Pushes for amendments as VAD bill set to be legalised

There are pushes to amend Queensland’s voluntary assisted dying bill to allow health practitioners who conscientiously object to euthanasia the option to refuse referring patients to these service.

Queensland is set this week to become the fifth state in Australia to legalise voluntary euthanasia for terminally ill patients, amidst opposition from opponents including Catholic Health Australia.

Moderna vaccine approved for children aged 12 to 15

Parents can start making bookings for children aged 12 to 15 to get vaccinated against covid-19.

The Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation recommends the mRNA-type Moderna vaccine for those aged twelve years and older. 

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says the federal government has secured an additional one million Moderna doses.

4ZZZ Top 20

1. WAAX - Most Hated Girl (Single)

2. Amyl And The Sniffers - Comfort To Me

3. Bad Bangs - Character Building (Album Of The Week)

4. King Stingray - Milkumana (Single)

5. Some Jerks - Summertime Funtime

6. Ngaiire - 3

7. Cuckoo Coco - Grown Up (Feat. Penelope) (Single)

8. Clowns - Sarah (Single)

9. Sycco - Sycco's First EP

10. Mod Con - Learner In An Alpha (Single)

11. Tropical Fuck Storm - Deep States

12. BORN AGAIN HYPOCRITE - Scamdemic

13. Full Flower Moon Band - You Know The Mayor (Single)

Devotions: Pusher

<p><span><span>- It seems fitting when I listen to <strong>The Rational Academy</strong>, <strong>Glitter Veils</strong> and, now, Devotions, that I hear <strong>Luke Zahnleiter</strong>’s guitar, rising like a mournful cry in the night, an echoing coyote howl that’s haunted each of his projects over the last twenty years or so.

The Bug: Fire

- Even in 2008 when he had his commercial breakthrough; Kevin Martin, aka The Bug, talked about his art as “music for the end times” and a “soundtrack for the coming apocalypse”.

Tropical Fuck Storm: Deep States

<p><span><span>- Few bands are as iconoclastic as Tropical Fuck Storm. Resisting classification, they have carved themselves a niche with their socio-politically charged lyrics, dissonant guitars, chilling harmonies and ominous soundscapes. Stylistic choices aside, underpinning their caustic psych-rock is a penchant for pop-hooks and literary lyrics. Their third album in four years, <em>Deep States</em> is a fitting addition to their burgeoning catalogue.

QLD's push for kinship care

Agencies, carers and representatives from the Department of Children, Youth Justice and Multicultural Affairs participated in a forum yesterday to discuss the Queensland Government’s latest push for kinship care.

The forum discussed ways to best move to kinship care which allows for friends and extended family members to care for the child.