Sampson and Delilah, movie on
ABC iview https://youtu.be/kcLDCNSqimA
Two 14 year old indigenous
children escape their dreary petrol-sniffing existence by stealing a car and
heading to Alice Springs.
By casting two ordinary
Indigenous teenagers and placing them in the heart of a traditional Indigenous
Australian setting, the filmmaker provokes the unsettling idea that Samson and
Delilah are just one symbol, representing many Indigenous youth that are
struggling to find their place in the world.
The rise of Chinese cars in Australia has been meteoric, jumping from 4,154 sales in 2014 to 193,433 last year.
And it's likely to keep growing with models from Chinese giants Guangzhou Automobile Group and Geely Auto set to roll onto Australian roads next year.........
Donald
Trump leaves the courtroom after being found guilty on 34 felony counts of
falsifying business records in the first degree at Manhattan Criminal Court,
Thursday, 30 May, 2024, in New York.
Lawyer Lawrence Lau
Wai-chung arrives at West Kowloon magistrates courts building before verdicts
are passed on 47 pro-democracy activists charged with violating the national
security law.
Photograph: Tyrone Siu/Reuters
Harvey Weinstein
attends a discovery hearing before his retrial on sexual assault charges at
Manhattan criminal court.
Photograph: Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty
Ameca, a humanoid
robot developed by the British company Engineered Arts Digital.
Photograph: Shutterstock
Matt Adnate’s dramatic portrait of Baker Boy –
Yolngu indigenous rapper Danzal Baker – took out the $3000 Packing Room Prize
as finalists in the Archibald awards were publicly revealed Yesterday (Thursday).
A jury has just found Chad Daybell guilty of first-degree
murder in the deaths of his first wife, Tammy Daybell, 7-year-old Joshua
"JJ" Vallow and 16-year-old Tylee Ryan, two children of his current
wife, Lori Vallow Daybell.
Judge Juan Merchan has presided over the historic Donald Trump trial.
Born in Bogota, Colombia, he grew up in Queens and was the first in his family to attend college
WA Labor Senator Fatima Payman has resigned from her position on a prestigious
parliamentary foreign affairs committee, after breaking party ranks to accuse
Israel of genocide.
She was also quoted saying “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
Jewish Liberal backbencher Julian Leeser used Question Time to ask Albanese to remove Payman from parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade.
The WA senator is Australia's first hijab-wearing parliamentarian.
The Israeli Land Authority said UNRWA owes them "a sum of $7.3m for operating on land belonging to Israel without consent for the last seven years."
They have ordered UNRWA to leave their headquarters in occupied Jerusalem within 30 days.
Djok traditional
owner Jeffrey Lee has stopped uranium mining on his land at Koongarra and
now wants to invite tourists to visit. The
proposal has excited tour operators who are frustrated by the ongoing
closure of some of Kakadu's most popular attractions.
A decade after persuading the federal government to add his
uranium-rich land into Kakadu, Djok traditional owner Jeffrey Lee wants to
start inviting tourists to Koongarra...........................
China has lifted suspensions from Australian beef exporters,
removing almost all of the $20 billion worth of trade sanctions it imposed. The
bans were lifted on Wednesday night, with immediate effect, for five different
abattoirs.
Sanctions remain on two abattoirs and rock lobster.
Beijing slapped sanctions on Australia in 2020 after Scott Morrison called for an independent inquiry into the origin of Covid-19.
Victoria's
husband David Beckham previously revealed that she has eaten the same meal
every single day for 25 years - grilled fish and steamed vegetables
A balloon believed to have been sent by North Korea, carrying
various objects including what appeared to be trash and excrement, is seen over
a rice field at Cheorwon, South Korea, May 29, 2024.
The remains of a
storm-damaged, temporary floating pier that was previously anchored by the US
to boost aid deliveries. The pier will
be operational again in just over a week the US said.
Photograph: Mohammed Saber/EPA
Workers producing 99.99% gold ingots for Krastsvetmet, one of the world’s largest producers of precious metals.
Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images
Robert De Niro argues with a Donald Trump backer outside the former president’s hush money criminal trial.
Photograph: Seth Wenig/AP
People gather to watch the
sunset during a phenomenon known as Manhattanhenge when the sun lines up with
the Manhattan street grid in Long Island City in the Queens borough of New York
City, 28 May 2024
In Sydney, police are locking up violent domestic abusers
but all shelters are full and there is no emergency accommodation available for
those who finally decide they’ve had enough and want to leave with their
children...........
Australia's longest serving disc jockey Bob Rogers has died
aged 97. The veteran radio presenter, who had a broadcasting career spanning 78
years, died at his Mosman home this morning.
The woman in the images that Mr Forrest is kissing is believed to be Moroccan Energy Minister Leila Benali.
However, Minister Benali vehemently denies it's her.
At least 30 turbines are located on Finlay's land. For him and the nine other landowners hosting the MacIntyre windfarm, it is a financial lifeline.
Governments may have their sights on renewable energy – critical for
reducing reliance on fossil fuels in order to curb the worst of global heating – but for farmers, it’s more about surviving it at all………
Barriers are set up on the Champ de Mars for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. This venue is hosting the beach volleyball and cecifoot (blind football) events.
