Flash floods hit Tasmania
Record rains have hit Hobart, sparking flash floods and the closure of 18 schools and counting.
Indian activists critical of government's sanitary tax promises
Two of India’s major political parties, the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress party, have been criticised for promising free sanitary pads if elected for the upcoming state elections.
Commissioner Orders Review into Leaked Address to Abusive Partner
The Queensland Police Commissioner has ordered a review into an officer who leaked a womans address to her allegedly abusive former partner.
Australian scientist David Goodall ends his life at 104 through voluntary euthanasia
Australian scientist, David Goodall has ended his life through assisted suicide in a Swiss clinic, with a powerful statement in favour of voluntary euthanasia.
Trump administration cuts funding for NASA Greenhouse Gas Monitoring System
President Donald Trumps’ administration decides to cut funding to Nasa’s monitoring system into greenhouse gases.
Investigation into Logan City Councillor
A logan city Councillor Russell Lutton has failed to declare campaign donations from the past two years, totalling more than $10,000.
the body: I Have Fought Against It But I Can't Any Longer
- One of the most prolific acts in extreme music and frequent collaborator with likeminded boundary pushers, the body are meticulous grandmasters poised in state boxes, absorbing what lies before them and all the tools they’ve to work with. Once a base for their spectral punishment has been envision and theorised, it’s an ironclad deployment of the multitudes of audio weaponry for the primary purpose of crushing your soul. Whilst being bleak, if you accept it and see what is being presented in front of you, it’ll comfort you.
Sarah Mary Chadwick: Sugar Still Melts In The Rain
- It’s kind of reassuring to hear that Sarah Mary Chadwick has been embracing therapy. I really struggled with her last album, Roses Always Die and it’s truly brutal depictions of alcoholism, depression, dysfunctional sex and, well, the list goes on. Ironically, but, perhaps predictably, it’s what has made her more recent work so impressive. You might not expect a woman who once fronted sludgemeisters Batrider to have such an eloquent way with words, but she’s as much a Bukowskian poet as a rocker.
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California becomes first US state to mandate solar panels on homes
California has become the first US state to mandate solar panels on new homes and apartment buildings, coming into effect on new buildings built after 1 January, 2020.
California state law requires that 50% of all electricity comes from non carbon-emitting sources by 2030 with nearly 16% of the state’s electricity already coming from solar.
The California Public Utilities Commission reported that California will likely meet the 2030 goal 10 years ahead of schedule.