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Jenna ClarkeEditorial Director
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2:15PMSeptember 26, 2022.
Updated 3:40PMDecember 14, 2022
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All the news that's fit to mint.

What's happening in (The) Oz:

☄️ NASA did an End of the World dry run

👩🏻‍⚖️ The federal ICAC is incoming

🤴🏻 King Charles' tag has been revealed

🏀 Basketbrawl at the Women's World Cup

🪩 Beyonce is coming

👗 Kim Kardashian paralysed by fashion

 🇮🇹 The Italian election is like season 7 of the Sopranos

⛽️ Fill up your car right now

🏈 They're going to play sport at the Rihanna concert

👑 Mariah took all her personalities to the Global Citizen Festival

🧑🏻‍💻 'Big Tech' put on notice

📞 Optus better get a lawyer

👏🏼 Kurt Fearnley is the new NDIS boss

🧑🏻‍🏫 NSW is getting a Naughty Corner boss

🏏 Women's cricket is savage

🏃🏻‍♂️ The Berlin Marathon record fell like it was 1989 again

📺 The Crown, like Harry's memoir, is going ahead

Hello there, 

Not to alarm you but STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND FILL UP YOUR CAR.

As the six month halving of the Commonwealth fuel excise ends on Wednesday night.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers said the end of the 22 cent cut to fuel taxes shouldn't trigger an immediate spike in prices on Thursday morning.

Chalmers did fuel stations should have supplies in their underground tanks bought at the cheaper rate which should not attract the higher excise price.

But many still expect fuel companies will look to pass the price rise along quickly.

The federal government has tasked the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to monitor the transition.

But we have trust issues so get in early if you're on empty.

Or are feeling about as good as AFL premiers the Geelong Cats must feel today after their Mad Monday escapades.

The playing group - which has been criticised for being "too old and too slow" - went all out in their senior citizens finest to clap back at the haters.

In closing, imagine your wallet doing what the Mali women's basketball team did at the Women's World Cup in Sydney if you leave your run to the servo too late.

The West African squad are feeling the pressure of the comp, having lost all four of their matches so far. Australia just defeated Canada.

NASA rebooted Armageddon for fun

NASA crashed into an asteroid as a dry run just in case one actually comes hurtling for Earth. 

Our own CSIRO helped out on the successful DART program - a one-way mission to try to send an asteroid off-course through "kinetic impact".

Basically, a spacecraft the size of a fridge travelling at 6.6km/h was smashed into an asteroid the size of a pyramid about 11 million km away from us. 

That federal ICAC is coming soon

Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus revealed the details of Labor's federal anti-corruption commission legislation, confirming that its investigations may be "public, broad in scope, and retrospective".

It'll cost about $262 million over four years to establish and operate the commission.

The legislation to kick it off will be introduced to parliament on Wednesday.

It'll be founded on seven "design principles", Dreyfus said.

Which are:

A broad jurisdiction: The commission will have broad jurisdiction to investigate serious or systemic corrupt conduct across the Commonwealth public sector by ministers, parliamentarians and their staff, statutory office holders, employees of all government entities and government contractors.

Independent: The commission will operate independent of government with discretion to commence inquiries into serious or systemic corruption on its own initiative or in response to referrals, including from whistleblowers and the public.

Oversight: The commission will be overseen by a statutory Parliamentary Joint Committee empowered to require the commission to provide information about its work.

Retrospective powers: The commission will have power to investigate allegations of serious or systemic corruption that occurred before or after its establishment.

Public hearings: The commission will have power to hold public hearings in exceptional circumstances and where it is in the public interest to do so. This is an interesting one considering the NSW model - which live streams - allowed us to watch former NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian be grilled in real time.

Findings: The commission will be empowered to make findings of fact, including findings of corrupt conduct and refer findings that could constitute criminal conduct to the Australian Federal Police or the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions.

Procedural fairness: The commission will operate with procedural fairness and its findings will be subject to judicial review. The legislation also provides strong protections for whistleblowers and exemptions for journalists to protect the identity of their sources.

King Charles is 'ere

The new British Monarch has unveiled his new brand.

King Charles monogram - known as the cypher - has been released by Buckingham Palace.

His cypher, selected by the new monarch from a series of designs prepared by the College of Arms, consists of his initials 'C' and 'R' - representing Charles's name and "Rex" (Latin for king) - alongside the crown.

Still no word yet on when he'll be coronated.

Or whether or not Harry and Meghan's kids will be given prince and princess titles.

