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Brisbane Tradies Tackle Men’s Mental Health
Demi Lynch
1 in 2 Australian men have had a mental health problem at some point in their lives. And 80% of Australia’s suicides are men. This is a serious issue that needs to be addressed. Yet sadly the men of Australia aren’t talking about it.
Which is why tradies Ed Ross and Dan Allen decided to create Trademutt - bright and colourful workwear to start a conversation about mens’ mental health. Demi Lynch reports.
11am Zedlines
11am Zedlines with Simon and Laura.
Image: Fuzzy Gerdes via Flickr Creative Commons.
Moving History Around
Members of the European Parliament forced a display about the Srebrenica Genocide to be moved from Brussels, back to Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina for displaying “too many skulls and bones”.
The exhibit had been a year in planning, with members of the European Parliament, who had agreed to host the exhibit in parliament on July 11, commemorating the 23rd anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide.
Donald Trump meets Angela Merkel in sideline NATO talks
US President Donald Trump has held talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Brussels, hours after he criticised German policy on defence spending and gas imports from Russia.
Earlier, President Trump claimed a pipeline project had made Germany "totally controlled" by and "captive to Russia".
Ms Merkel said she had discussed migration and trade with Mr Trump and looked forward to further exchanges as the US remained a partner of Germany.
Out of hours, after dark care
Social workers in Tennant Creek are regularly seeing children out on the streets after midnight, and often eat their main meal of the day at the Barkly Regional Council's After Hours Youth Centre.
Children are often bussed between the homes of family members until social workers find a house with a family member that is not intoxicated.
Each night the centre feeds around 70 children, where they also play sports and music, and create art projects before they are given a lift home.
Quolls born on Australian mainland in a landmark win
A program to reintroduce eastern quolls to mainland Australia has achieved success with 15 babies found in the pouches of three adult females.
Twenty eastern quolls bred in a wildlife park in Tasmania were released into the Booderee National Park on the NSW South Coast in March.
At first there were serious concerns the repopulation program would not succeed as a number of the marsupials became roadkill, or fell prey to foxes.
But pouch checks on the remaining females revealed that three were carrying five babies each.
Syphilis epidemic spilling over
In the last six years, six babies have died in Queensland from syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease that was nearly eradicated in the early 2000s.
In 2008, two cases were diagnosed in Queensland, and in the decade since, more than 1,100 other cases have been recorded in the north of the state, with about 200 new presentations each year.
More than 150,000 bees move into inner-Brisbane
Around 160,000 bees now call West End home, with the yellow buzzing insects housed on a building rooftop.
Bee One Third founder Jack Stone installed four beehives on the top of the Westpac Bank building on Boundary Street.
The bees are part of a "green installation" at the $1 billion West Village development.
When complete, the 2.6-hectare West Village will include eight apartment buildings and about 13,000 square metres of retail and commercial space all linked by pedestrian and cycle laneways.
Tape/Off: Broadcast Park
- Brisbane four-piece Tape/Off are undeniably a pounding, guitar-heavy noise making outfit, but they are far from your standard grinding grunge or moshing metal band. Their brand new, sophomore album, Broadcast Park, is about to be unleashed – a full four years after Chipper, their debut full-length effort first hit the airwaves.