The couple were joined by Tom’s Avengers co-stars, Chris Hemsworth and Mark Ruffalo.
Ghostbusters star and Aussie local Chris Hemsworth took a night off from being the best dad ever to join the loved-up couple, as did Tom’s Avengers co-star Mark Ruffalo, who is currently filming in the land Down Under for Thor: Ragnarok.
A source spilled the beans on the exclusive double date, telling Us Weekly that the slew of celebs dined on sliders and snacked on popcorn as they watched the flick.
“Inside Gold Class, they have waiters so there were strictly only two girls allowed in to serve,” the insider explained of the VIP evening.
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The 26-year-old and her new beau appeared to be in good spirits during the screening.
At one point, Taylor could be heard making an introduction to Thor himself, as the intimate movie date was actually their first meeting.
“I haven’t actually met her yet. I think they only got here three or four days ago,” the father-of-three told the Fitzy & Wippa radio show early last week before their movie night adding, “I’ve seen Tom around, and he looks happy.”
The couple simply haven’t been able to keep their hands to themselves on their loved-up world tour.
Just last week, the handsome Brit confirmed the purity of his relationship with the Shake It Off singer amid rumours of their romance being a publicity stunt.
“Well, um. How best to put this? That notion is – look, the truth is that Taylor Swift and I are together, and we’re very happy,” he gushed to The Hollywood Reporter.
“Thanks for asking. That’s the truth. It’s not a publicity stunt,” he added.
“Personally, I would like to see it stop now for Australia - because I want to feel safe as all of our citizens do when we go out to celebrate Australia Day.”
Sonia Kruger has sparked controversy after she called for Australia to stop Muslim immigration.
On a panel discussion on Monday’s Today Show, Sonia said there’s a correlation between the number of Muslims in a country and the number of terrorist attacks.
“Personally, I would like to see it stop now for Australia – because I want to feel safe as all of our citizens do when we go out to celebrate Australia Day,” she said.
While she did note she had a lot of “very good friends” who were Muslims, she said “there are fanatics.”
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She noted that Japan has a population of 174 million people and 100, 00 Muslims and they’re yet to suffer a terrorist attack.
Co-host David Campbell disagreed with Sonia, saying freedom of religion and freedom of speech were important.
“We’re talking about immigration, David,” she replied.
“I would venture that if you spoke to the parents of those children killed in Nice, then they would be of the same opinion.”
When asked by Lisa Wilkinson if Sonia would want the borders closed to Muslim migrants, Sonia replied, “Yes, yes I would.”
“For the safety of our citizens here, I think it’s important.”
Her comments have now sparked a social media debate with many people weighing in with both criticism and support.
A man who was found guilty of luring three different women on his luxury yacht and raping them has said he’s forgiven the victims “in his heart”.
John Collins, 77, has appeared in court in a bid to overturn the convictions. He committed the horrific acts in the 1980s and early 2000s.
He was found guilty in three separate trials in 2014 and 2015 of raping three women (one of them a 17-year-old) in the Gold Coast, Hamilton Island and Kawana, but he still claims he’s innocent.
Representing himself at the hearing last week, he said: “I have not committed one single crime against those females. I’ve forgiven them in my heart (for) what they’ve done to me.”
“I’m going to die in jail because of these people, because of their filthy lies.”
Collins has already served five years of his more than 12 year sentence.
Denmark’s royal family stepped out in front of the cameras yesterday but all eyes were on little Princess Josephine!
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The energetic five-year-old stole the show at the annual media day at Grasten Castle, playing with their dog and dancing. Such a cutie!
She was joined by her dad Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark, mum Princess Mary, her twin brother Vincent, and siblings Christian, 10, and Isabella, nine, plus grandparents Queen Margarethe II and Princess Henrik.
Josephine definitely livened up the photo call which marked the start of summer for the Danish royals and the beginning of the school holidays.
The statistics are bleak. Over 17,000 Australian women are currently living with a gynaecological cancer, 105 are diagnosed every week and four women lose their lives daily.
There are seven types of gynaecological cancer – ovarian, uterine (the most common being endometrial), cervical, vulvar, vaginal and two rare pregnancy cancers. Collectively, these cancers are the third most commonly diagnosed in Australian women.
