Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time Follow our live coverage of the 2025 federal election here.  Labor is projected to win the election and Anthony Albanese has held onto his inner Sydney seat of Grayndler Peter Dutton and the Coalition cannot form government Our analysts say the swings against the Coalition have been so strong across so many seats that there is no way for Peter Dutton to form government with a majority in parliament Labor has made big gains in most of the target seats it had named to increase its majority and the early results show that it has achieved those objectives Labor has also gained big swings in hard-fought electorates that it did not name as target seats One prominent Labor supporter says the early results indicate a Labor landslide Labor supporters celebrate at Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s election night function at the Canterbury-Hurlstone Park RSL Club It’s been 76 years since Grayndler was created which means it’s been 76 years of the division being under Labor’s stewardship to keep the inner west division warm for the future prime minister for the following three years Grayndler has been held by Anthony Albanese pictured here in the seat’s suburb of Marrickville in May 2022 That same day, while across the country in Western Australia, Albanese faced questions about putting Greens candidate Hannah Thomas “The last time around I won on primary votes. My preferences [didn’t] get counted. That’s what happens in Grayndler and we’ll be continuing to advocate for a No.1 vote, not just for myself in Grayndler, but for my friend Chris Bowen in McMahon, and for Labor candidates [elsewhere],” Albanese told the press pack “I’m not about promoting Greens candidates.” Here’s what you need to know about Grayndler Created in 1949 when parliament was expanded Grayndler is named after former general secretary of the Australian Workers’ Union Ted Grayndler and was once the home of Sydney’s working class has radically altered the electorate’s demographic make-up in recent decades The intricacies of its voting preferences has also changed When Albanese was first elected on his 33rd birthday in 1996 his main challenger was a candidate from the since-dissolved No Aircraft Noise Party Albanese’s main challenger is considered to be Thomas She moved to Australia in 2009 as an international student and rents in Newtown Thomas is second on Albanese’s how-to-vote card, though she has put him third behind two-time Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker David Bradbury Other candidates include Liberal’s David Smallbone Pauline Hanson’s One Nation’s Rodney Smith and Trumpet of Patriots’ Cheri Rae Burrell You can take a look at the interactive below, or search this interactive map for more information on electorates and candidates Albanese won Grayndler in 2022 with 53.63 per cent of votes followed by Greens candidate Rachael Jacobs at 22.04 per cent The Australian Electoral Commission’s recent redrawing of boundaries has meant Grayndler has gone from being Australia’s smallest electorate – it was previously 32 square kilometres – to the country’s second-smallest electorate at 34 square kilometres Covering most of Sydney’s Inner West Council area The recent redistribution of boundaries means the Sydney electorate has gained the Balmain peninsula north of the City West Link at Grayndler’s loss though areas south of Marrickville Road has been added to the portfolio at Barton’s loss Grayndler also picked up territory that was formerly Watson’s This has helped the Labor versus the Greens margin to increase to 17.3 per cent from 17.1 per cent but Albanese is not immune to criticism from Grayndler residents and political rivals candidates for the Greens have finished second to Albanese Cut through the noise of federal politics with news, views and expert analysis. Subscribers can sign up to our weekly Inside Politics newsletter It\\u2019s been 76 years since was created which means it\\u2019s been 76 years of the division being under Labor\\u2019s stewardship it was the 10th time since 1996 that his campaign for the division had proven successful That\\u2019s if you don\\u2019t count the power broker\\u2019s cunning play before the 1993 election which saw from eastern Sydney\\u2019s since-abolished Phillip electorate but Grayndler has been the site of some turmoil during the 2025 election campaign: on April 22 a was with offensive symbols and language in a vandalism spree across Newtown Enmore and neighbouring Sydney electorate suburb Erskineville while across the country in Western Australia about putting Greens candidate Hannah Thomas \\u201CThe last time around I won on primary votes That\\u2019s what happens in Grayndler and we\\u2019ll be continuing to advocate for a No.1 vote and for Labor candidates [elsewhere],\\u201D Albanese \\u201CI\\u2019m not about promoting Greens candidates.\\u201D Here\\u2019s what you need to know about Grayndler Grayndler is named after former general secretary of the Australian Workers\\u2019 Union Ted Grayndler and was once the home of Sydney\\u2019s working class has radically altered the electorate\\u2019s demographic make-up in recent decades Albanese\\u2019s main challenger is considered to be Thomas The Greens candidate has been publicly of Albanese-led Labor\\u2019s approach to climate and the environment which saw many protesters camp outside the prime minister\\u2019s electorate office in Marrickville for months on end Thomas is second on Albanese\\u2019s how-to-vote card Other candidates include Liberal\\u2019s David Smallbone Pauline Hanson\\u2019s One Nation\\u2019s Rodney Smith and Trumpet of Patriots\\u2019 Cheri Rae Burrell You can take a look at the interactive below or for more information on electorates and candidates The Australian Electoral Commission\\u2019s recent redrawing of boundaries has meant Grayndler has gone from being Australia\\u2019s smallest electorate \\u2013 it was previously 32 square kilometres \\u2013 to the country\\u2019s second-smallest electorate at 34 square kilometres Covering most of Sydney\\u2019s Inner West Council area The recent redistribution of boundaries means the Sydney electorate has gained the Balmain peninsula north of the City West Link at Grayndler\\u2019s loss though areas south of Marrickville Road has been added to the portfolio at Barton\\u2019s loss Grayndler also picked up territory that was formerly Watson\\u2019s Cut through the noise of federal politics with news Home > Roger Bradbury Roger Bradbury is Emeritus Professor of Complex Systems Science at ANU Crawford School of Public Policy where he taught postgraduate courses in emerging infectious diseases He has worked on outbreaks in humans and other biosystems for 40 years Email: roger.bradbury@anu.edu.au Learn how his historic win turned into a universal term for unexpected triumph and why short track is the perfect sport to embody it Picture by Clive Mason/Getty ImagesBy Grace GouldingIt’s not over until it’s over there’s another phrase that better captures the moment: doing a Bradbury A quick search of the term might yield definitions such as “an unexpected or unusual success” “to triumph unexpectedly in a sporting event especially due to luck or the misfortune of others” or “to win a contest simply by being the last one standing” perfectly embodies the unpredictable nature of his sport Bradbury became Australia’s first-ever Winter Olympic gold medallist in one of the most astonishing finishes in Olympic history as the world’s finest short track skaters jostled for glory a chaotic last-lap crash took out every single one of his competitors he glided across the finish line into the history books But Bradbury didn’t just win gold or make history; he entered the vernacular. Today, “doing a Bradbury” has become a celebrated phrase, a testament to the fact that nothing is guaranteed and, sometimes, simply being ready for your moment can lead to an unforgettable triumph. Steven Bradbury wins shock gold after pile-upAfter all of his opponents fall during the final stretch Bradbury skates over the finish line for speedskatnig gold at Salt Lake City 2002 Australia’s first-ever Winter Olympic medal his path to the final in 2002 wasn’t simply a case of showing up and waiting for others to fall “I understand the luck angle that goes with it but I think most Aussies understand that to get into the final in anything in life you've got to put in a lot of hard work to put yourself in a position to capitalise if things go wrong for your opposition,” he explained Short track speed skating is brutally fast The best legs that I'd ever seen showed up at the Olympic Games so it wasn't quite the level I had a few years earlier the oldest guy in the entire Olympic field causing a chain reaction that wiped out the entire field cruised through the wreckage and claimed the most improbable gold in Olympic history If there was ever a sport tailor-made for a phrase like “doing a Bradbury,” it’s short track speed skating The discipline is notorious for last-second crashes dramatic overtakes and unpredictable finishes with razor-thin margins separating victory from disaster A single misstep or collision can turn an entire race upside down awareness and strategic positioning can sometimes be more valuable than sheer speed It’s moments like these that define short track and no race is ever won until the very last stride Bradbury's win remains the ultimate example of the sport’s brutal unpredictability and adrenaline-fuelled excitement that keeps fans on the edges of their seats But what makes the four-time Olympian's story truly special isn’t just that he won in the most extraordinary fashion; it’s that his name has transcended sport immortalised in the form of a phrase still in use decades later The moment when he realised how deeply embedded the phrase had become in everyday language left the Olympic champion smiling. “Not so long ago, I heard a group of young people, and they used the expression in the right context. They didn’t know who I was or that I was even there. I just walked away with a big grin on my face.” Play Duration: 1 hour 43 seconds1h Brought to you by This is the first of two episodes recorded in front of a live audience as part of a special “Week with Students” a collaboration between Radio National and ABC Education Of the three great dystopian novels published on either side of the Second World War — Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” (1931) George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four” (1949) and Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451” (1953) — it is Bradbury’s vision of a future without books that can lay legitimate claim to being the most prescient It tracks the moral awakening of an unthinking whose occupation it is not to protect properties against flames but to incinerate books And yet the disappearance of books did not happen It all started with the steady reduction of the size of texts and a rapid increase in the rate of publication (Bradbury might as well have been describing social media.) After that it didn’t take much for books to be permitted to disappear altogether due to their irrelevance to the way people live Why would you need censorship when distraction and disinterest will do the trick But after a series of encounters with witnesses Montag is led out of darkness and into enlightenment; away from the flames that burn and toward the fire that gives warmth sociability; away from distraction and inner-emptiness and toward contemplation not a bug?Published: WedWed 30 Apr 2025 at 6:00pm Published: 23 Apr 2025Wed 23 Apr 2025 at 6:00pm Published: 16 Apr 2025Wed 16 Apr 2025 at 6:00pm Published: 9 Apr 2025Wed 9 Apr 2025 at 6:00pm Download the ABC listen app to hear more of your favourite podcasts David Bradbury was Penrith’s youngest ever Mayor then became the Federal Lindsay MP and rose through the ranks of Australian politics his decade working in Paris and why he loves being back in Penrith And he answers an inevitable question: would he ever make a political comeback Search Western Weekender wherever you listen to podcasts This post has been published by the team in our newsroom Illness keeps Australian contender from lining up – 'it's not the time of year to be really pushing and forcing' says sports director illness meant the 22-year-old Australian would have to sit this one out.  and we need to accept and she will recover now she already has another week planned in Australia Canyon-SRAM zondacrypto may well be missing a valuable option in Bradbury but they have others with Chloe Dygert lining up alongside Tiffany Cromwell Alice Towers and Maike Van der Duin.  Dygert has already proven her form on multiple occasions through the Australian summer winning stage 3 of the Santos Tour Down Under and also coming second in the Surf Coast Classic to Ally Wollaston (FDJ-Suez) in the sprint.  