Jacki Weaver awarded Australian film's highest accolade

Photo: Jacki Weaver was recognised for her movie roles over the past 52 years. (Getty/AFP: John Sciulli) Map: Sydney 2000

Lots of highs, lots of lows and plenty of perseverance: that's how Jacki Weaver has described her half a century as an actor.

The performer has been named as the 39th recipient of the Raymond Longford Award for her roles in movies over the past 52 years.

"I thought when you got a lifetime achievement award you were about to cark it," the actor joked when the announcement was made in Sydney yesterday.

Jacki Weaver film and TV roles Silver Linings Playbook (2012)Animal Kingdom (2010)Cosi (1996)Homicide (1967-77)Alvin Purple (1976)Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
- source IMDB

Weaver's first screen role was the 1966 ABC TV children's sci-fi series Wandjina! and her first film role was in the 1971 movie Stork.

Weaver has spent most of her career on the stage but after a film-role drought, a part in David Michod's international hit Animal Kingdom catapulted her into Hollywood.

She was nominated for an Academy Award for her role as the matriarch of a Melbourne crime family, and she quickly earned another Oscar nomination for her part in Silver Linings Playbook opposite Robert De Niro.

Now, the 66-year-old actor is the toast of Tinseltown.

"Not the girl next door, the granny next door now," she said.

Australian student raped in Sri Lanka: reports

Australian National University student raped in Sri Lanka: reports - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Russia bans Australian beef products over growth stimulant

Posted January 27, 2014 20:50:40

Related Story: Organic beef industry booming Related Story: Indonesia flags cattle import permit increase Related Story: Beef producers struggle with export ban aftermath Map: Australia

Russia has imposed a ban on Australian beef by-products, including offal, over the use of a growth stimulant allowed in some nations but which Moscow considers unsafe.

The Interfax news agency said Australia had sent 13,000 tonnes of beef by-products to ex-Soviet countries in the first 10 months of last year - most of them to Russia - in a trade worth $21.3 million.

Russia's agriculture watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor said the ban was imposed after the discovery of the growth stimulant trenbolone "in several shipments" of Australian beef by-products.

Australia reported shipping 30,000 tonnes of beef to Russia in 2013.

Rosselkhoznadzor chief Sergei Dankvert told Interfax that the ban applied to beef by-products because they accumulate the steroid in greater quantities than regular meat.

Russia has frequently imposed temporary bans on meat products over the use of hormones that are allowed in countries such as the United States but restricted by Moscow's more stringent regulations.

The temporary restrictions also affect Belarus and Kazakhstan - two ex-Soviet nations that are part of a Moscow-led Customs Union.

Australia is the world's third-largest exporter of beef after the United States and Brazil.

AFP

Topics:beef-cattle,livestock,rural,trade,australia,russian-federation

Search ABC News ABC Rural NSW Government finalises CSG protection zones Drought creeps south in New South Wales (audio) Hot weather reduces milk production (audio) 'Speed camera' tests thirsty vineyards (audio)(photos) NT hay shortage (audio) More Top Stories Union accused of ties to crime figures, kickbacks for jobs Police involved in fatal Taser arrest of Roberto Laudisio Curti plead not guilty to assault Cosgrove expected to be announced as new governor-general Southern Australia to swelter as heatwave returns US accused of industrial espionage, exploiting Angry Birds Jude Law shocked News of the World paid relative for stories Australian Open champion Stanislas Wawrinka hailed by Swiss media, hometown renamed in his honour Connect with ABC News

Money-laundering ring funding Hezbollah cracked by Australian police

text-decoration: none; line-height: 20px;height: 20px; color: #3B5998; font-size: 11px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; padding:2px 4px 2px 20px; border:1px solid #CAD4E7; cursor: pointer; background:url(//static.ak.facebook.com/images/share/facebook_share_icon.gif?6:26981) no-repeat 1px 1px #ECEEF5; -webkit-border-radius: 3px; -moz-border-radius: 3px;

Money-laundering ring funding Hezbollah cracked by Australian police

text-decoration: none; line-height: 20px;height: 20px; color: #3B5998; font-size: 11px; font-family: arial, sans-serif; padding:2px 4px 2px 20px; border:1px solid #CAD4E7; cursor: pointer; background:url(//static.ak.facebook.com/images/share/facebook_share_icon.gif?6:26981) no-repeat 1px 1px #ECEEF5; -webkit-border-radius: 3px; -moz-border-radius: 3px;

LIVE: Australian Open quarter-finals

View the Original article