With the exception of the ‘Pap Test’ for cervical cancer, there is no test for gynaecological cancer. The symptoms are unclear, and sometimes non-existent.
So why don’t we hear more about it? Alison Evans, CEO of Australia New Zealand Gynaecological Oncology Group (ANZGOG) says that people feel uncomfortable speaking about women’s gynaecological health.
“The words for a woman’s intimate parts are often considered taboo,” she explains.
But ANZGOG wants to change this. They want to put gynaecological cancers at the forefront of conversation and get women talking to each other about it.
And they’ve started by giving us a term we can use to talk about female anatomy; ‘box’.
“Women told us there needed to be a name for their gynaecological bits that all can embrace,” explains Evans.
“The term ‘box’ has been used in the past to describe a woman’s private parts. But it is also a container used to store something worth preserving or precious.”
Deborah Knight is backing the campaign
Evans says that the box analogy worked well on lots of levels. It’s not just a catchy slogan; simple cardboard boxes have also been integral to campaign.
“The everyday cardboard box worked really well to carry the campaign messaging. A single cardboard box tells a powerful story with statistics about the cancers and women on the sides.
“But when multiplied, a number of boxes makes an even more impactful statement,” she explains.
The campaign was launched in Sydney’s Martin Place last week and used 1743 boxes to represent the women who lost their lives to gynaecological cancer in 2015.
That is a lot of boxes.
Evans says that so far the response has been really positive. “Women with a gynaecological cancer are telling us how appreciative they are that we are finally giving them a voice,” she says.
She also notes that men can also play a huge role in the fight against gynaecological cancer.
“Men of all ages came up and spoke to us about the campaign [during the Martin Place launch].
The #SaveTheBox campaign in Martin Place, Sydney
“Men who had lost a wife, a mother, daughter or sister or even had never understood the number of women losing their lives each year from these cancers,” says Evans.
While ‘Save the Box’ aims to get people talking they also want to raise much needed funds.
Professor Michael Friedlander, the founder of ANZGOG says while the organisation’s body of research has changed treatment practices for women, it needs to step up the pace of research if it’s going to truly make a difference.
“Virtually every advance in cancer survival has been made on the back of clinical trials – research is key to improving the lives of women with gynaecological cancer,” he explains.
There are lots of ways that you can get involved in Save the Box: buy a t-shirt, donate directly or stage a fundraising event. You can even get a money box from ANZGOG to save up your lose change.
‘Save the box’ has already gained a lot of traction with celebrities like Johanna Griggs, Ita Buttrose, Jessica Rowe and Livinia Nixon all lending their voices (and social media accounts) to the cause.
Livinia Nixon is lending her voice
“Just because something is a bit awkward to talk about, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t,” newsreader Jayne Azoppardi posted on Instagram
Likewise, Lavinia Nixon said that she was hesitant to post a photo of herself in the Save the Box t-shirt:
She wrote: “But when I read that 1743 Australian women will die from gynaecological cancer this year, I thought, ‘get over it, Nixon’.”
Shoes on the wrong foot, slept-in uniforms, teeth not brushed, empty lunch boxes are the classic symptoms of children with ice addicted parents, claims Primary School Principal Cheryl McBride.
Cheryl McBride had just walked into someone’s home, uninvited, to take their Medicare and Centrelink cards.
As she tip-toed around, dodging the takeout boxes and stepping over dog faeces – so old it was white – she found the woman she’d asked to meet in her office countless times.
The mother was incoherent on the floor.
“I had to sort of step over her and then I said ‘Look, I need your card. Where is your card?’ She pointed to her bag, so I pulled it out of her wallet,” says McBride.
“I just remember looking at her, then riffling through her bag and thinking, ‘I’m a principal, going through somebody’s handbag!’”
Cheryl McBride is the Chairperson of the Public School Principals Forum and has entered over 50 homes in her 37 years on the job. Just like this instance, most are because her students – as young as five years old – are being neglected by drug addicted parents.
Ice has always been the most destructive, says McBride and it’s a problem not isolated to her school.
Shoes on the wrong foot, slept-in uniforms, teeth not brushed, empty lunch boxes are the classic symptoms of children with ice addicted parents, claims McBride.
