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Podcast hosts slammed for disgusting remarks about women's postpartum bodies

<p><em>Image: Getty </em></p> <p>The male hosts of a concerning new podcast have received major backlash over comments made claiming they’d leave their future wife if she didn’t lose weight after giving birth.</p> <p>Brothers Anthony Casasanta and Nick Casasanta launched “The No Filter Pod” earlier this month with friend Jason Girratano – describing it as “the most blunt podcast in the world”.</p> <p>While their show is deliberately “controversial”, many are condemning the show over comments made by Anthony about a potential future wife’s body after she gives birth to his child.</p> <p>The comments have been quickly gone viral, with women branding them “disgusting”, “horrendous” and “God awful”.</p> <p>In a statement issued to news.com.au, “The No Filter Pod” said the comments had been taken “out of context” but doubled down on the controversial remarks.</p> <p>“We just don’t want our wives to be obese. We feel as if society promotes obesity which is a very unhealthy and uncomfortable way of living.</p> <p>“We promote healthy lifestyles here at NoFilterPod. It’s also not only about weight gain after childbirth, it’s also about mental health as well as the physical health. We feel like it’s very important to hold spouses both men and women to a high standard.”</p> <p>The backlash was sparked by the men themselves, who all play NFL in the US, after they shared the clip on TikTok, asking: “Is this too much?”</p> <p>“If my wife lets herself go after I have kids with her, I’m going to tell her once,” Anthony tells Nick and Jason.</p> <p>“‘If you don’t get your sh*t together, because I still want to be sexually attracted to my wife, my spouse, but if you can’t do that, I’m out’.”</p> <p>The guys said they were prepared a negative reaction but received an avalanche of a response, predominantly condemning the view and labelling it “misogynistic”.</p> <p>“We really feel as the video was taken out of context,” the trio said in a statement.</p> <p>“We will not be apologising.”</p> <p>Women have fought back in droves, with many creating videos in response to the clip, while others flooded the guys social media feeds with their thoughts forcing the podcast hosts to turn off comments.</p> <p>“Where is the respect, the love, the admiration for his partner. I actually feel sorry for him. Clearly he has no idea what love is,” one woman said.</p> <p>As one simply stated: “I can’t even comment on this cus the outrage is just UNREAL.”</p> <p>Comments on the guys’ personal Instagram accounts, which haven’t yet been disabled, displayed a similar response.</p> <p>“You’ve made a fool of yourself and you’ve made an already foolish world more worrisome,” one raged.</p> <p>“Why are you turning off your comments? yallll are a joke and can’t take the heat,” another lamented.</p> <p>Anthony, Nick and Jason have claimed they are receiving death threats over the outcry but have continued to post clips on TikTok on topics surrounding cheating, “fitness chicks” and female vs male value.</p> <p>According to the boys, girls who workout are “superior to all women”, calling them “top of the line”.</p> <p>They also reckon “girls cheat more than guys” and women seek “financial security from their husbands” citing that all they ask for in return is that “you don’t sleep around with like 50 other dudes”.</p> <p>These statements have obviously not gone down well, with words such as “repulsive”, “vile” and “red flag” being used to describe them in the comments.</p>

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Leunig cartoon divides the internet

