Have A Nice Life: Sea Of Worry
- Sea of Worry, the third full length album from Connecticut doom-gazers Have A Nice Life may not reach the desolate, dread-inducing lows of their cult debut record Deathconsciousness - but it’s a damn good effort at recapturing the bleakness that shot the band to internet cult acclaim.
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University of the Sunshine Coast students awarded for life-saving research.
Paramedic science students from the University of the Sunshine Coast have been awarded for research on life-saving treatment techniques.
Two teams of students have received Australasian grant awards for investigating techniques used to treat life-threatening emergencies related to diabetes and adrenal insufficiency.
The teams received $1,000 in partnership with the KJ McPherson Education and Research Foundation.
Older citizen sit-in at City Hall.
Older citizens with their mouths taped shut will stage a sit-in at City Hall this morning.
They will demand the LNP rescind the ban of Extinction Rebellion groups meeting in libraries and other council premises.
Group convenor Miree Le Roy said, "the LNP took away our freedom to meet in the Joh Bjelke-Petersen era. We mustn't allow them to do it again."
Australian exchange students refusing to leave Hong Kong.
Australian exchange students have chosen to remain in Hong Kong despite warnings from universities to return home after clashes between police and pro-democracy protesters broke out on campuses across the city.
Australian universities, including the University of Sydney, University of Queensland and the Australian National University, began pulling exchange students out of Hong Kong late last week.
Domestic and Family Violence reform agenda.
Influential figures from some of Queensland’s largest organisations and community groups will oversee the next phase of the State Government’s domestic and family violence reform agenda.
Domestic and Family Violence Implementation Council Chair Ms Kay McGrath and former Queensland Police Commissioner Bob Atkinson AO APM will serve a 12-month term as the leaders of the Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Council.
Cat reunited with owner.
A cat has been reunited with its owner after an epic 3400km five-year trip from his home in Portland, Oregon, in the north west of United States to Santa Fe in the country’s far south.
The animal shelter officer that found the plucky cat said it was lucky the pet was microchipped so it could be proved he belonged to Portland resident Viktor Usov.
Mr Usov told the Oregonian newspaper that he had assumed the worst had happened when he couldn’t find the fearless feline anywhere.
Contaminated food in Asia.
Exported Australian plastic among waste 'contaminating' Indonesian food chains, according to a new report which found eggs near dumping grounds had some of the highest levels of dioxins recorded in Asia.
Dioxins are persistent organic pollutants which have been identified by the international scientific community as "the most hazardous and toxic chemicals on earth" and have been linked to birth defects and Parkinson's disease.
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GoFundMe for bushfire-affected koalas.
A GoFundMe for bushfire-affected koalas has become the second-largest campaign on the crowd-funding platform in Australia, after receiving more than $1 million in donations.
Port Macquarie Koala Hospital after an expected 350 koalas perished in the devastating bushfires that hit New South Wales and Queensland.
The goal was to raise $25,000 for the rescue and rehabilitation of koalas, but that number has since been dwarfed by Australians' generosity.