Facebook to ban groups supporting QAnon from its social media platforms
Facebook says it will move to ban groups that openly support QAnon, an unfounded conspiracy theory relating to the existence of a supposed child-trafficking ring run by celebrities and government officials that can only be stopped by US president Donald Trump.
The ban will extend across both Facebook and Instagram with all Facebook pages and groups and Instagram accounts spreading QAnon-supportive content to be removed, regardless of whether they encourage violence.
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announces further financial support for outback powerline project
The Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has announced further financial support for a $1.8 billion project to extend the national electricity grid into the outback north-west of the state.
Palaszczuk said her Government had signed an agreement with proponents of the CopperString 2.0 project to proceed to the next level, declining to reveal the exact size of the new investment.
CopperString 2.0 involves the construction of a 1,100 kilometre high-voltage transmission line from Townsville to Mount Isa and is expected to create 400 construction jobs.
BHP, Origin pull out of Queensland Resources Council over anti-Greens ad campaign
Industry giants BHP and Origin have made the decision to leave the Queensland Resources Council (QRC) after the lobby group published a series of Facebook ads urging people to put the Greens last in the upcoming state election.
The QRC's ad campaign encouraged Queensland residents not to vote for the Greens, arguing the party wants to stop jobs within the resources industries including fishing, forestry, tourism, mining and gas.
Both Origin and BHP issued statements voicing their disapproval of the QRC’s advertising directly targeting and criticising the Greens.
Chadstone coronavirus cluster in Victoria grows to 31 cases
Victoria has recorded six new COVID-19 cases as the Chadstone shopping centre outbreak grows leading to more than 170 people being forced into self-isolation.
Victoria's COVID testing program commander Jeroen Weimar yesterday confirmed 31 cases are now linked to the Butcher Club at Chadstone Shopping Centre, an increase from the 28 reported on Tuesday.
The outbreak has made its way into regional Victoria, with two Kilmore residents - 60km north of the city - testing positive to Covid-19 after an infected Melbourne person broke restrictions to dine at a local cafe.
Sheena Watt set to become Victorian Labor's first Indigenous parliamentarian
Yorta Yorta woman Sheena Watt looks set to make history as Victorian Labor's first Indigenous parliamentarian.
Ms Watt, a trade unionist with a background in the health and community sectors, tweeted yesterday that she had been preselected to become Labor's next member for the state's upper house Northern Metro seat, replacing former minister Jenny Mikakos.
Ms Watt's past work includes managing COVID-19 outbreaks in Melbourne's north as the deputy chair of Merri Health and leading a paid Aboriginal traineeship program as part of AFL SportsReady.
Scientists Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna take out 2020 Nobel Prize for genome editing method
Scientists Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna have taken out the 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their development of a method for genome editing.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences stated that Charpentier and Doudna discovered one of gene technology's sharpest tools: the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors.
The innovative technology has made a significant contribution to the development of new cancer therapies and may make the curing of inherited diseases a reality.
4ZZZ Top 20
1. Jodie Flange - Welcome To The Elephant Graveyard, Honey
2. Mitch, Please - The Bin Collection
3. Thibault - Or Not Thibault (Album Of The Week)
4. The Cassingles - A Symphony of Horrors
5. Sweater Curse - I Wish I Was A Better Person Sometimes (Single)
6. Ancient Channels - Moments In Ruin
7. The Ancient Bloods - ANCSTR (Single)
8. Miiesha - Nyaaringu
9. IDLES - Ultra Mono
10. Matt Hsu's Obscure Orchestra - Welcome To The Neighbourhood (Single)
11. Dicklord - You Fingered Me Weird (Single)
The Goldhearts
The Goldhearts play indie rock, heaving in harmony, perfumed in pop, and twinged with twang. The Goldhearts live on the Gold Coast & Sydney and are all ex-Brisbane. Formed in 2015, the band released their debut album The Rise and Fall of the Goldhearts in 2016 and an EP BE Strong, BE Brave, BE Bold in November 2019. Separated by border closures during COVID-19, the band finally hit the studio to record a Double A-side single inspired by the current eco-emergency.
Grieg: Detritus
<p><span><span>- Grieg came together sometime in the early two-thousand-teens, after everyone involved had got fed-up-to-the-eyeballs with doing the things band’s are supposed to do. They put together this new concern with precisely no aspirations beyond making incredibly loud music that they loved and hanging out. Former rockers reliving the glory days isn’t exactly unusual and most of them are boring and rubbish.
Alvin Curran (Peformed By Gabriella Smart): Inner Cities
<p><span><span>- Room40 have just released <em>Inner Cities</em> by Alvin Curran (performed by Gabriella Smart). Though the album was recorded in 2013, I had the pleasure of seeing Smart perform this piece at the The Old Museum as part of Brisbane Festival: a five-hour concert that ended in a standing ovation.</span></span></p>