<p><em>Image: Instagram</em></p> <p>Cartoonist Michael Leunig has once again divided fans after posting an image comparing resistance to mandatory vaccination as being similar to the fight for democracy in Tiananmen Square.</p> <p>In an image posted to his Instagram account, Leunig drew a lone protester standing in front of a loaded syringe, mimicking the iconic “tank man” image of protest in China. An inset of the 1989 photo also appears in Leunig’s drawing.</p> <p>The cartoon divided fans on his Instagram page, with some applauding it as “brilliant’ and “spot on” while others describe it as “pretty bad taste” and a “disgusting comparison”.</p> <p>“Really? Comparing a vaccination to Tiananmen Square massacre? This undermines every other piece of art you have made that comments on humanity and social justice. Incredily disappointing,” one person wrote.</p> <p>Author Kerri Sackville posted: “Ugh. I used to idolise you”.</p> <p>Another user wrote: “Wow. This a disgusting take that mocks the bravery of the Tiananmen protesters. Absolutely ridiculous, illogical, immoral, and disgusting.”</p> <p>While another asked: “Do you really relate to this level of oppression over a single vaccine in a time of a pandemic? It’s not the same.”</p> <p>Another fan questioned the message the work would send.</p> <p>“I usually love your work and admire the way you question social/norms and assumptions. This piece however, feels pretty ill-considered during this critical time. Please think carefully about how you may influence others and your social impact as an artist. It maters,” they wrote.</p> <p>Lawyers weekly deputy editor Jermone Doraisamy tweeted the cartoon, describing it as “grotesquely offensive”.</p> <p>“To compare the plight of anti-vaxxers to that of a man whose fate remains unknown, 30 years on, is just appalling,” he wrote.</p> <p>However, others supported Leunig, who was declared a national living treasure in 1999.</p> <p>“Good on ya Leuing…. One of your best,” one fan said.</p> <p>“Bless you Leunig. We need more brave artists like you,” another posted.</p> <p>“So accurate and reassuring that I’m not alone with my perspective!!!!,” wrote another.</p> <p>“OMG…..love this one.”</p> <p>It’s not a first for Leunig, whose cartoons are often published in<em><span> </span>The Age</em><span> </span>and<span> </span><em>The Sydney Morning Herald</em><span> </span>newspapers, has caused controversy over his stance on mandatory vaccination.</p> <p>In 2015, the Melbourne cartoonist sparked outrage with a cartoon comparing the Victorian government to fascists, following a proposal to ban children who are not vaccinated from childcare centres.</p> <p>More recently, he caused controversy over a “condescending” image depicting an absent mum.</p> <p>The infamous Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing came after weeks of protests by students and workers demanding democratic change and the end of corruption. The stance ended abruptly after soldiers and tanks arrived on the 4th of June 1989.</p> <p>It is unclear how many lost their lives but its thought to be between several hundred to thousands of people.</p> <p>The communist party of China has since forbidden discussion of the Tiananmen Square protests and has taken extreme measures to block information related to it, including censoring internet posts.</p>

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"In your face, ALDI!": Shopper shares hack to slow down checkout

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">An ALDI customer has shared a hack for beating the fast pace of the store’s checkouts and has received a mixed response from others online.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">ALDI staff are known for their high speed scanning of groceries at the checkout, and a shopper has shared an image of the simple thing she does to slow them down.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The photograph shows a series of grocery items spaced out along the conveyor belt, with around 30cm between each item.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She claims this trick ensures she has enough time to pack items into her trolley or bag at the other end of the checkout.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“In your face ALDI! Just so we got time to pack!” she captioned the photo.</span></p> <p><img style="width: 351.4548238897397px; height:500px;" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7842759/56af82373d000fbf58e0cc7cf01a0e13364e9926-161x229-x0y67w459h653.jpg" alt="" data-udi="umb://media/53b9ae1571cb47468cd7c6896aa0f03f" /></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Image: Facebook</span></em></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While many have praised the technique, others were angry and accused the shopper of being “selfish” and “annoying”.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Stop trying to pack your bags at the checkout. Put your groceries back into your trolley after they’ve been scanned and pack them at the packing area like you’re supposed to. You don’t need to do stupid things like this if you just follow the rules,” one person said.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“People like you packing their bag at the register is so annoying and selfish. Try packing them at the bench like everyone else,” another added.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“If you are selfish enough to do that I hope they really throw them at you,” a third wrote.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“How childish,” another said.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A former ALDI worker also contributed to the debate, saying she had come across this tactic in the past.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“When I worked at ALDI and people did this, I would hold the first item back from the sensor with my arm until everything piled up,” she said.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Meanwhile, others praised the idea and told people “to lighten up”.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Great idea. Might try it next time I don’t feel like taking on the ALDI ninja fast cashiers lol,” said one.</span></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Image: Facebook</span></em></p>

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Teen entrepreneur calls out the older generations

