Sydney rave death calls for more pill testing
A teenager has died following a suspected drug overdose at a dance party in Sydney on Saturday night.
More than 18,000 people attended the dance party. Police officers at the festival issued 69 banning notices and conducted more than 200 searches, with 62 people found in possession of drugs.
Experts warned of 'permanent damage' from $1.3b Cleveland harbour project
Changes suggested for a $1.4-billion-dollar project to redevelop Cleveland's Toondah Harbour do not go far enough to protect internationally recognised wetlands, the Australian Conservation Foundation says.
Documents obtained by the ABC made clear the department rejected the 2017 application from Walker Group Holdings, because it would cause “permanent and irreversible damage” to the wetlands.
Underwood Middle-Eastern bakery to help refugees to start new lives
Chef and Syrian refugee George Tabbakh is getting a second chance to share his food and culture with the opening of Middle Eastern-themed Abboud Bakery, in Brisbane’s south-east.
The third-generation baker left his family bakery behind in his war-torn country, and with the help of Brisbane lawyer Angelo Anthony and Coco Bliss franchisee Gus KA-KOOSH, he will make Lebanese bread and Middle Eastern treats in Underwood.
Drunk Mums: Urban Cowboy
- Drunk Mums return with their third full-length offering, Urban Cowboy, the first since 2015’s Gone Troppo. This is an assortment of three-chord foot-stompers with fist-pump inducing battle-cry lyrics: the type of hard rock that could make a celibate reverend buy a leather jacket and shower once a week.
AFI: The Missing Man
- With a long standing career and a sound that manages to be both ever changing and consistent, there was a time you couldn't imagine AFI ever being called stale. Since the turn of the decade however, their output hadn’t really been on par with what had come beforehand. It lacked the teeth, the viciousness that used to rip through everything they did.
RACKETT: I Please Myself
- Riot-pop girl squad RACKETT have returned with another dose of their supercharged anthems, in the way of their latest four track EP I Please Myself. Clocking in just around the ten-minute mark, the short but punchy record scratches you in all the right places, soothing an ache you didn't know you had.
The Public Opinion Afro Orchestra: Naming And Blaming
- From their first album Do Anything Go Anywhere, released in 2010 to Naming and Blaming POAO continue this tradition of percussive, pulsating and compelling classic Afrobeat rhythms set by Fela Anikulapo Kuti and the world beating movement he helped to foment in the 1970s.
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Project set to bring hundreds of new jobs to Townsville
A $300 million expansion of the Sun Metals Zinc Refinery is set to bring hundreds of more jobs to the Townsville region.
The announcement was made today by premier Annastacia Palaszczuk alongside Sun Metals Chief Financial Officer Kathy Danaher.
The expansion is expected to commence immediately and will likely be completed by 2021.
Bushfires and heatwaves affecting Queensland Koalas
Wildlife rescuers have recorded a spike in calls to help Queensland koalas as recent bushfires and heatwaves are putting them at risk of death or injury.
Jacqui Webb of Fauna Rescue Whitsundays, said local wildlife carers have had 11 calls in 48 hours to tend to distressed Koalas.
Usually the service would receive 1-2 calls per month but recent history has shown that the Koala population struggle in these kinds of conditions.