she has a turn of speed that can be hard to match even if you know it's coming When asked at the sign-on interview whether a late attack was on the cards She joined Cyclingnews as a Production Editor at the start of the 2021 season and has now moved into the role of Australia Editor Previously she worked as a freelance writer Australian Editor at Ella CyclingTips and as a correspondent for Reuters and Bloomberg Cycling was initially purely a leisure pursuit for Simone but in 2015 her career focus also shifted to the sport Who would have predicted that at the halfway point of this federal election campaign Peter Dutton’s son Harry would emerge as the biggest winner Having begun the campaign as a 20-year-old apprentice chippy with distant dreams of one day having enough money for a house deposit live-on TV promise from his old man to help him buy his first place Peter Dutton and his son Harry.Credit: James Brickwood Harry Dutton’s unexpected cameo and the pesky questions it raised for his dad shows the perils of bring-your-kids-to-work days and the unpredictable nature of election campaigns It is also what happens when opposition parties enter an election period undercooked on policy and unclear about the argument they are trying to make Putting up the son of a career parliamentarian to cry poor about house prices, let alone the son of a long-serving government minister and opposition leader who has amassed a well-documented personal fortune through property investments The most generous thing that can be said is that no one thought it through Unless something dramatic happens to change the course of this federal election campaign this may become the working title for the inevitable Liberal Party review there is one Liberal leader who shouldn’t need to wait for the findings the affable copper turned baker turned Victorian opposition leader trying to turf out Labor after 11 years in government may be tempted to believe that if he can just hold together his fractious party room long enough he’ll skate Bradbury-style into the top job in November 2026 Anyone who can read an opinion poll can see that Premier Jacinta Allan is in a world of hurt Her approval rating in last week’s survey of voters conducted by Redbridge is below the levels recorded by Scott Morrison in his political death throes Bill Hayden’s proverbial drover’s dog would romp it in at a state election in Victoria who shadowed the federal Liberal leader Peter Dutton during an election campaign stop in Caulfield last week will need to learn from his federal counterpart’s mistakes.Credit: James Brickwood The same survey that scored Allan with an approval rating of minus 35 also found that 9 per cent of voters were unsure of Battin and 30 per cent had no idea who he was This is a sobering result for someone who has spent the past decade in public office and whose face is on the TV news most nights Unless Battin colours in the details of his character political ethos and plans for Victoria’s future well ahead of the state election Labor’s campaign machine will happily oblige The machine did this with ruthless effect in 2022 after it detected electorate uncertainty about former Liberal leader Matthew Guy The challenge before Battin is not only to explain to voters who he is and what he stands for but to lay down the kind of foundational policies missing from the federal Coalition’s pitch to voters it is clear the Liberals under Battin stand for bail laws tougher-than-the-other-lot’s bail laws removing prohibitions on onshore gas exploration and gas connections in newly built homes and .. What is the opposition’s plan to turn around the state’s parlous fiscal situation and start paying down its debt How can it do this while easing Victoria’s stifling tax burden on business and property transactions Will any gas Victoria extracts from onshore deposits be exported or does Battin support a version of Dutton’s gas reservation scheme to preserve some supply for domestic use Does Battin intend to keep all the policies of his predecessor There is little evidence that a party which has malingered in opposition for all but four years this century is ready to start making a compelling case for change where Liberal backbencher Moira Deeming appears intent on bankrupting Pesutto following her successful defamation case against the former leader This is a complex dispute well canvassed in previous reports by my colleague it centres on about $2 million in legal costs that Deeming could have chosen not to pay back to a deep-pocketed donor but Battin said while costs were being determined by the court he would not get involved in the dispute beyond offering “welfare” support to both colleagues That makes him responsible for anything and anyone she blows up from here Pesutto resigned the leadership intending to focus his energies as a backbencher on long-term policy work One of his pet projects is to improve the integrity of the state budget He can’t bring a clear head to the state’s financial problems when he is immersed in his own Battin needs to get this sorted quickly and then If the Victorian opposition is planning to wait for next year’s election campaign period for their big reveal they are sillier than whoever plonked Harry Dutton in front of a TV camera The Opinion newsletter is a weekly wrap of views that will challenge, champion and inform your own. Sign up here. On ya \\u2019Arry. Who would have predicted that at the halfway point of this federal election campaign, Peter Dutton\\u2019s son Harry would emerge as the biggest winner? Whoever leads Australia\\u2019s next government, the lad\\u2019s played a blinder. Having begun the campaign as a 20-year-old apprentice chippy with distant dreams of one day having enough money for a house deposit, Harry Dutton now has an iron clad, \\u201Cread my lips\\u201D, live-on TV promise from his old man to help him buy his first place. Harry Dutton\\u2019s and the pesky questions it raised for his dad shows the perils of bring-your-kids-to-work days and the unpredictable nature of election campaigns. It is also what happens when opposition parties enter an election period undercooked on policy and unclear about the argument they are trying to make. Putting up the son of a career parliamentarian to cry poor about house prices, let alone the son of a long-serving government minister and opposition leader who has amassed through property investments, makes little to no sense. The most generous thing that can be said is that no one thought it through. Unless something dramatic happens to change the course of this federal election campaign, this may become the working title for the inevitable Liberal Party review. In the meantime, there is one Liberal leader who shouldn\\u2019t need to wait for the findings. Brad Battin, the affable copper turned baker turned Victorian opposition leader trying to turf out Labor after 11 years in government, may be tempted to believe that if he can just hold together his fractious party room long enough, he\\u2019ll skate Bradbury-style into the top job in November 2026. Anyone who can read an can see that Premier Jacinta Allan is in a world of hurt. Her approval rating in last week\\u2019s survey of voters conducted by Redbridge is below the levels recorded by Scott Morrison in his political death throes. At this point, Bill Hayden\\u2019s proverbial drover\\u2019s dog would romp it in at a state election in Victoria. If Battin does believe any of this, his chances are already shot. The same survey that scored Allan with an approval rating of minus 35 also found that 9 per cent of voters were unsure of Battin and 30 per cent had no idea who he was. This is a sobering result for someone who has spent the past decade in public office and whose face is on the TV news most nights. Unless Battin colours in the details of his character, political ethos and plans for Victoria\\u2019s future well ahead of the state election, Labor\\u2019s campaign machine will happily oblige. The machine did this with ruthless effect in 2022 after it detected electorate uncertainty about former Liberal leader Matthew Guy. The challenge before Battin is not only to explain to voters who he is and what he stands for, but to lay down the kind of foundational policies missing from the federal Coalition\\u2019s pitch to voters. So far, it is clear the Liberals under Battin stand for bail laws tougher-than-the-other-lot\\u2019s bail laws, reviewing the Suburban Rail Loop, removing prohibitions on onshore gas exploration and gas connections in newly built homes and ... what else? What is the opposition\\u2019s plan to turn around the state\\u2019s parlous fiscal situation and start paying down its debt? How can it do this while easing Victoria\\u2019s stifling tax burden on business and property transactions? Will any gas Victoria extracts from onshore deposits be exported or does Battin support a version of Dutton\\u2019s gas reservation scheme to preserve some supply for domestic use? Does Battin intend to keep all the policies of his predecessor, John Pesutto, or have some quietly been ditched? There is little evidence that a party which has malingered in opposition for all but four years this century is ready to start making a compelling case for change. Instead, we have the latest Chronicles of Moira, where Liberal backbencher Moira Deeming appears intent on bankrupting Pesutto following her successful defamation case against the former leader. This is a complex dispute by my colleague, Rachel Eddie. For the sake of brevity, it centres on about $2 million in legal costs that Deeming could have chosen not to pay back to a deep-pocketed donor but, instead, is seeking to add to Pesutto\\u2019s tab. When asked about the situation this week, Battin said while costs were being determined by the court, he would not get involved in the dispute beyond offering \\u201Cwelfare\\u201D support to both colleagues. This is not a tenable position. Battin staked his leadership, in part, on bringing Deeming back into the party. That makes him responsible for anything and anyone she blows up from here. Pesutto resigned the leadership intending to focus his energies as a backbencher on long-term policy work. One of his pet projects is to improve the integrity of the state budget. He can\\u2019t bring a clear head to the state\\u2019s financial problems when he is immersed in his own. Battin needs to get this sorted quickly and then, get down to serious work. If the Victorian opposition is planning to wait for next year\\u2019s election campaign period for their big reveal, they are sillier than whoever plonked Harry Dutton in front of a TV camera. The Opinion newsletter is a weekly wrap of views that will challenge, champion and inform your own. . HomeTributes & FuneralsView PhotoDeath NoticesBRADBURY Dearly loved and cherished husband of Margaret (dec) Family and friends of Jim are warmly invited to the celebration of his life which will be held at the Seventh Day Adventist Church Albury on Thursday 17th April 2025 commencing at 10.30am Please note that this is an automated translation and it will not be perfect All articles have been written in English and if anything appears to not make sense The young Australian has emerged as one of the best climbers in the peloton She's now set herself some lofty goals Bradbury in the best young rider jersey at the 2024 UAE Tour Already have an account? Sign in The 25-year-old stepped it up with four birdies on the back nine on Sunday to finish at 16-under overall for his second DP World Tour career win. He held off Denmark's Jeff Winther after he shot up the leaderboard with seven birdies in his faultless round of 64. Victory earned Bradbury spots at the Abu Dhabi Championship and the European Tour Championship in Dubai. "It hasn't sunk in at all. The goal this week was to make the cut so I didn't have to go to Korea needing to keep my card," Bradbury said. "I guess I'll be looking at flights to Dubai then." Winther could only par the last two holes and finished tied for second with countryman Thorbjorn Olesen (68), England's Sam Bairstow (68) and Germany's Yannik Paul (66) at Le Golf National, the course that staged the Olympics, on the outskirts of Paris. Bradbury said he felt it could be his day when he just avoided landing in the water on the 15th and then rolled in a putt from 15 feet. "Luckily it stayed on, and I hit a horrendous putt that went in," he said. "Sometimes you just need that. Once I'd done that it felt like 'there's definitely something going for me.'" Swedish golfer Jesper Svensson, who held a one-stroke overnight lead from Olesen and Bairstow, had a nightmare round of five over 76 to tumble down to a share of 27th. Australia's lone entrant David Micheluzzi ended up joint-27th at eight under after his final-round 70. More than 70 years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 lives on in the public imagination as one of the great dystopian visions of the twentieth century a firefighter tasked not with putting out fires that would otherwise destroy houses and property which the state has deemed illegal to read or possess As Montag becomes increasingly conflicted about his role in perpetuating ignorance and conformity through encounters with dissident academics and outsiders as well as through stolen works of literature After a traumatic early encounter during which a woman chooses to be immolated along with her books Montag reflects: “There must be something in books to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there You don’t stay for nothing.” The novel chronicles Montag’s gradual transformation from a destroyer of books to a defender of books Fahrenheit 451 is mostly read as a cautionary tale about the dangers of censorship authoritarianism and dehumanising forms of