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">An Australian high schooler who has become a multi-millionaire off of his online business ventures has called out older generations for labelling millennials as “lazy” and “entitled”.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jack Bloomfield has become a successful ecommerce entrepreneur through a series of ventures.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The 17-year-old has penned an open letter, saying young people are “doing incredible things”.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“If I had a dollar for every time I heard yet another insult about Millennials like me, I could probably actually afford to be every bit as lazy as we’re always accused of being,” he wrote in a </span><a rel="noopener" href="https://www.news.com.au/finance/money/17yo-selfmade-millionaires-open-letter-to-adults/news-story/3ab4fd514b3aa838b14b5ca12f96ca40" target="_blank"><span style="font-weight: 400;">news.com.au</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> piece.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Honestly, it feels like kids my age should all be walking round with helmets on given just how much of a beating we take from older generations.</span></p> <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/BxrT1FTl-Kg/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="13"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BxrT1FTl-Kg/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank">A post shared by Jack Bloomfield (@jackbloomfield)</a></p> </div> </blockquote> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“All we get told is how lazy and entitled we are.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“But you know what? We’re not listening.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We don’t want to spend 40 years chained to a desk taking a pay cheque like you did.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We want to be in charge of our own future.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“And we’re making it happen whether you like it or not.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Since starting his first business at the age of 12, Jack has gone on to become a multi-millionaire and public speaker.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He told </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today Extra</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> last year that schools needed to do more to support aspiring entrepreneurs.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It all comes back down to support of kids like myself who want to go out there and start something really big with their lives,” he said.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“No one’s really talking about starting a business, especially teachers and schools around the country, so it was all self-education.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Instead of watching Minecraft or whatever I watched at the time, I started typing up how to start your own online business just on YouTube, just spending hours and hours educating myself trying to figure out how this whole thing’s going to work.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bloomfield concluded his piece by praising the achievements of other young people who are "trying to launch the next revolutionary business that will change the way we live or work".</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"We want to be in charge of our own future," he said. "And we're making it happen whether you like it or not."</span></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Image: Jack Bloomfield / Instagram</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;"></span></p>

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“Completely ridiculous” fine issued to Norwegian beach handball team

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Norway’s beach handball team has been fined 1500 euros (approximately $2400 AUD) over a violation of the sport’s uniform rules during the European Championships match.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the bronze medal match against Spain, the Norwegian women’s team wore bike shorts instead of bikini bottoms.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The European Handball Federation (EHF) said in a statement that the shorts were “not according to the Athlete Uniform Regulations defined in the IHF Beach Handball Rules of the game”.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The team was fined 150 euro per player.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Abid Raja, Norway’s sports minister, said it was “completely ridiculous” and that attitudes needed to change.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Norwegian Handball Federation (NHF) criticised the fine and took to Twitter to say it was proud of the women for saying enough was enough.</span></p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr">Norway's women's beach handball team was fined €1,500 for refusing to wear bikini bottoms at a European championship game.<br /><br />Men wear shorts but IHF rules say women "must" use bikini bottoms, despite players saying that bikini bottoms are restrictive and uncomfortable to play in. <a href="https://t.co/VwP2cxAE1H">pic.twitter.com/VwP2cxAE1H</a></p> — AJ+ (@ajplus) <a href="https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/1417545591005974529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 20, 2021</a></blockquote> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We at NHF stand behind you and support you. Together we will continue to fight to change the rules for clothing so players can play in the clothes they are comfortable with,” it said in the post.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">According to Beach Handball rules, female players must wear tops and bikini bottoms while men must wear tank tops and shorts.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Athletes’ uniforms and accessories contribute to helping athletes increase their performance as well as remain coherent with the sportive and attractive image of the sport,” the uniform regulations said.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Female athletes must wear bikini bottoms … with a close fit and cut out on an upward angle towards the top of the leg.”</span></p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr">I knew there was a double standard for uniforms worn by male and female athletes... but this picture of Norway's beach handball team says a lot. <a href="https://t.co/qdZBKU7pTK">https://t.co/qdZBKU7pTK</a> <a href="https://t.co/KoWdOvecmr">pic.twitter.com/KoWdOvecmr</a></p> — Dr. Ji Son (@cogscimom) <a href="https://twitter.com/cogscimom/status/1417582965110894594?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 20, 2021</a></blockquote> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The decision has been widely criticised on social media, with some calling the differing rules for the mens’ and womens’ uniforms a “double standard”.</span></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Image: Norwegian Handball Federation / Twitter</span></em></p>

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Sydney man under 40 gets FOUR vaccine jabs

