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Colleagues praise the unorthodox Jonathan Sriranganathan as a trailblazer. Now, after the party picked up seats in state and federal parliaments, he’s moving on
“I feel like it was a good way to show my respect for everything that he does for the arts community in Brisbane,” Clarke says. “And how everything he does for our community doesn’t always have an immediate outcome.”
Sriranganathan’s successor in the Gabba, Trina Massey, believes the Greens are poised to reap the outcomes of Sriranganathan’s radical groundwork.
CNN’s John Miller on-air Thursday evening announced, “I am told by my sources that this is 34 counts of falsification of business records, which is probably a lot of charges involving each document, each thing that was submitted, as a separate count.”
The Bulwark – Why Trump’s Hush Money Matters. It was the currency of secret and illegal schemes to deceive voters…There is no question that these deals were illegally made. We know this because the men who set them up have admitted their guilt, and further admitted to having done so to assist Trump’s campaign.
AP: “A Manhattan grand jury has voted to indict Donald Trump on charges involving payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to silence claims of an extramarital sexual encounter, the first ever criminal case against a former U.S. president and a jolt to Trump’s bid to retake the White House in 2024.
The indictment, confirmed Thursday by Joe Tacopina, a lawyer for Trump, and other people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to discuss sealed criminal charges, is an extraordinary development after years of investigations into his business, political and personal dealings. It is likely to galvanize critics who say Trump lied and cheated his way to the top and embolden supporters who feel the Republican is being unfairly targeted by a Democratic prosecutor…
In bringing the charges, the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg, is embracing an unusual case that had been investigated by two previous sets of prosecutors, both of which declined to take the politically explosive step of seeking Trump’s indictment…”
See also The New York Times – Donald Trump Is Indicted in New York: Live Updates [free access]. Mr. Trump will be the first former president to face criminal charges. The precise charges are not yet known, but the case is focused on a hush-money payment to a porn star during his 2016 campaign.
See alsoThe New York Times – News Analysis – A President Faces Prosecution, and a Democracy Is Tested For more than two centuries, American presidents were effectively shielded from indictment. But the case against former President Donald J. Trump breaks that taboo and sets a new precedent.
See alsoCourt House News – Indictment filed in NY makes Trump first US president to face criminal charges. The indictment of Donald Trump in his home state ramps up one of several criminal investigations facing the former president in the early days of his 2024 campaign.
Diving into Sam’s story is rather therapeutic … Orwell taught us about economy and so does Sam in a eclectic ways too … Sam was not born with a silver spoon 🥄
Malchkeoun and I slept with Laura and Sam at the “99 acres” during the recent BYRON Bay Writers Festival (but in separate bedrooms) [ It is a figure of speech as Patrice Newell does not know that we often go to sleep with Phillip Adams - and his LNL radio show 😇 ]
Looks like Sam aka Nigel lived in “sin” with Louise W. as they bought a house together at Eastbourne. ‘We smoked Dope and drank dreadful wines. . . Everyone liked gardening.’
Louise “was kind to me, cooked better than me and was a better person than me. It was clearly doomed …”
Driving Mirror Minor with a rusty floor was risqué, but Sam’s flared trousers kept the wet road from spraying widely in the car…
Many positive references are made about John O’Shea - who was a splendid figure, a large florid man…John was a great pioneer of NZ 🎞 🎥 film - Rory take notice …
I’ve always thought that Sam Neill was terribly miscast in My Brilliant Career(1979), the film that effectively launched his. If I’ve read it right, we’re supposed to be cheering when Judy Davis’ Sybylla finally declines his marriage proposal, believing it would inhibit her planned future as a writer
Celebrity doesn’t impress him much, and he’s studiously avoided it. In his local village of Clyde, the one-cop town five minutes from his farm where he gets morning coffee, heads don’t turn much. In Sydney’s Surry Hills, where he has a home and splits his time, he takes delight in telling people who think they might know who he is that he’s Matrix actor Hugo Weaving. He likes to talk to strangers; he doesn’t care if they know who he is or not.
“I have a number of friends who are real celebrities, you’d know who they are, and I wouldn’t swap my life for theirs for a moment, even though they’re immensely rich and, you know, immensely famous.
“There’s a complete lack of privacy for one thing, and privacy is very, very, very important, I can walk down the street in Surry Hills and get my coffee, and nobody bothers me, you know? And there’s no paparazzi. My life is my own.”
There’s Laura Dern (chicken), Kylie Minogue (duck), Helena Bonham Carter (cow), Bryan Brown (pig, female). During this interview, Bryce Dallas Howard, a resplendent ginger hen,pecks her way past and later Michael Fassbender, a rooster of regal bearing appears chest-first around a corner followed closely by three hens. “Fassbender, you big cock,” Neill laughs. “He’s so full of himself, he’s always got his girls following. But he is very handsome.”
In Did I Ever Tell You This? Neill shares quite a bit more of himself. Indeed he has laid himself quite bare and, like most actors awaiting the reviews, he wants to know how he did. As memoirs go, it is very funny and extremely entertaining, but with a judicious touch of poignancy. No self-pity here. He is an enormously good raconteur and also deliciously indiscreet in some of his tale-telling (co-stars behaving badly, take note). But still, he is careful with his private life. Details of past relationships are either omitted, as in the case of his most recent relationship with the Canberra press gallery journalist Laura Tingle, or referred to fleetingly as with his marriages to actor Lisa Harrow and to film makeup artist Noriko Watanabe. His four children and eight grandchildren appear as careful references to his life’s joy and great love.
It is a collection of actor’s stories, a story of family and friendships, of love and pleasure that he started jotting down while isolated in his Sydney flat having treatment for his cancer. The shock came in March last year: he had swollen glands while he was in Los Angeles doing press for Jurassic World Dominion, goofing around with his “idiot friends”. Within weeks he was in chemotherapy for stage three blood cancer, specifically, angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma.
Spouse/Ex-: Lisa Harrow (M. 1978–1989), Noriko Watanabe (M. 1989–2017)
Father: Dermot Neill
Mother: Priscilla Neill
Children: Elena Neill, Tim Neill
Sam Neill was born on 14th September 1947 in Omagh, Northern Ireland as Nigel John Dermot Neill. His father Dermot Neill, a New Zealander, was an army officer stationed in Northern Ireland. His mother, Priscilla Beatrice, was an English woman.
In 1954, when he was seven, his family moved to New Zealand where he went to Christ's College, a boarding school in Christchurch. It was in school, that he changed his name to Sam because there were many other students named Nigel there.
Growing up, Sam Neill never thought of making a career in films. Instead, he contemplated joining army. As a youngster, he also suffered from stammering issue.
After school, he joined the University of Canterbury and Victoria University to pursue studies in English Literature. At Canterbury, he first got into acting.
Sam Neill has had two marriages. He has a son, Tim from his first marriage to actress Lisa Harrow (1980-1989) and a daughter, Elena, from his second marriage to make-up artist Noriko Watanabe (1989- separated in 2017).
He also has another son, Andrew, from a relationship in his twenties and a stepdaughter Maiko Spencer (Watanabe’s daughter from her previous marriage).
In 1993, Sam Neill established a wine producing company Two Paddocks in Central Otago, New Zealand. He owns four small organic vineyards which primarily produce pinot noir and a little bit of riesling. The products are sold in Australia, New Zealand and the UK.
BookTok is Good, Actually: On the Undersung Joys of a Vast and Multifarious Platform
And on a final note, even if Labor finishes with only 45 seats, it should still govern comfortably for the next four years. With 12 cross bench members, there is no viable alternative government. Labor will have to allow give and take in lower house debates though.
