Brisbane Story Bridge to close for the next two Sundays
Brisbane’s Story Bridge will be closed for the next two Sundays while the Brisbane City Council performs inspections.
Two of the three northbound lanes will close on Sunday July 7 and lanes in an unconfirmed direction will be closed on Sunday July 14.
Earlier this year, the Story Bridge was closed for an entire weekend while the Brisbane City Council completed “essential waterproofing works”.
Queensland's first Man with a Pram event took place on Saturday
Queensland fathers walked from Brisbane’s CBD to South Brisbane on Saturday for the state’s first Man with a Pram event to support a national Dads Groups Inc fundraising campaign.
The not-for-profit organisation aims to connect with new fathers and improve men’s health, prevent family violence, as well as reduce isolation and suicide.
Bakers Delight joint-chief executive and father David Christie supports the initiative, saying it is terrific to see an organisation focused on helping father's come together to learn and grow.
Queensland text-driving fine may become Australia's harshest distracted driving fine
Queensland drivers caught texting while driving may face on-the-spot fines of $1000 if the Queensland Government continues to crackdown on distracted drivers.
Queensland Transport Minister Mark Bailey says text-driving is as dangerous as drink-driving, with mobile phone use being involved in 38 road deaths in 2017.
The proposed fine is over double the current penalty and would be the harshest distracted driving fine imposed by any Australian state.
Mining union calls mining company's rescue response to fatal incident "unacceptable"
The Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union called a Queensland mining company’s response to a fatal accident at Bowen’s Basin “unacceptably” slow.
Mining union spokesperson Steve Smyth says emergency services travelled three hours from Mackay to reach the miner, who died at the scene.
The incident is the fifth Queensland mining death in the past 12 months, with three of them in coal.
Environmentalists remove 40 tonnes of abandoned fishing nets from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Environmentalists removed about 40 tonnes of abandoned fishing nets last month from an area known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Non-profit group Ocean Voyages Institute removed the rubbish during a 25-day expedition by attaching GPS trackers to nets so they could be later located and removed.
Ocean Voyages founder Mary Crowley says its success should herald the way for us to inspire and do larger clean-ups throughout the world.
Up to half of China's breeding pigs dead as a result of African swine fever
As many as half of China’s breeding pigs have either died from African swine fever or have been slaughtered because of the spreading disease, according to four people who supply large farms.
The reduction of sows is expected to impact Chinese meat consumption by increasing food prices and decreasing livelihoods in an economy employing 40 million pig farmers.
The Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs says the disease has been “effectively controlled.”
Rainbow Chan: Pillar
- What is love? Is it at the basis of everything we do? Or is it an illusion, in the end, just a performance? When we last caught up with Rainbow Chan, the Cantonese-Australian r’n’b chanteuse was locked in combat, a mighty confrontation with life’s largest questions. What is reality? What is truth? How does every element of it -a constant, swirling struggle- fit together, creating me and all that I am? It imparted a certain world-weariness to her 2017 record, Fabrica, that complemented her stylings as a smoky, barroom diva.
The Steady As She Goes: Caldera
- It’s been getting hard to keep up with the unholy enthusiasm of The Steady As She Goes. Brisbane’s one-man-goth-band, Tal Wallace, has been a prolific source of doomy, swampy, bluesy horror since he first started really putting stuff out, back in 2013. His release schedule reached a new, alarming pace, last year, when he groaned out two whole albums and a fifteen minute, standalone single, to boot. Given that, the whole year between his last, Warlock Radio and the just-released Caldera might have some wondering what the hold-up is.
Pixx: Small Mercies
- The inventive second album by London based Pixx weaves together many different threads from pop and electronica’s past to make something precise, beautiful and new. The adventurous sonic environment and broad scope of Hannah Rodgers’ songs hints at strong potential for epics, but the thirteen tracks here are honed into tightly structured, radio-friendly lengths. This discipline lends focus and urgency to an album that should find a wide audience.
Syrup, Go On: Last Light
- In the time since yesteryear’s Joyful Hesitation EP, Syrup, Go On’s sound hasn’t changed, but has certainly become more polished. Indeed fans of the EP may find their wishes well served by this debut full-length effort, assuming their wishes were “this, but more and better”.