New Zealand Unveils Plans to Halve Greenhouse Emissions by 2030

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has committed to critically reducing emissions by half before 2030.

In a new statement released on Sunday, Ms Ardern and Climate Change Minister James Shaw announced that New Zealand will halve its greenhouse gas emission by 2030, ahead of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow.

Tori Amos: Ocean To Ocean

- The worldwide COVID19 pandemic has ripped the creative arts industry into shreds. No artist, whether it be stage, screen, recording studio or corner bar has been left untouched by the savageness of the impact lockdowns, isolation orders and the toll the virus has taken on everyone physically, emotionally and mentally.

Review: Heavenly Life presented by the Southern Cross Soloists

Concert Hall, QPAC

Sunday 24th Oct, 2021

 

Konstantin Shamray – Piano
Alexandra Flood – Soprano

 

Händel Da tempeste il legno infranto HWV 17
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491
Mahler Symphony No. 4, Movement 4: Sehr behaglich

Rachmaninov Vocalise Op. 34 No.14
Bellini Ah, non credea mirarti... Ah! non giunge from La Sonnambula

 

Dr Gemma Regan

 

Review: Breathtaking Tchaikovsky presented by the Queensland Symphony Orchestra

Concert Hall, QPAC

22nd Oct-23rd Oct 2021

 

Conductor Johannes Fritzsch 

Soloist Konstantin Shamray, piano 

 

LISZT Concerto No.1 in E at for Piano & Orchestra 

 

  1. Allegro maestoso
  2. Quasi adagio - Allegretto vivace 
  3. Allegro marziale animato 

 

TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No.6 in B minor, Op.74 (Pathétique)

I. Adagio – Allegro non troppo
II. Allegro con grazia
III. Allegro molto vivace
IV. Finale (Adagio lamentoso – Andante) 

QLD Current Covid Cases

Queensland has recorded no new locally acquired cases with one case in hotel quarantine. 

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk urges Queenslanders to get vaccinated fearing a cyclone of new cases will unleash once borders reopen.

 

Petrol in NSW soars as travel eases

Petrol prices in NSW have soared as travel restrictions ease, reaching as high as 181 cents per litre in cities such as Sydney.

Spokesperson for NRMA, Peter Khoury says as the world gradually exits the prolonged Covid lockdown and vaccination rates increase, there is more economic activity taking shape globally, driving up demand for oil.