Renters under increasing pressure
Share house renters have been financially and emotionally strained from falling victim to illegal subletting.
Advocates for renters say more needs to be done to inform and protect those on the lower rung of the rental market.
With a significant shortage of rental properties being reported across the country, there are demands to change the legislation to give subtenants legal rights for the first time in the ACT.
Coalition to form majority government
In national news, Scott Morrison’s liberal national party has been awarded a majority government holding 76 seats, although four are still in doubt.
Half of the remaining seats are predicted to be won by the coalition in the house of representatives, taking their tally to 78 seats, a result popular opinion polls and commentators failed to foresee.
Reaching this majority government checkpoint allows the coalition to pass controversial legislation without support from independent MPs, should no MPs cross the floor.
Brisbane City Council to build aged care facilities in Newstead
Brisbane City Council’s planning committee has supported a development application for two high-rise towers to be built in Newstead as aged care facilities.
The two towers will host 120 residential care beds and a total of 142 retirement units and are set to boost the inner-city aged care facilities
City planning chairman Matthew Bourke says as our city’s population ages, there is a growing need for aged care accommodation across the city to allow retirees to age in place.
Faye Webster: Atlanta Millionaires Club
- The fusing of hip-hop and country music in 2019 has most notably resulted in an auto-tuned Billy Ray Cyrus singing about “Fendi sports-bras” on a viral remix of Lil Nas X’s Old Town Road. Probably for the best, the hip-hop influence doesn’t stick out quite so much on Faye Webster’s third release, Atlanta Millionaires Club - for the most part, it is quietly present just beneath the surface, begging for a closer listen.
Review: Kill Climate Deniers at Metro Arts
Kill Climate Deniers is the work of Canberra playwright, David Finningan, co-presented by Metro Arts and THAT Production Company. From the outset Kill Climate Deniers, puts you on the edge of your seat, as the potency of the production is from go to woe.
Reviews: Kings and Queens, Music on Sundays with the QSO
Conductor Fabian Russell
Host Guy Noble (HRH Queen Elizabeth II)
Soloist Jason Redman, Trombone
Handel Sinfonia Act 3: Entrance of the Queen of Sheba, from Solomon, HWV 67
Verdi Overture to Nabucco
Ravel Suite from Ma Mère l’Oye (Mother Goose): Laideronette, Empress of the Pagodas
Lehmann No.3 Concerto for Trombone
Beethoven mvt 1 & 3 Symphony No.7 in A, Op.92, mvt 2
11am Zedlines
Good Morning! This is Maria, Jedd, Floss and Zara with your 11am Zedlines.
Journalists threatened by French government
French journalists could be facing up to five years in prison and be fined up to eighty-three thousand dollars for exposing the use of French arms in Yemen.
The french government has threatened jail time to three journalists for using secret government documents to reveal that senior French officials had lied about the role of French weapons in the Yemen war.
In the hearing, journalists refused to reveal their sources and stated that the leak was in the public interest and defended freedom of the press.
RSPCA million paws walk in Brisbane
The RSPCA held its annual Million Paws Walk in Brisbane on Sunday.
The 3.5 kilometre walk began at the South Bank cultural Forecourt and is the largest event in the city’s canine calendar.
The event goes towards funding for RSPCA programs, adoptions, veterinary services and campaigns.
Chlamydia spikes across Koala population
A huge spike in koalas being treated for chlamydia over the last decade has wildlife experts saying the animals could be extinct on the Gold Coast ‘within two decades’.
According to experts chlamydia is the lead killer of koalas.
This spike comes after the news koalas are already deemed ‘functionally extinct’.