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Time of India
27-05-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Australian media slams Kamala Harris for taking 'half a million dollars' to say 'I am unemployed right now' at real estate event
Australian media wonders why Kamala Harris went there while she never visited the country as a vice president. Sky News Australia tore into former vice president Kamala Harris for being the chief speaker at a real estate event in Gold Coast, where she was reported paid half a million dollars to "essentially chuckle on stage and make jokes about being unemployed". The former vice president was in Australia Sunday to speak at the Australian Real Estate Conference, where she sat on stage with real estate industry veteran John McGrath and spoke about her mother, Playboy Magazine covers, hormones and being unemployed right now. Sky News Digital Presenter Gabriella Power called Kamala Harris a comedian as she asked comedian and commentator Alex Stein to comment on Harris's Australia outing. 'She can't do any worse than spending $1 billion on her presidential campaign and somehow ending up $100 million in debt,' Stein said, adding that he double-checked whether Kamala Harris ever visited Australia when she was the vice president and the answer is no. "I wonder why she's there now. I know why she's there now. She is there for the money," Stein said. 'Kamala Harris is not having very good job prospects, or many offers here in America that are that great, so what is she going to do? She's going to go to Australia," Stein said. What Kamala Harris said at the real estate event "My mother was actually very funny because she would say, 'You look at the cover of Playboy magazine, let me just tell you, the reason that people are looking at these things, understand what they were developed for the perpetuation of the human species!' She was very practical that way," Kamala Harris said and began laughing. "I don't aspire to be humble. And I don't recommend it, I think that one must be humble. But to aspire to be humble would be quite inauthentic," she said on humility. "If one understands that, just, I mean, there's so much that is magnificent and awe-inspiring about this world and its people." When the moderator said he believed that Kamala Harris's best work is ahead of her, for sure, Harris said, "I am unemployed right now. Go on, let's speak truth."
Sky News AU
27-05-2025
- Politics
- Sky News AU
Kamala Down Under: Harris takes swipe at Elon Musk, Trump admin at Gold Coast real estate conference, says ‘remember the 1930s'
Former Vice President Kamala Harris took a swipe at billionaire Elon Musk and likened the Trump administration's 'America First' policy to 1930s-style isolationism, which many historians believe helped escalate World War II. During remarks at the 2025 Australian Real Estate Conference, held on the Gold Coast, the failed Democratic presidential candidate alluded to an interview Musk did with podcast titan Joe Rogan — in which the world's richest man warned that the West's empathy is being weaponized. 'There was someone that is very popular these days, at least in the press, who suggested that it is a sign of weakness of Western civilizations to have empathy,' Harris, 60, said in a sit-down with Aussie real estate behemoth John McGrath. 'Imagine,' she continued. 'No, it's a sign of strength to have some level of curiosity and concern and care about the well-being of others.' During his March interview with Rogan, the Tesla founder emphasized that 'you should care about other people,' but argued, 'we've got civilizational suicidal empathy going on.' 'The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit,' Musk contended. 'They're exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is the empathy response.' Harris also appeared to lament President Trump's foreign policy approach, without mentioning him or any of his top officials by name. 'I do worry, frankly, about what's happening in the world right now,' the former vice president admitted. 'It's important that we remember the 1930s,' she went on. 'It's important that we remember that history has taught us that isolation does not equal insulation [and] the importance of relationships of trust, of the importance of friendships, integrity, honesty.' The former vice president refrained from bashing any of Trump's policies specifically, but the comments broadly took issue with his 'America First' approach to foreign affairs. Despite her crushing defeat last year, Harris had vowed not to be quiet during Trump's second term in the White House. Last month, she emerged from weeks of laying low and delivered a stern rebuke of her rival while speaking at Emerge's 20th anniversary gala in San Francisco. She lambasted the commander in chief for creating 'the greatest manmade economic crisis in modern presidential history' and engaging in a 'wholesale abandonment' of American ideals. Harris is currently thought to be mulling her political future, including whether or not she should vie to be governor of California in 2026, run for the presidency again in 2028, or stay on the sidelines. 'I am unemployed right now,' she joked earlier at the 2025 Australian Real Estate Conference. Originally published as Kamala Down Under: Harris takes swipe at Elon Musk, Trump admin at Gold Coast real estate conference, says 'remember the 1930s'
New York Post
26-05-2025
- Politics
- New York Post
Kamala Harris takes swipe at Elon Musk and Trump admin: ‘Remember the 1930s'
