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ABC News
14 hours ago
- Health
- ABC News
Teenage boy hospitalised after being bitten by shark at Cabarita Beach in NSW
A teenage boy has suffered serious injuries in a shark attack on the NSW Far North Coast on Sunday afternoon. Emergency services were called to Norris Headland at Cabarita Beach, located between Byron Bay and the Tweed, shortly before 4pm. The 16-year-old was bitten on his right arm and right leg, after being attacked while swimming, NSW Surf Lifesaving CEO Stephen Pearce told the ABC. "At this stage I'm unsure of the severity of injuries, but I'm told there were traumatic injuries to the right arm and right leg," he said. NSW Ambulance said he was being flown to a Gold Coast hospital in a serious but stable condition. A video on social media showed the boy being carried up the beach by surfers and other beachgoers. Bystanders tied a tourniquet to stop the bleeding before paramedics arrived at the scene, a NSW Ambulance spokesperson said. "I'm not sure whether he was with any other friends at the time of the incident, but by the time our lifeguards got there he had already had a tourniquet applied to those impacted limbs," Mr Pearce said. A jet ski was used to clear other surfers from the water. A second chopper patrolled the area but no shark activity was sighted. Mr Pearce said with whales migrating up and down the coast at this time of the year, there was always more shark activity around the place."Cabarita Beach is a beautiful, picturesque beach and unfortunately I think it might be a case of 'wrong time, wrong place' at this stage for the young fella," he said. He said the beach will remain closed until Monday, with a decision to be made then about when it will reopen. It is unknown what type of shark attacked the teen.
CTV News
18-06-2025
- CTV News
Tweed, Ont. resident helps students whose canoe capsized
Ontario Provincial Police say a quick-acting resident of Tweed, Ont. helped three young people whose canoe capsized on Stoco Lake Tuesday morning. Police say three students from out of town were staying at a rental and had gone out onto the lake at around 6:15 a.m. to watch the sunrise. When they lost a paddle, the canoe capsized as they tried to retrieve it. One of them was not wearing a lifejacket, police say. A local resident heard their calls for help and took his pontoon boat to rescue the young people. All three were brought safely to shore, OPP say. 'The OPP would like to thank everyone who assisted in this rescue. Swift action to call police and rescue these students may have saved their lives,' police said in a post on X. OPP say that 17 of the 23 people who died on OPP-patrolled waterways last year were not wearing lifejackets. 'A lifejacket keeps you afloat when you suddenly and unexpectedly fall out of or are thrown from your vessel. Falling overboard and capsized vessels are the leading causes of OPP-investigated boating/paddling fatalities every year,' police said. Stoco Lake is approximately 100 kilometres northwest of downtown Kingston, Ont.
ABC News
14-06-2025
- Entertainment
- ABC News
Ben Quilty's Archibald Prize-winning Margaret Olley portrait bought by Tweed Regional Gallery
Tweed Regional Gallery's acquisition of Ben Quilty's Archibald Prize-winning portrait of beloved Australian artist Margaret Olley brings with it a sense of homecoming. Not only are Olley's ashes interred in a garden outside the gallery, inside there is the Margaret Olley Art Centre, which depicts the ordered chaos of her Duxford Street studio in the Sydney suburb of Paddington. The $600,000 purchase of Quilty's reverential painting, which won the Archibald a few months before Olley passed away in 2011, is a full-circle moment. Olley was born in Lismore in 1923 and moved to Queensland soon after, but she always maintained a connection to the New South Wales North Coast, according to her friend, benefactor, art gallery owner and executor of her will, Philip Bacon. "Sometimes when a museum or art gallery acquires something you think, 'Oh, that's where it belongs' and that's absolutely the fact with this picture," he said. Mr Bacon said Olley "loved" the Tweed Regional Gallery and would often wax lyrical about the region as the pair drove from his home in Brisbane to visit it. "We'd drive down to the Tweed and when she would get to that great run along the river, where all the cane fields are on the left, and the river on the right, she would wind the window down and just say, 'I'm home,'" he said. "She loved the green, because it's always green down there and it was her favourite colour. As one of the co-trustees of the Margaret Olley Art Trust Mr Bacon had much to do with the purchase of the portrait. The trust tipped in $100,000 and Mr Bacon, who personally contributed $25,000, "rang a lot of people" for donations. "It is the highest price ever paid for a Ben Quilty," he said. The painting was on long-term loan to the Art Gallery of NSW after it won the Archibald and also spent some time at Quilty's home in Bowral in the NSW Southern Highlands. Then Quilty decided it needed to be on a wall so "people could see it" and the Tweed gallery announced its crowd-funding campaign to buy the painting in November last year. Gallery Director Ingrid Hedgcock said Quilty had always