UN climate report highlights more extreme weather to come
Australian children are likely to be exposed to more extreme weather, according to new environmental research.
New research from the latest UN climate report has found children born in 2020 will experience up to four times as many heatwaves and far more bushfires and droughts than those born in 1960.
This has prompted young people to lead with charge against climate change with an Australian contingent headed to an international youth environment forum in Milan this year.
Driver shortage fuels panic buying in the UK
Petrol stations are running dry as UK truck drivers continue to strike.
The drivers are staging a stay-home strike over pay disputes, after many have been forced to take a de-facto pay cut, with pay increases lower than inflation.
Economic disruption in the wake of Covid, Brexit, and years of underinvestment have amounted to a widespread supply chain crisis in the UK.
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>
MONDAY 27/09/2021 11AM ZEDLINES
With Madison and Sophia
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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.
There are now 63.7 per cent of eligible people who have had their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and 44.8 percent who have received both doses.
Palaszczuk Government set to Support Goat and Sheep Meat Industry
The Palaszczuk government is set to support the goat and sheep meat industry to double the value of production to 150 million per annum.
The government backed a strategy with 4 million in grants over two years to help the industry leverage the benefits of cluster fencing.
In 2019-2020, Queensland exported $85 million worth of sheep and goat products into markets including the United States and China.
Call for Rehoming Volunteers after Large Chicken Rescue
A Sunshine Coast farm-animal rescue group is pleading for people to volunteer to rehome chickens after 82 hens were rescued from death.
Happily Heifer After co-founder Michelle Dranfield says the hens were rescued after a farmer offered them to the charity when they could not produce eggs.
Mrs Dranfield said the decision to offer the animals to Happily Heifer After meant they were not abandoned or left to deteriorate like many others the charity has received in the past.
NSW Shop Staff bear brunt of COVID frustration, new data finds
The National Retail Association is urging NSW to ensure there are more undercover police to assist retail workers following the rollout of vaccine certificates.
New data released by the NRA shows violence towards shop staff has already significantly increased in NSW.
The National Retail Association’s executive officer Dominique Lamb says he is concerned about the safety of workers when this new system is in place.
Victoria records 705 new locally acquired COVID19 cases
Victoria has recorded 705 new locally acquired covid cases and 0 cases acquired overseas.
The cases were detected from 51,252 test results processed on Sunday and there were 29,657 vaccines administered over the weekend.