Blissful Thursday! You’ve discovered your technique to 5 Nice Reads, your weekday morning wrap of fascinating tales. I’m Rafqa Touma, filling in for Guardian Australia’s way of life editor, Alyx Gorman.
If you're after breaking information, take a look at the Guardian Australia stay weblog. If not, I’m glad you’re sticking round. Immediately we make a journey to New York Metropolis, recap the Brit awards, and discover a funny-shaped tree frog in a Queensland bathe.
1. Grace Tame and Brittany Higgins on the press membership
The Nationwide Press Membership hosted Grace Tame and Brittany Higgins for a joint handle on Wednesday. With sharp and damning phrases, the 2021 Australian of the 12 months and the Liberal staffer who triggered parliament’s #MeToo reckoning put politicians on discover.
Guardian Australia’s political editor, Katharine Murphy, shares some key highlights.
Notable quote: “Final 12 months wasn’t a march for acknowledgment,” Higgins mentioned. “It wasn’t a march for protection. It wasn’t a march for language. It was a march for justice. And that justice calls for actual change in our legal guidelines, in addition to in our language, in our nationwide tradition, in addition to our nationwide dialog. That begins with the prime minister – sure, a few of his language final 12 months was stunning and, at occasions, admittedly, a bit offensive. However his phrases wouldn’t matter if his actions had measured up. Then, or since … I didn’t need his sympathy as a father. I needed him to make use of his energy as prime minister.”
Additional studying: Grace Tame claims she acquired a “threatening cellphone name” in August final 12 months warning her to not criticise the prime minister, Scott Morrison.
2. Brit awards recapped
Ed Sheeran turns screamo, performing his hit Dangerous Habits with British metallers Deliver Me the Horizon. Whereas Adele carried out I Drink Wine, cross legged on a piano. At this 12 months’s Brits, “rock’n’roll’s not lifeless, nevertheless it would possibly want resuscitating”, writes Guardian’s deputy music editor, Laura Snapes.
For many who missed the stay occasion, Snapes recaps and charges all of this 12 months’s stay performances.
Additional studying: female-fronted acts received 10 of 15 general awards within the first Brits ceremony to retire gendered classes.
3. Learn how to get sufficient calcium from meals aside from milk
For sturdy, dense bones, cow’s milk is a superb supply of calcium. It's also a superb supply of protein, nutritional vitamins (A, B2, B12), and minerals (phosphorus, potassium, zinc, iodine). However, for a variety of causes, many individuals don’t drink cow’s milk. (I personally go for soy, though I hear potato milk is on its means.)
And whereas consultants say “ingesting milk carefully consistent with advice” is the way in which to go, there's excellent news for the milk-avoiders. You will get the calcium and vitamins you want from different meals. Right here’s how.
What merchandise ought to I add to the procuring record? Tofu, canned fish with bones, inexperienced leafy greens, nuts, seeds, cheese, yoghurt and calcium-fortified plant milks.
4. Amazon of New York Metropolis actual property
If any Australians wish to make a dramatic transfer to New York Metropolis, be warned. Its rental market is dire. The Guardian has a complete collection to show it. Immediately, Kathryn Lindsay writes on StreetEasy, the “Amazon for actual property”.
The actual property web site is straightforward to filter and use, hosts each itemizing within the metropolis, and is there for each a part of the renting or shopping for course of – from procuring round to the second a brand new key-holder walks via the door of a brand new residence.
Notable quote: “StreetEasy would possibly as wellbe town’s whole actual property enterprise … However as StreetEasy has revolutionised town’s actual property, its success hasn’t gone unchallenged. As is the case when an organization disrupts a market, winners and losers abound – and generally commerce locations within the course of.”
How lengthy will it take to learn? About three minutes.
5. Humorous-shaped tree frog hiding a Nerf gun dart
In her seaside residence close to Townsville, Queensland, Annie O’Brien and her two boys discovered a inexperienced “funny-shaped” tree frog of their bathe. Her first thought was that the frog had eaten a lip balm. Quickly after, nonetheless, it was revealed that the cylinder lodged contained in the discovered frog was really a foam dart from a Nerf gun.
A late-night name to a snake handler ended with a visit to the emergency room. There, utilizing a teaspoon to pry open the frog’s mouth, the dart (which was about the identical size because the frog’s physique) was efficiently eliminated.
Notable quote: “I grew up within the UK so if you see issues like this you go, ‘Oh my God, that’s so wild’ however if you stay in Australia for 20 years, it’s like ‘What are we doing with this frog at 9 o’clock at night time?’,” O’Brien says.
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