Technology by Elise Williams, Janelle Miles, Jessica Marszalek 18th Feb 2021 9:20 AM | Updated: 10:27 AM Â Queensland Health s Facebook has been shut down during the midst of a pandemic and on the eve of the vaccine rollout, while Bureau of Meteorology s page has been wiped during the cyclone season. Queensland Health and BOM are among a host of government and emergency services to have been wiped on Wednesday morning. Among essential services pages impacted are Queensland Government s TransLink, Brisbane City Council, RACQ and Energex. University pages are also impacted, with the University of Southern Queensland s page shut down this morning along with QUT News, a page is dedicated to journalism produced by students at the University.
The unprecedented move by Facebook to shutter social media sites could have hindered the COVID-19 vaccine rollout and people seeking help to escape violence.
Australia s ten biggest inland cities you should visit (or avoid)
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Outsiders could be forgiven for thinking that Australia s interior is entirely empty. All the big cities cling to the coast like a scared toddler to a blankie. What s more, most of the second tier cities are on the coast, too. Australia has got sizeable settlements outside the capitals, but the likes of Townsville, Newcastle, Wollongong, Geelong and Bunbury are also coastal.
There are a few biggish inland cities, though, and some of them offer plenty for visitors. We ve picked out the largest ten, using the latest estimated resident population stats from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The significant urban area measurement – the closest realistic approximation of what the city is – has been used.
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February 19, 2021 | 12:08 am
By Daryl Sparkes
IT IS 25 years since Australian auteur Baz Luhrmann released his gloriously spectacular version of Shakespeareâs
Romeo + Juliet, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes as the doomed lovers.
While some praised the film as âclever and well-executedâ and âgenuinely inventive,â others labeled it âa very bad ideaâ and âa monumental disaster.â How could one film be so polarizing?
Mr. Luhrmann was not presenting us with a reinterpretation of the stage play, but a complete re-imagining of its universe. Gone was the sense of theater. Gone were the long soliloquies. Gone were the 16
th century costumes. Instead of Verona, Italy, we are on Verona Beach, California.