Author: James Martin
The British art world can no longer ignore or marginalise black artists, according to the sculptor Thomas J Price, who believes black British culture is finally being absorbed into the mainstream. Price said the large number of exhibitions featuring black British artists – such as Entangled Pasts, Life Between Islands, Get Up, Stand Up Now and In the Black Fantastic – had “set a new standard” for representation, triggered by the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020. “The gates opened up so wide that the breadth and depth of British culture was seen and you can’t close that up again.…
Walter Sofronoff maintained “extensive communication” with a columnist at The Australian – who provided Bruce Lehrmann’s contact details and passed him information – while examining the failed prosecution, a court has been told. The former Queensland judge’s 273 interactions with Janet Albrechtsen over seven months were raised as part of a legal challenge by the former ACT director of public prosecutions, Shane Drumgold, who seeks to quash the ACT board of inquiry’s findings. Drumgold’s lawyer, Dan O’Gorman, told the ACT supreme court on Monday that Sofronoff’s communication with Albrechtsen, while he led the inquiry, may give an impression that his…
Homes have been evacuated and a 5km exclusion zone set up after the rollover of a truck carrying explosive chemicals in Queensland. The Bruce Highway has been blocked in both directions at Bloomsbury, north of Mackay in Queensland, after the spillage of ammonium nitrate, a common fertiliser that can also explode in the wrong conditions. A spokesperson for Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (QFES) confirmed an explosion was their number one concern. Firefighters were called to the scene at about 11.30 am to report a truck had rolled over, the spokesperson said. They arrived to find the ammonium nitrate leaking…
A French national who scaled the side of a Melbourne skyscraper without any safety gear has claimed he wasn’t seeking fame or social media followers. Anthony Andolfo, 30, was on Tuesday sentenced in Melbourne magistrates court to seven days in jail, reckoned as time served, after pleading guilty over the 6 February incident. Andolfo had climbed over a ninth-floor balcony at the Avani building on A’Beckett Street about 7.50am and began climbing without any ropes, harnesses or other safety equipment. He made his way up to the roof of the 55-storey building where he was met by police, firefighters and…
Embarrassed Brisbane players Adam Reynolds and Pat Carrigan have apologised for their late-night scuffle, with the Broncos ruling out suspending the duo. Reynolds and Carrigan fronted the media at Broncos headquarters on Tuesday, less than 48 hours after wrestling at a Brisbane nightspot. The pair refused to go into detail over the incident, and would not delve into whether Reynolds was attempting to drag an intoxicated Carrigan out of a venue. But regardless, Broncos captain Reynolds said he was embarrassed by the situation less than three weeks out from their Las Vegas opener against the Sydney Roosters on 2 March.…
Ticketek will establish pop-ups at Taylor Swift’s Australian concert venues to help field thousands of queries related to ticket scams and fraud, days before the superstar is due to perform.The move comes amid reports some customers had their Ticketek accounts hacked and their tickets listed secondhand and resold. Guardian Australia understands the hackers deployed “credential stuffing”: guessing user passwords using data from other hacks shared on the dark web.Warnings of ticket scams and fraudulent resales have been rife since Swift first announced the Australian leg of her Eras tour in June. The tour broke records when more than 4 million…
This must have felt like a punch in the guts for Roy Hodgson. In his 200th match in charge, Crystal Palace succumbed to a 13th successive Premier League defeat by Chelsea after two goals from Conor Gallagher sealed a dramatic late comeback for Mauricio Pochettino’s side. It was the cruellest blow for a manager who has already suffered so much this season as his team have struggled with injuries and a poor run of form that now stretches to two wins in their last 14 matches. But while things will not get any easier for Hodgson as his under-pressure team…
Schools and national parks have been ordered to close as parts of Victoria face the first catastrophic fire conditions since the black summer of 2019-20. Tasmania, South Australia and Western Australia were also on alert for extreme fire danger amid heatwave conditions. Hot, dry and windy conditions were forecast across Victoria on Tuesday, with the possibility of thunderstorms, dry lightning and winds of up to 100 kilometres an hour. The hot northerly winds were already moving across the state on Tuesday morning, the Country Fire Authority’s chief officer, Jason Heffernan, told ABC TV. He said hot conditions set in early,…
A blockbuster hearing with details of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade will go forward Thursday after the presiding judge chose not to immediately quash subpoenas for their testimony. But the hearing revealed a possible new hurdle for Willis: that county administrators have not turned over key documents subpoenaed by Ashleigh Merchant, attorney for former Trump White House aide Michael Roman, one of the 19 defendants charged in the county’s sweeping election interference and racketeering case with the former president. Willis said in filings and in front of an Atlanta church audience that Wade…
City sit four points adrift of Carlos Corberan’s Albion with the pair due to meet in front of the television cameras later this month Source link