NSW Detection Cameras to be rolled out to catch drivers on their phones
Cameras designed to detect the illegal use of mobile phones whilst driving, are to be positioned on fixed and trailer mounted locations around New South Wales from December of this year.
For the first three months of the program, those who are caught on camera will be sent a warning letter, with those caught offending after this period facing a $344 fine and five demerit points.
Veteran homelessness on the rise in Australia
A report has found that nearly 6000 Veterans are homeless every 12 months in Australia, a rate nearly three times higher than the national average.
A three year study prepared for the Department of Veterans Affairs shows the highest recorded rate of homelessness in the Veterans community.
The Australian Housing and Urban Infrastructure Report stated that 5.3 per cent of Veterans were homeless in any 12-month period, and 21.7 per cent of Veterans reported being homeless at some point in their life.
Hong Kong cuts buses and trains to airport to shut down mass protests
Protesters in Hong Kong attempted to target the airport after a night of widespread and violent street clashes in the Chinese-ruled territory.
Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong have rallied inside a mall, with some activists vandalising a nearby subway station and defacing a Chinese flag, but plans to disrupt the airport did not materialise due to a transport shutdown.
Victory for Abortion Rights Advocates in USA
The US Supreme Court has handed a victory to abortion rights advocates, striking down a Texas law imposing strict regulations on abortion doctors and facilities.
The 5-3 ruling overnight held that the Republican-backed 2013 law, placed an undue burden on women exercising their constitutional right to end a pregnancy, established in the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.
Review: I'm a Phoenix Bitch at Brisbane Festival 2019
QPAC and the Brisbane Festival reached deep into the magic cauldron and thrust Bryony Kimmings with her new piece I’m a Phoenix, Bitch upon us! An amazing rollercoaster of emotions, happiness, sadness, self-agony, pure lunacy, bleak soul baring isolationism and in the blink of an eye Bryony lights up a self-deprecating, somewhat sinister, smile knowing she is the only mermaid on the lonely rock with a seashell filled with popcorn.
The Crooked Fiddle Band: Another Subtle Atom Bomb
- The Crooked Fiddle Band are -more than most bands- bound together by passions. There’s a passion for the music: it seems to stretch past their central, surging, hybrid monster of Romany, Balkan, Klezmer with metal and hardcore and postrock through all the connecting world music and spaghetti-western soundtrack ligaments that help glue the fusion together and beyond. There’s a passion for politics, the great issues of the age, screaming out of the few lyrics they seed in their music and pumping urgently through the veins of the orchestration beneath.
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New report finds climate change poses growing humanitarian threat
A new report by the International Federation of Red Cross and leading economists say the effects of climate change pose a growing humanitarian threat.
More frequent and intense climate-related disasters including floods, storms and bushfires are forecast to leave 150 million people in need of humanitarian aid each year by the end of next decade and cost up to $29 billion annually.
Chief executive of Austalian Red Cross, Judy Slatyer, said extreme weather events in Australia are becoming more frequent.
Philippines reports first case of polio since 2001
The Philippines is reporting its first case of polio since 2001, with a three-year-old girl in a southern province contracting the virus.
Health authorities say the virus has also been detected in Manila's sewage and in waterways of the large southern city of Davao.
A World Health Organisation (WHO) representative says they are concerned more people will be exposed to the virus.
"Embarrassed" Torres Strait Islanders urge PM to visit their region
Torres Strait Islanders “embarrassed” after Scott Morrison’s appearance at last month’s Pacific Islands Forum, request the PM visit their region to see the impacts of climate change.
Warraber man, Kabay Tamu will deliver the invitation to Australia’s delegation at the UN climate summit in New York next week.
“We’re urging the Prime Minister to visit our islands, meet our communities and see the climate crisis for himself,” said Mr Tamu.