Deafheaven: Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
- Deafheaven are a band that attract controversy, though you wouldn’t know it from the outpouring of enthusiasm for their new LP, Ordinary Corrupt Human Love. The controversy is actually pretty simple, easy to understand and I’d like to get it out of the way before dealing with the record, on its own terms.
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Bee Line for stings
A woman has survived being stung at least 200 times by thousands of bees outside a home in California, according to United States fire authorities.
The woman in her 50s, known only as Maria, was reportedly the housekeeper and was going to get a mop out of her car at the home in Lake Forest, east of Los Angeles.
Orange County Fire Authority captain Tony Bommarito said rescuers had to grab a fire extinguisher to get rid of the Africanised honey bees, also known locally as "killer bees"
Hot Swedish Arctic fires rage
Forest fires raging across Sweden as far north as the Arctic Circle have prompted authorities to ask for international assistance.
On Wednesday afternoon, 44 fires were burning from Lapland in the far north to the southern island of Gotland.
Hot weather and persistent drought are the main causes, and the national weather service has issued fire warnings for almost the entire country.
Fisherman fights major’s line
Malcolm Turnbull is due for a beer at the Beach Hotel in Burnie on Thursday night. But punters don't care about the Prime Minister. There's only one name of talk: Craig Garland.
The 54-year-old has emerged as the third force in the in Braddon byelection. Last state election, he won 2000 primary votes - the most of a minor party candidate, after an $800 campaign, just two weeks before polling day.
Paper beats plastic
Aussies will soon be sipping through paper straws at McDonald’s after the company announced it would phase out plastic straws over the next two years.
Environmentalists say the move is a step in the right direction.
A trial of paper straws will start in August in two outlets and will roll out to all 970 restaurants nationwide by 2020.
The move comes as supermarket giants Woolworths and Coles get rid of free plastic bags.
Whales not having a time
Whale researchers are concerned recreational boaties on Queensland's Gold Coast are crowding humpback mothers and their newborn calves, breaching state regulations for watching marine mammals.
Griffith University researcher, Olaf Meynecke, counted eight boats surrounding a mother as she lifted her newborn calf out of the water, despite rules no more than three boats could be present at a time.
Off street parking off charts
New research has revealed Brisbane motorists are paying the highest rates for short-term CBD parking in the country.
The RACQ's annual parking report revealed half hour and hourly rates were far more expensive in the river city than in Sydney or Melbourne.
The average hourly rate is $28.71 for an hour or $16.98 for 30 minutes, nearly double the cost in Melbourne and 37 per cent more than Sydney.
10am Zedlines
10am Zedlines with Laura and Simon.
Image: Veni via Flickr Creative Commons.
Cyprus Crisis
At least 19 people have died after a boat capsized off the northern coast of Cyprus, according to the Turkish coast guard.
Rescue crews were able to save 103 people but were still searching for around 25 others, the coastguard said in a statement on Wednesday.
It shared footage of a plane, a helicopter and four rescue boats being dispatched to the scene of the accident.
The capsizing occurred around 30km north of Cyprus' Karpas Peninsula. The exact cause and time of the accident was not immediately known.