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News.com.au
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- News.com.au
Royal face set to begin studies at University of Sydney
Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway has touched down in Australia to begin a three-year undergraduate degree at the University of Sydney. The 21-year-old future queen of Norway shared her excitement about becoming a student, posting on Instagram that she is 'looking forward to starting my studies'. Her decision to study in Australia comes during a challenging year for the Norwegian royal family, following charges of rape and sexual assault against her half-brother, Marius Borg Høiby, which he has denied. Despite the family turmoil, the Princess appeared cheerful as she visited the university campus and shared a smiling photo on social media. Ranked second in line to Norway's throne behind her father, Crown Prince Haakon, the Princess also appeared in a photo posing next to the Sydney Opera House. Along with other new photos around the university grounds, the Norwegian royal family's full statement from the young royal read: 'I'm looking forward to starting my studies at the University of Sydney. 'It will be exciting to become a student, and I'm looking forward to gaining new perspectives on both European and international politics. 'I'm sure that I will learn a lot.' The royal will undertake a Bachelor of Arts degree starting in August. She will live at the university's campus in Camperdown, 4km southwest of the CBD. The Gen Z royal looked chic in a classy yet casual fit, which included baggy blue jeans, a navy jumper and white sneakers. She paired the look with a black cross-body bag, her hair down and dainty gold hoop earrings. Born in 2004, Princess Ingrid has mostly stayed out of the spotlight, attending local schools in Oslo and finishing her upper secondary education in 2023. She is the granddaughter of Norway's current monarch, 88-year-old King Harald V. She made history as the first female heir to the Norwegian throne. The Princess plans to step back from official appearances while continuing her studies in Australia. The royal isn't the first to study down under. Recently, Danish Count Nikolai of Monpezat attended the University of Technology, Sydney. King Charles, at age 17, famously spent two terms at Geelong Grammar in Victoria. Marius Borg Høiby, Princess Ingrid's older half-brother, 28, is currently facing multiple charges, including rape, sexual assault and bodily harm. The charges came after months of investigation into a case police say involves a 'double-digit' number of alleged victims. The charges included one case of rape involving intercourse, two cases of rape without intercourse, four cases of sexual assault, and two cases of bodily harm.
Time of India
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Everything to know about Travis Kelce's role in 'Happy Gilmore 2' as Taylor Swift stays away from the limelight
Travis Kelce is all set to make his Hollywood debut.(Image via AP Photo/Ed Zurga) Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift are gearing up for the upcoming season of the NFL but are also looking forward to the NFL star's Hollywood debut in the upcoming movie, 'Happy Gilmore 2'. Both Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce ended up missing the premiere of the movie, but here is everything about the Chiefs' star player's role in the movie. Here's everything about Travis Kelce's role in Adam Sandler 's 'Happy Gilmore 2' The trailer of Adam Sandler's 'Happy Gilmore 2' was an instant hit among fans but Travis Kelce seems to have more of a cameo role in the movie. Happy Gilmore 2 | Official Trailer | Netflix In the trailer, Travis Kelce seems to be dressed in a vest, shirt and a tie, which hints at him being an employee at a hotel. However, neither Travis Kelce nor Adam Sandler has cleared the air on what exactly is Kelce's role in the movie. A few months ago, Travis Kelce had spoken about his role in 'Happy Gilmore 2' when he appeared on The Pat McAfee Show. Travis Kelce had said, "That was a dream come true…" Travis Kelce added, 'I thought SNL was going to be the peak of my acting and showman or entertainment career. Working with Happy Gilmore himself, the Sandman and Happy Productions, it was off the chain." In the last few weeks, Travis Kelce has stayed silent about the release of 'Happy Gilmore 2'. What are Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce up to, with the upcoming season being a few weeks away Travis Kelce has been attending the training camp of the Kansas City Chiefs in Missouri but Taylor Swift has disappeared from the public eye. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Camperdown: If You Were Born Between 1940-1975 You Could Be Eligible For This Life Cover Reassured Undo Taylor Swift was last spotted as she enjoyed a date with Travis Kelce in Ohio. It seems the billionaire pop star is spending all the time with her family as her father, Scott Swift, recovers from a bypass surgery. As per the Daily Mail, apparently, Travis Kelce has taken care of Taylor Swift's family as they went through a difficult time. FAQs Has Travis Kelce acted before? Yes, last year Travis Kelce starred in the horror series, The Grotesquerie Where is Travis Kelce currently? Travis Kelce is in Missouri Also Read: 'I'm wearing nothing': Travis Kelce's flirty confession about Taylor Swift sparks panic among fans For real-time updates, scores, and highlights, follow our live coverage of the India vs England Test match here. Catch Rani Rampal's inspiring story on Game On, Episode 4. Watch Here!
