Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou: May Our Chambers Be Full
<p><span><span>- If you were feeling daunted and getting lost in the weeds of Thou’s discography, they are almost certainly not making it easy for you. Getting through their back catalogue is a mammoth task. Every time we turn around it seems a cavalcade of grime slathered doom torrents out of Baton Rogue and hits with the impact of an oak bookcase toppling on to you; you see it coming, it’s too late to move and now you acquiesce. Before <em>May Our Chambers Be Full</em>, I’d not heard anything from Emma Ruth Rundle.
Felivand: Nerve
<p><span><span>- I feel a bit bad for Felivand’s (ex?) partner, the one getting the kiss-off in her number, <em>Gone</em>. When Felivand sings “<em>It’s time to understand / That i’m not your helping hand</em>” it feels like one half of this relationship has really outgrown the other.
Dorian Electra: My Agenda
<p><span><span>- It seems with every trend in pop history, there has been a queer artist behind the scenes pushing boundaries. The rise of hyper-pop and the PC Music Label in the mid-2010s took the underground pop scene in a new absurdist electronic direction before finally hitting mainstream strides through <strong>Charli XCX</strong>. Enter Dorian Electra, a frequent collaborator of Charli’s who gained popularity off of their 2019 project <em>Flamboyant</em>.
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Fragments of COVID-19 found in Ipswich sewerage.
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Queensland Chief Health Officer, Dr. Jeannette Young, is concerned this result could be a sign of one or more undetected COVID-19 cases in the Ipswich community.
Queensland has gone 49 days without a recorded case of community transmission.
LNP to release costings ahead of state election.
Queensland shadow Treasurer, Tim Mander, is set to release the LNP’s costings today, two days before the state election.
The report will explain to voters how the LNP intends to fund its election promises with a target of returning the budget in surplus in four years.
Queensland Treasurer, Cameron Dick, released Labor’s costings on Tuesday.
Victoria hotel quarantine inquiry delays release of final report.
An inquiry into Victoria’s hotel quarantine scheme has delayed the release of its final report until December.
The board of the inquiry has requested more documents from the Department of Health and Human Services, after a series of emails contradicted evidence provided by Victoria’s Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton.
An interim report will instead be handed down on November 6.
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Nearly one million Australians are currently living with ADHD, which can have a significant impact on their daily lives.
Chair of ADHD Australia, Professor Michael Kohn says ADHD is often misunderstood in the community.
European Commission President calls on EU leaders to assist patient transfers.
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Ms. Von der Leyen said reasserting control of the infection rate would require far closer coordination between governments.
The Netherlands has begun air-lifting patients to hospitals in Germany and Belgium is expected to run out of intensive care beds in the next two weeks.
Taiwan military to hold its first same-sex weddings.
The Taiwanese army will marry its first same-sex couples at its military mass wedding this week.
Two female soldiers will be wed to their civilian partners at the annual event on Friday.
Taiwan became the first Asian country to legalise same-sex marriage in May, 2019.