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Daily Mail
2 hours 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.
Time Out
16 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Time Out
The 10 best new London theatre openings in June 2025
If you want to look for unifying trend in June 2025 London theatre, then it's very much about classic shows being brought back: last year's Fiddler on the Roof, 2019's A Midsummer Night's Dream, 2011's London Road and most remarkably still, a sort of (it's complicated) reprise for the original 2000 production of Sarah Kane's posthumous masterpiece 4.48 Psychosis. On the other hand, there's more to the month than old stuff and for many the real treat will be a first chance to see a couple of big shiny American shows: David Adjmi's wildly acclaimed Fleetwood Mac (sort of) drama Stereophonic, and the latest massive Disney musical Hercules, which makes its English language premiere at Theatre Royal Drury Lane this month. The best London theatre openings in June 2025 1. Stereophonic US playwright David Adjmi's drama – with songs by erstwhile Arcade Fire man Will Butler – comes to the West End as the most Tony-nominated play of all time. It's still pretty bold of producer Sonia Friedman to plonk a three-hour play with no famous people in it directly into the West End, although the subject matter should serve as enticement: Stereophonic is a fictionalised account of the legendarily fraught recording sessions for Fleetwood Mac's landmark album Rumours. Duke of York's Theatre, now until Sep 20. Buy tickets here. 2. 4.48 Psychosis To state this straight away, 4.48 Psychosis is totally sold out already: the only day you're getting in is on a Monday when all 90 tickets to the Royal Court's tiny Upstairs space go on sale on the day itself. Sarah Kane's final play, 4.48 Psychosis is a sort of generically unclassifiable freeform poem – which some have referred to as a 'suicide note' – that was originally staged at the Royal Court a couple of years after her death. This unusual production reunites the entire original team behind James Macdonald's production, including a cast that includes current RSC boss Daniel Evans. It's not as simple as restaging the original show: the idea seems to be to come up with a new production that saves the original from the darkness. Royal Court Theatre, Jun 12-Jul 5. 3. London Road Although it actually dates back to the Nicholas Hytner era, Alecky Blythe and Adam Cork's London Road was clearly the best thing just departed NT boss Rufus Norris directed for the theatre. So it was great that he brought the visionary verbatim musical about an Ipswich community's reaction to the Suffolk Strangler killings back for his final season. But there won't be much coverage this time, due to the media blackout around Steven Wright's latest trial causing the NT to decide to pull press night. Which seems a bit excessive (Wright isn't even a character in it) but hey ho – it's one of the most remarkable shows of our time and you really should see it. National Theatre, Olivier, Jun 6-21. Buy tickets here. 4. A Midsummer Night's Dream In a very big month for returning shows, here comes a welcome second crack at Nicholas Hytner's sublime 2019 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. There is some fun genderfluid stuff at work here, with many of the lines for fairy king and queen Oberon and Titania swapped over. But really it's about bagging the standing tickets and getting swept up in a joyous production that ends up as full-on dance party. JJ Feild and Susannah Fielding lead the cast. Bridge Theatre, May 31-Aug 23. Buy tickets here. 5. Hercules If the recent live action screen version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves taught us anything, it's that even the biggest of Disney's old hits aren't necessarily suited to a 2025 makeover. Conversely, a big glossy musical version of 1997's Hercules makes perfect sense: the film wasn't a big hit for Disney but was well-regarded, is relatively contemporary, and a musical is a fine opportunity to bring it to a wider audience. In addition the Greek mythology setting is a great opportunity to go nuts with the special effects and means everyone kind of knows the story already. Theatre Royal Drury Lane, booking Jun 6-Jan 10 2026. Buy tickets here. 6. Fiddler on the Roof Jordan Fein's production of Bock & Stein's immortal musical set in the last days of the shtetl was a massive hit at the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre last summer and subsequently won three awards at this year's Oliviers. Now it's back for an indoor stint at the Barbican and what a treat it'll be to have this excellent production back again. It perfectly mixes joy in the classic songs with a deft awareness of the unsettling undercurrents to the story. Barbican Centre, now until Jul 19. Buy tickets here. 7. A Moon for the Misbegotten The Almeida's in-house hard-hitter Rebecca Frecknall turns her sights on Eugene O'Neill for the first time, directing Michael Shannon and Ruth Wilson in O'Neill's sort of sequel to the monumental Long Day's Journey Into Night. US star Shannon is a particularly intriguing piece of casting because he played the role of the alcoholic James Tyrone Jr in a 2016 Broadway production of Long Day's Journey, making him possibly the first actor in history to have played James in both shows. Almeida Theatre, Jun 18-Aug 16. 