Wednesday 1st November 2023
A cooler 22 degrees C in Sydney today. It was a little wet last night and is still a little overcast but the sun is trying hard to peep out.
All day face to face programming class from 10 am - 4.30 pm today . I am so tired as I was again up late last night working on assessments. I really don't want to put up with the Nazi teacher again today after last Wednesday's classes and unexpected last minute Monday support class via teams which was only suppose to last 10 minutes minutes straight after we finished our Network Build class. I thought I was the only student singled out and kept asking what have I done wrong now? and that I must be in trouble . We only received a message via teams 5 minutes before the end of our face to face Network Build class. I was planning to leave to work on my assessments but this just put me right off it . My classmate EllaLee had just left the classroom but she was waiting for me or any other students that were messaged flagging me down and telling me how she received the same message I had received from our programming teacher to stay behind. I told her that I thought I was the only one singled out to stay back no there were other selected students as well. So EllaLee and I were the only 2 that stayed back. We had to use our phones to join teams as were had not asked our Network Build teacher to unlock a spare classroom for us to log into use the computers in it and he even came out from his 30 minute lunch break before teaching his next class making a comment "oh you two are still here" surprised as he spotted us sitting in the hallway on EllaLee's phone ( it was echoing too much with both phones being used so we just used one). Our programming teacher asked us to use a laptop or desktop - we couldn't as we didn't have any with us. Total waste of our time he made use look and list all the variables on set of code that had nothing g to do with our assessment. why? Was he going to fail us if we didn't answer his questions? I had to interrupt him abruptly and ask him straight out " What has this got to do with our assessment?" It didn't really. Such a waste of our time. I am way passed the variable section of the assessment and we both have already forwarded him with the files of these sections of the assessment.
This non mandatory support class was much more then the 10 minutes - it seemed like over 30 minutes before it ended. So as punishment today, I'm going to show up late for class today which does not start until 10 am on campus. That's right I am going to take my time getting to class.
News headlines today include
A bomb attack in Northern Gaza has exploded a refugee camp killing countless residents and there is concern for a school.
The King & Queen go on a 4 day state visit to Kenya.
Countless fires continue to rage in the Western Downs in QLD and regional NSW . The small town of Wollongarra was saved to a large extent from wold fires burning it down completely. Meanwhile 3 firefighters in a NSW rural fire and rescue truck overturned but escaped without serious injury.
From today it may become easier and cheaper for eligible children under 16 , pensioners and concession card holders to see a GP as the government increases the medicare subsidy to bulk billing doctors by 3 times. Some say this increase from $6.85 per eligible patient to almost $20.65 per eligible patient for a standard consult is still not enough. The governments says it has kept it's election promise to improved healthcare but at a cost to the budget by putting aside $3.5 billion over 5 years.
Robert Irwin and his girlfriend dress up as Ken and Barbie for Halloween. Meanwhile Paris pays tribute to her friend Britney Spears by dressing up as her .
Melbourne Cup racing season begins . There are first looks in the famous Birdcage .
Another shark attack in SA where a surfer was mulled to death .Dozens of people witnessed the attack but search and rescue are still searching for the body still missing.
Strong winds closed beaches on the Gold and Sunshine Coasts.
All students that sat a VCE Maths exam will be given an extra mark for an embarrassing mistake for a question on the exam paper.
AFLW player Erin Phillips announces her retirement from the sport to give her body a rest and spend more time with her family. There are calls to have a medal named after her.
Thursday 2nd November 2023
A top of 23 degrees C today and sunny.
News headlines today include
NRL have named pre season games to be played " game zero" the games played before the first game of the football season. There is discussion on how fans really like the current pre game friendly where all the teams come together to play.
20 Australian citizens have escaped war torn Gaza into Egypt when their borders opened up to allow residents to safety . Only 500 people a day will be allowed into Egypt where ambulances will be waiting to transport people for medical checks. An estimated 50 - 60 Australians still remain on Gaza.
Recruits # 13 & # 14 Bachelor star Tim Robards and Olympic diver Matthew Mitchum win this season's SAS reality tv series .
Fires continue to burn in QLD and NSW. An estimated 80 fires continue to burn around QLD and reinforcement fire fighters are coming from Victoria to help with controlling the fires. Rain and cooler weather is forecasted which is a relief to residents of fire ravaged regions and firefighters.
A truck carrying rubbish has overturned catching fire in Western Sydney causing commuter chaos on the M5 and with suspected injuries.
Power couple Mary Fowler (Womens Soccer star Matildas) and Nathan Cleary ( Rugby League Penrith Panthers) have been seen together.
Inflation is still too high so IMF is urging RBA to increase rates again on Melbourne Cup Tuesday with at least another one to come before the end of the year expected.
Victoria hospitals has had cuts to funding.
Victims of QLD Youth Crime protest again outside Parliament as they feel not enough is being done to stop youth crime and the government is ignoring the voice of victims with just a bandaid fix. The fight has been going on for years.
Another police pursuit as a man is arrested in Melbourne who confessed to his plans of mowing down pedestrians.
Investigators have been called in to investigate the number and range of suspicious fires that have been occurring recently. Lithium batteries from mobile phones and e scooters are small fire starters that can cause huge damage with a warning not to not leave electronic devices on chargers which can overheat and catch on fire.
Matilda's' Sam Kerr may have missed out on a sports person award but she and Mary Fowler did contribute to their team's win against Chinese Taipei.
Donald Trump Jr is to testify at his father's trial along with his other siblings Ivanka and Eric Trump.
Erin Patterson has been arrested over mushroom poisoning incident investigation in Victoria . Charged with 3 of murder and 5 of attempted murder after months of investigating evidence .
Celine Dion has been seen out and a out again at the hockey since being diagnosed with Stiff Persons Syndrome 3.5 years ago.
Friday 3rd October 2023
A cloudy top of 24 degrees C today.
A 10 year old missing non verbal boy has been found hiding in a van by a neighbour overnight.
Another shop lift by a car ram raiding a jewellery store in Adelaide. The thief is on the run making of with thousands of dollars of jewellery. The owner is questioning why their store was targetted.
$40 million jackpot has been won overnight split into 2 with an unknown winner yet to come forward who may not know they have won. The other $20 million has been won and to be split between members of a syndicate in QLD .
Another hit and run where a man was hit by a van in Western Sydney.
Australia's most wanted arrested in Turkey a Sydney Comancino on the run since 2010. He may have to spent tome in jail in Turkey before being deported back to Australia.
There is a rush to get fires under control before a lightening heavy period forecast.
A second wave of Australians leave Gaza .At least 65 Australians are trying to leave the strip.
The Trump siblings took a similar line of defense at their father's fruad trial today saying they relied heavily on external organisations to provide financial advice and information.
Australian YouTube Premium subscribers now have to pay more to use the service. The social media platform is free to use but if you want your YouTube channels to be ad free then you need a YouTube Premium subscription. ( there are probably ways to work around this - a tone out there know of any?)
A global AI safety conference has seen reprsentatives from several countries attend to ensure that the future of AI is safe to use and used for good rather then evil.
Saturday 4th November 2023
Golden Eagle Day @ Rose Hill Gardens today
My Birthday - no cake mo plans no fuss just a small treat a chocolate hazelnut tart below
A top of around 22 degrees C today and really cloudy. It is meant to thunder storms for most of today. So far it is overcast but still dry.
I would like to go and see Sculpture By The Sea but the weather is not very nice and it is such a hike to get to Bondi Beach from here. Maybe I should just continue to complete my assessment today.
It's 12 noon and it just started pouring with rain outside! I made the right decision to stay home and not go to see Sculpture By The Sea on my birthday today.Instead I made myself a nice lamb steak with roast vegetables.
News headlines today include
THe war continues in Israel, the Israelian prime minister Netamyahu has refused a cease fire until all hostages have been released.
The court case for the Victorian mushroom poisoner will drag on as a 20 week adjournment has been requested to allow sufficient time to examine computer equipment seized by police
An IVF organisation is being investigated after a scandal was found where a man could have fathered 1000 children to stop cowboy operators.
After Mathew Perry's deaths friends have set up a charity foundation to assist people with substance addictions as it well known Matthew himself battled addictions.
A ninth wave of COVID is occurring as Christmas approaches but still with the Omicron strain cases seem to be less severe with vaccines anti viral drugs and natural immunity building up from having had COVID or from vaccination . Meanwhile in Victoria hundreds of COVID cases are presenting at Victorian hospitals due to no reporting and no COVID testing centers .
Free vaccines for shingles for over 50 s first nations , over 65 s and those with immunocompromised conditions.
Napal has suffered a 5.6 magnitude earthquake.
AA travels to China today to meet president Xi Jinping in Beijing after attending a summit in Shanhai.It will be the first time since 2016 an Australian PM has met with the Chinese president since the firstly relationship between Australia and China. The fact that AA was offerred an invitation maybe indications thst the relationship has started to mend and talks will be on trade letting tariffs on Australian exports to China a negotiating the release of another Australian imprisoned in China with fears for his well being mentally and physically.
There has been an increase in ACL season or career potentially ending injuries in women's sports such as women's NRLW and woman's soccer. a triple hop test has been developed using AI technology to help identify at risk women athletes.
Thousand turned out to get a good viewing spot for Adalaide's 93rd annual Christmas pageant on today with 80 floats & countless groups of dancers and entertainers including Santa making an early appearance. The weather was cold but hopefully warm up later in the day for the parade. ( I wish I knew about it I would have definitely gone to it )
Qantas share holders voted against the renumeration report - uh oh are they heading down an attempted board spill like Myer? Over 90% voted against it the highest proportion of shareholders which indicates how unpopular Qantas senior management and board members are at the moment are at running the organisation. shareholders are unhappy and want to see change and quickly.
The tour company that was responsible for the White Island NZ volcanic eruption tragedy which killed several tourists as almost 4 years ago has been found guilty although the 2 individual owners of the tour company escaped charges. The knowledge that there was a risk that the volcano could erupt at anytime on the island was the reason for the outcome of the court case.
The US has elected a new speaker but who is he?Mike Johnson as relatively unknown but his failure as speaker maybe Trump's triumph.
You now have a chance to purchase a piece of The Opera House's history. The acoustic clear rings weighing 40 kg each that were used until recently ( decomissioned in 2020 and replaced with more modern acoustical equipment) to help disperse sound in the concert halls affectionately known as doughnuts are up for sale. Between 3rd & 21st November bidding will start for one of the 9 doughnuts. Bookings for viewing will be on the 19th Nov 2023. The proceeds going back into the Opera House improvements.
Another shooting this time in WA residents were warned to stay inside their homes and keep their windows and doors shut.
Sunday 5th November 2023
I was up very late past midnight doing my assessments last night.
It rained heavily again and this morning it's still very wet outside. The forecasted temoerature for today is 21 degrees C. I have to go out today as I have almost no groceries left - only a mango a punnet of blueberries a large lemon and some limes.
This morning I am making a bowl of oats with dome yoghart blueberries raspberries and that's all I could scounge up.
There are free wireless chargers on the bus stop seats at Tamarama Beach but do they work? Someone actually tested it by placing their phone onto it and it did work quite well actually! I'm actually running low on battery power - we need one in the Northern suburbs somewhere!
Ok so I made it to see Sculpture By The Sra on it's second last day. The rain finally stopped by the mid afternoon and held off long enough for hundreds of people to visit. The clouds were still hanging about and the sea was very wild with waves pounding constantly against the rocks all along the Bondi to Bronte coastal walk. At one stage up on Marks Park I thought it was about to downpour but it held off until I was almost home whilst I was grocery shopping at Coles and the IGA at St Leonards. I made a $5 donation that will go towards the Sculpture By the sea artists but did not go inside the Sculptures tent this year . It was a very quick visit this year but I think I managed to see all 100 or so sculptures.
News headlines today include
It has been revealed that the gym toilet block of St Andrews Cathedral School where the 21 year old sports coach was found murdered ewll now be demolished.
Another rate rise is predicted for Tuesday Melbourne Cup Day. I wonder if there will be more bets for which horse will win the Melbourne Cup this year or for whether or not there will be a rise by the RBA this Tuesday. The bets are on as there have already been 12 interest rises in 18 months.
A deadly plane crash near Mt Isa Qld has occurred whilst mapping bushfires. There were no survivors. An investigation as to the cause of the crash is being investigated. The company that owned the plane was believed to be from Victoria with several years of experience according to their company profile. 3 people were killed.
AA is the first prime minister to visit China in 7 years when the last PM to visit was in 2016 by Malcom Turnbull. He has touched down in China where he will attend a summit with 10 other countries before meeting the president of China where they will discuss trade, the release of Dr Yang Henjun and Australia's role in AUKUS as well as mending the relationship between Australia and China the last 2 PMs have soured. Talk and respect will be the aim of the meeting.
Another allegation of sexual assault by Russell Brand whilst filming romcom Arthur where he exposed himself back in 2011.
Friends costars have attended a private funeral for Matthew Perry.