Former Vice President Kamala Harris took a swipe at billionaire Elon Musk and likened the Trump administration's 'America First' policy to 1930s-style isolationism, which many historians believe helped escalate World War II. During remarks at the 2025 Australian Real Estate Conference, held on the Gold Coast, the failed Democratic presidential candidate alluded to an interview Musk did with podcast titan Joe Rogan — in which the world's richest man warned that the West's empathy is being weaponized. 'There was someone that is very popular these days, at least in the press, who suggested that it is a sign of weakness of Western civilizations to have empathy,' Harris, 60, said in a sit-down with Aussie real estate behemoth John McGrath. Advertisement 'Imagine,' she continued. 'No, it's a sign of strength to have some level of curiosity and concern and care about the well-being of others.' During his March interview with Rogan, the Tesla founder emphasized that 'you should care about other people,' but argued, 'we've got civilizational suicidal empathy going on.' Former Vice President Kamala Harris took a swipe at Elon Musk. AP Advertisement Elon Musk previously warned that the West has 'civilizational suicidal empathy.' REUTERS 'The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit,' Musk contended. 'They're exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is the empathy response.' Harris also appeared to lament President Trump's foreign policy approach, without mentioning him or any of his top officials by name. 'I do worry, frankly, about what's happening in the world right now,' the former vice president admitted. Advertisement 'It's important that we remember the 1930s,' she went on. 'It's important that we remember that history has taught us that isolation does not equal insulation [and] the importance of relationships of trust, of the importance of friendships, integrity, honesty.' The former vice president refrained from bashing any of Trump's policies specifically, but the comments broadly took issue with his 'America First' approach to foreign affairs. Despite her crushing defeat last year, Harris had vowed not to be quiet during Trump's second term in the White House. Advertisement Last month, she emerged from weeks of laying low and delivered a stern rebuke of her rival while speaking at Emerge's 20th anniversary gala in San Francisco. She lambasted the commander in chief for creating 'the greatest manmade economic crisis in modern presidential history' and engaging in a 'wholesale abandonment' of American ideals. Harris is currently thought to be mulling her political future, including whether or not she should vie to be governor of California in 2026, run for the presidency again in 2028, or stay on the sidelines. 'I am unemployed right now,' she joked earlier at the 2025 Australian Real Estate Conference.
The Age
26-05-2025
- Business
- The Age
Same same but Tassie: A tale of two very different Attica restaurants
The restaurant's signage is to be altered to reflect the updated name. But no update on the similar style of font, which we are nicknaming rustic class with a hint of comic sans. Stankovic said he had legal advice that the new name was fine. Fair enough. And it might be tricky to trademark a name in use since ancient times to describe the district of east-central Greece surrounding Athens. For his part, chef Ben Shewry of the more famous Attica, who is on the record putting a bombe Alaska under food critics and this newspaper's Good Food Guide in his memoir, Uses For Obsession, was nonchalant when we contacted him via Mr Alexander Graham Bell 's portable communications device. Loading He told us he was unaware of the southern venture and was 'not really' concerned. 'I feel like we are well established enough to not be concerned about someone else's restaurant.' Ex-VEEP down under Once just a heartbeat (and later, a pollster's coin flip) away from the White House, former US vice president Kamala Harris somehow found herself on the Gold Coast speaking to a few thousand real estate agents. The 2024 presidential election loser was guest of honour at the Australian Real Estate Conference this weekend, her first trip Down Under facilitated through some savvy string-pulling by property kingpin John McGrath. How the real estate bros in their skinny Tarocash suits responded to the former veep's sober calls to remember the 1930s is anyone's guess. We reckon they might've gotten more out of California real estate agent and smarmy reality-TV villain Mauricio Umansky 's hit session on Monday. While CBD originally heard that Harris would make time only for the Gold Coast, she flew into Sydney first, before heading to the Sunshine State on Saturday afternoon, the day before her scheduled speech. Harris and her husband, former second gentleman and entertainment lawyer Doug Emhoff, were spotted dining at the Bathers' Pavilion at Balmoral Beach on Friday. And on Monday, Emhoff posted an Instagram snap of the pair in Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens. During their time in the Harbour City, CBD hears the pair were holed up at Crown in Barangaroo because what could be more peak Sydney than staying in a casino? Crypto king where it counts US President Donald Trump is a rather simple creature. Sometimes, all it takes to get into his good graces is flattery, money, or a bit of both. This is how Australian crypto entrepreneur Kain Warwick wound up in the court of the mad king. Last weekend, the president hosted an exclusive event for the 220 investors in his $TRUMP cryptocurrency at his Virginia golf course, a stunt that kicked off frenzied buying of the 'memecoin'. Warwick, the founder of cryptocurrency trading platform Synthetix, and the son of former professional tennis player Kim Warwick, was among those invited to the event, according to The New York Times. 