1. Australian businessman, Alan Bond, has been admitted to the intensive care unit of a Perth hospital, after undergoing triple by-pass surgery.
The 77-year-old businessman, who has been involved in the Nine Network and Bond Corporation, flew back from his birthplace of London to undergo the triple by-pass operation and is currently in the intensive care unit.
Bond was previously stripped of his Officer of the Order of Australia honour and made to serve four years in prison after pleading guilty to two of the biggest corporate fraud cases in Australiaโs history.
This story is still developing.
2. In an ABC television special Julia Gillard claims Rudd physically intimidated her.
Maybe youโre sick to death of the hatred, the bile and the squabbling over who gets to be Prime Minister that went on during the Labor years but bad luck.
Itโs all coming back to TV.
The ABC has begun promoting โThe Killing Seasonโ by releasing some early episodes to the newspapers which gleefully report that the documentary features Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard desperately hating on each other.
The enmity between these two destroyed the Labor government but they arenโt done destroying each other. The most serious accusation concerns Julia saying that Kevin intimidated her in a physical way during one of their endless arguments.
She says he was an aggressive bully. He says thatโs โutterly false.โ She also accuses Rudd of being โfragileโ and perhaps not mentally equipped for the top job.
Part One of The Killing Season goes to air next Tuesday.
3. She is 65 years old yet Caitlyn Jenner has just broken a new world record gaining more than a million Twitter followers in less than four hours.
Caitlyn, who won an Olympic gold medal in the decathlon as Bruce, reached the milestone faster even than Barack Obama.
Sheโs now coasting well over two million followers, and counting, and she celebrated by tweeting: โAnother Jenner world record, and at 65? Whoโda thought! Humbled & honored.โ
After years of playing Dad to the Kardashian clan, Caitlyn is now living full time as a woman.
After breaking the internet with itโs Caitlyn cover yesterday, Vanity Fair has released some outtakes from Caitlynโs first interview, in which she says that her 89-year-old โMomโ hasnโt met Caitlyn, but already likes her more than she liked Bruce.
โIโm sending a plane to go pick her up, because sheโs 89 years old and cannot get on the airlines,โ Caitlyn says. โWe have to do this.โ
She expects the meeting to go well, saying: โAll the emotions are in the anticipation of meeting you. Once they meet you and they spend five minutes with you, they go, โOh, O.K., I get it, big deal, letโs go on with life.โ โ
โAnd I think my mom will kind of be the same way, especially if Caitlyn keeps sending planes to pick her up.
โWe had a conversation the other day, we were talking about a lot of things, and, you know, she goes, โYou know what, I think I can have a better relationship with Caitlyn than I can with Bruce,โ because weโve always had a little tension in our relationship throughout the years. [. . .] And so when she ends the conversation, she goes, โO.K., good-bye, Caitlyn.โ It was very funny, very cute.โ
4. A new study by Deakin University claims that mothers are happier than women who donโt have children, right up until the age of 65.
After 65, a womanโs happiness seems to depend less on whether or not they have children.
Itโs a controversial finding because the latest figures suggest that one-in-four Australian women wonโt have children.
The study found that women aged between 25 and 44 who did not have children also suffered โmore bodily pain, worse general health, more health-related limitations and poorer physical and social functioning compared to mothers.โ
5. You know all those spy books and movie thrillers that suggest that the FBI and goodness knows who else are watching you? Turns out itโs true.
The AP news agency has discovered that the FBI operates its own secret air force, and that it flies dozens, and maybe even hundreds of small aircraft over US cities every day.
The planes are disguised under fake company names like โNBR Aviationโ and โQBR Aviation.โ They carry equipment that allows the FBI to track your movements using your cellphone.
The planes fly low enough to take video recordings of the people on the streets below.
If that doesnโt weird you out, the New York Times has unveiled its investigation into a Russian troll house, which employs thousands of people to leave anti-American comments on blogs, and Western news websites.
The so-called โTroll Armyโ are paid to push a pro-Putin message on Facebook and Twitter. They also flood internet forums with propaganda.
The Times report says the trolls appear in avatars to be โwell-dressed young men and women who live in large American cities, yet they seemed to have no real-life friends. Instead, they spent their free time leaving anti-Obama comments on the Facebook posts of American media outlets like CNN, Politico and Fox News.
The women were all very attractive โ so attractive, indeed, that a search revealed that some of their profile photos had been stolen from models and actors.โ
6. The rich are different, including in the way they propose to each other.
News.com.au is reporting that boxing wife beater, Floyd Mayweather, proposed to his now-ex, Shantel Jackson, by text.
And it wasnโt even a romantic text. Floyd apparently promised to get Shantel some gigs in three A-list movies as part of the deal.
โThis is what I offer to you. Letโs get married move in together you can go back in forth to L.A and stay at the condo,โ Mayweather wrote.
โI promise I will get you in 3 A list movies this year and Iโm willing to go to counselling to make us work and you can get the stuff you want and Iโm willing to change but I need you to have a better attitude.โ
Jackson is now suing the boxer for assault, battery, defamation, invasion of privacy and harassment.
The pair split in 2014, after Mayweather accused Jackson of aborting their twin babies. He even posted the ultrasound pictures of their once beating hearts.
Ainโt love grand?
7. And in news to calm the soul, it has been raining at Uluru.
The photographs are awesome.