Kourtney Kardashian and Travis have welcomed their first baby together.
A factory fire in Williamstown has been bought under control overnight by firefighters.
Another lockdown in Lidcombe West of Sydney overnight where streets were closed off. No residents were allowed in or out of the closure as police investigate a home invasion and assault that happened just after midnight. Police are remaining tight lipped about details of the crime.
Western Australia is fighting several bush fires. NSW firefighting reinforcements are on their way to help out.
Paul Macartney has wrapped up his Australian 7 concert tour which last around 3 hours each on the Gold Coast last night now heading off to Mexico.
Talks of the release of hostages continue to stall in the Israel Gaza war.
Famous faces were spotted at the races in Melbourne .
Monday
A cloudy 23 degrees C today in Sydney.
News headlines today include
6 people including a girl and a boy in a Daylesford beer garden were injured when a bmw slammed into them at around 6 pm last night. All were taken to different hospitals where unfortunately a young girl died from her injuries in hospital. 5 people died . It is unsure what caused the accident which is still under investigation. The 66 year old man in the bmw stayed in his car whilst being treated and questioned by police, He was taken to hospital in a neck brace to receive medical attention delaying police's further questioning.
Another crime spree in Western Sydney where there were 3 separate incidents with the youngest involved in the crime spree just 17 years old.
Another carjacking in Brisbane with a mother chasing down a car with her 18 month old still in it. As soon as the car was stopped by a bystander she unstrapped her baby from her car.
12 citizens land back in Sydney relieved to be out of Gaza and the war zone. 67 Australian remain trapped in Gaza.
Ex British PM Boris Johnson and former Australian PM Scott Morrison visit as private members to Gaza to wit.
Both Australian formula one drivers OP and DR are out of the race both OP being clipped by another car and DR rear ended.
Kylie performs her first concert in her 6 month Vagas residency paying tribute to Elvis by singing one of his songs.
Victims of youth crime take to the streets of Brisbane to protest for Government's inaction to youth crime. The QLD premier was not present
SA's changes to gender pronouns he she him her them they their it etc Who cares?! Obviously JK Rowling does.
Selina and Taylor with their other famous girlfriends hit the streets of NY for a girls night out .
Katy Perry daughter has been seen for the first time.
Tuesday 7th November 23
Melbourne Cup Day!
My morning starts with a bus and train ride to Wynard where I stopped for a McDonalds saysage and egg McMuffin sans that awful plastic orange cheese avec tomato and lettuce. I think my childhood allergy is coming back to haunt me.haven't had McDonalds for a long time now but had a bad coughing fit after eating it. I just had to wait until went away. I think it has to do with preservatives which I have become quite sensitive to or it could be the processed oils.
A very sunny warm day this morning with a top of 23 degrees C. Perfect for the 9.30 am - 11 am Museums of History Open Series Sydney Opera House Sustainability Tour meeting outside the stage doors I have booked to go on today ( photos in some areas only allowed so I could not take any photographs of the new petals that replaced the clear doughnuts in the concert hall and there was an absolutely no videoing allowed inside all areas of the Opera House) Most of the photos that I was allowed to take are posted onto my facebook account which I don't use much as this blog does not upload photos very well therefore I had to find an alternative social media platform to upload them to. I could have spent hours editing them and making them into a slideshow for my YouTube channel but I have more pressing issues to deal with today therefore don't have the time).
I am so glad that I booked to go on this tour of the Opera House as it was no run of the mill Opera House tour and there were only 2 of them in the series. The group was around 20 people with 2 guides Emma from SEALs and Celine from the Opera House. Both were excellent. We went to areas deep under the Opera House normal Opera House tours would not go to. It was really special. It started outside on the forecourt near the Man o War ( is that what it is called?) Wharf where we were told about the artificial reef created around the Opera House. Since it was created marine life that had disappeared for decades had returned like the white seahorse. Often seen are other marine animals but around this time of the year if you are lucky you may catch a glimpse of Benny the seal make a random appearance at the Opera House alone - yes he is a male bachelor apparently, to sunbake briefly before disappearing back into the water. But unfortunately not today and it is a beautiful warm sunny day - maybe he gas gone to the races today. He started appearing possibly due to the plentiful supply of food in Sydney"s harbour around the Opera House.
The tour continues through the undercover drop off pick up area on the forecourt level and up the stairs towards the famous Concert Hall via an accessible tunnel which itself is really interesting to walk through. If you look at it it looks as if it was there as an original structure from the beginning when the Opers House was being built in the late 1960s - 1973 opening but it was actually added recently and with very careful planning as the Opera House has adhere to strict heritage safety building etc legislations. It has been constructed so well it looks as if it's been there since the beginning as part of the structure - every detail matched. We continue up to one of the main foyer areas which was very purple - Throughout the Opera House there are different sections of colours - red green purple and there is wood carpet glass concrete and metal everywhere! Huge chunks of it! In this large purple carpeted foyer we stop and spend a bit of time taking in the intense sunlight which instantly warms the entire foyer up - the natural light is amaziing and so are the 180 degree views of Sydney harbour! We learn a out the huge amount of technology to maintain the entire interior of the Opera House at a constant temperature ( not always comfortable as it takes time for the sensors to kick in) The problem with the amount of natural sunlight in this large foyer area is that it is great in a Winter as it warms the large area in the foyer up but in Summer it can get pretty uncomfortably hot and you are unable to spend a long period of time here. It was felt today even at around 22 - 23 degree C outside. To maintain the temperature by cooling it requires most of the energy consumption within the Opera House. As we walk down the stairs we are told about how the middle circular handrail had to be added to comply with building safety regulations. The original metal railings around the sides along the glass and walls are much thinner and not to standard but may have been back in the day. To match these thin metal rails the thicker circular middle hand rails were sourced carefully. Onto the Concert Hall. This was the highlight of the day however no photography or videos were allowed at all when we visited because the Sydney Symphony was rehearsing with Simone Young - if you don't know who she is, she is an award winning Australian conductor. ( Emma the guide actually pointed this out to me and I nodded as I already knew) We could not talk and had to turn our phones onto silent before we could enter. So I cannot show you any photos of the new "acoustic petals" that were installed to replace the clear doughnuts - yes the ones that are being auctioned off. Nobody knows how much the starting bid is. I at least counted the number of petals which seems to be more then the number of doughnuts that were replaced. The amount of wood and the wavey pattern around the Concert Hall are all to maximize the sound quality. The room is tuned to middle C which is pleasant to the ear. So many famous concerts have been held in this Concert Hall and it was decided ehen it was designed only to hold concerts in this larger Concert Hall and Opera and Ballet in the smaller Joan Sutherland Hall . Unfortunately we didn't get to see the Joan Sutherland Hall on this tour. We spent a bit of time in this Concert Hall bv before moving on to the Opera House below sea level Opera House maintenance & operations engine departments. Before this we were shown - the famous Green Room and it's actually not green and the story as to why it's called the green room is unclear as green actually is bad luck for performing artists. So this room is where artist go to get a bite to eat or relax when not on stage performing as well as used by staff of the Opera House. So at times you can spot ballet dancers in their tutus or opera singers in their costumes. Like other different areas of the Opera House , it is fully carpeted in a very dirty beige c coloured carpet which once could have been white - apparently it's original- I said doesn't matter food will get dropped on it anyway! Next we had a look at a fully accessible toilet - one of only a few . This room and it is a roo. had to be added and it is complete with a hoist and adult change area. It was really funny on the tour when we started walking I said this narrow corridor looks as if we are going to see the toilets and were actually were but not just any toilets.
Now onto the delivery area where extra equipment is stored as well as the receiving of catering supplies which is huge. Here we take a series of lifts ( which failed to open and close on the right floors) down to a waste centre which was like a giant dumpster room - not really all I saw was a whole of of colour coded Sulo wheelie bins and a goods lift . There was probably a compactor somewhere but it was a bit of a squishy area which you expected would smell rather unpleasant but it actually wasn't. I think most of the rubbish had been really sorted and everything was sealed. It had a slight perfumed or scented disinfectant smell to it. Onto the engine room of the Opera House via yet another lift - I would hate to be down in these departments alone it a labyrinth!. The temperature control/maintenance room was below sea level and quite noisy so we spent as little time in it as possible. Here the seawater flowed in and out of the Opera House with sea water temperatures around 23 degrees C however the equipment down here has to be constantly monitored as it can only handle seawater temperatures below 24 degree and must be maintained at this constant temperature range., If the oceans temperature increases plus or minus 2 degrees then it could be a problem. I asked if there was an escape route in the event there is an emergency as I could not see one - I am sure there is in one of the corridors and hopefully not the lift as again it was proving very unreliable with the tour group I was on - probably just the operator with the swipe card or keys ! I have to tell you it did feel a little bit like being in a submarine down there - full of pumps buttons nosey and confined spaces.
Back up the lift and to our final destination of the Opera House tour - a mini replica of the Concert Hall. It really looked like a quiet room or prayer room with it minimalistic look and 2 single bright quilted purple cushioned seat benches but it was put in place during COVID for people to experience the concert hall when we couldn't apparently. It's absolutely beautiful and our tour concluded with a beautifully put together 5 minute video projected on the 2 walls and ceiling of this little room where you can just sit on the floor and watch. The footage was of the Opera House construction, the fireworks, various celebrities that have performed at the Opera House , the Queen opening it and Indigenous artwork.
I thanked the guides picked up my backpack from cloaking after asking questions about volunteering opportunities. It is now 11 am.
After picking up my backpack from downstairs after the tour I walked back to Wynard Station but not until I had a look at what was going on outside the Opera House . There were sculptures around but I did not understand what they were there for. Was there something on in the Royal Botanic Gardens as well? Not that I could see. I caught the train back to Chatswood to grocery shop but not before stopping at the local TAB to place a bet on the Melbourne Cup. I had no idea which horses to bet on nor did I know which horses were the favourites for this years Melbourne Cup. I was just not interested this year in the Melbourne Cup - it's not a public holiday here in Sydney either - to compete with the Melbourne Cup Sydney is now hosting The Big Dance I think it's called at Randwick. So I purchased my ticket and took it to the counter to pay for it. I did have a second win or place ticket just with mum's favourite number horse on it but decided to bin it and only kept one win or place ticket - just as well as # 8 did not do very well at all in the Melbourne Cup. Gee I placed a whole $4 bet for this year's Melbourne Cup!
Onto grocery shopping and I forgot about the specials at Mr Vitamins where the entire Antipodes range was on sale to members for one day today only and this brand of skincare is usually quite expensive and I use a lot of it. It is really good for people with quite bad allergies very sensitive skin and hereditary ezcema like me because it's mainly natural. I forgot to go back and purchase some today.
Onto the Chase to the larger Coles to do some grocery shopping via a green grocer what no corriander? So I just ended up purchasing 2 white nectarines before heading to Coles. Again at Coles again no corriander. I did find a few other things though including lots of different boxed mini panattone which are getting more and more difficult to find at all supermarkets ( the illusive pear and chocolate one is my favourite which I have not been able to find anywhere so grabbed one from this Coles) and had a snack of one seaweed nori ( which I don't seem to be allergic to) from Sushi Hub the only food concession open in The Chase at the moment due to almost the entire food court closed to renovations with only a pop up mobile coffee cart the old Indian counter and Old Shanghai still open. You can't close the Old Shanghai because it is quite large and busy but I don't know why the little Indian counter is still open.
I missed the Melbourne Cup race at 3 pm and don''t know which horses came 1st 2nd and 3rd. I don't really care and had a quick look and don't think any of the horses I chose won and if any one of them did I would not get much anyway. I know one of the horses I chose don't ask me which one didn't even finish the race and as soon as I saw that I just ignored the rest of it.
