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Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Bryson Stott Reveals Phillies Felt 'Embarrassed' After Mets Series Sweep
The Philadelphia Phillies are 25 and 18, in second place in the National League East. After a strong start to the year, the Phillies had a road trip to face the New York Mets and then the Chicago Cubs. It was a pivotal road trip with the Mets and Cubs atop their respective divisions. However, the Phillies got crushed by the Mets, getting swept out of New York, including a series-sweep clinching walk-off from the Mets. Advertisement In a recent interview with Bryson Stott on Sports Radio 94 WIP's Afternoon show, the Phillies' second baseman was asked about the team bouncing back from the Mets series. Stott said, "They ended out season last year. I don't want to say [it was an] embarrassing series up there, getting swept. But I think some of us kind of felt embarrassed by that [Mets series]." Stott sharing how some of the team felt embarrassed after the Mets series is noteworthy. With the Mets set to be the Phillies' direct competition for the National League East crown, they need to get past the Mets if they want to win the World Series. Philadelphia Phillies second baseman Bryson Stott (5) throws past New York Mets first baseman Pete Alonso (20) in the third inning at Citi Cruz-Imagn Images Coming off such a disastrous series, Stott and the Phillies caught their breath and have played significantly better since. After bookending the Mets series with losses to the Miami Marlins and Chicago Cubs, the Phillies have since gone 12-5. Advertisement Following the Mets series, the Phillies came alive. Stott pointed out how the series was a wake-up call for the Phillies. Stott said, "I think it just kind of was a wake-up call, no matter how early it was." The Phillies won't face the Mets until Friday, June 20th, in Philadelphia. Meanwhile, the next time the Phillies head to New York to face the Mets isn't until August 25th for a key divisional matchup late in the season. Fortunately, the Phillies have rebounded since being swept. However, Phillies players still feel the lingering embarrassment from their NLDS loss and earlier series against the Mets this year. With a star-studded lineup including Juan Soto, Pete Alonso, and Francisco Lindor, the Phillies haven't seen the last of the team that 'embarrassed' them early in the season. Related: Phillies' Nick Castellanos Announces Major Personal News Related: Phillies Predicted To Make Decision on Brandon Marsh for Top Prospect
The Guardian
04-05-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
Liberal vote decimated in major cities – with Coalition now dominated by regional MPs and Nationals
The Liberal party has been decimated in major cities – with just a handful of seats left in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney – and must overhaul its appeal in urban areas despite a Coalition party room now dominated by regional Liberals and the Nationals. The Liberals have also been wiped off the map in Adelaide and Tasmania and lost another seat in Perth. Across major cities, the party has failed to win back any seats from the teal independent MPs, who strongly appeal to moderate Liberal voters. In Melbourne, where the Coalition was widely tipped to win outer suburban seats, it has gone backwards. It is set to lose the seats of Menzies and Deakin with the Liberal party also suffering swings against it in La Trobe and Casey. Keith Wolahan, who won Menzies in 2022 after winning pre-selection against the former Liberal minister Kevin Andrews, said it was clear the party had a major problem with voters in urban areas, where the majority of people live. Wolahan, who was a member of the now further diminished moderate wing of the Liberal party, urged a rethink about the party's identity and how it appeals to young professionals and women. 'We need to turn our mind to that like we have never done before,' Wolahan said. 'We need to really dig deep and think about who we are and who we fight for and who makes up Australia.' Sign up for the Afternoon Update: Election 2025 email newsletter When asked how the party would do that, when regional Liberals and the Nationals will have a much greater share of the Coalition party room, Wolahan said the party must not ignore the feedback from urban voters. So far, speculation about who should lead the Liberals names regional-based MPs – Dan Tehan in western Victoria, Sussan Ley in Albury-Wodonga, and Angus Taylor in Hume, which takes in the regional areas around Goulburn in New South Wales. In south-east Queensland, the Liberals have bled seats to Labor. Dickson, Bonner and Petrie have turned red and Longman and Forde are also tipped to fall. Labor has gone from one female MP in Queensland – Annika Wells – to seven. As the Liberal vote is decimated in big cities, the Nationals will have a much larger share of the Coalition party room. The so-called junior Coalition party may hold more seats than the Liberals in NSW and Victoria. In Sydney, the Liberals lost Banks, held by the shadow foreign affairs minister, David Coleman, to Labor. It has also lost the seat of Hughes, held by another moderate Liberal Jenny Ware, to Labor. It may also lose Bradfield – previously a Liberal stronghold – to a teal independent, Nicolette Boele. The Liberal senator Andrew Bragg, a moderate who has been re-elected, urged his party not to shift to the right in response to a decimation in the cities and to overhaul its strategy. 'We must offer an ambitious agenda and a centrist, inclusive social vision,' Bragg said. 'Reclaiming enterprise and the centre is not a departure from our values – it is a return to them. The country is drifting and we remain Australia's best chance for course correction and renewal.' In Western Australia, the Liberals have won the seat of Moore in Perth. The seat was formerly held by Ian Goodenough, who ran as an independent against the Liberals after losing his preselection battle. In Adelaide, the Liberals have lost the seat of Sturt for the first time in more than five decades. It now has no MPs in the South Australian capital. At a Liberal party event on Saturday night, the former leader of the Liberal's moderate wing, Simon Birmingham, warned that if this trend continued 'there won't be much of a party'. 'It's critical that people see this as a chance to turn the corner and to look at how they better identify the Liberal ideology in a way that is relevant to modern audiences,' Brimingham said, as reported by the ABC.
