Victoria now COVID-19 free
Victoria have discharged their last COVID-19 patient from hospital.
The Department of Health and Human services have confirmed the man left hospital yesterday.
The state now have zero active cases.
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.
Brisbane City Council request rewrite of critical petition
The Brisbane City Council has requested a local man rewrite a petition he wrote last week regarding lord mayor Adrian Schrinner.
Coorparoo man Kierian Wilson criticised the council’s rejection of Labor councillor Kara Cook’s request to work remotely, including attending conferences via video call, after giving birth.
The Council are insisting that Ms Cook was never told that she could not attend meetings remotely, but that it was not yet possible with the council’s existing technology
The Stress Of Leisure - '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)
Monday 23 November -12pm zedlines
By 4ZZZ reporters Chelsea Clark and Estelle Sanchez.
Image Credit: Meg Jerrard/ Unsplash
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.
Despite the ongoing global crisis, Tokyo Olympic Officials are yet to suggest cancelling the games as an option.
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.