Recycling war causes conflict between Queensland and NSW Environment ministers
Thousands of tonnes of New South Wales recycling is being sent to Queensland as landfill and is causing controversy between Environment Ministers.
Queensland Environment Minister Leeanne Enoch states that Queensland will not become a dumping ground for interstate rubbish.
Queensland does not have a waste levy, so many companies are sending their waste to the Sunshine State to avoid the one hundred and thirty-eight dollar per tonne levy enforced in New South Wales.
Labor party promises to provoke Adani licence
The Labor party promises to harden its opposition to the Adani coal mine and revoke the licence for the project.
Businessmen and Environmentalist, Geoff Cousins, says Bill Shorten met some resistance within the party, but he has taken steps towards creating a new policy.
A Labor spokesperson says the party was deeply sceptical of the Adani mine project, saying “Labor doesn’t rip up contracts and we don’t create sovereign risk.”
Queensland Government Partnering with YouTube to prevent Cyberbullying
The Queensland Government is partnering with YouTube to crackdown on cyberbullying.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk visited the YouTube Space Hub in LA to establish a partnership for her new Anti-Cyber Bullying Task Force.
Ms Palaszczuk says that working with YouTube content can be used to develop “tools to combat harassment and peer pressure.”
Over two million cars being recalled for faulty airbags
The Federal Government is expected to announce a compulsory recall of more than two million cars affected by a defective Takata airbag.
The defect causes the airbag inflators to explode and propel shrapnel into drivers and passengers, with the airbags being held responsible for the death of twenty people and more than one hundred and eighty injuries globally.
The airbags are fitted into more than sixty types of cars sold in Australia, including Toyota, Mazda, Honda and several other major car brands.
Review: From Jaws to Jurassic Park: The Music of John Williams
Another spectacular production from the Queensland Symphony Orchestra (QSO) left the QPAC Concert Hall ringing to the theme of Star Wars on Saturday night and rewarded with a standing ovation to Darth Vader, Darth Maul and the full orchestra.
Review: [MIS]CONCEIVE
A contemporary piece exploring an ancient culture, Thomas E. Kelly’s [MIS]CONCEIVE was a wonderful show to kick off APAM 2018 with!
A graduate of NAISDA since 2012, Kelly seems to have been providing audience education through performance since . And in a time when our Government is completely failing to lead towards official indigenous recognition, may white Australia be on the receiving end of as many of these pieces as possible.
Mildlife: Phase
- I tend to perceive the world of music as a web of artists, laced together by the strands of their influences, pulling them all inexorably closer to each other. It’s very rare for an artist, a band, to stand so far out on the fringe that you can’t immediately find a big old handful of those strands, webbing their way back to a whole mess of other artists. Melbourne’s Mildlife, certainly, do not have that problem.
11am Zedlines
11am Zedlines with Neesha and Holly.
Photo: Pixabay/jessica45
Victoria Council votes for balloon ban
Balloons, disposable cups and food containers are being banned at events held on council property in Melbourne’s north.
Greens councillor Trent Mcarthy said the initiative demonstrated leadership on environmental issues concerning the community.
The ban will be phased in over a two year period and the council will provide exemptions for events where disposable plastic is unavoidable for health and safety.
Neanderthals vs modern humans
New research has revealed that the oldest artwork was not made by humans but by neanderthals.
By analysing the crusts formed over the cave art, scientists were able to determine that the artwork pre-dated the arrival of modern humans in the area by 20 000 years.
This adds to the growing evidence of the intelligence of neanderthals and the minimal difference between them and modern humans.