The Guardian
03-05-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
Angus Taylor and Sussan Ley frontrunners to lead Coalition after federal election ‘bloodbath'
Coalition MPs say Angus Taylor and Sussan Ley are frontrunners to succeed Peter Dutton as opposition leader, describing Saturday's historic election rout as a 'bloodbath' for the Liberal party. Dutton was defeated in his Queensland seat of Dickson by Labor's Ali France, becoming the first opposition leader to lose their seat at an election since Federation. The Coalition is also on track to lose key frontbench MPs including Michael Sukkar and David Coleman, as well as outspoken Tasmanian backbencher Bridget Archer. Congratulating the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, on his 'historic' win, Dutton took responsibility for the loss and praised Taylor and Ley, the party's deputy leader. Sign up for the Afternoon Update: Election 2025 email newsletter 'It is not our night … and there are good members and candidates who have lost their seats, or their ambition and I am sorry for that,' Dutton said. 'We have an amazing party and we will rebuild.' But Liberals warned traditional post-election blood-letting needed to include careful consideration of the party's future direction, including on key policies and its approach to prospective new voters. Others pointed to candidate quality as a challenge at successive elections. One senior Liberal blamed the loss on poorly developed policies under Dutton and Taylor, saying voters had not been offered a proper choice on economic management. 'No economic narrative, no votes,' he told Guardian Australia. Another Liberal speaking on the condition of anonymity said the most important struggle would be a fight for the party's 'soul' and said whoever emerged as the new leader should expect 'highly contingent support'. One conservative MP warned Australian voters did not want hard right policies and rhetoric, blaming rightward moves since Scott Morrison's 2022 loss for Saturday's result. Taylor, the shadow treasurer and member of party's conservative faction, has been considered a future Liberal leader but drew criticism from colleagues before the campaign started over scant policy offerings. Taylor also struggled to defend plans to cut the federal public service by more than 40,000 people and to dramatically reduce Australia's overseas immigration intake. Dan Tehan, the shadow immigration minister, won a hard-fought race in his Victorian seat of Wannon, defeating high-profile independent Alex Dyson. He praised Dutton's leadership and thanked him for his service as a minister and opposition leader but was coy on whether he would contest the leadership. Tehan called for a thorough review of the policies and campaign tactics which contributed to the Coalition's loss. 'With what has happened, you need time to consider, time to think and get an understanding of what has occurred,' he told ABC TV. 'You can't come out on the night of an election and say this is what you should have done, this is what you shouldn't have done. That is for the cold, hard light of day, then you have to analyse things and do it properly.' Frontbencher Michaelia Cash nominated the shadow defence spokesman, Andrew Hastie, as her preferred candidate for leader. Sign up to Afternoon Update: Election 2025 Our Australian afternoon update breaks down the key election campaign stories of the day, telling you what's happening and why it matters after newsletter promotion 'Andrew's always been seen as leadership material … When you look at his background, former SAS, he is someone who comes with a great pedigree. He is someone that works, he does not take one vote for granted in that seat.' Queensland senator James McGrath told ABC TV the Coalition must not adopt policies reminiscent of the US president, Donald Trump. 'It would be dangerous for my party, and I speak as a Ronald Reagan Republican and a George Bush Republican, speaking to Donald Trump's positions. We are a free-trade party and pro-Ukraine and we should continue to be centre-right. 'We must resist that path focus on where middle Australia is.' The shadow finance minister, Jane Hume, said Dutton's loss was 'very sad' for the Liberal party. She has been mentioned as a possible deputy leader by moderate MPs. Hume said she would start by rereading the review she co-authored into the 2022 election loss. She previously accused commentators of 'already reading the entrails before the chicken is gutted'. 'Peter is a very popular colleague among his colleagues … He is a very good man.' Party sources played down reports Hume had begun consulting colleagues about who should succeed Dutton as party leader even before the defeat, insisting she was discussing the views of voters around the country ahead of election night coverage. The treasurer, Jim Chalmers, appeared ready for a fight with Taylor, saying he should not escape blame for the Coalition's loss. 'I think Angus Taylor has been one of the biggest reasons why we have outperformed expectations, and I say that as his direct opponent,' he said on ABC TV.
