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Not without my dog! Man wins anti-discrimination case against pet chihuahua

<p>Queensland pet owner Raymond Matthews has won an anti-discrimination claim against his local pub after his assistance chihuahua, Coo-ee, was denied entry.</p> <p>Matthews' favourite watering hole was The Woombye Pub, a stone's throw from his home on the Sunshine Coast. “I’d go up there for a chicken parmi and a beer, maybe once or twice a week,” he told <a href="https://7news.com.au/sunrise/sunshine-coast-man-wins-8000-discrimination-claim-after-pub-refused-entry-to-his-assistance-chihuahua--c-8079310" target="_blank" rel="noopener">7 News</a>.</p> <p>However, that all came to an end in 2017 when new management started refusing entry to Coo-ee.</p> <p>“(The) dog almost got run over one night, having had to stay outside. I went back inside and got directed out and barred for a month and made out to be the bad guy - that I’d intimidated people.”</p> <p>Three years of consistent refusal-of-entry to The Woombye then caused Matthews to say enough was enough and seek legal recourse.</p> <p>In a case opened against the pub, the tribunal found the venue broke anti-discrimination laws and awarded Matthews $8000 in compensation.</p> <p>Matthews said he tried to explain the significance of Coo-ee to the new owners but they wouldn’t listen.</p> <p>“The more I tried to convince them, the more I sounded like a broken record,” he said. “I’d been to the doctor to get the dog signed off as an assistant.</p> <p>“What she does is she introduces me to myriad people - the amount of hurdles I’ve got over because of the dog, just breaking the barriers down that normally exist with bureaucracy.</p> <p>“I take the dog with me and it just brings people down to a level playing field and you can speak with them, you can get along with them, you’ve got a common denominator and the dog, I feel, is the one that does it.”</p> <p>In a happy ending – certainly for Coo-ee at any rate – Matthews and the pup have now been welcomed into the venue.</p> <p><em>Image: Sunrise</em></p>

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Emotional Jimmy Barnes opens up about his "week from hell"

<p>Jimmy Barnes has opened up in a candid interview about his "week from hell", as he was rocked with three deaths after recovering from Covid-19 and cancelling his tour. </p> <p>Speaking with Nat Barr and Matt Shirvington on <em><a href="https://7news.com.au/sunrise/entertainment/jimmy-barnes-opens-up-after-being-rocked-by-three-deaths-in-a-fortnight-c-7036564" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sunrise</a></em>, the music legend said it hasn't been an easy time for his family. </p> <p>“It’s been a tough couple of weeks,” he said on Friday.</p> <p>“We lost three people who were really dear to us in a matter of a week.”</p> <p>Jimmy discussed the devastating losses, saying it began when <a href="https://oversixty.com.au/health/caring/jimmy-barnes-reveals-family-tragedy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">his sister Linda passed away</a>, just days before <a href="https://oversixty.com.au/news/news/jimmy-barnes-devastating-loss" target="_blank" rel="noopener">his mother-in-law also tragically died</a>. </p> <p>Barnes said he and his family had gathered around his wife Jane’s mum and played music in her final days.</p> <p>“Jane’s mother was one of the people who passed away and literally on the day before she died we started singing in her room,” he explained.</p> <p>“It was like a rockfest, no wonder she wanted to escape,” he laughed.</p> <p>The music icon said singing his mother-in-law’s “favourite, beautiful songs as she left” was “the best gift” he could give her.</p> <div> <p>“The music helped us not only say goodbye but also to deal with those feelings, so it was very emotional.”</p> <p>Jimmy was also grieving the loss of a "dear friend" who worked in the music industry. </p> <p>He said, “In a week when you think that nothing else could break your heart, we lost our dear friend Warren Costello,” he wrote on social media at the time. </p> <p>Barnes was hit with the tragedies just weeks after recovering from a stint with Covid-19 in May, which forced the 66-year-old to cancel shows on his sold-out tour. </p> <p>“I thought I might be one of those people who was not going to get Covid ever. I was doing everything with the strict protocols on tour,” he explained.</p> <p>“Lo and behold, I got it while visiting my grandchild in New Zealand. I guess it had to happen sooner or later.”</p> <p>Despite the recent difficult weeks, Jimmy said he still relies on the power of music to bring him through the darkest days. </p> <p>He said, "I think music is not only something that brings you together, it is really great for the spirit."</p> <p><em>Image credits: Sunrise footage </em></p> </div>

