BHP, Origin pull out of Queensland Resources Council over anti-Greens ad campaign
Industry giants BHP and Origin have made the decision to leave the Queensland Resources Council (QRC) after the lobby group published a series of Facebook ads urging people to put the Greens last in the upcoming state election.
The QRC's ad campaign encouraged Queensland residents not to vote for the Greens, arguing the party wants to stop jobs within the resources industries including fishing, forestry, tourism, mining and gas.
Both Origin and BHP issued statements voicing their disapproval of the QRC’s advertising directly targeting and criticising the Greens.
Chadstone coronavirus cluster in Victoria grows to 31 cases
Victoria has recorded six new COVID-19 cases as the Chadstone shopping centre outbreak grows leading to more than 170 people being forced into self-isolation.
Victoria's COVID testing program commander Jeroen Weimar yesterday confirmed 31 cases are now linked to the Butcher Club at Chadstone Shopping Centre, an increase from the 28 reported on Tuesday.
The outbreak has made its way into regional Victoria, with two Kilmore residents - 60km north of the city - testing positive to Covid-19 after an infected Melbourne person broke restrictions to dine at a local cafe.
Sheena Watt set to become Victorian Labor's first Indigenous parliamentarian
Yorta Yorta woman Sheena Watt looks set to make history as Victorian Labor's first Indigenous parliamentarian.
Ms Watt, a trade unionist with a background in the health and community sectors, tweeted yesterday that she had been preselected to become Labor's next member for the state's upper house Northern Metro seat, replacing former minister Jenny Mikakos.
Ms Watt's past work includes managing COVID-19 outbreaks in Melbourne's north as the deputy chair of Merri Health and leading a paid Aboriginal traineeship program as part of AFL SportsReady.
Scientists Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna take out 2020 Nobel Prize for genome editing method
Scientists Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna have taken out the 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their development of a method for genome editing.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences stated that Charpentier and Doudna discovered one of gene technology's sharpest tools: the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors.
The innovative technology has made a significant contribution to the development of new cancer therapies and may make the curing of inherited diseases a reality.
4ZZZ Top 20
1. Jodie Flange - Welcome To The Elephant Graveyard, Honey
2. Mitch, Please - The Bin Collection
3. Thibault - Or Not Thibault (Album Of The Week)
4. The Cassingles - A Symphony of Horrors
5. Sweater Curse - I Wish I Was A Better Person Sometimes (Single)
6. Ancient Channels - Moments In Ruin
7. The Ancient Bloods - ANCSTR (Single)
8. Miiesha - Nyaaringu
9. IDLES - Ultra Mono
10. Matt Hsu's Obscure Orchestra - Welcome To The Neighbourhood (Single)
11. Dicklord - You Fingered Me Weird (Single)
The Goldhearts
The Goldhearts play indie rock, heaving in harmony, perfumed in pop, and twinged with twang. The Goldhearts live on the Gold Coast & Sydney and are all ex-Brisbane. Formed in 2015, the band released their debut album The Rise and Fall of the Goldhearts in 2016 and an EP BE Strong, BE Brave, BE Bold in November 2019. Separated by border closures during COVID-19, the band finally hit the studio to record a Double A-side single inspired by the current eco-emergency.
Grieg: Detritus
<p><span><span>- Grieg came together sometime in the early two-thousand-teens, after everyone involved had got fed-up-to-the-eyeballs with doing the things band’s are supposed to do. They put together this new concern with precisely no aspirations beyond making incredibly loud music that they loved and hanging out. Former rockers reliving the glory days isn’t exactly unusual and most of them are boring and rubbish.
Alvin Curran (Peformed By Gabriella Smart): Inner Cities
<p><span><span>- Room40 have just released <em>Inner Cities</em> by Alvin Curran (performed by Gabriella Smart). Though the album was recorded in 2013, I had the pleasure of seeing Smart perform this piece at the The Old Museum as part of Brisbane Festival: a five-hour concert that ended in a standing ovation.</span></span></p>
4ZZZ's Album of the Week: Tio - 'Sorousian'
Sorousian is the highly anticipated debut album by Ni-Vanuatu artist Tio.
The title, Sorousian, loosely translates to “story” and combines the many facets of Tio’s musical identity and history. Across the album, Tio effortlessly blends his traditional music customs and sounds with modern instrumentation and production to paint a story of his experiences; from living in his home island of Ambrym, Vanuatu’s capital Port Vila, and in Melbourne, Australia.
Sorousian is a multi-faceted album exploring the dichotomies in Tio’s life; tradition and modernity, urban and island life; Ni-Vanuatu cultures and Australian life. The variation can be seen in the two singles that have already been released; ‘Mumbwe’ is a modern interpretation of a song used in the Rom custom dance sung in a language so old that the direct translation has been lost. ‘Black Butterfly’ however is a contemporary original which he wrote about city life and Tio’s belief that people need to live and work more truthfully; asking the audience to rethink their lifestyle’s relationship with nature.
The album was produced by Wantok Musik’s Creative Director David Bridie with Andrew Robinson and shares the way Tios’s musical traditions shift and combine with new styles to create rich sonic narratives.
Mildlife: Automatic
<p><span><span>- What is time? A golden rope, slowly getting shorter with each passing day of our lives? An illusion that distracts us from paying attention to the endless now? A resource being quietly stolen by the media-industrial complex? A prison, reminding us that we can’t do anything in this year that will never end? When I last encountered funky Melbournites Mildlife, they seemed to be in two minds about it because: “<em>You're born, then you die / There might be reasons why / Then again, who cares?