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Herald Sun
23-05-2025
- Business
- Herald Sun
Melbourne renter eyes Burwood East units as five per cent deposit scheme offers fresh hope
Kathryn Whiteley has been renting in Melbourne's eastern suburbs for years, but says the thought of owning a home has never felt closer, or more urgent, than it does now. The aspiring artist and retail worker said rising rents and cost-of-living pressures had made her long for stability, and the federal government's updated 5 per cent deposit scheme might finally offer her a way in. 'I'm on a fixed lease and my landlords have been lovely, but it's still not sustainable long term,' Ms Whiteley said. RELATED: REIV CEO Kelly Ryan announces shock departure Melb family's bold plan for six-figure rate cut win Elite Shrublands mansion gets eye-watering price cut 'At some point, something has to give.' Paying $434 a week in rent in Nunawading, below the median for her area, she said she'd reached a point where she was craving more than just temporary shelter. 'It's the emotional toll,' she said. 'You're always thinking, 'Will I have to move again? Can I afford the next increase?' You can't put roots down.' Ms Whiteley said the expanded federal government scheme, which allows eligible buyers to enter the market with a 5 per cent deposit and no lenders mortgage insurance, had made the idea of ownership feel real for the first time. 'And honestly, it feels like now or never,' she said. 'As a single person with no second income to lean on, this might be the only window I get.' Ms Whiteley has her sights set on a two-bedroom unit in Burwood East, drawn by its affordability, public transport access and proximity to shopping hubs. 'I've already looked into Burwood East,' she said. 'It's close to everything — transport, Coles, even Chadstone and Knox. It just makes sense.' Mortgage repayments for the most affordable units in the area could be significantly lower than her current rent. 'That would literally change my life,' she said. 'It would give me breathing room, mentally and financially.' A creative at heart, the aspiring artist said having her own space would be transformative, not just financially but personally. 'I've had to scale back a lot of the things I love,' Ms Whiteley said. 'If I had a place of my own, I could start creating again. It would be life-giving.' Sign up to the Herald Sun Weekly Real Estate Update. Click here to get the latest Victorian property market news delivered direct to your inbox. MORE: How Melb home sold $1m+ above expectations Melbourne ex-home of apocalyptic cult The Family for sale Golden Triangle oasis hits sweet spot for commuters
ITV News
21-05-2025
- Politics
- ITV News
‘A feeling of deprivation and being left behind': The truth behind last summer's riots
On 29 July last year, three young girls were stabbed to death while attending a Taylor Swift dance class during the summer holidays. Bebe King, 6, Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, were killed by Axel Rudakubana, who has since been jailed for a minimum of 52 years. A day after the attack, riots broke out on the streets of Southport and within six days violence had spread to more than 30 towns and cities with more than 1,000 arrests in the weeks that followed. The protests were fuelled by false claims on social media that the perpetrator of the Southport attack was a Muslim and an asylum seeker. It triggered widespread disorder - including racist attacks and anti-immigration marches - leading many branding the protestors far right and racist. Now, a leading expert, who has analysed the outbreaks of violence, has revealed what he believes to be the true underlying cause of the disorder. Professor Paul Whiteley, who specialises in government and social science at the University of Essex, told ITV News: 'Our research shows fundamentally what's underneath this, is a feeling of deprivation that people have, a feeling of being left behind. 'Because it was very clear, from census data that we looked at, that the places where the serious violence occurred often had a lot of poverty, a lot of deprivation.' Despite finding that deprivation was a driving factor behind the unrest, he said that discontent didn't actually erupt in some of the poorest areas of the country. Professor Whiteley explained: 'Funnily enough, it wasn't the most poor constituencies that rioted but ones that are a little above poverty. 'If you're really poor it makes you apathetic - people don't vote, they don't get involved. 'You need to be a little bit more, have a greater sense of efficacy- a feeling that you can do things - and a little bit more money in the community for this to happen. 'Riots don't occur in really poor areas but in areas that have been downwardly mobile - losing jobs, losing places.' Professor Whiteley and his team said they looked at four possible hypotheses behind what might have triggered the disorder across the UK last year. They considered a correlation between increase in Reform voting, recent immigration, anti-muslim sentiment, and deprivation in areas where rioting had occurred. He added: 'And of those four possibilities, the one that really stood out was deprivation. 'People feeling deprived, ignored, no jobs, poor prospects, poverty, low wages etc, builds up to create a sense of anger which can spill over if it's triggered - it needs to be triggered - but it can spill over into riots. 'And the trigger was unfortunately provided by the terrible crime as we know and false information, fake news on the internet, that this was a recent immigrant - that triggered it too.' Asked if it was too simplistic to say what we saw last year was just racism, Professor Whiteley responded: 'Yes. There's a racist element, as the analysis showed. 'But there's a funny thing about immigration which is this: recent arrivals can cause problems in a community, but the evidence shows that if you track it for a long period 10 years, 15 years, people integrate. 'The racist dimension of having a lot of people come in from other cultures, other societies goes away, gradually goes away. 'But, if there's an influx for a short period - a year or two - that can cause problems. I think it was one of the triggers in the riots, but it wasn't the most important trigger.' Professor Whiteley said that taking to the streets to protest and riot was nothing new. 'It's a phenomenon - the Urban riot - that's been with us for centuries and at one stage it was very very common,' he said. 'Democracy and giving people a voice has made it much less likely to occur. But nonetheless if governments do things which people really don't like you will get riots. 'So the possibility of violence as a form of political participation still exists, it's got much less over time, but it still exists. Asked if we could see a repeat of last year's riots, he replied: 'A repeat is certainly possible. It's not inevitable, but it's certainly possible. '[Last year] they just got carried away and all the anger came out and it became really irrational in a way. 'But the underlying causes were deep-seated and certainly the trigger event then allowed the pressure cooker to blow for a period. 'The government handled it very well by cracking down on it because you had to do that immediately but then subsequently you've got a step in and try and deal with these issues.'
