4ZZZ Top 20
1. Thelma Plum - Better In Blak (Album Of The Week)
2. Full Flower Moon Band - Roadie (Single)
3. Hallie - Nice Like Rice (Single)
4. Hatchie - Keepsake
5. DZ Deathrays - Year Of The Dog (Feat. Matt Caughthran) (Single)
6. VOIID - DROOL EP
7. Dumb Things - Today Tonight (Single)
8. The Jungle Giants - Heavy Hearted (Single)
9. Sampa The Great - OMG (Single)
10. Amyl And The Sniffers - Amyl And The Sniffers
11. An Horse - Modern Air
12. No Sister - My New Career (Single)
Join venture between American Airlines and Qantas approved
The US Department of Transport has approved a joint venture between American Airlines and Qantas after effort to coordinate schedules and prices was rejected in 2016.
US Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao says it was the first completed review of an airline joint venture during the Trump Administration.
American Airlines CEO Doug Parker said the new venture will also create new jobs for the industry.
Heft fines will be introduced next month to animal right activists
Hefty fines targeting animal rights activists who illegally trespass on New South Wales farms will be introduced next month in a crackdown on biosecurity laws.
Illegal trespassers could face on-the-spot fines of $220,000 per person and $440,000 for organisations.
Agriculture Minister Adam Marshall said a trespasser could contaminate farming produce and have entire farming operations wiped out for biosecurity.
Endgame marks the highest grossing films of all times
Avengers Endgame has become the highest grossing films of all time out stripping Avatar’s decade long record after 13 weeks it was released.
Endgame has made an estimated total of US $2.79 billion so far, surpassing Avatar’s record by a million dollars
Marvel Studios president Kevin Fiege thanked fans on instagram and gave a shout-out to Avatar director James Cameron for holding the record for so long.
Suspicious Wildfires at Portugal
Authorities will investigate whether five central Portugal wildfires were deliberately lit after breaking out in the same pine forest Saturday afternoon.
Portugal Interior Minister Eduardo Cabrita said it is suspicious that such large fires started in such close proximity.
About 1,800 firefighters and hundreds of vehicles have been containing the blaze, which has left 20 people injured so far.
Tralala Blip - 'Eat My Codes If Your Light Falls'
Tralala Blip are an Australian unit of differently-abled musicians hailing from the Northern
Rivers of New South Wales.
Over the past decade they have carved out a unique position in the Australian electronic music community. Working to overcome a range of challenges imposed by their disabilities, Tralala Blip have created a range of approaches to instruments, performance and composition that allows them to seamlessly create music together.
Eat My Codes If Your Light Falls is their first full-length album in over five years. It charts out an entirely new sonic universe that is the resolution of several years of intense live performance and expanded studio experiments. Produced by Lawrence English, the record explodes their working methodologies and reveals a collective sacred heart that is fuelled by their intoxicating post-electro pop melodies and diarised lyrical poems.
Eat My Codes If Your Light Falls is in many ways the first work in a new chapter of what Tralala Blip are becoming. It resolves their experimental practices and focuses that energy within a tight framework of explicit song form and entirely personal production aesthetics. This is their voice, articulating their stories. It’s for us to listen and begin to understand that which lies in
parallel with our everyday.
Beyond their extensive performance commitments, they have presented their work as special guests of TEDx, have had a stage production created about them and have instigated many workshops for other differently-abled musicians and artists. Their goal is to reconsider the nature of creativity, especially music-making and to push these process beyond any sense of the normative or commonplace.
Celebrated internationally for their relentless pursuit of a level playing field in music creation, they have been fortunate to be supported by festivals such as Unsound, Liquid Architecture and arts facilities such as ZKM Kahlsruhe.
The future is expansive and multi-abled, Tralala Blip invite you to get amongst it.
10AM ZEDLINES
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Whales caught in shark nets
A whale caught in a shark net off Currumbin Beach on the Gold Coast yesterday, struggling to free itself before being untangled by rescuers.
Queensland’s Marine Animal Release Team said they had unpicked the net by 2:30pm and the whale looked uninjured as it swam away.
Whales caught in shark nets are rare events according to the team, who says more than 33,000 whales pass the area each year.
White spot virus finally over
The white spot virus outbreak that devastated South-East Queensland prawn farms two years ago may finally be over, with latest biosecurity tests showing up clean.
Australian Prawn Farmers President Matt West says he wants to thank the Logan farmers who closed their farms in a bid to contain the disease.
Minister for Agriculture Mark Furner said Australia can be declared free of white spot disease if no traces are found in a round of tests next year.
Yellow crazy ants found on Whitsunday Islands and Great Barrier Reef
One of the world’s top 100 most invasive species, yellow crazy ants, have been found on the mainland near the Whitsunday Islands and Great Barrier Reef.
The yellow crazy ants are known to cause devastation to native wildlife by creating super colonies and spraying formic acid that can blind and kill other animals.
Whitsunday Regional Council’s resource manager Scott Hardy said campgrounds and tourists boats are being monitored to prevent the ants from spreading to the islands.