technology It has the status of a startlingly prescient work of literature since it anticipated many aspects of twenty-first-century life Although Bradbury never claimed to be a Nostradamus — explaining to one interviewer that he saw himself as “a preventer of futures not a predictor of them” — Fahrenheit 451 has nonetheless had startling predictive power And despite being written at a time in which only half of all US households owned television sets — heavy mid-century TVs that screened only in black and white — Bradbury anticipated the rise of giant flat-screen high-definition colour televisions in every home humans do much of their talking and interacting with the substitute “families” that appear on these screens Bradbury imagined a dystopian future where speed was the central ambition teenagers zoom through urban streets on “jet cars” and “beetles” that are fast enough to travel “five or six hundred miles in a few moonlit hours”; Montag’s wife Mildred escapes her problems by driving so fast that she can instantly kills animals that venture on to the road (“You hit rabbits she explains); and highway billboards have to be stretched out to “200 feet” so that the drivers speeding past can still make them out who perfectly expresses the logic of this dizzying dystopia: “Whirl man’s mind around about so fast under the pumping hands of publishers “that the centrifuge flings off all unnecessary The nightmarish world that Bradbury gives us is built on speed, violence and the worship of technology — an uncanny vindication of the Italian Futurists’ mad visions of the early twentieth century By depicting a nightmarish culture that views reading and learning as the enemies of social stability Fahrenheit 451 mounts a powerful argument for their necessity the novel celebrates the considerable power that is held by quiet whom Bradbury sees as a bulwark against the sinister forces of corporate and state power If we want to avoid creating a dystopian future for ourselves we had better make sure that we keep reading and properly valuing books Science fiction writer Ray Bradbury in November 1959 browsing through a collection of space suits for a possible television series And yet while all these aspects of Fahrenheit 451 are certainly important there is a crucial dimension of the novel that has gone entirely unnoticed by critics Along with its other concerns and preoccupations the novel also dramatises a particular vision of individual formation and flourishing known as moral perfectionism It serves as a powerful expression of this philosophical outlook demonstrating that even in the most poisoned cultural and political landscape moral perfectionism offers a powerful way of understanding how growth and transformation are still possible I see Bradbury as using the novel to ask how moral and spiritual progress take place especially in a debased world where they seem impossible how can genuine transformation still happen And where can an education worthy of the name be found Fahrenheit 451’s suggestion is that the only way to resist dystopia is by following perfectionist guides I want to explore this overlooked dimension of the novel by looking at the various perfectionist guides that Montag discovers in his quest for liberation — including other people which Cavell reads as having this aspiration at their core Cavell begins by identifying a broader strain of straight perfectionism in philosophy that dates back at least as far as Plato and Aristotle both of whom had clearly defined conceptions of the Good — the eternal realities of the Forms for Plato; eudaimonia or human flourishing for Aristotle according to these two ancient philosophers and their followers was to spend every moment seeking these forms of the Good Cavell sees moral perfectionism as more open-ended and less teleological It is a search for a vision of the good life that appeals to a particular person in a particular time and place and it is always an open question as to what end a given person should be seeking Cavell suggests that moral perfectionism emerges whenever the couples in these films are preoccupied not with “questions concerning what they ought to do what it would be best or right for them to do than by the question of how they shall live their lives It arises whenever we make a sincere attempt to reduce the gap between how we live right now and how we wish to be I can always make out a version of myself that has more integrity it is not a matter of reaching final truth or goodness but instead about gradually becoming more and more intelligible to myself and others: In Emerson’s and Thoreau’s sense of human existence there is no question of reaching a final state of the soul but only and endlessly taking the next step to what Emerson calls “an unattained by attainable self” — a self that is always and never ours — a step that turns us not from bad to good but from confusion and constriction toward self-knowledge and sociability I am engaged in a project of moral perfectionism As the American essayist Mark Greif rightly points out moral perfectionism is thus a “meaning of life” offering a solution to the question of how life should be lived Greif helpfully breaks down this philosophical outlook into four key steps: Regard all things as if they were examples which state simply the way of life they incarnate;  What do you say to me?” and you’ll learn what it is that lives in you; If you are called to change your life by any example and your self responds — you must change your life Thus there is no perfection in perfectionism; the process of experience and correspondence never stops The political philosopher Alexandre Lefebvre helpfully frames moral perfectionism in even simpler terms arguing that it relies on just three key steps: There are clearly different ways to understand moral perfectionism and different metaphors through which it can be characterised Emerson himself used the image of concentric circles to picture its movement taking life as a process of moving from smaller to larger spheres of knowledge and virtue in which we are always striving for a further self we can now only dimly perceive and is mentioned by Granger as one of the texts that has already been memorised for the purposes of preservation Even more noteworthy is the fact that Ray Bradbury was a distant relation of Emerson himself Bradbury was also a descendant of Mary Bradbury who was tried in the Salem witch trials of the late-seventeenth century.) It is not at all beyond the realm of possibility that Bradbury used the novel as an investigation into the dynamics of perfectionism and as a way of thinking through his own familial and intellectual inheritance does Fahrenheit 451 express this philosophical outlook Let’s begin by noting the quality of Montag’s life at the start of the novel which is characterised by a kind of blissful stupor Montag wears a “fierce grin” and “fiery smile” that has become a rictus of bland as long as he remembered.” The novel’s very first sentence already primes us to think in terms of personal and collective forms of happiness and is an early indication that the culture has chosen “pleasure” — in whatever form it can be experienced — over and above any other good Yet the illusion of this stable and seemingly endless happiness is shattered by Montag’s chance encounter with his sixteen-year-old neighbour who after talking with him about various things asks him a simple yet devastating question: “Are you happy?” Clarisse is what Cavell would call Montag’s first perfectionist friend “whose conviction in one’s moral intelligibility draws one to discover it to find words and deeds in which to express it in which to enter the conversation of justice” Her singular way of being in the world implicitly invites him to seek a higher life Clarisse also opens up Montag to the sensory vividness of the world and she is the only truly human character we discover in the opening chapters It is telling that she moves through the world like a patient attentive reader: she notices the dew on the grass and talks honestly about what she loves and fears Clarisse is present and alive to the possibility of each moment in a way that Montag has never thought possible She also strives for genuine forms of communication Montag feels as though “she was working his questions around seeking the best answers she could possibly give” Clarisse clearly sees Montag in a way that allow him to feel more substantial She is the only person in his world who can “look at him with wonder and curiosity” since she looks at the broader world in this way too Clarisse’s lofty view of him implies that he will rise to meet it which Montag realises will involve taking off the mask of false unthinking cheer he has worn for as long as he can remember “He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask” “There was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back.” Bradbury also uses imagery of light and illumination to capture this nascent awareness It is not for nothing that Clarisse’s name means light or clarity — in certain moments her very face strikes Montag as “fragile milk crystal with a soft and constant light in it” Unlike the “hysterical light of electricity” that he knows so well her soul glows from her face as though lit with “the strangely comfortable and rare and gently flattering light of the candle” She has clearly seen something of the true light of wisdom and virtue herself The conscious of a light within that glows more and more brightly is part of how Montag comes to see his quest from “unreality … into reality” in the wake of his conversations with Clarisse Montag also discovers a new voice speaking within him and even for him — a complex mixture of Clarisse’s and his own he suddenly becomes aware of Clarisse’s thoughts and voice: before homes were completely fireproofed —” Suddenly it seemed a much younger voice was speaking for him He opened his mouth and it was Clarisse McClellan saying “Didn’t firemen prevent fires rather than stoke them up and get them going?” What is miraculous about a perfectionist friend is that he or she may well know us better than we know ourselves and thus be able to give voice to our deepest thoughts and desires with new precision Montag realises that through such miracles he is slowly becoming intelligible to himself he experiences this same strange phenomenon with Faber until the two elements combine to create a third substance It is also striking that Bradbury uses the same language of “a split in the human self of human nature as divided or double” that Cavell sees as being at the heart of moral perfectionism After Clarisse asks Montag several difficult questions about his work and beliefs while at the same time paying him high compliments about what she sees as his essential kindness and decency he suddenly experiences an extreme form of dissonance within himself: “He felt his body divide itself into a hotness and a coldness the two halves grinding one upon the other.” This sense of being doubled initially immobilises Montag Only after a long time did he move.” After this realisation he does indeed finally begin to move — toward nothing less than a next self It is this very sense of being split or doubled that allows a “demand or desire for a reform or transfiguration of the world” to emerge inspire and serve as examples of how to reach a higher form of life Unlike the false guide Montag had earlier encountered in Beatty — who can rattle off long passages and quotations from books but who is complicit with authoritarian power and is himself a thoroughgoing cynic — Faber testifies to the clear-sightedness and virtue that can be cultivated through reading Montag sees Faber as possessing a “strange warmth and goodness” that comes from a rich inner life and he opens Montag’s eyes to many crucial dimensions of books their imaginative reach and the way that they can disclose and dispel illusions is their ability to testify to the truth of experience and point us in the direction of reality the more truthfully recorded details of life per square inch you can get on a sheet of paper anyway.” His account here chimes with Bradbury’s own generous definition of literature but it also explains why the state opposes them “So now do you see why books are hated and feared?” Faber continues The comfortable people want only wax moon faces The 2003 re-issue of Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel “Fahrenheit 451” (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty images) This section of the novel also provides a powerful metaphor for perfectionist striving After Montag decides to join the loose resistance who opposed the cultural regime Faber offers to be a constant and ever-present sonic guide by means of a “small green metal object no larger than a .22 bullet” that acts as a wireless speaker and microphone Montag is able to use one ear to hear those in front of him and the other to hear Faber’s advice His experience here literalises the condition of every one of us: we are always hearing different voices — often simultaneously — and hearkening to those we find compelling while doing our best to ignore others we find unappealing Which voices will we allow to shape and guide us Surely whoever speaks to me in the right voice,him or her I shall follow.As the water follows the moon silently,with fluid steps