Dresses for Drought
Formal dresses and suits will be donated to teenagers in need after two Mackay sisters started the Dresses for Drought initiative.
After learning schools in drought-affected Mackay were calling off their formals, Anita Guyett and Tashoni Hardy started a Facebook page asking for dress donations and have received thousands of responses.
The dress collection point in Brisbane is at Racecourse Road, Hamilton.
27% homelessness increase on the Gold Coast
The 2016 Census has revealed a 27 percent increase in homelessness on the Gold Coast since 2011.
Homeless Connect organiser, Liz Fritz, says despite there being 1800 homeless people on the Gold Coast, it is often hard to identify them.
Ms. Fritz says, “We see people hanging about in their board shorts and t-shirts… it’s a real problem that we often don’t see what’s really happening.”
11am Zedlines
This is Amy and Risa with your 11am Zedlines.
NASHO: S/T
- NASHO's debut LP kicks off with a snare roll, at once menacing and militant, before exploding into well-measured chaos. NASHO came together in 2017 as relative strangers to one another. The four members ' previous experience makes, collectively, an extremely impressive musical resume, coming from groups as varied as Royal Headache, BB & the Blips and DISPOSSESSED.
Gaika: Basic Volume
- English emcee GAIKA is a hard lad to easily place into any particular musical box. Landing somewhere between future r’n’b and dystopian dancehall, GAIKA might create genre-bending music that sounds as if was carved from the flesh of a time just beyond our immediate collective conscious, but the corrupted and visceral world he crafts is very much centred in his own current reality.
10am Zedlines
This is Risa and Ha-Teya with your 10AM Zedlines.
A report revealing Queensland state school staff made 574 reports of suspected sexual abuse in 2015 has been released 16 months after being handed to the Queensland Government.
The report revealed across the state, schools are one of the places where youth sexual violence is most likely to occur.
A man and his therapy dog forcibly dragged off a Perth train
A man and his therapy dog have been forcibly dragged off a Perth train by transit officers.
The officers have been criticised for forcing the elderly man and his small dog off the train, despite the man showing proof of his medical condition.
The officers stated a therapy animal “is not grounds for having a dog on a train”.
The public transport authority reported the officers acted appropriately.
Sexual violence is becoming normalised
A report revealing Queensland state school staff made 574 reports of suspected sexual abuse in 2015 has been released 16 months after being handed to the Queensland Government.
The report revealed across the state, schools are one of the places where youth sexual violence is most likely to occur.
The report explained in some of Queensland’s most disadvantaged locations, violence has become almost normalised.
Multicultural Month has officially launched in Queensland
Queensland’s Multicultural Month has officially launched today with over 100 events scheduled during August.
The events will showcase and celebrate Queensland’s unique cultural diversity and ‘community champions’ will be honored at the Queensland Multicultural Awards.
Multicultural Affairs Minister, Stirling Hinchliffe is urging Queenslanders to celebrate ‘our story and future’ during multicultural month.
Koalas are starving to death in Raymond Island
There is a rising number of koalas starving to death on Victoria’s Raymond Island due to food shortages and overpopulation.
Increasing numbers of people moving to the island and clearing trees for bushfire protection has lead to emaciated koalas being handed over to wildlife carers daily.
Federation University professor Wendy Wright said because the koalas are stuck on an island they are unable to “move away and disperse" as they would in a normal environment.