Solo Career: The Sentimentalist

<p><span><span>- Solo Career is the solo project of <strong>Annabel Blackman </strong>who also plays in a Sydney band called <strong>Body Type </strong>and works as an architect. Solo Career’s debut EP <em>The Sentimentalist </em>is both a hazy affair and an emotionally clear-eyed collection of six songs, like snapshots of scenes from within intimate relationships, across the past couple of years.</span></span></p>

TIme For Dreams: Life Of The Inhabitant

<p><span><span>- The moody meetup of <strong>Amanda Roff </strong>and <strong>Tom Carlyon </strong>is back on for another full-length of strange and ethereal echoes of the ‘80s. Even as the dystopian visions become more warped and intense, <em>Life Of The Inhabitant</em>, in a disturbing way, is more solid, more real. It’s Time For Dreams and it’s that much harder to escape from them than before.</span></span></p>

COVID Update: No New Cases

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has provided a covid update from the new vaccination hub in Broadbeach on the Gold Coast. 

The Premier announces there has been no new covid cases recorded.

In the past 24 hours 5,922 tests were conducted in Queensland.

Taliban Religious Police Ban Beard Shaving in Helmand Province

The Taliban has today issued a new rule which prohibits men shaving their beards in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand.

The Taliban's director of information and culture, Hafiz Rashed Helmand says the decision was made by the Taliban's religious police during a meeting with barbershop owners in the province.