Brisbane had the most bird strikes of Australian airports, new data shows
A new report from the Australian Transport Safety Bureau showed Australian planes hit more than 16,000 birds in the past 10 years with the most bird strikes happening in Brisbane.
The new report from the Australian Transport Safety Bureau released on Wednesday showed there were 1139 bird strikes in Brisbane, the most of any Australian city between 2008 and 2017.
Commonwealth Bank to address banking royal commission issues before proceeding with plans for a demerger
The Commonwealth Bank has indefinitely suspended plans for a $4 billion wealth management mortgage-broker business following the banking royal commission.
The bank said it is still committed to the demerger but plans on addressing issues raised by the commission before proceeding with the project.
The planned demerger will combine several non-core businesses of the bank under one banner, NewCo.
Three-day wait for bed in emergency departments
Patients in Logan and Redland hospitals are waiting up to three days for a bed in emergency departments.
Australasian College for Emergency Medicine president Simon Judkins visited the hospitals after hearing patients were waiting for 24 hours for a bed and, in some extreme cases, up to 72 hours
Judkins said putting patients in a chair to wait for three days is inhumane and intolerable, especially considering the type of patients emergency departments receive.
West End-Toowong bridge should be funded by developer levy, Greens say
The Greens have said a pedestrian and cycling bridge from the West End to a new park at the former ABC site in Toowong could be funded by a levy on big developers.
Maiwar MP Michael Berkman and The Gabba Ward Councillor Jonathan Sri, who are both a part of the Greens party, have released a community survey on possible development options for the riverfront location.
Three-day wait for bed in emergency departments
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Formidable Vegetable: Earth People
- You know that guy, you run into him in West End or Brunswick sometimes. Wearing hippy couture, talking about permaculture with the zeal of religious missionary out to make new converts. And then there's that other guy. Turns up to parties with a ukulele, always ready for a kooky song. His favourite records and clothes were stolen from his grandfather's closet. Charlie Mgee, the brains behind Formidable Vegetable, is a combination of both those people; but stick with me here, because he's not quite as annoying as that might imply.
Anatole: Emulsion
- I don’t think it should come as a surprise that with the growing camps of classically-trained indie composers Australia’s contribution to this niche sees one of its brightest arise from the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. For the all the cinematic opportunity and rustic calibration, Anatole’s debut album Emulsions emerges as a welcome bridge between the communal spirit of beat culture and the isolated reflections of the classical fringe.
US follows other nations, banning Boeing 737 MAX while Ethiopian Airlines investigation continues
The US has followed the lead of other nations including Australia and has grounded Boeing’s 737 MAX aircraft after an Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed and killed all passengers aboard on Sunday.
The US Federal Aviation Administration announced it has ordered the temporary grounding of the aircraft either operated by US airlines or flying in US territory, which they decided from data and new evidence obtained from the Ethiopian Airlines crash site.
Facebook and its social media apps face outages
Facebook and its social media apps Instagram and WhatsApp are not functioning across the world with some customers facing outages that last hours.
Unidentified technical problems are causing widespread disruptions with users reporting issues since noon on Wednesday.
Facebook acknowledged the issue in a tweet saying they were aware of the problems and were working to fix it adding that it was not a denial-of-service brute-force attack that involved networks being flooded with fake traffic to cause service disruptions.
QLD loans fund One Nation’s NSW election campaign
One Nation’s election campaign for the New South Wales election is largely being funded by loans from its Queensland branch, making the party’s compliance with the stricter NSW campaign finance laws doubtful.
Since August, One Nation in NSW has declared $177,494 (a hundred and seventy-seven thousand four hundred and ninety four dollars) in loans from the party’s national executive in Queensland and represents over 80% of the party’s resources for the election campaign, according to the released records.