Local Authority - 'Negative Space'
Hailing from Brisbane’s scorched underground, moody goth-gazers LOCAL AUTHORITY boast huge riffs trembling with reverb, steady commanding rhythm lines and vocals that feel as though they’re piercing through the musical wall of sound and reaching out just for your ears.
With one black leather boot planted in the past and another stomping toward the future, ‘Negative Space’ takes shape and influence from the late 80’s and early 90’s alternative U.K. scenes as well as more modern day industrial and electronica experimentalists in order to achieve the perfect blanket of blissful ambience.
Negative Space is a slow burning gem, contrasting the thick guitar sounds of the 90’s grunge scene with luscious vocal harmonies, a feeling of impending doom is portrayed to the listener in the brightest possible way.
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Gold Coast nursing home will not reopen
A Gold Coast nursing home that abruptly closed earlier this year forcing the evacuation of almost 70 high care patients will not reopen.
Arthur Miller, owner of the Earle Haven nursing home, has told the ABC the Federal government has revoked his licence to operate a high-care facility.
The Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission said the decision was made on August 23 after Earle Haven failed to meet any of eight Aged Care quality standards.
‘Australian universities put our national security at risk by working with China’
Australia's top universities could be aiding the Chinese Communist Party's mission to develop mass surveillance and military technologies, amid rising concerns from Australian intelligence agencies that they are putting national security at risk.
A joint Four Corners-Background Briefing investigation has uncovered extensive collaborations between Australian universities and Chinese entities involved in Beijing's increasingly global surveillance system.
Climate Change Causing Devastating Damage to Mangroves
Mangrove communities in the Gulf of Carpentaria are experiencing severe dieback- a condition where wildlife begins to die backwards from the tips of its leaves and roots.
The dieback is said to have resulted from a temporary drop in sea levels, climate change and a sharp increase in sea temperatures.
Traditional owner of the land, Patsy Evans, states that conditions had worsened for wildlife and the land near her home on the Limmen River in the Northern Territory- with the mangrove locations now mainly consisting of dead trees.
Hundreds of migrants corralled at detention center in Mexico
Hundreds of migrants from Africa, the Caribbean and Central America found themselves gathered in a migrant detention facility in southern Mexico on Sunday after a futile attempt to head north as part of a caravan aiming to reach the United States.
The group set out before sunrise Saturday from the town of Tapachula, where many had been marooned for months unsuccessfully trying to get transit visas. They carried heavy backpacks, babies and parcels on their heads.
Tasmania Caught in US Opioid Crisis
Tasmania was mentioned in a US court case, where a US pharmaceutical giant was noted to have facilitated Oklahoma's opioid crisis, with Judge Thad Balkman stating that Tasmanian alkaloids were a key part of company Johnson & Johnson's pain management franchise.
As the world's largest producer of legal alkaloids, Tasmania supplies 50 per cent of the raw materials that make the world's opioid painkillers.
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Heirs of Anzac Day 'architect' in Brisbane to share rare gift
David Ratcliff and Liz Binks, who are direct descendants of the 'architect of Anzac Day', David Garland, have visited Brisbane with a precious historic artefact.
The artefact is a rare gold cross, mounted on a larger golden cross, which was given to David Garland in Jerusalem in 1920- with scholars verifying documentary evidence of its existence in the 11th century and after the end of World War One.
China's Xi warns attempts to divide China will end in 'shattered bones'
Chinese president Xi Jinping expressed a strong threat against dissenting Hong Kong protestors, at a press conference in Nepal on Sunday.
This comes after violence has continued to escalate in Hong Kong, with a police officer taken to hospital after his neck was slashed and other authorities struggling to restore order on Sunday night.
The Chinese president has claimed that independence advocates would be 'crushed', stating that any external forces backing attempts to divide China would be merely supporting a 'pipe dream'.
Hundreds of scientists back climate civil disobedience
In a joint declaration, scientists from 20 countries have broken with the caution traditionally associated with academia to side with peaceful protesters.
Almost 400 scientists have endorsed a civil disobedience campaign aimed at forcing governments to take rapid action to tackle climate change, warning that failure could inflict "incalculable human suffering."
Religion laws to be debated by Christmas
Attorney-General Christian Porter expects to introduce new religious freedom laws to parliament by the end of this year.
Religious freedom laws will be introduced to federal parliament by the end of this year, but are unlikely to take effect for at least a few months.
Attorney-General Christian Porter expects to introduce the bill and kick off the debate before Christmas, but anticipates the legislation will be scrutinised through a "heavy and contested" committee inquiry.