Anti-Hooning trials for Brisbane Roads
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Anti-Hooning trials for Brisbane Roads
Hooning is the new focus of a Brisbane City Council trial to implement more safety features on roads.
Industrial estates and wide stretches of road have become the target of a specially-designed seal treatment that damages the tires of hooning motorists.
Infrastructure committee chairperson Amanda Cooper said the seal will make no impact on vehicles using the road in normal driving conditions.
Sites for the trial are being decided by council currently with dates to follow.
Deafheaven, Divide And Dissolve at Crowbar
I’m a little amazed that Deafheaven have managed to stay so relevant and vital in the little corner of heavy music they’ve cordoned off, but they really have. The black metal fusionists surprised me completely with last year’s Ordinary Corrupt Human Love, which turned away from their former flirtations with shoegaze and post-rock to lavish their affections instead, on prog. It was a pretty self-indulgent move and one which they made shamelessly.
11AM ZEDLINES
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UQ set to introduce a major in Western Civilisation
In local news, the University of Queensland are continuing negotiations with the Ramsey Centre to introduce a major in Western Civilisation.
There are also staff concerns including academic freedom, institutional autonomy, and a potential clash with the Reconciliation Action Plan.
Academics have rejected the framing of the program, saying it is an “explicitly elitist venture, which will disproportionately confer benefits on a small and privileged group of students”.
Virgin Galactic turning test flights to scheduled services before year is out
Space tourism company Virgin Galactic hopes to send tourists to space as early as the end of this year, after SpaceShipTwo reached space for the second time in three months last Friday.
The spaceship can carry six passengers up to 100 kilometres above sea level, where they experience weightlessness, at the price of $350 000 per passenger.
"New York, New York": Mammoth iceberg breaks off Antarctic mainland
Now in international news, NASA is currently monitoring an iceberg roughly the size of New York City that is set to break away from an Antarctic ice shelf.
The iceberg is at least 660 square miles and expected to breakaway sometime within the next couple of weeks.
If the melting of Antarctic ice sheets continue at the current record-breaking rate, scientists estimate the global sea level will rise by over 25 centimetres by the year 2070.
Large unmanned drone designed for electronic welfare to be unveiled today
The Royal Australian Air Force and the Defence Department have collaborated to develop a large drone designed for electronic welfare which could eventually carry bombs.
The yet-to-be named unmanned system has the primary purpose of being used to conduct electronic warfare and missions where it is too unsafe to send a manned aircraft.
It is set to be publicly unveiled today at the Avalon aerospace trade show outside Melbourne by Defence Minister Christopher Pyne.
ScoMo seeks backing from "battery of the nation" Tassie
Looking across the nation, Prime Minister Scott Morrison will travel to Tasmania this week to bolster support for his “battery of the nation” proposal.
The trip to garner commonwealth support follows a promise of $56m earlier this week for a second interconnector to deliver Tasmania’s renewable energy to the mainland.
Morrison says the proposal will “help cut power prices and put an end to the sorts of recent blackouts that families and businesses have had to suffer through”.
More than one third of school principles attacked in 2018
A survey has revealed more than one third of school principals have been attacked by a student or parent in 2018.
The survey, run by the Australian Catholic University, has determined that in Queensland, violence against principals increased from 27.9 per cent in 2011 to 36 per cent in 2018.
ACU psychologist Associate Professor Philip Riley, says, “The steadily increasing levels of offensive behaviour in schools of all types is a disgrace and it needs to stop.”