Making news: Bradley Cooper is batting, Dior plays victim, kids can hunt in NSW
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What's happening in The Oz today:
🇫🇯 Albo is dishing out hugs in Fiji
💉 Qantas to get over its vaccination obsession
🌭 Inflation could kill Bunnings snags
🏎 Dan Ricciardo gets out of first gear
🍾 Would you pay $3m for some champagne?
🙉 Julia Fox really doesn't want you to get Monkeypox
🏹 Kids may soon be able to hunt animals in NSW
🤬 Dior wants compo from Valentino
👩🏻❤️💋👨🏼. Huma and Bradley sitting in a tree
Good morning!
The Prime Minister of Australia is overseas. Again.
Albanese is in Fiji where he'll take part in a leader's "retreat" today as a part of the Pacific Islands Forum. He's expected to outline how we now take climate change seriously in Australia in an audience with our closest neighbours.
The purpose of the trip isn't just to add to his already burgeoning international collection of culturally significant shirts, he's aiming to reset our relationship in the Pacific.
The Australian reports that he's promising "more authentic partnerships based on greater respect for their choices while condemning a lack of leadership from Canberra in previous years".
Basically, we've been a shitty boyfriend and he's there to show we've actually changed and want to give this relationship another go.
Initial signs suggest it could defrost quicker than expected.
In an emptied room in the Grand Pacific Hotel in the Fijian capital of Suva, during their first ever face-to-face meeting, Albanese extended his arms in a warm gesture of friendship towards Solomon Islands leader Manasseh Sogavare - the bloke who signed a security deal with China without Australia knowing - eagerly accepted the invitation.
“Welcome,” Albanese said.
“I need a hug,” Sogavare replied.
Qantas plays Covid catch up
Qantas will scrap vaccination mandates for international passengers from July 19. The shift follows the Federal government’s decision earlier this month to drop the Covid vax requirement for all non-resident travellers coming down under.
However, the masks are staying. Despite airports doing away with mandating people wear them while in transit, our biggest airline said it would continue to require that all passengers wear masks onboard planes (which is in line with government requirements) including on domestic flights.
Carbflation
As inflation hit a 41-year high in the US overnight - it is now sitting at 9.1% over there - cost of living continues to hurt here too.
We've copped $10 iceberg and now expect to pay more for your Bunnings snag this week. The cost of the humble carcinogen smothered in onions and sauce will rise for the first time in 15-years.
Dan Ricciardo is not done
The Aussie F1 star has had a rough trot lately.
It seems like every time there's a race where he doesn't perform he then endures persistent rumours he's not only doing a bad job but he's quitting.
My theory is that F1 is bitchier than a netball comp as everyone thinks they're a WA. There's no "i" in team, but there is in Ricciardo, which is why he's taken matters into his own hands, telling people he isn't quitting the McLaren squad before his contract ends in a year, or the sport entirely.
— Daniel Ricciardo (@danielricciardo) July 13, 2022
Passion Pop this is not
The most expensive bottle of champagne has been sold for than $3.6m.
The buyers are two Italian brothers - Giovanni and Piero Buono - who made their wealth from crypto and fashion and purchased the bottle of French fizz that also came with five NFTs.
The new owners of the 2017 vintage magnum aren't going to drink it.
“I don’t plan to drink it, I think it will be a good investment,” Giovanni told The Wall Street Journal.
“There is a lot of turmoil in the investment world, things are changing geopolitically very quickly. Wealthy people will look for places to store their wealth for a while - and that could be a champagne with an NFT attached to it."
Julia Fox has done Paris, moves onto PSAs
Julia Fox - the woman of the moment or "It Girl" if you're old enough to remember Kim Kardashian as "wardrobe organiser" - has taken to social media to encourage her American fans to get vaccinated against Monkeypox.
The comments are as iconic as she is.
"Julia Fox, Public Health Ambassador to the People," one person posted.
"Julia Fox I am in North Carolina and never heard of Monkeypox are we gonna be okay goddess queen I love u should we stay home?," said another.
Fox's public service announcement comes as the first Monkeypox cases have been detected in Canberra and over in the US vaccines are running low.
A limited number of monkeypox vaccine appointments are available now at our Central Harlem, Chelsea and Corona Sexual Health Clinics: https://t.co/bFkb7bM5Ve. More appointments will be made available later this week.
— nychealthy (@nycHealthy) July 12, 2022
So we're ok the Hunger Games are coming to NSW?
Kids under the age of 12 could be hunting game with bows and dogs if new laws are swept through the NSW parliament.
Under the proposed changes to the state's hunting rules, kids of any age will be allowed to be issued with "game-hunting" licence to hunt animals while kids aged 16-18 will no longer need to be supervised while stalking and killing animals for sport.
Dior claims it's a fashion victim
Over the weekend Valentino staged its haute couture show on the Spanish Steps in Rome.
It was a glittering affair. Vogue boss Anna Wintour gave the presentation a standing ovation while celebrity guests like Anne Hathaway struggled to stand.
The event has aggravated more than Hathaway's Achilles tendon, Dior is demanding compensation.
According to a report by WWD, the French fashion house is seeking damages from Valentino - its Italian rival - for allegedly blocking access to a Dior boutique during the show.
In a letter seen by WWD, the retail manager of Christian Dior Italia said access to the Dior shop was “hampered” and that customers were “refused access and blocked at the barriers”.
Due to this Dior reckons its store "remained empty and could not operate from the early hours of the afternoon" while the show was being staged.
Dior claims the problem was “amplified” by the event being scheduled on a Friday, “a day when surely proceeds are [significant]”.
It is claimed that the French house is requesting about $150,000 in compensation for lost business.
The letter said if Valentino fails to pay the full amount within 15-days Dior, will “adopt all the necessary measures to protect its rights”.
Hot new couple 🚨
The new George and Amal is exactly what 2022 needs and we may have found them.
There are growing and persistent reports that Hillary Clinton's former deputy chief of staff (and vice chair of her 2016 presidential campaign) Huma Abedin and actor Bradley Cooper are an item.
"Cooper and Abedin have maintained an ultra-private romance for the past few months," Harpers Bazaar suggested.
"Bradley has been quietly dating Huma for a few months now, they've been keeping it really quiet," Page Six said.
This is glorious as Abedin has had the worst luck in love.
She is in the final stages of divorcing her deadbeat husband - the former New York congressional representative Anthony Weiner, - who resigned in 2011 after inappropriate messages he sent to young women on Twitter were leaked.
Then in 2017, Weiner pleaded guilty to sending sexually explicit texts to a minor (while their young son was sleeping next to him) and subsequently was sentenced to 21 months in jail.
Abedin filed for divorce from Weiner that year.
She wrote about the toll it took on her in her great memoir, published last year.
"I had my heart broken, dragged out, stomped on, humiliated. I lived with shame, in shame, for so long," she said.
"On the one hand, you have this person who's making your life so easy. On the other hand, you have this person who's doing these deeply irresponsible things, and what felt to me like very, very selfish things, and taking us down."
Cooper previously dated supermodel Irina Shayk for four years and they have a young daughter together.
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