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders' Season 2 Sets June Netflix Premiere Date (EXCLUSIVE)
The high kicks are back! Season 2 of the hit series 'America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders' will premiere on Netflix June 18, giving NFL fans a unique glimpse into the lives of the 2024-25 Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders squad, Variety can exclusively reveal. More from Variety Advertisers Hungry for Super Bowl, NFL in Early TV Upfront Talks Netflix's Manga Adaptation 'Bet' Isn't Worth the Gamble: TV Review Ten Takes on the Making of Netflix's Epic Series 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' Following the series' first season, which captured the unfiltered lives of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders both on and off the field, Season 2 will follow the team from auditions all the way through NFL season. Emmy Award-winning Greg Whiteley ('Cheer,' 'Last Chance U') returns to direct. When Season 1 debuted last June, it launched onto Netflix's Top 10 worldwide chart with 2.3 million views within just four days on the platform. It remained in the Top 10 U.S. TV shows for five weeks straight with moments like the 'Thunderstruck'AC/DC number going viral on TikTok. In addition to Kelli Finglass (the Senior Director, DCC) and Judy Trammell (the Head Choreographer, DCC), cheerleader Reece Weaver will be among the returning cheerleaders. 'Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders' is executive produced by Whiteley and Adam Leibowitz for One Potato Productions, Andrew Fried and Dane Lillegard for Boardwalk Pictures and Ross M. Dinerstein and Rebecca Evans for Campfire Studios. Production companies include One Potato Productions and Boardwalk Pictures in association with Campfire Studios. During an interview with Variety last June, Whiteley discussed his hopes for Season 2. 'Our last two or three weeks of filming, we were just starting to hit our stride. I'd love to have more time to see if we can get deeper and deeper with more and more of the team,' Whiteley said. 'Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders' joins Netflix's continued relationship with the Dallas Cowboys, including the upcoming docuseries 'America's Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys,' which is set to release in August. Check out first look images below. Best of Variety New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week Emmy Predictions: Talk/Scripted Variety Series - The Variety Categories Are Still a Mess; Netflix, Dropout, and 'Hot Ones' Stir Up Buzz Oscars Predictions 2026: 'Sinners' Becomes Early Contender Ahead of Cannes Film Festival
Yahoo
08-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Liverpool can 'take confidence' from Chelsea loss
Liverpool can "take lots of confidence" from their narrow defeat by Chelsea in the Women's FA Cup semi-finals as they prepare to meet again on Saturday, says interim manager Amber Whiteley. It will mark the end of an up-and-down campaign for Liverpool, who sacked manager Matt Beard in February, and it is still unknown whether Whiteley will continue to lead the team beyond Saturday's game (12:30 BST kick-off). Under Whiteley, Liverpool knocked out Arsenal in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup before losing 2-1 to Chelsea in the semi-finals. England forward Aggie Beever-Jones scored a 94th-minute winner in that tie last month. "We take lots of confidence from that game. It was a really good performance and we had good momentum in the first half," said Whiteley. "It's an important game for us this weekend in terms of picking up points and trying to improve our league position. There's lots to play for. "I said the next time we came up against them I wanted to see improvements. I want to see how far we've progressed. We want to make it as difficult as we can. "It's not been the season we would have wanted but there's still a lot of positives to take from it. The response in the last few months has been brilliant." Liverpool will be without injured forward Leanne Kiernan and defender Lucy Parry for the trip to Stamford Bridge to face the unbeaten WSL champions.
Yahoo
04-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Liverpool Women Prepare for Final Home Game of Season vs. Everton at Anfield
On the whole, the 2024-25 campaign didn't go as hoped for for Liverpool Women, who followed up last season's fourth-place finish with a sluggish start and inconsistent results into the new year that led to an eventual parting of ways with their manager. Since handing the reigns to Amber Whiteley, though, both performances and results have improved, and while the top three and the European places are out of reach the Reds are in the mix to end the season in fifth place with games at home to Everton and away at Chelsea still to play. Advertisement 'It is our final home game of the season and we want to make it a special one for our fans and give them a performance they can really enjoy,' Whiteley said of the upcoming derby, set to be played at Anfield on Sunday with a lunchtime kickoff. 'It's a game we are really looking forward to. We haven't beaten Everton in the league since 2019 so there is everything to play for on Sunday. We can't wait to play at Anfield again [but] Everton have been in good form since Christmas and they always raise their game against us so we have to be ready.' Currently, Liverpool are level on points with fifth-place Brighton but well behind on goal differential, while opponents Everton sit five points back of them in eighth. Final day opponents Chelsea are league champions, safely nine-points clear in first place. With the way the season has unfolded, then, a win on Sunday is both likely needed to give the Reds a good chance of finishing fifth ahead of Brighton along with getting one over their local rivals and ending an until recently difficult season on a high note. Advertisement 'This is a Merseyside derby,' Whiteley added. 'I expect us to go into this game needing no extra motivation and prepared to give everything to win the fight.' More from