“I’ve seen other drugs have a serious long term outcome but ice seems to just diminish the humanity so quickly… there’s just this incredible need to fuel the addiction and everything else is second place,” McBride tells The Weekly Online.
“So much so that there’s no routine, there’s no regularity, there’s no expectations, no predictability. If a child is not of sufficient maturity to be able to manage themselves – and establish their own little routines, and get themselves to school – it’s completely destructive.”
More than one in 14 Australians have tried ice and almost 200,000 Australians have used the drug in the past twelve months.
Of all illicit drugs, ice poses the highest risk to the Australian community according to the latest report from the Australian Crime Commission (ACC) on The Australian methylamphetamine market: The national picture.
An Australian Senate Committee last year claimed authorities have seized 2.9 tonnes of the drug smuggled into Australia in the last financial year compared to 1.8 tonnes the previous financial year.
And a 2013 National Drug Strategy Household Survey (NDSHS) revealed the country’s ice use has more than doubled, increasing from 22 per cent in 2010 to 50 per cent three years later.
Sarah* – whose mother McBride stepped over – is one of the many children who have felt the impact of their parent’s rapid decline thanks to the drug.
In just year two, Sarah would walk herself to school every morning and sit in class attentively but it took the teachers, and McBride, weeks to discover why she wasn’t learning.
The hearing aids Sarah required had been misplaced and – most importantly – not replaced by her single mother, whose ice addiction took priority over the four children she’d given birth to. And she’d failed to tell the school Sarah was hearing impaired.
A call from McBride to the local hearing center, a trip to Sarah’s mother’s home and an appointment at the surgery revealed the seven-year-old not only needed hearing aids, but an operation on her ear.
“We are in talking to the doctor, and he starts asking the standard questions. He asked, “What nationality?”
“I looked at [Sarah] and said, ‘What nationality are you?’
“The doctor looked puzzled and queried: ‘You’re not the mother?’ And then we gave the whole spiel,” says McBride.
“He arranged all of the surgery – accepted my permission, accepted the nurses referral – and went on to give those services for nothing, so there was no gap. He arranged an anaesthetist and for somebody else to donate money to cover the entire stay.”
While McBride has often stepped out of the school yard to take care of vulnerable students, the drug has entered the playground, too, hand-in-hand with violence.
“We always tried to have that philosophy of – not exclusion of the community but – welcome of the community when it was acceptable,” says McBride, who ran Sarah Redfern primary – a school in Minto of Sydney’s Western suburbs.
At the time, community violence was high.
“So whatever was happening out there the kids knew ‘when I walk in that door, I’m safe, I’m cared for, I’m clothed, I’m warm, I’m comfortable and secure in my teacher’s care,'” McBride says.
“But sometimes [the violence] would come in, and I deeply resented that but you just had to deal with it at the time.”
One afternoon, when McBride was watching the students go home at 3pm, a father “came flying down the playground” and – dodging the children – hid behind the Principal.
“He was holding me by the shoulders when another dad who was ‘off his tree’ came flying down with a golf stick, ready to hit the guy behind me,” McBride tells The Weekly Online.
McBride is sitting in the office of her Western Sydney school – the fourth school she’s run.
She is just over five feet tall, petite, with a blonde bob, donning a tracksuit as it’s ‘sports day’ on Fridays.
“I just put my hands up and said ‘Stop, there’s kids around. Stop. Stop…’ And he did. But I was really fearful I was going to get hurt, or the children would get hurt,” she recalls.
“It was like nobody else existed in this world except the guy behind me.”
The man behind McBride, and the man in front of her were ice addicts, and the latter was accusing the former of reporting him to government services.
“When they’re incoherent, they automatically think ‘it’s my next door neighbour,’” says the Principal.
Months later, the man hiding behind McBride was punching a wall in her office in a violent rage, while the Principal and her staff hid his partner and children in a safe room on another occasion.
“We’d just call the police. He was very subject to those rages and I was used to him. After a while – it sounds ridiculous – but you sort of become callous to that behaviour,” says the Principal.
Another young couple in their early twenties who McBride witnessed the ice-provoked downward spiral eventually had their three children lifted, but not without resistance.
The father-of-three threatened to kill their newborn with an axe while government services stood outside.
