Tasmanian public service walks out
Tasmanian public servants will strike in the thousands this afternoon in protest over a pay dispute.
Child Immunisation Rates hit record high
New data has revealed that more Australian five year olds are immunised than ever before.
Brisbane City Council refuses to rule out advertising on buildings
Brisbane City Council are refusing to rule out advertising on public buildings, despite the outrage sparked by the projection of ads on the Sydney Opera House sails.
Twelve-fold rise in Brisbane City Council’s television advertising
New figures show Brisbane City Council spent almost twelve times more on television advertising last financial year, than it did the previous year and that figure continues to rise.
Brisbane International Film Festival (BiFF) 2018
To summarise a festival is not an easy task. There were films at the Brisbane International Film Festival that could be described as unique, interesting, surprising, entertaining, daring or moving. However, there’s no one word that can capture a film, there are many. In the blink of an eye, every second, we witness twenty-five frames of film. Over the course of two hours, we have absorbed a massive amount of visual input that however we decide to process or interpret it is entirely up to us.
Matt Joe Gow: Break, Rattle And Roll
- Break, Rattle and Roll is the third album from alt-country artist Matt Joe Gow. Gow is based in Melbourne but originally from New Zealand. If country music isn’t the first cultural export we might associate with our Tasman neighbours, it’s worth remembering that Australia’s original country star Tex Morton made that same trip across the ditch many decades ago.
Bitumen: Discipline Reaction
- It’s nice to hear a band differentiate themselves from the masses of post-punks out there these days, by pushing on over the red warning line and into the savagery of industrial. Melbourne’s Bitumen do exactly that. Fronted by Kate Binning, I first came across them a bit after they released their debut, self-titled full-length, back in 2016, when they followed it up, a year later, doing a split with No Sister.
Basement: Beside Myself
- Look at Basement’s trajectory on either side of their four year hiatus and you could easily make a strong argument about them being two separate bands. Prior to 2009, the Ipswich -no, not that Ipswich- gents would see packed rooms with the crowd surging like a tide pool as they bellowed their emotional vulnerability. Since returning with Further Sky, all hints of flannel, stage dives, and hype have been sidelined in favour of a more measured output. It’s an output that emphasises Basement’s ear for melody and anthemic, sing-a-long choruses.
mewithoutYou: [Untitled]
- American post-hardcore band mewithoutYou have returned with an untitled seventh album. The previous six have been musically and thematically varied, from acoustic folk to hardcore, circus-themed concept albums to dense introspection. They are united by the band’s carefully constructed soundscapes around the mostly spoken poetry of vocalist Aaron Weiss.
Requin: The Noisy Miners Swoop Him
- Let’s get the large, grey animal in the room out of the way. Requin is French for shark and you can pronounce that reh-khan, Francais-ing it up as much as you like. People will probably judge you. Why are they called that? Well a couple of the soon-to-be band members were in a fish-and-chip store and encountered an ancient television there, glitching uncontrollably between The Price Is Right and a French news report about a shark attack. One of them said,