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If you were relying on welfare to survive, what would you use it for? Rent? Food Medicine? Bills? In 2020, over three million Australians were recorded as living below the poverty line. In new Sbs three-part documentary series, Could You Survive on the Breadline?, three prominent Australians are about to discover what life is like for millions of people living on the welfare system.

Premiering Wednesday November 17, author and TV personality Julie Goodwin, journalist Caleb Bond, and Nsw Greens MP Jenny Leong, will go on separate journeys into three different communities to gain insights into the poverty and disadvantage experienced by so many in Australia.

Could You Survive on the Breadline? is a Lune Media production for Sbs. Principal production investment from Screen Australia. Developed and financed with support from Screen Nsw.

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Michelle Slavich has been named Executive Vice President, Global Publicity and Strategy at Warner Bros. Pictures, it was announced today by Blair Rich, President, Worldwide Marketing, Warner Bros. Pictures Group and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. Slavich will report to Rich and starts work on May 29.

In this new role, Slavich will oversee domestic and international publicity and work proactively with her teams as well as the studio’s marketing senior brass to develop campaigns on all Warner Bros. and New Line releases and franchises across all media outlets and platforms globally. Notable Warner Bros. releases later this year include The Meg, The Nun, A Star Is Born, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2, and Aquaman.

Slavich comes to Warner Bros. from Google, specifically YouTube where she was the Head of Entertainment Communications.

Earlier in March, Warner Bros. Evp of Domestic Publicity Julie Goodwin exited the studio after a near 18-year career there.

Our colleague Denys Hodson, who has died aged 84, was best known as an inspirational arts administrator. Judging by the quality and confidence of his writing when he was 17, however, he might have become a successful poet. Instead, after national service in the Palestine police force and a history degree from Oxford, he chose to go to into advertising, where he quickly made his mark.

But Denys found his true calling when, in an unexpected career change at the age of 42, he was appointed controller of arts and recreation by Thamesdown (later Swindon) borough council. Clearly impressed by his knowledge, vision and social commitment, the authority decided to back this very different kind of bureaucrat.

For 22 years, Denys led the council's outstanding arts and recreation department, appointing and fiercely supporting an extraordinary team of innovators and risk-takers who forged Swindon's reputation for public art, community dance and film alongside professional and amateur theatre facilities,...

The first promo for Channel Ten's MasterChef: All-Stars has aired in Australia. The 40-second teaser trailer shows all 12 of the contestants who will take part in the cooking show special. Series one alumni Justine Schofield, Chris Badenoch and Poh Ling Yeow will join MasterChef Australia's first ever winner Julie Goodwin. Since winning the show, Goodwin has written a cookbook and appeared on programmes including The Project and Nine Network breakfast (more)...

Former MasterChef Australia contestants are coming together to raise money for charity. Series one winner Julie Goodwin and series two hopeful Marion Grasby will be among the show's past contestants serving dishes at a pop-up restaurant in Sydney this summer. Celebrity chefs including Kylie Kwong will also cook at the purpose-built restaurant, which will open on July 3 in the forecourt of St Mary's Cathedral. "The many fans of MasterChef Australia will be able to come and experience the dishes they've watched being created, and engage with the contestants and the chefs they have enjoyed seeing in (more)...

Julie Goodwin has revealed that she would never be a "centrefold" model. The 41-year-old MasterChef star, who won the Australian reality cooking competition in 2009, said that she has grown to accept her size 14 to 16 body and doesn't bother dieting any more. Goodwin told New Idea magazine: "Just like my eye colour, my hair colour and the length of my legs are all determined by my genes, so is the shape of my body. So as long as I don't start piling on the kilos and becoming unfit and unhealthy, then I don't see a problem in not looking like a centrefold. "I have gone through periods when I've thought, 'This is what the height/weight chart says I should be, so I've got to do whatever it takes to be that'. Now, I live my life healthily and fully and I'm accepting of the hand I was dealt." Goodwin admitted...

A former MasterChef Australia winner could make a return to reality television on the new series of Celebrity Apprentice. Julie Goodwin, who won the first series of Channel Ten's cooking competition in 2009, has reportedly interested Nine Network producers following a recent appearance on talkshow Can of Worms. The Herald Sun also reports that popstar Nikki Webster - who sang at the 2000 Sydney Olympics opening ceremony as a teenager - and former criminal Mark 'Chopper' Read are also in contention to appear on the show. Read has written a number of semi-autobiographical crime novels in recent years. The Time (more)...

Australia's first MasterChef champion Julie Goodwin has revealed that there is a "downside" to winning the show. The 40-year-old mother-of-three from the Central Coast, who won the amateur cooking competition in 2009, said that she has had to "toughen up" to deal with recent reports that she and her husband Mick are having relationship problems. "It was a load of crap," Goodwin told Sunday magazine. "That's probably the only downside of the whole thing, and I've learnt to take it in my stride. People who know and love me know what's true. Anyone who doesn't, I don't really have to pay attention to their opinions." She also addressed rumours that she has struggled with her weight and considered becoming an ambassador for weight loss giant Jenny Craig, saying: (more)...

Kate Bracks has revealed that she doesn't want to be a chef. The 36-year-old mother from Orange in New South Wales, who was recently crowned Australia's MasterChef 2011, said that all she wants to do is run a sleepy B&B in her hometown because the idea of writing a cookbook terrifies her. Bracks told Woman's Day magazine: "I have an underlying dream of owning a bed-and-breakfast. I look at what [past winners] Adam Liaw and Julie Goodwin have done before me and I know plans change, so I'm open to whatever is coming, but still, deep down, is the desire to own a B&B. That's my gift, that's my skill and that's something I can make work with (more)...

