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.
Andrew W.K.: You're Not Alone
- For a brief period in time Andrew W.K. was heralded for creating semi-serious, life-affirming, singalong pop-metal anthems that at one very specific moment in time, saw yours truly caught up the friendliest circle pit I’ve ever entered at a Big Day Out. The teenage version of myself was in awe of his ability to party so hard, yet be so affable and kind hearted in doing so. Whenever some poor soul took a tumble, there were a gluttony of angels there to pick you up and not a single human was stomped and seemingly no one was groped by a mosh pit pervert.
11am Zedlines
Your 11am Zedlines with Shaina and Daneka.
Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Listeria Crisis in South Africa
Several countries have announced they are suspending all chilled meat imports from South Africa, following a listeria outbreak; the same bacteria that has been responsible for the rockmelon saga at home.
Listeria, a bacteria originating from soil, animal feces and vegetation, has been traced-back to a meat processing factory near Pretoria.
People are being encouraged to not buy processed meat as 948 people have so far contracted the disease and 180 people have died.
German gender neutral anthem
Germany equality commissioners are calling for the national anthem to represent gender balance.
Equality commissioner, Kristin Rose-Moehring, is campaigning for the stanzas containing the word ‘fatherland’ to be changed to ‘homeland’.
Officials from the Christian Democratic Party have expressed their disapproval for the change to two hundred and twenty two year old song, with women in the party saying they have never felt excluded by the anthems wording.
Australia celebrates first Mardi Gras since yes vote
Revelers are still coming down from the high that was last weekend’s Mardi Gras.
The 40th anniversary of the festival was a massive celebration with celebrity appearances and a wedding.
The parade also gave pause for thought as attendees reflected on how far equal rights have come since the festival started.