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Yahoo
02-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
The story of Mighty Hoopla 2025, in 12 pictures – from Kesha to JADE to Ciara
Mighty Hoopla, one of the globe's most proudly queer and pop music-focused music festivals, lit up 's Brockwell Park once again last weekend (June 1–2). With 30,000 fans in attendance, the thankfully rain-free weekend featured a joyful mix of LGBTQ performers and supportive allies. There was also the usual balance of A-list names (one of last year's headliner was Nelly Furtado) and throwback cult favourites. (Daphne & Celeste were a coup!) Here's Attitude's round-up of the weekend, starting with Saturday's best moments… We're actually beyond bringing up that previous infamous festival appearance of theirs now. Respect to them! By the way, we highly recommend the following underrated gems from her discography: 'Beware of the Dog' and 'No More'. She later pulled off one of the shocks of the festival by bringing Craig David (of all people!) on-stage to sing 'Too Little, Too Late' with her. The 'Put the Needle On It' singer may not have mentored on Little Mix's series of The X Factor, but as fellow alumni of the show, the introduction felt like a full circle moment. The show is so far behind them now! Here's an excerpt from our review, which you can read in full here: 'Adele-level charisma, a JK Rowling call-out, club-ready visuals Charli XCX would approve of, and best of all, a truly powerhouse voice – Jade Thirlwall's set was an unignorable statement of star power, and possibly the most exciting moment Hoopla has ever seen.' The superstar also performed hits like 'Goodies', 'Oh' and 'Like a Boy'. Just as she did in her Attitude cover shoot last year. We approve! The star announced on stage that she's pregnant with her second child! Last week, the 'Foundations' singer : 'I love Hoopla. It's the best. I've played it twice. I think it's the perfect place to do it. I think it is for this audience. It's needed, that voice. There's a gap in talking about this in pop culture. Yes, it's heavy in subject matter, but it will also feel really joyous to perform it, I think, and be this really fun, empowered, fiery moment.' The pop icon is the latest in a string of high-profile names to headline the festival, following in the footsteps of Jessie Ware, Kelly Rowland, Chaka Khan and Cheryl. As well as old hits 'Tik Tok' and 'Your Love Is My Drug', the star performed recent material like 'BOY CRAZY' and 'JOYRIDE.' The post The story of Mighty Hoopla 2025, in 12 pictures – from Kesha to JADE to Ciara appeared first on Attitude.
SBS Australia
10-05-2025
- Politics
- SBS Australia
'Stop killing us': Nationwide protests call for action on gendered and sexual violence
No More: National Rally Against Violence events were held in Australian capital cities and regional towns on Saturday. Source: Getty / Lisa Maree Williams Tens of thousands of men, women and children have marched across Australian capital cities and regional towns calling for determined action to end gendered and sexual violence. The No More: National Rally Against Violence saw attendees gather in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra, Hobart and regional centres in between. Organiser Sarah Williams called for more funding, training, and law reform to combat violence. "We need to be able to stop it before it starts," she told a 2,000-strong crowd on the steps of Parliament House in Melbourne on Saturday. "We need more funding for primary prevention, more trauma-informed response training for police, increased crisis housing, bail law reform and uniform consent laws," she said. Similar rallies played out almost simultaneously in every state capital as well as several regional cities and towns. Hundreds met in Sydney's Hyde Park, while the regional centres of Newcastle and Wollongong saw a similar turnout, including the family and friends of Mackenzie Anderson, a young mother who was stabbed 78 times and brutally murdered by her former partner in 2022. Hundreds more rallied in Brisbane, carrying signs reading "We weren't asking for it" and "Weak laws cost lives". In the lead-up to the rallies, organisers urged more men to attend and take accountability for violence against women. "Men listen to men ... we need more male role models out there," Williams said. Consent and healthy relationship education should be expanded to more schools with additional funding, and community sporting clubs and major codes could also play a role in reaching different generations, she said. A total of 128 women have been killed since January 2024, according to the Australian Femicide Watch website. Its founder, Sherele Moody, read aloud the names of the women as images of their faces were laid before Melbourne's Parliament steps. "We're here because men keep killing us," she said. "Violence against women is primarily a male problem ... it's not a women's problem to solve but it's women who are the ones who do the work." Advocates say a government-run national domestic violence register is desperately needed to track the issue. Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Month, marked each May, is an opportunity to raise community awareness of the impacts of violence and the support available to those affected. The rallies also called for fully funded frontline domestic violence services, expanded crisis accommodation and increased funding for primary prevention programs. Mandatory trauma-informed training for all first responders should also be rolled out, organisers said. The re-elected Labor government previously promised to prevent domestic violence perpetrators from abusing the tax and superannuation systems. It has also pledged to invest more funding to stop high-risk perpetrators through electronic monitoring. But Moody said ministers and leaders needed to sit down with frontline services to figure out what works. "All the safety nets have holes in them, and the funding barely even hits the sides," she said. Williams also said the government should engage with a wider range of organisations and advocates in the sector. If you or someone you know is impacted by family and domestic violence, call 1800RESPECT on 1800 737 732, text 0458 737 732, or visit . In an emergency, call 000.