Julie Goodwin has revealed that she would never want to be "thin". The 41-year-old celebrity chef, who won the Australian version of reality cooking show MasterChef in 2009, recently rejected the opportunity to become an ambassador for weight loss company Jenny Craig. Goodwin told The Sunday Telegraph: "I don't want to be thin. I don't want to be anything different to who I am. I think people have been really willing to embrace me for who I am." The mother of three admitted that she "enjoys" some unhealthy food but said that she is "doing some exercise", training with a Central Coast Mariners football player. "I am less concerned about my weight than about the fact that one in seven people do not have enough food to eat each day," Goodwin admitted. "That (more)...

The finale of Australian MasterChef has suffered a huge ratings drop compared to the past two seasons. According to the Herald Sun, only 2.568 million people tuned in to watch Kate Bracks go head-to-head with Michael Weldon and be crowned the winner of the cooking reality show last night. When Adam Liaw won last year's series there was an audience of 3.964 million viewers, while 3.74 million people watched Julie Goodwin defeat Poh Ling Yeow in 2009. Some fans have complained that Channel Ten decided to split the final episode into two parts, airing new reality TV show The Renovators for an hour in between. The first part of the MasterChef (more)...

Julie Goodwin has revealed that she will never diet. The 40-year-old former MasterChef Australia winner, who has three teenage sons with husband Mick, said that she used to worry about losing weight but has since learned not to let it bother her. Goodwin told New Idea magazine: "When I was much younger I used to worry about losing weight. I'd even manage to shed a bit. But I've got to be in a really miserable place to be thin. [I'm] completely comfortable in my own skin." Goodwin also revealed that her (more)...

Julie Goodwin has decided to release a music album. The mother-of-three, who won cooking reality show MasterChef Australia in 2009, said that she wants to release a Christmas CD because she has "always loved music". Goodwin told The Daily Telegraph: "When I went on MasterChef one of the questions I was asked was why I was entering and I said, 'Because (more)...

Julie Goodwin has revealed that she is launching her own television series. The 39-year-old mother-of-three, who won reality cooking competition MasterChef Australia last year, said that her Home Cooked! series is a great way to mark her upcoming 40th birthday. Goodwin told Woman's Day magazine: "I'm loving it. I never thought a love of cooking would lead me to this. It was always just something I did for my family and friends. So Home Cooked! really is an amazing experience. "I'm looking forward to my forties because every decade seems (more)...

Julie Goodwin has revealed that she thinks this year's MasterChef Australia finalists were "amazing". The 39-year-old, who was crowned champion of the reality cooking show last year, said that she is "thrilled" for this year's victor Adam Liaw and runner-up Callum Hann because they have both "won" great futures. Goodwin told Woman's Day magazine: "I think they're both amazing. Callum is 20 years old. He's (more)...

Joanne Zalm has revealed that she has been taking advice from Julie Goodwin. The MasterChef Australia contestant, who has left her children at home to take part in the cookery reality TV show, said that last year's winner and fellow mum Goodwin has been very "encouraging". Zalm told Woman's Day magazine: "My children are always on my mind and being away from them is another challenge (more)...

Julie Goodwin has revealed that MasterChef Australia nearly ruined her marriage. The winner of last year's reality cookery TV show, who has three sons, said that spending three months apart from her husband of 14 years to film the show put a strain on their relationship. Goodwin told The Daily Telegraph: "MasterChef and everything that followed really, really tested us. You see (more)...

Filming has apparently begun on the second series of MasterChef Australia. Scenes for the cookery competition, whose first series was won by Julie Goodwin, will not be aired until the middle of next year. "They're a new and unrecognisable cast and we'd like to keep it that way until the series starts next May," a spokesperson for Fremantle Media told The Daily Telegraph. "But that could be (more)...

MasterChef Australia contestant Poh Ling Yeow has started filming her own TV series. The 35-year-old, who came second to Julie Goodwin in the reality cooking show, said that her success since the competition has been "extraordinary". Yeow told the Herald Sun: "The dust hasn't settled yet and it's just been finding time to fit it all in. It does feel surreal and having to do this show is ridiculous - who gets their own cooking show? It's (more)...

MasterChef Australia winner Julie Goodwin and fellow contestant Julia Jenkins have been selected by The Daily Telegraph to review new culinary movie Julie and Julia. The chefs-turned-film critics were given the opportunity to view the movie, which tells the story of gastro writer Julia Child (Meryl Streep) and New York food blogger Julie Powell (Amy Adams) before the Australian public. Goodwin wrote about the movie: "There were many parallels I saw between the (more)...

Masterchef Australia winner Julie Goodwin has been transformed in an extreme makeover for a magazine shoot. The mother-of-three, who won the cooking reality show last month, said that she enjoyed playing dress-up for a day for Women's Weekly. Goodwin told the Herald Sun: "It was so much fun and everyone was just so nice and made me feel so comfortable. They all went to so much effort and even had a blowing machine sweeping back my hair." The publication's fashion director Julie Russell wanted to make the 38-year-old (more)...

The two female finalists of MasterChef Australia have said that the result of the show will mark a new beginning for women chefs. Winner Julie Goodwin and runner-up Poh Ling Yeow beat a handful of male finalists to become the top two amateur cooks in the country. Goodwin told The Australian: "It's an amazing opportunity. There's certainly a place for more women in the industry. And not only that, it was pretty good for reality TV." The 38-year-old champion continued: "I read an interesting (more)...