North Korea has successfully test-fired a ballistic missile
North Korea confirmed firing a ballistic missile from a submarine.
North Korea successfully test-fired the first submarine-launched ballistic missile since 2016.
The new type of missile was fired in the waters off Wonsan Bay.
However, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the launching of ballistic missiles "violates UN Security Council resolutions and Japan strongly protest and condemn it,”
Victorian highway resumes to work
Djab Wurrung (Jab wurrung) activists are allowing highway work to recommence after 15 sacred trees are saved.
Works are resuming on a Victorian highway upgrade after protections were placed on Indigenous birthing trees.
These protections have been put in place after a partial agreement was struck between the state government, protesters and traditional owners.
Pew Research Centre Report has found social media negatively impacts news
Social media has been found to exert “too much control” over news according to a Pew Research Centre Report.
The study of more than 5000 people has found that most users agree that social media is responsible for spreading incorrect and biased stories on their networks.
Study authors Elisa Shearer and Elizabeth Grieco found “that the role social media companies play in delivering the news on their sites results in a worse mix of news for users.”
White Ribbon Australia enters liquidation
The anti-domestic violence charity White Ribbon Australia is entering liquidation.
The foundation has announced that it has entered liquidation after assessing the company is no longer sustainable
A statement from White Ribbon Australia says “It is with profound sadness that the board of White Ribbon Australia informs the community and supporters that it has taken the very difficult decision to close its doors.”
The organisation is going into liquidation ahead of White Ribbon Day on November 22nd.
Six Extinction Rebellion protesters charged in Brisbane
Six Extinction Rebellion protesters have locked their necks to barricades on Wednesday morning.
Four men and two women were locked to metal fencing in the middle of the road while seven others had been initially arrested.
A spokeswoman for the Extinction Rebellion Laura Harland says, "we are in a climate crisis currently so Extinction Rebellion believes this kind of action is necessary to take."
Traffic was blocked at the intersection of Eagle Street and Creek Street"
"Blessing of the Animals Ceremony" in Queensland
A “Blessing of the Animals Ceremony” is taking place today at 10:30am at RSPCA Queensland’s Animal Care Campus at Wacol.
Today on World Animal Day, Father Olaf Anderson from St Michael’s Anglican Church will hold a special Blessing of the Animals Ceremony with similar ceremonies taking place worldwide.
RSPCA Queensland’s Wacol Shelter Manager Nanda Ten Grotenhuis says, "the animals all get individual attention and they truly are aware that something very touching is happening”.
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Holiday Sidewinder: Forever Or Whatever
- In a turn of phrase I’m sure she’d be okay with, Holiday Sidewinder is an unusual performance moniker, but the name her mum saddled her with -Holiday Sidewinder Carmen-Sparks- is just a whole mouthful. For me her stage alias conjures either a rattle-snake wasted on midori-premix or an air-to-air missile that explodes in a huge burst of fireworks and confetti.
Angel Olsen: All Mirrors
- On her fourth album, her third signed to Jagjaguwar, American rock auteur Angel Olsen delivers her grandest work yet. All Mirrors is a chilling and captivating take on orchestral rock. Here Angel Olsen has reinvented herself, with no similarities to any of her former works. The only indication of this being a project by her at all is that raw howl of a voice, one that she unleashed previously in Burn Your Fire For No Witness's High Five and MY WOMAN’s Shut Up Kiss Me.
Demon Days: Taking It Slow This Time
- As a neo-soul group with a female lead vocalist in 2019 it’s hard to escape the influence of two huge records from the past few years. First is The Internet’s Ego Death, a gritty and spacey album from the LA-based, Odd Future-related group, jam-packed with machismo and smoothness led by, Syd The Kyd. Second is Melbourne’s Hiatus Kaiyote with Choose Your Weapon, part neo-soul choose-your-own-adventure, part beat-tape, also lead by a fearsome female, Nai Palm.