UK Labour to force firms to give workers shares
Jeremy Corbyn has announced during the 2018 Labour Party Conference that UK Labour will force all large firms to give workers shares in the companies, if they win the next election.
Plans for inclusive ownership funds were unveiled alongside the nationalising of England’s water industry, the sacking of executives, and giving control to the workers.
Latest polling puts UK Labour at a four point lead over Theresa May’s Government, which is facing further controversy within the party over Brexit negotiations.
Slumlawwd
Slumlawwd were an Australian rock band formed in Brisbane in 1989. From 1992 until their break-up in 2010 the line-up consisted of vocalist Bernard Fanning, guitarists Darren Middleton and Ian Haug, bass guitarist John Collins and drummer Jon Coghill. The group's third studio album Internationalist, peaked at No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart in September 1998. They followed with four more number-one studio albums in a row, Odyssey Number Five (September 2000), Vulture Street (July 2003), Dream Days at the Hotel Existence (June 2007) and Golden Rule (November 2009).
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Brisbane-based post-hardcore / post-punk / grunge / lo-fi band.
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New Red Light Cameras in Queensland
Red light cameras are set to be installed in ten high risks intersections in Queensland in an effort to reduce the number of crashes.
Areas such as Mackenzie, Gympie, and Mt Sheridan have been selected by the State Government based on recent data.
RACQ Spokesperson Steve Spalding believes the cameras are important tools for road safety, denying they were simply put in place for revenue raising.
Farmers Denied River Access by Adani
Freedom of information documents reveal farmers are being denied access to a river system Adani plans on drawing 12.5 billion litres of water from in what activists are labelling a “double standard”.
Documents show modelling used by Adani didn’t take into account rainfall data and the impacts of climate change, with Government assessments revealing Adani’s water use could be a threat to endangered ecosystems.
Access to water in Central Queensland’s Suttor River by Adani equates to just less than the amount of all farmers in the region combined.
One Million Bees Killed
Around one million bees in a Northern Territory farm have been killed in the second suspected deliberate poisoning this year.
Katherine beekeeper Sam Curtis says the bees died from Fipronil poisoning, an insecticide more commonly used for termite exterminations.
It is suspected the perpetrator is local as the two instances were within 5 kilometres from each other.
Uber's New Emergency Call Feature
Uber is set to introduce an emergency call feature following sexual assault allegations against their drivers.
The feature was introduced earlier this year in the United States and Canada, and the safety shortcut will not only connect passengers to triple zero but also share the real time location.
Uber Australia and New Zealand General Manager Susan Anderson has said this feature will aid police in giving “concrete technical timestamps” when investigating incidents.
Indian President's Unwanted Comments
India’s right-wing party president has been criticised for calling Bangladeshi migrants ‘termites’.
Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah has allegedly called for Bangladeshi migrants to be ‘uprooted’ from the country.
Shah has since been slammed by Bangladesh, who called his comments ‘unwanted’ .
Armenia Goes to the Polls
Residents of Armenia’s capital have gone to the polls in the first vote since a revolution in April that installed Nikol Pashinyan as Prime Minister.
Voters are electing 65-members of the Yerevan City Council and it’s mayor, who resigned in July when over corruption allegations.
Observers have called the polls a test for Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who faces a parliament composed mostly of members of the former ruling Republican party.