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Anthony Albanese has mounted an emotional defence of his late mother after Pauline Hanson criticised the length of time she spent living in public housing, calling the One Nation leader’s remarks “nasty” and “spiteful”. The Australian prime minister was responding to comments Hanson made earlier this year about his repeated references to growing up in Sydney public housing with his single mother. Speaking on The Karl Stefanovic Show on January 25, Hanson questioned why Albanese’s mother had remained in public housing for decades. “Housing commission houses should not be there for people to live in them for 30, 40 years,”…

Judge Judy is retiring from on-camera courtroom television after more than 30 years, with Judy Sheindlin’s final episode of Judy Justice due to air next month. The 83-year-old television judge told People she would step away from the screen when the streaming series concludes, turning her attention to other endeavours. Sheindlin will remain involved in courtroom television behind the scenes, helping to produce a new programme fronted by her son, Adam. Adam’s Law is scheduled to debut on Monday, according to several local outlets. Her son’s programme will follow Sheindlin’s long-running presence in the genre, which began with the syndicated…

A Minnesota pastor has died weeks after suffering a severe spinal cord injury and nearly drowning during a cruise in Italy celebrating his son’s wedding. Steve Junker, 58, from Elbow Lake, was on board Princess Cruises’ Sun Princess on 16 August when he fell and was later found face down and unresponsive in a swimming pool, according to a fundraising page set up by his family. He was taken ashore by an Italian Coast Guard boat and admitted to intensive care in Naples. His family said he underwent emergency spinal surgery the following day, although the injury remained serious. Princess…

Pauline Hanson is facing calls to apologise over what has been described as “an appalling remark” about the late mother of Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. A senior minister has criticised the comment and urged the One Nation leader to issue an apology. The remarks concerning Mr Albanese’s mother have prompted a backlash against Senator Hanson, though no further details of the comment were provided.

Andy Burnham has delayed a decision on new licences for the Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gas fields in the North Sea, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has claimed. Ms Badenoch said the Prime Minister had been expected to announce the licences at the Trades Union Congress in Brighton on Tuesday, with a possible visit to Aberdeen also reportedly under consideration. Both plans have now been shelved, she said. She claimed the delay was linked to Labour’s close contest with the Green Party in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election, due to take place at the start of October. Ms Badenoch…

Katy Perry’s concert film took just £21,000 during its limited release in UK cinemas, with screenings across the country attracting largely empty auditoriums. The £4 million production was filmed over two nights of the singer’s Lifetimes Tour in Paris last year and was shown at around 150 cinemas and IMAX venues earlier this month. At one screening in Leeds, no tickets were sold, while only two fans attended a showing in Coventry. In Milton Keynes, 17 people went to one IMAX screening and ten to another. Across two screenings in Edinburgh, 17 tickets were sold. At Vue’s flagship cinema in…

A police dog’s alert at a UPS sorting facility in Minneapolis led investigators to two arrests, the seizure of about 23lb of suspected cocaine and the discovery of three firearms, including two fitted with machine-gun conversion devices, in a Columbia Heights flat. The investigation began on 10 September when a narcotics detective from the Metropolitan Airports Commission Police Department identified two parcels as suspicious during checks for illegal drugs. According to a criminal complaint filed in Anoka County, the department’s certified detection dog, Goldy, was directed to search the packages. The dog showed no reaction to numerous parcels before alerting…

Pauline Hanson is facing calls to apologise for criticising Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s late mother over the length of time she spent in public housing. Trade Minister Don Farrell condemned the One Nation leader’s remarks as “appalling”, saying an attack on the Prime Minister’s mother was unacceptable. Maryanne Albanese raised her son alone in public housing in Sydney’s Inner West. She and Mr Albanese relied on a disability pension after severe rheumatoid arthritis left her with crippled joints. Mr Albanese has frequently spoken about his mother and their poor upbringing. But in an interview this week, Senator Hanson dismissed his…

Sarah Brookes is leaving Sydney after two years on the Northern Beaches, saying the city’s housing costs, traffic and day-to-day frustrations have outweighed its beaches, harbour and national parks. She is returning to Perth, where she previously lived in a four-bedroom, two-bathroom house on a bushy half-acre. In Sydney, she exchanged that property for a 59-square-metre apartment affected by recurring mould and intense heat during summer. Brookes said her decision was not prompted by a lack of attractions. Sydney’s harbour, clifftops, architecture and secluded coves remained among its great strengths, but she concluded that its beauty did not justify the…

NeNe Leakes has contacted her former Real Housewives of Atlanta rival Kim Zolciak to ask how she is coping with allegations against her 15-year-old son, Kroy ‘KJ’ Biermann Jr. Leakes said she reached out to Zolciak last week, but concluded that the reality star was “not okay” as KJ faces seven felony charges connected to an alleged sexual assault involving an underage girl. “I recently spoke to Kim. I think it was last week. I just hit her up, wanted to know how she was doing, and made sure she was okay with what her son is dealing with,” Leakes…