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An enormous rat has been spotted making itself at home in the empty food court of a popular Sydney shopping centre during the city's lockdown.  A shopper walking through the Parramatta Westfield filmed the rodent crawling underneath a table in the abandoned food court on Sunday.  The man uploaded the video to TikTok, where locked-down viewers were quick to poke fun at the furry intruder.  @leiffyy #fyp #tiktok ♬ original sound - Leif @leiffyy #fyp #tiktok ♬ original sound - Leif #fyp #tiktok A shopper walking through the Parramatta Westfield filmed one of the brazen rodents underneath a table in the abandoned food court on Sunday 'Hope he has a mask on,' one user commented.  'With restrictions in place, they are the ones going shopping,' another said.  'Has no mask. Needs a fine unless he has an exemption,' a third wrote.  'At least he's social distancing,' a fourth replied.  Westfield shopping centres are still open for trade during the st

Time is running out to reunite a baby orca calf with his lost pod after he was found beached and abandoned in New Zealand. Hundreds of Kiwis have joined the massive search mission to track down the juvenile whale's mother and lost pod before it's too late. The orca named Toa by locals is too young to survive alone in the wild and will die unless it's reunited with its pod. The orca calf was found beached in a rockpool by two teens in Plimmerton in Wellington's north on Sunday, sparking a widespread rescue and search effort. Volunteers are working around the clock to help care for a baby orca which has lost his pod in Wellington The Department of Conservation updated the public on the orca's condition on Tuesday afternoon as its efforts to save the orca calf ramp up.  'The animal has been provided electrolytes through a tube by veterinarians. This method does cause the animal some distress but is the best option to ensure the animal remains in reasonable condi

The bestselling author if 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad' fears Australia's share market and property prices will crash as a result of too much Covid-induced government spending. Robert Kiyosaki is worried about another Great Depression with the pandemic creating an asset bubble unseen in more than 90 years. A stock market crash in 1929 led to a prolonged economic slump, where businesses lost the confidence to invest without government help, pushing unemployment to 32 per cent by 1932. 'I would say it's a very close comparison to 1929,' he told Daily Mail Australia from Arizona. 'Right now, my friend, we're beyond a bubble, we're in a mania. 'Right now, the whole world's in a bubble, how long it's going to crash, I don't know.'   The bestselling author if 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad' fears Australia's share market and property prices will crash as a result of too much Covid-induced government spending. Robert Kiyosaki (pictured left with

A mother-of-three has no regrets about lashing out at takeaway chicken shop staff who refused her service because she wasn't wearing a mask.  The mum, who only gave her first name Lulu, was told 'no mask, no service' when she tried to buy lunch from Frango charcoal chicken shop in Smithfield on Sunday.  The suburb is at the centre of south-west Sydney's Covid outbreak and has repeatedly been singled out as a hotspot by authorities over the past week.  A bystander filmed the mother launching into a tirade at staff and the video of her yelling 'you know what, you're being f***ing b****es' has since gone viral on TikTok.  Lulu admitted to Daily Mail Australia that she had 'cracked' it at the workers. But she said the video of the encounter had blown the incident out of proportion.   The mum insisted she had been 'quite polite and very helpful' in trying to show staff that she had a medical exemption from mask wearing, due to her asthma.  Mother

A handful of radical vegan activists have caused outrage after parading a dead lamb in a Coles supermarket. Controversial animal rights activist Tash Peterson participated in the public stunt at Kew, in Melbourne's east, where other activists lectured shoppers about their meat purchases as well as blaring the sounds of dying animals through a loudspeaker. Crudely placing the lamb in a shopping trolley, Ms Peterson, 27, said 'every single year 15 million lambs freeze to death in Australia. 'If you're not vegan, you are responsible for her death.' Controversial vegan rights identity Tash Peterson participated in the public stunt at Kew, in Melbourne's east, where other activists lectured shoppers about their meat purchases The vegan activists displayed a dead lamb in their in store stunt at a Coles supermarket in Melbourne's east It later emerged some passionate activists discovered the baby lamb on a property outside of Melbourne which had frozen to death.

