Platypus Milk Could Cure Super-bugs
Australian Platypus milk could hold the answer to some of the world’s super-bug problems.
3D Printed homes
A Texas company building 3D printed homes are trying to help solve homelessness.
Florida Bridge collapse
A newly installed pedestrian bridge at Florida International University collapsed yesterday crushing six vehicles and killing 10 people.
Homelessness on the Rise Among Youth Nationwide
Data from the most recent Census shows a large increase in homelessness among people in the 19-24 year old age bracket.
12 Year-Old Brisbane Piano Prodigy Up To Beethoven
Indooroopilly 12 yr-old, Jeremy Sun, is preparing for a concert at QPAC, where he will play Beethoven’s 3rd piano concerto with the Queensland Youth Symphony.
International tourists choosing Brisbane
There has been a record increase of international visitors to Brisbane, with around 1.3 million people visiting the city last year, 6.7 percent more than the year before.
Australia Meets Medal Target at Paralympic Games
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Note: Pictured is the 1992 Winter Paralympic Australia team, the first winter Paralympics celebrated concurrently with the Winter Olympics.
Australia Meets Medal Target at Paralympic Games
Australia have won one gold and two bronze medals at the PyeongChang Winter Paralympics reaching their target of three medals with four days of competition remaining.
Simon Patmore won Australia’s first gold since Salt Lake City in 2002 in the snowboard cross becoming the second Australia to win a medal at both the Summer and Winter games following his bronze medal in the 200m T46 sprint at the London 2012 Paralympics.
Duterte Out: Philippines Withdraws from International Criminal Court
President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, has withdrawn his nation’s ratification of the Rome statute, which created the International Criminal Court administered by the United Nations.
He accused the International Criminal Court and UN of running a “baseless, unprecedented and outrageous attacks on my person,” in the wake of a war on drugs which has resulted in an estimated 8,000 extrajudicial killings.
Youth party Kabataan representative Sarah Elago said ,“Only the guilty become too eager to run away from prosecution.”
Britain First banned from Facebook after pressure from European leaders
Facebook has removed the page of British political organisation Britain First, citing violations of it’s hate speech policies.
Britain First used the page to host the false and misleading videos about islamic extremism that were shared by US President Donald Trump and Former Major General of the Australian Army and current senator for New South Wales James Molan.
The organisation’s rhetoric was invoked by the murderer of British MP Jo Cox in 2016.