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At Home Alone Together
''At Home Alone Together'' is an Australian comedy series which is a satire of lifestyle television in the era of lockdowns, self-isolation and social distancing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. The nine part series was produced by the ABC with production investment from the ABC and Screen Australia. Premise ''At Home Alone Together'' is a satirical comedy described as a lifestyle television shows for a world in which nobody has a life. Cast Hosted by journalist Ray Martin, it features regular contributors, including comedians Anne Edmonds, Ryan Shelton, Becky Lucas, Bjorn Stewart, Christiaan Van Vuuren and Adele Vuko, who share their knowledge, inspirations and advice on how to achieve self-improvement. Additional contributors include Father Bob Maguire, Laura Hughes, Michelle Brasier, Dr Norman Swan, Lucy Durack, Vidya Rajan and Greg Larsen. Guest appearances Guests on the sketch show appear as themselves or as characters in sketches. Guests include: C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19 Pandemic In Australia
The COVID-19 pandemic in Australia is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of the coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (). The first confirmed case in Australia was identified on 25 January 2020, in Victoria, when a man who had returned from Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, tested positive for the virus. , Australia has reported over 9,588,977 cases, over 9,224,255 recoveries, and 12,200 deaths. Victoria's second wave having the highest fatality rate per case. In March 2020, the Australian government established the intergovernmental National Cabinet and declared a human biosecurity emergency in response to the outbreak. Australian borders were closed to all non-residents on 20 March, and returning residents were required to spend two weeks in supervised quarantine hotels from 27 March. Many individual states and territories also closed their borders to varying degrees, with some remaining closed until late 2020, and contin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathy Freeman
Catherine Astrid Salome Freeman (born 16 February 1973) is an Aboriginal Australian former sprinter, who specialised in the 400 metres event. Her personal best of 48.63 seconds currently ranks her as the ninth-fastest woman of all time, set while finishing second to Marie-José Pérec's number-four time at the 1996 Olympics. She became the Olympic champion for the women's 400 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics, at which she lit the Olympic Flame. Freeman was the first Australian Indigenous person to become a Commonwealth Games gold medalist at age 16 in 1990. The year 1994 was her breakthrough season. At the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Canada, Freeman won gold in both the 200 m and 400 m. She also won the silver medal at the 1996 Olympics and came first at the 1997 World Championships in the 400 m event. In 1998, Freeman took a break from running due to injury. She returned from injury in form with a first-place finish in the 400 m at the 1999 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Marigliano
Linda Marigliano (born Carmelinda Marigliano; 27 September 1984) is an Australian television and radio presenter, podcaster, musician and DJ, best known for her work on FBi Radio and Triple J. She also played bass guitar in the indie rock band teenagersintokyo. Marigliano currently resides in Sydney and is of Italian and Chinese Malaysian descent. Early life and education Linda Marigliano was born on 27 September 1984 in Sydney, Australia. Her mother is of Chinese descent and her father is of Italian descent. She was named after her paternal grandmother, Carmelinda. Marigliano's father works as a hairdresser. Marigliano attended St George Girls High School in Kogarah, New South Wales. She then attended the University of Sydney and graduated with a degree in media and communications. Career Starting on FBi Radio in 2003, she presented the weekday afternoon shift. Moving to Triple J, she hosted the midnight-dawn shift on a casual basis during the week until taking a permanent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toby Truslove
Toby Truslove is an Australian film, theatre and television actor. Career In 2001, Truslove appeared on the television drama series '' Crash Palace'' as Bryan Rossiter. He has since made guest appearances on Australian TV series including '' All Saints'', ''McLeod's Daughters'', '' The Strip'', ''Thank God You're Here'' and '' The Librarians''. In 2011 he starred in two ABC 1 comedy series '' Laid'' and '' Outland''. He also appears in the comedy feature '' Scumbus''. In 2012 he was the lead in ''The Strange Calls''. Onstage he has played Sam in the Belvoir St. Theatre's 2012 production of ''Strange Interlude'', as well as the pompous Victor Prynne in Noël Coward's play ''Private Lives'' - another Belvoir production. Truslove was one of the team captains on Channel 7's ''Slide Show'' and currently stars in the comedy TV series ''Utopia''. Truslove co-hosted the 2014 New Year's Eve broadcast for ABC with Julia Zemiro Julia Zemiro () (born 14 April 1967) is a French-bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Campbell (actor)
Tim Campbell (born 27 September 1975) is an Australian television and stage actor and singer, best known for playing the character of Dan Baker (Home and Away), Dan Baker in the soap opera ''Home and Away'' between 2004 and 2008. In 2007, he came third Dancing with the Stars (Australian season 6), series 6 of ''Dancing with the Stars (Australian TV series), Dancing with the Stars''. Career Television In 1993, Campbell appeared in two episodes of ''Home and Away'' as Brad. Throughout the 1990s, Campbell appeared in episodes of ''Heartbreak High'', ''Police Rescue'', ''The Day of the Roses'' and ''Wildside (Australian TV series), Wildside''. In 1999, he appeared in 13 episodes of ''Big Sky (Australian TV series), Big Sky'' as Blake Wallace. Smaller roles continued throughout the early 2000s, until 2003 where he played Constable Stubbs in the children's television series, ''Snobs (TV series), Snobs''. In 2004, Campbell was cast to play Dan Baker (Home and Away), Dan Baker on ''Home ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Fitzgerald