The Italian election is as dramatic as sauce day

Italy has a new Prime Minister and its first female leader in a woman called Giorgia Meloni.

The exit polls are showing Meloni's Brothers of Italy party (that sits on the right side of the political ledger) has enough votes to govern in its own right. The result signals the most right-wing government in Italy since World War II. 

Giorgia Meloni - Italy's next leader. She appears to have won the snap election that was triggered by the resignation of Prime Minister Mario Draghi in July, following the collapse of his big-tent coalition of leftist, right-wing and centrist parties. It's a lot.
Giorgia Meloni - Italy's next leader. She appears to have won the snap election that was triggered by the resignation of Prime Minister Mario Draghi in July, following the collapse of his big-tent coalition of leftist, right-wing and centrist parties. It's a lot.

Meloni, according to the myriad of reports and Google results, is a "charismatic nationalist" with "almost no government experience".

The 45-year-old sees herself as an outsider, fighting against the system on behalf of the "regular people".

She’s also been an admirer of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, and his opposition to the LGBT community, abortion rights and any intervention from the European Union. “The party for Europe is over,” she shouted at a rally in fashionable Milan recently.

"Her party resents being linked to Italy's wartime fascist past, but its roots lie in a movement that was born out of it. This week a Brothers of Italy candidate was suspended for praising Hitler and Vladimir Putin," the BBC reported.

However instead of the usual identity politics politicians of her ilk usually lean into, she's got bigger - more tangible and terrifying - fish to fry.

Like the UK, Italy is facing a freezing winter and looming energy with shortages caused by Russia’s war on Ukraine. Inflation is out of control and is draining public finances and leaving many families and businesses asking if they can afford heating this winter.

Electricity prices were the focus of the boisterous campaign. Some people have experienced their bills trebling to almost $9000 a month for small business owners.

Depste, or maybe in spite of her right leaning politics, Meloni has committed to billions of Euros of tax cuts and a flat tax for anyone earning less than $150,000.

Did QE II shapeshift into Rihanna? 

Things are looking up and 2023 is set to be rebranded as the year of our Lord and Saviour Rihanna.

The singer, make up mogul and fashion baron is set to perform at the half time show of the Super Bowl.

A gig she refused a few years ago when the NFL was engulfed in a racism scandal.

@theoz.com.au

#Rihanna will headline the SuperBowl’s halftime show in February next year.The singer shared a photo of an NFL branded football to her Instagram, slyly confirming she will headline the Halftime Show.

♬ Sheesh - Nate Rose & Ollie Joseph

Here's how the new mum announced her next project.

Beyonce's Australian Renaissance?

Rumours are flying that Beyonce is set to tour down under with her latest "project" Renaissance.

What tipped the local chapter of the Beyhive off was a "waiting list" for tickets being published by Ticketek.

If the reports are true, it'll be her first Australian tour in 10 years.

Read more: Is Beyonce about to bomb?

The bandage dress is back

Thanks to new Dolce & Gabbana muse Kim Kardashian.

Kim - who walked in the fashion show in Milan - was filmed wearing another creation by the Italian designers which showcased that fashion's brief flirtation with comfort, functionality and inclusivity is over.

Considering everything the Kardashian/Jenner women do turns into a trend - BBLs, lips lined like clowns, waist trainers etc - the next big thing in fashion may be "Victorian level constriction and oppression" - no walking, no sitting and definitely no eating.

@steph_shep

I’ll let you caption this ⬇️

♬ Funny Song - Cavendish Music

LOVE THIS FOR US.

It's a look that's been catching on since her sister Kendall attempted walking up some stairs in.a D&G skirt at Kourtney and Travis' Italian wedding earlier this year.

@karjenner_queens

😂😂 #fyp #fypp #foryou #foryoupage #viralvideo #fypシ゚viral #fypage #fypシ #kendalljenner #kyliejenner #funny #funnyvideos

♬ original sound - KarJennerQueens 💓

Speaking of Divas...

Mariah Carey performed at the Global Citizen Festival at the weekend and showed there is a reason she, as she told Meghan Markle on her podcast recently, "identifies as a diva".

The woman, the singer, the performer has range. 

Not only did she belt out her classic ballads.

And then backed it up with her lates collab - a remix of Fantasy with Big Latto. Where she rapped.

So impressed was the world, even Cardi B retweeted this clip, that should be nominated for a Grammy.

Harry gets a day off from being the worst

As The Crown has confirmed it will be going ahead and airing the next season in November.

The Crown is "drama not documentary", the court of new King Charles has said ahead of series that'll focus on his divorce.
 
