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Brisbane City Council Surveying Feral Deer
The Brisbane City Council are using new technology and helicopters to survey and deter more than 400 feral deer around Brisbane over the next 12 months.
Virtual fencing, which emits high-pitched high pitched sonar to discourage deer from crossing roads when cars are passing by, will be installed along Gap Creek Road in Kenmore Hills.
Environment, parks and sustainability chairman Fiona Hammond says the council wants to reduce the impact of the feral population on the environment.
Two Fatalities at Queensland Music Festival
Emergency services were called to the Rabbits Eat Lettuce Music Festival near Warwick yesterday as a 24-year-old man and a 22-year-old woman were found unresponsive in the grounds.
The festival, described as a “Tribal Easter Party” and a place of “Freedom, Love, and Dance Music,” said the wellbeing and safety of patrons was their number one priority.
Police were treating the deaths as a suspected overdose and said a toxicology report would be completed for the coroner.
Bureau of Meteorology Conspiracy Surfaces
Queensland Senate hopeful Gerard Rennick has accused the Bureau of Meteorology of rewriting and interfering with temperature data in order to "perpetuate global warming hysteria".
Rennick’s comments are in response to an article published in The Spectator magazine which claimed the federal agency has been concocting "a consistent global warming trend".
A spokesperson from the Bureau of Meteorology says they have not ‘rewritten’ climate data, and the integrity of this data is at the core of the trust that the Australian community has in the organisation.
Coalition Announces Fund to Help Small Businesses
The Coalition will announce on Tuesday a 100-million-dollar equity fund for small business that will see the government become a passive shareholder in up to 50 businesses a year.
The fund is aimed at pumping in “patient” equity into businesses that are identified as having significant growth potential.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said the fund would help small and family businesses take the next step to grow, create more jobs and invest in new opportunities.
Hundreds Killed in Easter Bombings
Almost 300 people have been killed and a further 500 injured in coordinated hotel and church bombings on Easter Sunday.
Government officials say the attacks were carried out by members of a domestic militant group called National Thowfeek Jamaath.
13 Sri Lankans have been arrested by police in relation to the attacks, but further investigations are still underway.
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.