'It would be great to be able to meet the president,' he told the Times. 'That's something that I wouldn't have expected I would have the opportunity to be even in the position to do.' Warwick got his in by stockpiling $TRUMP coins since January, although he didn't make it to the exclusive White House tour reserved for the top 25 holders of the president's memecoin. Try explaining any of this to a person from the year 2013. On the home front, Warwick, an early 40s young-rich-lister, owns a swath of beachside property in Sydney's eastern suburbs, and recently offloaded a $US36.5 million ($56.04 million) penthouse in Manhattan's West Village. Which leaves plenty of cash left over for memecoins. Far from Scots free Here's a tale of a private school turning it up to 11. The grand opening of Scots College's $60 million garish faux-Scottish baronial castle in Sydney's Bellevue Hill last month, seven years after plans were first lodged, included an extravagant ceremony featuring fireworks and a military tattoo. Now, there is disgruntlement in the Scots' parents community because all that pomp accompanying the castle's opening seems to mean little cash left for much else. Last week, parents were shocked to receive an email calling for donations towards funding various events for year 6 students headed for the senior school, including a mother-son dance and a special celebration dinner at Randwick Racecourse. That is, on top of the tickets they'll actually have to purchase. 'We rely heavily on donations to keep these ticket prices as low as possible and afford those 'little extras' to make it a year to remember for the boys,' said a fundraising email from the school. Those 'little extras' are hardly the stuff of a 12-year-old boy's dreams. Loading The extras include $430 per case of French champagne (their tautology, not ours) because we hear there had been complaints about a function earlier this year where prosecco was served. The horror! The school also needs $1250 for bow ties for the mother-and-son dance, $2000 for celebration dinner cookies, and $8000 to design and print the year 6 journal.
Daily Mail
26-05-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
Kamala Harris cackles about Playboy magazine and delivers 'awe-inspiring' word salad in bizarre interview
Former Vice President Kamala Harris left Australians confused on Sunday during a question and answer session at the Australian Real Estate Conference, as she tried to share a funny story about her mother. Harris sat with real estate industry veteran John McGrath for over an hour during the conference and recalled that her mother was very focused on women's reproductive health, which included sharing her thoughts about 'fibroids' and 'hormones.' 'My mother was actually very funny because she would say, 'You look at the cover of Playboy magazine, let me just tell you, the reason that people are looking at these things, understand what they were developed for the perpetuation of the human species,'' Harris recalled laughing. 'She was very practical that way.' 'A great lady,' McGrath replied shortly before shifting immediately to another question. Video of the exchange in Australia emerged on social media as an attendee at the conference recorded and shared it. Harris also spoke at length about issues important to her but struggled with the concept of humility, circling the idea in a way that suggested she was unclear about what it was. 'I don't aspire to be humble. And I don't recommend it, I think that one must be humble. But to aspire to be humble would be quite inauthentic. If one understands that, just, I mean, there's so much that is magnificent and awe-inspiring about this world and its people. And when you take the moment to just listen to an individual's story, whether it's someone you're sitting next to on the plane or standing in line with at the grocery store, there is so much about this world that we know and we don't know. And that is very humbling to realize the dreams that people have, the struggles that they've overcome and the magnificence of that. To realize the beauty of the human spirit, that we are by nature, I think, as a species, we don't give up.' she said. But Harris wasn't finished, emphasizing the importance of ambition outside of humility. 'Part of the key to our survival is that we are adaptable but we are also ambitious. I applaud ambition. I applaud ambition. I think it is a good thing, to reach, but not without also understanding that in so doing, one must do the hard work. One must understand the context in which they exist. One must be respectful,' she said. Harris also included throwbacks to famous word-salads of her political career including a mention of being 'unburdened by what has been,' the importance of 'speaking truth' and being aware of the significance of the 'passage of time.' 'I think it's very important to understand that people who fight for equality, fight for freedom, they see what can be and are unburdened by what has been they believe in what is possible. So even though it may be characterized as a fight, it really is it should I think be thought of in the context of a fight for something as opposed to against something,' she said. At one point the moderator said he believed her 'best work is ahead of you, for sure, 100 percent.' 'I am unemployed right now,' she said with a smile. 'Go on, let's speak truth.' When she was asked to give advice to young women in the real estate industry, she repeated her motto about not listening to people who tell them to wait their turn. 'I don't hear no. I eat no for breakfast,' she said.