Herald Sun
10-05-2025
- Herald Sun
No More rally: Hundreds gather in Adelaide to protest violence against women
Don't miss out on the headlines from SA News. Followed categories will be added to My News. Eleven years ago, Stacey Nelan called the police to save her from a man she had once loved. 'I had broken up with him on so many occasions, asking him to leave my home. He wouldn't leave, and so on that final day when the situation escalated, I knew I needed to call the police to come and save me. There was no other option,' she said. Standing on the steps of Parliament House on Saturday, Ms Nelan joined hundreds of people who rallied for the end of domestic violence. One of seventeen Australia-wide over the weekend, the 'No More' rally – organised by non-for-profit What Were You Wearing – called for change including investments in primary prevention, trauma-informed training for first responders and reformed bail laws to prioritise victim-survivor safety. Ms Nelan, who stood and shared her story in front of the crowd, said she had spent three years with a man she never knew had prior convictions against him. 'I found out he had a different name to the one I had known him by,' she said. 'It turned out he had convictions against him for things he'd done to other women in other states, but because he'd changed his name legally, those convictions never followed him. 'That fear and terror is something that you cannot articulate. In the end he went to court and got a good behaviour bond.' She said that after she started advocating for victim-survivors, other women reached out to her letting her know they'd encountered her abuser on dating apps. 'He was a horrific bully who got his giggles out of what he did,' she said.* 'It took a long time to come to terms with the fact that the man I had loved and given my everything to could do the things that he did. Eleven years down the track, there has been change in many ways, but women are still being killed at greater rates. There's so much more we need to do to change the way we think. To understand that a sexist joke can end up with a dead woman.' On the bottom step below Parliament House, 31 hearts with the names of the 24 women and seven children killed by violence already this year lined the ground, but organisers said that number was already outdated. The 25th woman allegedly murdered in 2025, Talulah Koopman was found with critical stab wounds at a home in Elizabeth on Thursday evening. Minister for Women and the Prevention of Domestic Violence Katrine Hildyard said the state government was committed to making real change. 'The ongoing prevalence of horrific violence against women, the gender inequality, is absolutely unacceptable,' she said. 'We know we need to do more. Our Royal Commission will be with us in a matter of weeks and this provides us with a once in a generation opportunity to look at our system, and make sure that we get it right.' Originally published as Hundreds gather at No More violence rally in Adelaide, survivor Stacey Nelan shares her story
SBS Australia
10-05-2025
- Politics
- SBS Australia
Some photos from the rallies against gendered and sexual violence held across Australia
No More: National Rally Against Violence events were held in Australian capital cities and regional towns on Saturday. Source: Getty / Lisa Maree Williams Tens of thousands of men, women and children have marched across Australian capital cities and regional towns calling for determined action to end gendered and sexual violence. The No More: National Rally Against Violence saw attendees gather in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra, Hobart and regional centres in between. Organiser Sarah Williams called for more funding, training, and law reform to combat violence. "We need to be able to stop it before it starts," she told a 2,000-strong crowd on the steps of Parliament House in Melbourne on Saturday. "We need more funding for primary prevention, more trauma-informed response training for police, increased crisis housing, bail law reform and uniform consent laws," she said. Similar rallies played out almost simultaneously in every state capital as well as several regional cities and towns. Hundreds met in Sydney's Hyde Park, while the regional centres of Newcastle and Wollongong saw a similar turnout, including the family and friends of Mackenzie Anderson, a young mother who was stabbed 78 times and brutally murdered by her former partner in 2022. Hundreds more rallied in Brisbane, carrying signs reading "We weren't asking for it" and "Weak laws cost lives". In the lead-up to the rallies, organisers urged more men to attend and take accountability for violence against women. "Men listen to men ... we need more male role models out there," Williams said. Consent and healthy relationship education should be expanded to more schools with additional funding, and community sporting clubs and major codes could also play a role in reaching different generations, she said. A total of 128 women have been killed since January 2024, according to the Australian Femicide Watch website. Its founder, Sherele Moody, read aloud the names of the women as images of their faces were laid before Melbourne's Parliament steps. "We're here because men keep killing us," she said. "Violence against women is primarily a male problem ... it's not a women's problem to solve but it's women who are the ones who do the work." Advocates say a government-run national domestic violence register is desperately needed to track the issue. Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Month, marked each May, is an opportunity to raise community awareness of the impacts of violence and the support available to those affected. The rallies also called for fully funded frontline domestic violence services, expanded crisis accommodation and increased funding for primary prevention programs. Mandatory trauma-informed training for all first responders should also be rolled out, organisers said. The re-elected Labor government previously promised to prevent domestic violence perpetrators from abusing the tax and superannuation systems. It has also pledged to invest more funding to stop high-risk perpetrators through electronic monitoring. But Moody said ministers and leaders needed to sit down with frontline services to figure out what works. "All the safety nets have holes in them, and the funding barely even hits the sides," she said. Williams also said the government should engage with a wider range of organisations and advocates in the sector. If you or someone you know is impacted by family and domestic violence, call 1800RESPECT on 1800 737 732, text 0458 737 732, or visit . In an emergency, call 000.