An infected Coles worker has exposed hundreds of people to Covid at Sydney's current virus hotspot, Fairfield, while several shops close to the Bondi Junction apartment block under police guard have been added to the list of exposure sites. New South Wales Health warned anyone who visited Coles in the Fairfield Forum on Friday July 9 (between  9am and 12pm), Saturday July 10 (from 12pm to 5.30pm) and/or on Sunday July 11 (between 7am and 3pm) that they are a close contact and must get tested and stay home for 14 days.  A close contact must always remain in self-isolation for 14 days even if they receive a negative Covid test. They must also call NSW Health on 1800 943 553.  Anyone who visited Coles in the Fairfield Forum last Friday, Saturday or Sunday at the specified times is a close contact and is urged to immediately get tested and sel-isolate for 14 days regardless of the result of their Covid test Anyone who visited Bondi Junction's Eastgate Blooms The Chemist on Friday a

Dominic Cummings has been warned he may have breached rules on senior officials taking up paid work after leaving government by setting up a blog lifting the lid on the inner workings of Downing Street. Boris Johnson's former chief aide has used the Substack newsletter site to make a series of attacks on his former boss, his wife Carrie, and a number of current and former ministers. But Lord Pickles, chairman of the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments , has warned that it may break the rules because he charges people £10 a month to receive his gossip.      Acoba is supposed to vet appointments taken by former ministers and senior officials, but Lord Pickles, a former minister himself, said Mr Cummings had failed to seek their advice before launching the project.  In a letter to the Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove, published today, Lord Pickles said: 'I understand that Mr Cummings has made an application via the Cabinet Office to the committee for consideration. 

For years after his infamous penalty miss at Euro 96, Gareth Southgate was abused in the street and admitted just a fortnight ago that it was 'always going to hurt'. The now-England manager was even accused of 'cashing in' on the incident after starring in a Pizza Hut advert making fun of it just five months later. Some 25 years later, Southgate faced more penalty heartache with England after three of his young stars missed spot kicks of their own in last night's Euro 2020 final. In the aftermath of the shootout at Wembley, Jadon Sancho, Marcus Rashford and Bukayo Saka were all subject to vile racist abuse before fans rallied around the trio and began flooding them with messages of encouragement.  The strong showing of support despite the crucial penalty misses contrasts with what Southgate suffered in 1996 aged 21 - and the intense abuse directed at David Beckham when he was sent off in the World Cup two years later. Southgate, 50, spoke about the racist abuse toda

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has railed against fellow GOP governors who enacted COVID-19 restrictions during the pandemic - questioning their the 'grit and instinct'.  Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas on Sunday, Noem suggested that some Republican governors were 'rewriting history' by refusing to acknowledge that they shut down states for a period of time. 'We've got Republican governors across this country pretending they didn't shut down their states; that they didn't close their regions; that they didn't mandate masks,' Noem said. South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has railed against fellow GOP governors who enacted COVID-19 restrictions during the pandemic in a speech at CPAC on Sunday 'Now I'm not picking fights with Republican governors. All I'm saying is that we need leaders with grit. That their first instinct is the right instinct,' she continued. 'Demand honesty from your lead

A California restaurant owner has pleaded with customers to be patient with his short-staffed taqueria because 'no one wants to work anymore' due to government handouts. Taco Loco in Folsom posted a slow service sign after struggling to find enough workers at the popular restaurant. The sign reads: 'To our loyal customers. Sadly, due to government and state handouts no one wants to work anymore. Therefore, we are short staffed. A California restaurant owner has pleaded with customers to be patient with his short-staffed taqueria because 'no one wants to work anymore' 'Please be patient with our staff that did choose to come to work today to serve you.' California's economy fully reopened on June 15 with no limits on capacities at restaurants. But despite the rush back to hospitality venues, many restaurant owners are struggling to find the staff. The government's COVID handouts are continuing to leave people unwilling to work for less than they could