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Sky News AU
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Sky News AU
Jelena Dokic stuns in bold new look at real estate industry event after being snapped with mystery man
Tennis star Jelena Dokic has showed off her new corporate style weeks after being snapped cosying up to a mystery man at Melbourne Airport. In vision obtained by Dokic was seen warmly embracing the unknown man at the airport arrivals hall earlier this month. Dokic, 42, is currently back in front of the cameras as part of Channel 9's sports team covering the French Open. The retired tennis great is also as busy as ever with public engagements, including a quarterly awards ceremony for real estate firm Kay & Burton on Tuesday in Melbourne. Photos from the event shared by attendees in the real estate industry revealed Dokic's striking new figure after her recent weight loss journey. Dokic looked stylish in a sharp grey suit at the event and took to the stage to deliver a speech to attendees on her life and career. The Aussie tennis star was just 16-years-old when she advanced to the semi-final at Wimbledon in 2000 and reached a peak of World No. 4 in 2002. In 2009, Dokic enjoyed an unforgettable run at the Australian Open after entering the draw as a wildcard and ultimately advancing all the way to the quarter finals. She retired in 2014 and turned to commentating tennis. In a December 2023 interview, Jelena said she had been estranged from her father and former coach for more than 10 years, and claimed he had never apologised for his alleged verbal, emotional and physical abuse. Dokic's corporate gig comes weeks after the shock death of her father, who Jelena accused of physical, emotional and financial abuse in her memoir Unbreakable. "My father passed away in the late hours on 16.05.2025," Jelena wrote on Instagram last week. "As you know my relationship with my father has been difficult and painful with a lot of history. "Despite everything and no matter how hard, difficult and in the last 10 years even non existent our relationship and communication was, it is never easy losing a parent and a father even one you are estranged from. "The loss of an estranged parent comes with a difficult and complicated grief."
Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Australia's Dexus takes APAC to court over Melbourne Airport stake dispute
(Reuters) - Australia's Dexus said on Thursday it filed a case against the board of Australia Pacific Airports Corporation (APAC) contesting a notice it received last week that alleged breach of confidentiality agreements related to its 27% stake in the Melbourne Airport. Dexus said the court hearing is scheduled for August 11-12. The dispute revolves around Dexus' appointment in 2024 by certain Dexus Bloc shareholders to manage the sale process of their stakes. The company may be forced to sell its stake in the Melbourne Airport if the allegations are upheld. Dexus holds its 27% stake through Dexus Bloc in APAC, the owner of Melbourne and Launceston airports, with Dexus serving as the manager. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Sky News AU
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Sky News AU
Jelena Dokic spotted with mystery man at Melbourne Airport after revealing plans to start a family
Retired tennis star Jelena Dokic has been spotted cosying up with a man at the Melbourne Airport arrivals hall just weeks after revealing plans to start a family. The 42-year-old looked visibly elated as she touched down at Melbourne Airport earlier this month and embraced a man seen eagerly awaiting her arrival inside the terminal. In footage obtained by Dokic runs her fingers along the side of the mystery man's torso before they walked out into the pickup zone of the airport. Dokic split from her previous partner, Brazilian-born Tin Bukic, in late 2022 after an almost two-decade long relationship. The retired tennis star recently sat down on the Mental As Anyone podcast where she opened up about how the demise of her relationship jeopardised her plans to start a family. 'I was in a relationship for almost 19 years from the age of 20 and right when we split up, we were about to start trying for a family,' she said. 'I actually think I would be a good mum to be honest, I love kids.' The former Wimbledon semi-finalist was born in 1983 in the former communist state Yugoslavia before resettling in Serbia and then arriving in Australia as a refugee in 1994. Dokic revealed that she was now planning to start a family as a 'single parent' and was open to exploring adoption. 'It is something I would like to do because I love kids,' she said. 'I didn't have the best experience (but) if I was let's say a single mum and adopted one day it would have all the love in the world.' The major update comes after Dokic revealed the harrowing family violence she suffered at the hands of her father and coach Damir Dokic in her memoir Unbreakable. The Aussie tennis star was just 16-years-old when she advanced to the semi-final at Wimbledon in 2000 and reached a peak of World No. 4 in 2002. In 2009, Dokic enjoyed an unforgettable run at the Australian Open after entering the draw as a wildcard and ultimately advancing all the way to the quarter finals. She retired in 2014 and turned to commentating tennis. In a December 2023 interview, Jelena said she has been estranged from her father for more than 10 years, and claimed he has never apologised for his alleged verbal, emotional and physical abuse.
Sky News AU
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Sky News AU
Jelena Dokic spotted at Melbourne Airport with mystery man
Former Australian tennis player Jelena Dokic has been spotted with a mystery man at Melbourne Airport.