Buckingham Palace has moved to protect the reputation of the King as Netflix prepares to dramatise the “all out war” of his marriage to Diana, Princess of Wales in the next instalment will drop on November 9.
 
A trailer released at the weekend shows Charles, played by Dominic West, and Diana, played by our own Elizabeth Debicki, preparing for explosive TV interviews about their relationship.
 
Meanwhile it'll be the precursor of a bunch of new books about the royals set to hit shelves in time for Christmas, including Prince Harry's memoir, and a book about what the late Queen really thought about #Megxit.

Big tech is about to get a telling off

The Australian Senate has established a broad-ranging inquiry into so-called 'Big Tech', with the market power of Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon set to be examined in a multi-year probe.

"A motion to establish the review, to be conducted by the Senate Economics References Committee, was moved by Liberal senator Andrew Bragg and passed with bipartisan support late on Monday. The probe will look at the consolidation of platforms as well as the tech giant's use of algorithms, and is due to be completed by the end of 2023," The Australian's technology editor David Swan reported.

It comes a mid a wave of new tech regulation (glares at Optus) and anti-trust lawsuits globally.

"The major technology platforms have amassed more power than any other corporations in recent history. The “big five” international Big Tech platforms have more power than the railroads and oil tycoons of the Gilded Age," Senator Andrew Bragg said.

"Australia’s Parliament must form a stronger view on what the enormous concentration of power through vertical integration and meshing of hardware and software means for our country."

Optus is in the naughty corner

Monday's aren't never good. There are especially brutal when you're a massive telco that has had the private data of out 9 million customers compromised.
 
The company is now facing a prospective class action over that huge data breach last week as it is in the sights of Slater and Gordon with the law firm considering legal action over the cyber attack which has left millions Australians exposed and furious. 
 
It took all day Monday for the company to make an announcement on how it will ensure this type of thing doesn't happen again. Actually, scratch that, it took the Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil to call out Optus in parliament before it released a statement pledging free credit monitoring asap to impacted customers.
 
Unlike the lengthy press releases, the Minister is not mincing words.
 

Beware the scams of the scams have already begun.

And the Naughty Corner is getting a boss

In NSW at least.

On Monday, Premier Dominic Perrottet announced a special advisor for disruptive students will be installed in schools. Claiming it will help children to make the most out of educational opportunities. 

"This is all about driving educational success so our kids get the best start in life," Perrottet said.

"A key part of that is not just focusing on academics; it's focusing on behaviour. We want to have our classroom environments be the best behavioural environments they can be." 

The special advisor will work with teachers, parents and carers in public and private schools, in an attempt to stamp out inappropriate behaviour. 

The announcement comes after students from Sydney's Knox Grammar were referred to police over a group chat in which they discussed pedophilia and used homophobic and racist slurs. A review into the chat was conducted, though no child abuse material was found.

At least the NDIS is coming around

Teacher, Paralympic athlete and disability advocate Kurt Fearnley has been appointed as the chair of the National Disability Insurance Agency - the (broken) government agency also known for running the NDIS.

“He stands up for Australians,” NDIS minister Bill Shorten said of Fearnley, welcoming him to the role on Monday.

“His contribution in the disability sector, the sporting sector, and his general leadership and advocacy in our community makes himself an exceptionally qualified new chair of the National Disability Insurance Scheme.”

It is the first time the agency has been chaired by a person with a disability.

Rebecca Falkingham, former secretary of Victoria's justice department, will be the new NDIS chief executive.

“I look forward to working with the executive, with Rebecca, the board already, and with the minister, to make sure the NDIA continues to be what we lobbied for all along  - a purveyor of disability rights, which are human rights," Fearnley said. 

The NDIS now has five people living with disabilities on its board. 

Women's cricket is a brutal sport

Who said women were sugar and spice and all things nice was not in the stands for the India v England game at the weekend when India wiped out England 3-0 in the series, with this ball.

The drama turn almost overshadowed the last wicket by Jhulan Goswami - the leading wicket-taker in women’s ODIs. She bowed out of international cricket at Lord’s in the UK after bowling her 10,000th ball in one-day matches.

I couldn't run this fast if a bear was chasing me...

The Berlin marathon happened at the weekend and records tumbled like it was 1989.

Kenyan jet Eliud Kipchoge shaved 30 seconds off his PB, which just happens to the the world record for the men's marathon.

He finished the 42km course in a little more than two hours. His splits were a smidge over 2 minutes. 

I got puffed writing this.

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