Drag Race Down Under is finally here, and Aussie comedian Rhys Nicholson is along for the ride! After the franchise has been branching out globally with spin offs in the UK, Canada, Thailand and more, drag fans prayers for Australia and New Zealand to get their own version of the competition show have finally been answered.
Season one is now well underway, and luckily for British viewers, BBC have picked up the show on iPlayer so we can watch it easily over here. We’re only three episodes in and have already seen celebrity guest spots from Taika Waititi, Troye Sivan and… wait for it: KYLIE AND DANNII MINOGUE.
Plenty of room at Laborâs budget reply bash
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Labor went off reservation and all the way to Bartonâs Realm Hotel as the opposition celebrated ALP leader
Anthony Albaneseâs budget reply speech on Thursday night.
The partyâs Federal Labor Business Forum fundraisers hosted the event, which included a smattering of corporate heavyweight RSVPs, including PwC managing partner
Tom Seymour, KPMG chair
Helen Seidel and McKell Institute chair
Craig Emerson.
Former Queensland premier
Sally Cray.
Credit:John Shakespeare
Laborâs roll call was a far shorter list than the Coalition managed to pull on budget night, but hey, the opposition is never as hot a ticket. Maybe next year, Albo.
Two female Australian comedians recently revealed they’ve been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
In an interview before her shows at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Fiona O’Loughlin alluded to lifelong challenges including disorganisation and inability to sustain attention.
O Loughlin, 57, described her diagnosis as a “seismic shift” in her life, and said medication has helped her immensely. But her struggle with focus will be a story familiar to many girls with ADHD.
And in an article published this week, Em Rusciano also revealed she’s been diagnosed with ADHD. For Rusciano, too, treatment has been transformative. The 42-year-old wrote on Facebook:
Researchers have only recently started to unravel the expression of ADHD in girls.
The way ADHD presents in girls and boys is in many ways similar, but there are a few noteworthy differences. Most importantly, while symptoms of hyperactivity-impulsivity are present across genders (with some studies showing more hyperactivity in boys), symptoms of inattention, which can be easier to overlook, are seen more frequently in girls.
Further, the onset of ADHD symptoms can differ across gender. Symptoms of hyperactivity tend to present early in school life. Inattentiveness, by contrast, has a slightly later onset. So girls with ADHD can often go undetected until academic and organisational demands increase in late primary and high school.