Tennis courts at Northshore Harbour
Construction of six temporary tennis courts at Northshore Harbour near Eat Street Markets is set to begin at the end of May.
The courts are being built as part of a Five Billion Dollar urban renewal project for the Northshore Hamilton area.
Construction is expected to take three months and the Department of State Development estimates that around ten thousand people will use the facilities in the first year of operation.
Montero: Performer
- Lurid retro-pop performer Ben Montero is back. In the time since he was last on the musical radar he appears to have been living exactly the sort of champagne-sipping, yacht-skipping, slumming with famous friends in exotic, sun-drenched locales lifestyle that his first album under the Montero moniker would lead you to expect.
U.S. Girls: In A Poem Unlimited
- A good firm handshake. I was brought up on that. It’s the feeling I get from listening to U.S. Girls’ music as well. Mainly, I must admit, from having met Meg Remy post-gig once. She does have a solid handshake, but you also have the feeling she has a rock-solid constitution.
11am Zedlines
This is your 11am Zedlines with Megan and Matthew
Florida protests for assault rifle ban
Over one hundred students, parents and teachers have rallied to ban assault rifles in Florida.
Sparked by the school shooting which killed seventeen people last week, this youth lead movement has already gained national and international attention, which will roll into promotion for a planned march in Washington later next month.
In light of this, a Washington Post and ABC News opinion poll revealed seventy-seven percent of Americans now believe the US Congress are not doing enough to prevent mass shootings.
Mass amounts of rubbish trash Bali beaches
An annual and worsening tide of rubbish swamped the beaches of Bali as thousands of tons of plastic debri washed onto the island's main tourist strip.
"Garbage season" begins in December and ends in March off the coast of the popular Holiday Island, polluting the sand and destroying the natural look of the water.
Officials are responding by attempting to sweep it away before tourists are able to see it each morning, but the mess is still having a big impact on tourism.
Disability Support Pension rejection
More than sixty percent of people who apply for the Disability Support Pension have their claims rejected.
The DSP costs the Commonwealth sixteen point three billion dollars a year, but in the last decade the number of new recipients has reduced from eighty-nine thousand to less than thirty-two thousand.
The Parliamentary Budget Office, said this has resulted from the eligibility criteria change which tests whether a person can do any work rather than reviewing a medical diagnosis.
"Lack of transparency" in police taser use
New South Wales Police are under scrutiny for taser use after mentally ill man died in police custody.
Reports found only one taser was used on the thirty year old man, however there has been no confirmation of how many times or for how long he was tased.
The latest report from 2012 revealed a third of people tasered by police suffered from a mental illness, and three-quarters were unarmed.
Southport named as a vandalism hotspot
Southport has been named as the worst spot in Queensland for car vandalism for the second year in a row.
According to figures from the RACQ, over forty claims for car vandalism have been made in Southport over the last three years.
RACQ Spokesperson, Kirsty Clinton, said some of the acts were for revenge, but most people return to their vehicles to find damage has been done.
Missing kayaker in Brisbane River
A search was in progress on the Brisbane River after a man went missing at 4.40am this morning.
Three kayakers decided to turn around after heading upstream before the sixty-three year old man’s rowing companions noticed his overturned boat.
Acting Inspector Don Dunstan said to keep an eye out on the river and any CCTV footage from near the river in Toowong and West End would be appreciated.