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USA Today
2 days ago
- Sport
- USA Today
Auburn All-American Johni Broome ramping up workouts ahead of NBA draft
Auburn All-American Johni Broome ramping up workouts ahead of NBA draft Auburn senior Johni Broome is beginning to hit the workout circuit after visiting two playoff teams this week, with less than four weeks to go until the 2025 NBA draft. Broome was a consensus first-team All-American, averaging 18.6 points, 10.8 rebounds, 2.9 assists and 2.1 blocks on 51% shooting from the field this past season. He joined Charles Barkley (1984) and Chris Porter (1999) as the only Tigers players to win SEC Player of the Year. The 6-foot-10 forward had his first predraft workout on Wednesday with the LA Clippers. He was then among the prospects who visited the Detroit Pistons on Friday. Broome leaves Auburn as the only player in history to tally at least 2,500 points, 1,500 rebounds and 400 blocked shots in a career. He set single-season program records for rebounds (389) and double-doubles (21) as a fifth-year senior. The 22-year-old is considered a potential late first-round pick at this stage of the predraft process. He established himself as one of the most dominant big men in the country, with his ability in the post, rebounding and toughness on a nightly basis. Broome will have the opportunity to improve his stock in team workouts and interviews up until the draft on June 25-26. He'll likely visit at least 8-12 teams in total, giving him plenty of chances to make a name for himself against his peers.
Daily Mail
3 days ago
- Climate
- Daily Mail
Stunning photos capture the rare moment water cascades down the sides of Uluru as mega rain bomb strikes Australia
Stunning footage has captured the moment Uluru became a waterfall after rain produced cascades down Australia's sacred rock. The sides of the iconic rock were temporarily transformed into a stunning water feature as the typically harsh desert sun vanished behind a rain band, part of a cloud system stretching the entire length of Australia. The Outback has already seen massive flooding this year with temporary inland seas isolating townships from the rest of the country. Satellite images show the new cloud band stretching 3,600km from WA's Kimberley region, across central Australia and to the Queensland and NSW border. The weather system has already dumped record-breaking rainfall over some WA and NT regions with more than 100mm falling in areas that usually see less than 20mm throughout May. In the NT, records were also broken with Tindal receiving 179.8mm - the average May daily rainfall is 2mm - and Rabbit Flat 77.6mm. Alice Springs was also soaked with 40.4mm, which is the heaviest May rainfall daily total since 1993. Broome this week received 100.6mm of rain in 24 hours - the heaviest May daily rainfall in 20 years - while nearby Kalumburu was drenched with 111.6mm and Wyndham with 54.8mm, which were both new May records. NSW is still reeling from devastating floods that hit coastal communities last week, with the latest downpours fortunately focused on Queensland, the NT and WA. 'Cloudy, cool and wet describes the weather for a lot of areas along the east coast (on Friday),' the BOM's Angus Hines told News. Recent heavy rain has turned Uluru's rock formations into cascading waterfalls Mutitjulu waterhole at Uluru turned into a picturesque waterfall on Sunday after a drenching at Australia's typically arid red centre 'Most of the rain will be between Bundaberg and Townsville, we could actually see some moderate falls around the likes of Mackay and Rockhampton, and it will be pretty wet there through most of the day. He said the West Coast is also expected to see some wet weather, with storms south of Geraldton. 'When it comes to rain though, there is something a bit more significant to talk about here, and this is bands of showers and storms moving onto the west coast,' Mr Hines said. '(It) really could affect anyone from the Pilbara, right down through the central west, through Perth and down to the very far south west.' An image showing accumulated rainfall from Wednesday to Friday across Australia Sydney Friday: Min 11 Max 20 Mostly sunny. Chance of any rain: 20 per cent. Saturday: Min 12 Max 20 Mostly sunny. Chance of any rain: 20 per cent. Sunday: Min 10 Max 20 Mostly sunny. Chance of any rain: 10 per cent. Brisbane Friday: Min 15 Max 21 Shower or two. Possible rainfall: 0 to 6 mm. Chance of any rain: 70 per cent. Saturday: Min 15 Max 22 Rain. Possible rainfall: 1 to 15 mm. Chance of any rain: 80 per cent. Sunday: Min 15 Max 24 Possible shower. Possible rainfall: 0 to 1 mm. Chance of any rain: 40 per cent. Locals in Port Macquarie are seen delivering food to isolated residents last week Australia's red centre has already seen flooding this year with more expected ( Thargomindah in outback Queensland is pictured in March) Melbourne Friday: Min 10 Max 16 Shower or two. Possible rainfall: 0 to 1 mm. Chance of any rain: 50 per cent. Saturday: Min 9 Max 16 Cloudy. Possible rainfall: 0 to 1 mm. Chance of any rain: 30 per cent. Sunday: Min 6 Max 17 Partly cloudy. Chance of any rain: 10 per cent. Adelaide Friday: Min 9 Max 18 Cloud clearing. Chance of any rain: 10 per cent. Saturday: Min 6 Max 19 Partly cloudy. Chance of any rain: 10 per cent. Sunday: Min 8 Max 20 Mostly sunny. Chance of any rain: 10 per cent. Perth Friday: Min 13 Max 23 Showers. Storm. Possible rainfall: 6 to 20 mm. Chance of any rain: 95 per cent. Saturday: Min 14 Max 22 Showers. Possible rainfall: 2 to 9 mm. Chance of any rain: 90 per cent. Sunday: Min 12 Max 22 Shower or two. Possible rainfall: 0 to 2 mm. Chance of any rain: 50 per cent. A cloud band stretching the length of Australia (pictured) is dumping record-breaking rain in areas which usually only receive 2mm in a month NSW is still reeling from floods which smashed costal communities last week Canberra Friday: Min -1 Max 18 Morning frost. Mostly sunny. Chance of any rain: 10 per cent. Saturday: Min 2 Max 17 Cloud clearing. Chance of any rain: 10 per cent. Sunday: Min 0 Max 17 Morning frost. Partly cloudy. Chance of any rain: 10 per cent. Hobart Friday: Min 8 Max 15 Partly cloudy. Chance of any rain: 10 per cent. Saturday: Min 7 Max 15 Cloudy. Chance of any rain: 20 per cent. Sunday: Min 6 Max 16 Partly cloudy. Chance of any rain: 10 per cent. Darwin Friday: Min 22 Max 31 Mostly sunny. Chance of any rain: 5 per cent. Saturday: Min 22 Max 31 Mostly sunny. Chance of any rain: 5 per cent. Sunday: Min 22 Max 31 Sunny. Chance of any rain: 5 per cent.
ABC News
3 days ago
- Business
- ABC News
Record-breaking rainfall marks surprise start to Kimberley dry season
Record-breaking unseasonal rainfall in Western Australia's far north has put travel and business plans on hold, leaving some tourists stranded at campsites. A surface trough which had been sitting over the north-east Indian Ocean generated a rain and cloud band across north-west WA earlier this week. It led to parts of the Kimberley receiving more than 100mm of rain, with temperatures falling up to eight degrees lower than the usual averages for May. Some roads, including the Gibb River Road between Mount Barnett and Kalumburu Road, remain closed. Meteorologist with the Bureau of Meterology, Helen Reid, said the dry season rainfall was unusual. Broome Airport recorded 92mm of rain between Sunday and Monday and Kalumburu recorded 117mm. Ms Reid said the recent downfall had broken records for highest daily rainfall totals for the month, with 55mm in Wyndham the highest in more than 50 years. "Argyle has had one as well after 41 years of records there, Nicholson we've got 100 years of records there and they've also got their 62mm as the highest through there," she said. Ms Reid said the cloud band was weakening and there was not much rainfall expected across the northern parts of WA from Thursday. Annie Schofield and her son Sam Younis have been waiting in Purnululu National Park, with access in and out of the park closed due to the rain. The pair were doing an overnight hike when they decided to return to the campground due to forecasted rain. "The thunder was rolling in the morning before too, so I said, 'Sam, I'm not staying here with wet stuff. We've gotta get out of here,'" Ms Schofield said. Mr Younis said they got hit by a "big downpour of rain" halfway back on the 10-kilometre walk to the campground. "We walked back wet in the dark," he said. The pair said they were grateful to staff who provided them with an equipped donga to wait in until roads dried and reopened. Ms Schofield said it was a wonderful experience despite the rainfall impacting their plans to travel to El Questro. Naomi Hayes, who is travelling the Gibb River Road with her family, said while the rain had impacted some of their plans, it had not dampened their spirits. "Honestly we feel pretty lucky," she said. "We've got an awesome camp spot to ride it out and it's all part of the Gibb River Road experience. "We've been