Brisbane hotel boom leaves more rooms unoccupied
Brisbane’s hotel boom has opened over 4000 hotel rooms since 2014 and more than 3000 are expect to open by 2022.
This increase has left a large amount of rooms unoccupied as the Queensland Tourism Industry Council Chief Executive, Daniel Gschwind saying it’s difficult to smoothly match supply and demand.
Brisbane Lord Mayor, Graham Quirk, says the additional supply of accommodation will attract more events than ever before.
Primitive Calculators: On Drugs
- Melbourne’s Primitive Calculators are not your a-typical fun loving, good time trash band. This is particularly good news because typical bands are often a red hot garbage fire, filled to the brim with the essence tomorrow’s regrets, today. After a career spanning a full forty years, 2018 sees the insanely exciting release of the Primitive Calculators' third studio album to date, On Drugs.
9am Zedlines
This is your 9am Zedlines with Nick and Georgie
TesseracT: Sonder
- Progressive metal fans may be many and varied, but the genre remains patently uncool from the perspective of practically any other genre nut. Too digital and technical for the hipsters, too slick and melodic for underground metal heads and punks, it’s music for either outsiders or people who just don’t wish to have their musical tastes pigeonholed. Of the modern practitioners of this sound, few are treated with such reverence as English five-piece Tesseract.
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Amazonian coral reef set to be destroyed by drilling
A unique coral reef at the mouth of the Amazon River has been discovered by a Greenpeace ship, but is set to be the new oil drilling location of French company, Total.
The unexplored undersea environment has experts saying the area could contain vital research opportunities to potentially treat cancer and infectious diseases.
This would be majorly disrupted if Total’s drilling licence is approved as operations could begin this year.
Queensland joins plastic bag ban
Queensland and Western Australia will come into line with Southern States when single use plastic bags are banned on July 1.
Heavy duty plastic bags will still be available and if people continue their one-use habits with these bags, it will be much worse for the environment.
These bags will have to be used at least four times for them to be beneficial and Professor Sami Kara from the University of New South Wales says “It’s better in the long term that we don’t use [plastic bags] at all.”
New research: Young couchsurfers have worse mental health than those sleeping on streets
A new study suggests that young couchsurfers could have worse mental health and greater risk of suicide than those sleeping on the streets.
Preliminary results from the research project suggest that Brisbane couchsurfers are twice as likely to describe their mental health as “poor”.
Couchsurfers remain a hidden form of homelessness for young australians with over 20,000 reporting to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare between 2013-2014.
Creek contamination: explossive leak in Ipswich
A storage centre in Ipswich has leaked water soluble toxins into a nearby creek.
The liquid is believed to have been Wala Gel which is an additive to explosives.
The gel is potentially toxic to animals and was leaked in the area that flows onto Ipswich’s Six Mile Creek environmental zone.
Starbucks to close 8000 branches for 'racial bias' training
Starbucks is closing more than eight thousand branches in the US in the afternoon next month to carry out “racial bias” training.
This comes after the company apologised over the arrest of two black men who were waiting for a friend at a Starbucks in Philadelphia.
Outrage against the company for the arrest has gone viral and Starbucks chief executive Kevin Johnson says they are learning what they did wrong and are taking steps to fix it.