Winnipeg Free Press
29-04-2025
- Politics
- Winnipeg Free Press
Here's how some prominent candidates performed in this federal election
OTTAWA – Voters across the country have cast ballots in a federal election that saw some tight races in many ridings. A large number of high-profile federal candidates are current and former politicians, or had prominent roles before they took the leap into federal politics. Here is how some of those candidates have fared in this election. David Myles, Fredericton—Oromocto A newcomer to politics, New Brunswick musician and Liberal candidate David Myles won the riding of Fredericton—Oromocto. Myles is a Juno Award-winning artist and is well-loved in New Brunswick. The riding was previously held by Jenica Atwin, who did not run in this election. Michelle Ferreri, Peterborough Conservative incumbent Michelle Ferreri was defeated in the Ontario riding of Peterborough, losing to Liberal Emma Harrison. Ferreri is the only incumbent who was opposed by a third-party group — called No More MP Ferreri — that registered specifically to campaign against her. Ferreri introduced Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre at a campaign event in Keene, Ont., on Sunday. Amarjeet Sohi, Edmonton Southeast Former Liberal cabinet minister Amarjeet Sohi was defeated in Edmonton Southeast by Conservative candidate Jagsharan Singh Mahal. In 2021, Sohi became Edmonton's first visible minority mayor. Nathalie Provost, Châteauguay—Les Jardins-de-Napierville Nathalie Provost won the new riding of Châteauguay—Les Jardins-de-Napierville. Provost is former spokesperson for the group PolySeSouvient and survivor of the École Polytechnique massacre. Aaron Gunn, North Island—Powell River Aaron Gunn has won the riding of North Island—Powell River. Gunn came under fire last month when he was accused by some First Nations leaders of denying the effects of residential schools. Poilievre said at the time that Gunn is aware of the impact those institutions had on families and communities and a Conservative government would move forward in the spirit of reconciliation. Leslie Church, Toronto—St. Paul's Liberal Leslie Church has won the riding of Toronto—St. Paul's. Church defeated Conservative Don Stewart less than a year after he was elected in an upset byelection win. That loss, in what is typically considered a safe seat for the Liberals, sent shockwaves through the party and pressure immediately began to mount on Trudeau to resign. Kamal Khera, Brampton West Kamal Khera has been defeated in the Ontario riding of Brampton West. Khera has been the MP for Brampton West since 2015 and joined cabinet in 2021. She was sworn in as health minister just before the election on March 14. Evan Solomon, Toronto Centre Former journalist Evan Solomon has won the riding of Toronto Centre. The riding was previously held by former Liberal minister Marci Ien, who won by about 12,000 votes in 2021. The riding has been held by the Liberals since 2015. Peter Yuen, Markham—Unionville Liberal candidate Peter Yuen was defeated in the riding of Markham—Unionville by Conservative candidate Michael Ma. Accused of being linked to pro-Beijing groups, Yuen replaced Paul Chiang, who stepped down as the federal party's candidate in the Ontario riding after he suggested to a media outlet that a political opponent could be turned over to Chinese officials for a bounty. Andrew Lawton, Elgin—St. Thomas—London South Right-wing media personality Andrew Lawton has won the riding of Elgin—St. Thomas—London South. Lawton, who has written a biography of Poilievre, defeated the Liberals in a new riding that largely replaces Elgin-Middlesex-London. During Elections Get campaign news, insight, analysis and commentary delivered to your inbox during Canada's 2025 election. Conservative Karen Vecchio opted not to run again and did not endorse Lawton. Ya'ara Saks, York Centre Former cabinet minister Ya'ara Saks has been defeated in the Toronto riding of York Centre. Conservative Roman Baber, who ran for the party leadership, is projected to win. This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 28, 2025
