Sasha Barbagallo

Reports from within the Allen government suggest the state's 52,000 educators will receive a 28% increase to their pay over four years.

Now, this is significantly higher than the government's first offer of 17%, but it is a lot less than what the union has been pushing for, 35% over four years.

Yeah, so whether this announcement or this deal, which hasn't been formally confirmed yet, manages to avoid further strikes, we will have to wait and see.

And Chris Spiro will tell you, fresh from his trip, it is the place dreams are made of.

And that was indeed the case for New Yorkers at a bar in Brooklyn over the weekend when pop sensation Olivia Rodrigo showed up to perform unannounced.

Beautiful.

What a beautiful voice she has.

She was fresh off rehearsals for her upcoming SNL hosting gig and she turned up to Pete's Candy Store in jeans and a t-shirt to sing Drop Dead, which is the lead single of her upcoming third album.

We can't all be Aretha Franklin.

Can't all be a Gaga.

Yeah.

I mean, I'm not like a stan, but I'm just like, that would be awesome.

So it made me go and have a look at all the other stars that have done this before.

And I remember Fatboy Slim last year, I think it was a pre-organized show, but he played Revs in Melbourne, which is an iconic nightclub, dayclub also.

And also Prince, the other one I found, which I didn't know, in 2012, he did a big stadium tour.

He was in Melbourne and

He played the arena and then he went to a place called Bennett's Lane Jazz Club at 2am in a room of about 80 people.

He played a two hour set.

He did, you know, deep cuts, covers, hits, all of it.

Can you imagine?