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.
Fire crews continue to battle bushfires on Kangaroo Island
The Country Fire Service is preparing for another day of extreme heat in South Australia as it continues to battle and contain a fire on Kangaroo Island.
Yesterday the CFS declared an emergency warning for a bushfire on Kangaroo Island; the warning was then downgraded to a 'watch and act' message in the evening.
An ACFS spokesperson today warned there was still a risk to communities in the area.
Hobart man pleads guilty to using semi-automatic rifle
A 38-year-old Hobart man has pleaded guilty to using a semi-automatic rifle to shoot at a city nightclub earlier this year.
The man admitted to the Supreme Court to shooting using a semi-automatic rifle at the door at Pablo’s Cocktails and Dreams in June.
No one was hurt in the incident and the man has asked the court to give him a drug treatment order.
Peru pledges to cut down on plastic use
Peru has joined the club of countries cracking down on plastic.
A new law in the South American nation of 32 million people outlaws the manufacturing, importation, distribution and consumption of single-use plastic bags within three years.
More than 60 countries now have bans or taxes on single-use plastics, according to the United Nations, which has called for such measures to stem the tide of pollution.