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A Sydney man who received four doses of coronavirus vaccine has defended his decision on </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Project</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to mixed reactions.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tom Lee rejected suggestions from Waleed Aly that he could have been taking vaccine doses from someone else who needed the jab.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I don’t think I was. I was as entitled to Pfizer as anyone else. I had the AstraZeneca, I took the risk with AstraZeneca as other people are doing and I thought that I earned the right to Pfizer by doing that,” he said.</span></p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr">While most under-40s struggle to get one Covid-19 vaccine shot, 34-year-old Sydneysider Tom Lee has managed to have four.<br />He’d already picked up two shots of AstraZeneca and as of this week, he’s scored two Pfizer. We chat with Tom to find out why… <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TheProjectTV?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TheProjectTV</a> <a href="https://t.co/Vg9Sfozw9n">pic.twitter.com/Vg9Sfozw9n</a></p> — The Project (@theprojecttv) <a href="https://twitter.com/theprojecttv/status/1415601124757884930?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2021</a></blockquote> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I have been telling people and there are a range of reactions to it. I just wanted to be fully vaccinated and have as many antibodies against the coronavirus as I could. We are in the middle of an outbreak here and I am feeling pretty good about it now.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“For that last Pfizer shot that I had last Monday I had to go through south west Sydney and I was a bit spooked, I thought, ‘God are the three jabs I have had enough?’ but now I feel like I could go for a walk through south west Sydney and I’ll be alright,” he said.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mr Lee said he did his homework before getting the jabs and found that mixing vaccines was an effective way to immunise people against the virus, though Australian health officials haven’t endorsed this yet.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I didn’t go into it blind there have been studies on mixing the vaccines. I read the summary about a study done in England where they were mixing AstraZeneca with Pfizer and the results were good. Apparently 10 times the amount of antibodies in the mix than anyone was getting on plain AstraZeneca. When the opportunity to get Pfizer came up I thought, ‘let’s go, let’s do it, let’s get as many antibodies as you can get’,” he said.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I read today that one of the medical workers in Sydney who was fully vaccinated has got the coronavirus, maybe if she did the same thing I did then she wouldn’t have got the virus.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In reality, the trials studying the benefits of mixing vaccines involved the administration of one dose of each vaccine, rather than the two full courses that Mr Lee had.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Additionally, a small percentage of fully vaccinated individuals can still contract COVID-19, which may be due to the person becoming infected before the body has built up enough protection against the virus.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr Soumya Swaminathan, WHO’s chief scientist, recently discouraged individuals from deciding for themselves to get third or fourth doses of either vaccine after receiving a full course of one vaccine.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It’s a little bit of a dangerous trend here where people are in a … data-free, evidence-free zone as far as mix and match,” she said. “It will be a chaotic situation in countries if citizens start, you know, deciding when and who should be taking a second, or a third or a fourth dose.” </span></p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr">Individuals should not decide for themselves, public health agencies can, based on available data. Data from mix and match studies of different vaccines are awaited - immunogenicity and safety both need to be evaluated <a href="https://t.co/3pdYj4LUdz">https://t.co/3pdYj4LUdz</a></p> — Soumya Swaminathan (@doctorsoumya) <a href="https://twitter.com/doctorsoumya/status/1414657053180809224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 12, 2021</a></blockquote> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">An OverSixty reader even hopped online to email us directly about the controversial segment. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"Just saw on The Project an interview with a man under 50 years old who claims to have had 2 AstraZeneca vaccines and 2 Pfizer vaccines," wrote the OverSixty reader.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"The Project treated it as funny. In my view they should have condemned him for 1: having Pfizer at his age and 2: for having two lots of vaccine. That amounts to stealing someone else’s vaccines. I hope he is made to pay for the extra vaccines, at least."</span></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Image: news.com.au</span></em></p>

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Uproar after Mel Gibson spotted saluting Donald Trump

