Groovin the Moo pill-testing a success

Australia’s second pill-testing trial at Canberra’s Groovin the Moo music festival on Sunday was declared a success.

More than 230 festival-goers used the pill-testing service, and all of the seven pills found to contain potentially lethal substances were willingly dumped by in the bins provided by the service.

Gino Vambuca from Pill Testing Australia said the testing helped reduce drug-related harm and is a step to making parties and festivals safer for our kids.

Adelaide’s 134-year-old toddler grave gift mystery solved

The great mystery surrounding the toys and flowers appearing on the century’s old grave of an Adelaide toddler has been solved.

Hope Valley resident, Julie Rhodes, said she and friend Vicki Lyons are responsible and began the clean-up and gift-bestowing after Herbert Henry Dicker, who died in 1885 aged just two, visited them both in a dream and led them to his grave.

Ms Rhodes and Ms Lyons hope their actions will inspire others to clean up and maintain cemeteries.

Spain’s Socialist party leading election count, but without a majority

Spain’s incumbent Socialist party is holding a clear lead in the country’s third election in four years, but is still short of a majority.

Should they gain support from smaller parties, it will be the first time a far-right party will enter parliament since Francisco Franco’s dictatorship ended in 1975.

Microsoft announces Paint here to stay in newest update

Microsoft has announced Paint, the popular, basic drawing tool, will now feature in the next Windows 10 update set to be released in May.

The move was made after Microsoft received backlash after they disclosed plans to stop developing the graphics editor in 2017.

Fans welcomed the decision, saying they are happy Paint is around for people to continue to discover and hone their artistic skills.

Event Cinemas Indooroopilly holds benefit for Thai prisoners

Event Cinemas at Indooroopilly Shopping Centre screened a Christian-based film in a benefit on Saturday night.

All funds raised from the event went to the churches that help with the rehabilitation of inmates in northeast Thailand prisons.

The organisers, Hope Behind Bars, is a volunteer group that looks for various ways to help raise funds for the work their team does and give hope to the prisoners.

SLQ program providing refugees and migrants with technical skills

A State Library of Queensland-run workshop is taking a novel approach to eliminate waste by teaching refugee and migrant students to build their own computers.

The program repurposes old government computers that would otherwise be destined for landfill to teach the students about hardware, software and operating systems.

SLQ program officer Michelle Brown said at the end of the course, each participant took home the computer they had rebuilt, providing technological access to help with their studies.

Anti-Adani protestor injured by horseman

A man has been charged after he allegedly rode a horse into an anti-Adani protester in Central Queensland yesterday.

Anti-Adani protestors were watching live music when the man entered the showgrounds on horseback and knocked a 61-year-old woman to the ground.

The woman was flown to Mackay Base Hospital and is in a stable condition.

Report finds minimum wage workers locked out of rental market

A new Anglicare report has found 98 percent of rental housing is unaffordable, locking people working full-time on the minimum wage out of the rental market.

The Rental Affordability Snapshot report found only 2.2 percent of all rental listings across Australia are affordable for a single person earning the minimum wage, in a 0.7 per cent drop from 2018 and 2017, and a 3.1 per cent drop since 2016.

Hong Kong streets swarm with anti-extradition law protests

Thousands of Hong Kong residents have swarmed the streets to protest extradition laws with China.

Government officials have sought to implement laws to close loopholes caused by discrepancies in the legal systems of Hong Kong and mainland China, but anti-extradition activists say such actions would erode the city’s protected freedoms.

Extradition laws could be passed by the government later in the year, with Hong Kong’s pro-democratic camp no longer holding enough seats to block the move.