Tasmania announces new commission of inquiry into institutional child abuse

Tasmania will conduct a commission of inquiry into child sex abuse in public institutions like schools and youth detention centres. 

The inquiry will begin in 2021 and last 12 months. 

Premier Peter Gutwein says survivors will be able to come forward because of the new inquiry. 

Queensland braces for heatwave and cyclones

The Bureau of Meteorology has forecast severe thunderstorms today and a low-intensity heatwave later this week.

The Bureau also said Queensland could face up to six cyclones this summer due to a climate phenomenon called La Nina. 

This system brought on Cyclone Yasi and the 2011 floods in the Sunshine state causing catastrophic damage.

The Stress Of Leisure - 'Faux Wave'

From their latest album Faux Wave, out in November, they open the cheque book with inaugural transaction Banker on TV.

The band has totally blown their chances of ever being on Channel Nine with this pointed stream of consciousness. Instrumentally, things are going in four different directions, but what you get is decidedly focused on the main prize - the banker on TV, whoever that is. Mark Mothersbaugh does not cameo on this track.

Faux Wave was recorded at Phaedra Studios (Melbourne) in February 2020 by John Lee (Bananagun / Gordon Koang / Laura Jeanne), with the pre-lockdown tension of faux-everything captured over ten tracks. Subjects never range too far from the brave new world. Not punk, not no wave, not even new wave, but faux wave.

4ZZZ Top 20

1. The Ancient Bloods - Where We Stand

2. Tia Gostelow - CHRYSALIS

3. The Stress Of Leisure - Faux Wave

4. Flangipanis - Asshole Aunt (Single)

5. Emma Donovan & The Putbacks - Crossover (Album Of The Week)

6. BLUSSH - Incoming (Single)

7. Cry Club - God I'm Such A Mess

8. The Bear Hunt - Goodnight Sweet Losers

9. Luke Daniel Peacock - The Common Good (Single)

10. Nice Biscuit - Fem Chem (Single)

11. Perve Endings - Token (Single)

12. Dolly Zoom - So Much To Talk About (Single)