First Indigenous Rangers on Fraser Island

Fraser Island will get their first Indigenous rangers, with State Government confirming it will provide funding to the Butchulla Aboriginal Corporation to fill the positions.

Four Indigenous rangers will work alongside rangers from the Department of Parks and Wildlife, focusing on preserving Indigenous cultural values, weed management, and maintaining the islands facilities.

Butchulla man Luke Barrowcliffe says this is a great opportunity to get Indigenous people living and working on country again.

Commonwealth Games Facial Recognition to Stay

The Queensland Government won’t reveal what future use it has in mind for facial recognition software, which was put in place for the Commonwealth Games.

Civil liberties campaigners say that the Government’s refusal to reveal their future plans for the software is a disturbing development in mass surveillance.

Recently, facial recognition software was reportedly used by Chinese authorities to identify a man in a crowd of 60,000 concert-goers.

Jaala: Joonya Spirit

- Jaala’s sophomore release has been pretty hotly anticipated. Debut Hard Hold was 3RRR Album of the week, and had glowing reviews on Pitchfork and JJJ, so you can see why there’s been some buzz building around this Brisbane native. With good reason: Jaala has the smartest guitar-brain going anywhere in Australian music right now. Marry that with full-blown music-nerd rhythmic patterns, complex chords, and algebraic harmonic structures, and there’s kinda no-one who can come at her.