The Guardian
13-07-2025
- Health
- The Guardian
Indigenous midwife referred to by racist slur on staff whiteboard at Sydney's RPA hospital
A former midwife at one of Sydney's largest public hospitals who was referred to by a racist slur on a workplace whiteboard says the health system needs to do more to create culturally safe workspaces. Renee Bani, a Kaanju and Wagadagam woman, worked at the Royal Prince Alfred (RPA) hospital for seven years, primarily with the Aboriginal midwifery group practice program at the Camperdown campus. The program aims to provide Indigenous women and their babies with culturally safe care before, during and after birth. In August 2022, Bani saw that the Aboriginal midwife on duty had been described using a derogatory term as ''Abo MW' on a whiteboard in the hospital's Women and Babies Ambulatory Care Clinic. The whiteboard was used to record staff movements. Bani said she quit the job in 2024 due to chronic stress, overwork and burnout, but the slur was the last straw. She made a complaint to the hospital's senior management, who began an internal investigation. But Bani said she was left feeling drained by the 12-month inquiry, which concluded without an outcome as the hospital said there was insufficient evidence. 'It just it started to really drag me,' she said. 'I was fighting a battle that I couldn't fight alone and it came down to, basically, racism.' Bani said she wanted the hospital to introduce specific cultural awareness and anti-racism training to improve cultural safety for both staff and patients. 'People don't understand simple cultural awareness and just [the] appropriateness of culture. It just really ticked me off that [they] could drag this whole [process] out and keep me tight lipped, keep pressuring me,' she said. She said one manager didn't realise the use of the slur was an issue and asked 'What is wrong with it?', until another non-Indigenous colleague raised her concerns. Bani said she also felt she was treated differently than her lighter-skinned colleagues. 'There is a lot of colourism too,' she said. 'I mentioned that a lot in our clinical reviews, that I'm really struggling because I'm a darker skinned girl, and I'm not getting the same treatment.' In response to Guardian Australia, a spokesperson for the Sydney Local Health District (SLHD), which includes the RPA, said racism is unacceptable and that the whiteboard incident was thoroughly investigated. They said the hospital had since introduced a number of changes including mandatory cultural training for all staff in partnership with the Redfern Aboriginal medical service; an Aboriginal workforce network and a dedicated manager to promote a culturally safe workplace; and an Elders network to improve culturally appropriate decision-making. This month the RPA announced cuts to the number of midwives it employs, including a plan to merge the Aboriginal midwifery program with the general midwifery program, meaning the midwives will no longer be dedicated to Indigenous patients. The proposal sparked swift condemnation from current and former staff and prompted the hospital to promise a review of the decision. Paige Austin, one of only two current midwives assigned to the Aboriginal midwifery program, said it should have five full-time midwives. She spoke to Guardian Australia in her capacity as a member of the New South Wales Nurses and Midwives' Association, and said many women come to the program with fear or trauma from past negative experiences with healthcare providers and have complex social and health needs. 'There's a real systemic racism in hospitals, and there's history with Indigenous women around healthcare, and there's just mistrust,' Austin said. 'I think you can speak to any Indigenous family and find trauma that they've had with the healthcare system.' Austin said the work done by the program 'isn't just midwifery'. 'We're social workers, we're caseworkers, we're looking out for the women,' she said. 