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The Singleton community, still deeply mourning the loss of the 10 killed in last month's Greta bus crash, will be awarded an almost $2 million cash injection to erect a permanent memorial and expand the local footy clubhouse.

The $1.7 million funding boost from the NSW government aims to "enhance community and social recovery efforts" following the loss of several members of the Singleton Roosters club during the tragedy on the June long weekend.

Announcing the move, NSW Premier Chris Minns said it was "appropriate that a commemoration is built" to mark the loss of lives and "their legacy in the community". 

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"The tragedy in Greta was felt right across NSW," he said.

"This investment recognises the emotional toll of the recent bus tragedy, providing a space for healing and unity within the Singleton community."

"This clubhouse expansion will be of great benefit for the Singleton Roosters AFC and the wider community, empowering them to grow, host events, competitions, and gatherings that will enrich the social fabric of the region and help the local community heal."

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The club renovation, which had been in the works for some time, will be a boost to the Singleton AFC clubhouse and precinct, ensuring the club's sustainability and inclusivity.

Among the planned upgrades include: new change rooms with shower facilities, storage spaces, umpire areas, a scorers' box, first-aid room, toilets (female, male and accessible) and internal renovations of the existing building to upgrade the kiosk, kitchen and meeting room.

The AFL and Singleton Council will jointly fund the project alongside the NSW Government.

Singleton Mayor Sue Moore said the community are "extremely grateful" to be given a permanent landmark to mourn the lives lost in the tragedy.

"We're extremely grateful to the state government for their ongoing support of the Singleton community," she said.

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"This project will expand and enhance an important community facility that goes to the heart of local sport in Singleton.

"Our community has experienced unfathomable heartache and sadness over the last month since the bus crash tragedy, and with most of the victims having played for the Singleton Roosters Club, I can't think of a more fitting tribute." 

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It's not quite a pub with no beer, but for drinkers of many of Australia's most popular beverages, it's close to it.

A delay caused by forklift maintenance means kegs from Carlton and United Breweries may not be in pubs across Victoria this weekend.

In a statement to 9News, Carlton United sincerely apologised to customers and consumers.

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"We are experiencing some delays in getting kegs to our hotel customers ahead of this weekend," the statement read.

"Pack beer is not impacted and is widely available.

"We expect to be able to fulfill outstanding keg orders by early next week."

About 300 pubs have been affected, which is about one out of every ten in the state.

Keg deliveries have been made to the MCG, Marvel Stadium and GMHBA Stadiums ahead of this weekend's AFL games.

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Carlton and United Breweries is based in Melbourne but owned by the Japanese conglomerate Asahi.

Carlton and United makes many of Australia's most popular beers, including Victoria Bitter, Carlton, Cascade, Foster's and Pure Blonde.

It also brews 4 Pines, Great Northern, Lazy Yak and Resch's.

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A Scottish man who rose to fame after the dress his mother-in-law wore to a wedding sent the internet into total meltdown has been charged with the attempted murder of his long-term wife.

Readers may remember the striped dress, which can either be seen in blue and black or white and gold depending on an individual's perspective, which went viral in 2015.

The divisive frock drew huge media attention all over the world at the time, even prompting some of Hollywood's biggest stars like Kim Kardashian, Kanye West and Taylor Swift to weigh in on the saga.

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The massive interest in the dress resulted in Keir Johnston, 38, his wife Grace, and mother-in-law even appearing on The Ellen Show show.

Now, years later, it's emerged Johnson has been charged with the attempted murder of his wife.

Johnson had allegedly committed domestic violence acts against Grace over an 11-year period, that allegedly led to him ultimately trying to take her life last March by pinning her to the ground and strangling her.

Johnson has denied any and all wrongdoing, including that he repeatedly assaulted Grace at their home in Scotland.

Johnson also stands accused of allegedly trying to get into a vehicle Grace was inside and hitting her through the window, as well as another incident where he allegedly put his wife in a headlock and dragged her out of a pub.

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Police have issued a plea to the public to help them track down a Brisbane man, wanted on a number of criminal offences, who they say may be "armed and dangerous".

The 33-year-old is wanted by detectives in relation to a number of weapon offences as well as suspected criminal activity.

Officers have warned anyone who comes across the man to not to approach him, as he may be armed and dangerous.

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They say he may also pose a risk to the community and should be avoided if seen.

He is understood to frequent the northern suburbs of Brisbane including Northgate, Aspley, Virginia and Banyo.

The man is described as Caucasian, bald, with many tattoos covering his head and face and brown eyes. 

If witnessed, or if anyone holds information over the man's whereabouts, officers have asked the public to dial triple zero immediately.

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Oscar-winner George Clooney has joined the chorus of artists calling for change as actors hit the picket lines in their first strike against film and television studios since 1980.

"This is an inflection point in our industry," Clooney told CNN in a statement on Friday.

"Actors and writers in large numbers have lost their ability to make a living. For our industry to survive that has to change. For actors that journey starts now."

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Clooney's comments come as members of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) picked up signs to demonstrate outside film and television studios on both coasts Friday, joining entertainment writers who have been doing just that for over two months.