8. Intimate Apparel Lynette Linton has directed phenomenal productions of Lynn Nottage plays for each of the previous two Donmar artistic directors, and now she makes her Timothy Sheader-era debut with a third. Where Sweat and Clyde's were UK premieres, this will be the first revival of the excellent Intimate Apparel, which will this time feature US star Samira Wiley as Easther, a Black seamstress in early twentieth century New York. She dreams of finding a man and saving up enough money to open her own Black beauty parlour – but that might be easier said than done. Donmar Warehouse, Jun 20-Aug 9. 9. Showmanism Hampstead Theatre has been on a mercurial course since its last artistic director Roxana Silbert quit in 2022 (after the theatre lost its Arts Council funding). Undoubtedly the highlight of the new era to date was lip sync performance artist Dickie Beau's deeply moving Re-Member Me, a light hearted tribute to Shakespeare's Hamlet that became ever more powerful as it unexpectedly changed shape. So what a treat to have him back with Showmanism, his attempt to trace a complete history of the stage, from Greek tragedy to nightclub queens. As with its predecessor, expect it to start funny and get intense. Hampstead Theatre, Jun 18-Jul 12. Buy tickets here. 10. North By Northwest North Londoners can enjoy a quick London stop for the latest from British theatre's whimsical genius Emma Rice, as her adaptation of Hitchcock's North By Northwest calls in at Ally Pally for a couple of weeks. Yes, it seems fairly nuts to adapt his kinetic spy thriller about a man who finds himself thrust into a vast, country-spanning conspiracy after a mix up at a restaurant. But you could say that about almost everything Rice has ever adapted. Alexandra Palace Theatre, Jun 11-22.
SBS Australia
a day ago
- Business
- SBS Australia
Side Hustle Star: Filipino in Darwin juggles government job with creative gigs and collecting balikbayan boxes
Neil Arriola came to Australia as an international student and eventually moved to Darwin, where he found a clearer path to permanent residency. While employed in the public sector, Neil also pursues side gigs, including collecting balikbayan box services, photography, and community event hosting. Neil encourages new migrants to plan early for their career and migration goals to make the most of their time and investment in Australia. SBS Filipino 29/05/2025 11:40 Set a plan for what you want to do and the pathway to take, so that time and money won't be wasted. Neil Arriola, Filipino migrant in Darwin, NT 📢 Where to Catch SBS Filipino
Daily Mail
a day ago
- Climate
- Daily Mail
Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane weather: Rain bomb stretching 3,000km about to strike Australia: Here's how wet it's going to get in your city
Flood-weary residents are holding their breath amid warnings a cloud band stretching the length of Australia could dump even more rain across New South Wales. NSW, Victoria and SA have been hit with a blast of icy winter weather this week as the north of the country experiences warmer temperatures and widespread rain. NSW is still reeling from devastating floods that hit coastal communities last week, with the new downpours fortunately focused on Queensland, the NT and WA. Australia's 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. The rain is expected to move east to Queensland by the weekend. 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. 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. Local residents are seen cleaning up debris in Taree after the catastrophic floods 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. 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. 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 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
a day ago
- Health
- ABC News
'The loneliest road': NT police officer's mother still searching for answers five years after her death
Amy* believed she knew her daughter better than anyone. As a toddler, she says Sophia* was strong-willed and clever — "a force to be reckoned with". "We told each other everything and we went through so much together," Amy says. So, when she noticed reappearing bruises on her daughter's face and body and Sophia said she had developed a blood disorder, Amy believed her. "She'd never lied to me before or hidden anything," she says. "I just did not doubt her." Looking back now, five years after her daughter's death, Amy says she battles with the agonising thought that she could have done more. Sophia was 38 years old when she died at Royal Darwin Hospital in 2020. Initially, Amy was told her daughter overdosed on prescription medication, but Sophia's cause of death was later revealed to be a subdural haemorrhage — or brain bleed. According to a coronial report published in 2021, Sophia had complained of a headache the day before her death and, after waking from an afternoon nap, "appeared to be hallucinating". "She didn't know what day or time of day it was, she was trying to plug her phone cord into open sockets and was incoherent," NT Coroner Greg Cavanagh wrote. Sophia's partner found her "unresponsive" in the early hours of the next morning and after calling an ambulance, he told paramedics she had overdosed on migraine pills. No crime scene was established and Sophia was declared dead an hour later. An autopsy later indicated the bleeding in her brain had commenced three to five days prior to her death. Judge Cavanagh noted Sophia's injury "would have required some form of trauma, likely a hit to the head, either due to falling or from