Now I am going to document something about my studies which is part of the reason why I did not attend class today. Yes I am sick but not that sick that I can't attend class. I am tired but its all because of the stress my classmate put on me. I know that I should not worry about it but the more I think it is a possibility that it could happen the more it bothers me and the more I just don't feel like attending class or finishing my assessments.I should take my other classmate's advice and not to stress. Ok where can I start. I made a mistake this time round on who I chose to do my role play with for the Cyber Aware connected class although it was not really necessary to work with a classmate you actually know but it helps otherwise you will be paired in a break out room ( a private chat room online in teams for readers who are unfamiliar with teams) with just the teacher ( male and have never met ) and a random classmate you have never met therefore don't know ie 2 total strangers online. I don't think this is very safe for a start as the teacher has the "keys" to the chat room. This is a Cyber Aware class after all therefore I am exercising cyber awareness. So from the beginning of the course my EllaLee was complaining that the percentage of course completed indicator on the Tafe digital learning course was not increasing as she claimed as she finished each assessment ( not entire module) and how slack the Australian education system is compared to the Korean system. I advised her it is not and in the cert 2 applied digital technology course we all worked really hard and we were almost all Asian mature aged students so took our studies very seriously. I said to EllaLee that my indicator was increasing and in no time all my knowledge assessments were completed and submitted and I passed all of them. I had planned to get every single one of them out of the way as the skills tests ta l.j e up most of the time so now I could concentrate on them. Throughout the course we helped each other with things. Things I could not do she helped me with and things she could not do I helped her with. She skipped a few classes for one of the role plays so I teamed up with another classmate who was just excellent to work with and never stresses out and I think our teach liked out role pay assessment. For another subject's role play a much smaller one, I asked EllaLee to do it with me . Both role plays were face to face so far but one of the others was one on one with the teacher and another one was a written recording . I helped Ella with the smaller role play with tips of how she should answer the questions with my answers to the questions as examples. I then asked her again if she wanted to work on the Cyber Aware role play with me. This was months ago and at that point was going to ask another classmate instead if EllaLee failed to show up for face to face classes again. I made a big mistake with my choice. In the meantime we had a group assessment to complete and there was a max of 4 classmates per team, I chose the classmate I did my first role play with as first choice EllaLee as second choice (although she was absent again face to face) and finally a 4th classmate who I had to include because his little buddy classmate was absent again and nobody knew where he had gone . I don't like to leave any classmates out. In the end the teacher for this team exercise in class changed the written assessment rules of max 4 per team when the little buddy classmate just decides to turn up to face to face class when the rest of the team had almost finished the e exercise. In one of the feedback questions on the team exercise performed one of the classmates and I were unhappy about this but in the end we just accepted the situation gave the feed back and didn't mention the name of the classmate that frustrated us. By this stage I should have seen the signs that EllaLee was not pulling her weight and her level of thinking was very narrow. I made myself team leader otherwise there would not be a team exercise completed - code name ended up DJ HEJ ( it would have been better just as DJ H ie less 2 classmates in the team exercise). weeks pass and I asked EllaLee if she still wanted to work with me on the Cyber Aware role play and she still said yes eventhough she was attending classes less and less face to face. I got to the point where about a few weeks ago I was almost ready to work on the role play with her and she said to me she wanted to speak to her Korean friend in the other group ( they were in the same course but in group A , we are in group B) as she had done the role play and EllaLee mentions she didn't think the teacher marked her Korean friend very well on it. Ella wanted to find out more and get back to me to discuss. EllaLee never did get back to me and one lunch even told me she could not have lunch with me because she was meeting her Korean friend for lunch I said ok as I thought she was going to ask her about what to expect in the Cyber Aware role play. I was wrong. I started on my 10 questions for the Cyber Aware role play and finished it in a few hours ( probably going into far more detail then necessary). So Ellalee continued not to attend less and less classes face to face and even online ( she was sick for a week or so and I think she was the one who had the COVID case that was reported in that building although she said she did not). The only class she attended was Network Build but she said she had lost a lot of assessment files. How is this possible ? I lost some of mine because I wasn't backing up properly on OneDrive but I am rebuilding all my assessments that I have lost. I think I know how she lost it because she said she clicked on the email1 or email 2 links the Cyber Aware teacher had sent to us which was part of our assessment - we were warned that it should not cause any harm as it contain the EICAR file which is a harmless virus mimicking file used to test antivirus software - but who knows what the teach snuck into each of the 2 emails sent to us. Time was ticking and last week I asked EllaLee yet again whether she still wanted to do the role play again with me and she said yes. This was Friday night and I had well and truely finished my 10 Cyber Aware role play questions and answers as well. She was at work and said to me if she could get back to me after work I replied sure and by now I had given her instructions on how and what to do and prepare for the role play and said it's not that complicated just take task the comments in the left handside of task 3.4 and turn them into questions then think about the answers. I also told her that I wish I could bring another make classmate in to get them to play the role of Amanda and also explained to her how I spoke to one of our other classmates as he had also already done the role play the week before about what it was like and found out how when he was put with a random classmate he had never met before had a different agenda to him so it does really help to work with classmates you actually know in person. I made this clear to EllaLee as well . All this time I was helping her. Her last responses were you mean Justine ? What was she on the sender of the suspect email was Amanda! I asked her if she had even read the question or the senario or even the Gelos policies and procedures? She also asked if I was doing the role play with the other class member I mentioned who had already done it. When she didn't get back to me with anything by Saturday night, I contacted the other classmate on Sunday and asked him if he was ready to do the role play explaining my dilemma. I find out that he is ready to do his role play as well. Great . He was the one who suggested that if EllaLee did not get back to me by tomorrow (Monday) that we do it together. I said sounds like a great contingency plan ( I wonder if he knows what contingency means - does not matter he is keen to learn). By Monday I there is no way EllaLee could avoid me because the teacher expects us to be in class to do the Networkbuild class as the class is not an online option. So I gave EllaLee my questions ( I asked her to take photographs of them) and all she had to do was prepare answers to them - I did not make up questions for her as well - that would be going too far , she could take my instructions and questions and make up her own. Ok by Tuesday I still had not heard from her so chased her up again and she told me to give her 25 minutes to complete them. The Cyber Aware class starts in 30 minutes! I had contacted the other classmate and had agreed to do it together after the break tonight as I was getting nowhere with EllaLee. No more mucking around , I just messaged her again and she advises me that she just got the questions from her Korean friend and it was impossible to answer all the question in such a short time and then decides to bail on me apologising and she will do it separately. I just said to her that she could no longer use my questions. I suspect she maybe cheating by taking questions from another student instead of making them up herself. My concern is she will still use my questions to formulate her answers - she will find out that it no longer works that way with a random classmate as they may indeed have another agenda. EllaLee did try to apologies but at the moment I can't accept her apology. She wasted my time and I am concerned that she will just use my questions without changing any of them. Hopefully the teacher will pick up on how she doesn't have a clue. Back to how the role play went with my other classmate - he thinks we aced it but I am unsure. I had to pause for quite a long time with my questions because the teacher's microphone was really noisy and my classmate had to ask him to do something about it. We were put in vitual room 1 with one teacher ( the not so nice one) . You have to remember we are in cyber space and we both can't see each other. Things can go wrong but we asked for 5 minutes to discuss. All good ( I hope - we certainly anwsered the questions on lessons learnt from the incident and recommendations). I thanked my classmate for getting me out of a sticky situation and for the remainder of the course I will try and not help EllaLee out anymore with her assessments.
After the roleplay we needed to copy the links of our recordings ( our transcripts ) to our assessment - I asked for a work around but I had no internet connection for some reason . I did not get the files attached to my email my teacher had sent to me. Ummm.... .
News headlines today include
Storms threaten today's Melbourne Cup race on this afternoon . I placed my bet win or place $0.50 either way on 4 horses this year 2 4 5 & 8. Where 4 has no chance of winning but it's my birthday, 8 for my late mother because it was her favourite number and is a lucky number in Chinese and a lady at the TAB told me it's an Australian horse and popular amongst beters. The Tan staff member fill in number horse 9 and he had to re complete my betting form because I didn't want that number horse. Maybe thst"s a sign that I should place a bet on horse number 9 which is also Australian but not a favourite for the Melbourne Cup that I know of. Number 5 horse because it is a favourite _ the majority of the time the favourites aren't actually the favourite. and Number 1 horse because I just like the name.
AA is in China trying to negotiate a deal to keep 2 famous Chinese pandas on loan at Adelaide Zoo Wang Wang & permanently in Australia before their visas expire next year where they will be forced to return to a Chinese Circus ( I mean Zoo) - I can see the news headlines now "Chinese Pandas on temporary Australian residency visas deport from Australia Return To China on A Qantas flight in Economy due to failure of Australian PM to negotiate permanent residency visas for them to remain in Australia when their visas expired in 2024"
The identities of 3 killed in the Daylesford beer garden tragedy have been released.
Adelaide high school teachers decide to go on strike causing disruptions smack in the middle of the year 12 final exams.
Wednesday 8th November 2023
Today is a top of 27 degrees C mostly sunny ! Hot Hot Hot!
This morning I sent a message quite early before my face to face programming classes to my Tafe teacher to advise him that I hope he gets my message due to the Optus outage and he did. I advised him that I will not be attending class face to face or online today as I am feeling sick and if i feel better will join online later today - I was hoping the Optus outage was affecting Tafe ( hah ha only joking) - I suspect the Optus outage may have started earlier then 4 am this morning.I suddenly had no internet connection late last night.
OK this morning after countless days of the block of bricks being delivered and dumped in the car park outside the apartment block a trades person has finally arrived to rebuild for the 3rd time the block of mail boxes in the front wall that that last car that sun out of control crashed into amd knocked over demolishing it. Let's see how long this block of mail boxes last until the next car crashes into it and demolishes it!
I am just sleeping most of this morning and feeling really tired for some reason. Tomorrow I am going to class as I would like to complete my Systems admin assessment and submit it.
News headlines today include
The defence force has changed their gender terminology to uncrewed drones from manned drones for example but not all military terminology will be changed to gender neutral.
Compensation is being paid for personal injury claims for QLD cochlear implant patients.
The first Kings speech in 70 years was made by King Charles to open British Parliament.
Melbourne's entire rail network is down this morning ( as their communications backup system uses Optus) as a major Optus outage is causing chaos around Australia with an estimated 10 million Optus customers affected with no communications . DoDo Amaysim and possibly other internet service provider's customers are also affected as these use the Optus network for their services . In addition thunderstorms right after the Melbourne Cup yesterday have caused power outages in some areas - it's all happening in Melbourne at the moment ! Hospitals are also affected around Australia with patients and staff not being able to communicate with hosptals due to the Optus outage. Engineers at Optus are working on getting the network up and running again and there has been no response from Optus as to the cause eg a configuration problem when updating software and/or whether it was a possible cyber attack. ( I hope Tafe isn't using Optus as I sent a message to my teacher advising him that I will not be attending class this morning not even online because I am not feeling well ) . Meanwhile the 000 emergency number has been tested and is working as there is a contingency plan in place where if one network fails the emergency 000 service piggybacks onto another functioning network eg Telstra.
The man that crashed into the Daylesford beer garden has been questioned by police and will be questioned again tomorrow.
Another interest rate rise by the RBA was announced yesterday - it's 13th rate rise what is it upto now 4.35%?! What this does to the housing market is owning a home right now is only a dream and home owners already under mortgage stress will have to find additional funds out of their budgets in order to meet additional mortage repayments. eg on a $500 000 mortgage an extra $76 will need to be paid however banks have not passed on this rate increase onto customers yet as it take around 2 weeks for increases in interest rates to be passed onto customers. The banks will not take your home away from you if you are having difficulty meeting mortgage repayments but will negotiate with hardship repayment assistance or internal and external financial counseling. Rents will increase as investment property owners also need to meet increases in their mortgage repayments. With a very tight rental market where housing demand is outstripping supply this is also becoming a problem for renters unable to meet rental payment increases.
The minimum household income for an average home is $180 000 on top of the 20% deposit saved needed to purchase a home.
Robert Irwin & his girlfriend were at Prince Charles Earthshot Awards in Singapore along with other celebrities. Prince William was there rubbing shoulders with Australian celebrities such as Cate Blanchett as well. Robert Irwin was there as a presenter of the awards . Jacinda Ardern ( former NZ PM) is also on the Earthshot Awards team as a judge - NZ cows being fed seaweed to reduce farting ( reducing the release of methane) what a great idea!
A man has charged by police who crashed into killed 2 teenagers in Sydney a few days ago.
Another shooting on the Gold Coast this time a police officer ( a woman) being shot after being held at gun point. A man has been arrested. The amount of illegal firearm sales is increasingly alarming in QLD with out of control youth crime.
80 000 race goers packed Flemington at yesterday's Melbourne Cup race day. Fashions on the field, the first time a jockey has won 2 Melbourne Cups back to back in years and by switching horses, a proposal on one knee and guys being able to break the strict race day dress code and breaking tradition to be able to wear shorts for the first time - just as well as it was a hot 30 degree C day at the races! Every celebrity and their dog was at Flemington's Melbourne Cup yesterday including the late Princess Diana's twin nieces .
A bear has been caught on canera in Florida stealing s family's dinner . An Uber Eats driver had carefully placed a paper bag containing the takeaway food in it outside a family's door when a bear suck up after he left and took off with it in it's mouth. When the family opened the door they found there was nothing outside their door after tracking it had arrived. The family did get a refund for their missing Uber Eats delivery - since when is a bear stole my uber eats been a valid circumstance for a refund under the Uber Eats delivery policies? Maybe I should have asked for a refund from Hungry Jacks at Southern Cross Station when I had just arrived into Melbourne for the 2 times a sneaky seagul5.6l swooped down on me and snatched my breakfast straight out of my hands witnessed on both occassions by shocked passer bys and on one occasion the seagull either wasn't agile enough or just did it to spite me by dumping my breakfast in the paper bag onto the train tracks - it didn't even eat it!
Kiwi the iconic shoe polish brand will be discontinued after 117 years in operation.
Celebrities walk the fashion awards in NY.
There should be an outcome of the actors strike by tomorrow which will or will not end this months long strike.
What Travis is making the most of time being famous by launching a new clothing line in conjunction with The Chiefs but the Kardashians may not be happy about it? who cares!?!
