Review: Love/Hate Actually Wonderland Festival 2018

Love/Hate Actually was an absolute nostalgic ball of fun as part of the 2018 Wonderland Festival. And I say that knowing that the material that they reference is also referred to in a nostalgic spirit, but looking back on the show so is the ACT/REACT performance expertly performed by Amy and Natalie. Nostalgia in the sense that you get the warm and fuzzy feelings thinking back on it and wish you could have dragged more people along to see it.

 

Doughnut Time reopens with new management

Across South East Queensland, Doughnut Time has reopened and is offering free doughnuts in selected stores. 

The disgraced business, has opened up under new management after the doughnut chain collapsed earlier this year, owing $3 million in unpaid wages 

The new owner, Peter Andros, has promised that any future expansions will be measured to avoid the business running in to the same financial trouble. 
 

Queensland to remove unsafe Christmas toys

Queensland’s Attorney-General Yvette D’Ath says ‘ho, ho...NO’ to unsafe Christmas toys, with the The Office of Fair Trading releasing the results of its proactive Christmas toy safety campaign.

Of the 4,968 toy lines inspected statewide, only six had to be removed from the shelves for safety reasons.

The Attorney General says she is pleased with the level of compliance and understanding of product safety laws shown by the vast majority of stores. 
 

NSW sex offenders will be fitted with monitors

Electronic tracking devices will be outfitted on all peodaphiles, rapists and other serious sex offenders on parole in NSW. 

Corrective services minister, David Elliot, said any serious sex offenders will have their movements very closely monitored by NSW intelligence branches.

It is understood there is currently 64 monitored sex offenders in NSW but the number is set to increase to 493 under the charges. 

Federal Resources Minister calls school climate change protesters will "only learn to join the dole".

The Federal Resources Minister, Matt Canavan, has said that school children who protest climate change inaction will only learn how to join the dole queue. 

His comments are in combat of thousands of school children across the country who plan to walk in strike against the government’s lack of policies to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gasses and support renewable energy. 

A 14 year old student said “we’re sick of those in power failing to stop the climate crisis”
 

School bully faces court

A school bully in the UK is set to face court after he “waterboarded” a 15-year-old Syrian refugee student in an attack caught on video. 

The video was widely shared on social media which depicts the bully wrestling the refugee to the ground by the neck and then proceeded to pour a bottle of water over his head. 

A spokesperson for the refugee has said the attack wasn’t the first for the student after he his arm was fractured by 4 students a month prior to the incident.