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Elon Musk loses a kid and it's easy to chuck a sicky

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Jenna ClarkeEditorial Director
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1:33AMJune 21, 2022.
Updated 4:29PMJune 22, 2022
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All the news that's fit to mint.

Happening in (The) Oz today:

🍳 Frypans are the new self defence weapon of choice 

🙋🏻‍♂️ Frydenberg is coming back?

🚣🏻‍♀️ People smugglers threatened with Aussie GPS radars

🧘🏻‍♂️ A politician does diplomaste

🤴🏻 Prince William turns 40

👋🏻 Elon Musk's kid broke up with him 

😷 A 'sicky' app

🍸 Gin is now booze-free

Good morning!

I'm not afraid to admit that cooking terrifies me. I burn water. However, crocodiles scare me more.

This is why I will dash to House to pick up a skillet this morning after watching Goat Island Lodge owner Kai Hansen teach Casey, the 3.5m saltie local, some manners.

Meanwhile, much like flat whites, it hasn't taken long for the Americans to start claiming Kai as their own.

Hansen, a NT legend (of course) used a frying pan to ward off the croc as the two have history.

“I used to go down and feed Casey when she was much smaller,” Hansen told the NT News.

“And then one day she decided to attack me and I used a frying pan to fight her off, and that’s why when these problems started. I put a frying pan next to the stairs where people come in.

“It’s still sitting there because she may still remember the pain that I caused the first time.”

Hansen is still smarting at the reptile. Back in 2018 another of Casey's mates ate his dog, Dumb Blonde.

Frydenberg is back?

Former Treasurer Josh Frydenberg didn't survive the death roll that is politics however there are plans afoot to revive his public career.

The branch of his old seat of Kooyong, which was lost to teal independent Monique Ryan, will meet on Thursday to discuss whether it'll sink another $2m into another Frydenberg campaign. However according to a report in The Australian, the Nancy Drew to our Inspector Gadget, he may run in the neighbouring seat of Higgins instead to save time on resuming a seat inside the House of Representatives. 

"Mr Frydenberg’s timeline for any return has not been set and could take two election cycles, with the neighbouring seat of Higgins a possible target, made easier to win because Labor will have to mount a strong campaign to try to retain it. In Kooyong, the Labor and Greens vote collapsed when voters fled to teal candidate Monique Ryan, but preference flows are likely to be stronger to the Liberal Party in a seat like Higgins, where the ALP won’t be able to run dead," the story stated.

No coming back

Home Affairs minister Clare O'Neil has had a busy itinerary on her first international trip to Sri Lanka.

Minister for Home Affairs Clare O'Neil meets with Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.
Minister for Home Affairs Clare O'Neil meets with Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.

O'Neil headed to Colombo after a fourth people smuggling vessel was recently intercepted while heading to Australia. She has already met with Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and committed to a new $50m aid package. On Tuesday night she made a joint announcement with the country's fisheries minister Douglas Devananda which outlined how Australia will provide 4200 GPS trackers to Sri Lankan authorities to monitor the nation’s fishing fleet to prevent its vessels being used by people-smugglers to bring desperate migrants to Australia.

O’Neil said the new vessel monitoring system would help fishermen confirm their catches were legitimately caught while ensuring their boats were not used by criminal syndicates.

Diplomaste

Deputy PM Richard Marles is a yogi.

No the defence minister isn't on a retreat. He's in India working on establishing a more solid trade and defence relationship with one of our best friends in the Pacific region.

Pour one out 

Four Pillars - everyone's favourite friend at 5pm on Fridays (or Tuesdays, who am I to judge) - is releasing booze free gin.

These two non-alcoholic "spirits" are named Bandwagon Dry and Bloody Bandwagon - a version of their Shiraz gin. Both will still taste pretty much the same, with the same taste notes, they'll just be minus the confidence the OG versions arm you with to think it's a good idea to text your ex.

There will soon be a booze free version of Four Pillars Bloody Shiraz Gin.
There will soon be a booze free version of Four Pillars Bloody Shiraz Gin.

Four Pillars entering the NOLO (the no-and-low-alcohol) category is big, almost as big as booze free booze as a sector. It is one of the fastest growing genres of the drinks industry in the past year.

Let's hear it for basketball's real GOAT

Lauren Jackson is coming out of retirement in a bid to help Australia win another world title.

Jackson is, wait for it, 41-years-old and originally hung up her professional Nike Reacts before the Rio Olympics due to debilitating knee soreness. But she pulled on the boots again in the domestic league this year and has embarked on a "rigorous" fitness campaign for her international come back tour.

Jackson will join an Opals team camp in Canberra next week ahead of the September World Cup in Sydney, nine years after she last played for Australia and captained us to our only World Cup win. 

"I never expected to get to this point so every day I get past here is a blessing and I truly feel like one of the luckiest people in the world to be getting another shot after the way my career ended," she said.

Jackson boasts one of the best resumes in Australian sport.

She's won:

  • The WNBA's MVP three times
  • The WNBL MVP four times
  • Represented Australia in four Olympics
  • Won three silvers medals and a bronze
  • Is a WNBL champ 
  • Is a seven-time WNBA All-Star

Crook genius

Chucking a sicky? Or legit too sick to get out of bed to psychically fetch a doctor's certificate for Karen in HR (love you girl!)?

There’s an app for that now. Patients can get a sick leave certificate from bed with this groundbreaking development called Sicky - our first health assessment and online sick leave certificate app.

It'll cost you about $19.95 to obtain a sick note from a qualified health professional who will do an online consultation to determine if you’re unfit for work or needing to care for a dependent. 

Avinash Vazirani, cofounder of Sicky app, told The Oz last weekend stats showed there was a 42% spike of people calling in sick after the long weekend.

"It’s a common trait we see after every long weekend, and we’ve had a raft of these over the past two months,” he said. “Quite often it’s because our patients have over indulged or have mixed with infectious people while socialising. Our specialised app has helped more than 30,000 sick Australians get assessed and receive a certificate since it was launched in March 2020, just as Covid hit." 

Musk, sticked

Elon Musk's daughter has come out as trans and also disowned her father.

Vivian Jenna Wilson has filed a request in an LA court to change their surname from Musk citing "gender identity" as a reason for the name change and "the fact I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form," they said.

The Telsa CEO, and dad of eight, has been criticised for his comments on pronouns for non-binary and transgender people.

His most recent thoughts were summed up in tweets back in 2020:

"I absolutely support trans, but all these pronouns are an aesthetic nightmare...Pronouns suck," Musk said.

The emancipation of Vivian comes just days after Father's Day in the US, where their old man tweeted:

Happy 40th Birthday Prince William

Welcome to the age where your body starts being as insolent as Prince Louis.

Louis is the personification of what turning 40 is like on your body.
Louis is the personification of what turning 40 is like on your body.
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