$1.4 million for Chermside domestic violence service
The Palaszczuk Government will provide $1.4 million in funding over five years for a new domestic and family violence counselling and case management support service based at Chermside, with outreach services across Brisbane.
The service, which will be provided by UnitingCare Queensland, is a part of a Brisbane Domestic and Family Violence High Risk Team developed in response to the ‘Not Now, Not Ever’ report delivered by the Special Taskforce on Domestic and Family Violence in Queensland in 2015.
Death Club 7: Forevernevernever
- Unlike -apparently- most people, I get exactly zero sentimental reminiscences -toxic or otherwise- when I hear a play on the S Club 7 moniker. Somehow, inexplicably, I think I managed to miss them the first time round? My bullet-dodging is more skillful than I thought, I guess. I get a whole lot more feels when I hear there’s a new release from prolific producer-performer Death Club 7.
Mount Eerie: Now Only
- When Mount Eerie’s mastermind Phil Elverum suffered the loss of his wife Geneviève in 2016 to pancreatic cancer, his music suddenly became the sparsest and most lyrically bare of his career.
9am Zedlines
This is your 9am Zedlines with Kelseigh and Maria
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Thai Airways ban obese people and young parents from business class
Thai Airways have banned young parents and passengers with a girth greater than 142 centimetres from business class seats on their new Boeing Dreamliner 787-9.
The reason for the maximum girth restrictions are the new airbag systems and safety belts that were installed in accordance with the US Federal Aviation Administration.
Restrictions on overweight passengers are not new on airlines, in 2013, Samoa Air became the first airline to charge passengers according to their weight.
More Queensland Teens now vaccinated against HPV
The number of teenage recipients of the Human Papillomavirus vaccine has been rising for the last five years.
New figures from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare show that 77.6 per cent of 15-year-old girls and 70.8 per cent of 15-year-old boys were fully vaccinated between 2015 and 2016;
This is up from 76.7 per cent of vaccinated girls and 70.8 percent of vaccinated boys between 2014 and 2015, with this upward trend believed to be continuing.
Papua New Guinea schooling crisis after Earthquake devastation
Many children in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea could go without schooling for more than a year due to the slow reconstruction of facilities damaged during a magnitude 7.5 earthquake last month.
Save the Children's Jennifer El-Sibai said authorities need to plan for the education of young people in the region and not only the provision of basic necessities to communities.
Many students will likely be asked to transfer to nearby schools to continue their education due to a shortfall of funding for the Papua New Guinea Department of Education.
Prince Charles Hospital blocked from giving shock treatment
The Prince Charles Hospital has been temporarily blocked from giving shock-treatments to a man after 140 treatments were administered without guardian consultation.
The Supreme Court of Queensland made the ruling on Wednesday after claims the patient experienced memory damage from the treatments.
The patient began receiving shock treatment for his paranoid schizophrenia in November 2015.
Queensland LNP accept banned donation
The Liberal National Party in Queensland say they will return a $5,000 donation from a company which owns a property development firm, despite developer donations being banned by Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk in October last year.
A spokesperson for the ABC responded by pointing out “the Labor Party receives donations from unions such as the CFMEU who benefit financially from property developers like CBUS."
Queen Street Bus Station vandalised
The recently refurbished Queen Street Bus Station has been vandalised, with lights broken and graffiti scrawled on some walls.
The $3million upgrade is the station’s first major refurbishment since 1989. It improves accessibility and and gives the facilities a more modern look and feel.
Transport Minister Mark Bailey is very disappointed the vandalism has occurred, but said that it will be quickly fixed.