Ryan James Fitzgerald (born 16 October 1976) is an Australian radio personality, television presenter, comedian and former Australian rules footballer. After being drafted from the South Adelaide Football Club, he made his Australian Football League debut for Sydney in 2000, before being traded to Adelaide, where he played eight games in 2002. Fitzgerald later appeared in ''Big Brother Australia 2004'', beginning a wider media career in television on Channel 10's Saturday night AFL show ''Before The Game''. Early life Fitzgerald attended Wirreanda High School and played junior football for Port Noarlunga. AFL career: 2000–2002 A tall forward drafted by the Sydney Swans with the 4th overall selection in the 1998 AFL Draft from South Australian National Football League club, South Adelaide, Fitzgerald was unable to make his AFL debut until 2000 due to a shoulder injury. On debut, Fitzgerald kicked five goals and "looked set for a big career". He played nine more games ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter FitzSimons
Peter John Allen FitzSimons (born 29 June 1961) is an Australian author, journalist, and radio and television presenter. He is a former national representative rugby union player and has been the chair of the Australian Republic Movement since 2015. Early life FitzSimons grew up in Peats Ridge, in the Central Coast of New South Wales. He was one of seven children. He attended Peats Ridge Public School and Knox Grammar School before going in 1978 to Findlay High School, Ohio, for a year as an exchange student on an American Field Service Scholarship. He then completed an arts degree at the University of Sydney, residing at Wesley College from 1980 to 1982. Career Rugby FitzSimons first played club rugby with the Sydney University Football Club and then with the Manly RUFC in Sydney in the 1980s under the coaching of Alan Jones. Between 1985 and 1989 he played with CA Brive in France for four seasons as the club's first foreign player. He played seven test matches at lock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osher Gunsberg
Osher may refer to: *Osher (name) *Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes (OLLI) offer noncredit courses with no assignments or grades to adults over age 50. Since 2001 philanthropist Bernard Osher has made grants from the Bernard Osher Foundation to launch OLLI programs at 120 univers ... * Osher Center for Integrative Medicine {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michala Banas
Michala Elizabeth Laurinda Banas (born 14 November 1978) is a New Zealand television actress and singer. Life and career Born in Wellington, New Zealand into a family of German descent, she starred in her first advert at only 18 months of age. Her debut film performance was when she was five years old, in the New Zealand film ''Dangerous Orphans''. Her Australian debut television performance was as Louisa in the miniseries '' Mirror, Mirror'' in 1995. From 2001-03, Banas played main character Marissa Taylor in the Seven Network drama ''Always Greener''. In 2002, she had a small role in the film adaptation ''Scooby-Doo''. Banas is an accomplished singer, and in 2003 released a single, " Kissin' The Wind", which made the top 30 on the Australian Recording Industry Association singles chart. In 2004, Banas joined the cast of ''McLeod's Daughters'' as the character Kate Manfredi, the best friend of Jodi Fountain McLeod. She played Kate from episodes 88 to 170, when she took a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Moran
Matthew Moran (born 15 May 1969) is an Australian chef and restaurateur also known for being a guest on various TV cooking shows. Early life Moran was raised on a dairy farm at Badgerys Creek, west of Sydney, before moving to the outer-western suburb of Seven Hills. At age 15, Moran left Grantham High School to start a career as a chef. While still at school, he worked on weekends in the kitchen of the Parramatta RSL Club. He commenced his apprenticeship at La Belle Helene Restaurant, Roseville, on Sydney's North Shore, and it was here that Moran practiced the art of classical French cooking. Business In 1991 Moran, launched his first restaurant - The Paddington Inn Bistro. The successful partnership led them to open their second restaurant Moran's Restaurant and Café in 1995 which was also well received on the food scene. Moran's was awarded best new restaurant in the 1995 Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide. Moran is also a member of the international culinary pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leigh Sales
Leigh Peta Sales (born 10 May 1973) is an Australian journalist and author, best known for her work with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.Interview with Leigh Sales by Wendy Squires, ''Daily Life'' (''''), 16 December 2012. Sales hosted ABC TV's current affairs program '''' from 2011 to 2022. In November 2022, it was announced that Sales had been appo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Hildebrand
Joe Hildebrand is an Australian journalist, television and radio presenter. Hildebrand writes for Sydney's ''The Daily Telegraph'' and is also known to contribute to a number of other News Corp publications, including Melbourne's Herald Sun and news.com.au. Early life and education Hildebrand was born in Melbourne and grew up in Dandenong Dandenong is a southeastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, about from the Melbourne CBD. It is the council seat of the City of Greater Dandenong local government area, with a recorded population of 30,127 at the . Situated mainly ..., in outer Melbourne. He attended Dandenong Primary School, Dandenong High School and the University of Melbourne, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in History and English, and edited the student newspaper ''Farrago (newspaper), Farrago''. Before joining ''The Daily Telegraph'', Hildebrand worked as the New South Wales political correspondent for Australian Associated Press, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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