Brisbane Council defends development approval
Brisbane City Council has defended its decision to approve a $2.1billion redevelopment of the Eagle Street Pier site.
The thirty year old pier buildings will be demolished, making way for construction of two towers, forty nine and forty three storeys high by the Dexus group.
Neighbouring property group, Riverside Project have criticised the plans approval for not being inline with current council planning codes
Cease fire announced in Gaza strip
Israel and Hamas have announced a ceasefire in Gaza, after 11 days of fighting.
Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu’s office released a statement saying the security cabinet unanimously accepted recommendations to an unconditional ceasefire.
At least 232 Palestinians, including 65 children have been killed after heavy Israeli bombardment; On the Israeli side, 12 people have been killed, including two children.
Private Health Industry in need of urgent rescue plan
The Gratten Institute has released a report claiming the federal government and Health industry leaders need to develop an urgent rescue plan for the private health industry.
The report says private health insurance premiums have been rising faster than wages and inflation. This causes younger, healthier people to drop their insurance, leading to the insurance risk pool getting worse and premiums increasing more as a result.
Windfarms secured for far North Queensland
The Queensland government has committed $47million to upgrading existing transmission lines to open up infrastructure development for the North Queensland Renewable Project.
This will enable Neoen, a French renewable energy company, to forge ahead with a three hundred and seventy three million dollar, one hundred and fifty seven megawatt Kaban wind farm, creating 250 jobs for locals.
Month long art festival in Brisbane
Brisbane’s streets will transform into displays of Indigenous art this weekend, in the latest instalment of the Brisbane Art and Design Festival.
This exhibition, named Hyperlocal, will feature glass display cases, light boxes, banners, and projections all across the city. The program is curated by the Blaklash Creative collective.
Brisbane City Council will also host Artist talks and walking tours of the city-wide exhibition.
Climate Change costing Sunshine Coast $40million
Climate change is costing the Sunshine Coast council up to $40million of damage every year, and could potentially triple in coming years.
A landmark council strategy, which will be formally implemented starting next week, also warns up to 6% of privately owned buildings will be at risk of complete inundation by the end of the century, because of climate change.
More than 40 Queensland local governments are implementing similar strategies to combat coastal hazards caused by climate change.
The Bamboos: Hard Up
<p><span><span>- Twenty years, ten albums, hours and hours of gigging, rehearsing, writing and recording, The Bamboos are not just polished and professional, they gleam like a high-end sports car on slick car dealer’s showroom floor. The analogy of one sort of showroom with another type is perfectly apt. They literally make any space a showroom for their collective talents -even during 2020’s lockdown- by offering the album’s title track and first single as a nine-screen, <em>Brady Bunch</em>-esque performance. </span></span></p>
CHAI: WINK
<p><span><span>- CHAI came across on their 2019 album as the distilled essence of joy, and if you watch their chaotic happiness explosion interview with <strong>Narwaur The Human Serviette, </strong>you’ll get an apt frame of reference. The Japanese four piece are on a mission, possibly from god, to define cute. <em>PUNK </em>was the first leg of that offensive and one in which they embarked on a kaleidoscopic flurry of bright neon colours and bombastic music all tied together with consummate pop pomp and circumstance.
Requin: Shark
<p><span><span>- I remember when I first came across Sartre’s bitter, cynical dictum “<em>Hell is other people.” </em>At the time, call it an excess of innocence, I didn’t believe it, but the ensuing, bruising years have brought the phrase echoing back and ...there may just be something to it. Brisbane’s Requin have tumbled to that conclusion much more quickly than I ever did, or so the evidence of their recording career suggests; perhaps it’s why they broke up.</span></span></p>
J Cole: The Off-Season
<p><span><span>- J Cole<strong> </strong>has always been an odd point in hip-hop discussion as there are those who’ll have you believe he’s among the best the genre has to offer while there are also those who see nothing worthwhile. Many, like myself, fall in the middle, as I see potential in every release but never quite get it. After three years of waiting for his latest record <em>The Off-Season</em>, how does J Cole do this time around? Well…..</span></span></p>