Monkey Marc: Vital Sound
<p><span><span>- Monkey Marc is a phenomenon. As long as I’ve been a grass-roots music journo and a dingy community broadcaster (hint - a long time!), Monkey’s been on my radar; the quintessential alternative artist. I mean alternative in ways that are too often forgotten: from an early background in illegal raves in Sydney, he bloomed into an outback nomad, travelling the country as a political activist, blockading mines.
Dirty Projectors: 5 EPs
<p><span><span>- 2010 on a dusty Sunday afternoon in the Meredith Supernatural amphitheatre, an equally dusty music nerd wanders by the stage when his entire body is completely taken over by the intricately executed perfect dynamic, four-part vocal blast of <em>Temecula Sunrise</em> from breakthrough album <em>Bitte Orca</em>. Is there any other group that is more quintessentially NYC art-school music than Dirty Projectors?!
G20 Summit confirms Tokyo Olympics will go ahead
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics are still on track to be held next year, with International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach declaring that it will send a strong message of solidarity, resilience and unity.
During the G20 leader’s summit closing remarks, The Olympic host city was commended for its commitment to hosting the games, with thousands of people anticipated to attend next July.
Two ancient dwellers to be unearthed in Pompeii
Excavations at a suburban villa outside ancient Pompeii this month unearthed the remains of two dwellers frozen in time by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius that happened nearly 2,000 years ago.
Archeologists tentatively identified the two victims as a wealthy Pompeian landowner and a younger enslaved person after they made plaster casts of them which captured a remarkable amount of details.
Border between NSW and Victoria reopens after 4 month closure
Early this morning, the border restrictions between Victoria and New South Wales were lifted after a 4 month closure.
Victorian residents can now travel freely to NSW without having to quarantine, and flights between the two states have resumed.
NSW is now the first State in Australia with no strict border restrictions in place.
Platypus to be listed as a nationally threatened species
A research found Australia’s platypus’ habitat has shrunk 22% in 30 years which represents almost three times the size of Tasmania.
Scientists from the University of New South Wales along with Australia’s largest environmental organisations have nominated the platypus for an official listing as vulnerable under national environmental laws.
Local businesses lending a hand to Cross River Rail Development
Businesses across Queensland are helping to prepare the Cross River Rail’s Tunnel Boring Machines, that will begin tunnelling under Woolloongabba in early 2021.
Transport and Main Roads Minister Mark Bailey said there is a ‘pipeline’ of projects across the state that are not only preparing the machines for excavation, but are providing thousands of jobs and boosting the economy.
Two children die in a car crash at the Wyaralong Dam
Two children have died, a toddler in critical condition and the parents injured when a car crashed into the water at the Wyaralong Dam, near Beaudesert in south-east Queensland yesterday.
Queensland Police Inspector Douglas Mcdonald said the family was in a Land Rover Discovery that crossed unto the wrong side of the road, broke through a road barrier, rolled down an embankment to end up on its roof in the dam.
9am Zedlines Monday 23rd November
By 4ZZZ Reporters Chelsea Clark and Estelle Sanchez.
[Image: PIXABAY- PIRO4D]
Donald Trump Files Request To Recount Georgia Presidential Ballots
US President Donald Trump has requested another recount of presidential ballots in the State of Georgia, after the certification of election results showed that Democratic leader Joe Biden won the state by a margin of less than 0.5%.