AA is now in the Cook Islands. 3 days talks are on for subs & security . China growing presence in the region will also be discussed.
The AUS$ against the US$ is now way above the $0.64 mark again after months stuck below the $0.63 mark.
Thursday 9th November 2023
A top of 26 - 27 degrees C with rain developing today. Wild weather with thunderstorms are forecasted to come.
I attended classes face to face all day today from 9.30 am - 4 pm.
I'm concerned I keep asking my Security and privacy teacher if she has marked my assessment I had completed and submitted 3 weeks ago and she still has not . I have chased her 3 times that's evey week. I don't know why as other teachers with the same amount of students or more have been marking them and getting them back to me quite quickly. She said she has others to mark and said she will mark it next week and sit down with me next week to go through anything that I haven't answered correctly.
I feel like giving up with this course. After the EllaLee incident on Tuesday , I don't want anymore hassles with this course. I just want to finish it and go overseas.
News headlines today include
Unions turn on QLD premier who says she has no plans to retire before 2024. Her unpopularity is increasing due to her inactions to stop the increasing youth crime in QLD.
QLD are trialing a 4 day school week and if approved start as early as term 1 2024. If it works it will pave the way to other Australian schools.
SA school teachers go on strike but say year 12 students exams won't be affected as parents scramble to
CEO says sorry for the Optus outage but there is still no explanation as to why and how this happened What exactly is a "technical issue?" which was the only reason given. No compensation will be offered to the estimated 10 milliion customers affected - I see another class action against Optus!!!! Customers want compensation and the government is performing a review will into this - lessons learnt from this incident - isn't it too late? Will this review prevent it from happening again? This outage not only leave 10 million customers inconvenienced but small business medical alerts, banks, hospitals etc were also affected. People were lining up to get prepaid sim cards at Vodafone and Telstra for a short term work around.
Australia's big wave surfer recognized in the Guiness Book of World Records
Singer Paulini is in court again over driving with a suspended licence. It is not the first time.
Additional tickets to Taylor Swifts Eros tour for Melbourne and Sydney shows are being released today. These are partial view and accessible seats. Tickets will be released at different times to avoid another meltdown.
A remake of the movie Mean Girls is to be released.
What second State of Origin game for Melbourne for 2024?! Wednesday 26th June 24
Another crime spree in Penrith in Western Sydney where numerous shops have been broken into and destroyed. Some shop owners are so frustratedwith the constant crime they plan to move their business out of Pentrith.
Pro Palestinian protests are blocking a Israeli shipment in Melbourne's port from arriving today calling for a cease fire and sanctions on Israel .
A fire in Western Sydney has caused extensive damage to a townhouse when a tv exploded catching on fire. 2 people a mother and son managed to escape the flames when the fire detector went off and they managed to knock on neighbours doors so they could get out. There was some damage to both neighbouring townhouses as a result of the fire .
Australian womens cricket captain announces retirement at the age of 31.
Friday 10th November 2023
More thunderstorms today and a top of 27 degrees C again. It has remained dry most of today with the sun trying hard to stay out but it has been quite windy most of today.
I did absolutely nothing today. I lodged my Centrelink fortnightly report, I made a pasta bake with whatever I could find leftover, I squeeze the rest of my mandarins for juice as I had no juice left. In fact I don't have much left to eat. I try not to eat stuff from my back up pantry supplies as these are for emergencies and if I do I have to remember to replace these items and sometimes they are unavailable on my grocery shops.
News headlines today include
Syfties have started lining uo, some overnight, just to get some $80 (with partially obstructed views) tickets to Taylor Swift's concerts in Sydney and Melbourne which were additional tickets released.
Beckham spruikes coffee in Australia in an I love coffee advertisement.
What does "a cascade failure of IT ( or was that it's?) systems" actually mean? as Optus apologies for the 9 hour ( or was it actually 12 hours reported?) data outage with "free" data - with conditions of usage such as only used on weekends , fixed data $ amounts and to be used by the end of this year dates. "Eligible" Customers are not happy with the 200 Gb of data which is not good enough and believe they should be compensated with $$ slamming Optus. It was first reported that it was worked out that customers would only get the equivalent of $2 each however the financial damage to many especially small businesses and essential services is much more even priceless. A senate inquiry into this will occur. Not hood enough customers want cash not data as compensation for the outage.
Indefinite detention illegal , after a high court ruling could see hundreds of immigration detainees released. Hundreds of asylum seekers are waiting to be released including serious convicted criminals waiting for the green light to be freed.
Israel has agreed to 4 hour pauses in Gaza with 3 hours notice to allow residents to reach safety. Israel and the US however are adamant that this move is not a cease fire.
There are residence in the Western regions of Melbourne such as Blackburn that are literally on top of a gold mine.
Princess Mary puts on a brave face with accusations of Prince Frederick having an affair
Police will go on strike.
QLD has the lowest rental vacancy rate of .87% Renters whose leases are about to expire have been revommended to try and renew their lease as moving and trying to find another place to live will be extremely difficult and could become homeless.
Another fire but thidtime very suspicious
Ron Barassi AFL great and coach who passed away on 16th Sept 23 at 87 was farewelled at a state memorial service at MCG this morning.
The longest actors strike of 118 days has now ended and it's straight back to work. They got everything they wanted plus more only because they would not back down on contracts drafted . A contract for 3 years for studios worth $1.5 billion has been negoitated and no AI to be used replace actors jobs!
Victorian police plan to strike and at the worst time - holiday period. A 4 % payrise and 9 hour work days are being sought. Meanwhile Victorians with COVID hotel quarantine debts still outstanding have been asked to pay them. There is a debate as to whether they should still be made to settle them especially since the debt is so old and COVID is long gone and with the rising cost of living can't afford to be repaid. While those that have already paid infull may argue that this is unfair and demand a refund.
Coles Sydney City Oysters have been recalled due to an incorrect expiry date which should have been today not a later date . A refund will be issued upon return of the product.
Australia is going into space with an Adelaide company entering the space race with a high tech 3D printed device used to detect minerals and life sustaining on the moon, the first Australian made product to come in contact with the moon'surface on the far side of it.
The King & Queen are out and about attending events ahead of Remembrance Day ( 11th Nov 23)
Patrick Dempsey has been voted Sexiest Man Alive
Australia my not be involved in Eurovision in 2024 after the contract expired last year but an Australian and the youngest contestant a teenager has been chosen to represent Cyprus in Eurovision next year , the second Australian to represent another country in the Eurovision song competition.
Singer Johnny Ruffo passes away at 35 from Brain cancer he had been battling with since 2017. His partner Tahnee Sims and his family were with him. So sad. ( for readers of my blog from overseas who are unfamiliar with who he was - a favouite on X factor, an actor on Home & Away and more then a triple threat - writer actor singer and dancer who won on dancing with the stars )
Customers stranded as banks and ATMs disappear leaving experts worried . Is CDC ash dead?
Another shed fire as a family runs to escape from the flames and surrounding shops including a bakery saved. Police are investigating to find out if this fire was deliberately lit.
2 men are lucky to escape a plane crash into the ocean. They were escaped and rescued within minutes of the plane sinking where they would have lost their lives.
AA has signed a treaty with Cook Islands (Tuvalu) squeezing out Beijing in the region.
Jared Leto climbs Empire State Building.
A new island has appeared off the coast if Japan from a volcanic eruptiobut as soon as it appears will disappear
Saturday 11th November 2023
Remembrance Day ( marking the end of WWI by pausing for a minutes silence at the 11th hour on the 11th day)
A windy 29 degrees C today!
7 am and the skip bin was picked up today by a rather noisy truck with a hoist now that the front brick wall and mail box block have been reconstructed.It does not look the same as it originally did - looks as if the mail box block is placed lower and lower each time this wall is reconstructed.
I am having another meal with whatever I can scrounge up . I think I will eat my last mango and passion fruit. I made myself a tuna melt with my last few mini tomatos a shallot last 2 Babybel cheeses left over pasta and some basil leaves.
Today I headed to Chatswood after taking my rubbish out to return my bottles before heading to the city to recharge my opal card exchange my voucher for my bottles returned for $1.50 which uses Coles not Woolworths ( I did not look on the voucher and took it to Woolworths Metro as I usually do accidently to try and exchange for cash oops) .
News Headlines today include
A woman died in a freak accident when she was crushed by a falling tree whilst out with her pets in a wild QLD storm in the Lockyer Valley . ( on Thursday we had some very wild storms and one of my classmates had to get to work at Wolli Creek on a motor bike. By the time I left class and was walking home it had already started to rain but once I got home it stormed again as it had already stormed with thunder and lightening twice during class time. I sent him a quick message asking him if he got to work ok. I have not checked if he responded. Hopefully he did.
It is the 105th remembrance day - the tomb of the unknown soldier will be honoured today in Canberra. Meanwhile Indigenous soldierswill also be honored on Remembered Day this year
Optus CEO Kelly Bayer will be grilled by a Senate inquiry next week.
Sam Kerr Matilda's captain has announced she is engaged.
US president Joe Biden will mert with Chinese President Xi next week at a side meeting at a summit . This comes after AA met with Xi ( I wonder what happened to the panada's visa expiration situation? A similar situation of panadas in the US saw them deported back to China when their visas expired this year ) Next Thursday at the APEX summit is where AA will be and very interestedin whether the US can mend it's relationship with China.
There is a thunderstorm asthma warning again in Melbourne.
Johnny Ruffo will be remember on Tuesday at 7.30 pm on a special Channel 7 Spotlight program.
North Gaza evacuates. Meanwhile in North Caufield a Friday night Shabbat at a Synagogue was interrupted by pro Palestinian protestors.
Harry scores another win with his case against the Daily Mail for phone tapping along with Elton John and his partner as well as Liz Hurley . Harry is still waiting on results from his case with The Mirror and The Sun in 2 separate cases.
Japan has knocked Bali off it's pedistool as number 1 destination.
The King appears on the cover The Big Issue highlighting the food security problem in the UK.
Sunday
It is a very hot 27 degrees C forecasted for today.
I really hate Microsoft and this is why. Something weird is going on with my One Drive. I have completely lost my Network Build Assessment file . I searched verywherfor it even the recuclebin and it is nowhere which means I wastedall my time last week doing it in class. It's not the first time I've lost files on One Drive . There is something going on with my Cyber Aware assessment as well where I lost that file as well and it's not saving properly or to the right place. Last night s ok methinreally weird hapoened when I was searching for my files on One Drive and one of the student's class assessments file appeared on my One Drive and had his name against it. I thought it was mine initially as the file name is the same for assessments and clicked into it but found it was someone elses assessment complete will all the answers but the formatting was shocking! It was not seeing things it was definitely not my assesdment file. How on earth did this happen? Has One Drive had a cyber breach incident? I also wonder if it had anything to do with me sending one of the teacher last week an email ntifying them that I did not receive the attachments of 2 files to my test email set up for the this cyber aware subject and getting response with only some type of link which I did not click on because it looked suspicious.
News headlines today include
4 Ports ( Sydney Melbourne Brisbane & Fremantle ) around Australia have been a shut down after a cyber attack was discovered last Friday night. Australia's largest port organisation DP World made the decision to shut down for an unspecified number of days for safety. A ransom was demanded to the company to pay up. This may affect Christmas supply chain in Australia. This incident happening so soon after striking port workers for better pay and conditions.
Melbourne trains came to a hault due to 2 men getting into a fight and police requested thtrains to stop just outside of Southern Cross Station. Frustrated passengers some travelling back from the races were stuck on the trains for upto 45 minutes with some taking the situation into their own hands forcing the doors of the trains open jumping off the trains onto the tracks and walking despite being warned by Metro trains to stay on board the trains. There were some injuries as a result.
Margo Robbie was spotted having cocktails and shouting everyone drinks in Coogee all the while promoting her brand of Gin using them as a big sampling campaign?! Generosity not. She has apapparently shouted drinks at another location previously.
Pro Palestinian protests continue in the UK causing disruptions as soon as a minute silence was observed on Remembrance Day. Meanwhile a pro Palestinian motorcade has been slammed by Jewish communities as it made its way around Sydney from Lidcombe to Coogee in the Eastern suburbs where the majority of the Jewish community reside.
The death of 2 toddlers found in a car in the heat in remote Qld near Rockhampton has the town in morning .
Tribute to the late Queen & Prince Phillip has seen new statues revealed in the Royal Prince Albert Hall for it's 150th anniversary by the King & Queen. The royal family is currently attending the festival of remembrance spotted in the box.
There has been an Alanta apartment inferno with the cause unknown
The Myer Christmas window has been revealed in Melbourne with a very Aussie theme this year featuring Bluey.
Meat prices may be dirt cheap but supermarkets have failed to pass on these cheap meat prices onto customers . When asked why meat prices have remained so high , their response was rising cost of freight and other overheads and fixed contracts which have been slammed as invalid excuses.