anywhere around the globe Montag has tuned in to two of the right kinds of voices by this point in the novel and is hearing something far better than the relentless noise of the surrounding culture and has found more perfectionist guides inside the covers of his stolen books Bradbury’s high praise for reading throughout Fahrenheit 451 certainly speaks to such a vision It is only after reading Boswell’s Life of Johnson Jonathan Swift and the rest of the twenty or so books he has hidden behind a grille in his house — titles he has stolen from readers whose houses he been sent to destroy — that Montag is ready to resist his own degraded culture by whatever means are required is by this point too enfeebled by her addiction to tranquillisers and her three “televisor” walls to be in any way affected by them.) The novel sings the praises of books and readers and mounts a compelling case for the enormous personal and political benefits of reading And surely Fahrenheit 451 has done a great deal to instil a love of reading in both the students who encounter it at a young age and older readers François Truffaut reported that the entire film crew for his 1966 adaptation began valuing and reading books more than they had previously “The subjects of films influence the crews that make them” “and right from the start of Fahrenheit 451 everybody on the unit has begun to read There are often hundreds of books on the set; each member of the unit chooses one and sometimes you can hear nothing but the sound of turning pages.” That sound would surely have been music to Bradbury’s ears Oskar Werner and Julie Christie pose beneath a large 451 sign issued as publicity for the 1966 film version of “Fahrenheit 451” directed by Francois Truffaut — starring Werner as “Montag” and Christie in the dual role of “Clarisse” and “Linda Montag” (Photo by Silver Screen Collection / Getty Images) But while Fahrenheit 451 certainly celebrates the transformative power of reading Bradbury is careful never to fetishise books themselves There is a crucial exchange between Faber and Montag which speaks to this idea You play God to it.” Unlike the ubiquitous commercial and state messaging that assaults the citizens of Bradbury’s dystopia — recall the memorable scene where Montag tries to memorise passages from the Sermon on the Mount while an ad for “Denham’s Dandy Dental Detergent” drowns out all thought — books respect their readers we do indeed “play God” to the books we read granting them life only when we choose to keep engaging with them books are invaluable guides in the perfectionist pursuit but they are a means to an end — they are not ends themselves Montag is aiming for truth and wisdom in their purest forms a pursuit for which books are highly useful but ultimately not essential the influence of the natural world and other encounters may well end up serving as more reliable perfectionist guides Faber plays the role of the Socratic interlocutor helping Montag to realise the full extent of his own ignorance — an essential first step in any quest for genuine knowledge Montag slowly comes to see that he has imbibed a poisonous anti-human ideology and must begin again from the ground up He suddenly sees himself as someone “who knew nothing” and “who did not even know himself a fool he discovers his own ignorance and can then set off on the path toward genuine knowledge “he could feel the start of the long journey the going away from the self he had been.” After his formative conversations with Faber Montag has claimed yet another “next self” — and glimpsed another one emerging just beyond who brings him into a thriving philosophical community Granger leads a merry band of intellectuals who are devoted to preserving as much culture as they possibly can They do so mostly by memorising the great books: one has committed all of Plato to memory Granger invites Montag to join their resistance the avoidance of pedantry and self-superiority The members of this group are living manifestations of the idea that books can be perfectionist guides Granger is also an ideal teacher: he gently instructs Montag on the value of humour and comedy the spiritual necessity of leaving behind a crafted object that “your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die” and on how to stay alive to the experience of wonder and Montag takes Granger’s advice to heart spontaneously remembers courting Mildred many years earlier as well as opening himself up to the mysteries of the natural world after experiencing a kind of baptism in the “very real” river that his visual imagination has been honed to such a degree through reading that he can vividly imagine the way that Mildred dies and Faber escapes from the bombs dropped on the city he has fled Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) sitting at his desk filled with objects in 1987 in Los Angeles (Photo by Gary Friedman / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) by the time he has arrived at this sphere of reality Montag has reached an almost mystical experience of intuition — such that knowledge is available to him in new ways He somehow knows deep in his bones that Clarisse had once walked the same path: “he was surprised to learn how suddenly certain he was of a single fact he could not prove where he was walking now.” After following her example early on in the novel which was so crucial in getting him started on a perfectionist quest by the end of the novel he believes that he is literally following in her footsteps Since she was the figure who served as his initial perfectionist guide it makes sense that she is present in some way even here We have seen Montag move from a freedom based on the satisfaction of desires where reason rules the soul of the individual with wisdom Montag has become a kind of philosopher by the novel’s end There are, of course, other philosophical accounts of Bradbury’s novel. The novel clearly engages with Plato’s myth of the cave — with its many references to shadows flames — and there is a strong argument that Bradbury gives a version of Plato’s divided line whereby we slowly move from illusion and mere representation to the realm of true knowledge There are also hints that Bradbury subscribed to Plato’s theory of knowledge as recollection But reading Fahrenheit 451 as a dramatisation of moral perfectionism is illuminating too since the novel is so clearly concerned with the thematics of personal transformation and how it might be possible to escape degraded and debased conditions to find a higher life This movement has particularly high stakes within a dystopia where the surrounding culture is so obviously the enemy of individual flourishing But one of the advantages of moral perfectionism is that it speaks to the human predicament in all times and places It certainly comes to light in an intensified form here in 1950s science-fiction they can harness forces well beyond their usual reach: When the artist is truly the servant of the work the work is better than the artist; Shakespeare knew how to listen to his work and so he often wrote better than he could write; Bach composed more deeply more truly than he knew; Rembrandt’s brush put more of the human spirit on the canvas than Rembrandt could comprehend The same principle holds for Bradbury, as well, who admitted to having little idea of what he was doing when he wrote Fahrenheit 451 and instead simply tried to keep pace with a fictional character who seemed to have a strangely independent existence Bradbury wrote in an afterword to a subsequent edition Montag was himself a perfectionist guide for Ray Bradbury If Montag can find his next self within such a debased and poisoned world And even if our own movements in the direction of our “unattained yet attainable selves” appear less dramatic Ray Bradbury signs copies of “Fahrenheit 451” after a press conference to announce that his book was selected for the first annual “One Book One City” reading initiative for Los Angeles it is clear that Montag’s own “process of experience and correspondence” has by no means reached an end still trying to emulate the nobility of the lives of the dissidents he has found himself among His very life has begun to simmer and stir and he has at last moved from an enervating dullness and predictability to perfectionist striving As he sets off with Granger and the other dissidents Montag brings to mind a memorised passage from Ecclesiastes that he plans to “offer … to make the trip a little easier” as well as one from the Book of Revelation: And on either side of the river was there a tree of life And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations final state of being — of which these lines speak cannot yet be reached Montag can still walk in the direction of it we are already living in what increasingly looks and feels like a dystopian world — or at least a world that many of our ancestors would view as such living impoverished and morally incoherent lives it is all too possible to see ourselves as what Friedrich Nietzsche called Such figures are the very opposite of hopeful since they pursue nothing higher than personal comfort and safety ethical discussion & philosophical discovery Bradbury crosses the line atop the iconic Blockhaus Bradbury and Niewiadoma celebrate their 1-2 stage finish at the Tour de Suisse I'm a lot more confident' says Australian after breakthrough 2024 season But how did Bradbury go from racing the finals virtually in "a random Airbnb" to the upper echelons of WorldTour climbing Canyon-SRAM zondacrypto team manager Ronny Lauke credits her settling into European life and tackling races away from her strengths as key factors.  The first two European appearances she made as a pro are races that couldn't be further away from her ideal terrain Bradbury herself finds it hard to pinpoint exactly what's helped her actualise her potential but whatever the formula she joined us when she was 18 years old," Lauke told Cyclingnews at his team's December training camp in Portugal.  "She had to leave Australia and move away from her family which I think can be pretty overwhelming when a young person comes to a different continent You need to help that young lady become independent to create a living on her own and not get lost in the whole wide world "It's something that psychologically can also be quite disturbing for some you adapt the training demand to the needs of a WorldTour rider and the highest level of this sport and then you keep developing "Sometimes we gave her races which were not her nature in order to make her understand her weaknesses We already knew from the beginning that she was a really good climber." In Bradbury, Canyon-SRAM zondacrypto now have a top-level climber who can operate as key support for Tour de France Femmes champion Kasia Niewiadoma "What she needed to work on was to become a complete rider sometimes a rider doesn't make this step mentally because she just cannot handle this pressure that automatically comes on the highest level of the sport or being away from home for so long. But I think in this case it has worked pretty well and all the predictions did work out Bradbury has opted against racing at the Australian National Road Championships prioritising her limited time in Australia with family before racing her home stage race While she kicked off her breakthrough 2024 season with third place at the Tour Down Under Bradbury isn't expecting to be as much of a contender in Adelaide come January 17 with an eye on bigger stage races in the European summer I had a big focus on Tour Down Under and UAE [Tour] so I'm using the Tour Down Under as training," Bradbury told Cyclingnews but I'm probably not going to be going as well as last time." After showing signs of the power levels that earned her a WorldTour spot with 10th overall at the Giro Donne in 2022 Bradbury reached new heights at her third Giro in 2024.  She not only won one of the hardest stages in modern women's racing up the iconic Blockhaus but did it in blistering heat and ahead of world champion Lotte Kopecky and eventual Giro winner Elisa Longo Borghini I'd already had quite a good season already so my confidence had built up a little bit throughout the whole season," said Bradbury.  "There were a few races where I felt like they had maybe let me go was still modest and shy in her demeanour as she reflected on her stunning ride the main reason I made that move was because we had Antonia [Niedermaiers] so high in the GC I have her to thank for that," Bradbury said high-reward move and I had nothing to lose." I can do a bit more," said Bradbury back in December.  I have a presence to show in the races and I'm more of a marked rider for next year but I'm excited to hopefully relish that and do better.  so I just have to keep that in mind and use it as a strength rather than a weakness Bradbury couldn't reveal much of her planned calendar when speaking back in December there is one race she's hoping to be at in 2025  – the Tour de France Femmes.  