India develops the first paper based CoVid-19 test
India developed the Feluda test, which uses Crispr gene-editing technology to detect CoVid-19. Scientists estimate it will show results in under an hour and cost about 500 rupees or 9.52 AUD.
Researchers at the Delhi based CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, tested the kit on samples from 2,000 patients, including on CoVid-19 positive patients.
They found the new test had 96% sensitivity and 98% specificity. This means almost everyone with the disease can be detected, while ensuring the least amount of false negatives.
Labor to create new disease control centre if it wins at federal election
Labor has promised to establish a centre for disease control if they win at the next federal election.
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese said the economy depends on Australia’s response to future pandemics and a disease control centre would strengthen this preparedness.
The centre would house surveillance experts to monitor current and emerging disease threats.
Adelaide priest stopped from practicing rites
An Adelaide based Anglican priest accused the church of discrimination after being denied permission to say mass and celebrate sacraments because of her marriage to her female partner.
Sorel Coward was ordained almost 25 years ago but after transitioning from male to female in 2014, she could not practise because the church now classified her marriage as same-sex.
She regularly corresponded with Archbishop Of Adelaide Geoffrey Smith about the matter but was once again denied permission to officiate last year.
Gambling is at record high since venues reopen
Gambling is at a record high after JobSeeker and JobKeeper payments continue to be spent on poker machines.
Since venues reopened, $293 million was spent in Queensland in July, with similar figures every month since.
Lifeline Darling Downs and Southwest Queensland CEO Derek Tuffield said it’s common for people to gamble more in times of a natural disaster, or this case, pandemic.
Queensland elections could go either way
The result of the state election campaign, which begins today, will depend on trust in candidates, attitudes on public policy and plans for CoVid-19 recovery, according to Paul Williams, Senior Lecturer at Griffith University.
In late July, Newspoll found 81% of those surveyed approved of Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk’s handling of the pandemic. 57% of respondents preferred her as premier. But in June, a YouGov poll had the LNP in front of Labor, 52% to 48%.
9 AM ZEDLINES - 0CTOBER 6
By 4ZZZ reporters Norma Hilton and Hannah Davies
Image credit: pixabay.
Róisín Murphy: Róisín Machine
- The High Queen of the Irish dance floor is back and this time she’s brought a big machine to give your hips, knees, feet and toes a good working over. Been a bit of a gap since her 2016 Take Her Up To Monto album, with only a few singles over the last couple of years marking her progress in the studio. However, her at times sultry, other times worn, gravelly tones find a good home amongst the beats of a lonely dance floor (because 2020’s dance floors have all been bereft and lonely.)
GL: You Read My Mind
<p><span><span>- GL are definitely on a retro-tip (but who isn't right now?!). Maybe that's just what happens when crate digging vinyl-fetishists and encyclopaedic club DJs combine with the always-available digital archive. Artists discover that the style they want to create isn't a niche so much as a cavernous gorge allowing them to dive deeper and deeper into what was once thought to be a hyper-specific sub-classification for the specialists only.</span></span></p>
October 5 - 12pm Zedlines
By 4ZZZ reporters Chelsea and Estelle.
Image Credit: Unsplash/ Michał Parzuchowski
New Caledonia rejects independence from France
New Caledonia has voted against independence from France for a second time, after 10,000 votes separated the two sides in the referendum.
Voter participation was four percent higher than the referendum of 2018.
French President Emmanuel Macron stated in a press conference that he “saluted this show of confidence in the republic with a profound amount of gratitude” but has “heard the voices of those who wish independence.”