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Making news: Bella Hadid and Optus cop a spray as William and Kate hard launch their promotion

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Jenna ClarkeEditorial Director
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8:49PMOctober 02, 2022.
Updated 11:53AMOctober 03, 2022
The Oz

All the news that's fit to mint.

What's happening in (The) Oz:

🏉 The NRL season is over, Western Sydney was the real winner

⚽️ Indonesian footy fans killed

🏀 The Opals shone 

📞 Optus says sorry, still not good enough according to Canberra

🌸 Why Richard Marles is in Hawaii

🤯 We've been had by the Kim v Kanye drama

🇬🇧 Liz Truss' premiership is the political equivalent of a public holiday hangover

🇩🇰 The Danish royals got robbed by their Nan

🥶 That ice bucket challenge did more than the government for MND

👑 The Windsors have rebranded

👩🏻‍🎨 Panel beaters are the new designers according to Paris Fashion Week

Good morning!

Hands up who still has no idea what the time is.

Same. 

This new map of Australia could help.

Another weekend, another sporting GF.

This time it was the NRL's turn.

About 82,415 fans got out to Accor Stadium in Sydney on Sunday night to watch the Penrith Panthers destroy the Parramatta Eels without even breaking a sweat. The final score was 28-12.

If anyone was wandering through Church Street and came upon an eels-shaped heart, please return it to the club for rebooting before 2023. 

Parramatta fans will now have to wait 37 years to try and break their premiership drought. 

DIVE DEEPER: Our 'manliest men' are letting their vulnerabilities show

However Jimmy Barnes performed.

Lauren Jackson's rose colour finale

The Opals took home bronze - rose gold - in the Women's World Cup at the weekend.

The Aussie team beat Canada in the bronze medal match, 95-65.

Meanwhile, tragic news out of Indo

At least 174 people were killed and more than 100 were injured in a stampede at a soccer  match after Indonesian police fired tear gas at a crowd who ran onto the pitch after the match in Malang.

Optus still having a shocker

The weekend saw Optus roll out full page ads in newspapers saying "We are sorry", the government are not having it.

NDIS Minster Bill Shorten and Cyber Security Minister Clare O'Neil are the latest pollies to have a crack. Both have accused the telco of a lack of transparency over the massive data hack, saying many of those affected by the breach had not been properly notified.

"We would like them to be transparent about the numbers of people who have had specific identity documents compromised, and that information has not been provided," O'Neil said at a press conference on Sunday.

She added Optus had informed the government it had emailed the 10,200 people whose data had been made available online, but an email was not enough.

"We need to go through a process of directly speaking to these people and Optus needs to take up the mantle to ensure those people know they are at risk." 

Shorten pointed out it has been 11 days since the breach and that it was "peculiar" Optus still can't tell us whose Medicare information had been used.

"We don't need this information tomorrow or in the next days, we needed it days ago," Shorten said.

"Now is not the time to listen to lawyers or damage control merchants, now is the time to step up."

Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus separately indicated the government are now looking at measures to prevent companies holding private information for longer than necessary. After it emerged even former customers of Optus have had their details compromised.

“I think that companies should not store information forever. That seems to been the case with Optus - keeping the very personal data of customers who had ceased to be customers years ago,” Dreyfus said. “I have yet to hear a reason why that was going on, and Optus failed to keep the information safe."

The Coalition's cyber security spokesperson James Paterson defended the existing laws, but said the opposition would support any “sensible changes”.

“If the government believes that new evidence has come forward during the Optus attack and that changes to either of those (Coalition-enacted) acts are necessary to make them even stronger, well the opposition will be very constructive and bipartisan about that,” Paterson told Sky News. 

The Defence Minister is doing more than working on his tan

Richard Marles is clocking up the FF points with a trip to Hawaii.

Defence Minister Richard Marles has visited the Pearl Harbour naval base, which was attacked by the Japanese in World War II, saying Australia will do what it can to prevent similar attacks.

Marles is in Hawaii to meet US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin and inspect America’s Virginia-class submarines, as the AUKUS alliance works to finalise plans for Australia’s nuclear-powered fleet.

So well did the chinwag with his US counterpart go, the AUKUS pact between Australia, the US and the UK could be expanded or replicated with other allies if it proves successful, according to a senior White House adviser.

There is no such thing as real drama in the Kardashian sphere

As Kim's ex-husband Kanye West opened the Balenciaga show in Paris.

To recap: Kim is/was a huge Balenciaga fan. And muse of creative director Demna Gvasalia. 

She did this:

@whoopsee.it

Ecco Kim Kardashian completamente ricoperta di tape per la sfilata Balenciaga #kimkardashian #balenciaga #demnagvasalia #parisfashionweek

♬ Unstoppable - Sia

And in 2021 she wore this by the brand to the Met Gala.

@zserieseditsx

Kim Kardashian Met Gala 2021. #fy #fyp #kimkardashian #kanyewest #metgala2021 #metgala

♬ original sound - ☁️

Following this Covid safe look, searches for "Balenciaga" spiked 505%. 