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Robert Irwin's shocking Grace revelation

<p><em>Image: Sunrise </em></p> <p>Robert Irwin has stunned Sunrise hosts David Koch and Natalie Barr by revealing he’s been taking his sister Bindi’s baby out ... to wrangle snakes!</p> <p>Steve Irwin’s daughter gave birth to Grace Warrior Irwin Powell in March, with “proud uncle” Robert telling<span> </span><em>Sunrise<span> </span></em>the newborn “just loves life” at Australia Zoo.</p> <p>“She is the most incredible little human in the world. She’s just amazing, she’s so bright, she’s so happy, she’s the most switched on little kid,” the 17-year-old said.</p> <p>“She’s in there wrangling snakes and she’s going in booping koalas on the nose, she’s got the best life.”</p> <p>The admission left the breakfast television stars stunned, with Kochie questioning whether the wildlife warrior was actually being serious.</p> <p>“Oh Robert, come on! At seven months she’s wrangling snakes?” he asked.</p> <p>“I’ve heard of uncles saying their nieces are advanced for their age….wrangling snakes?!’</p> <p>Robert says: “well, she lives at a zoo, come on!” before adding that the reptiles he’s introduced Grace to are “not venomous.”</p> <p>“Don’t tell Bindi! I hope Bindi’s not watch,” he laughed.</p> <p>“I haven’t taken her near the crocs just yet.”</p>

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Olivia Newton-John's touching birthday wish

<p>Olivia Newton-John has revealed what she wants for her birthday present when she turns 73 in September.</p> <p>Speaking to Natalie Barr and Matt Doran on <em>Sunrise</em>, The Australian icon said she would like her fans to take part in her Walk for Wellness that happens once a year. </p> <p>The annual event is aimed at raising money for t<span>he Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness &amp; Research Centre to fund "evidence-based wellness therapies". </span></p> <p><span>“My birthday wish is that we raise a lot of money and we help a lot of people,” she said.</span></p> <p><span>“The idea is to get a group of your friends together and just walk and raise some money.”</span></p> <p><span>Due to the pandemic, the Walk For Wellness will take on a digital form, allowing everyone to take part no matter where they are around the world.</span><span></span></p> <p>Donations will fund programs such as yoga, meditation, acupuncture and art therapy at her <span>Cancer Wellness &amp; Research Centre to </span>help <span>“ease the side effects of cancer treatment and support people with cancer emotionally, spiritually and physically.”</span></p> <p>Olivia explained her personal experience with these opportunities and how they helped her through her cancer journey. </p> <p class="css-1316j2p-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">“I was in the hospital a couple of years ago and got to experience all of these programs in my room and it made a huge difference to me.”</p> <p class="css-1316j2p-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">“It keeps you positive and in a great space,” she explained</p> <p class="css-1316j2p-StyledParagraph e4e0a020">The event will be held on the 26th of September, to coincide with Olivia’s 73rd birthday, with the six people who donate the most to win a “virtual tea party” with the star.</p> <p class="css-1316j2p-StyledParagraph e4e0a020"><em>Image credit: Getty Images</em></p>

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"Stop It!": Nat Barr shuts down Kyle on live TV

