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Saleh Muslim arrested in Prague
Syrian-Kurdish leader, Saleh Muslim has been arrested in Prague on a warrant issued by Turkey.
He has been indicted over a bombing that targeted a convoy of buses at a military base in Ankara, killing 37 people.
Turkey views Saleh Muslim as a terrorist and offered 1 million dollars for his arrest.
One person killed during a protest in Congo
Protests in the Democratic Republic of Congo turned deadly when security forces used live ammunition on protesters, killing one person.
The protests held in Kinshasa were organised by the Catholic Clergy against President Joseph Kabila who remains in power despite his term ending in 2017.
Staff at St Joseph’s Hospital confirmed to the BBC that one person had been fatally wounded and several injured after the security forces’ attempt to disperse the crowd.
Michael McCormack wins vote to become Deputy Prime Minister
The National Party have met this morning in Canberra to vote on a new leader who will become the new Deputy Prime Minister.
Minister for Veteran Affairs Michael McCormack won the vote defeating George Christensen who also stood for the leadership role.
Mr McCormack was first elected as a member of parliament for Riverina and has held ministerial roles since his appointment.
Report released on Australian university hazing rituals
A report into college hazing rituals at Australian Universities is being released today calling for the rituals to be criminalised.
The rituals are said to be mainly enforced by older students onto first-year students for “sexual and sadistic” purposes.
Report author Nina Funnell claims the hazing culture not only harms the victims, but also the reputation of Australian Universities.
Brisbane drivers opting for toll roads to save time
The latest release of toll traffic figures from Transurban shows that drivers are opting for Brisbane’s Airport Link Tunnel to avoid road work delays on Kingsford Smith Drive.
With 408,000 trips on Brisbane toll roads daily and a 0.9 percent increase in Brisbane traffic, Transurban has seen a 5.9 percent growth in the Airport Link tunnel with 61,000 daily commuters.
Transurban Chief Executive Sue Johnson said, “Each work day, Queenslanders save more than 64,000 hours on average by using a toll road over the free alternative route.”
Beer made from recycled water pitched as sustainable solution
A brewing company has pitched making beer out of recycled water as the key to keeping Queensland’s water supply sustainable.
An event was hosted by Queensland Urban Utility over the weekend, during which Loop Brewing suggested the idea.
Their pitch said, “recycled water is much purer than potable water, allowing for more control in the addition of minerals that dictate taste”.
Monkey Marc: Yaad N Abraad Riddim
- The Yaad N Abraad Riddim is a continuation in a series of releases under a reggae and hip hop music project called Vital Sound from Melbourne DJ/Producer Monkey Marc scheduled for 2018 which began with 2017’s excellent ragga dancehall No Surrender Riddim.
Tom Lyngcoln: Doming Home
- Tom Lyngcoln has spent the past couple of decades fashioning some sort of musical career out of his stark, brutal, often bleak and occasionally beautiful songwriting and guitar-wrangling, most notably with aggro-rock trio The Nation Blue, and more recently with the gospel-punk sextet Harmony (with some occasional forays into other projects such as Pale Heads). On Doming Home Lyngcoln strikes out on his own for the first time, offering up eleven stark songs performed entirely on guitar and his strained voice.
Sleep Decade: Collapse
- Sleep Decade are a three-piece that hail from somewhere between Melbourne and Geelong, made up of two brothers and a close friend. The strong, indeed familial relationship between the three becomes increasingly evident over the course of their new record, with its sparse, yet still incredibly lush atmosphere. Where spacious electronic textures and gorgeously melodic guitar parts make you feel as if you’re three feet off of the ground, the tight, repetitive, minimalist beats and simple, emotive bass-lines keep you planted firmly on the floor.