Another domestic incident in Greenacre which
A male pedestrian was struck by a car on the Harbour Bridge last night. The driver and passrnger were uninjured and the crash is being investigate as it was unclear why the man would had been walking aross the road on the Harbour Bridge
Do we really care if Donald Trump wants his trial of 2020 election interference publically televised in the US?
Monday
A top of 21 degrees C today with rain forcasted. Looking rather overcast this morning.
Straight after attending Network Build face to face class, which I thought I had lost my files again for - my One drive does not work very well and the file was saved to the Tafe's desktop local drive - I was really hoping it had as I spent ages searching for files on One Drive as well asand it just could not find them.
News headlines today include
King Charles and Camila attend Remembrance Day ceremonies.
After a cyber attack on Australia's largest port operator DP World who is responsible lfor moving 40% of goods coming in and going out of Australia is unable to tell when they can get up and running again. An estimated 30000 containers goods are stuck at ports and DPWorld is negotiating with other operators to get goods moving again. This may cause a shortage in Christmas stock where there is a fear will raise interest rates again due to demand outstripping suppy.
Penny Wong has been criticized for her comments on calling for a cease fire in the Middle East.
QLD youth crime has not decreasedue to the governmentinactions to curb it. A young mother home alone was invaded , robbed and injured needing hoppitalisation as she suffered an axe wound to her ankle when the offender threw the axe out of the car window and it hit her.
Calls for the government to cover the costs of policing the constant violence from pro Palestinian pritests around Australia's capital cities.
Dozen Yarraville residents have been compensated for Westgate Bridge project. Settlement amounts cannot be disclosuedue to signing of a gag order. Meanwhile there are calls for calm in Northern Melbourne.
Meat prices at supermarketare still high despite the drop in meat prices - price gouging blamed. The National Party is calling for the ACC to keep supermarkets in check.
The AFL Gather Round is back in SA.
Barnaby Joyce gets married.
A cruise ship with thousands of passengers on board infestedwith cases of gastrand COVID has arrived in Adelaide and given a clean and disinfectant
80 immigration detainees have been released from detention centres and upto 92 could be released including some with criminal backgrounds.
Tuesday 14th November 2023
A top of 26 C and a few clouds around.
Today I had another APM appointment at 9.30 am .
After my appointment it was another day spent at the Tafe library to finish off my Cyber Aware assessment. I also spent the morning doing a little more of the final part of the Systems Administration assessment.
I only attended the first half hour of the class as the class started at 6 pm and the library closesat 7 pm so I left a little after 6.30 pm before it got dark. I continued to work on my assessment for Cyber Aware. I have worked very hard on this subject to complete it. I had to ask how to copy the link of the role play I did with my classmate last week as I could not copy it from Outlook. Still have not worked this out. But now that I have finished my assessment I still have time to find a way to copy these files and attacthem to my assessment. I did not return to class tonight.
I am feeling very tired and think I will sleep in tomorrow and then head off to the Tafe library again to work on my programming assessment.
News headlines today include
Former British PM David Cameron becomes British Foreign Secretary
Outrage as Melbourne school students are encouraged to skip school to attend pro Palestinian protests/rallies. There have been growing anti semetic attacks.
Logan in QLD was found to be the most dangerous youth crime suburb with almost 50% in car theft.
A meat price review into high meat prices. Meanwhile vege prices brocolli prices decimated.
A SA swim ban at beaches by teachers for schools water sports is planned due to shark attacks. There is a debate whether this is unsafe by sparking fears into students to go into the water and endangerintheir lives. Thousands of students were booked to do swim classes that could be cancelled.
Plans are in place for 30 km speed zones in Melbourne for a 2 year trial by City of Yarra.
American retired football player Tom Brady will coming to Australia on a speaking tour in January. Will he speakabout his ex wife Giselle.
Australian PM AA gets the nickname " Airbus Albo" due to the numerous trips he has done in his first year of PM however it is not overly unusual for a PM to have travelled that frequently compared to former PMs such as Kevin Rudd he is on par with his 12 trips and one less then Scomo.
A new Garfield movie is being released .
Ann Hathaway is giving her words of wisdom being told when she was young that she will not work beyond 31 - how times have changed now 41 she is still working.
An axe welding vandal hits the streets in Glen Waverly smashing cars at car dealerships.
Robbie William's touches down in Australia ahead of his tour in his private jet.
Victorian train workers are deciding weather to go on strike or not over pay and conditions.
Tonight Johnny Ruffo will be remembered on a channel 7 tv special.
A 16 year old Australian school girl has been selected to join the same formula one training academy - Alpine Academy as Oscar Piastri .
Kim Kardashian 's hair stylishas split from his partner.
Kylie is to headline at the T mobile Zone sphere the La Vagas Grand Prix with fellow Australian Keith Urban who will be performing at the opening ceremony.
Wednesday 15th November 2023
Sydney is 25 degrees C forecasted for today. The cloud are looming again.
I didn't want to go to programming classes today as I wanted to head to the library to work on my proframming assessment and finish it off. I was tired from working on my Cyber Aware assessment for the past 2 days so decided to join online this morning heading into face to face class after lunch . The teacher wasn't happy that J had not attended class for 2 weeks including support classes. 1 I had to correct him it was just one week and I had sent him a message in advance that I was sick and 2 I only missed one support class on Monday afternoon which is not even compulsory. We are allowed to miss a class or 2 as long as we catch up and I was definitely not behind. I advised the teacher when I joined the class online that I will be in after lunch and that I can't concentrate with teams on in the background. I need total concentration when working on my assessments hence the tafe library is a great place to do my assessments.
Unfortunately EllaLee had the same idea to come to face to face class after lunch. I had not seen her for 2 weeks. The teacher was ok with us coming in after lunch.
The teacher was having a trippy day today place a tropical background on teams with a table in front that looked as if he was part of "The Last Supper" because we can't see who is actually in class and who is online, I had my headset in and could not hear anything but could see my teacher. He was on mute having a conversation with a classmate in class. I sent him a message and asked why I could not here him. He responded with having a conversatiowith the classmate and eating grapes ( which I could see him pretending to on the screen). I was not amused so responded with "I'm deaf not blind!" He did think this was funny.
So I ended up going to the tafe library and continued to work on my assessment and returned online ( I did tell my teacher that if I go off line it means that I can't concentrate) asked a few questions before returning to class during lunch break. EllaLehad not arrived yet but one of only 2 classmates were so I spoke to him about this assessment. I was panicking and said the teacher is going to fail me as he didn't like my variables that I had listed and because I didn't attend class. He kept saying that would not fail and I took some screen shots of my classmates variables which were the same as mine.
When the teacher arrived he asked were EllaLee was. I said " I don't know!" Which he responded "You two are always together!" Which I responded " I haven't seen her for 2 weeks , We're not even from the same country!"
EllaLee did arrive a little later. The teacher the went though part 5 of the assessment debugging with us . I wanted to go to the library afterwards and so did EllaLebut he would not let us go. I panicked as I could not work under his dictatorshiway of teaching - I think he just doesn't want his students to fail his classes. After spending time with me going through what I had done guided me through missing bits and pieces tested my program and put all my files I had worked on together zipped them for me and I submitted them ( I could have done all this myself all I needed was a list of which files had to go where and submithem). The teacher marked them all satisfactory and asked me to do a backup om one drive as proof this subject is completed. Now I don't have to attend hos classes anymore. One more subject bites the dust. All this time he didn't trust me with what I was working on in his classes.
Poor EllaLee is struggling still trying to finish assessment. I think it was way past 5 pm when we were still in class. Class finished at 4.30 am.
No time to go to the library today .I am exhausted and going straight home. I took a walk to clear my head.
When I arrived home I finalised my Cyber Aware assessment and submitted it too. It is not quite complete as I need to wait for the teacher to mark it as satisfactory before I perform the final part of the assessment to delete the account and submited evidence that I had done so.
Sleep!
News headlines today include
There has been an alarming 23% surge in cyber security crime this year. The equivalent of one crime every six minutes. A warning that things will only get worse.
SA and Victoria are most at risk of energy blackout this Summer. Residents are being urged to use less power during Summer.
Tens of thousands gather to rally in Washington DC for release of hostages and an end to anti semitism- basically an end to the war between Israel and Hamas. Meanwhile a series of Hamas tunnel systems has been found under hospitals some with signs that hostages were being held there & was used as their HO. Meanwhile a Western Sydney company has refused to hire a jumping castle to a Jewish school (Masada) boasting it on social media .
Tropical cyclone Mal has hit Nadi closing schools and cancelled flights due to heavy rainfall and storms.
Napal is the latest country to ban TikTok. Tik Tok is now banned in several countries such as India.
The AUS$ against the US$ is still around the $0.6495 mark. It hit $0.65 mark this afternoon.
Charles turns 75 years old. Will Harry send him a birthday wish? yes he phoned him but that does not end the frosty relationship.
Teachers in SA are threatening to strike again. Meanwhile ambulance staff threaten to quit if new pay and conditions are not met leaving the already fragile healthcare system in crisis.
A new monopoly interactive theme park has opened under Melbourne Central . The board game company has taken a risk and signed a 16 year $20 million deal. It is the largest Monolpoly theme park in the world after HK.
Another fire in Truganina in Victoria at a house. Meanwhile another fire in Sydney in a unit was caused by a dishwasher which was taken out to cool down.
The number of GPs offering bulk billing has halved this year despite government increases in funding. GPs are also increasing their fees.
Calls for QLDers to wear masks again in busy areas as an increase in cases of COVID present in an 8th wave.
A new teachers program is to be introduced to deal with behavioural problems from disruptive students.
Melbournes Preston Markets is to remain open for at least he next 5 years when they were going to close due to redevelopment. Stall holder rents will increase but stall holders are not bothered by this as securing a lease renewal is a win for them .
Another season of The Crown airs. Meanwhile some of the cast of Friends are beginning to post personal tributes online to the late Matthew Perry 2 weeks after he passed away.
The high meat prices investigation continues.
Round Zero is now called the Opening Round by . the AFL This original 4 game round is to bridge the gapbetween when the NRL season and AFL season begins.
.The word Matildas is the word of the year.
Telstra has a direct line to Santa for kids to ring using one of Telstra's pay phone from now until Christmas eve.
Thursday 16th November 2023
Today it was quite hot with a top of around 26 degrees C today. No rain yet but maybe later tonight?
I was up late last night to finalise and submit my Cyber Aware assessment parts 2 3 & 4.
I think I may have to arrive to class late this morning or join online.
I sent a message to my teacher a d said that I eoll
News headlines today include
A womans body was found in Footscray and a 14 year old arrested.
Friends cast continue to share their tributes to Matthew Perry.
83 non citizens including criminals are released into the community as the gov rushes through laws after high court ruling on asylum seekers. The government insists that it's not their fault. More detainees are expected to apply to be released and given bridging visas and it is feared that this will encourage a rush of illegal immigrants trying to seek asylum in Australia. Meanwhile Peter Duton has used question time in a scaving attack on AA for flying to Seattle attending the APEC summit so soon after meeti g with the US president and Chinese President. Dutton argued that AA should remain in Australia to deal with more pressing local issues such as antisemitism, the rising cost of living and the release detainees debarkle. It should be noted that when there were pressing issues in the US the US president Joe Biden did cancel his meeting with AA to deal with them. Every Australian PM except Julia Gillard due to her father passing away has attended the APEC summit and that AA has only flown overseas as many times as other past Australian PMs as well as the fact hat he didn't have to attend APEC himself as Australia does have a Foreign Minister that can stand in for his absence . Will curfewsand ankltracking bracelets work for related detainees?
Police have attended a North Bondi Servo to break up a brawl between 2 men where a hockey that could have been used as a weapon found.
Drug lord and underworld figure Mr Big has been arrested in Lebanon in a 3 day operation with a drug lord.
Accidently leaked lude messages by 2 police officers investigating a domestic voilence incident . The messages were accidentally pocket dialed.
The Melbourne airport rail link gas been given the green light to go ahead again after it survived a review of which Victorian infrastructureproge ts were to remain or scrapped by the Victorian state government saved by federal government funding subsidy of $5 billion half of the $10 billion project.
Mushroom poisoning woman has put her holiday home on the market and it was due to be auction before being withdrawn.
Queensland is having severe storm warnings.More storms expected to roll into Brisbane today.
Angry passengers departing Adelaide to Perth on a Virgin flight which was cancelled will miss the Cold Play concert they were about to attend over the weekend. Virgin had offered them an alternate flight on Monday which not many passengers would have taken up as the concert would be over by then. Desparate to make it to the Old Play Concert in Perth one passenger got in his car and drove the 26 hours straight Adelaide to Perth route in order to not miss the concert. Ditto for Robbie Williams concert in Sydney when another virgin flight was cancelled from Adelaide to Sydney. Passengers at least could get on alternative Qantas and Jetstar flights. What can you do when the flight you are on is about to depart off the tarmac ie all are passengers checked in & have gone through security, backs checked in and loaded onto plane passengers probably all seated buckled up and carryon luggage stowed etc when it is announced that the flight is now cancelled? And this is why I hate flighting ( besides the safety risks)
It's Australia's biggest night of Music the ARIAs. Of course Kylie Minogue received an award- her first in 20 years. Padum Padum!
