The Internet: Hive Mind
- The Internet are set to release their fourth album, Hive Mind. Since their last album, Ego Death, the band's individual members have been busy, dropping solo releases and providing production for others. Each member is accomplished in their own right. This isn’t a hindrance though. As a band, they’re a cohesive unit – that album title, Hive Mind, seems more appropriate the more I listen.
Pascal Babare: Endless Room
- Pascal Babare’s meditations on life are a tonic. So often I hear him take a little slice of lived experience and transmute all that could be poisonous about it into harmless absurdities and gentle song. Without being trite or trivial, he has a gift for taking difficult things and transforming them into charming vignettes. The perspective he’s gained for himself he offers to his listeners, a little space. Life’s indignities don’t seem so bad when you can get a little bit of distance between them and yourself.
Harmony: Double Negative
- Double Negative is the third album by Melbourne band Harmony. Centred around husband and wife, Tom Lyngcoln on guitar, and Alex Lyngcoln on drums as well as Welsh ex-pat Jon Chapple on bass, best known for his work with post-hardcore band McLusky. They’re joined by Erica Dunn, Amanda Roff and Quinn Veldhuis who primarily provide group vocal harmonies.
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China says Australia is Friends with the Pacific
China has said Australian politicians are "wrong" to fear its investments in the Pacific, responding to Australian government criticism that Chinese aid risked creating unsustainable debt for the Pacific.
On Wednesday, Labor's foreign affairs spokeswoman, Penny Wong, proposed Australia should set up a regional infrastructure fund to assist Pacific nations who face a "particularly acute" infrastructure deficit.
Novichock Suspects Identified
Police have identified several Russians as suspects in the nerve agent attempted murder of ex-spy Sergei Skripal in March, according to a media report in the UK.
Through CCTV footage, Police were able to identify the suspects and have cross-checked this with records of people who entered the country around that time.
This is the first time there has been a publicly revealed clue as to who wielded the poison.
Coles Attacked for Contradictory Stance on Plastic Waste
Consumers have criticised Coles for giving away small toys made of plastic as they simultaneously ban plastic bags.
The marketing initiative was first attacked on social media, accusing Coles of having an irresponsible and contradictory stance on plastic waste.
Coles has replied by saying customers can refuse to accept the mini products, and that they are intended to be kept, not thrown out.
Australian-born Terrorists’ Extradition Denied by Turkish Government
A Turkish court has rejected the Australian government’s request to extradite Islamic State militant Neil Prakash to face terror charges in Australia
The verdict paves the way for his release from a maximum-security prison, in south-eastern Turkey where he has been held since 2016 in an attempt to cross the Syrian border.
In a court hearing held in May, the Melbourne born and raised Prakash maintained that he was a “normal soldier” and not in any leadership position in IS.
Queenslanders above average for public transport satisfaction, but care less overall
The Committee for Economic Development of Australia has released a 2018 report which suggests Queenslanders are less concerned about the standard of their public transport, as residents from other parts of Australia.
The Community Pulse 2018 report said that Queenslanders placed less importance on quality and accessibility of transport, compared to the national statistics.
67 percent of Queensland workers were content with their commute time, compared with 63 percent nationally.