Bradbury admits she and the team didn't quite get the transition exactly right resulting in her being well away from her best at the Tour "The Giro was my main focus for the whole year so all my energy went into that and then I had a few weeks to recover and refocus again for the Tour de France "I think because I was quite happy with the Giro weren't quite right in between the two tours it was still a hugely satisfying eight stages of racing for Bradbury as her teammate Niewiadoma took a famous overall victory after surviving up Alpe d'Huez in the closest Tour de France The Melburnian expects to be back in July 2025 as the Pole defends her title and if the improvements Bradbury made in 2024 are anything to go off she'll be right up there on the key climbing days.  having Kasia win the yellow jersey was insane And I think I'll be there to support Kasia in defending the jersey [next year]." during which time he also wrote for Eurosport Prior to joining the team he reported on races such as Paris-Roubaix and the Giro d’Italia Donne for Eurosport and has interviewed some of the sport’s top riders in Chloé Dygert he spends the majority of his time watching other sports – rugby Land Line Advanced Search Land Line Steven Bradbury has been confirmed as deputy secretary of the U.S The Senate voted 51-46 in favor of Bradbury on Tuesday, March 11. He will serve as the DOT’s second in command to Secretary Sean Duffy they aim to roll back regulations without hindering safety “I’d like the legacy to be that the department had achieved greater efficiency in directing the dollars to the projects of most national importance for the American people,” Bradbury said during his confirmation hearing on Feb. 20. “Basically the greatest bang for the buck for the American taxpayer in terms of infrastructure projects We need to assess how the department exercises the discretion that Congress has given it with regard to funding programs to ensure that we are focusing our intention on safety and efficiency in those projects.” The Trump administration has been focused on rolling back regulations who served as the Department of Transportation’s general counsel during President Donald Trump’s first term noted that efficiency and safety can be achieved simultaneously DOT was a leader in achieving efficiencies and very sizable regulatory cost savings for the American economy without compromising safety,” Bradbury said at the hearing the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association wrote to the Senate committee in support of Bradbury’s nomination OOIDA noted Bradbury’s experience as chief counsel and applauded his role in withdrawing burdensome regulations such as a proposal to increase minimum liability insurance for motor carriers which is a top priority for OOIDA and our members.” The Senate voted 67-32 to confirm Lori Chavez-DeRemer as Labor Secretary on Monday Chavez-DeRemer received the necessary votes despite some initial concern about her support for the PRO Act while serving as a congresswoman for Oregon The PRO Act would utilize the ABC Test to determine if a worker is an employee or an independent contractor It also would make it easier for workers to join a union Most Republicans oppose the PRO Act and ABC Test saying that the barrier to becoming an independent contractor is too high Chavez-DeRemer helped secure her confirmation by pulling back her previous support of the PRO Act “I recognize that the bill is imperfect, and I am no longer a lawmaker,” Chavez-DeRemer said at her confirmation hearing my job will be to implement President Trump’s policy vision and my guiding principle will be President Trump’s guiding principle: ensuring a level playing field for businesses President Donald Trump has nominated Sean McMaster to be the next administrator of the Federal Highway Administration The announcement of McMaster was part of a long list of nominations sent to the Senate on Tuesday That list also included Seval Oz as being nominated as assistant secretary of the U.S DOT’s deputy chief of staff during the previous Trump administration Oz, who worked with executive board at Pioneer Electronics and MicroVision will be assuming a new position in the Department of Transportation Although the nature of the role has not been announced Oz possesses experience in the field of autonomous vehicle technology Truck drivers often vent about the amount of regulations they must follow and how many of them do nothing to improve highway safety By Mark Schremmer | May 02 What can the federal government do to help stop cargo theft Find out what industry stakeholders say can be done to stop the rise in crime By Ryan Witkowski | May 02 Congress is one step away from repealing California’s clean truck rules By Tyson Fisher | May 01 The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee approved a budget proposal that includes a new fee on electric vehicles By Mark Schremmer | May 01 An award-winning journalist and former assistant news editor at The Topeka Capital-Journal and more than two decades of journalism experience to our staff © Copyright 2025 Land Line Magazine & Land Line Now   The Bradbury underpass is one of the iconic spots of Campbelltown For people who live in East Campbelltown and Bradbury it provides a shortcut to the fast food outlets of southern Queen Street Traffic through the underpass has increased since the opening of the Campbelltown Billabong Parklands as people who came to town on a bus or train duck into this underpass for quick access to the new aquatic facility built next to Bradbury Oval The launch on Saturday of a new public artwork titled Ngalambay Artists Maddison Gibbs and Danielle Mate have collaborated to bring the community Ngalambay a site-specific immersive portal through time and space Country and Minerva Pools (a significant Dharawal women’s birthing site) this underwater cultural journey invites users of the underpass to reflect on the cycles of life The artwork was developed in collaboration with women from the local Dharawal community traditional water cleansing ceremony and the generous sharing of cultural stories of the Campbelltown region The artists’ flowing water motif was further brought to life with additional lighting and mirror details fabricated and installed by Curio Projects Campbelltown Mayor Darcy Lound was joined at the official opening ceremony by representatives of Transport for NSW along with artists and members of the community The opening ceremony consisted of local First Nations ceremonial proceedings and dance performances followed by artist workshops for the community to enjoy “This artwork is a wonderful addition to our community,’’ Mayor Cr Darcy Lound said “It aligns with our commitment to embed art and culture in our every day in the hopes that it will spark conversation and remind us that creativity can help bring us together “Revitalising this space will further encourage residents to utilise a safer more direct route to the Billabong Parklands from other key sites in our community,” Cr Lound said This project is funded by the NSW Government through Transport NSW’s Places to Love program Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value" the South West Voice is a free news website which serves Macarthur and Liverpool © 2023 South West Voice • All Rights Reserved • Proudly Supported by Simply WordPress Sydney The Bradbury Underpass now glistens with culture created by artists Maddison Gibbs and Danielle Mate invites travellers en route to the Billabong Parklands into an immersive journey “through time and space.” and Minerva Pools – an important Dharawal women’s birthing site -offering what the artists describe as an “underwater cultural experience” that urges passers-by to reflect on the cycles of life Collaborating with women from the local Dharawal community the project honors Aunty Kay Bussell and the region’s cultural traditions Curio Projects amplified the work’s flowing water motif with dynamic lighting and mirrors “This artwork is a wonderful addition to our community,” Campbelltown Mayor Darcy Lound said “It aligns with our commitment to embed art and culture in our every day in the hopes that it will spark conversation and remind us that creativity can help bring us together.” Cr Lound felt that revitalising this space would also encourage residents to choose a safer more direct route to the Billabong Parklands Funded by the NSW Government through Transport for NSW’s Places to Love program people-focused design can transform public spaces Designed by Elegant Themes | Powered by WordPress where we are privileged to live and operate Up Late Thursday: Ben Harvey delivers a sobering history lesson to Basil Zempilas about life in opposition plus the two cards to keep up his sleeve which could help the newly appointed leader defy the odds WATCH TONIGHT’S UP LATE IN THE PLAYER ABOVE Get the first look at the digital newspaper curated daily stories and breaking headlines delivered to your inbox Get the NewsletterBy continuing you agree to our Terms and Privacy Policy.Tags:  Up Late. FacebookLinkedInEmail UsCopy the LinkCopy Link Latest EditionEdition Edition 5 May 20255 May 2025All-powerful Anthony Albanese says give me some R.E.S.P.E.C.T Bradbury Park, located in Kedron, has emerged as a beacon of architectural innovation, securing four prestigious awards at the recent Greater Brisbane Architecture Awards was awarded the John Dalton Award for Building of the Year the Greater Brisbane People’s Choice Award and two Commendations (for Public Architecture and Urban Design) the park is accessible for all but turns a particular spotlight on innovative play for teens (often overlooked in the design of public spaces) The design provides children with opportunities to challenge themselves via different modes of play —  including a mix of high-level activity zones quiet hide-away spaces and more social areas this innovative park garnered much acclaim with the Building of the Year jury members praising the architects’ “pioneering approach to playground planning” and their ability to “reimagine the traditional park and playground typology” All of this was achieved whilst enhancing community wellbeing and championing inclusivity describing the design as “… a new benchmark for both government and private industry in the provision of innovative play for older children.” It just goes to show you what can be achieved when creativity converges with community needs Be the first to know about local news and events   Echo News is bound by the Standards of Practice of the Australian Press Council If you believe the Standards may have been breached you may approach Echo News or make a complaint to the Australian Press Council in writing at www.presscouncil.org.au The Council may also be contacted on 1800 025 712 CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced AEST = Australian Eastern Standard Time which is 10 hours ahead of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) While teaching his son to ride a surfboard on the Sunshine Coast in March 2022, Bradbury, then 48, noticed a teenage girl drowning in the sea. Bradbury instructed his son to alert the lifeguards and then paddled out on the surfboard to rescue the girl and bring her back to safety. After pulling her out from a strong rip current, he returned to the sea and brought three more teenage girls back to safety. “The fact that Steven acted quickly, calmly and with such courage is so impressive. He richly deserves this recognition,” the Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) president Ian Chesterman said in a statement on Wednesday. “I know he has talked about going into ‘Olympic mode’ as the emergency required decisive action. He always had amazing courage as an athlete and it has served him well here,” the AOC chief added. Bradbury was dubbed ‘the accidental hero’ for winning Australia’s first gold medal at the Winter Olympics at the Salt Lake 2002 Games. The Australian athlete was dead last in the five-men 1000m short track speedskating final at the Salt Lake 2002 Winter Games but all four of his competitors crashed at the final turn before the finish line who was about 15m behind when the pack fell avoided the mash-up to register one of the biggest moments in Australia’s Olympic history who also won a bronze at the Lillehammer 1994 Games retired from the sport after winning the Olympic gold and turned to commentary and motor racing Bradbury was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia and inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame Bradbury also received a commendation for brave conduct from the Australian Government in August 2023 'Neve has been growing every year since she won the Zwift Academy in 2020 she's taken another step' says canyon-SRAM DS Magnus Bäckstedt The effort has planted her firmly on the overall classification podium ahead of the finale on Sunday Bradbury went into this Giro d'Italia Women with ambitions for the overall classification, especially after finishing second overall at the UAE Tour and her recent stage win at the Tour de Suisse, where she finished second overall - the keys to unlocking her GC potential I just went as hard as I could to the finish line," said Bradbury over her winning attack with 9.4km to go on stage 7 to the Blockhaus and soloing to the finish to take the biggest victory of her career so far "I got a lot of cheering from the team on the radio and the staff on the side of the road If you had told me four years ago after winning Zwift Academy that I could win a stage of the Giro Canyon-SRAM signed Bradbury in 2021 after she had won the Zwift Academy that year She's now in her fourth season with the team and is having her strongest