The Guardian
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Coalition to cut 10% of Creative Australia funding to divert to Melbourne Jewish Arts Quarter
A Coalition government would divert more than 10% of annual government funding for Creative Australia to a single cultural project and unspecified broadcasting programs if elected at Saturday's federal election. In the Coalition's policy costings, released on Thursday, the 'safe, sustainable and connected communities' section contained a pledge to 'redirect' $33.2m of Creative Australia's annual funding of $312m 'to Melbourne Jewish Arts Quarter and supporting broadcasting'. The quarter is a planned new centre celebrating Jewish arts, culture, food and shopping in Elsternwick in Melbourne. A Coalition spokesperson did not clarify what 'supporting broadcasting' referred to. Creative Australia and its CEO, Adrian Collette, became the subject of criticism in the Senate in February, when the Coalition's arts spokesperson, Claire Chandler, called into question the funding body's choice of the Lebanese-born Australian artist Khaled Sabsabi as Australia's representative at next year's Venice Biennale. Within 24 hours, Creative Australia had rescinded its commission to Sabsabi and his curator, Michael Dagostino. Sign up for the Afternoon Update: Election 2025 email newsletter Last month, Labor announced $18m for the new Jewish Arts Quarter, which will include a relocated Jewish Museum of Australia, a new Holocaust museum and redevelopment of the Kadimah Jewish Cultural Centre and National Library. Within days, Chandler announced her party would match Labor's pledge for the project, which sits in the federal electorate of Macnamara, a previously safe Labor seat held by MP Josh Burns since 2019 which is in a tough three-cornered contest this election. On Thursday, the Liberal party's costings showed that pledge had now more than doubled to almost $44m, with the first tranche of $33.2m to be drawn from Creative Australia's coffers in the 2025-26 financial year. 'The Coalition prefers to fund art rather than arts bureaucracy,' a Coalition spokesperson said. 'So we will redirect some funding from Creative Australia towards Coalition priorities in the arts.' Labor's arts minister, Tony Burke, harked backed to a previous Liberal government decision on arts funding, which saw $104.7m redirected from Creative Australia – then called the Australia Council – to a separate kitty, to be dispersed at the discretion of the then Liberal arts minister George Brandis. Sign up to Afternoon Update: Election 2025 Our Australian afternoon update breaks down the key election campaign stories of the day, telling you what's happening and why it matters after newsletter promotion 'It's the Brandis cuts all over again,' Burke said. 'Last time they went down this path, independent artists and small to medium companies were smashed.' Labor confirmed the $18m it had pledged to the Jewish Arts Quarter would be funded separately from the Creative Australia budget. The Greens' arts spokesperson, Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, condemned what amounted to a 10.65% cut to Creative Australia's 2025-26 funding. 'It is an absolute disgrace that the Liberals' only plan for the arts is a big cut to funding,' she said. 'The arts contribute $112bn to our economy and our artists and workers in the creative industries deserve better. 'We know from the last time that they were in government the Liberals will cut arts funding and attack artistic freedom.' A spokesperson for Creative Australia said on Thursday its CEO did not comment on election commitments.
The Guardian
01-05-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
Australians' support for nuclear power ban rises despite Dutton's best efforts to sell atomic future, survey finds
Support for Australia's ongoing ban on nuclear energy has risen sharply since Peter Dutton made the issue a central plank of Coalition energy policy, according to the country's largest independent survey on climate change and energy. The survey also found fewer people thought any benefits of nuclear power outweighed the risks compared with the previous year. Even among people intending to vote Liberal, support for nuclear power was not overwhelming, with only 53% in favour of the party's intention to lift the national ban if elected. 'These results clearly show that for any political party, proposing nuclear as a solution to Australia's energy challenges is a very difficult task,' said AssocProf Kerrie Foxwell-Norton of Griffith University. Foxwell-Norton said the survey showed 'the logic of investment and risk in nuclear power is not passing most Australians' pub tests'. The National Climate Action Survey, in its fourth year, is carried out by Griffith University and Monash University. The annual survey will be released in full in September and includes both new respondents and individuals whose views are tracked over time. About new 2,500 respondents were surveyed in the last quarter of 2023 and again in 2024. The Guardian has previously reported other results from the survey, which showed Australians view solar and wind power more favourably than nuclear. In 2023, the survey showed 51% of people supported Australia's ban on nuclear energy. But in 2024 that rose to 59%. That increase in support coincided with Dutton's campaign to end the national ban on nuclear energy and build reactors at seven sites around the country. Sign up for the Afternoon Update: Election 2025 email newsletter More than a third of people intending to vote for the Liberal party had either an unfavourable view on nuclear electricity or no view at all, the survey found. 'That's a lot of supporters who are not backing [the Liberal party's] central energy policy,' said Foxwell-Norton. Sign up to Down to Earth The planet's most important stories. Get all the week's environment news - the good, the bad and the essential after newsletter promotion A majority of Nationals voters (54%) supported keeping the national nuclear energy ban. Only 18% of Labor voters opposed maintaining the ban. When asked if they held any concerns about personally living within 50km of a proposed nuclear plant, 28% of Liberal voters said they were 'extremely concerned' while 9% had no concerns at all. Elsewhere in the survey, 81% of people supported assisting coal communities in the transition away from fossil fuels, and 84% would back financial incentives for rural landowners to host clean energy. Foxwell-Norton said: 'The oft cited divide between urban centre and regional and rural areas where these coalmines are located is politically expedient, wedge politics. It is politics that overlooks Australians and their relationship between places. 'Regional voters are more supportive of climate action because it is literally their everyday experience.'
