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Making news: Beyonce eats humble pie as Nancy Pelosi causes a cake war

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Jenna ClarkeEditorial Director
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4:11PMAugust 02, 2022.
Updated 9:17AMAugust 04, 2022
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All the news that's fit to mint.

What's happening in (The) Oz today:

🇺🇦 Zelensky is visiting us, kind of

💀 Osama bin Laden's handmaid is dead

💸 Pretty sure Albo knows the cash rate now

♻️ We can all stop expelling CO2 on the climate change bill 

☔️ Hot Girl Summer is postponed (again)

🇺🇸 Baked goods got cancelled because of Nancy Pelosi 

👎🏼 Beyonce is Ctrl+Alt+Deleting Renaissance

🔪 Adelaide is really turning it on for Dev Patel 

📺 Heartbreak High is what would happen if Europhia got stuck in a Glassons change room

🧑🏻‍⚖️ Mark McGowan and Clive Palmer found guilty of being petty

🐶 'Very good boys' may get their own Medicare

Good morning!

Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy will be here tonight.

Virtually. 

He will address the Australian National University from 5-6pm AEST as a part of an in-person and online event. The ANU had to extend the event to online viewers as the IRL chat sold out in minutes.

Zelenskyy will beam in from Kyiv and will participate in a Q&A session with students.

It's been nearly six months since Russia's invasion of Ukraine. During that time Zelenskyy has not only navigated the realities of war but also been tireless in his campaign to keep us invested with his media appearances and hosting of world-leaders, including Anthony Albanese.

"Russia's invasion of Ukraine threatens the peace, liberty and democracy on which freedom of inquiry and academic collaboration is based," ANU Vice-Chancellor Professor Brian Schmidt said. 

Follow along here.

Justice for 9/11 victims at long last

The world's most wanted terrorist, Ayman ai-Zawahiri, is dead.

Old mate took over the running al-Qa'ida when Osama bin Laden was killed in 2011.

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We've got 99 problems, money is about 98 of 'em  

If you own a home you're going to need to find a few extra pineapples a month to pay your mortgage, as the Reserve Bank - our main bank - raised interest rates for the fourth month in a row.

The official cash rate is now up 50 basis points to 1.85 - up from the record-low 0.1 that it was back in May.

Tuesday’s rate rise means those of you paying off the average home loan of $500,000 will have to cough up an extra $140 each month.

We can stop wasting energy...

on the "climate change Bill" which has copped more air time than Michael Jordan in '92.

The government's call for a 43% medium term reduction in emissions is looking likely to pass through parliament this week. But it won't go before the Senate for another couple of weeks yet - so it's not there yet.

The Greens - which have a desire to slash emissions by 75% by 2030 and have made numerous demands - will show their hand when leader Adam Bandt addresses the National Press Club today after meeting with his colleagues, like Senator Lidia Thorpe, last night.

The Australian - the Tesla to our '94 Corolla - reports the Greens "were expected to reach a consensus to support the Prime Minister’s key climate-change election pledge ahead of a vote in the House of ­Representatives as early as ­Wednesday."

The new government's first piece of legislation did pass on Tuesday - a $508m package to overhaul the absolutely cooked aged care system.

The day in Canberra then ended with former rugby star David Pocock's first speech.

He requested an AUSLAN interpreter to help him out - the first time the service has been called upon for a maiden speech the Senate. The Prime Minister popped in and listened as he outlined his agenda as the new independent Senator for the ACT.

"The climate as we know it is breaking down and the impacts are now being felt with distressing regularity. Extreme weather: drought, bushfires, hailstorms and floods are having a devastating effect on the people and places we love. We are also seeing the impacts on the state of the environment. The 6th mass extinction event is underway. The last one, 66 million years ago, was due to a massive asteroid. This time we’re causing it," Pocock said.

Just put your hair in a top knot now...

as humidity will be the hottest accessory of the summer.

Again.

Nancy Pelosi is now causing drama abroad

The US Speaker has touched down in Taiwan and the Chinese government is pissed.

Pelosi is the highest ranking US official to visit Taiwan in 25 years and will meet with President Tsai Ing-wen in a historic display of support for the self-governed democracy.

This is all in defiance, and despite, weeks and tweets of threats from Beijing.

The US government was warned of “grave consequences” if the trip went ahead.

Mouthpieces for the CCP and state-run news outlets fired up online, despite Twitter being banned in China.

In response to her visit China's customs officials imposed trade sanctions on about 100 Taiwanese food companies, including the ones who make the famous (and delicious) pineapple cakes and bear biscuits.

Beyonce cops Heated

And will remove a word from the new song Heated which has been criticised by disability charities and advocates.

Australian Hannah Diviney, who also highlighted Lizzo's use of the term earlier this year, brought it Beyonce's attention.

The song, which credits Drake as co-writer, includes a terms that is colloquially used in reference to spastic diplegia, a form of cerebral palsy. 

Heated will get a do-over.

“The word, not used intentionally in a harmful way, will be replaced,” Bey said via a statement. 

Read more about Beyoncé's new album, and thus, era here.

Run(dle) Dog Millionaire

British actor Dev Patel is in Australia.

Adelaide no less.

In between stuffing his face with Haigh's frogs and Clare Valley riesling he witnessed a stabbing.

Reports and photos from the scene outside a petrol station on Monday show Patel speaking to the police after a 34-year-old woman allegedly stabbed a 32-year-old man. The pair were known to each other and it wasn't a random attack.

The guy was taken to hospital with serious injuries and the woman was charged with aggravated assault.

What would Drazic think...

of the new Heartbreak High?

The first look dropped on Tuesday and it's giving Europhia sponsored by Glassons.

In the criminal justice system...

WA Premier Mark McGowan and billionaire Clive Palmer have been found guilty of being petty.

The two sued each other for defamation and Federal Court Justice Michael Lee was savage in his judgement, which he handed down on Tuesday.

He criticised both men for bringing the matters upon themselves and said the case had consumed considerable Commonwealth resources and had diverted the court from resolving “controversies of real importance”. 

“The game has not been worth the candle,” Justice Lee said.

Palmer was awarded $5000 in damages over McGowan’s comments, while the Queensland billionaire was ordered to pay McGowan/the WA tax payers $20,000 for his verbal attacks.

“Enoch Powell once remarked, ‘For a politician to complain about the press is like a captain complaining about the sea’. These proceedings demonstrate a politician litigating over the barbs of a political adversary might be considered a similarly futile exercise,” Lee said.

The pair got into it over WA's hard border during the pandemic.

Veticare is a thing...

which the Animal Justice Party in Victoria wants to see happen.

The idea is sort of like Medicare for your pets.

Due to the vet shortage in Australia, a lot of us adopting good boys and girls during Covid and the high costs associated with pet ownership the minor party will introduce a motion into the Victorian parliament which includes establishing public vet hospitals, upskilling vet nurses and setting up a bulk-billing model for vet care.

The details aren't fully fleshed out yet but people who have domestic animals would pay an annual fee and receive a Veticare card to be used for check ups, injections and emergencies.

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