar has shielded a taxpayer-funded outing to Brisbane, detailing a work events she attended while there and claiming her tickets to a Bruno Mars unison were a birthday present from a friend. Ms Husar is already underneath glow over a apart inner review into allegations of bullying inside her Sydney citizens office. Labor personality Bill Shorten has declined to criticism until a news is finished. On Wednesday, the Daily Telegraph published details of a taxpayer-funded flights and cinema from a concert, that a backbencher attended with a high-ranking military officer from Western Sydney. “Of march no work losses were used to attend a concert. Any avowal differently is preposterous,” a orator for Ms Husar told SBS News. Earlier on a day of a concert, Mar 14, she sat on a parliamentary cabinet conference in Cairns that was probing a National Disability Insurance Scheme. The following day, Labor says Ms Husar was assembly with domestic assault organis...

Retirements show there's more to life than sport

READ MORE Add to that a fact that a reward points complement – giving teams an additional foe indicate for any entertain won – has set adult 4 mini-games within any match. This has seen teams pull themselves to a limit, with players incompetent to be complacent by a deteriorate in a follow for additional points. Yet when we pronounce to a players a clarity is that while games are harder, faster and some-more intense, they are not holding such a large earthy fee as to diminish their careers. This creates sense. While a preference to retire is never an easy one, and in a stream meridian it’s as most about walking divided from a pursuit as it is about walking divided from doing something we love, it is indeed frequency a preference to not wish to play any more. In fact, personification is a easy part. Generally a preference is some-more about no longer carrying a enterprise to do all of a other things. Skills sessions, justice sessions, weights, group meetings, recovery, ...

Teenager raised to be 'gentle giant' faces court over mother's murder

READ MORE A teenage child with an egghead incapacity indicted of murdering his mom was lifted to be a “gentle giant”, a Melbourne justice has been told. The boy, who can't be named for authorised reasons, faced a children’s justice on Wednesday charged with murdering his mom in January. His grandmother gave justification during a pre-trial committal hearing, claiming she didn’t trust a child would deliberately harm his mother, adding there was a “great understanding of adore between them”. “(My daughter) suspicion it was improved to move him adult as a peaceful giant – since he was big – rather than a infamous giant,” a lady said. “Then unfortunately as he got older, he got a ability to mangle anything and everything.” But a grandmother combined that a boy, who has an IQ of 59, had never behaved vigourously with his mother. Article source: http://watoday.com.au/afl/afl-news/afl-season-2016-gold-coast-suns-...

Bid to keep fatal Queensland driver in jail fails

READ MORE A Gold Coast drunk-driver who caused a pile-up that killed her younger sister will be expelled from jail this month after an interest to boost her judgment was dismissed. Candice Lee Chmieluk was condemned to 5 years behind bars in May after pleading guilty to dangerous pushing causing genocide while underneath a change of alcohol. All though 3 months of a 31-year-old’s judgment was suspended. On Wednesday, prosecutors argued in Queensland’s Court of Appeal that a judgment unsuccessful to deter people from dangerous driving. Prosecutor Michael Byrne QC labelled it unjust, irrational and inadequate. “It does not give sufficient approval to a concepts of ubiquitous anticipation and open safety,” he said. Article source: http://watoday.com.au/afl/afl-news/afl-season-2016-gold-coast-suns-savouring-whats-to-come-as-peter-wright-has-a-breakout-game-20160703-gpxsb2.html Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Ope...

Rescuers fear for Australian climber stranded on NZ's Mount Aspiring

READ MORE Rescuers reason grave concerns for an Australian traveller stranded in frozen conditions on Mount Aspiring on New Zealand’s South Island. The New Zealand Rescue Coordination Centre pronounced a 29-year-old traveller set off his guide on Tuesday after attempting to stand a challenging 3033-metre peak. Emergency crew found many of his equipment, including his sleeping bag and cooking gear, during French Ridge hovel on Tuesday afternoon before complicated continue prevented serve rescue operations. Rescuers spent Tuesday night during Aspiring hovel and are now stationed during Aspiring and French Ridge huts, any about 5 kilometres of alpine turf from a Bonar Glacier where a guide was activated. Vince Cholewa, a orator from a rescue coordination centre, pronounced a climber’s guide was speckled relocating a brief stretch to a north-east during 2.30pm (NZST) on Wednesday. Article source: http://watoday.com.au/afl/afl-news/afl-season-2016-gold-coast-suns-savouring-w...

