Breeding hookworms to cue coeliac disease
Breeding hookworms in their own bodies, Cairns based researchers are seeking out a new treatment for coeliac disease.
Based on the premise that the hookworm parasite secretes an anti-inflammatory protein, the study proposes that the protein could be harvested into a pill or gluten-intolerant patients could be intentionally infected with the worms.
Big battery boom in South Australia
Big grid-scale batteries will be installed in South Australia’s mid-north in the same region as the Tesla and Neona batteries at Jamestown.
Battery and solar systems will be connected by Tilt Renewable to their existing wind farms, who will also place a pumped-hydro storage project in a disused quarry at Highbury in Adelaide’s north-east.
Besides only being about one fifth as powerful as the existing big batteries in the region, experts say the new additions of renewable energy storage will still help drive down energy prices.
Budget airline Tigerair cuts Brisbane services
Budget airline Tigerair will no longer fly from Brisbane to Perth or the Whitsundays, as of March 1st.
Badly affected customers will be notified directly by the airline and placed on another service as close to the original departure time as possible, or receive a refund.
Brisbane Airport spokesperson said Tigerair still provides flights to six destinations across the country, equating to 29,000 seats per week.
Brisbane’s parking changes
Brisbane’s inner-city streets could become parked following the introduction of several new parking permits for residents.
Bringing change to the 22-year old Regulated Parking Permit Local Law, the Brisbane City Council proposes to introduce new permit types, restrictions, and completely phase out parking permit stickers.
Beyond applying to only specific inner-city streets there is discussion that the new permit system could apply to entire suburbs.
Abbe May: Fruit
- Few artists can traverse the genre pool as well as Perth based artist Abbe May. Moving away from the blues/rock and doom pop tones of her previous records, fifth full-length Fruit is geared towards a modern approach to r'n'b.
Love Decline opens things up with a piano riff before attacking you with sultry vocals, dripping with sexual tension. The stacked harmonies fill out the arrangement which is still fairly sparse on the instrumentation, especially compared to the guitar heavy tunes of May’s past.
Review: Black is the New White
Politics is the source of many family arguments. Imagine siting down your famed activist father across from his political nemesis at family lunch! Well, that’s exactly what Charlotte Gibson and her fiancé Francis Smith have done, by bringing together their two families for Christmas lunch. In this romantic comedy a frosty Christmas is possible in Australia after all, and you’re all invited to lunch!
Review: A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Death, dystopia, disaffected delinquents, peppered with dark humour and dance AND with a female twist, drop everything and see it now!
No matter how busy you are this month you should make the time to see the Anthony Burgess’ production of A Clockwork Orange presented by the Brisbane Arts Theatre. With a large cast of seventeen performers in the historic small theatre you are immersed in the action, but watch out for the switch blades, blood spraying and the projectile vomit!
11AM Zedlines
Liam and Emily with your 11am Zedlines (pic- Wikipedia)
Much to be learned for Gabba experience.
Queensland Minister for Sport Mick De Brenni says there is much to be learned from modern sporting stadiums around Australia and internationally, which should be adopted at The Gabba.
According to Cricket Australia and other sporting authorities, The Gabba needs to provide a ‘more holistic’ experience for spectators, since it dropped to fifth in the ranks of Australian capital city stadiums.
Zimbabwean farmers offered incentivies to return
Zimbabwe’s government are offering incentives to exiled farmers so they return home, as a means of restarting the country’s agriculture industry.
Government officials are now admitting the farm invasions that began in 2000 were a mistake, and are offering 99 year leases to commercial farmers on the condition they return to Zimbabwean soil.