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No more Justin Bieber: New rules for Marty Sheargold's return

<p>Marty Sheargold is back after quitting from his gig on<span> </span><em>Kate, Tim and Marty</em><span> </span>last year.</p> <p>Sheargold claimed he no longer found the show “challenging” and went on to become a full-time stand-up community along with setting up his own podcast.</p> <p>He said the podcast set up eventually “couldn’t work out how to make any money out of it.”</p> <p>The radio star returned to his radio star gig not too long after, this time with his own breakfast show on Triple M Melbourne.</p> <p>Four months in, Marty told <em>news.com.au</em>: “I’m really enjoying coming to work and that hasn’t always been the way, but it certainly is now,”</p> <p>“If you can’t get up and about for this kind of opportunity then you shouldn’t be looking for it in the first place.”</p> <p>Marty now hosts<span> </span><em>The Marty Sheargold Show</em><span> </span>by himself, but often has supporting co-hosts to provide banter and good entertainment for fans.</p> <p>“I love that idea of getting the whole team in the studio and that always takes time for people to find their own rhythm naturally, and I think that’s happening now which is great. And it’s great having young people around because you can vicariously live through their lives and still go to bed early,” Marty said.</p> <p>“We’re having genuine fun and I think that’s the most important thing in a team. Content will always look after itself but if you’ve got a great energy and attitude within the group then it’s just a joy to be a part of,” he added.</p> <p>Marty also admitted he loves his new audience at Triple M now.</p> <p>“I don’t have to talk about Justin Bieber anymore, which is good,” he revealed.</p> <p>He also made it clear he will never speak about reality programs on his show as its “lazy”.</p> <p>“When you look at the clock of these (breakfast radio) shows and you give someone from<span> </span><em>MAFS</em><span> </span>half an hour of your show, that’s because<span> </span><em>you</em><span> </span>don’t want to do half and hour of your show,” he said.</p> <p>“It’s awful radio and it should be outlawed. And as a listener you shouldn’t put up with it, you should find somebody that’s not doing that, because it’s patronising to treat the audience that way. Who could give a f**k about a bloke from<span> </span><em>MAFS</em>?”</p> <p>Marty revealed he has rejected a number of offers to appear on reality shows.</p> <p>“All of those reality ones I’ve said no to,” he told news.com.au.</p> <p>“They even wanted me to go and do the<span> </span><em>Dirty Dancing</em><span> </span>show in the US (Channel 7’s<span> </span><em>Real Dirty Dancing</em>). I’m like, ‘You don’t know me at all. Why would you ask me to do that?’ I was quite insulted.</p> <p>“I couldn’t think of anything worse and I made the right decision, it was an awful show.”</p> <p>Marty admitted he turned down a chance to feature on<span> </span><em>I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here</em>, saying: “It feels like end of career stuff, that stuff. It doesn’t feel like building a career.</p> <p>“You’re either starting or ending, it shouldn’t be in the middle of your career.”</p>

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"It's insensitive": Australia Day debate breaks out on I'm A Celebrity

<p>Former <em>Great Outdoors</em> host Tom Williams and recently retired AFL player Dale Thomas have weighed in on the heavily controversial Australia Day to argue whether either find the holiday “insensitive” or not.</p> <p>Thursday night’s episode of<span> </span><em>I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here<span> </span></em>showed that while Myf Warhurst and<span> </span><em>MAFS’</em><span> </span>Ryan Gallagher agree the date of the national holiday should be changed from January 26 out of respect – Tom and Dale took it one step further.</p> <p>As reported by<span> </span><em><a rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/australia-day-debate-breaks-out-on-im-a-celebrity-035247476.html?guccounter=1" target="_blank">Yahoo Lifestyle</a>,</em><span> </span>Tom said he preferred for Prime Minister Scott Morrison to call a referendum in order to decide if the change should go ahead but Dale said he found it unnecessary.</p> <p>“It could be a good thing for Scott Morrison to turn around and say, ‘I’ve heard you all, let’s have a referendum,” Tom, a carpenter by trade, proposed.</p> <p>“Or even, go one further and just say ‘We’re doing it,’” Dale responded.</p> <p>Tom quickly agreed with his fellow contestant’s proposal, however said there would likely be an intense backlash that would be similar to the one Australia saw when it was announced Uluru would be closed to climbers.</p> <p>“Yeah, you’re right, mate 100 per cent... it’ll end up like Uluru, a whole bunch of white people racing up there going ‘It’s my right!’ It’s like... ‘No, it’s not mate,’” he says.</p> <p>Dale said he wants Non-Indigenous Australians to understand the difficult and traumatic relationship between the date January 26 and Indigenous people.</p> <p>For many, Australia Day is referred to as Invasion or Survival Day.</p> <p>“For too long we haven’t understood this day for what it was, it was insensitive of us to put it here. We still want a day to celebrate our country and everything that’s great with it, so let’s move it,” he said.</p> <p><em>I’m A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here!</em> airs 7.30 pm Sunday to Thursday on 10.</p>

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Self-serve checkouts: Big changes coming to a supermarket near you

<p>Self-serve checkout scammers have been put on high alert, after a <a href="https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em><strong>News Corp report</strong> </em></span></a>suggested new technology is being trialled by retailers across the country.</p> <p>The reports cites unnamed industry sources who say the new technology is being trialled at outlets across the country, including supermarkets and mid-tier department stores.</p> <p>Shoplifting remains a huge problem in supermarkets around Australia, and is setting the industry back $9.3 billion a year, which is 3 per cent of their annual turnover.</p> <p>The camera and video technology which has already been rolled out at outlets in Sydney and Melbourne, gives retailers a bird’s eye view of what shoppers are doing at the checkout, and alerts them if they’re incorrectly scanning goods.</p> <p>US company Stoplift is behind the new technology, and chief executive officer Malay Kundu said it had so far “found a fair amount of theft and loss at both manned and self-checkout consistently across various locations in Australia.”</p> <p>“Our algorithms are analysing that material continuously so it’s able to watch all of that video footage and compare that with transaction data,’’ he added.</p> <p>The Australian Retailers’ Association’s executive director Russell Zimmerman told News.com.au that shoplifters should see this as a sign that they will get caught.</p> <p>“Buyer beware, if you risk it you are going to get caught and you need to expect the force of the law to come down on you,’’ he said.</p> <p>“Retailers need to up the ante to ensure they capture everything that they possibly can to eliminate the cost of retail theft in their stores.”</p> <p>What do you think? Would you welcome the introduction of technology like this in supermarkets? Or do you think the problem would be solved by removing self-serve checkouts?</p>

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