A question of control: China's Xi Jinping faces a rare rebuke at home

READ MORE Party leaders still worship Deng, even yet Xi has jettisoned some of his useful policies. But some-more liberal-minded former officials have also embraced Deng as an icon, casting him as a some-more assuage personality to prominence a pretension overreach they contend Xi has brought. “Even yet a existence is most some-more complex, Deng’s renouned picture mostly boils down to one word: reform,” pronounced Julian Gewirtz, a academician during a Weatherhead Centre for International Affairs during Harvard University who is study China’s changes in a 1980s. “Today Xi is clearly interruption ways with elements of what Deng supported, such as some-more open egghead debate, larger subdivision of celebration and state, and ‘biding time’ in general relations,” he said. “And for critics of Xi, Deng might be a useful mystic arms since of his status as a sold form of reformer.” Some signs advise that a trade tensions and domestic...

He won't admit it, but Turnbull knows Shorten has his number

READ MORE There can be no doubt that Malcolm Turnbull feels – even if he won’t readily admit it – that Bill Shorten has clearly bettered him, both in the last election and now in the Longman byelection. This has been evident in Turnbull’s responses. In rationalising the electoral outcomes, Turnbull attacked Shorten for “running a Mediscare campaign” in the federal election and for “lying” about health cuts in Longman. But these responses fail to recognise how Shorten was able to do this: how he was left with the opportunity and the financial and manpower capacity (mostly via the unions and the likes of Get Up) to “scare” and “lie” and get away with it. Malcolm Turnbull addresses the media in Sydney on Sunday. Photo: Brook Mitchell If Turnbull wants to win the next election, he needs to tackle Shorten’s ability to finance such campaigns – and his capacity to sell them to the public. The clear message from...

Corporate tax cuts are politically difficult, says Scott Morrison, but good for the economy

READ MORE “And my judgment is that we need to negotiate in good faith and to see whether or not we can get support in the Senate,” Mr Dutton told the Seven Network on Tuesday night. Mr Dutton’s neighbour in the Queensland electorate of Petrie, Luke Howarth, has been leading calls within the Coalition to reconsider the tax cuts before the next election. “The fact is there’s no point taking a policy if it’s going to be defeated in the Senate and not looked after,” he told 2GB Radio on Wednesday. Mr Morrison, who has had differing opinions with Mr Dutton on policies in the past, acknowledged that the company tax cuts were politically difficult but were the right thing for the country. “We’re not in this business of political expediency to jettison policies that we think are good for the Australian economy,” he said. Article source: https://www.smh.com.au/national/victoria/driving-blind-20180701-h123xx.html?utm_medium=rss&utm_s...

Rescuers' fears for Australian climber stranded on NZ's Mount Aspiring

READ MORE Rescuers hold grave concerns for an Australian climber stranded in freezing conditions on Mount Aspiring on New Zealand’s South Island. The New Zealand Rescue Coordination Centre said the 29-year-old climber set off his beacon on Tuesday after attempting to climb the challenging 3033-metre peak. Emergency personnel found most of his equipment, including his sleeping bag and cooking gear, at French Ridge hut on Tuesday afternoon before heavy weather prevented further rescue operations. Rescuers spent Tuesday night at Aspiring hut and are now stationed at Aspiring and French Ridge huts, each about five kilometres of mountainous terrain from the Bonar Glacier where the beacon was activated. Safety concerns mean they are unable to reach the climber’s last recorded location. Article source: https://www.smh.com.au/national/victoria/driving-blind-20180701-h123xx.html?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Cl...

'Headline whore': Simon Gallaher responds to Todd McKenney 'outing'

READ MORE “They are grown up now and I have a great relationship with them,” McKenney said. “It’s time”. However the highly public revelations have come as a shock to the Gallaher family, with Lisa Gallaher posting on Facebook: “Oh I’m okay, my brother is being a douche bag. We all have to just duck the fall out now.” Todd McKenney Photo: Supplied The Gallaher’s daughter, Gigi, also expressed her dismay at the radio station for airing the interview, challenging host Benjamin Norris on the motivation to broadcast the discussion, telling him: “publicly outing someone is just wrong”, revealing she knew of her father and uncle’s relationship, but adding that not all her family did. Article source: https://www.smh.com.au/national/victoria/driving-blind-20180701-h123xx.html?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new windo...