enjoying the lightning shows, spotting birds, listening to dingoes howl at night, safely checking the river for any crocs and chatting with fellow travellers. Some businesses across the Kimberley have suspended operations due to road closures. Broome Bird Observatory warden Jamie Van Jones said while access was closed, staff were on-site until the road dried. Stuart Kempton from DSS Transport in Derby said the downpour had caused some headaches for businesses. "People desperately need fuel and chiller freezer services out to their destinations (as) tourists are starting to come and stations are starting to get their mustering season underway," he said. "We have to work out how best we can get the goods to the people. "It will certainly be planes and helicopters utilised I imagine, especially this week with fresh goods."
The Guardian
4 days ago
- General
- The Guardian
‘Genocide': Patrick Dodson condemns Australia's Aboriginal youth incarceration rates
Former Labor senator Patrick Dodson has condemned the country's Aboriginal youth incarceration rates and child removals as an ongoing genocide against First Peoples and an 'embarrassing sore' on the nation. 'It's an assault on the Aboriginal people. I don't say that lightly [but] if you want to eradicate a people from the landscape, you start taking them away, you start destroying the landscape of their cultural heritage, you attack their children or remove their children,' Dodson said. 'This is a way to get rid of a people.' Dodson said there was no other word for it than genocide. 'It's to destroy any semblance of any representation, manifestation in our nation that there's a unique people in this country who are called the First Peoples,' he said. Sign up for Guardian Australia's breaking news email Indigenous families are over-represented in child-removal statistics. In 2024, more than 44% of all children in out of home care were Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. In Dodson's home state of Western Australia, Aboriginal children make up more than 60% of all children in care. First Nations children are also 27 times more likely to be in detention than non-Indigenous children and young people. The Yawuru elder, whose traditional country centres around Broome, spoke to Guardian Australia before the release of his Reconciliation Memoirs, an annual event held by Reconciliation Australia in which they produce the memoirs of a longstanding champion of the reconciliation movement. Often referred to as the 'father of reconciliation', Dodson has tracked these worsening statistics in his decades in public life. He served as a commissioner on the 1989 royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody, as chair of both the Central Land Council and the Kimberley Land Council, and as co-chair of the parliamentary inquiry into constitutional recognition, before being nominated for the senate in 2016. He retired from politics last year due to ill health, but has not given up the campaign, calling on prime minister Anthony Albanese to use his overwhelming victory in the federal election this month to press ahead with a national truth telling commission and a treaty process, despite the failure of the voice referendum in 2023. Those three priorities – a voice to parliament, national truth-telling, and a Makaratta commission to oversea treaty-making – were outlined in the Uluru Statement from the Heart in 2017. Albanese has previously said he endorses the principles of truth-telling and treaty-making but stopped short of committing to establishing a commission. Dodson said now is the time to revisit the issue – and stressed that doing so would not undermine the referendum result. 'He's got time. It's time for us to take stock,' he said. Sign up to Breaking News Australia Get the most important news as it breaks after newsletter promotion 'There are two other destinations. They can all be pursued by way of legislation, but that requires commitment and will not only of the government but of the people.' He said a national truth-telling process would allow the nation to move away from culture wars and grapple with the history of the land and its contested foundations. 'There's no hidden traps in the whole thing,' he said. 