Your afternoon Briefing
Good afternoon, readers. Here’s how Monday played out, including a historic Super Bowl win for the Eagles.
Good afternoon, readers. Here’s how Monday played out.
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Philadelphia Eagles win Super Bowl LII
The Philadelphia Eagles have won their first ever Super Bowl 41-33 in one of greatest games in NFL history.
Tom Brady was sacked by Eagles defensive end Brandon Graham in the tense final minutes as the legendary New England Patriots quarterback was trying to orchestrate one of his trademark comeback victories in front of 67,612 mostly pro-Eagles fans at US Bank Stadium.
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You call that an ad?
Meanwhile, a new star-studded Crocodile Dundee-inspired TV commercial aired during the Super Bowl to a potential audience of 110 million.
It starred Chris Hemsworth, Hugh Jackman, Margot Robbie and other Australian entertainers, and is part of a $38 million Tourism Australia campaign targeting American travellers.
Take a look at the hilarious ad here.
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‘No difference between Greens, Labor left’
Malcolm Turnbull has used a grilling from Greens MP Adam Bandt to say there was no difference between the far-left party and the Labor left.
“The Australian Labor Party has now taken up this left wing anti-business, anti-free enterprise approach which is calculated and indeed designed to destroy thousands of jobs, thousands of opportunities. The very jobs we’re creating,” said the PM during a heated first Question Time of 2018.
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Chemo conundrum
Doctors are at odds over whether some women with breast cancer should have chemotherapy — one treatment among the arsenal long seen as crucial to fighting the disease, along with surgery and radiation.
A shift to less chemotherapy or none at all, called “de-escalation”, is being hailed by some as revolutionary, following what these doctors see as years of over-treatment with drugs that may have harmed more than helped.