Over 1000 London Protestors Arrested
The number of environmental campaigners arrested during eight days of direct action in London topped over one thousand on Monday and were charged with 52 offences.
The Climate group ‘Extinction Rebellion’ has targeted sites in central London, such as Oxford Circus, Waterloo Bridge and Parliament Square with the aim of preventing what they call a ‘global climate crisis’.
Police have appealed the activists to move to Marble Arch, where they are allowing protests to continue.
On Diamond - 'On Diamond'
On Diamond stands in good company with a growing list of critically lauded, melodic but experimental, interior-psychological explorers, like Jenny Hval, Julia Holter or, closer to home and no less powerful, Happy Axe, Medicine Voice or, of course, Evelyn Ida Morris. Having said that it must be noted that musically -especially since On Diamond themselves seem to go out of their way to avoid mentioning it- this collection of songs has its musical roots in the prog of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. I can’t be the only one who gets echoes of Jefferson Airplane’s White Rabbit when they stumble on to On Diamond’s Laughing In The Face Of The Big Door, strutting majestically and channeling Alice In Wonderland with a surreal flourish, at the back of the record.
Bolting a super-charged band to a dream-folk act has really given Lisa Salvo the opportunity to unleash what’s inside, emotionally and musically. It’s an arresting debut, as lyrically sweet as it is confrontingly blunt, intimately traumatic as it is sweeping and grand. It’s strange when you think about it, how the possession of inner demons and the charisma to unleash them, is a time-honoured path to making the best rock’n’roll.'
Review: Gold Coast Film Festival 2019
Every time I walk away from the Gold Coast Film Festival I leave with a renewed perspective on local cinema. It is the Gold Coast Film Festival that has this effect on me and keeps me coming back for more. Whether it be the perspective of a young girl like in Nervous Translation or of a human with unusually accurate detecting abilities similar to that of a dog, such as with Border or that of a young man with Asperger’s syndrome and a chef with anger-management issues such as with Quanto basta.
Ward of Chandler remains without a council-member as Adrian Schrinner appointed Lord Mayor
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Chinese companies using GPS tracking devices to monitor workers raises concerns
Street cleaners in some parts of China are reportedly being forced to wear GPS-tracking smartwatches so employers can monitor how hard they work,
According to a recent Xinhua News Agency report, it is mandatory for cleaners employed by the Nanjing West Bank Environmental Service to wear smartwatches while working, raising concerns about mass surveillance across the country.
The smartwatch is said to sound an alarm after 20 minutes of worker inactivity and also reports their activity back to the company's control room.
Christina Koch set to set the record for longest spaceflight by a woman
A female astronaut is due to set the record for longest spaceflight by a woman, NASA said.
Astronaut Christina Koch, who was a part of a spacewalk initially intended to be all-female last month, will remain in orbit on board the International Space Station until February.
While the typical stay in space for astronauts is six months, Koch will spend 328 days in space to study the effects of long spaceflights on the human body.
RAA says motorists are being conditioned to accept higher fuel prices
The Royal Automobile Association of South Australia has warned that Adelaide motorists are being conditioned to accept higher fuel prices.
RAA technical advisory service manager, Andrew Clark, said retailers have increased their usual profit margin, with prices per litre sitting at 30 cents above the wholesale price, with motorists paying around $1.60 per litre.
Bill Shorten pledges almost $30 million for Indigenous mental health
Bill Shorten has announced a new $115 million pledge to Indigenous health that focuses on preventing youth suicide as he campaigns in the Northern Territory today.
Mr Shorten said the Indigenous health package, which would direct almost $30 million to Indigenous youth mental health and suicide prevention, ensures First Australians have ‘the fundamental right to grow old’ and said improving the health of First Australians is critical to reconciliation.
Ward of Chandler remains without a council-member as Adrian Schrinner appointed Lord Mayor
The ward of Chandler remains without a councillor following Adrian Schrinner’s appointment as Brisbane Lord Mayor last week.
The LNP has two months to select a new councillor for the ward, meaning a decision may not be made until after the federal election on the 18 May.
The wards of Coorparoo, McDowall and Walter Taylor have also seen changes with councillors resigning to contest the federal election.
300-year-old Scar Tree saved but Toowong group urges the minister to see the bigger picture
A $36.3 million Toowong high school expansion has been moved a few metres to save a 300-year-old tree of Aboriginal significance that would have been destroyed.
The news of the revision for Queensland Academy for Science, Mathematics and Technology follows the beginning of construction for the three-storey centre on Wednesday.
Education Minister Grace Grace described the outcome as "a win" but Save Toowong Creek spokeswoman Julie Lloyd said the minister needed to look at the bigger picture.