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ABC News
21-05-2025
- General
- ABC News
Commuters demand more information on train timetable
ABC Reporter Julia Andre says delays and lack of up-to-date information are frustrating people at Central Station.
Yahoo
07-04-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Measles alert hits tourism hotspots
A person infected with measles has travelled around popular Gold Coast, Brisbane and Sunshine Coast tourism spots, as health authorities warn people in those areas to watch for symptoms. The person arrived from overseas, the Queensland government says, as outbreaks of the disease run rampant across the globe. The patient visited restaurants, shops, train stations and hostels in the major southeast Queensland city areas from April 2 to April 4. NSW, Victoria and WA have recorded more measles cases so far this year than in 2024, as southern and South East Asia in particular experience widescale outbreaks. But so far, Queensland has avoided a notable number of cases. Metro North Public Health physician Alexandra Uren said anyone who visited the same locations as the infected person needs to monitor themselves for symptoms, for 18 days. The infected person visited: Gold Coast Yo-chi, 11/3240 Surfers Paradise Blvd, Surfers Paradise on Wednesday April 2, between 10:15am and 11am Cotton On, 27 Cahill Ave, Surfers Paradise on Wednesday April 2, between 11am and 12:30pm Ghanda Clothing, 25 Cahill Ave Surfers Paradise on Wednesday April 2 between 11am and 12:30pm Holey Moley Mini Golf – Circle on Cavill, Surfers Paradise Blvd, Surfers Paradise on Wednesday April 2, between 2:15pm and 3:45pm Bunk Hostel, 6 Beach Rd Surfers Paradise, all day Wednesday April 2 and until 10am on Thursday April 3 Goldies, 3128 Surfers Paradise Blvd, Surfers Paradise on Wednesday April 2 between 6:45pm and 8pm. Brisbane Bunk Hostel, 21 Gipps St, Fortitude Valley on Thursday April 3 and until 7am on Friday April 4 Brooki Bakehouse, 15 Marshall Street, Fortitude Valley on Thursday April 3 between 12pm and 12:30pm Sushi Hub, 136 Queen Street Brisbane on Thursday April 3 between 1:30pm and 2pm Cotton On, Queen Adelaide Building 90/90 Queen Street, Brisbane on Thursday April 3 between 2pm and 3:10pm Central Station Brisbane on Friday April 4 between 6:45am and 7:30am Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Emergency Department waiting room on Friday April 4 between 7:45pm and 11:00pm. Sunshine Coast Nambour train from Central Station Brisbane to Beerwah Station, on Friday April 4, leaving 7:07am and arriving at 8:27am Springfield train from Beerwah Station to Central Station Brisbane on Friday April 4, leaving 5:03pm and arriving 6:26pm Australia Zoo on Friday April 4, between 8:30am and 5pm. Early measles symptoms include a fever, tiredness, cough, runny nose, and red, inflamed eyes. Those symptoms then progress to a blotchy red rash. Measles is a highly contagious, serious airborne disease caused by a virus that can lead to pneumonia, blindness, brain swelling and brain damage, lung and ear infections and severe diarrhoea, and death. Vaccination is the best preventive measure, and the vaccines are free in Australia. The Covid-19 pandemic seriously hampered measles vaccination and surveillance in countries around the world, leading to a spike in cases. Children under the age of five are at a higher risk of developing complications after contracting measles.