What's this?! - forget Taylor Swift Travis Kelce and his brother have release a new music single an Irish Folk Christmas song?! Did I hear right? Travis Kelce the Anerican football player can sing?
A 4 day school week has caused backlash from parents.
Robbie William's first Australian concert of his Australian tour starts tonight.
Wages grew by 1.3% in September.
Dominos Pizza has introduced a new warming boxes on the back of their e delivery bikes. They are not ovens just warmers to assist in keeping the pizza hot for longer.
Friday 17th November 2023
It rained quite heavily overnight but more wild weather with more storm warnings are to come next week . Today will be a cooler top of 22 degrees C forecasted with clouds.
Today I am headed for Hornsby. Now being a postcode snob , I have only ever been out to Hornsby once and it was about a decadeago and I did not like it. Everything was so run down.
Hornsby is about 25 minutes from Chatswood by train yet I have not travelled beyond Gordon Station.
News headlines today include
A SA policeman has been shot at a rural property on a border town. He is seriously injured and in a bad way in hospital.He has now passed away. The suspect and another police officer were injured.
The 21 year old sports coach found in school gum toilet has been remembered.
Schoolies week starts tonight as some start arriving but the majority of students arrive tomorrow. There will always be gate crashers but wristbands will be needed to enter.
Robbie Williams performed last night and sings his hits & You The Voice as a tributeto John Farnham.
New emergency laws have been rushed and passed overnight with strict visa conditions such as work restrictions, curfews and ankle bracelets to monitor detainees released into the community's every move . About 84 detainees were released and it is unknown how many more will be released costing tax payers $180k per month for released detainees just to be tracked however the total estimate was costed for all detainees released being tracked when only those such as those with criminal records will be only need to be tracked. Taxpayers are not happy particularly when there are so many tax payers struggling to have or keep a roof over their heads when these detainees released will be provided with Centrelink payments other subsidiesas well as housing in some cases. There is a lot of blame shifting amongst the government parties but they managed to work together to pass legislation to keep Australians safe as a priority overnight. Where was AA? - oh at the APEC summit overseas. Surely the government knew what could have been the outcome of the High Court's decision .
Singtel the parent company of Optus reveals that Optus did their update and the network was up snd running after 20 minutes making the CEO look bad and calls for her to step down as the Optus faces a grilling at a Senate inquiry today. It is the 2nd major Optus incident in 13 months.
A woman has jumped in her car and is driving 28 000 km just to get from Adelaide to Perth just to get there in time to see Cold Play after her Vigin flight was cancelled. She is due to arrive just as the concert is about to start on Saturday night.
Dolly Parton releases her new rock album singing duets with countless famous musicians including her goddaughter Miley Cyrus .
Another house fire in Melbourne which jumped to the neighbouring house. All residents got out safely .
A Sydney car chase by police which ended in a crash into an estimated 30 cars was caused by 4 youths still on the run who drove all the way from QLD across the NSW border to Sydney in a reported stolen car. This disrupted Robbie William's concert goers with road closures.
Today AA addresses the climate change conference today with world leaders attending and Joe Biden meeting the Chinese President.What did Biden really call the president of Vhina a "dictator"? and after images of them speaking and shaking hands with each other!
P Diddy is being sued by his ex girlfriend Cassie fmover claims of sexual and physical abuse.
What more Harry secrets in a new book?
Anti war and anti climate protestors will rally in Melbourne at lunchtime today with students encouraged to attend and signed "sick notes" issued by climate doctors as a valid excuse to miss school to participate.
Saturday 18th November 2023
A top of 23- 24 degrees C today. It was windy this morning.
I headed to the GFWS Christmas markets after 12 noon by bus and train but when I got to St Leonard's Ststion had a nasty fall tripping over something thinking I could rebalance only to come crashing to the ground and hitting my right knee again and grazing it , grazing my left hand and even hitting my right forehead . I was in pain and thought there goes my trip to the GFWS out at Carriageworks . I limped to the toilets and armed with an antibacteriawet wipe inspected my injuries. My right hand escaped unbroken and only slightly grazed (not as bad as my last trip and fall) and my forehead is ok then came my knee, it is badly bruised but only slightly grazed and thangoodness my $30 something red Guess tracksuit pants are still intact! I would have spewed if it got a hole in it from the fall but does have a very weakpatch that will form a hole in the next wash.
I was not the only person to face a massive fall today. Still sore I was walking towards carriageworks along a rather narrow lane which is not very well maintained with uprooted treesalong its footpath and an older lady had a trip and fall breaking most of her glasses and bottles in her shopping bag that she had just purchased from the GFWS and also had cuts to her hand and forehead , she was bleeding and I wasn't sure whether to call for an ambulance or not. She was in a bad way shaking badly as well. She had some people with her who helpeher so she was looked after and someone did ask if she needed first aid but the answer was no. I got out my disinfectant wipes and offered one to the group. They had tissue but I think a wet wipe would help to clean any wounds. I continued onto Carriageworks . The regular Saturday markets had almost all packed up and there was an awful lot of people headed back towards redfern station. I was just arriving.
I thought it was meant to be much cooler today. Not here inside at The GFWS Christmas Markets at Cartiageworks - it's worse the the last indoor markets that were held here. Is it worth the $15 entry fee? No not in Sydney, the Melbourne one was much better last year because it has a much better venue and not so hot!
By the time I got there the caviar from the Murray Cod and had sold out. The Festive Food Hall was again pretty ordinary but El's Fried Chicken had made an appearance again. So did Goose On The Loose, Eden NZ cherry Juice, Sodasmith, Murray River Salt, just to name a few food and beverage stalls.
So what did I buy today? what did I watch and what freebies did I get?
I queued up and spun the Smooth FM wheel but missed out on winning a prize - no surprise there I never win anything and when I do it's something that I don't want or can't use. I also got 4 x 4pkts of Continental Stock Pot Sensations Beef , a chocolate mazipan heart , a small round of chocolate mazipan when I purchased a packet of $35 mixed varieties of flavours of mazipan chocolates, a bottle of water for watching the French baked cheese show and a 3 pkt of matcha tea pods which I will have to break open and use as I don't own a coffee pod machine when I purchased some Japanese pine apple tea and strawberry mini biscuits.
I left the show at around 4.30 pm as I was getting bored and tired. The crowds had died down by now. Overall I really didn't think
I'm disappointed Machappy Day was only for a short period of time today. I only got to the McDonalds after 6 pm today and tried to purchase a pair of Grimace socks and they weren't selling them anymore. I didn't want to purchase a Bigmac as I hate them so it was either make a donation or get a piece of their merchandise.
I had some unappetizing octapusballs from sushi world- the worst I have ever had. Should have had something else. Since when are octapus balls eaten with mayo and teriyaki sauce? Sushi world is not Japanese at all. Oh how I miss Tamon in The Chase which has shutdown as the entire food court except Shanghai Dumplings for renovations ( yep still and it will be a while until the food court reopens).
Home after some more grocery shopping.
News headlines today include
Mulgrave in Victoria holds a by election today. Voters started arriving early at polling places before 8 am today.
The detainees released from detention centers include criminals such as rapists muderers and even child abusers. Who will replace Dan Andrews?
Princess Kate makes a landmark speech
Coldplay performs it first of only 2 concerts in Perth tonight . They will not be totingany other parts of Australia. Chris Martin was spotted out and about Perth by lucky fans who got to meet him ahead of tonight's concert .
Schoolies week officially starts today when hundreds to thousands of students check into hotels, collect their wristbands and let loose at a party tonight for those under 18s . There will be an army of Redfrogs around to assist any schoolies and kerp them safe as well as keep toolies out of schoolies week.
A panada diplomacy is being discussed with US and China as only one set of panadas remain.
The GP crisis continues as 30% of GPs plan to retire.
6 states oust the chairman of Australian Rugby.
Disaster struck the Las Vegas F1 when one of the cars was damaged by a manhole on the race track ripping the undercarriage of the car. The manhole has since been repaired by maintenance staff.
Sunday 19th November 2023
A top of 26 degrees C snd it is beautiful outside. Today I am staying g in because of the fall I had yesterday and because I must finish the assessments for my course which I must submit this week. I have one subject left to complete so I have to push myself to finish it. I kept Network Build until last as it is the longest subject to complete.
I didn't end up doing much as I was in a bit of pain from the fall I had yesterday, I did hit the concrete quite hard .
A very windy day today. Even taking the rubbish out was an effort at one stage.
News headlines today include
It is day 2 of schoolies week .
Taylor Swift has postponed her concerts in Ro when one of her fans died during her concerts from heat stroke.
Coldplay called a young cancer survivor onto stage during their concert in Perth. As well as paying tribute to Warnie by singing a song he wrote as the late king spinner's kids watched on.
Elon Musk's second attempt by SpaceX to launch has failed again. Contact was lost by "Starship" 2 minutes after launching. All seemedto be going as planned and the 2 parts separated successfully ie the rocket from it's booster however the rocket went into self destruct shortly afterwards.
Australian navy divers were injured by Chinese warship sonar pulses whilst they were in Japanese waters untangling nets. The PM has been slammed for not bringing this incident up with his talks with the Chinese Presidents and where timing of the incident was suspicious.
A fire in North Willoughby took 40 firefighters to extinguish. A woman became trapped in her house when she yelled out to her neighbours to help her. A body was found inside the house and it is thought that the fire was started by an electrical fault.
Another firebomb in Williamstown which police believe is related to gang related tobacco wars.
Labor manages to hold onto the seat of Mulgrave in a by election left vacant by Dan Andrews.
The death of a man in his 60s in an ambulance waiting up to 3 hours to be admitted to a hospital in Ipswich is being investgated. Ambul aas nce ramping seems to be on the increase in QLD.
Akubra hates has been sold after 147 years and is going to remained Australian owned.
A retirement village in Menangle was saved when a nearby grass fire was possibly started from a spark from a train.
Monday 20th November 2023
A top of around 23 degrees C today. It is a little cooler but no rain so far.
I spent the entire day in the library but didn't get very far well not as far as I would have liked. I haven't submitted my Systems admin assessment yet eventhough I finished it last Thursday. I still haven't had my assessment marked for my privacyand security subject and it's been about 5 weeks now. I am concerned. If I fail it would have been a total waste of my time as I should have got an exemption for the subject but did it anyway along with my Cyberaware which has been marked.
News headlines today include
Wild weather is set for SE QLD as severe storm warnings are forecasted with heavy rain forecasted for NSW and the only state escaping ViC with heat waves instead.
The Pines in QLD continues to burn and firefighters work throughout the night to keep it under control.
26 degrees C in Sydney and cloudy today with a chance of showers.
93 detainees released into the community. Another 247 detainees could be released into the commumity.
Cold Play performed it's second and final show in Perth last night however rumours are they could return to Australia destination Melbourne and Sydney with 2 shows each .
The teenage driver who was involved in a hit and run killing SA police comissioner's youngest son Charlie Stevens in the first few days of schoolies week in SA has been charged and due to appear in court today and could be released on bail or spend Chrustmas in jail. Charlie died of irreversible brain injuries.
Victory for the Austalians in the cricket against India as the underdogs win the World Cup led by captain Pat Cummings and tranks to Travis Head with 6 wickets.
Matthew McCaugoughy has released a new book.
Ricky Lee is back in the charts.
Gina Rinehart takes on Mark Zuckerberg to stop the scammers.
Another blaze in Melbourne this time in a restaurant. The cause is being investigated as this is the second time the restaurant has been attacked.
Miss Universe 2023 is held in El Salvador .
Vastapphen wins again, Norris crashes out and Oscar places 10th in the F1 Las Vagas Grand Prix.
A cameraman has been identified as one of two victims on board one of the planes in a 2 plane crash . He was filming from the plane when it was clipped and crashed I to the waters near Melbourne.The second plane flew back to Essendon Airport.
AA won't reveal whether he confronted the Chinese president during his meeting with him about the 2 Australian Navy divers that were injured by Chinese Warship sonars whilst they were in Japanese waters untangling a net around a propeller. Lessons were learn when SM got in trouble for leaking discussions with the French previously.
Some of Barry Humphery 's family members are not happy with the choice of MC at his public memorial to be held at the Opera House on the 15th December 23 thinking the chosen Richard Wilkins is an inappropriate choice for the role and will boycott it.
Tuesday 21st November 2023
A rather wet day today as it rained overnight. A top of 26 degrees C today but very cloudy.
I plan to spend another day at the library today.
I haven't been to Chatswood Library for a long time as I go to the Tafe Library and also to St Leonards Library when it's open.
I chose to do so because the Tafe Library closes at 7 pm and the Chatswood Library closes at 9 pm and also I can go shopping and have something to eat when I need to.
I had a mini spicy chicken burrito from GyG before heading to Chatswood Library . It cost me $9.50 but it was just enough to fill my belly.
