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Qantas reveals major partnership with Aussie retailer
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Sky News AU
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A-League: Adrian Segecic secures top Sydney FC award
Europe-bound Adrian Segecic has farewelled Sydney FC in style, winning the Sky Blues' player-of-the-season award. Segecic, who has been linked with Austrian club Rapid Vienna, was also awarded the members' best player and Golden Boot gongs at Wednesday night's Sky Blue Ball. 'It's a huge honour to be recognised like this,' said the 21-year-old attacking weapon, who scored 18 goals in all competitions for Sydney in the club's 2024-25 campaign, 'This club means so much to me. I've been here since I was 12-years old and I've worked really hard this season with the support of my teammates and the staff. 'I'm grateful to the members and fans who've been behind us every step of the way.' Sydney FC's Adrian Segecic celebrates scoring a goal for the Sky Blues. Picture: Saeed Khan/ AFP Segecic's superb individual season had already secured him joint A-League Golden Boot honours with Adelaide United marksman Archie Goodwin. Sydney's women's player-of-the-season award was won by captain Natalie Tobin, who made a successful comeback from a serious knee injury. 'It's always special to be recognised and even more special to have won this award for the second time,' Tobin said. 'We are building again and I'm looking forward to coming back bigger and better next season.' Mackenzie Hawkesby won the club's women's Golden Boot award for her six goals. Originally published as Departing star Adrian Segecic claims Sydney FC player-of-the-year honours
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10 hours ago
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Katy Perry shakes off social media hate at triumphant opening Aus show
Australia gets Katy Perry because Katy Perry gets Australia. The pop superstar shook off the social media pile-ons of recent months to take a quintessential tall poppy potshot at herself at her opening Lifetimes concert in Sydney on Wednesday. When complaining of jetlagged tiredness, exacerbated by her daughter Daisy Dove waking her at 5am on the morning of her first Australian gig, Perry said she had come prepared for the challenge. 'You can't tell I'm tired because I got fresh Botox for Australia!' she declared to huge cheers from the audience. And the scream-o-meter, the true gauge of a concert's success, remained pushing into the red for the entirety of her two-hour neon pop dream at Qudos Bank Arena. They laughed again with her when she shared an on-stage wardrobe emergency, calling for an assistant to unzip her costume 'because I've been eating too many Tim Tams.' The last time Perry was down under last September, she roared at the MCG for a generally well-received AFL grand final performance worth a reported $5 million pay cheque. Her culture stocks in Australia proved to be buoyant when she announced her Lifetimes tour, with more than 170,000 tickets to 15 concerts in five capital cities selling out instantly. Since then she has been the subject of savage social media pile-ons for missteps, from working with controversial producer Dr Luke on her 143 record, and its lacklustre chart performance, to that Blue Origin celebrity space flight folly. But put Perry on a stage, in front of a sold-out crowd of true believers, the day after an epically suburban stop at a western Sydney shopping mall during rehearsals, and it is abundantly apparent the oversized outrage hasn't downsized the devotion of her fans. Their ranks have been bolstered by a sizeable contingent of tweens and teens who lapped up Perry's high-flying, fluoro-lit spectacle which was humanised by a generosity of spirit. The fans dressed to impress their idol in the costumes of her various eras, and squealed with delight when she launched into the dance breaks and light-sabre battles which were mocked online as cringey and awkward when the tour opened in Mexico in April, but make perfect sense within the context of the Lifetimes show. After all, she's playing a half-human, half-robot character in this video game-inspired concert, battling villainous machines on her mission to restore girl power and all the lovey-dovey stuff to counter the nasty world order. One of the highlights of the show happened during the Choose Your Own Adventure segment - which appears to be more pre-determined than granting the sign requests held up by fans in the front rows - when she brought fans on stage to perform Thinking of You from her 2008 album One of the Boys. The 18-year-old Left Shark superfan Elliott, who brought his two younger sisters and cousin to the show, was declared an MVP for his pop stewardship of his family, as the cute group from western Sydney joined her to play chicken egg-shakers during the song. It was a suitably heart-warming moment in a show that, by its hi-tech nature, is tightly choreographed. The Lifetimes show's intention is pure pop escapism soundtracked by a career-spanning collection of hits which have spun more than 25 billion streams and counting - albeit with a little too many of the misses from the 143 record. The Dark Horse pop queen may not possess the vocal chops and choreography skills of Beyonce, or the edgy dark pop drama of Billie Eilish, but this seasoned entertainer knows how to put on a great pop show. And she's got 14 more of them to perform in Australia before this leg of her world tour wraps at the end of the month.