The kids were lifted and placed with a new family.
“They were quite culturally different. They were Arabic,” says the Principal. Thankfully the children no longer arrived at school with their shoes on the wrong foot, and their lunch boxes were full. They recovered almost instantly.
“I think they were just so happy to be safe, and predictable – lunch, dinner and all the rest of it,” says McBride.
But where were government services when Sarah needed hearing aids?
“You’ve got to remember in a lot of cases government services resources don’t go very far and we do so much now in supporting children that sometimes you don’t even bother contacting them. If kids are not bringing lunch to school, we just give them something from the canteen,” says McBride.
“If they haven’t got proper shoes or it’s low level neglect we just deal with it.”
After entering 50 homes of students whose lives have been caught in the crossfire of ice, lower-level drugs, domestic violence and sexual abuse, McBride has surprisingly, never felt in danger.
“There was often a person who would pop open a window and say ‘Hey, I’ll look after your car while you’re there, Mrs McBride,’” says the Principal, smiling.
“There’s times when you realise you’re the sole carer for a child, and when you realise, the human spirit often rises to the occasion and teachers go beyond their strict role.”
Ever woke up and thought “why in the world did I dream about THAT?”
Well, it’s probably linking back to your recent life experiences and what’s going on in that head of yours.
According to dream analyst Jane Anderson, your dreams can reflect what’s happened in your life in the last one to two days.
“The value of interpreting a dream is to discover your unconscious beliefs and feelings, which then effects how you see your life and how you respond to it,” she says.
“One helpful way to look at dreams is as analogies for what’s going on in your life.”
Here, Jane shares the 10 most common dreams people have and what they symbolise.
Falling
You may dream of falling when things are changing and you’re scared of what’s to come, when you’ve just let go of something, or you’re scared to do so. But Jane says that change can be good. “What if there’s a soft landing, or you find you can fly?,” she asks.
Flying
Jane wants you to ask yourself these questions – “How do you feel when you fly in your dream? Are you excited to fly high?” If this is the case, there might be something exciting in store for you, and as Jane says, you might be “reaching a higher potential in your life”.
Trying to escape your dream may link to an issue in your life you’re not addressing. If you feel at peace when soaring through the clouds, Jane says: “You may be rising above a stressful situation, viewing it from a higher perspective. Be guided by how you feel in your dream.”
Naked in public
Yep, this is an awkward one.
In your dream you may be fully or partially naked, or trying to cover up. You might dream this when you’re feeling exposed, not physically, “but perhaps you feel your character has been exposed, your true intentions, your thoughts, your fears, your feelings,” Jane tells us.
“You may feel vulnerable, thinking that people can see through to the real you, or you may feel a wonderful freedom at not hiding behind an image, at being your authentic self,” she says.
Sex
Jane says that people don’t often talk about these dreams as it may reveal an attraction to the dream sex partner. It can also make work super stressful – not to mention awkward – if that person is a colleague or your boss.
But it’s not always what it seems! “Take a deep breath, and be assured that these dreams do not reveal your hidden fantasies,” Jane assures us.
“Which three words would you use to describe your dream sex partner’s personality? You may be bringing one of these aspects into your own personality or approach to life.”
Celebrity friends
Oh, how we wish these dreams were reality! According to Jane, these dreams link back to your daily life. “Think about that celebrity. In waking life you don’t really know them, but you have built a picture of what you think they’re really like, or you’ve formed an opinion about what they must be going through.”
“On some level you relate to this celebrity,” she says. “Maybe you relate to issues you feel they are going through, fears they face, or relate to their perspective on life. Your dream sheds light on your own issues and views.”
Driving
If the car is out of control, this might be how you feel in a situation in real life. Jane wants you to ask yourself these questions: “Are you scared that things are going fast, and worried that you’re caught up in it all and won’t be able to stop? Are gripping that steering wheel of life, trying to regain control?
This might be an indication that you can sometimes be too controlling. Take a step back and see where it takes you!
Losing teeth
Try and remember how you felt in the dream. If you felt embarrassed, this could link to a an uncomfortable situation you experienced in the last 1-2 days.
Dreaming of losing your teeth could be linked to feeling a sense of loss in life. As Jane puts it, this could be blocking you from being able to express yourself in the way you really want to, or you could be finding it hard to get your message across.