year yet "I'm not sure where to start with that win We had a good plan and wanted to race aggressively with Neve and then save for Antonia [Niedermaier] to be able to play it more cool and reserved," said Canyon-SRAM director Magnus Backstedt She took the climb on a steep section and took off like a rocket Being able to hold that against [Elisa] Longo Borghini and [Lotte] Kopecky chasing behind is an awe-inspiring ride by Neve "Neve has been growing every year since she won the Zwift Academy in 2020 She's racing cleverly and more confidently that we can find talents at Zwift Academy and We couldn't be more excited where we are with the whole team now." Bradbury won the stage by 44 seconds ahead of the two-up sprint for second place won by Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx-Protime) and maglia rosa Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek) The victory has moved Bradbury up eight spots in the GC standings heading into the eighth and final stage on Sunday She is also leading the best young rider classification Kirsten has a background in Kinesiology and Health Science She has been involved in cycling from the community and grassroots level to professional cycling's biggest races She began her sports journalism career with Cyclingnews as a North American Correspondent in 2006 Kirsten became Women's Editor – overseeing the content strategy race coverage and growth of women's professional cycling – before becoming Deputy Editor in 2023 standing on my grandparents’ hushed lawn,” Ray Bradbury told me in 2010 “and looking up at the sky at the confetti field of stars and millions of planets rotating around those suns separated by too great a distance to reach one another.” who would grow up to make that great vastness feel there was one celestial body more captivating than any other: Mars deemed by scientists and stargazers over the centuries to be—possibly The planet has been part of our collective imagination for centuries to David Bowie’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars Ray Bradbury may have been yet another in a long line of artists dreaming about Mars but he was the first science fiction writer to elevate the planetary tale beyond the marginalized gutter of “genre fiction,” with his 1950 story cycle The Martian Chronicles While Bradbury’s 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451 is often cited as his crowning achievement it was The Martian Chronicles—arguably a superior work—that put his name on the literary map The Martian Chronicles was published by Doubleday 75 years ago science fiction had been mostly dismissed by the firmament as “kids’ stuff,” littered as it was with pulpy tropes such as ray guns But The Martian Chronicles subverted all that timeless societal themes in the midst of McCarthy era America: nuclear war these themes still tower over us in the Trumpian zeitgeist all these years later but their continuing relevance only underscores the point: The Martian Chronicles is a serious book about serious human themes It is science fiction as a reflection of modernity showcasing Bradbury at the dizzying height of his poetic prowess with stunning passages of seemingly effortless prose eschewing the occasionally purple passages of certain other works and the more dialogue driven polemics of Fahrenheit 451 It hits the sweet spot between poetic exposition and complete narrative originality had pulled off a tour de force magique—he had created literary science fiction and the intelligentsia quickly took notice a book Bradbury was always destined to write His childhood was awash in stories of the fantastic His mother took him to the Elite Theatre to see The Hunchback of Notre Dame he was completely enthralled by The Phantom of the Opera Frank Baum and to the wicked tales of Edgar Allan Poe He followed Philip Francis Nowlan’s Buck Rogers comic strips religiously in the Sunday Chicago Tribune Bradbury discovered A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs on his Uncle Bion’s shelf It was Burroughs’ books that first transported him to Mars the Great Depression devastated the Bradburys they packed the family Buick and rumbled down Route 66 and where Bradbury would live out the rest of his life (he passed on June 5 But the Midwest had already seeped into his DNA The Martian Chronicles is certainly awash in the heartland and its sensibilities The first rockets blasting off from earth in the opening story “Rocket Summer: January 1999,” leave from Ohio In “The Third Expedition: April 2000” (originally titled “Mars is Heaven”) and potted geraniums discovered by the arriving astronauts is quintessentially midwestern the story takes a twisted turn when the astronauts discover what they believe are their deceased loved ones While his formative years in Illinois imprinted on much of his oeuvre moving to Los Angeles gave Bradbury’s early love for science fiction a safe place to flourish his senior year at Los Angeles High School he noticed a flier in a secondhand book shop for “The Los Angeles Science Fiction League,” a meeting of nerds and established writers in the field who met every Thursday evening downtown at Clifton’s Cafeteria who would later invent the term “Sci Fi” as a play on “Hi Fi,” and then go on to become the publisher of Famous Monsters of Filmland future godfather of Hollywood special effects “I couldn’t believe there were so many weirdos just like me,” he said in a 2003 interview with me at his home he repeatedly called the group his “ad hoc church.” the First World Science Fiction Convention (a precursor to today’s pop culture nerdchellas) was held in New York City agents and writers like Isaac Asimov and the godfather of the Golden Age of Science Fiction Bradbury was one of the youngest of the pack eager to the point of being a vociferous nuisance to the more established attendees he made a stop in Waukegan to visit extended family and friends It was during this brief visit that he would make a prophetic acquisition In the storefront window of the United Cigar Store he saw John Steinbeck’s newly published novel The Grapes of Wrath and purchased it He was particularly drawn to its structure with its alternating narrative chapters and brief intercalary passages of contextual information he thought about one day using the same architecture Bradbury published his first professional story in the Los Angeles-based magazine Rob Wagner’s Script which aspired to be a west coast New Yorker he steadily ascended the hierarchy of writers in Weird Tales Because of the richness and elegance of his prose he was deemed “the poet of the pulps.” His name regularly appeared on the cover He stopped reading pulp magazines even as he was gaining prominence in them The result was that his own writing was not derivative of others in his genre one his mentors in the Los Angeles Science Fiction League gave him a copy of Sherwood Anderson’s 1919 classic Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life Bradbury made a note to one day write a series of loosely connected stories in the same way as Anderson Sherwood Anderson: the influences were beginning to pile up The 1940s marked one the greatest periods of growth and maturity of Ray Bradbury’s storied career He was summoned by the draft board in 1942 and So he contributed to the war effort by writing promotional copy for the Red Cross while simultaneously continuing to publish his outré and decidedly original stories—some weird fiction “The Million Year Picnic,” to Thrilling Wonder Stories for $32 The story follows a family fleeing an Earth that has been destroyed by war and atomic weapons this first Mars story would later become the final tale in The Martian Chronicles.) His “weird,” gothic fiction was largely focused on grief Bradbury was ruminating on social degradation and the destructive potential of technology At the same time (1945 and 1946) he donned a third authorial identity breaking into slick magazines such as American Mercury and in 1947 His story “Powerhouse,” a Zen-like existential musing on the connectivity of the human experience and landed in the Best American Short Stories of the Year the preeminent anthology of short literary fiction Even as Bradbury was embraced by the New York cognoscenti—traveling to the city in the fall of ‘46 dancing with Carson McCullers at a Manhattan party—Mars beckoned Yet he would not dare tell his New York associates a collection of 27 tales of the supernatural and the strange was released by the small Wisconsin-based publisher Arkham House in April of 1947 But he continued to quietly write and publish his Mars stories and he was desperate to sell a new book to keep income flowing in his friend and mentor Norman Corwin advised Bradbury to go back to New York to make face-to-face connections with publishers he travelled by Greyhound bus and stayed at the Sloane House YMCA on West 34th Street for $1 a night He made the rounds to the publishing houses a German restaurant and cultural hub in Union Square with Doubleday editor Walter Bradbury (no relation) It was Walter who brought up the subject of Ray’s Martian stories and suggested he might connect them into a makeshift story cycle He asked Ray to put a quick outline together before he headed back to Los Angeles the next day It was a sweltering evening and the facility was without air conditioning He sat in his underwear and t-shirt at his portable typewriter and hammered out a four-page outline and recalling the intercalary chapters in The Grapes of Wrath and Bradbury saw a parallel to the history of American Westward expansion “I decided,” Bradbury wrote in the unpublished (save for a pricey 2008 edition of 1000 copies) essay ‘How I Wrote my Book,’ dated October 17 “there would be certain elements of similarity between the invasion of Mars and the invasion of the Wild West in the years from 1840 to 1900 and my grandfathers [sic] stories of varied adventures in the West … when things were empty would be that new horizon that Steinbeck’s Billy Buck mused upon when he stood upon the shore of the Pacific and the ‘Going West’ was over.” The book’s structure came together in one white hot night at a YMCA in New York City recalled all of his Martian stories and used them to construct a linear narrative of interplanetary colonization he presented his outline to Walter Bradbury and $750 for his short story collection that would later become 1951’s The Illustrated Man After returning to Los Angeles—splurging on a train from Chicago in celebration—Bradbury used a small space in the corner of his parent’s Venice Beach garage as an office space He rewrote his Martian tales to fit his new chronological colonization concept and wrote his Steinbeck-esque bridge chapters The final stories show remarkable thematic range “Ylla” concerns an indigenous Martian woman who dreams of a white man arriving on Mars by rocket In “Usher II,” an homage to Edgar Allan Poe and a thematic precursor to Fahrenheit 451 a man is angered by censorship of fantasy and science fiction stories back on Earth so he constructs a replica of Poe’s House of Usher on Mars to murder inquisitive government censors who come knocking famous for its lack of human characters: “There Will Come Soft Rains,” in which an automated house on a destroyed Earth goes through all its daily machinations his pregnant wife Maggie retyped and assembled them into a polished manuscript Ray and Maggie Bradbury welcomed their baby daughter The Martian Chronicles was published in May 1950 Bradbury was in a Santa Monica bookshop doing what most authors secretly do: clandestinely moving his new books to the front store displays for better exposure That’s when he noticed Christopher Isherwood Bradbury hastily inscribed a copy of The Martian Chronicles and introduced himself to Isherwood Bradbury was yet another young writer pushing yet another new book Isherwood had recently been named the literary critic of Tomorrow magazine and told Bradbury with glee that the first book he would review would be The Martian Chronicles When the review appeared in Tomorrow in October 1950 noting how Bradbury had completely revitalized what had often been considered a genre for perpetually pubescent men “Instead of the grunts of cowboys and the fuddled sexual musings of half-plastered private detectives,” Isherwood wrote “we are offered adult speculation about the dangers of galactic imperialism and the future of technocratic man.” The review went on: “This is not to suggest that Ray Bradbury can be classified simply as a science-fiction writer and his stories ‘tales of the grotesque and arabesque’ in the sense in which those words are used by Poe Bradbury is an imitator (though he is certainly a disciple) but because he already deserves to be measured against the greatest master of his particular genre.” This review legitimized science fiction for the first time The field had grown up and the literary establishment was taking notice former chair of the National Endowment for the Arts and former California poet laureate Bradbury’s work also had a significant impact on the culture at large “If you compiled a list in 1950 of the biggest grossing movies ever made,” he told me in 2020 “it would have contained no science fiction films and only one fantasy film science fiction films were low-budget stuff for kids all but three of the top films—Titanic and two Fast and Furious