Arriving so late to Chatswood Library there was not a sgledesk a ailable with a power point that I could plug my electro ic devices into but I found a great very quite spot in the creativeroom which used to be the quite computer room. No computerare in there anymore as most people byo electronic devices however I could only use this space until 3.30 pm as there was a class on in this room from 3.30 pm - 8.30 pm ( the library closes at 9 pm and I have no intention of staying that late) - oh shoot I forgot about my Cyber Aware connected class tonight starting at 6 pm.
After 3 pm I found this Quiet Pod and it was empty. What is it and what is it used for? So I read the information sign went to the library information desk and booked it for the maximum 2 hours allowed per day with my library card. I was given a bit of an orientation about it and left to use it. ( refer my 2 YouTube shorts uploaded for descriptionof what it looks like and how it works) . I was in there and watching the time on the display finishing my 2 assessments and submitting them. When I was finalizing the last part and submitting my cyber aware assessment I forgot the time a d missed the first hour or so of the Cyber Aware clas but they were just chatting about some AI course. Damn it I missed what it was about.
I listened in on the conversation until I had to do some grocery shopping and left the connected class which was around 7 pm as they were going I to breakout rooms to do their role plays and I had already done it with a classmate previously.
After a quick grocery shop it was home. Sleep. Do it all again tomorrow.
News headlines today include
Biden bad Taylor Swift mixed up with Britney Spears making a comment of Britney Spears touring in her Renaissance tour in Rio instead of Tayor Swift touring on her Eras tour during an annual pardoning of 2 turkeys for Thanks Giving .
Duchess Sarah Ferguson has added tv breakfast co host to her resume in the UK.
A police report has found youth crime has increased in number to an estimated 500 incidences per week between the ages of 10 - 14 years old as Victorian bail laws fail and these criminals released only to reoffend.
Another 31 Australians have left Gaza for safety
The CEO of Optus has "Quit" after a grilling by the Senate over the Optus outage incident recently ( she had escaped the Optus cyber security data breach previously under her leadership). Will Gladys B ( former NSW premier) be the one as a search is on for a new CEO of Optus?
The driver of the hit and run incident that killed the teenage son Charlie of the SA police commissioner has been released on bail with strict conditions under his mother'ssupervision.Itis still unclear of how it happened witnesses say Charlie ran out in front of the car others say the driver was speeding before he crashed .Meanwhile Charlie's father has paid tribute to his son with a 2 page letter with 101 things about Charlie and so more then just a number where Charlie was the 101 victim of mv fatalities.
Government explores laws to put detainees with criminal records that have been released into the community back into jail similar to terrorists laws until they can be deported from Australia.
Murdered sports coach Lily James parents are suing the private school St Andrew's for lack of night staff.
QLD's DNA bungle will take an estimated another 3 years to clear the backlog of retesting.
The housing markets in Sydney and Melbourne are expected to fall.
It is AFL draft night.
Prince Edward is in Sydney landing in Australia overnight? He is here to present 60 years of The Duke of Edinburgh Awards.
Shakira 's tax fraud trial continues but she has agreed to pay the fines so she will not begin g to jail but has a 3 year suspended jail sentence. She insists she did nothing wrong taking the advice of her accountants and signing off on what was being done.
Details of Johnny Ruffo's memorial service has been revealed with a strictly no cameras allowed policy requested by his family.
Swifties have crowd funded to helpthe family of the fan who died during the concert from heat stroke. Taylor did sing a tribute to the fan.
Wednesday 22nd November 2023
25 degrees C with a chance of rain today. What a week of heavy rains for QLD Vic and parts of NSW?
It will be another day at the library today. This will be the final and toughest assessment to tackle. Network Build. I don't think another 2 hours in The Quiet Pod will help me with completing this subject - this was and still is my weakest subject!
After lunch I will head off to the library.
News headlines today include
Things turned ugly when 23 were arrested and charged to appearing court at a later date after a pro Palestinian group of around 300 strong protested and refused to move after being asked by police blocking an Israeli shipment from entering and being unloaded in Port Botany.
Truce negotiating Qatar is in the final stages of a peace deal between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. Hostage release exchanges are being negotiated. Israel to free prisoners and Hamas to releases hostages .
The QLD ambulance ramping crisis is increasing after another patient, a mother dies whilst waiting for a hospital to arrive that did not she died after going to bed from aheart attack and found unresponsive by her young son.
The SA acused killer out on bail with strict conditions is banned from contacting any witnesses after crashing his car and killing Charlie Steven's. Conflicting accounts of witnesses say Charlie ran in front of the car whilst others say the driver in the car was speeding towards him.
The government is proposing to spend $500 million on businesses and individuals to protect them against cyber security attacks by providing them with assistance and tools to do so.
A 10 year old's drawing was chosen to be displayed on a racing car.
Kyle & Jackie O just signed the biggest deal in radio and even tv. A 10 year extension deal with ARN has been resigned ie 2043 worth $200 million over 10 years ( $100 million each) where the contract may be worth much more then that and to be aired into Melbourne next year.
The Royals are rolling out the red carpet for the South Korean president and his wife on a 3 day state visit to the UK. why are state visits always 3 days?
Phoenix Gothard pick 12 GWS. (AFL drafts)
The Lehrman defamation trial against Channel 10 starts today.
Flight data has been revealed today of Qantas Jetstar and Virgin airlines indicating the number of on time delayed and cancelled flights.Qantas was the worse performer with 4% of flights cancelled or delayed resulting in late arrival times.
The official start of the holidays is marked by the arrival of the Christmas fir tree at the White House.
Harry and Meaghan have been seen at the ice Hockey where Harry tossed the puck. The next Invicus Games will be hosted in Vancouver and Whistler in 2025
An Indian tunnel collapses .
Thursday 23rd November 2023
A top of 25 degrees C and possible showers today.
Another day in the library. I am determined to finish my final assessment otherwise I will fail the course. I am not attending classes again today as I am waiting to get my police check so I can forward it Hornsby Community College for the volunteer digital mentor program.
I forgot to return my bottles for recycling yesterday so must do it today and take my rubbish out.
I headed to the library and stayed there all day but not before I remembered to return my bottles for recycling.
So glad to be inside as it poured with rain all day and throughout the night.
For dinner I had the lot Turkish gozleme mushroom cheese spinchbeef and mushroombut after I had a 6 pot of plain grilled salmon sushi. I walked around and around trying to decide what to have for dinner should I get a pizza or should I get a Greek lamb souvlaki how about pot stickers which I still have not tried from LinLins? The problem is my severe allergies and everything is so fried or drenched in oil or heavy cheese. I went for the eual healthiest thing at the markets eventhough it still had cheese. I almost purchased a paella but it has shellfish in it.
Home on the bus and another day in the library tomorrow
News headlines today include
A large landslide has occurred in Alaska.
South Korean Female Black Pink the K Pop Group was given Order of Britain presented by King Charles - hey what about BTS?
A mv has exploded near the Rainbow Bridge on the border of the Canada US border crossing in Niagara Falls. All 4 border crossings have been closed whilst an investigation is underway being performed as to the cause and if there were any injuries and whether this was a terrorist attack.The mv was travelling from Canada into the US. It is holiday season in the US ( tomorrow is Thanks Giving) so travellers are warned to expect more security checks at Buffalo Airport and allow more time for travel.
If you have been following the Sam Altman Open AI saga you will know how under a week ago he was fired by the board but is now back at Open AI as the CEO with a partially new board and partially original team. (the saga unfortunately was not as simple as he was fire then reinstated as reported on the news).
Another attack in Melbourne 's CBD near a tram stop. The man attackewas stabbed and fighting for life in hospital.
Homes are still under bushfire attacks in Western Australia.
A 48 year old man has been arrested snd charged with 20 accounts of sexual assault in Sydney.
860 Palestinians ( regugees) were given visas to enter Australia to escape war it had been revealed
QLD hospital computer meltdown and ambulance ramping is causing continued health care crisis.
Bruce Lurhmann faces off against Lisa Wilkinson in his defamation court case after facing off against Channel 10 in court previously.
A pause in hostility with a hostage ceasefire deal Hamas has agreed to hand over 50 women and children held hostage in exchange for 150 Palestinians mainly young male hostages.
3 prisoners have escaped and on the run from a Townsville prison.
It is the 60 year anniversary of the shooting of JFK
Friday 24th November 2023.
Black Friday Sales are on today.
Happy Fairy Bread Day!
Must remember to submit my Centrelink fortnightly income reporting form and I forgot again to complete my monthly Workforce Australia job search reporting so if I don't mert my mutual obligations again due by the 27th each month too bad. My studies are more important.
My teacher finally marked my 2 subjects and passed both but the one she had not marked for 5 weeks has a section still under review when I looked - she missed a section so it still shows up incomplete ( nothing like an email to her to advise her that I will not be able to attend her last 2 weeks of classes to get her to mark my assessments). My Cyber Aware subject has now been marked completed yesterday after I resubmitted the final part of it - I just created a new account and deleted it screen shot it and resubmittedthe final part of my assessment.
Today it is still pouring g with rain with a top again of 26 degrees C . Yesterday it was cold in the evening not just wet. It is forecasted to continue to rain every day for a week and Summer is just around the corner.
I made a mistake and thought the library at Chatswood closed at 9 pm tonight but on Fridays it closes at 6 pm.
Dinner was a regular sized spicy chicken burrito with corriander from GyG - it was quite a wait tonight to get it and when I got it , it wasn't that good this time round . It was probably made in a rush due to how busy it was there as it was not just a Friday night but Black Friday night where everyone was out and about as mist shops were open until 9 or 10 pm, the Chatswood markets were on and the packed library full of students studying for the final exams or finishing off their final assessments like I was were leaving g the library as it closed to find something close to have for dinner or take home to eat as it is still a horrible rainy night.
A top up of my Opal card which has $1.50 or so left on it and a quick grocery top up shop at Woolworths metro I head home. I missed the bus so had to wait for the next one. The up esculators were out of order everywhere. So I had to walk around or use a lift.
News headlines today include
12 people were able to arrive in WA rugged Kimberly region undetected. Dropped off by an Indonesian boat who left them to fend for themselves in croc infested waters. This is the 10th boat that has arrived in Australia illegally. The illegal arrivalswill be taken for orocessing and detained. Has the government lost control of border security?
It is Sydney students turn to attend a pro Palestinian protest rally at 1.30 pm today after Melbourne students attend one yesterday.
A 4 day ceasfire deal is meant yo start today as the first 13 hostages are to be released in exchange for 50 prisoners.
30 mm north of Perth the busfirescontinue to burn due to strong windsAt least 10 homes lost temps tomortow 39 degrees. Additional resources will be flown in from NSW.
The QLD hospital ramping crisis continues as emergency department heads plan to meet with the health minister after the 2 deaths resulted whilst waiting to be admitted into a hospital.
Subsidies for childcare are being overhaul with low income families to receive free 3 days a week of child care proposed.
Saving Australia's reputation for hostininternational sportingevents and saving The Commonwealth Games a proposal is now for the games to be held in QLD ( Goldcoast) and in WA backed by support from Gina Rhinart the richest woman in Australia.
There is a Melbourne work from home row as negotiations with public servants are locked in for a 4 day work week pay deal with public servantnot backing down on pay negotiations.
A quick thinking crane driver rescues resident from a rooftop of a burning building in UK
Fred & Mary Danish royals have been seen for the first time together since rumours of Fred's affair.
Camilia meets finalists of a writing award.
Tourist were treated to special changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace with the band playing Gangnam Style in celebrating Korean culture.
Bluey makes an appearance again at the annual Macys Thanks Giving parade and Cher closes the Christmas show.
Rumours of Jamie Foxx and sexual assault
Miley Cyrus gives a private performance of Flowers live.
Jonsie and Amanda celebrate 18 years on radio together.
Hans The German is returning to the US for America's Got Talent hit series after his accident over a year ago whilst performing on a cruise ship in Europe.
Violent riot are occurring in Dublin zireland where 3 children gave bern injured and killed.
China has seen an increase in respiratory diseases in Children. Is this a second COVID pandemic yet to hit Australia?
Saturday
More rain again today in Sydney. It rained all day yesterday and overnight with a very brief period of time where it stopped raining. A top of 25 degrees C today forecasted.
Another day in the library today.
I didn't get much of my assessment done at the library today because I was sitting in what was suppose to be a quite area where a teenage girl and boy kept chatting very loudly non stop for hours and hours from the time I arrived to when they left ( no wonder no one was sitting at the empty desk I managedto find. It was so busy at the library again and raining outside again.
News headlines today include
The first 13 hostages have been released by Hamas in exchange for Palestinian prisoners in Israel all as President Biden watches over Thanks Giving Dinner and making a speech.After 4 days the ceasefire The truce saw women and children released that were kidnapped and held hostage on Oct 7th. Hamas will be watched very closely by the White House during the truce. 24 of 50 hostages have been released overnight. 39 prisoners have been released - they have been assessed before release as they are terrorists murderers etc
QLD state government releases 5 point plan to ease hospital wait times to tackle ambulance ramping.