'We work a lot with drugs and alcohol. We have meetings with DcJ, there's extra things that normal MGP doesn't do.' The SLHD said the Aboriginal midwifery program remains available for Aboriginal women, despite staff no longer being dedicated just to that purpose, and they will receive holistic, culturally safe and trauma-informed maternity care at RPA. In a statement, they said the hospital made 'every effort to fill vacancies within maternity services when they arise' and was committed to providing high quality care. Guardian Australia has been investigating alleged racism and discrimination in mainstream maternity services. Prof Catherine Chamberlain is a Palawa woman, the chief midwifery officer for the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives, a professor in Indigenous health at the University of Melbourne and a former midwife. She said that culturally safe and supportive workplaces were essential for all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff, but that when she has asked at conferences if anyone had witnessed a lack of cultural safety in a healthcare setting, 'every single person put their hand up'. 'Unfortunately the reality is I've heard so many anecdotal stories of where people have reported instances of racism and lack of cultural safety in the workplace, and it just hasn't been dealt with,' she said. 'It is really critically important that all people experience care that's safe, otherwise there's a risk that people don't access the care that they need.' Chamberlain said creating a culturally safe workplace can help reduce the high rates of attrition among Aboriginal healthcare workers. 'We've got a huge challenge trying to recruit and retain Aboriginal nurses and midwives and there's a whole lot of reasons for that including institutional racism and structural barriers,' she said.
The Guardian
01-07-2025
- Health
- The Guardian
Midwives and supporters protest cuts to staffing at Sydney's Royal Prince Alfred hospital
Midwives and supporters rallied outside the Royal Prince Alfred hospital in Camperdown on Tuesday, protesting against cuts to the number of staff deployed across the birth and delivery unit. The NSW Nurses and Midwives' Association says the reductions will mean the hospital won't be able to provide one midwife to each woman. O'Bray Smith, the association's president, said nine beds in the maternity ward would be cut, warning that 'women will be pushed out faster than they already are'. Ryan Park, the NSW health minister, told reporters: 'I want to make it clear, no one in RPA is losing their jobs.' He said that midwives were being 'redeployed in other parts of maternity services' due to 'a slight reduction in birth rates at RPA'. Park added that the NSW government used a model called Birthrate Plus to determine the level of staffing in birthing and maternity services, a model that he said had been endorsed by the nurses and midwives' association
News.com.au
28-06-2025
- Sport
- News.com.au
Crown witness in case against paedophile ring found in shallow grave
When NRL great Ian Roberts, then known as one of the best front-rowers in the world, first met Arron Light, the latter was just nine years old. In that moment, he could never have predicted that less than a decade later, Aaron would be discovered in a shallow grave, the victim of a brutal murder that to this day remains unsolved. 'I was living in Camperdown in Sydney at the time, and he was in the children's hospital nearby,' he told Gary Jubelin's I Catch Killers podcast. 'He was being treated for complications to do with a knee surgery, and he'd been in hospital for quite some time.' Roberts, who had gone in for a visit as part of his NRL team's outreach program, was taken by the young child's sense of humour and wisdom beyond his years. 'He began poking fun at all the players, saying we were only coming to visit for publicity, having a bit of fun,' he recalls fondly, 'he was a cheeky little kid.' Roberts, who jokingly told Arron he'd come back and visit 'just to annoy you,' struck up a friendship with the boy over the following weeks. 'He was in hospital for at least a few months,' he recalls, 'and over that time I'd pop in every couple of weeks to say G'day.' Over the coming years, Roberts became something of a mentor to Arron, who he'd check in with periodically. Then, in the mid-nineties, by which stage Arron was a young teen, Roberts bumped into him on the street, and learned he'd been sleeping rough in Kings Cross. Keen to help Arron get back on his feet, Roberts would invite him to NRL matches and meet up with the teenager regularly – eventually allowing him to move into his home. 'One night he rang me – he was very upset,' the sportsman recalls, 'I asked him where he was – he was in his squat in Bondi, and it was not good. I just told him: 'grab your stuff mate, you can come and live with us for a while.' We had a spare bedroom, and I was with my partner Shane, so we kind of just decided he could stay with us as long as he went to school.' Over the coming months, Roberts tried to provide Arron with more stability – insisting he kept in touch with his parents, training with him in the gym and offering a positive example of authority in his life. Roberts, who had recently come out as gay, was aware that the presence of a young teen in his life may attract suspicion. 'He knew I was gay, and he had no problem with me or my partner,' says Roberts, 'but I was very keen for him to keep in touch with his parents, so his parents knew everything that was going on. What people struggle to understand was that it wasn't just an act of kindness – this young guy was actually my friend.' For a while, things seemed to be going well in the young teen's life, who'd get up and catch two buses to school at Vaucluse High each morning. Then, Roberts got a phone call from police. 'They told me that the house had been under surveillance, and my head was spinning.' Police explained that Arron had been seen going into suspected pedophiles' houses before coming to live with Roberts. They told him 'that's how he'd been supporting himself.' 'And this put you in a difficult situation,' suggests Jubelin. 'I'd just come out,' explains Roberts, 'I was worried that people were going to surmise what they think had happened.' Police, who had quickly cleared Ian as a suspect, asked him to try and convince Arron to make a formal statement about the pedophiles who had abused him. Roberts, who was plagued by worry about how his friendship with Arron would be perceived, encouraged him to co-operate with police. He says it's one of his biggest regrets. 'I wish so much that I'd just told them to leave him alone, that he was happy and doing well and didn't need to go back and talk about all that stuff. I honestly think if I'd done that, he'd still be alive now.' Shortly after convincing Arron to work with police to expose the alleged pedophile ring he'd been a victim of, Roberts was offered a contract in Townsville, and moved away. Aaron, who was hurt and angry at the distance Roberts had put between them, went rapidly downhill. The last time Roberts heard his voice, it was 1997. 'I got a phone call from a policeman telling me that Arron had been arrested again for stealing,' he says. 'And he wouldn't talk to police, the only person he'd talk to was me. So they phoned me up and put him on and I was trying to calm him down. But he was screaming and he was angry at me by that stage as well. He was entitled to be that way. It just felt like he was alone. He was saying that stuff. He was seeing a lawyer I'd put him in touch with, and I just … I just tried to convince him to co-operate with the police. He disappeared three days later. He was due to give evidence [against the alleged pedophile ring] three days later, and he just never showed up in court.' It would be another five years until Arron's body was found. Believed to have been stabbed, his bones were discovered by construction workers digging a trench along the Alexandria canal in St Peters. 'It's awful, even the way they discovered that it was Arron,' continues Roberts, 'It was the knee. His knee, because he had such complications when I first met him in hospital, his knee had become quite deformed. It was like a bulbous type of thing. That's how they discovered it was him.' An inquest into Arron's death found there was insufficient evidence to charge anyone with Arron's murder. NSW deputy state coroner Jacqueline Milledge presided over the inquest into Arron's death. She concluded that 17-year-old Arron died between September 12 and September 18, 1997, in an unknown Sydney location. 'The cause of death is multiple stab wounds,' she said. 'The manner of death is homicide by a person or persons unknown. 'At the time of his death, Arron Light was 17-years-old and was a Crown witness in an impending district court trial.' For Roberts, the pain of Arron's loss, as well as the guilt that plagues him, are wounds that will never heal. 'Regret's not a big enough word,' he tells Gary Jubelin sadly, 'but I just know now that I really let him down.' 'I thought I was okay with this,' he continues, clearly emotional, 'but just talking about it now, it's just like I really let him down. From the person he trusted, he loved me, he so respected me and cared about me. I just let him down.'