Inside job: Perth McDonald's manager sent texts, map to thief

READ MORE “It was well-planned. To prepare for the robbery, not only was there discussion between you and Mr Egan in which he had told you about the workings of the store, but he also prepared a map of the premises and indicated to you where certain people might be and where certain things might be occurring. “I said at the outset, the aggravating circumstance, apart from the fact that you were armed, was that you were in company with Mr Egan. “Fast food restaurants, cafés, stores and their employees are vulnerable targets because they often have large sums of cash and are open very late. “Even if they are not open very late, there are people in the store who can be easy targets for offenders who are armed and intent on stealing money. “There is a need, therefore, to provide protection by imposing sentences that are severe to deter others from engaging in this sort of conduct.” Article source: https://www.smh.com.au/national/victoria/driving-blin...

My Health Record security to be tightened after backlash

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READ MORE Police and government agencies will not be able to access Australians’ online health records without a specific court order under new rules announced by the Turnbull government, which come following weeks of backlash over the My Health Record and crisis talks with medical bodies.  Privacy provisions for the record will be strengthened so that a court order is needed for information to be released without consent – although the government stressed no records had ever been released without one.  Health Minister Greg Hunt announced the changes on Tuesday night after talks with the Australian Medical Association (AMA) and Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.  AMA President Tony Bartone told SBS News the minister had also agreed to consider extending the opt-out period by a month from the October 15 deadline, to allow people enough time to make their decision.  Mr Hunt said the amendment would clarify the privacy protections and ...

At least 85 injured after Mexican plane crashes in hail storm

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READ MORE At least 85 people were injured after an Aeromexico flight crashed on takeoff during a heavy hail storm in northern Mexico, engulfing the plane in flames, officials said Tuesday. The Embraer 190 aircraft, which was operating between Durango and Mexico City, crashed around 4pm local time “with 97 passengers and four crew members on board,” according to Mexico’s transport minister Gerardo Ruiz Esparza. “It is confirmed that there have been no deaths from the flight #AM2431 accident,” tweeted Jose Rosas, the governor of Durango state, where the crash happened. Dozens of lightly injured passengers were seen leaving the plane, which was engulfed in gray smoke in a field.  A reporter for network Milenio said some passengers had walked from the crash site to a nearby highway to seek help. “Approximately 85 people are injured,” Durango’s civil defense spokesman Alejandro Cardoza told the Milenio television channe...

'Caved too quickly': Coles slammed over plastic bag backflip

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READ MORE Coles has caved to public pressure and will now offer reusable plastic bags for free for an indefinite period of time, after backflipping on its 1 August cut-off date. The supermarket giant has been handing out bags to customers in NSW, Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia since 1 July after banning single-use plastic bags. Coles initially told customers they’d have to pay for reusable bags. The supermarket was meant to stop providing its reusable Better Bags for free on 1 August and start charging customers 15 cents per bag, but has now backflipped on that decision. The supermarket quickly started copping flak for the reversal, with shoppers and environmental groups taking Coles to task. What a bunch of children Australians are. Having tantrums over plastic bags. Some Australians have been voluntarily shopping at a supermarket with no plastic bags for a decade. It’s fine. Grow up. — Matt Bevan 🎙 (@MatthewBevan) July 31, 2018 The Coles plastic b...

Woman set to plead guilty over Islamic State-inspired stabbing

READ MORE A Bangladeshi national accused of stabbing a Melbourne man in what police have alleged was an Islamic State-inspired attack is set to plead guilty, but lawyers are wrangling over whether she admits to attempted murder or a terror offence. Momena Shoma, 24, is accused of stabbing Roger Singaravelu in the neck while he was asleep at his Mill Park home on February 10. She had arrived in Australia that month to study and was lodging with Mr Singaravelu’s family. Passport photo of Momena Shoma, a 24-year-old Bangladeshi woman accused of an “Islamic State-inspired” stabbing in Mill Park. Photo: Supplied Police have previously charged Ms Shoma with engaging in a terrorist act, alleging she was self-radicalised. She appeared on Wednesday before Melbourne Magistrates Court, where magistrate Sarah Dawes was told Ms Shoma had also been charged with attempted murder. During her appearance Ms Shoma, who was wearing a black niqab, repeatedly failed to stand for Ms Dawes ...

