Instagram model raises $700,000 for Australia fires with nude photos before account deleted

In four days, 20-year old Kaylen Ward estimates she has raised more than $700,000 for the victims of Australia’s bushfire crisis – by sending nude photographs of herself to anyone who donates more than $10 to one of her chosen charities and sends her the receipt.

Instagram mode Kaylen Ward, AKA the Naked
Philanthropist, sends nude photographs of herself
to anyone who donates more than $10 to one of
her chosen charities assisting the Australian bushfire crisis.

The California resident has worked as a nude model since August 2019. While vacationing in the Caribbean she says she fell into a “rabbit hole” after reading about the unprecedented fires that are raging along Australia’s eastern and southern coastlines.

“I donated $1,000 myself,” she tells Guardian Australia. “I had a substantial amount of followers, maybe 30,000 at the time, and I thought that a lot of my followers would pitch in and send in some donations for the wildfires.”

Read the story from The Guardian by Alyx Gorman - “Instagram model raises $700,000 for Australia fires with nude photos before account deleted.” 

Perth endures hottest November day since records began as Western Australia sizzles in the heat

Perth has broken two weather records after four days of searing temperatures across Western Australia.

The temperature reached 40.4 degrees in Perth today.

The temperature hit 40.4 degrees on Saturday — the hottest November day since records began in 1897.

It was also the fourth consecutive day over 35 degrees which is only the second time it has happened in November. The last time was in 1933.

Bureau of Meteorology WA duty forecaster Darryl Vink said Perth broke the record in style.

"Basically there's a high in the bight, a very broad surface trough down the west coast, [and] a hot air mass over the state," he said.

"And the north-easterly winds have brought down that hot air over the west coast.

"It's the hottest November day since records began in 1897, and it's also the hottest spring day since 1897."

Read the story from The Age - “Perth endures hottest November day since records began as Western Australia sizzles in the heat.”