<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sunrise </span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">host Nat Barr told off Kyle Sandilands during his appearance on the breakfast show this morning.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Making a guest appearance on the show to celebrate his radio show with Jackie ‘O’ Henderson claiming the title of Sydney’s number one breakfast show in ratings for the first time, the controversial shock jock got a strong reaction when he started joking about Nat’s husband.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After chatting about their latest success, Kyle pulled out a copy of Nat Barr’s cover of </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Australian Women’s Weekly </span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">to show her.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Look what I’m reading Nat,” he said, with Nat replying, “that’s so nice Kyle!”.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kyle then went on to compliment Nat on her sons.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“These are good looking boys,” he said.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Just by looking at the photos, I can tell what a great mum you are. Those kids, they look at you with adoring eyes. I admire that.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After Nat admitted the photoshoot was a bit “scary” as they had never done anything like that before, Kyle asked why her husband wasn’t included.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Where’s your husband? How come he’s been kept out?” the 50-year-old asked.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“He won’t do anything,” Nat said. “He hates publicity … He’s got his own life and his own job. He’s like, yeah, leave that to you.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nat has been married to her husband, Andrew Thompson, who is an Oscar-nominated film editor, since 1995.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I think press media should track down what Nat’s husband’s doing,” Kyle quipped. “Let’s do a whole expos</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">é</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> on a day in the life of Nat’s husband.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nat went from laughing as she had throughout the segment, to raising her finger and giving the radio host a strict warning.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Kyle, I’m going to go all mum on you,” she said. “Stop it.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Earlier in the show, Kyle had explained why he thinks he and Jackie have been performing so well lately.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We’ve been doing radio a bit different to everyone else,” he said. “Everyone else has the same rule: Speak for three minutes, have a little laugh at the end and play the ad break.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We’ve changed it. We talk for 20 minutes about something, because you can’t always get a good conversation in in three minutes.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kyle also mentioned that the breadth of voices on their show helps.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We don’t just have the man and the girl, we have the full ensemble of all the other cast - the newsreader, all the producers, it’s like an episode of </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Seinfeld</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">.”</span></p> <p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Image: Channel 7</span></em></p>

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Qantas lands historic non-stop flight from London to Sydney

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Qantas has done the unthinkable and touched down in Sydney after departing from London on a shocking 20-hour flight.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The journey was 17,800 kilometres long and this means that Qantas have successfully landed its second ultra-long-haul research flight as a part of Project Sunrise.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s the second time the route has been flown by a commercial airline, as the first time was back in 1989.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Project Sunrise is studying ways to combat jetlag for those on board and the flight carried just 52 passengers and crew.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It’s not the first test flight that Qantas has done, as they did another non-stop flight trial that connected New York and Sydney last month.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Despite the London-Sydney flight being 1500 kilometres further than New York-Sydney, it takes a shorter journey due to tailwinds.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Qantas CEO Alan Joyce said that Qantas wants to make the non-stop journeys a reality within the next few years.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We know that travellers want room to move on these direct flights, and the exercises we encouraged on the first research flight seemed to work really well,” he said to </span><em><a href="https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-advice/flights/qantas-to-add-move-and-stretch-zones-to-ultralong-haul-flights/news-story/b8359f1b6cb804809567ed253fd0578a"><span style="font-weight: 400;">news.com.au</span></a></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“So, we’re definitely looking to incorporate on-board stretching zones and even some simple modifications like overhead handles to encourage low impact exercises.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Joyce also mentioned that the non-stop Perth to London flight has boosted confidence in the longer proposed journeys.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“It had the highest customer satisfaction rating after a year of any route on our network, and it’s been the most successful launch of a new route,” he said.</span></p>

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"Cancer is the best thing that ever happened to me": Stan Walker's miracle comeback