'It's a facing up to an honest way to deal with the First Peoples of this nation, to deal with a contested history, with a view to trying to come to a common narrative about whom we are as Australians in this modern age.' Dodson's Reconciliation Memoirs, written in conjunction with journalist Victoria Laurie, detail his early life growing up in Broome and the loss of both his parents in childhood, followed by his public life which began in the priesthood. It also tackles his disappointment at being unable to take on a greater role in the referendum campaign due to treatment for cancer. The memoirs series has previously featured former senator Fred Cheney, Noongar writer and songwriter Dr Richard Walley, and former head of Reconciliation WA, Carol Innes. Dodson said that the process of examining his long legacy in public life allowed him to reflect on the unfinished business of reconciliation, in a country that is yet to reckon with the legacy of colonisation and dispossession, and yet to afford First Nations people an equitable seat at the table. 'It's a great country, but it's just that the First Peoples are not enjoying a lot of the greatness,' Dodson. 'We should pick up and resolve these issues that are a blight on us as a nation. Our relationship with the First Peoples has not been settled, has not been agreed to between First Peoples and the nation and we've got to do that.'
ABC News
5 days ago
- Business
- ABC News
Spike in 'sophisticated' social media scams targeting would-be renters in WA
When Lorenzo Pietribiasi moved to Broome from Italy, he bounced around living with friends and in staff accommodation before braving the rental market. He spent over a month trying to find a rental but said part of the problem was scammers on social media. "It's frustrating … you have to work or do other stuff, and you're trying to sort out where you're going to sleep for the next month," Mr Pietribiasi said. Mr Pietribiasi said he was contacted by four separate scammers while trying to secure a property in the northern WA town. "I did the normal procedure like everyone does — I went on Facebook and in all the groups started posting that I'm looking for a place," he said. "But no real people were contacting me, it was mainly scams." Mr Pietribiasi said he would receive direct messages on Facebook asking him to disclose personal information before letting him view the property. When he pushed back, they either went silent or gave "more excuses". In other instances, "scam links" were left in comments under his posts. The ABC spoke with the facilitator of a Broome rental page, who said they used certain technology to automatically block scam posts and comments on prospective tenants' profiles. On some rental group pages, there are upwards of 10 third-party link comments underneath posts. The Real Estate Institute of WA's latest quarterly report showed average weekly rents in Broome had reached $1,000 per week, representing an 11.1 per cent increase in three months. Rental scamming is "exacerbated" in regional areas like Broome, according to lawyer Alice Pennycott from Making Renting Fair WA. Ms Pennycott said people locked out of finding a rental through "traditional" means like a realtor often turned to online platforms, which were unregulated and "more rogue". "New ways of scamming people have emerged … they [scams] can look quite sophisticated now. It can be hard to tell that it isn't legit," she said. "It's alarming seeing people unable to access properties through … more traditional means." Ms Pennycott said prospective renters were made vulnerable by a "power imbalance between tenants and landlords". "People are often asked to give a lot of personal and confidential information to apply for a rental property, like bank statements and details of employment," she said. Make Renting Fair WA has called for tighter regulation around tenancy applications so renters are protected regardless of what the market is doing. Source: Consumer Protection Kimberley-based Consumer Protection senior officer Ange Inns said the agency was trying to arm people with knowledge to help them avoid scams. She said there had been an increase in rental scams, and the current market made it especially hard for people under financial pressure, who urgently needed a home. "They're posting fake photos and making the property look great, and the rental price is often too good to be true — so these are red flags." Prospective tenants should view the property before providing identification documents or transferring bank funds, according to Ms Inns. Consumer Protection encouraged anyone who may have encountered a rental scam to report it immediately to help the state agency track fraudulent activity and prevent others from falling victim.
