Refugee flown to Taiwan for critical heart surgery
An Iranian refugee has been flown from Nauru to Taiwan for critical heart surgery after waiting over 18 months for the Australian Border Force to allow her to travel with her son, aged 17.
This was the latest in several incidents of refugees being sent to Taiwan by the Australian Border Force for medical care.
Taiwan is not party to the refugee convention so refugees cannot seek protection there.
Asylum Seeking Family Removed From Home Without Warning
A Sri Lankan asylum - seeking family has been forcibly removed from their Queensland home after a visa expiry by a single day.
The family including two Australian born children were taken without warning by Queensland Border Force from their home in Biloela to immigration detention in Melbourne.
The community of Biloela has taken to social media to express their support and shock for the family who face imminent deportation.
Protests take place in West End against overdevelopment.
Residents in West End protest to show their concerns on their feelings the area is becoming overdeveloped.
Amaya Laucirica: Rituals
- It’s funny how much territory the twilight world of dream pop can cover. With a sugary sweet melody, whispery voice and reverb out to forever you could probably have a shot at transforming any style of rock’n’roll into its quietly cooing shadow. I was reminded of this by Amaya Laucirica’s new record, her fourth (?) full-length, Rituals. You might remember her back in the day doing a fairly good Mazzy Star or Marissa Nadler impression. The Melbournian muso knows her southern gothic. She fused it into dream pop by way of dusty country music.
No Babies: Someone To Watch Over Me
- Following on from their 2011, self-titled debut, Oakland, California quintet No Babies deliver a long awaited sophomore album of heavy, playfully serious and genre-bending punk noise with Someone To Watch Over Me, a baker’s dozen of tracks totaling at just under twenty-five minutes with expectedly few pulled punches along the way.
Best New Arrivals - March Pt. 2
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Freer: New House (Indie)
- Dissociative and effervescent, this magical slice of electronica will give your Aperol spritz that little extra kick. With a low key house groove to hold it down, sip, sprinkle and twirl to Brisbane’s New House. (Nicholas J. Rodwell)
Review: Epic Visions: Conductor Eduardo Strausser as an Australian debut with the Queensland
Epic Visions was a second opportunity for Queenslanders to experience the majesty of the Hungarian violinist Barnábas Kelemen, after he wowed the audience in the Brahms Violin Concert with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra last year. In his returning concert, he formed an Epic duo with the handsome Czech, Eduardo Strausser, in his Australian debut as the Guest Conductor.
Young Fathers: Cocoa Sugar
- Scottish trio Young Fathers have consistently made weird and wonderful music. They’re a band who act with an openness towards writing songs with an immediate sense of modernity. It helped them to win a Mercury prize for their debut album DEAD whilst simultaneously creating confusion for those who have trouble navigating the shock of the new, in that their sound refreshingly encompasses popular music’s many elements and isn’t readily pigeonholed. Two mixtapes, two albums and a slew of free-flying singles has tangled them up in tedious tags like alternative lo-fi RnB.
What So Not: Not All The Beautiful Things
- If EDM was in the Olympics I am quite confident that the Aussies would be banking all the gold medals, with What So Not leading the team. With the release of his debut album Not All The Beautiful Things, Chris Emerson aka Emoh Instead has crafted a compelling LP worthy of the top spot on the podium.