Photograph: Adrien Fillon/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock
A visitor takes a photo through a hole in a screen. The resort town erected the screen last week in an attempt to stop tourists from snapping a view of Mount Fuji and overcrowding the area.
Officials said they are repairing the holes.
A girl makes her way to school past piles of uncollected rubbish in the township of Alexandra, a day before the national election.
Photograph: Ihsaan Haffejee/Reuters
The Israel Defense Forces said Tuesday that a hidden store of weapons may have been the actual cause of a deadly blaze in southern Gaza’s Rafah, and that an airstrike that targeted an adjacent area had used small munitions that would not ignite such a fire on their own.
Peter Rex Dansie has died in jail. He murdered his wife, Helen, by pushing her wheelchair into a shallow pond in Adelaide’s South Parklands in 2017 because he considered her a financial burden.
He even fought from jail to claim half of his
murdered wife's estate for himself.
Can you help police?
There are “extreme concerns” for a mother and baby as police continue an urgent search after an umbilical cord and a placenta were found on the banks of the Cooks River in Sydney yesterday.
The organs
were located amid mangroves in an area police described as “particularly muddy”.
He highlighted his decade-long partnership with an Aboriginal
woman, the same woman he was convicted of attacking, and noted they have three
children together.
“I self-identify as an Aboriginal person and consider Australia to
be my country,” RCWV wrote in his submission..........
A rocket launched by North Korea to
deploy the country’s second spy satellite exploded shortly after liftoff Monday,
ruining Kim Jong Un’s plan to field satellites to monitor the US and South
Korea.
It’s highly unusual for North
Korea to take provocative action when China, its major ally and economic
pipeline, is engaging in high-level diplomacy in the region.
Participants race with
Woolsack on their shoulders during the annual Tetbury Woolsack Races in
Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England. AP
Protesters clash with riot
police during a demonstration near the Egyptian embassy in Beirut, in
solidarity with the Palestinian people in Gaza and demanding the Egyptian
authorities open the Rafah border crossing.
AP
Bride and groom seen at a wedding ceremony in the streets of Mekelle.
Photograph: Amanuel Sileshi/AFP/Getty
German and French Presidents and their wives observe a moment of silence at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe.
Photograph: Jesco Denzel Handout/EPA
Palestinians inspect the destruction after Israeli strike near the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees warehouses. The attack killed at least 35 Palestinians including children.
Photograph: Anadolu/Getty
......The government-imposed tax excise is the largest cost for every brewer but during the Covid-19 pandemic, the Australian Tax Office (ATO) allowed these businesses to defer their payments.
Australia has the third
highest beer tax in the world, after only Norway and Finland.......
............The question before
shareholders: whether to bless a pay package that they originally approved in
2018 but that the Delaware judge deemed illegal under that state’s corporate
laws.
But opponents of Musk’s compensation deal are getting organized, too. Several investors released a joint letter this month urging fellow shareholders to vote down the package as excessive......
In 2009 Faheem left behind his career as an accountant at one of Pakistan's largest banks to complete his master's degree at the University of South Australia, a level of qualification he already held in his home nation of Pakistan.
After he graduated, it took him three
years to find a steady job.
"As soon as I went by Samuel I
started getting calls, some initial interviews, and face-to-face
interviews," Faheem said…….
People take part in
a giant open-air picnic on the Champs-Elysees Avenue in Paris, France. AFP
Mountain marksmen
meet for the Alpine region meeting of shooters from South Tyrol, Tyrol and
Bavaria in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
Reuters.
Prince William and his son Prince George during the Emirates FA Cup Final match in London.
Picture:
Crystal Pix/MB Media/Getty Images
French President Macron mingles with people in a bar before the Coupe de France final between Lyon and Paris-Germain.
Photograph: Miguel Medina/Reuters
Protesters clash with
police after demonstrators gathered to call for a hostage deal with Hamas and
to protest against Benjamin Netanyahu and his government.
Photograph: Amir Levy/Getty Images
People offer prayers to the shiba inu dog Kabosu, also known by the nickname Kabo-chan in Narita, Chiba prefecture. Atsuko Sato, the owner of Kabosu, announced on Friday the death of the globally famous dog, whose image inspired the ‘Doge’ meme.
Photograph: Franck Robichon/EPA
Energy spokesman Steve Thomas says Peter Dutton’s plan for nuclear power won’t work in WA.
“To get approvals and construction happening on a nuclear power plant, whatever the size is, is probably a 15-to-20-year timeframe,” he said yesterday..................
Two year old Rowan was found dead by police at his father James Harrison's East Lismore home earlier this month. It is believed Harrison had planned the murder-suicide.
His mother Dr Sophie Roome has released a photo of her son.
Dr Roome had taken out an Apprehended Domestic Violence Order against Harrison which had remained in place to protect her since July last year.
However, the law insisted that his father had regular access.
Drone operators fit different bombs for
different purposes on the battlefront.
Anton (left) says drones are helping fend
off the Russians, but are not enough to win this war.
Amani Haydar’s father was found
guilty of murder in the first degree, for the “ferocious and sustained”
stabbing of his estranged wife while his youngest daughter Ola, 18 was also injured
while trying to stop his repeated blows.
Amani’s book is an interesting
read – The Mother Wound
