Drawing a line between Australia and East Timor
Australia and East Timor are set to sign a historic maritime border treaty, at the United Nations in New York.
The treaty will define the barrier between the two countries in line with international law, instead of at the edge of Australia’s continent.
The border will divide the Greater Sunshine gas field, estimated to be worth fifty three billion dollars, with eighty percent of the field falling in East Timor’s economic zone.
UNICEF report shows Indian child marriages have nearly halved
The number of girls getting married in India has nearly halved within a decade, leading to a global decline in child marriages.
UNICEF reports that 25 million child marriages were prevented worldwide within the last decade with the largest reduction in south Asia.
UNICEF’s principal gender adviser, Anju Malhotra, says that any reduction is welcome news, but there’s still a long way to go.
North Korea willing to hand over nuclear weapons
North Korea is open to relinquishing their nuclear weapons if they begin direct talks with the US.
Kim Jong-Un is willing to freeze the nuclear and missile programmes, after a visit from senior South Korean politicians.
The North Korean leader is set to meet South Korea’s President Moon in late April for the first summit in more than a decade.
Russian military plane crash kills thirty people
More than thirty people are dead after a Russian military transport plane crashed in Syria.
Technical malfunctions are thought to have caused of the crash, but a special commission is being launched to investigate.
The crash follows air strikes and a suspected chlorine attack, which have intensified fragile conditions in the region.
NAPLAN report reveals no improvement in results
A NAPLAN report reveals no improvement in decades of results, sparking calls for a review of the testing.
The report by researcher John Ainley analyses ten years of NAPLAN data showing no change in maths and reading amongst students.
Children from disadvantaged families, regional areas and those with learning difficulties are struggling the most to improve literacy and numeracy calling for possible reviews by the New South Wales Education Standards Authority.
Queensland marriage laws to be amended to allow gender change
Queensland marriage laws are being amended to allow people to change their gender without having to divorce their partner.
Under section 22 of the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, Queenslanders, who have undergone sex reassignment surgery, have to divorce their partner to have their gender legally recognised.
By the ninth of December, it will be illegal to refuse to change a person’s gender based on marriage.
Dole recipients could lose payments for eight weeks
Thousands of ‘work for dole’ recipients are being threatened with an eight week Centrelink payment cut off.
Federal Labor spokesperson, Pat Dodson says more than 90% of the 15000 people affected are Indigenous.
The program has forced those unemployed in remote areas to work three times longer than other job seekers to keep their payments.
#it'snotalwaysagoodtime
Over sixty Doughnut Time employees are owed money as the business continues to shrink.
Former Doughnut Time owner Damian Griffiths tells Fairfax Media “The sale of the stores will mean that a number of jobs will be saved,” but it is all that can be done at this point in time.
An angered former employee left a handwritten sign on the wall of a Doughtime Time store stating ‘Doughnut Time hasn’t paid us in weeks!!! And now we all got fired #it’s not always a good time”’
4ZZZ Top 20
1. Ball Park Music - Good Mood
2. Requin - Blood Sweat And Bees (Single)
3. Totally Mild - Her
4. DZ Deathrays - Bloody Lovely
5. Bloods - Feelings (Single)
6. Confidence Man - Don't You Know I'm In A Band (Single)
7. Holiday Party - Dream State (Single)
8. Last Dinosaurs - Dominos (Single)
9. Nice Biscuit - Captain (Single)
10. VOIID - Silly Girl (Single)
11. The Double Happiness - City (Single)
12. Courtney Barnett - Nameless, Faceless (Single)
13. Guava Lava - Guava Lava EP
14. Abbe May - Fruit
Jamie Hutchings: Bedsit
- Jamie Hutchings is what you'd call a 'lifer'. Having formed the classic (and underappreciated) Bluebottle Kiss in the early ‘90s, he's spent the intervening decades following his muse in that band, the somewhat similarly-minded Infinity Broke, and the recent The Tall Grass, a collaboration with Crow's Peter Fenton. In between he's released a handful of solo records, ranging from the dark debut of 2002's The Golden Coach to the lush pop of 2008's His Imaginary Choir.