☕️ The electorate results still coming in

From 7:30am AEST today, the Met Gala red carpet begins on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

If you’re not familiar with the Met Gala, all you need to know is that it is the fashion extravaganza to beat all others. This year’s theme is ‘Superfine: Tailoring Black Style’, with an intention to examine the history of Black fashion.

Fun fact: A table for 10 at the Met Gala costs $US350,000, while a single ticket costs $75,000.

You can watch the E! red carpet via their livestream on YouTube.

“On election night we counted more votes in a single night than has ever occurred in Australia’s electoral history… Given we managed to count so much on election night itself, the ability to count more votes in close contests often relies upon transport for interstate, overseas and postal votes coming back to the relevant local counting centre.”
Electoral Commissioner Jeff Pope in a statement this morning about the latest on the counting of votes.

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The number of cancer patients at St Vincents Hospital who had errors in their records, relating to one staff member. Errors included poor clinical documentation, incomplete correspondence, and a lack of genetic counselling. This was first reported in an investigation by ABC.

A ‘jiffy’ is an actual unit of time, referring to 1/100th of a second. So, if you’re back in a jiffy, you better be back pretty quickly…

U.S. President Donald Trump has announced a 100% tariff on all films produced overseas in an effort to stop the U.S. film industry from “dying a very fast death.”

Trump said the tariff will also counter the economic impact of American filmmakers and studios accepting “incentives” offered by other countries.

He added the decision also aims to address what he described as a “national security threat” posed by the “messaging and propaganda” in foreign films.

Trump said he had authorised relevant government agencies to implement the move, including the departments of commerce and trade.

In a post to his social media platform Truth Social, Trump said the decision comes as Hollywood is “being devastated.”

In a response post on social media, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said: “We’re on it”.

Neither has expanded on how the tariff will be imposed.

Hollywood has been slowly recovering from COVID-19-related shutdowns and the 2023 strikes by actors and writers.

In January, Trump appointed actors Mel Gibson, Sylvester Stallone, and Jon Voight as “Special Envoys” to help revive what he called “the Golden Age of Hollywood.”

The trio were tasked with making America’s film industry “bigger, better, and stronger than ever before.”

Reporting by Achol Arok.

The election may be over, but the counting is not!

You may have noticed that on the night of the election, many of the electorates were ‘called’, meaning a winner was announced.

Then, on Sunday, some of those seats were ‘uncalled’.

Why does this happen?

As soon as polls close, the Australian Electoral Commission, who oversees elections in Australia, starts the counting.

The AEC makes the data available as it comes through on their website. This is how the media (and anyone who wants it) can see the raw data.

The AEC never officially declares final results on election night.

Any seats that are ‘called’ on the night are done so by the media and election analysts looking at the raw data.

These are just predictions based on how much of the vote is counted, and the margin by which there is a leader.

Everyone has their own threshold for when they’re confident enough to ‘call’ an electorate. Sometimes the media competes for who calls the results first.

On the night, the media ‘called’ more than 100 of the 150 seats in the House of Representatives.

Since then, however, some seats have become much closer, and they’ve had to be ‘uncalled’ (not sure that’s a word, but you get the point).

For example, on Saturday, TDA was among the media outlets to call the Melbourne seat of Goldstein for incumbent ‘teal’ MP Zoe Daniel.

At the time, Daniel was leading Liberal opponent Tim Wilson 54% - 46%.

However, on Sunday, the results became much closer.

The same is true for another Melbourne seat held by a ‘teal’, Kooyong, although the margin there is bigger.

IIn the days following the election, AEC workers are mainly counting postal votes.

This takes time, because interstate and overseas votes take time to be sent in to the counting facilities.

In fact, any postal vote that arrives at the AEC up to 13 days after the election can be counted, as long as it was completed by 6pm on polling day.

TL;DR: It could be a while until we have the official results.

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🗞️ Also in the Sport Newsletter: golf, tennis, and more…

Starting fourth on the grid, the 24-year-old carved his way through the field to finish 4.6 seconds ahead of teammate Lando Norris. This victory marked Piastri’s fourth win this season, and his third in a row, making him the first driver to win three back-to-back races since 1998. Piastri said the result was “just incredible” and emphasised “the hard work” that went into the race.

At the end of the F1 season, the most successful driver is named World Champion. Given these early wins, F1 commentators have suggested Piastri is on track to be the first Aussie world champion since 1980.

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Reporting by Annabel Whitehouse.

A Wisconsin woman missing for nearly 63 years has been found alive.

Audrey Backeberg was 20 when she went missing in 1962.

Earlier this year, a detective with the Sauk County Sheriff’s Office reopened the cold case, re-examining evidence and re-interviewing witnesses.

Investigators discovered that she was alive and well, revealing that “Ms. Backeberg’s disappearance was by her own choice and not the result of any criminal activity or foul play.”

Reporting by Annabel Whitehouse.

As the results from Saturday’s federal election continue to roll in, it’s clear that Labor will govern with a significant majority, and that the Liberal Party has endured one of its worst electoral defeats in modern history.

There are many reasons and critiques being thrown around when it comes to explaining what happened to the Liberal Party, some from inside the party and others from outside the party.

On today’s podcast, we’ll break down some of the reasons why experts are saying the Coalition lost.