She too also walked on the runway.

@theoz.com.au

No thoughts just celebrities walking #Balenciaga couture and #NicoleKidman and #KeithUrban pashing afterwards 😌 #kimkardashian #bellahadid #naomicampbell #dualipa

♬ Surface - Official Sound Studio

However given all the hectic headlines her break up with Ye has spawned you'd think inviting him, let alone having him star in the show, wouldn't be considered normal or polite? Incorrect.

We've been played again by the Kardashian marketing machine.

While Kim wasn't there, her sisters Khloe and Kylie were.

Introducing the new cast of The Windsors

The Royal family has released a new official photo of the new Fab Four headed up by King Charles.

Meanwhile, the King has reportedly officially resigned from his unofficial position as one of the world's most high profile climate change advocates when it was reported he will not be attending the Cop27 summit on the advice of new PM Liz Truss.

Last year, at Cop26, he gave the opening address encouraging world leaders to move to a "warlike" footing when it comes to addressing climate change.

Speaking of Truss...

Things continue to go from bad to cringe as she continues to try to explain her economic plan that includes massive tax cuts and cost of living support. Off the back of the announcement of her "mini Budget" last week the pound slumped to its weakest in history and the Bank of England stepped in to buy government debt to avoid a fully-blown financial crisis of the government's own doing.

The on going lack of direction from the new top brass in the UK has triggered Treasurer Jim Chalmers to weigh in ahead of his own date with the bean counters in the coming weeks.

"Anybody putting budgets together at the moment is looking at what's happening in the UK. I do consider it a bit of a cautionary tale. If you don't get the cost-of-living relief right, if you don't rebuild those fiscal buffers against global turbulence, if you don't get those things right, there are costs and consequences,” Chalmers said 0n Sunday.

There are now even least Great Danes

First #Megxit, now the Danish royal family is shrinking. 

However this is more of a tale of "off to spend more time with my family" than resignation.

Royalty in Europe is set to decline ever further as princes and princesses across the continent are losing their official statuses. 

In a bid to protect the youngest royals from the pressures of public life, the Queen of Denmark has stripped four of her grandchildren of their royal titles.

Queen Margrethe II, now Europe’s only reigning Queen and longest-serving monarch, has decided that the children of her youngest son, Prince Joachim, should be able to “shape their own existence” instead of having to perform the official duties required of them if they kept the titles. 

Instead, Nikolai, Felix, Henrik and Athena, aged between 10 and 23, will only be known as counts and countesses from next year. 

“As of January 1, 2023, the descendants of His Royal Highness Prince Joachim will only be able to use their titles of Count and Countess of Monpezat, their previous titles of Prince and Princess of Denmark ceasing to exist,” the palace said in a statement. 

It's not a total shock.

A few years back Prince Joachim said he wanted his kids, specifically his eldest Nikolai, to live "as normal a Danish citizen as possible after he was criticised for dropping out of of military school in 2019.

Nikolai was given the title of "Prince" as when he was born Crown Prince Frederik - the heir - had no kids. He hadn't even met Our Mary™️ yet.

He has been an emerging fashion and lifestyle. His latest campaign was for the Raffles Hotel chain.

The entire campaign is something to behold tbh.

People really do have the power

Remember that time we all poured ice water over our heads in a bid to raise funds and awareness of MND?

The #IceBucketChallenge of 2014 raised enough cash to fund a new medicine to slow the progression of motor neurone disease.

The social media explosion pulled in more than $120 million which was then put into a study for the drug that has just been approved by the FDA (their version of the TGA) to treat the horrible disease, known as ALS in the US.

"We thank the millions of people who donated, participated, and enabled us to invest in promising therapies like AMX0035 [the new drug's name] that will immediately help people living with ALS," The president of the ALS Association Calaneet Balas said.

"This is a victory for the entire ALS community, which came together to advocate for early approval of the treatment."

Mad Science starring Bella Hadid 

Paris Fashion Week rolls on with more headlines about hemlines. Including one from the Coperni show which saw Bella Hadid morph into a canvas/car body and had her kit sprayed on her by scientists.

The cutting-edge liquid then turned into an actual dress before the model took a final turn on the runway to show guests the spray-on dress in action.

While most applauded the mad science, Rachel Tashjian from Harper's Bazaar US called it an "empty gimmick".

"But what was the big idea behind this spray-on sheath? I struggled to see or feel anything other than discomfort at Hadid bending her arms and legs to the whims of these two men and their canisters," she wrote.

"The show notes said that the collection was dedicated “to all the women in the world.” Really? In that case, to me, the dress is a statement about how often women are gently manipulating themselves to accommodate the dumb ideas of men. The rest of the clothes were unremarkable: printed minidresses in an black grounded floral, hot pants and little jackets with shoulders pitched high, and, I'm not kidding, cargo pants with a tank top (there were four of those if you count one look that had a waistcoat instead of a tank, which is a look that, wouldn't ya know, Bella Hadid invented.) This was a gimmick, and nothing more."

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