sequels—are science fiction or fantasy,” Gioia added American popular culture (and to a great degree world popular culture) went from “realism” to fantasy and science fiction but there is no doubt that Ray Bradbury was the most influential writer involved.” The Martian Chronicles changed the critical view of science fiction the book’s author didn’t consider the work to fit into the genre “Science Fiction is the art of the possible,” he told me several times over our years working together With blue hills and a breathable atmosphere canals straight from the visions of 19th century astronomer Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli Bradbury’s Mars is decidedly and totally imagined It is emphatically a work of “Fantasy.” Yet as with his visionary 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451 Bradbury did predict the future with his Martian masterpiece and Mars had become just a little bit more possible Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature Masthead About Sign Up For Our Newsletters How to Pitch Lit Hub Privacy Policy Support Lit Hub - Become A Member Lit Hub has always brought you the best of the book world for free—no paywall you'll keep independent book coverage alive and thriving Bradbury served in the first Trump administration He may face Democratic opposition for his views on EVs and greenhouse gas emission rules President Donald Trump nominated Steven Bradbury for deputy secretary of transportation yesterday The former deputy transportation secretary resigned as many officials do during a change of administrations Bradbury served in the first Trump administration as general counsel of the U.S Department of Transportation and previously served under President George W “I’m deeply grateful to President Trump for the gift of his trust, and I look forward to rejoining the dedicated and professional staff of DOT in support of Secretary Sean Duffy,” Bradbury said in a post on LinkedIn In a January 17 interview with Streetsblog USA Trottenberg said “there will be differences in philosophy” on transportation under the new administration but she added that the DOT “has had a very strong bipartisan tradition.” The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation advanced the nomination of Sean Duffy as secretary of the Department of Transportation yesterday on a unanimous 28-0 vote. Whether Bradbury gets such an endorsement may depend on what he says in upcoming nomination and confirmation hearings. In 2017, the Senate voted 50-47 to confirm Bradbury as general counsel at the DOT, with 45 Democrats and two Republicans opposed. The Senate does not yet have a nomination hearing for Bradbury on its calendar. Get the free daily newsletter read by industry experts The technology could improve municipal efficiency, accuracy and service delivery — but implementation must address community and public-sector worker concerns. Production is set to begin in the new year at a small scale, but by 2030, the company plans to manufacture 650 air taxis each year.  Subscribe to Smart Cities Dive for top news, trends & analysis Want to share a company announcement with your peers? The free newsletter covering the top industry headlines Filmmaker suspects he was detained and deported for documenting protests against a nuclear power plant in southern India over a decade ago I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our Privacy notice Australian documentary filmmaker David Bradbury was detained at an airport in India while travelling with his children earlier this month and refused entry to the country The director says he was stopped and questioned about a documentary he made in India more than a decade ago Mr Bradbury, 73, landed at the Chennai airport in southern Tamil Nadu state on 10 September with his children Nakeita and Omar The family intended to take a two-week trip across India with plans to visit five tourist destinations “I wanted to show my son Omar how Hindus deal with death and say farewell to their loved ones in the next life,” the filmmaker told The Wire. Mr Bradbury started working as a radio journalist for ABC in 1972 and went on to make several acclaimed documentary films He has been twice nominated for an Oscar—in 1987 for his film on Pinochet’s Chile a profile of Tasmanian-born combat cameraman Neil Davis Speaking to The News Minute Mr Bradbury described being pulled aside at the Chennai airport and being refused when he asked to contact the Australian embassy he said there was “rubbish on the floor and a metal grill on the door I was allowed to go to the toilet up the corridor So I was obliged to relieve my bladder into a paper cup I found on the floor,” he said He was denied access to his medication and warmer clothes and his request to contact the embassy was ignored Mr Bradbury said the interrogators asked him to unlock his phone and provide details of his contacts in India The Independent has contacted Mr Bradbury as well as India’s home ministry for comment Mr Bradbury said that he was asked about the purpose of his current visit and to explain his first visit to the country in 2012 That 2012 visit is the reason Mr Bradbury believes he was stopped and questioned The filmmaker was a member of the jury for the Mumbai International Film Festival in 2012 After his obligations at the festival ended with Lenthall and then three-year-old Omar The village is near the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, and Mr Bradbury stayed for over two weeks to document ongoing protests against the project. The protests centred around concerns of local villagers over the long-term impacts of the plant, especially in light of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan “In the last raid, the police lathi charged (with bamboo sticks) peaceful protestors and beat everyone in their path who could not flee fast enough: children, the crippled, women, old men and women. One fisherman was shot dead.” “I’ve just been informed 30 people including the woman who helped me get to Idinthakarai have been arrested and detained by Tamil Nadu police…They are ordinary people like you and me. The police couldn’t get away with putting me in gaol, but they can do this to their own people.” Questions about this trip at the airport have led Mr Bradbury to conclude that his detention and subsequent deportation were related to his role in documenting the protests. “I told the two officers that I agreed with the people of Idinthakarai that it was ‘madness’ to build one, let alone six nuclear reactors, on a major earthquake faultline that had swept one thousand locals to their deaths in the tsunami of 2004.” After Mr Bradbury was detained, his children decided to continue on their trip. They said Indian police allowed them to speak to Mr Bradbury only across a barricade and tried to convince them to ask their father to return to Bangkok, where the three had come from. “They kept asking us to convince our father to return to Bangkok. We just refused,” they said. Mr Bradbury was deported to Thailand and planned to join his children in Milan, which was where they were meant to go after their trip in India. His children reportedly left India on 26 September. Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies Add videos to your saved list and come back to them any time NFL Network's Cynthia Frelund discusses how the New England Patriots 'should at least take the calls' if teams try to trade for the No A former first-round pick, Garrett Bradbury spent six years with the Minnesota Vikings before his release this offseason after starting 88 games in his career After landing with the New England Patriots the 29-year-old said this week that the way his time with the Vikes ended provided a jolt "Had six great years in Minnesota. It's a great locker room [and] built some really good connections there. And it ended, right? That's the business," he said Thursday, via the Boston Globe I get to re-prove myself.' And the minute you think you have it figured out Bradbury was always a better run blocker than a pass protector he allowed a career-high 38 QB pressures in 2024 per Pro Football Focus (he'd previously never allowed 30 in a season) The Patriots inked Bradbury to a two-year pact as part of their revamp in front of Drake Maye, replacing veteran center David Andrews at the pivot And you have to bring it every day," Bradbury added "That's the biggest thing I've learned -- meeting room The Patriots sorely needed to bring in fresh blood on the offensive line. They added Bradbury, Morgan Moses and Wes Schweitzer to the mix this offseason More reinforcements should be on the way in the 2025 NFL Draft with left tackle still a particularly glaring need The Baltimore Ravens drafted Tyler Loop in the sixth round of the 2025 NFL Draft Longtime kicker Justin Tucker is under investigation for potential improper conduct The Los Angeles Rams remain one of the potential landing spots for star corner Jalen Ramsey Sean McVay didn't downplay the club's interest in a reunion NFL.com keeps you up to date with all of the latest league news from around the NFL Visit NFL.com's transaction hub for a daily breakdown Atlanta Falcons offensive coordinator Zac Robinson said that he believes the time is right for tight end Kyle Pitts to see significant growth in 2025 after three years of struggles followed a historic rookie season Los Angeles Chargers rookie running back Omarion Hampton believes he can create "dominant duo backfield" with veteran RB Najee Harris Los Angeles Rams running back Kyren Williams has made quite the impact for his team already in his short career recording back-to-back seasons of 1,100-plus yards and a total of 26 touchdowns the last two years Carolina Panthers wide receiver Adam Thielen discussed the possibility that this could be his last year in the league It's been a long time since a player donned No Seahawks rookie safety Nick Emmanwori says it's a sign of respect to be wearing the same number Russell Wilson wore during his Seattle tenure Stay up to date with which first-round draftees have agreed to deals with their respective teams with NFL.com's tracker The Los Angeles Rams and Matthew Stafford are in a year-to-year relationship but Sean McVay hopes it's more than just one more run with the veteran quarterback With banking outages becoming more frequent and disruptive financial institutions must rethink their approach to resilience before trust erodes further “I don’t think compensation ultimately cuts it Compensation might go some way to offset the inconvenience of an issue having the issue in the first place is the problem,” says Martin Bradbury With UK banks experiencing over 800 hours of IT outages in just two years it’s clear that resilience remains a serious concern major institutions are still struggling to prevent major disruptions The Treasury Committee’s inquiry into UK banking outages comes after several high-profile failures most notably the Barclays disruption earlier this year that lasted over three days “We’ve had several high-profile incidents that have occurred in the first quarter of this year already which was the real catalyst behind this intervention The timing is very specifically related to the concentration we’ve seen in the past few months,” explains Bradbury These failures expose systemic weaknesses in the sector “If you read the responses back to the Treasury Committee from the top nine banks and building societies where banks update their own applications and infrastructure Reliance on third parties is another prevalent cause—failures in services banks depend on but do not directly control,” Bradbury notes complexity is the main contributing factor Most of these organizations have a huge amount of technology platform complexity and digital services all operating together these banks are organized around individual parts of the technology stack meaning they don’t always have great visibility of the end-to-end customer experience.”  While regulators focus on system failures from a compliance perspective the human and business consequences are often underestimated “I think banks are actually very aware of the impact these outages have There is a huge amount of focus on identifying quickly how many customers are impacted But you can’t play down the level of disruption this causes to daily life it’s equally damaging—missed salary payments cash flow problems,” Bradbury explains “It damages trust—not just between banks and their customers People expect these services to work like a utility; when they don’t Barclays has allocated £12.5 million in compensation while HSBC has reimbursed just over £230,000 but the bigger issue is how banks respond to problems in real time Having a clear set of communication when there’s an issue being proactive in reaching out to customers and giving as much clarity as possible on resolution timelines—these things matter If they know there’s an issue and can plan around it But the unknown is often the real problem,” Bradbury says “That’s why transparency and timely communication should be a bigger focus than compensation figures alone.”  