another person". Her death was also found to have occurred "in the context of chronic alcoholism due to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)", stemming from a traumatic miscarriage years earlier. Amy remembers seeing signs Sophia's mental health was declining, but she doesn't believe her daughter's alcohol addiction was solely related to the loss of her first pregnancy. At age 23, Sophia began her career as a police officer, serving several years interstate before relocating to the Northern Territory with her partner, a fellow officer, in 2009. Two years later, Sophia suffered a traumatic miscarriage, leading to her PTSD diagnosis. "No mother needs to go through that and no man should have to go through that either, it was awful for him as well," Amy says. Just four weeks later, Sophia fell pregnant a second time, and, concerned about her daughter's fragile mental state, Amy relocated to Darwin to live with her. Evidence heard during the coronial inquest revealed Sophia "turned to alcohol" to cope with the grief of her miscarriage and her addiction "impacted the relationship with her partner". During three years staying downstairs from the young couple, Amy says she noticed tension between the pair worsen. "The conflict escalated and her drinking escalated at the same time," she says. Amy says Sophia would confide in her about problems in the relationship and on several occasions, she encouraged her daughter to speak to the police. "I said 'if you don't report it, I'm going to', but she said 'no, no, no don't'," she says. Amy says while she witnessed flashes of the pair's troubled dynamic, she was shocked to learn afterwards how many other people had raised concerns. "There was just so much out there … so much that people didn't do," she says. The coronial report chronicles 17 complaints to the NT Police Force from neighbours, work colleagues, friends and doctors about alleged domestic violence and disturbances over a five-year period leading up to Sophia's death. Judge Cavanagh found her partner "was sometimes said to be manipulative and controlling", although his "controlling ways" were often explained as a response to Sophia's alcoholism. "He generally indicated … he needed to know where she was to either stop her drinking or so as to assist her when she was intoxicated," he wrote. Despite this, Judge Cavanagh said it was "difficult" to see Sophia's drinking as justification for her partner's access to her social media accounts or the "foul and abusive" messages he would send. Sophia's partner did not give evidence at the inquest and Judge Cavanagh declined to compel him to do so on the grounds it might incriminate him in an offence in relation to Sophia's death. The coroner ultimately referred the case to the NT Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). In February 2023, Sophia's partner was charged with "callously" failing to rescue or render assistance and his case was committed to the NT Supreme Court. Amy was told a trial had been set down for September 2024, but in the weeks leading up to it, DPP Lloyd Babb SC requested an in-person meeting. Mr Babb and three other senior prosecutors told her the trial would no longer be going ahead. "They said they didn't believe they could win the case," Amy says. In a statement to the ABC, a spokesperson for Mr Babb said the assigned prosecutor had requested a review of the evidence to determine whether the case "continued to have reasonable prospects of success". "The director, on review of the evidentiary material available, determined that there were no reasonable prospects of securing a conviction at trial, and that the prosecution should not continue further," the spokesperson said. Sophia's partner, who remains a serving member of the NT Police Force, was contacted for comment. Responding on his behalf, his lawyer Luke Officer said "from a defence perspective, the tragic case always deeply troubled us" and "the decision to discontinue was plainly right". "In our view there were never any reasonable prospects of conviction," he said. "Unfortunately, for our client and particularly his children, that decision took way too long." After what the inquest heard were multiple reports of disturbances made by those around her, police had attempted to obtain a statement from Sophia, but she declined. Judge Cavanagh noted the reasons a victim of domestic violence might not report instances of abuse were "magnified when the perpetrator is also a police officer". "Those fears were from time to time expressed by [Sophia]," he wrote. Judge Cavanagh indicated the couple's involvement with the force was a likely contributor to the way complaints and reports were handled. In his evidence to the inquest, NT Police Assistant Commissioner Michael White acknowledged there were "red flags" which should have been investigated more thoroughly. "The Assistant Commissioner was of the view that there were a number of failures in the way the police dealt with the complaints," the coronial report stated. Either way, Amy says the stress of nearly four years of court proceedings while still trying to process the loss of her only daughter has been crippling. "At the end of the day, all you get is 'we're sorry', but [Sophia] is dead, and she should be here with her family and her daughter," she says. But Amy says she finds strength in her daughter's memory. "My daughter was strong and now I need to do that for her — I need to be just as strong as what she was." *Names have been changed.