Back at school or sitting an exam
You’re probably going through similar emotions now as when you were in school.
“Perhaps you’re feeling stressed about success or failure or you’re having issues of responsibility. Maybe you’re being treated like a child, or there are issues of dealing with authority or punishment,” says Jane.
“This kind of dream can help you to see that an issue goes back to your school years, and helps to shed light on it. When you heal or resolve that issue from your past, it no longer bothers you in your present.”
Looking for a toilet
You’re likely dreaming of this because you actually need to go to the toilet during the night, but as Jane tells us, that’s not always the case!
If you dream about not finding a toilet, or perhaps it’s locked, filthy, or the walls and doors are missing so you’re exposed, “this comes up when you’re feeling you can’t find the privacy and space to let go of what you no longer need in your life,” says Jane.
“This is like an emotional letting-go. If you successfully and happily relieve your bladder or bowel in a dream, you’ve let go!”
Tsunami
“Do you run away from your dream tsunami, freeze in fear on the spot, or bravely dive under it? A tsunami, in life and in dreams, is an overwhelming and life-threatening body of water looming towards you. It can feel like there’s no escape,” says Jane.
“This kind of dream can come up when you’re feeling emotionally overwhelmed, or overwhelmed by what life seems to be throwing at you.”
There could be something big looming, and you might feel like there’s no escape. Jane says that once you identify the problem that’s causing these issues, you’ll be able to restore the calm.
Words by Jacqui King
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Three US police officers have been shot and killed, and three injured in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
It was just 12 days ago when Alton Sterling was shot dead by white police in the same city.
The gunman was shot dead at the scene, and according to CNN, he has been identified as 29-year-old Gavin Long from Kansas City, Missouri.
The shooting occurred on Airline Highway at 8.45am Sunday (11.45pm Sunday AEST) when police responded to a call about a “suspicious person walking down Airline Highway with an assault rifle.”
According to reports, he started shooting when police arrived.
The three officers who died include 32-year-old Montrell Jackson, 41-year-old Matthew Gerald, and a 45-year-old who is currently unnamed.
Matthew Gerald
Montrell Jackson
One officer is in a critical condition, while two others are in a stable condition.
CBS News reports that two men have been detained and are being questioned as ‘people of interest’.
The gunman was allegedly a former marine and was honourably discharged six years ago.
Lead singer and rock legend Bono had to be evacuated from a nearby restaurant during the Bastille Day terror attack in Nice.
The 56-year-old singer found himself caught up in the horror while dining on the terrace of La Petite Maison.
When the mass murderer drove his lorry into crowds watching the fireworks nearby, Bono and the other diners in the restaurant froze in fear.
The owner of the upmarket restaurant spoke out about the awful events that night.
“Suddenly I saw people running, without shouting,” said Anne-Laure Rubi. “It was a silent panic, it was extraordinary.”
The singer had been dining nearby when the chaos unfolded.
The restaurant staff pulled down the shutters, and instructed everyone to hide and remain calm.
It took 30 minutes of crouching in fear before the police came to evacuate and rescue the patrons.
“It took around half an hour for the police to get us out,” said another diner.
“Like everybody else, Bono had to put his hands on his head, and was told to remain calm. The police were clearly very worried that terrorists might still be at large, and everybody was under suspicion.”
Bono was also nearby when the Paris terror attacks occurred.
Bono owns a house in the nearby town of Eze and had been out to dinner with a group of friends.
It’s the second time the singer has found himself close to a major terrorist attack.
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He was rehearsing for a concert nearby in Paris when ISIS attacked the Bataclan theatre killing 89 people in November.
The musician ignored advice to leave the French capital, instead making their way to the theatre where the attack occurred to pay their respects.
Jana Pittman has accepted she won’t be winning an Olympic medal this year.
Instead, she’s expecting her third child!
The champion athlete only wants to race after her kids!
Jana is Australian sporting royalty
She is using the same sperm donor with whom she had daughter, Emily – and she couldn’t be happier.
“I’ve got a bit chubbier this time around,” laughs the former world champion, who is also mum to son Cornelis, nine, with her ex-husband, and 15-month-old Emily.
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