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.
Support increases for South-East Queensland Olympic bid
The Olympic bid for South-East Queensland has gained traction as the head of Australia’s peak tourism body re-enforced his support for the bid.
Tourism Australia managing director John O’Sullivan said the region is well-suited to make the bid after encouraging State leaders to go one better after the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games last year.
Apartment building development to wrap around heritage house
A new submission has been made to Brisbane City council to wrap an apartment building around a heritage house in Kangaroo Point.
The new proposal puts forward a different design to the original which was approved in mid-2017 by council which sparked protests from Kangaroo Point residents.
Thornclyffe was built around 1886 and remains in good condition, with original features such as fireplaces and French doors.
WA MPs to be allowed to breastfeed in parliament, but not by the bottle
A motion that would allow female MPs to breastfeed for a trial period is likely to pass in Western Australia’s Labor-dominated Lower House, however an amendment proposed by Nationals leader Mia Davies to also allow bottle-feeding has already been voted down.
In a survey, 31 of 45 MPs in Western Australia supported the move to allow members to bring children into the Lower House for feeding.
WA MPs to be allowed to breastfeed in parliament, but not by the bottle
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Brexit will not happen without a deal, UK parliament votes
Following the rejection of Theresa May’s latest proposed deal for Brexit, the UK parliament has voted that the country will not leave the EU without a deal under any circumstances.
If a new proposal does not get approved by March 20, the UK parliament said they will ask the EU for another extension.
The vote does not have legal force, however, and the UK may still have to leave the EU without a deal at the current date of March 29.
Number of dead people unknown after Nigerian primary school building
A primary school building has collapsed in the Nigerian city of Lagos, leaving school students trapped under the rubble.
Up to 100 students reportedly attended the school, with emergency management officials saying the current number of fatalities remains unknown.
Crews have pulled around 40 people from the 3 storey building which collapsed around 10am local time on Wednesday morning according to a spokesman for Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency.