Julia Why - 'Hysteria'
8AM Zedlines
Glenda and Hugh present Monday's 8AM Zedlines
Brisbane Transit Centre to be Demolished
Roma Street's Brisbane Transit Centre is to be demolished in the next couple months, a project which will clear land for the $5.4 billion Cross River Rail and Brisbane Live entertainment precinct.
Demolition for the Cross River Rail is expected to be completed by the end of next year, which will result in some short-term lane closures outside of peak hour traffic and temporary busway closures in late 2020.
First koala spotted in suburban park for 21 years
Residents in the Brisbane suburb of Moorooka are celebrating the first koala to be spotted in a local park in 21 years.
Pegg’s Park has been transformed by a local tree planting group, who have planted hundreds of trees, to rejuvenate the site.
Councillor Steve Griffiths of the Moorooka ward congratulated the Moorooka Greening Group on the positive work they have done.
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.