Gulf Today
03-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Gulf Today
‘I'm Still Here' wins best international film Oscar
"I'm Still Here,' a film about a family torn apart by the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil for more than two decades, gave Brazil its first Oscar win on Sunday in the international film category. The Walter Salles film stars Fernanda Torres as Eunice Paiva, the wife of Rubens Paiva, a former leftist Brazilian congressman who, at the height of the country's military dictatorship in 1971, was taken from his family's Rio de Janeiro home and never returned. Salles paid homage to Eunice's bravery, and Torres for portraying her along with Fernanda Montenegro, the daughter of one of the country's greatest stars. She appears late in the film as the older Eunice. "This goes to a woman who after a loss suffered during an authoritarian regime decided not to bend and resist. This prize goes to her," Salles said during his acceptance speech, as the audience gave a standing ovation. "And it goes to the two extraordinary women who gave life to her.' "Today is the day to feel even prouder of being Brazilian,' Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wrote on X, "Pride for our cinema, for our artists and, primarily, pride for our democracy.' At the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, where Carnival parades are underway, the announcer shared the results with the tens of thousands of spectators in the crowd, eliciting shouts of joy. "Let's celebrate!' the announcer said. "Congratulations, Walter Salles! Congratulations, Fernanda Torres! Congratulations, Brazil! The Oscar is ours!' The focus of "I'm Still Here,' based on the memoir by Paiva's son Marcelo, is Eunice, the mother of five left to remake their family's life with neither her husband nor any answers for his disappearance. It unfolds as a portrait of a different kind of political resistance - one of steadfast endurance. Salles believed the film resonated with audiences who might not be familiar with the dictatorship in Brazil, because of the storyline's ability to overcome loss and the strength to fight injustice. "This woman had the possibility to bend or to embrace life, and did embrace life,' Salles said backstage. "At the end of the day, it's a film about that: The hope that embracing life allows you to have. Maybe that's a way into the film. Another way to understand this is that democracy is becoming so fragile everywhere around the world." Eunice refuses the military dictatorship's attempt to break her and her family. When, in one scene, Eunice and her children - by then long without their disappeared father - pose for a newspaper photograph, she tells them to smile. "The smile is a kind of resistance,' Torres told The Associated Press. "It's not that they're living happily. It's a tragedy. Marcelo recently said something that Eunice said that I had never heard: 'We are not a victim. The victim is the country.'' "I'm Still Here" is a deeply Brazilian story, made by one of the country's most acclaimed directors (Salles' films include "Central Station' and "Motorcycle Diaries') and Montenegro. Also nominated for best international film were Denmark's "The Girl with the Needle,' Germany's "The Seed of the Sacred Fig,' Latvia's "Flow' and France's "Emilia Pérez,' a onetime Oscars favorite marred by controversy.
Reuters
03-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Reuters
'I'm Still Here' makes history as first Brazilian film to win best international feature
SAO PAULO, March 2 (Reuters) - Brazilian movie " I Am Still Here", set against the backdrop of the military dictatorship and recounting the true story of a mother of five whose husband disappears, made history on Sunday by earning Brazil its first Oscar in a main category. In his acceptance speech, director Walter Salles dedicated the award to a woman who decided "not to bend and to resist." "This goes to her, Eunice Paiva, and it goes to the two extraordinary women who gave life to her, Fernanda Torres and Fernanda Montenegro," he said. Adapted from the poignant 2015 memoir written by Marcelo Rubens Paiva, the son of main character Eunice Paiva, "I Am Still Here" shares family's heart-wrenching story of loss and resilience in the face of oppression. The Paiva family was among the many victims of the military regime in Brazil, which lasted for 21 years and was established following a coup d'etat by the armed forces in 1964. During this period, thousands of people were detained, tortured, and hundreds forcibly disappeared, with many being exiled and persecuted. The last Brazilian film to be nominated by the Academy in the international category was "Central Station" in 1999, also directed by Salles. In 1960, France, Italy, Brazil co-production "Black Orpheus", with a predominantly Brazilian cast and French direction won the international category, but the recipient of the prize was France. The Oscars ceremony coincided with Brazil's Carnival, and as the news of the win spread, the streets erupted in joy. Thousands of revelers, many of whom were holding Oscar statuettes or dressed as Academy Awards nominee Fernanda Torres, celebrated with music, dance, and festivities.
Yahoo
03-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Brazil's 'I'm Still Here' wins best international film Oscar
LOS ANGELES, March 2 (Reuters) - Brazilian drama "I'm Still Here," about a matriarch whose husband is taken away by the military regime that ruled the country in the 1970s, won the Academy Award for best international feature film on Sunday. The film, which also earned nominations for best actress and best picture, tells the true story of Eunice Paiva's struggle to uncover the truth about her husband's forced disappearance in 1971. It was directed by Walter Salles, whose 1998 film "Central Station" was also nominated for best foreign film, as the category was then known. A number of Brazilian productions have been nominated in the international feature, directing and documentary categories, but none has won, although "Black Orpheus," a Brazilian co-production with France and Italy, won in 1959. The other nominees this year were France's "Emilia Perez," "The Seed of the Sacred Fig" from Germany, Latvian animated film "Flow," which also competed in the animated feature category, and Denmark's "The Girl with the Needle."