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Footage of Mel Gibson saluting Donald Trump when they briefly crossed paths at Saturday’s MMA fight has emerged, causing the actor to trend on social media.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Gibson appeared to be a few metres away from the former president and gave a distinct salute as Trump walked by and waved at the crowd at UFC 24.</span></p> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="ltr">Lmao mel gibson saluted trump at ufc and got completely ignored <a href="https://t.co/VFf42FQJqb">pic.twitter.com/VFf42FQJqb</a></p> — Adam (@petsh0pboy) <a href="https://twitter.com/petsh0pboy/status/1414113562981715970?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2021</a></blockquote> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The moment occurred at Saturday’s UFC fight between Dustin Poirier and Conor McGregor which resulted in McGregor breaking his leg in the first round after his left leg buckled underneath him.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Some praised Gibson for the act, dubbing him a “patriot”.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Yoooooo!!! Is that Mel Gibson saluting President Trump?” one person tweeted.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The Patriot Saluting President Trump,” they later added, alongside a video of the interaction captured by another user.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Gibson was videoed at other points during the fight.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Hey, I want to see the rematch, you know best out of three,” Gibson said. “I don’t care who wins. I just want to see a good match, and I’m sure it will be.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Other users criticised the interaction as another controversial move by the actor.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Mel Gibson is who we thought he was,” one person said.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“There is no such thing as cancel culture if Mel Gibson isn’t cancelled by now,” another added.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The star of </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lethal Weapon </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">and </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Braveheart</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> has become controversial in Hollywood due to antisemitic comments he has made over several decades and allegations he was physically abusive to his former girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva.</span></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Image: @petsh0pboy / Twitter</span></em></p>

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Kyle Sandilands jumps vaccination queue then says “privilege still exists”

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kyle Sandilands has drawn criticism for skipping the 120-person queue to get his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at Westmead Hospital on Tuesday night.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The radio host defended the move, saying he was simply using his “celebrity privilege” to jump the queue.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On Wednesday morning, the shock jock discovered live on-air that he had been called out in a now-viral Reddit penned by a member of the public also waiting in line for the jab.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Kyle Sandilands cut in front of me in the vaccine line… Not the least bit surprised,” the post read.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When confronted with the accusation, Kyle said: “That’s right, that’s celebrity privilege right there.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Co-host Jackie ‘O’ Henderson then asked how many people Kyle had cut in front of at the hospital.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Probably about 70 people,” Kyle replied. “And then in the waiting room there was probably another 50 people, I walked straight through past them.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“But that is what happens when you are white, old, fat, male and a celebrity. Privilege still exists.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But, it appears that Kyle is simply stirring the pot, with his management team making a statement to the </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Daily Mail</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> confirming he didn’t physically push in.</span></p> <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/CP2LNLXsYAK/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="13"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CP2LNLXsYAK/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank">A post shared by Kyle and Jackie O (@kyleandjackieo)</a></p> </div> </blockquote> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Reddit user backed up the claim in later comments and wrote that they were more amused by the fanfare surrounding the star’s arrival than upset by his queue jumping.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The optics of the huge line and him pulling up in his Bentley were just too funny not to share. I think if this encourages his listeners to get the jab, I’m all for it,” the user wrote.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“He didn’t physically push in. He was escorted by the media. [I’m] not genuinely upset. Just found it entertaining during my boring wait.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In a clip shared on the </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><em>Kyle &amp; Jackie O Show</em>’s </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Instagram account, Kyle is seen encouraging others to get the vaccine and admitting he couldn’t understand the apprehension, saying: “It’s one needle to save us all.”</span></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Image: Kyle &amp; Jackie O Show / Instagram</span></em></p>

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Newly approved Alzheimer’s drug raises serious concerns

