Severe fire warnings in place for Queensland
Severe fire danger warnings are in place for the central highlands and coalfields district, Wide Bay and Burnett, and the southeast coast.
Water-bombing aircraft are on standby with severe to extreme fire warnings issued for southern, southeast and central Queensland on Friday.
Authorities have warned conditions could reach the highest catastrophic rating in some inland areas in the state's south.
Queensland hospital comparison site planned by Government
Queenslanders will now be able to compare and publish comparative information about public and private health facilities online under plans by the Palaszczuk government.
Health Minister Steven Miles said that the review website would publish information such as the surgery procedures, the average time spent in hospital and patient outcomes.
"It's like TripAdvisor, but for hospitals," he said.
Mallrat: Driving Music
<p><span><span>- Mallrat, or <strong>Grace Shaw</strong> as she is known when not behind the mic, has come a long way since releasing her first EP as a Brisbane high school student in 2016. Still yet to turn twenty-one, this year she’s been selling out headline shows around the country and is about to head to the US on another international tour; and now she’s released her third EP <em>Driving Music</em>.</span></span></p>
Bat For Lashes: Lost Girls
<p><span><span>- Ever since <strong>Natasha Khan</strong> aka Bat For Lashes first emerged in 2006 with the spectral electronic folk of <em>Fur And Gold</em>, the singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist has found ambitious yet subtle ways to toy with pop music. A dark yet accessible and intriguing back catalogue culminated in 2016’s <em>The Bride</em>, a baroque-pop-concept album about love and death. Clearly, Khan has never taken the easy route when it comes to creating her songs. </span></span></p>
Uniform & The Body: Everything That Dies Someday Comes Back
- There is a work by Nineteenth Century Romantic painter John Martin that is one of the most suffocating and seductive portrayals of Hell ever committed to canvas. Its imposing sense of doom emerges from a sea of black and blood red flames. A crimson flash of electricity from charred skies revels a palace of demons as the pits of hell illuminate a robed figure, presiding over the scene.
Review: Camerata presents Sisters at Concert Hall, QPAC
FEATURING
Monica Curro – violin
Sarah Curro – violin
PROGRAM
Bach Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor, BWV 1043
Wild card mystery guest segment
Mills Concerto for Two Violins
Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Op.4
11am Zedlines
Your 11am Zedlines with Freya and Madi.
Study reveals Australia is not ok with women paying for sex
A new study reveals Australia’s collective reluctance to accept that women might be paying for sex.
Dr Hilary Caldwell, from the University of New South Wales, says the collective view on women buying sex can be put down to people holding stereotypical notions of passive female sexual desire.
“Until now there has been very little empirical evidence of women buying sex outside the field of female sex tourism,” Dr Caldwell said.
Indonesia promises internet access for remote areas
Indonesia’s information and Communication Ministry promise to provide internet access to remote areas.
The central government has promised that the entire Krayan area will be connected through satellite networks so that every school and health clinic will have the Internet by 2023.
Despite an abundance of natural resources in the North Kalimantan area, it is largely underdeveloped with little electricity.
West Krayan District Head Secretary Dawat Odan said the entire Krayan region is facing the same problems.
Last refugees moved of Manus
Thirty-five refugees are being transferred from Manus to Port Moresby today, with another thirty-five following tomorrow.
JDA, the refugee service provider responsible for the transfer, has been unable to provide any details of how the refugees what services will be available or how will be able to survive in Port Moresby.
A spokesperson for the Refugee Action Coalitions says the last refugees will be transferred from Manus to Port Moresby tomorrow, but detention in Port Moresby is a looming disaster.