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Soft Touch: Empty Lovers
- With a new name which owes more to Uniqlo than to Billy Idol, Brisbane ex-pat Grace Stevenson delivers a new suite of independent groovebox delights under the transformative moniker of Soft Touch. The debut EP Empty Lovers offers a catalogue of different moods and musical approaches which refuses to capitalise on the aesthetically focused industrial pop of Stevenson’s other, older solo electronic music project Rebel Yell.
Cigány Weaver: Cigány Weaver
- Brisbane’s youthful and exuberant Gypsy Jazz septet Cigány Weaver has reached a career milestone with the release of their self-titled debut album. Having relied on developing their repertoire in live performance of jazz and manouche standards in the past, they’re now serving out the synthesis of the new and old: an evocative set of unheard original songs.
Youth Review: Fantastic Mr Fox at QPAC
The Shake and Stir Theatre Company has brought to life a world premiere production of Fantastic Mr Fox, adapted from Roald Dahl’s much-loved novel. This performance was a magical stage production of the classic novel, with an interactive set, great music and wonderful costumes! It was thoroughly enjoyed by a wide-aged audience with children, parents, grandparents and even couples.
11AM ZEDLINES
Good morning this is Maddie and Georgie with your 11am Zedlines.
The new camera fitted to Huawei’s latest P30 pro smartphone has sparked privacy concerns
The new camera fitted to Huawei’s latest P30 pro smartphone has sparked privacy concerns due to the capabilities of its triple-lens camera.
The phone can zoom up to 5x optically, with a 10x digital zoom, allowing it to zoom in 50x, with pictures showing the camera capturing legible small writing on buildings, hundreds of metres away.
It took Notre Dame staff 23 minutes to discover the fire that broke out in the cathedral after a fire alarm sounded
The Paris judicial office says that it took Notre Dame staff 23 minutes to discover the fire that broke out in the cathedral after a fire alarm sounded.
Remy Heitz, a Paris public prosecutor, says the cathedral’s fire alarms went off twice on Monday evening, with the first one going off at 6:20pm local time which is when a Notre Dame staff member checked under the roof only to find nothing.
When the fire was identified 23 minutes later after the second alarm sounded it was too late to save the 850-year-old cultural icon that suffered widespread destruction.
Recording of Gladys Liu describing LGBT+ issues as “ridiculous rubbish” has emerged
A recording has surfaced of comments made by Liberal Chisholm candidate, Gladys Liu, appearing to describe LGBT+ issues as “ridiculous rubbish”.
The recording obtained by the ABC comes from an interview reported in the Guardian in 2016 where Ms Liu was asked about the Safe Schools program, where she is quoted responding, “Chinese people come to Australia because they want good … things for the next generation, not to be destroyed - they use the word destroyed - [by] same-sex, transgender, intergender. All this rubbish. To them, they are just ridiculous rubbish”.
Fifteen protected trees found burnt dead in the Huon valley
Fifteen protected trees which were some of this country’s tallest have been found burnt dead in the Huon valley, south of Hobart.
The Riveaux road fire ripped through the area in summer, burning over 60,000 hectares of bushland.
Though some of Australia’s giants fell, Australia’s tallest tree, Centurion survived.
Brisbane’s largest Indigenous cultural markets will start up again
Brisbane’s largest Indigenous cultural markets will start up again, following their introduction during last year’s Commonwealth Games.
The Meeanjin Markets will be supported by the state government until 2021, with more than $1 million committed.
Tourism Industry Development Minister, Kate Jones, says, "The Meeanjin Markets created more opportunities to share Queensland's unique Indigenous cultures with the world.”
"By investing in the Meeanjin Markets, we're making sure this legacy lives on.”