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">United States health officials have approved the first new drug to treat Alzheimer’s in twenty years.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But independent advisors and some Alzheimer’s experts have said the approval comes without enough evidence that the drug can help patients with the brain-destroying disease.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Food and Drug Administration said it approved the drug, aducanumab, based on results that its benefits for Alzheimer’s patients were “reasonably likely”.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Aducanuman, which will go by the brand name Aduhelmm, is produced by American biotechnology company Biogen and is to be administered as a monthly infusion.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As the first approved treatment to directly attack the disease process of Alzheimer’s instead of just treating the symptoms like anxiety and insomnia, the drug is intended to slow the cognitive decline in those with mild memory and thinking problems.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The drug is thought to reduce harmful clumps of plaque in the brain in order to slow the progression of the deadly disease.</span></p> <p><strong>Why this matters</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With the approval of the treatment despite limited evidence that it works, experts are concerned it could set a precedent for the approval of future experimental therapies that only show incremental benefits.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Currently only five medications have been approved by the FDA for patients with Alzheimer’s, though these only delay cognitive decline for several months.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As a result, patient advocacy groups lobbied for approval to expand the number of treatments available of Aduhelm, with other more-promising candidates likely to be three to four years away from potential approval.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But, the FDA advisory committee, as well as an independent think tank and several prominent experts - including Alzheimer’s doctors who were involved in clinical trials of the drug - have said the evidence raises doubts about its effectiveness. Concerns have also been raised about the small benefits being outweighed by the risk of swelling or bleeding in the brain that occurred during the trials.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The risk of bleeding is also heightened for those with the APOE4 gene, which is associated with late-onset Alzheimer’s.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Caleb Alexander, an FDA advisor who recommended against the drug’s approval, said he was “surprised and disappointed”.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“The FDA gets the respect that it does because it has regulatory standards that are based on firm evidence. In this case, I think they gave the product a pass,” said Dr Alexander, a medical researcher at John Hopkins University.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr Patrizia Cavazzoni, the FDA’s director of the Centre for Drug Evaluation and Research wrote on the agency’s website: “The data included in the applicant’s submission were highly complex and left residual uncertainties regarding clinical benefit,” </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But, she said the agency had approved the drug through a program called accelerated approval, which is designed to provide earlier access to therapies for diseases with few treatments, “and where there is an expectation of clinical benefit despite some residual uncertainty regarding the benefit.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr Cavazzoni also told reporters: “The data supports patients and caregivers having the choice to use this drug.”</span></p> <p><strong>What happens next</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Though approved, the FDA has required the drug manufacturer to conduct a follow-up study to confirm the benefits. If this study fails to show the drug's effectiveness, the FDA can - but isn’t required to - withdraw the drug from the market.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Biogen has said it aims to complete the follow-up trial by 2030.</span></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Image: Getty Images</span></em></p>

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“MY HOUSE NOT YOURS”: Paul Hogan fires up on homeless

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fed up with the homelessness crisis in his neighbourhood, Crocodile Dundee star Paul Hogan has shown he is fed up.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Photographs surfaced this week of the 81-year-old penning a letter he reportedly placed outside of his LA home as a message to the homeless, telling them to go away.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">New photos show Hogan in a mask as he stepped outside to write a note reading, “THIS IS MY HOUSE NOT YOURS”.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The actor reportedly lives at his Venice Beach property with his 22-year-old son, Chance.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the photos, Hogan allegedly penned the letter with a red marker and underlined “MY HOUSE” in the message, stuck to a pole next to his garage door.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">His neighbour Tyler Proctor, who is a local politician according to the </span><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9594375/Paul-Hogan-sends-stern-message-homeless-outside-mansion.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Daily Mail</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, spoke recently about the homelessness crisis and referred to the area where Hogan’s home is located as “hell on earth”.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“His house is like a fortress and it needs to be. I can see why [he] wants to move out,” Proctor told the outlet.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Though the star has been living in the United States since 2005, he </span><a href="https://oversixty.com.au/news/news/paul-hogan-s-homesick-plea-falls-on-deaf-ears"><span style="font-weight: 400;">recently appeared on </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sunrise</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and admitted he wanted to return to Australia but didn’t want to go through hotel quarantine.</span></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Image credit: YouTube</span></em></p>

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Dad spends daughter’s wedding fund on car and holiday