As banks push forward with AI-driven services and cloud adoption they must also contend with aging infrastructure and complex integrations Bradbury stresses that success depends on having a clear end-to-end view of the entire IT ecosystem “It all comes down to having clear end-to-end visibility of that ecosystem but you will be able to see them early and identify the root cause faster That’s where the investment needs to be,” he explains “Ecosystems are not getting simpler—they’re getting more complex The difference between best-in-class organizations and those with work to do is the level of investment they’ve made in observability and looking at that full digital ecosystem.”  But digital transformation comes with trade-offs but what we really mean is speed to market—bringing new features to customers quickly and real-time monitoring to balance speed with reliability but making sure an organization has the right controls to release them safely is just as important,” Bradbury says “The challenge is finding the middle ground between agility and the process rigor banks have historically relied on.”  For financial institutions that have suffered multiple high-profile failures get full visibility into your IT environment Enhancing observability and real-time monitoring is the foundation for everything else shift to a customer-centric view of resilience Instead of just tracking internal system health banks need to monitor the actual digital journeys customers take—payments If you can detect degradation in real time you can prevent an outage before it escalates.”  Are we moving towards a world where major banking outages are rare Bradbury is realistic: “I don’t think it’s ever going to be realistic to say an organization will have zero technical problems in their digital environment It’s all about the speed with which they can respond to them we’ve seen really significant incident reductions “The Bank of New Zealand had a 94% reduction in major incidents off the back of their work with Dynatrace we should also see increased sophistication in the way organizations observe and manage their environments should lead to a significant reduction in the overall volume of incidents.”  Banks can no longer afford to treat IT failures as an inevitability Strengthening resilience is about maintaining trust in an industry where reliability is non-negotiable and website in this browser for the next time I comment Copyright © 2025 The Global Treasurer Men's line-up for October 5-6 rainbow races in Belgium includes Haas Selections for the elite men's team were dominated by those who gathered qualification through the UCI Gravel World Series but for the women's elite team it was a combination of series qualification and wild card entries from the national federation It is a combination that should deliver a powerful squad for the 134km event on Saturday October 5 Cromwell won the European Championships last year which was run in the same region and terrain as this year's World Championship race and has finished in the top ten of the last two editions of the race for the rainbow jersey It's bound to help that this year she is also racing alongside her Canyon-SRAM teammate Bradbury who made her strength clear when she stepped up to the top step of the podium on the brutal Blockhaus stage of the Giro this year.  As soon as you set foot on our campus you will know you’ve found the place you can call home JONESBORO – Two solo exhibitions will open at Bradbury Art Museum (BAM) at noon on Thursday The two exhibitions will be “Chree Explorations” by Mandy Mooneyham and “Option C” by Andrew Fernandez The exhibitions will be open alongside “Marks in Motion,” which opened on Thursday   All three exhibitions will conclude with a closing reception from 5 until 7 p.m which will be catered and free for the public to attend.  Work by Mooneyham a Northeast Arkansas artist and Arkansas State University alumna will be exhibited in “Chree Explorations.”   The show invites visitors into uncharted landscapes of thought and memory explored through the motif of Mooneyham’s “chrees,” or chair-rooted trees Mooneyham uses these as a visual metaphor for the way human minds grow constantly evolving and reaching toward new horizons commonplace yet integral to our daily lives symbolize the structure and foundation upon which our memories are built,” said Mooneyham the chair-rooted tree becomes an emblem of the constant interplay between the organic flow of thought and the constructed nature of memory.”  “Option C” is a solo exhibition of multimedia work from artist and educator Andrew Fernandez who serves as visiting assistant professor of sculpture at A-State He is an interdisciplinary artist who utilizes sculpture as a means to an end and he is interested in the life of objects after they have been built The exhibition showcases a variety of sculptural works by Fernandez along with “May Your Tears of Sadness Be Filled with Joy,” a 2024 film that is a meditation on the creative process The film will also be featured during a screening event in the Grand Hall of Fowler Center “We’re excited to end the spring semester with these shows which are so connected to the incredible work being done at the A-State Department of Art + Design One of these artists is an instructor on campus and the other is an A-State alumna,” said Madeline McMahan assistant director and curator at Bradbury Art Museum “Both are living and making work here in our community It’s important to celebrate that.”  The exhibitions will be on view during the museum’s standard hours The museum will be open for extended hours from 8 a.m Students are invited to take advantage of BAM as a calm quiet environment to prepare for their final examinations BAM is located in Fowler Center, 201 Olympic Drive. One may schedule a tour of the exhibitions by contacting McMahan, at mmcmahan@AState.edu or 870-972-3434. More details about these shows are available online at BradburyArtMuseum.org.  Andrew FernandezMay Your Tears of Sadness Be Filled with Joy(screencap still from digital video)  Mandy MooneyhamTethered Traverseacrylic paint on canvas East Sussex: The urban hog already has careless gardeners and curious dogs to contend with and here the recent Pride festival has also left its mark four hedgehogs have been found in various states of dishevelment in my local park – one dead a four-week-old baby found screaming in a drain The bloody-nosed and missing-leg hogs were taken to rescues by other members of the community; the dead hog lives on in my compost heap scooping him up and driving him to my local rescue emaciated and so dehydrated that he couldn’t open his eyes “Why’s he covered in glitter?” asked Helen wiped fleas from his body and administered life-saving fluids She popped him in a towel in an incubator to give him some of the comfort he should still have been having from Mum in the nest and put a camera on him so she could keep an eye on him The leg injury may have been the result of a strimmer as those who wield them rarely check long grass and brambles where hedgehogs sleep which perhaps also disturbed Bertie’s nest Or could Bloody-Nose or Missing Leg have been Bertie’s mum and did he leave the nest when she didn’t return and his drain will not have been the only one hosting the glittery remains of parties We shouldn’t be washing glitter into drains and we certainly shouldn’t be coating hedgehogs in them Country diary is on Twitter/X at @gdncountrydiary Under the Changing Skies: The Best of the Guardian’s Country Diary, 2018-2024 (Guardian Faber) is published on 26 September; pre-order now at the guardianbookshop.com and get a 20% discount All articles from our website & appThe digital version of Today's PaperBreaking news alerts direct to your inboxInteractive Crosswords Sudoku and TriviaAll articles from the other regional websites in your areaContinueThe 22-year-old said she was "knackered but happy" after also improving to third overall Bradbury took out the 120km seventh stage from Lanciano to the formidable Blockhaus finish in the Abruzzo region The Queen stage of the Giro featured 3836m of climbing and has put the young Australian in a strong position with one day left I don't think I ever pushed so much in my career," the Canyon-SRAM rider said "When I attacked I was only thinking at the stage victory so I went full gas until the finish "Now I am on the podium of the GC (general classification) and tomorrow I will try to move up again and try to fight for the Maglia Rosa (pink leader's jersey)" trailling Italian race leader Elisa Longho Borghini (Lidl-Trek) by a minute 12 seconds Longho Borghini and Belgian world champion Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx) duelled on the steep climb to the Blockhaus Kopecky beat her rival for second place on the stage Kopecky gained a two-second time bonus for second place and trails Longho Borghini by just one second overall ahead of the 117km final stage The stage win also put Bradbury into the lead for the young rider category after her solo attack She took the climb on a steep section and took off like a rocket," her team boss Magnus Backstedt said Bradbury also finished second overall last month at the Tour of Switzerland and was third in January at Adelaide's Tour Down Under Today's top stories curated by our news team. 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back Kobee Minor addresses the media on Saturday tackle Marcus Bryant addresses the media on Saturday kicker Andres Borregales addresses the media on Saturday edge Bradyn Swinson addresses the media on Saturday defensive tackle Joshua Farmer addresses the media on Saturday safety Craig Woodson addresses the media on Saturday long snapper Julian Ashby addresses the media on Saturday Patriots Executive Vice President of Player Personnel Eliot Wolf addresses the media on Friday Wolf discusses the Patriots selections on Day 2 of the NFL Draft 69th overall pick wide receiver Kyle Williams addresses the media on Friday Patriots third round pick Jared Wilson addresses the media on Friday Patriots second round pick TreVeyon Henderson addresses the media during his Draft conference call on Friday Patriots Chairman and CEO Robert Kraft introduces first round draft pick Campbell is presented with the ceremonial #1 jersey and fields questions from the media Patriots Head Coach Mike Vrabel 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Parcells for induction into the Patriots Hall of Fame as a contributor A look at the Patriots opponents from 2025 through 2027 Dan Bradbury has got off to a very impressive start in the professional ranks after a successful college career in Tennessee and Florida Dan Bradbury turned professional in 2022 after successful stints at Lincoln Memorial University and Florida State University The Englishman is already a two-time winner on the DP World Tour and looks set to have a bright future in Europe and beyond Bradbury is from the town of Wakefield in Yorkshire He was captain of the Yorkshire Boys Golf Team as a junior Bradbury spent four years at Lincoln Memorial University in Tennessee where he majored in Business Management and won nine collegiate titles while playing for the LMU Railsplitters Subscribe to the Golf Monthly newsletter to stay up to date with all the latest tour news head-to-heads and buyer’s guides from our team of experienced experts he became the first LMU golfer to compete in the US Amateur Championship He won a number of South Atlantic Conference accolades at LMU including the Freshman Golfer of the Year (2018) Male Athlete of the Year (2021) and Golf-Scholar Athlete of the Year (2021) 7. For his final college season, he transferred to Florida State University, the same college that the likes of Brooks Koepka and Paul Azinger attended he finished 2nd on the team for scoring average (72.15) and recorded six top-15s including a best finish of 3rd He won his first pro title in just his third start while playing on a sponsor's invite at the DP World Tour's 2022 Joburg Open His Joburg win set the record as Bradbury was the lowest-ranked golfer in history (1,397th in the OWGR) to win a DP World Tour event That victory also qualified him for the 2023 Open at Royal Liverpool Golf Club where he missed the cut in his Major debut He qualified for the 2024 Open at Royal Troon after finishing 3rd at the 2023 Joburg Open He went on to miss the cut in his second Major Bradbury won his second DP World Tour title at the 2024 Open de France where he shot a final round 66 at Le Golf National to win by one He is sponsored by Ping and plays a full bag of the company's clubs He made three holes-in-one during the 2023 DP World Tour season It equalled Miguel Angel Jimenez's record for most aces in a DPWT season and his Abu Dhabi hole-in-one earned him a Genesis G70 Shooting Brake 2.0 Sport car He covered the 2022 and 2025 Masters from Augusta National and was there by the 18th green to watch Rory McIlroy complete the career grand slam He has also covered five Open Championships on-site including the 150th at St Andrews His first Open was in 2017 at Royal Birkdale when he walked inside the ropes with Jordan Spieth during the Texan's memorable Claret Jug triumph He has played 35 of our Top 100 golf courses with his favourites being both Sunningdales He has been obsessed with the sport since the age of 8 and currently plays off of a six handicap His golfing highlights are making albatross on the 9th hole on the Hotchkin Course at Woodhall Spa playing in the Aramco Team Series on the Ladies European Tour and making his one and only hole-in-one at the age of 15 - a long time ago now