<p>Stan Walker is set to go back on tour after focusing on his health battle over the last few years, during which he underwent bouts of surgery to treat his stomach cancer.</p> <p>The 28-year-old will begin his Australian tour in early August, two years after having his stomach removed.</p> <p>“Cancer is the best thing that ever happened to me,” Walker told <a rel="noopener" href="https://7news.com.au/sunrise/entertainment/cancer-is-the-best-thing-that-ever-happened-to-me-stan-walker-goes-back-on-tour-c-372376" target="_blank"><em>Sunrise</em></a> in an interview aired on Tuesday morning.</p> <p>“It allowed me to be, like, reborn in every way. It’s like I had to die to be reborn again, and that made me realise I’m not gonna wait for nobody to tell me … what I can do. I want to go hard and I want to go right in with everything and live my wildest dream.”</p> <p>The singer carried the CDH1 gene mutation, which had been responsible for the cancer deaths of 25 of his family members and gave him an 80 per cent chance of contracting the disease.</p> <p>In 2017, Walker was diagnosed with stomach cancer after doctors found 13 tumours inside his body.</p> <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/Bnsg-z5H0qJ/" data-instgrm-version="12"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <p style="margin: 8px 0 0 0; padding: 0 4px;"><a style="color: #000; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Bnsg-z5H0qJ/" target="_blank">1 year ago today my whole life changed forever. Hardest thing I've ever done but honestly turned out to be my biggest blessing... Found out i had cancer &amp; was supposed to go on a mean health kick before my operation, but what did I do lol? As you can see I lived my best life &amp; ate half the world cos I knew I wasn't gonna eat again for a looong time hahahaha... I was in the operating theatre for over 6hrs, tryna get my fat gut out hahahaha... A few more procedures, a collapsed lung, almost dying a few times, a lot of complications, another major operation &amp; a lot of spewing later here I am.. SKINNY hahahaha... no but I'm actually at my best now... I'm blessed man.... All jokes &amp; laughs aside, to get to where I am now was actually the hardest thing.... &amp; now I'm going on tour 1 year post getting my whole stomach out &amp; a few other organs hahahahah... I am the result of Gods grace... Also I probs would have healed faster if I didn't bots it &amp; think I was allgood straight away ahahhahaa... But all in all I'm here alive, happy &amp; more ready for this tour than ever.. This will be my greatest achievement yet... So if you're keen to come along &amp; celebrate &amp; party with me... get yo tickets at www.ticketspace.nz Aroha mutunga kore ❤️️❤️️❤️️❤️️</a></p> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;">A post shared by <a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/stanwalker/" target="_blank"> Stan Walker</a> (@stanwalker) on Sep 13, 2018 at 10:55pm PDT</p> </div> </blockquote> <p>Walker said he spent months doing rehab and undergoing major operations. </p> <p>“If I hadn’t done the operation, I would for sure be dead by now,” Walker told <a rel="noopener" href="https://www.who.com.au/exclusive-stan-walker-opens-up-about-his-cancer-battle" target="_blank"><em>WHO</em></a> last year.</p> <p>“To be honest, I can honestly say going through that cancer thing, and the last however many years of everything, I am so thankful – because I haven’t been this happy in so long. I can look at myself and 100 per cent back myself that I’ve got this.”</p>

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Magical sunrise at Stonehenge marks summer solstice

<p>Thousands of revellers have camped out at Stonehenge this week to celebrate the summer solstice and catch the first glimpse of the rising summer sun.</p> <p>And as you can see in the gallery above, the sunrise was magical.</p> <p>For the first time since 1967, the summer solstice also coincided with June's full moon, nicknamed the Strawberry Moon. Nearly 12,000 people gathered at the historic site to celebrate the final transition from the cold of winter to the warmth of summer.</p> <p>To see all the pictures scroll through the gallery above. Have you ever visited Stonehenge, and if so how did you find the experience?</p> <p>Let us know in the comments. </p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Related links:</strong></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="/travel/domestic-travel/2016/06/10-lesser-known-new-zealand-holiday-spots/"><em><strong>10 lesser-known New Zealand holiday spots</strong></em></a></span></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="/travel/international/2016/06/japan-beach-illuminated-by-mysterious-natural-phenomenon/"><strong><em>Japan beach illuminated by mysterious natural phenomenon</em></strong></a></span></p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="/travel/international/2016/06/10-breathtaking-photos-celebrate-the-beauty-of-britain/"><em><strong>10 breathtaking photos celebrate the beauty of Britain</strong></em></a></span></p>

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