The Guardian
20-05-2025
- Health
- The Guardian
Victoria state budget 2025 winners and losers: families, health and public transport benefit as net debt climbs
The Victorian budget, in the words of the treasurer, Jaclyn Symes, was all about 'what matters most': big spending on free trains, trams and buses for 'every kid, everywhere'; billions more for hospitals; and a $5bn 'public transport blitz'. Here are the winners and losers. Families with school kids (and their grandparents) If you're Victorian and under 18, then from 2026 a new $5 youth Myki card will be your ticket to ride public transport – for free. In the 2025-26 budget there's $318m over four years so that every kid in Victoria – more than 1 million of them, the government says – will no longer have to pay when they catch a bus, tram or train. The policy will save parents up to $755 per kid in annual public travel costs. And the free travel will be for kids from all families, not just those on lower incomes. (There's also free public transport on the weekend for seniors.) There's $400 for eligible kids to help pay for camps, sports and excursion, an increase from the previous $154 for primary school kids, and $256 for high school students. There are more than 65,000 Get Active Kids vouchers for concession card holders. There's an extra $1.5bn to expand existing schools and build new ones. Lower income Victorian households will also get $100 towards off their energy bills. Health The Allan government has committed an extra $11.1bn to health, including $9.3bn boost for hospital funding. There's $634m to open and 'operationalise' nine new or upgraded hospitals right across Victoria, including opening the Footscray hospital and community hospitals Craigieburn, Cranbourne and Phillip Island. Included in the total additional funding, there's $84m for paramedics, and $58m to help emergency departments see patients sooner. A trial plan allowing pharmacists to offer a wider range of service – such as the resupply of contraceptive pills and treatment of urinary tract infections without the need for a doctor's script – will be made permanent and expanded. Pharmacists will now be able to prescribe medicines for other ailments, including allergies and high blood pressure. Commuters There's an almost $5bn public transport blitz, including $727m to 'switch on' Melbourne's Metro Tunnel, which is due to open by the end of the year. The budget also includes $98.7m to boost service frequency across seven metropolitan and regional train lines. But the big spending item is the $4.1bn to begin major works at Sunshine station, which the Melbourne Airport rail line will eventually travel through. There's also nearly $1bn in a 'better road blitz' to fix potholes and surfaces in 2025-26 alone. Businesses After being slugged with taxes, the treasurer made a point of saying their would be no new imposts on businesses, who have complained that they are copping the brunt of budget repair. This budget is distinctly more corporate sector friendly, with hundreds of millions of dollars over four years to 'help new businesses find new opportunities to expand and attract investment'. That includes mentoring and services to boost the capacity of small businesses and exporters. There's a $150m Victorian Investment Fund, a third of which will be dedicated to the regions, and $4m to help boost the capacity and skills of entrepreneurs. The budget also includes $240m to fund the government's economic growth statement, which includes measures to cut red tape and ease the regulatory burden on firms, and help train up workers. The public service The treasurer, Jaclyn Symes, announced the budget assumes 1,200 fewer full-time public servants, with the potential for that number to push towards 3,000 people once the government's review of the bureaucracy is completed by 30 June. Symes said that doesn't necessarily involve thousands of redundancies, as departments have already been trimming head counts by not replacing workers as they go. The job reductions are not supposed to come from frontline services. Would-be homeowners The premier, Jacinta Allan, in October said she would be the leader 'who got millennials into homes'. But there's no new, grand vision in this budget to address one of the country's major intergenerational issues – unaffordable housing. That's not to say there's nothing: there's an extra $249m – in partnership with the commonwealth – to pay for the infrastructure, like roads, sewerage and water, that the government says will facilitate an extra 4000 homes over four years. The stamp duty concession for off-the-plan homes will be extended to October 2026, and eligibility will be expanded beyond first home buyers and owner occupiers in a move aimed to boosting construction of new properties. Still, the 800,000 new homes by 2034 target does not look meaningfully closer. Budget boffins The country's self-appointed guardians of fiscal rectitude will find little to love in Victoria's 2025-26 budget, as the new treasurer pushed back fiscal repair to the never-never. Despite achieving the first 'operating surplus' since the Covid lockdowns – a skinny $600m in 2025-26. But after accounting for infrastructure spending, the cash bottomline is $12.2bn in the red in the next financial year, with deficits as far as the eye can see. The 'tough and difficult' fiscal measures under previous treasurer Tim Pallas have transformed into a big spending budget. The extra nearly $3bn in GST and commonwealth grants since the December budget update has been more than spent. The government says it will keep net debt as a share of the Victorian government from going beyond its 25% target, and that's what the forecasts show. But lowering the burden is a job that has surely been pushed beyond the next election, due in November 2026. Meanwhile, actual net debt levels continue to climb, at a faster pace than predicted in December, from an estimated $155.5bn by the middle of this year, to $194bn by June 2029.
