Glass House Mountains most dangerous in Queensland
In the last two years, more than 110 people have been rescued from the Glass House Mountains on the Sunshine Coast, 10 times more than any other mountain in Queensland.
Two of the Glass House peaks, Mount Tibrogargan and Mount Beerwah, are considered more challenging and require climbing experience.
Rick Harvey, an aircrewman with the Sunshine Coast Lifelight Rescue Helicopter, said the mountains are exciting, beautiful, and uplifting but there is an element of danger with every climb.
Online media giants warned with bigger penalties
Prime Minister Scott Morrison is warning online media giants of misusing people’s data by proposing bigger penalties.
The Morrison government revealed its plans on Sunday for large tech giants, such as Facebook and Google, to pay more money should they breach Australia’s privacy laws.
While the current penalty is $2.1 million, the PM is suggesting to make changes to the Privacy Act on social media platforms and for a $10 million penalty fine.
Review of yabby pots pushed to protect platypuses
Campaigners are pushing for a yabby pot known to trap and kill platypuses to be banned in Queensland, following similar actions in Victoria, New South Wales, and Western Australia.
A petition asking the Queensland Government to review the use of the opera house style yabby pots has gained 8,000 signatures.
Big retailers including Kmart and Big W have pulled the traps from their shelves after reports of platypuses drowning in the traps while trying to hunt the yabbies inside.
Maths and physics teacher has won $1 million Global Teacher Prize
A secondary maths and physics teacher in Kenya has received the $1 million Global Teacher Prize.
The Dubai-based foundation Varkry has given the prize to Peter Tabichi, a 36-year-old teacher from the Keriko Mixed Day Secondary School in the remote village of Pwani.
He has been commended for his work in leading his poorly-resourced school to victory after taking on the country’s best schools in national science competitions.
He also gives away 80 percent of his monthly income to the poor.
104-year-old woman 'arrested'
Police have arrested a 104-year-old woman in Bristol for being an “upstanding citizen”.
Anne Brokenbrow has had no prior run-ins with the law but says she wanted to find out what being arrested was like.
She said it was “very exciting” when police showed up at her care home, handcuffed her and drove her away in a police car with its siren and flashing blue lights on.
Review: The Book of Mormon at QPAC
When South Park came out in 1997, I was its youthful target audience and it was the perfect antithesis to The Simpsons. Crude humour and full of vulgar language with episodes based around anal probing and a talking poo, but as the audience grew so did the show, evolving into something far more intelligent satirising everything from politics, race, worldly events and copious amounts of religious based satire.
Hemm: Make Me Stay A While So I Can Catch My Breath
- Electro-pop duo Hemm have been striking a stylish pose down in Melbourne for the last few years. These honed such affectations to a sophisticated point on their second EP, Make Me Stay A While So I Can Catch My Breath.
Review: Heroes presented by the Centenary Theatre Group
Heroes is Tom Stoppard’s 2005 adaptation of the French play, Le Vent des Peupliers’ (The Wind in the Poplars), written by Gerald Sibleyras, and winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy in 2006. 1959 is a troubled year in the life of three elderly First World War veterans: Gustave, Philippe and Henri, frustrated with being stuck in a retirement home like forgotten cast offs.
Synthetics: Crux
- CRUX delivers expertly controlled chaos and instantly catchy punk from the proverbial ‘90’s garage straight to your prefrontal cortex. Listeners who steep regularly in the uninhibited realms of lo-fi rock, as well as those who usually keep a modest distance from the fun will find themselves drawn like moths to the frenetic flames kicking & licking their way off the newest release from Melbourne’s four-piece powerhouse, Synthetics.
Fair Maiden: Oleander
- It seems entirely apt that the new album from Adelaide's Fair Maiden, Oleander, was recorded in a (re-purposed) church, now the suitably titled Holy Rollers Studios. After all, their hometown is Australia's very own city of churches.