Sunshine Coast cinema owner paints grim picture as coronavirus, streaming take their toll
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Cinemas have been struggling to stay afloat with COVID-19 restrictions.
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Caloundra s independent cinema has survived the Great Depression, World War II, the invention of TV and VHS, but owner Nick Struik is not sure it will make it through COVID-19.
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News that Warner Bros will release new titles on HBO adds further fear
Cinema owners believe the change could increase piracy
A combination of last year s lockdowns and studios delaying the release of A-list movies because of the pandemic wiped out cinema audiences in 2020 and left many venues holding on only through a combination of JobKeeper, eviction moratoriums, and other government help.
Parkrun tourism draws crowds to regional Australia, brings money to country towns
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Neil Barnett crosses the finish line in Longreach his 292nd unique Parkrun location.
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Neil Barnett lives with multiple sclerosis and hemochromatosis and last month he had a mild heart attack, but when he puts his running shoes on, there s no stopping him.
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Accommodation and post-Parkrun meeting places like cafes and restaurants all benefit from Parkrun tourists
The Parkrun influencer effect is being credited for helping to promote regional towns
The 57-year-old Brisbanite has run in more unique Parkrun locations than anyone else in Australia since he first took part in 2012.
viz., a supra-national entity that has laws, courts and the means to enforce the peace.
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In my view that while the ICC was undeniably a good idea, it never attained the commitment across the board to permit it to succeed.
I ll go back to my original parallel; the reason why nation states are mostly lawful and peaceful places is that ordinary citizens forgo the right to coercion and revenge and place it solely in the hands of the nation state.
In the case of the ICC that never really happened; while most nations signed up to the ICC, there was never the necessary commitment to cede the nation state s own authority and interests. And while I agree the USA is the most outstanding culprit in this respect, it s also understandable given that as by far the most powerful sovereign nation it had the most at stake.
Designated Survivor.
My maternal nanna, Vivienne, lived at Wavell Heights, about a 15-minute drive from us in Carseldine, in Brisbane’s north. She knew what all my aunts, uncles and cousins were up to: she was our Nanna Gossip Mill. I felt close to her because she always knew what I was doing.
Ben Lawson: I refer to Australia as “she”, as she provides for us the same way a mother would. It would be nice if we respected her in that same way.
When I got my driver’s licence, I’d drop in and have tea and biccies. I knew it wasn’t something I could do forever, so I did it as much as I could.
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Interestingly that article starts with a description of appallingly bad safety standards at a major petrochem site in the 1960 s. Yet remarkably everything has changed in the 50 years since; the events he describes are pretty much unthinkable in a developed country today.
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One day, Sherman was standing in a room, leaning over a large pipe to check a filter, when an operator in a distant control room mistakenly turned a knob, sending hot, almond-smelling, liquid chlorinated hydrocarbons coursing through the pipe, drenching him
I worked for decades in that control room, always aware that I could kill or main with a bad or unlucky decision. Yet the technology advanced dramatically, giving us tools and platforms that properly implemented, making incidents like the above orders of magnitude less likely. Organisations soon realised that investing in safety tech actually saved them cash, and in the past decade virtually every major new in