The SAG-AFTRA strike was officially announced on Thursday.

"Ted Lasso" star (and Emmy nominee) Jason Sudeikis was spotted in New York, where he told CNN to "listen" to the voices of strikers chanting things like, "Hey hey, ho ho corporate greed's got to go" and "What do we want? Contracts. When do we want 'em? Now!"

"That says it all," he remarked.

When asked how long he'd be willing to support the strike, Sudeikis replied, "As long as it takes".

Actors Constance Zimmer, Lisa Edelstein, and SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher were also spotted on picket lines.

Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, chief negotiator for SAG-AFTRA, stressed to reporters on Friday that the actors' strike is not a ploy for big-name stars to make more money.

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"This is a fight for basic fairness. This is a fight on behalf of working people. This is not a fight on behalf of huge celebrities," Crabtree-Ireland said.

Representing a union with 160,000 members, he added that the "vast majority are fighting to pay rent, mortgage, feed their family. This is a working person's fight."

The actors join the more than 11,000 members of the WGA who have been on strike against the same studios and streaming services since May 2. That union is striking over many of the same issues as SAG-AFTRA – fair pay, especially with regard to residuals in the age of streaming, and up-to-date protections against the use of AI.

The writers' strike had already halted production on most films and television shows. The traditional start of the fall television season and the release of several movies planned for next year are now at risk, with fall film festivals unlikely and big-budget productions like Deadpool 3 grinding to a halt.

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The eagerly-anticipated film Oppenheimer about the scientist known as the father of the atomic bomb will be released in Australian cinemas later this month.

Directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Cillian Murphy as the brilliant physicist, the film charts Robert Oppenheimer's pivotal role in World War II's Manhattan Project that culminated in the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The achievement of Oppenheimer, who died in 1967, in harnessing the cataclysmic power of the atom changed world history and earned him the reputation as the greatest scientist in history.

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Today his scientific brilliance is undisputed, but the deaths of at least 110,000 people from the bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the spread of nuclear weapons makes him a divisive figure with a controversial legacy.

Gifted scientist

J. Robert Oppenheimer was born in New York City on April 22, 1904, to wealthy German Jewish migrants.

With a natural gift for science, he attended Harvard University, but travelled to Europe to study physics in the 1920s.

Oppenheimer started his atomic research at Cambridge University in the UK before spending three years in Germany studying at the University of Göttingen, one of the world's leading centres for theoretical physics.

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The emerging scientist also grew aware of the rising Nazi movement in Germany and its racial ideology.

Oppenheimer later returned to the United States where he taught at the University of California and became a top authority on nuclear physics and the quantum theory.

His interest also grew in the social and political issues of the 1930s, leading to associations with left-wing groups and a lifelong passion for the Hindu religion.

Race to build devastating weapon

After World War II broke out in 1939, US President Franklin Roosevelt was alerted by scientists, including Albert Einstein, about Nazi Germany's efforts to harness nuclear physics to build a devastating military weapon.

The US military responded by setting up the top-secret Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb.

Oppenheimer was chosen as scientific director and was responsible for recruiting the best scientists in the US, including many who had fled Nazi-controlled Europe.

They were based at Los Alamos, a secret military-controlled camp in the remote New Mexico desert, that rapidly grew to become a small city during World War II.

On July 16, 1945, the very first nuclear weapon detonation took place in the New Mexico desert, about 200kms from Los Alamos. Oppenheimer called it the "Trinity" test.

On witnessing of the historic event, Oppenheimer later famously said in an interview he recounted a piece of Hindu scripture: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds".

Just weeks after the Los Alamos test, US President Harry Truman ordered atomic bomb attacks on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bombings killed tens of thousands of people and left many with lifelong injuries.

Fallen hero

Oppenheimer's achievement propelled him to hero status among the American public in the immediate years after World War II. He was featured on the front cover of Time magazine, and he was feted by President Truman.

But the devastating power unleashed by the Manhattan Project put Oppenheimer in a moral dilemma.

While he maintained the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was essential in forcing Japan to surrender and avoid horrific US casualties from any land invasion, he was determined to stop the spread of atomic weapons.

He started working with the US Atomic Energy Commission to control the use of nuclear weapons, but when the military embarked on a project to develop a hydrogen bomb, potentially 1000 times more powerful than the weapons dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Oppenheimer protested and was forced out of the commission.

Oppenheimer's previous associations with left-wing politics and his brother's membership of the Communist Party brought him under suspicion during the McCarthy era that saw the persecution of left-wing individuals and organisations.

The physicist was accused of having communist sympathies and his security clearance was revoked by the government.

Four years before Oppenheimer died there was a partial rehabilitation of his reputation when he was presented with the prestigious Enrico Fermi Award by then US President Lyndon Johnson.

Then in December 2022, the Biden administration reversed the decades-old decision to revoke Oppenheimer's security clearance.

The US Energy Secretary said the 1954 decision by the Atomic Energy Commission was made using a "flawed process" that violated the commission's own regulations.

Oppenheimer will be released in Australian cinemas on July 20.

– With Associated Press