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.
Northern California fires have spread as far as Utah
NASA images have revealed smoke from wildfires in Northern California has spread as far as Utah, 1300 kilometres away.
Wildfires have been threatening more than 10,000 homes in Northern California for several days, burning over 24,000 acres of land and claiming the lives of six people including a firefighter and two young children.
Mass evacuations are occurring, with 37,000 people reported to have fled their homes.
France to ban smartphones in schools
Schoolchildren in France will have to leave their smartphones switched off or at home after lawmakers voted for a ban on Monday.
The ban which includes smartphones, tablets and other connected devices will apply to pupils up to the age of 15, but schools can decide individually whether to impose a partial or total ban on connected devices.