50th anniversary of the first moon landing
NASA celebrates the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing by replaying the live broadcast to half a billion people around the world on Saturday.
Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went on a four-day journey on the Lunar Module to become the first men on the moon in 1969
The celebrations follow NASA’s announcement that they intend to return to the moon by 2024 under the new Artemis Program.
Various Artists: Sunny Side Up
- It's barely been a year since We Out Here; Brownswood Recordings' essential document of contemporary UK jazz. The compilation came at a point of critical mass for London's scene, heralding landmark releases from the likes of Shabaka Hutchings, Nubya Garcia, and Moses Boyd.Sunny Side Up hopes to tread a similar path with its diverse roster of Melbourne up-and-comers, many of whom are yet to see recognition on the world stage.
Godtet: II
<p>- When the worlds of hip hop and jazz intersect the meeting can be fruitful, but also a little dangerous. The styles have a lot in common and even more to offer each other thanks to their differences. On the flipside the canned bangers of urban music can reduce jazz to looped, repetitive sterility, completely failing to do justice to the complexity, improvisatory skill and organic power of the style.
The Soft Cavalry: The Soft Cavalry
- The Soft Cavalry is the name of a new project by husband and wife team Steve Clarke and Rachel Goswell from the British soft shoegaze band Slowdive.
Clarke has been a backing muso and performer for many years, but this is the first time he’s written and produced his own material. It’s tempting to assess Soft Cavalry’s material through a Slowdive lense, but this is sufficiently different that it merits assessment in its own right.
Bianca Blackhall: EP
- I don’t think there is any mistaking by now how Tasmania’s isolation has produced a natural beauty and heavy history, attractive to those simultaneously capable of stoicism and active expression. Bianca Blackhall’s debut EP is an exceptional entry into Tasmania’s cultural development and Australia’s sense of country.
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British MPs Backed Proposal To Make No-Deal Brexit Harder
British MPs have backed proposals to make it harder for the next prime minister to force through a no-deal Brexit by suspending parliament.
Boris Johnson, the clear frontrunner to succeed Prime Minister Theresa May next week, says Britain must leave the European Union on October 31st with or without a deal.
Johsnon has refused to rule out suspending, or Proroguing , parliament to prevent MPs from passing legislation to block his exit plan if he tries to exit without a deal.
PNG PM Urges Australia To End Offshore Processing
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape will urge Australia to end offshore processing of asylum seekers when he arrives in the country this weekend
James Marape will urge the Morrison government to fix a timeline for ending the offshore processing of Asylum seekers on manus Island.
Around 450 asylum seekers remain in PNG and another 350 are being held on Nauru.
SKM Recycling Warns Australia Of Potential Waste Crisis
Major Australian recycling company SKM Recycling says millions of tonnes of recyclables are destined for landfill if it collapses, warning of a "major crisis" if China stops recycling Australian waste.
SKM Recycling, which is contracted to more than 30 Victorian councils, is facing liquidation as creditors claim they are owed millions of dollars.
The company has warned the Government there is the potential for an additional 400,000 megatonnes of recyclables being sent to landfill per year if the major recycler ceases business.
New Breast Cancer Gene Mutation Clinical Trial
A new and innovative breast cancer gene mutation clinical trial will take place in Adelaide.
The trial will use an osteoporosis drug on women who carry the BRCA gene mutation to reduce the risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer and the need of preventive surgery.
The Australian-based Breast Cancer Trials research organization says the trial will be more focused on prevention than treatment, they will release more information next week during a meeting in Adelaide.