Melbourne is forecasted for at least a week of wet weather moving in this afternoon with severe storm warnings.
18 homes lost in WA bushfires 93% of the state is fire prone at the moment.
34 people arrested for riot following the stabbing in Dublin Ireland.
Former Paralympian Oscar Pistorius is to released after 11 years in jail. He is to be released on parole in 6 weeks time at the age of 37 years old having served half his time. The family of Reeva the murdered victim are devastated and fear for any other woman who comes in contact with Oscar.
Australia is into the Davis Cup final ( tennis).
Extremist Dutch politican Geert Wilders dubbed the "Dutch Trump" wins most popular party in the Dutch polls.
Workers call for transport reform bill to be passed for safer driving conditions and better conditions as there is an increase in unemployment and casual workers gigs pool.
NSW prescription trial started in July has been successful and popular freeing up GP visits for non serious common over the counter treatments for dermatitis asthma shingles the pill etc. The trial of the service has now been extended .
Princess Kate wears a turtleneck at an early childhood centre visit.
A cruise ship was refused entry into BZ due to a species found in the haul of the cruisehip that could threaten the biosecurity of NZ. Passrngers were furious and were given a credit and $300 voucher as compensation. The cruise ship will instead head to Tasmania.
Sunday
It's not raining this morning but it is still overcast. The sun is trying hard to come out. A top forecasted of 27 degrees C
The morning was a quick visit to the Metro Trains Barangaroo Station Community Open Day ( refer YouTube videos uploaded) where every vlogger and his dog was there.
Lunch was a sinfle Californian sushi roll from a real Japsnesesushi place at Wynyard ( I can tell the difference between a chain sushi store and a real Japnese one by the taste quality and price) before spending the rest of the afternoon at Chatswood Library again. I still am unable to complete this last assessment so I am in a dilema now ask for an extension or withdrafrom the subject. I had finished and passed every subject except this one over a week ago before I had that fall at St Leonard's that put me back a week. I was in do much pain from the fall I could not attend class the Monday after that weekend when it happened it was the first class I missed for that subject. I was really trying to finish my assessment but realise now that I don't think I am able to and the deadline is this Coming Monday. One of my classmates asked me to help her catch up with her assessments and I could not help her and I had messaged another classmate after the accident I had that I wish someone could help me or do my networking assessment .
News headlines today include
Penrith is to have a new beach to open in time for Christmas which is to be the Bondi Beach of the West including a copy of the Bondi Iceberg and similar in size to Bondi Beach out at Penrith Lakes .Currently residents in the West have to travel an hour to cool down in the searing heat in the West. The new beach will be open for 3 months from 7am - 7pm.
The deal to release 13 more hostages by Hamas was delayed but will go ahead as families are reunited with family members they thought would never see again. In exchange over 30 prisoner were released. The ceasefire will allow much needed aid to enter Gaza.
The government is overhauling it's immigration policies by capping the number of international students or charging international students a tax although universities were not keen on this. The immigration overhaul comes as detainees are released from detention centers.
3 nests of fire ants have been found crossing the Qld border in NSW. Poison has been placed for kms along the NSW border in an attempt to hault the spread of further infestations into NSW.
NRL is to be aired in US prime time.
New laws to include the origin of where seafood comes from in restaurants on menus is coming into affect.
More older Australians are looking for share housing with the raising cost of living with the median share house renting out a room from $300 - $350 even higher per week. There are plenty of be edits to share housing it has been found safety, companionship, house sitting whilst away on holidays, lowering expenses etc.
5 have been injured in a Pizza store in SA when a car crashed into it.
A memorial service will be held for Johnny Ruffo this weekend at his former school.
Cricket Australia will be left without a home as the Gaba has its renovation.
Brisbane Airport is having an auctionof its lost and found items left behind at the airport to raise money for charity.
A basketball player has come under fire for having an affair with a teenage school girl in the US.
The Adelaide 500 continues today. Kostecki wins championship as Van Gisbergen crashes out early.
Monday 27th November 2023
I wake up this morning with another asthma attack. Not uncommon for me to have them around this time of the year especially with the wild weather recently.
It was so hot yesterday reaching 29 degrees C apparently. Today seems a little cooler but I haven't checked the forecast for today.
I am still unsure what to do today should I apply for an extension for my very last assessment due or withdraw from the subject? I don't want to fail but definitely can't submit my assessment by this morning..
Extension has been granted but I found out my classmate also asked for an extension.
I was in the library most of today but my allergies are out of control. Coughing watery eyes runny nose. It's not a cold or flu as I don't feel "sick" .
I took a break for some awful sushi before heading back to the library for a hour or do before heading home. I am so tired but my assessment is still not finished.
Received an email for digital mentor tomorrow. I want to go so will try and make it. If I do I will be buddied up with another digital mentor.I may have to wait until next week. If my allergies continue.
News headlines today include
Chritina Aguilera wowed 20 000 fans at Flemington Racecourse for a one off concert in Melbourne bringing her 9 year old daughter with her and also partied hard. Support acts included Jessica Mauboy.
Sydney and Melbourne's populations are set to increase by 1 million each putting more pressure on the housing crisis.
Aussie men have the lowest use of parental leave in the world. There is a push for fathers to take more parental leave.
More hostages in exchange for release of prisoners including the release of a 4 year old hostage to be reunited with her family after she lost her parents when they were taken hostage on 7th October 2023 attack.
The new West Connex is causing confused motorist mayhem with dozens of near near misses as mv negotiate the new tunnel system. Nicknamed Rozelle Interchange's " Speghetti Junction"
A QLD family has been left in morning after their newborn baby passed away a few after she was born when the umbilical cord was wrapped around her neck and there was no oxygen tank around to aid her.
A huge celebration overnight celebrated 50 years of Mushroom Records.
$255 million will be spent to monitor 141 released criminal offenders from immigration detention.
Tursday 28th November 2023
I had a phone appointment today with APM at 9.30 am this morning but could not go as I was on my way to my first digital mentoring session out at Hornsby Karingai Community College which started at 10 am. So much fun and a challenge.
After I finished at 11.30 am it was a quick chat with a fellow volunteer before lunch sushi again from Hero Sushi and then off to the library to continue with my network assessment- yes still not finished as there is so much cutting and pasting. There
The identities of latest hostages including children and teenager has been released in exchange for Palestinians released as cease fire is extended.
Vapes will be illegal to bring into Australia soon.
Wild wet weather is head for most of the East Coast of Australia including showers for Sydney and 24 degrees C.
A grinch has been watching and stealing Christmas gifts delivered to homes within an hour of them being delivered in a Northern suburb of Melbourne. The victim has warned people to check their delivery settings to stop delivery thieves even if you have survalience camaras at your house.
A released detainee is out of contact after refusing to wear s tracking device.
3 Aussies have been nominated for a Grammy this year Dom Dolla, Kylie Minogue and Troye Sivan.
Wednesday 29th November 2023
It rained and it rained most of yesterday and overnight into the morning.
I am still doing my network build assessment. I am now going through and seeing what bits and pieces I am missing.
Today I paid my rent for the month as well as my Telstra bill for 2 months and my health insurance for the month. Not all the Bill's but about half of them .Ihave to keep on top of my bills constsntly.
I tried so hard to finish my assessment but just can't seem to do so. The stress is not doing my asthma any good either. So I asked for an extension as I definitely won'tbe able to finish it by tonight. I actually am thinking of withdrawing from the subject.
At 1.30 pm today I dialed in via Zoom to Canada to attend the annual general meeting . It is now only 30 minutes long not 1 hour as previously run and there was not much discussed at the meeting. Most of the meeting was discussion of marketing ideas of attracting new owners and the re election of board members as well as a call out for new board members which are volunteer positions. There were 3 spots on the board vacant and I had been thinking for a while about joining the board finally mentioning it at this AGM however I still did not put my hand up in the end due to big time zone differences and discussion of what the volunteer position would involved so 3 seniors did put their hands up and I agreed to their election to the board. Most board members are local ie the most distance being across the border of the US Canadian border in Washington State. Most of the owners of this time share are aging hence the need for new owners and board members. No financials were really discuss however there was mention of suggested amenities like a snack machine for the pool area, maintenance of the apartments and building . Question time - well there wasn't really one, if you had a question you had to interrupt like I did - I mention how I have been an owner since 2000 and the program where there used to be a discovery week for potentialbuyers in the past when the original Whiski Jack was involved. I think some owners join this meeting via Zoom for the social interaction as well not just to keep upto date with what is happening.
I have sent a message to my teacher and was given another extension and also formally asked for an extension by filling out an extension form and returning it out by email to Tafe administration. They wanted a medical certificate but I did not actually go to a doctor to get one. I just limped to the toilet at St Leonard's made sure that nothing was cut or grazed but I was in a pain. The next day was the worst moving my leg was painful and the pain continued for the rest of the weekbut gradually decreased. Still not 100% yet.
I managed to do just one load of laundry this morning.
News headlines today include
Jimmy Barnes is back in hospital after performing at Mushroom 50
James Blunt will be coming to Australia on a tour and has new music coming out.
Margot Robbie denies being involved in a documentary being made about Britney Spears
41 miners trapped bought back up to safety led by an Aussie rescuer after 2 weeks (17 days) trapped underground in a tunnel in India .
A quick thinking 14 year old girl saves a bus from slamming into a petrol station
Wild wet weather continues to hit Australia's East coast with heavy rain leading to flooding and heat waves hitting QLD. Da
After the incident of the released detainees refusingto wear tracking devices and losing contact with one of them, athe government is rushing through new laws to lockup and stop released detainees with criminal records from being released into the community for safety .
It was the annual Santa fun run in Japan to raise money for sick kids. More then 4000 people participated.
A port tax hike in Melbourne has sunk tourism as P & O cruise ships pulls out of sailing into the state run Port of Victoria in 2025.
More servo break ins on the Gold Coast. A group of 5 have been charged for 37 alleged break- ins.
Another arson attack in Adelaide.
10 Israelis and 2 foreign nationalshave been released by Hamas.
Patients are waiting upto 5 weeks to see a bulk billing GP due to a shortage?
AA apologizes to thalidomide survivors today after 60 years since the largest drug disaster happened.
The Governor of the RBA says Australians are doing fine despite 13 interest rate hikes at an overseas conference. Really?
Thursday 30th November 2023
Last day of Spring and the sun is trying to come out today after yesterdays wild weather of heavy downpours of rain and a severe thunder and lightening show that went I to the night and into the morning. I was so sick yesterday with a very bad asthma attack which lasted for quite a while. I am still very tired . It looks as if it will be a nice day today. Oh dear more rain and possible more storms to come today. A top of 25 degrees C today.
I washed my dishes first thing this morning.
Today I did not touch my Network Build Assessment. Found out in the afternoon that that another student still has not completed it or that it has been returned as unsatisfactory. I wonder who else has not completed it.
It rained in the evening whilst I was out grocery shopping at Coles at Chatswood Chase. Most of the building is still under renovations and more chaotic then before. Everything is boarded up.
Missed the bus home as it rained and unble to run to awaiting bus. Did not want to have another accident by slipping on tiles in the dark either.
Can't sleep again so catching up on my blog that nobody reads anymore and watching repeats on the food channel.
News headlines today include
The case fire ends today and it is the final day of hostages to be released. There are still women and children missing and fears for a family .
The missing detainee has been found after 48 hours and is now wearing an ankle bracelet and given strict curfews.
The teenager of the Sa police commissioner killed in a hit and run will be remembered in a service at Adelaide Oval today.
Trains have recommenced running normally after an accident involving a crane struck by lightening overnight causing it to crash onto train tracks at Fairfield in Sydney's West
The Foo Fighters play their first gig in Perth overnight.
Britney Higgins gives evidence at the Bruce Lurhmann defamation trial yesterday.
The Victorian government is open to discissions to legalize cannabis for personal use.
Assistance to help more Australians buy their own homes is planned with upto a 30% for existing build & 40% for new build with a subsidy where the government will own this portion of the home. Open to singles earning upto $90000 and couples earning upto $120 000. Applicants will still need a 2% deposit. The loan still has tobe repaid . You don't have to be a new home owner but you can't own any other property.
A new book on Prince Harry and Meghan that has been translated and hot shelves in Dutch that knows who the 2 royals involved in making the racist comments on the color of Archie's skin has been taken off bookstore shelves just days after it's release due to possible legal issues where UK law prevents the royals from being identified and where the 2 royals were actually named in the book. It is unclear how the names managed to make their way into the book- was it intentional? or was it a lost in translation ie "error in Dutch translation" ?
The data is a little behind as figures are based on the month of October and does not include the November Black Friday Cyber Monday weekend sales but the forecast by experts is that the RBA is forecasted not to raise interest rates again when they meet next month due to indications that inflation is stabilizing.
34 pilot whales found dead in Tasmania.
There are thousands of unclaimed Medicare rebates it has been revealed.