<p>After posting about his situation on<span> </span><a rel="noopener" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/mhgoq5/aita_for_spending_my_daughters_wedding_fund_on_a/" target="_blank">Reddit</a>, a father has been questioning whether it was wrong of him to spend the $35,000 (AUD $45,045) he had saved for his daughter’s wedding on gifts for himself instead.</p> <p dir="ltr">In the post, he explained his daughter’s wedding had been postponed for more than a year, ending with her choosing to elope rather than going through with the ceremony.</p> <p dir="ltr">Having saved the cash for the wedding fund, the man said he was ‘thrilled’ that his daughter was still able to get married, but also that he could ‘put [the money] to other use’.</p> <p dir="ltr">He revealed that he used the money to treat himself to a new car and take his wife on a holiday.</p> <p dir="ltr">‘I didn’t think this was controversial,’ the man said.</p> <p dir="ltr">But, his decision has caused major controversy.</p> <p dir="ltr">Just weeks after the daughter had eloped, she asked whether she could dip into the fund of savings to put a down payment on a property.</p> <p dir="ltr">After learning that he had spent the cash, his daughter and ex-wife called him out as ‘selfish’.</p> <p dir="ltr">Her dad defended himself, saying, ‘I never told her it was a wedding or whatever she wanted fund, so I didn’t think I did anything wrong.’ But he’s questioning whether his opinion was biased.</p> <p dir="ltr">‘I’m a blue collar guy. She knew that I had money put aside for her wedding,’ he added.</p> <p dir="ltr">‘I never told her it was a fund for her to use on whatever. I paid for her [university] and planned on paying for her wedding but beyond that didn’t plan on paying her way through life.’</p> <p dir="ltr">The Reddit post received over 1,000 comments, many sided with him and supported his decision to spend the money he’d earned on himself.</p> <p dir="ltr">‘[This man] paid for his daughter’s entire [university] tuition and living expenses so she’s starting out in life with zero debt,’ one user replied. ‘Isn’t that gift enough?’</p> <p dir="ltr">Another said, ‘[Your] daughter is allowed to be disappointed, but not an ungrateful, entitled brat.’</p> <p dir="ltr">Offering a more neutral view, a third commenter said, ‘At the end of the day, it is your money and adult children are not owed houses, cars or weddings by their parents’, claiming they ‘personally’ would have ‘at least given her some of the money as a wedding present.’</p> <p> </p>

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Aldi’s controversial decision causes a stir

<p>A decision by Aldi to pull a wooden stool that was set to hit shelves this week, has caused outrage among customers.</p> <p>The Aldi Natural Wood Side Table, with a price tag of $69.99, was due to be on sale as a Special Buy item from Wednesday this week.</p> <p>However, the discount retailer announced to the homeware fanatics the night before it was due to hit shelves, that the item had to be pulled “due to production issues”.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><iframe src="https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FALDI.Australia%2Fphotos%2Fa.637019469688891.1073741828.290994417624733%2F2086722251385265%2F%3Ftype%3D3&amp;width=500" width="500" height="652" style="border: none; overflow: hidden;" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" allow="encrypted-media"></iframe></p> <p>“It will be available to purchase on Wednesday, August 29,” Aldi Australia posted on Facebook.  </p> <p>“We apologise for any inconvenience caused.”</p> <p>The announcement follows the Design Institute of Australia (DIA), which represents Aussie designers, calling on Aldi to remove the stool from stores.</p> <p>The DIA claims the table is a copy of Australian designer Mark Tuckey’s Egg Cup stool, which retails for more than $550.</p> <p style="text-align: right;"><img width="500" height="419" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/7819775/0_500x419.jpg" alt="0 (1)"/></p> <p>The DIA also claimed another Aldi product, a clothes rack, is a copycat version of one designed by Siobhan Glass.</p> <p>On the DIA’s website, there is a petition calling for Aldi to remove both items from shelves and apologise to the designers.</p> <p>“It’s getting so blatant,” DIA chief executive officer Jo-Ann Kellock told <a href="https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/home/interiors/customers-angered-by-retailer-pulling-wooden-stool-night-before-sale/news-story/107fe3c91829548e30625c812d1c592e" target="_blank"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">news.com.au.</span></strong></a></p> <p>“Australia’s current intellectual property laws are grossly inadequate. IP Australia is currently considering if Australia should join The Hague Agreement (which) would afford Australian designers protection against replicas in multiple countries or regions with minimal formalities.”</p> <p>Since then, an Aldi spokesperson clarified that the recall was due to an issue with Australian quarantine.</p> <p>“The product needs to undergo further treatment before it is sold in Aldi stores,” the spokesperson said.</p> <p>“We can confirm it will be available to purchase on Wednesday, 29th August.”</p> <p>The decision to delay the launch of the item angered customers who waited outside stores the morning it was due to hit shelves, in the hope of purchasing the trendy furniture.</p> <p>“Could’ve saved annoyed customers a lot of wasted time trying to find out what was going on,” one shopper wrote on Facebook.</p> <p>Some customers were able to grab the stools in store but then had them recalled at the checkout.</p> <p>“I had 2 in my trolley got right to the register tried to scan and sorry there’s a ‘manufacturing issue’,” another added.</p>

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