Apple removes Hong-Kong protest app
Under pressure from Beijing, Apple removed the smartphone app from its online store yesterday
“This app violates our guidelines and local laws, and we have removed it from the App Store,” said Apple.
The app had real-time updates showing police movements, allowing protesters to steer away from possible baton charges, tear gas and police ID checks.
Climate Protesters target airports now
Climate Activists attempted to shut down London airport with activist, Jame Brown, climbing on top of a plane on the runway, reports CNN.
An airport spokesperson said; “their shared priority is the safe operation of the airport and to minimise disruption for our passengers using the airport over the coming days.”
Around 18,00 passengers were due to fly on 286 scheduled flights on the day of the protest.
Drunk bees
Intoxicated bees found wobbling home to their hive at Parliament House in Canberra are turned away by “guards” until they sober up.
Parliament’s head beekeeper Cormac Farrell solved the mystery in a series of tweets explaining the bizarre bee-haviour.
“As the weather heats up, the nectar in some Australian flowers will ferment, making the foragers drunk,” Mr Farrell said
More kangaroo killings
A second man has been charged in relation to the killings of about 20 kangaroos on the NSW South Coast.
Three young orphaned joeys are now in the care of wildlife group WIRES.
The organisation said it was grateful for the swift actions of police and kind people who donated to help them care for the joeys.
Upcoming rain could relieve fires but not drought
Rain is forecasted at the end of the week for Queensland could relieve firefighters from an onslaught of bush fires, however won’t be enough to end the drought.
Forecaster Jess Gardenr said, “Rainfall amounts will be highly variable, due to the nature of showers and thunderstorms but many people can expect between five and 10mm (millimeter) with isolated totals of 15-30mm in heavier showers and storms on Friday.”
Drier weather is likely to return on Sunday.
Ammonia leak in Brisbane chicken factory
Four employees have been sent to hospital suffering facial irritation after an ammonia leak in a Brisbane chicken factory midday yesterday.
After taking air-quality readings firefighters let workers back inside about 4am this morning.
Ammonia is corrosive to the skin, eyes and lungs.
'EVIL ZED' Halloween Party Fundraiser
In this world of prefab experiences and contrived emotions, all of us are searching for the real thing, on Friday November 1st we invite you to Sub Rosa for our horror house of extremes.
Experience two rooms of DJs and Brisbane's most raucous noise-makers, including Pious Faults, Grieg, Requin, Spirit Bunny, Toecutter.
Dyson, Stringer, Cloher: Dyson, Stringer, Cloher
<p><span><span>- With Dyson Stringer Cloher<strong> </strong>releasing their first full-length album amidst a <strong>Seeker Lover Keeper </strong>tour, it seems the taste for supergroups is back. While modern iterations of the format are sometimes criticised for failing to live up to the sum of their parts, there’s something to be said for the power of best mates <strong>Mia Dyson, Liz Stringer </strong>and <strong>Jen Cloher </strong>joining forces again.</span></span></p>
Bec Sandridge: TRY + SAVE ME
- Take a step sideways into the melodramatic world of Bec Sandridge, its gyrating veneer melodies and clamoured Devil’s advocate lyricism. Slipping into something more uncomfortable, Sandridge’s debut album TRY + SAVE ME preys on the predicaments of the artists’ personal anxieties in a tell-tale of her reinvention. Running up that hill ready to make a deal with God, TRY + SAVE ME explores the interventions between individualism, identity and gender with an artful yet tongue-in-cheek approach that has become uniquely her own.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Ghosteen
- Macabre, maudlin, morose, melancholic. These are all apt words for describing Nick Cave’s music, but after tragedy struck in 2015, with the death of Cave’s teenage son, what words could possibly be fitting to describe the subsequent music of Rock ‘n’ Roll’s king of darkness? The answer arrives in the form of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds grandiose new double album, Ghosteen. As expected, the album is sad — painfully sad, but what is unexpected, is the beauty and hope that pervades it.