EKKA at risk of cancellation

UPDATE: The Ekka has now been cancelled.

The Royal Queensland Show at Brisbane’s Royal National Agricultural and Industrial Association Showgrounds was put on hold on Sunday for another 24 hours due to health concerns related to the latest COVID-19 outbreak.

Reports reveal immigrants and refugees are at higher risk of homelessness

Many reports including The Inquiry into Homelessness in Victoria in 2020, show Immigrants and refugees reportedly represent a high majority among the homeless population.

The Centre for Multicultural Youth estimated that young people from refugee backgrounds are six to ten times more likely to be at risk of homelessness than Australian-born young people.

NZ PM Jacinta Ardern apologises for Dawn Raids

News Zealand's Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, issues an apology to Pacific communities for the discriminatory 1970s dawn raids.

Ms Ardern says, "today, I stand on behalf of the New Zealand Government to offer a formal and unreserved apology to Pacific communities for the discriminatory implementation of the immigration laws of the 1970s that led to the dawn raids."

Jalang: Santau

<p><span><span>- It is a curiosity of Australian geography that culturally we live as if our continent is situated somewhere in the Atlantic between the UK and the US; rather than where it actually is amongst South East Asia and Pacific Islands.</span></span></p>

<p><span><span>Music is no different. Overseas musical styles, news and touring acts come almost exclusively from the UK and US, while the average Aussie music fan would know virtually nothing about our neighbours to the north.</span></span></p>

COBRAH: COBRAH

<p><span><span><em>- COBRAH</em>, the self-titled EP from the self-described Swedish ‘BDSM pop’ singer, is unlike the conveyor belt pop that Swedish songwriters are known for, instead opting to indulge in mechanical sounds, rather than in the machine itself. Like the collection of bimbo marxist tracks that it is, COBRAH’s new EP is a tightly-wound downward spiral, plunging with immediacy into chaos.</span></span></p>