The Joe Berry Award 2020 is coming around again! Entrants have the opportunity to register and submit an essay before Feb 28th, 2020, of which 6 finalists will be selected to present their ideas to a judging panel compiled of Australia’s top retail industry leaders. There has been a great deal of discussion between retailers,...
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Former UK prime minister David Cameron’s bodyguard leaves loaded gun in plane loo
A passenger found a loaded pistol and David Cameron’s passport in a plane toilet after the former British prime minister’s bodyguard forgot them there, the British media reports. Cameron was on his way back from New York to London with a protection officer from Britain’s Metropolitan Police when the discovery sparked a security incident, according...
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Coronavirus: Boy, 8, confirmed as third case in Queensland
Australia now has 13 confirmed cases of the deadly coronavirus after an eight-year-old boy was isolated in a Queensland hospital. The child, from Wuhan which is the epicentre of the virus outbreak in the central China province of Hubei, was a member of a tour group travelling in Australia in late January. Two other people...
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Panasonic pulls out of Australian television market
Japanese technology giant Panasonic will no longer sell televisions in Australia citing current market conditions as the cause. Panasonic Australia informed its retail partners yesterday of its decision to withdraw so it can focus on “other established and emerging areas of the business”. “Our current range of high-quality television models will continue to be sold...
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Blackberry phones to disappear from market as production stops
Sorry, BlackBerry fans. The iconic, full-keyboard smartphones may be disappearing once again. TCL Communication, the electronics company that has been making BlackBerry smartphones, said Monday that the partnership has ended and it will stop selling BlackBerry-branded mobile devices in August. TCL no longer has the rights to “design, manufacture or sell” any new Blackberry devices,...
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Zuckerberg expecting huge backlash over Facebook’s ‘new approach’
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will stand up for principles like free expression and encryption, even if it means facing a backlash. “This is the new approach, and I think it’s going to p-ss off a lot of people. But frankly, the old approach was p-ssing off a lot of people too, so let’s try something...
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Queensland towns swarmed by ‘bat tornado’
It’s mid-morning in Ingham, Far North Queensland, and in the centre of this normally quiet town there’s a cacophony of screeches through a Bat tornado. Flying foxes, also called fruit bats, outnumber the population here by hundreds of thousands. “It’s like a bat tornado over the town,” Ingham resident Adam Kaurila tells A Current Affair. Mayor...
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Florida church shooting after funeral leaves at least two dead
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Timeline of McKenzie sports grants scandal
TIMELINE OF THE SPORTS GRANTS SCANDAL January 15 * Auditor-general report released into $100 million Community Sport Infrastructure Program. Two main conclusions: “the award of grant funding was not informed by an appropriate assessment process and sound advice; the successful applications were not those that had been assessed as the most meritorious in terms of...
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Minister confident of airlift for Aussies
Federal health minister Greg Hunt is confident Australians will be airlifted from the Chinese city of Wuhan – the epicentre of the coronavirus – in the next 24 hours to Christmas Island. Mr Hunt confirmed an Australian medical assistance team with a mobile hospital has arrived in the former detention centre of Christmas Island. “Personnel...