Teewah residents returning home following a bushfire threat
The residents of the Sunshine Coast township of Teewah are returning home this morning, following a bushfire threat which caused them to evacuate the area last night.
The fire in the tiny community north of Noosa, flared late on Tuesday night, leaving fire crews battling to control the blaze.
The fire is now burning on the eastern side of the Noosa River, west of Teewah, and has been downgraded to an “advice-level” threat.
Mandatory online training for candidates in next year's local government elections
Candidates in next year’s local government elections will have to undergo mandatory online training before they can stand for office, in a move designed to curb corruption in local politics.
Local Government Minister Stirling Hinchliffe says that the program is designed to give candidates a better understanding of their responsibilities as councillors if they should win election to council bodies.
Majestic Horses: Away From The Sun
<p><span><span>- When I read that <strong>Kellie Lloyd </strong>was Australia’s uncrowned queen of shoegaze / dreampop, I gotta say, I didn’t even know she was after the job. I suppose joining <strong>Deafcult </strong>was a good start, but she’s done a lot in her career, as a member of one of Australia’s most stalwart indie bands, <strong>Screamfeeder</strong>, and a whole lot on her own too, but most of which I don’t remember sounding like <strong>Slowdive</strong>. </span></span></p>
Foals: Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Part 2
- Earlier in the year, Foals closed their fifth album Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Part 1 with a semicolon. Now, Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Part 2 picks up where the former left off; in all its bone rattling, guitar driven glory.
Editors: Black Gold
- When releasing a best-of compilation there are two main routes you can go down with the tracking: order them so it sounds like a hit-laden studio album, or order them chronologically to showcase the band’s evolution with time. Now that, after fifteen years of releasing music, English post-punk-turned-something-else band Editors have decided to release a best of and so are made to choose one of these paths.
Regurgitator Quarter Pounder Celebration - Sunday 27th October @ The Tivoli
It’s 3:20pm on a Sunday arvo at the Tivoli. Vicious punk rock emanates through the walls. Making my way to the stage expecting to see dudes on stage in rock attire, it was more than impressive to discover three bad-ass bitches from the backyards of Brisbane instead. Welcome, Koko Uzi. Bassist and vocalist Lisa is transcendent in her delivery.
Hans Zimmer at Brisbane Entertainment Centre
If you’re a fan of Christopher Nolan, Pirates of the Caribbean or superhero movies, you shouldn’t need much introduction to the work of German film composer Hans Zimmer. Since the 80s, he’s raked up a staggering 150 film compositions and is considered one of cinema’s finest modern composers.
At the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on October 3rd, Zimmer was already commanding an audience as I sat in congested traffic, sweaty-palmed and trying to find a park. Luckily, I was saved by a ten-minute delayed start time!
11AM Zedlines
Jess and Sisi present Tuesday's 11AM Zedlines
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NSW schools have $1.3billion in unspent funds
New South Wales public schools are failing to spend $1.3 billion of funds accumulated from NSW and federal governments, and from fundraising by schools and parents.
New figures show that that each school has $600,000 of unspent money.
The NSW Teachers Federation and Greens MP David Shoebridge says principals are not receiving the right support to spend the money allocated to their schools, and they feel they are expected to be financial managers as well as educators.
First Peoples’ Assembly elected in Vic
Twenty-one elected members to the First Peoples’ Assembly, a group charged with being the voice of Indigenous Victorians during the Victoria Treaty process, have now been announced.
Treaties between Indigenous people and governments will essentially act as contracts, and can be used to acknowledge sacred sites, names, historic sovereignty and historical wrongs.