Cats set off on Tiger hunt at MCG as epic battle looms

READ MORE They two teams met at the MCG in round 13 and were locked together at three quarter-time before Richmond surged away with four goals to one in the final quarter. Geelong have five inclusions since that game with Scott Selwood, Cam Guthrie, Dan Menzel, Lachie Henderson and Quinton Narkle replacing  Zach Guthrie, James Parsons, Cory Gregson, Lincoln McCarthy and Jordan Murdoch, however they will need to find an inclusion with Tom Stewart set to miss with an ankle injury. In contrast the Tigers were missing David Astbury through injury and will once again be without Dion Prestia while Liam Baker and Jacob Townsend are back in the side for the injured Dan Butler and Reece Conca. Ryan Garthwaite replaced Astbury and Jack Graham has been in and out of the team. Scott said the Cats had great respect for Richmond but the prospect of playing them was not intimidating. Article source: https://www.smh.com.au/national/victoria/driving-blind-20180701-h123xx.html?utm_medium=rss...

Johnson to play first game for Swans in nearly six years

READ MORE Sydney defender Alex Johnson will make his return to senior football this week, 2136 days since he last played in the 2012 grand final. In one of the feel-good stories of the season, Johnson will be named in the Swans team to face Collingwood in the vital clash at the SCG on Saturday night. Alex Johnson will make his return to AFL football this Saturday night at the SCG. Photo: Janie Barrett The defender starred in the Swans’ 2012 premiership win only to rupture his anterior cruciate ligament during the 2013 pre-season. He has undergone five knee reconstructions, seven other operations on his knee and earlier this year had groin surgery, which delayed his start to the season. Johnson has also had a “one in a million infection” in his knee that prevented his ACL from re-forming. “Johnson’s story is one of persistence, toughness and courage,” the club said in a statement on Wednesday. Article source: https://www.smh.com.au/national/victoria/dr...

Rescue mission to save Australian stranded on NZ's Mount Aspiring

READ MORE Rescuers hold grave concerns for an Australian climber stranded on Mount Aspiring on New Zealand’s South Island. Rescue Coorindation Centre NZ said the 29-year-old climber had become stuck on Mount Aspiring in bad weather. Maritime NA has confirmed the operation, saying two members of a cliff rescue team were en route to the climber. “Police have advised the climber’s family that they have grave concerns for him as he had left most of his equipment at French Ridge Hut so he could move quickly to climb and return to the hut,” the agency said on Facebook. A rescue helicopter failed to reach the climber on Tuesday. Article source: https://www.smh.com.au/national/victoria/driving-blind-20180701-h123xx.html?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_feed Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window) Best Wordpress Plugin development company in India  ...

South Africa to press ahead with land expropriation

READ MORE Ramaphosa said the unemployment figures were “quite worrying”, saying the ruling party has told the government to move with urgency to develop and implement a stimulus package to ignite economic growth. Ramaphosa said the measures would, among others, include increasing investment in public infrastructure. The ANC will contest national elections next year in the first ballot since the opposition won control of several key municipalities, including the biggest and richest city, Johannesburg, and the capital, Pretoria, in 2016. “This is a surprising and premature announcement by the ANC because Parliament is still in its review process on changing the constitution,” said Lawson Naidoo, executive director of the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution. “Parliament still has to gather and evaluate the many submissions that have been made. We are in a pre-election phase and the ANC announcement is part of that.” Article sou...

The man 'believed the law did not apply to him': Manafort trial's first day

READ MORE On the first day of the trial, the northern Virginia federal courthouse lived up to its reputation as a “rocket docket” where cases move quickly. In a matter of a few hours, the judge had winnowed a jury pool of about sixty people down to 12 jurors and four alternates. After lunch, opening statements took about an hour, followed by the trial’s first witness, Devine. The architect of Sanders’ presidential campaign, Devine also worked closely with Manafort as a political consultant in Ukraine – a striking example of how US political consultants from across the spectrum take their expertise overseas, where they can often earn large amounts of money advising foreign politicians. Devine said he worked for Yanukovych’s Party of Regions in Ukraine from 2005 to 2010 and returned briefly for a project in 2014. “It was an incredible operation,” he said of his first campaign there. Manafort had hired great people, he said, and had “su...