Victorian bushfires continue to blaze across state
Bushfires continue to blaze across Victoria’s southeast destroying 1,500 hectares of land, threatening multiple Victorian communities.
Authorities confirm 19 blazes have burned across the state, and emergency warnings remain in place for the fires in Buderee.
Firefighters are set to face more favourable conditions within the next few days, while residents of the areas are still urged to stay in their homes.
Morrison Government to help Toowoomba single parents find jobs sooner
Toowoomba residents continue to rely heavily on welfare payments as it becomes Queensland’s single parent capital.
In 2017 Toowoomba residents received $27 million each year in welfare payments and now currently receive $1 million each fortnight.
The Morrison Government pledges to help single parents find jobs sooner to avoid them being so welfare reliant.
Queensland's Sniffer dogs to detect water leaks in pipeline system
Queensland’s Water Authority has found a new use for our favorite four-legged friends.
Queensland Urban Utilities managed to train two sniffer dogs, in six months, to detect leaks in pipeline networks up to 9 000 kilometers long.
The dogs are trained to detect chlorine from treated tap water and the smell the dogs need to identify beneath soil and pipes comes in an average of just 0.2 to 0.3 milligrams per litre.
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REVIEW: Single Asian Female at La Boite Roundhouse Theatre
Commissioned by, and premiered at La Boite in 2017, wonderful comedy Single Asian Female returned home with the writer Michelle Law cast as Zoe Wong.
Regurgitator: Regurgitator's Pogogo Show - The Really Really Really Really Boring Album
- Ever since the heyday of Yo Gabba Gabba, alternative and indie rock bands have been no strangers to the world of children’s music. The TV show was a winner with “cool parents” who would grin and bear the bright colours, giant creature costumes and naggingly catchy ditties in anticipation of that Ladytron or MGMT cameo.
Little Simz: Grey Area
- The last couple of years have been big for Little Simz. One of the most unique voices out of England's hip-hop scene, she's slowly garnered attention through a string of consistently killer features, standing out as one of the few highlights from Damon Albarn's recent Gorillaz work. Grey Area is Simz' fourth full-length release, but feels like a new beginning of sorts. Many moments are deeply personal and offer previously untapped emotional depth.
Sweater Curse: See You
- One measure of a local band’s success is their audience’s ability to sing along to a set comprised of mostly unreleased tracks. Indeed, it’s easy to forget that until this year, Brissy share-house rock darlings Sweater Curse have only been gigging off the back of a handful of singles.
Harley Young & The Haymakers: Little Songs For Big People
- Little Songs For Big People is the second album from indie-folk-pop storyteller Harley Young and his band the Haymakers. It follow's 2015's Flinders Parade, an album that was geographically tied to the north-eastern suburbs of Brisbane which Harley at the time called home. Since then though he has been living in London and now resides in Melbourne. It seems a new songwriting direction may be on the cards too.
Robert Forster: Inferno
- Robert Forster will almost certainly always be known, first and foremost, as one-half of the founding duo of totemic Brisbane band The Go-Betweens. Along the way, however, he has gradually pulled together -as well as an impressive array of biographical and music writing- a number of significant solo albums,