been "100 per cent" onboard. "It went to his home for some time, but then he realised it wasn't the right place for it," she said. The portrait will become the jewel of the collection on display at the Margaret Olley Art Centre, which opened in 2014. "At the heart of [the centre] is the recreation of her extraordinary home studio, and I have always thought of that home studio as a portrait of her because it has all of these narratives and objects that hold stories about her incredible life and her career," Ms Hedgcock said. "And this portrait is really known across Australia from the Archibald win in 2011, so bringing together Ben's great portrait and the home studio recreation, it just makes sense." The portrait will form the centrepiece of Painting Life: Margaret Olley and Works from the Collection, on display at the Margaret Olley Art Centre from June 15 until August 31. Quilty will attend the opening tonight, which is sold out. Included in this exhibition – and on public display for the first time – are 11 still-life paintings by Quilty. The colour-rich works depict flora from the artist's garden arranged in cut-glass vases and a ceramic vessel that were gifts from Olley. "They are still-life paintings that have vessels in them that Margaret gave him years ago from her own collection," Ms Hedgcock said. "And with that, he has coupled flowers that he has grown from his own garden, so there is this iconic portrait looking across at these still-life paintings."
Yahoo
08-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Gerry Adams's lawyer to pursue chatbots for libel
The high-profile media lawyer who represented Gerry Adams in his libel trial against the BBC is now preparing to sue the world's most powerful AI chatbots for defamation. As one of the most prominent libel lawyers in the UK, Paul Tweed said that artificial intelligence was the 'new battleground' in trying to prevent misinformation about his clients from being spread online. Mr Tweed is turning his attention to tech after he recently helped the former Sinn Fein leader secure a €100,000 (£84,000) payout over a BBC documentary that falsely claimed he sanctioned the murder of a British spy. The Belfast-based solicitor said he was already building a test case against Meta that could trigger a flurry of similar lawsuits, as he claims to have exposed falsehoods shared by chatbots on Facebook and Instagram. It is not the first time tech giants have been sued for defamation over questionable responses spewed out by their chatbots. Robby Starbuck, the US activist known for targeting diversity schemes at major companies, has sued Meta for defamation alleging that its AI chatbot spread a number of false claims about him, including that he took part in the Capitol riots. A Norwegian man also filed a complaint against OpenAI after its ChatGPT software incorrectly stated that he had killed two of his sons and been jailed for 21 years. Mr Tweed, who has represented celebrities such as Johnny Depp, Harrison Ford and Jennifer Lopez, said: 'My pet subject is generative AI and the consequences of them repeating or regurgitating disinformation and misinformation.' He believes statements put out by AI chatbots fall outside the protections afforded to social media companies, which have traditionally seen them avoid liability for libel. If successful, Mr Tweed will expose social media companies that have previously argued they should not be responsible for claims made on their platforms because they are technology companies rather than traditional publishers. Mr Tweed said: 'I've been liaising with a number of well-known legal professors on both sides of the Atlantic and they agree that there's a very strong argument that generative AI will fall outside the legislative protections.' The lawyer said that chatbots are actually creating new content, meaning they should be considered publishers. He said that the decision by many tech giants to move their headquarters to Ireland for lower tax rates had also opened them up to being sued in Dublin's high courts, where libel cases are typically decided by a jury. This setup is often seen as more favourable to claimants, which Mr Tweed himself says has fuelled a wave of 'libel tourism' in Ireland. He also said Dublin's high courts are attractive as a lower price option compared to London, where he said the costs of filing libel claims are 'eye-watering'. He said: 'I think it's absurd now, the level of costs that are being claimed. The libel courts in London are becoming very, very expensive and highly risky now. The moment you issue your claim form, the costs go into the stratosphere. 'It's not in anyone's interest for people to be deprived of access to justice. It will get to the point where nobody sues for libel unless you're a billionaire.' Meta was contacted for comment. Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
The Guardian
07-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Olive Cotton photography award finalists 2025
The Olive Cotton awards have marked their 20th anniversary in style, with a record number of entries and offering a major prize of $20,000. Tweed Regional Gallery has announced the 65 finalists, recognised for their excellence in photographic portraiture Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email
