The 2016 Australian Hockey Championships continued in the Illawarra today. Four hundred of the best Under 15 hockey players from across the country have converged on Illawarra Hockey Centre in Unanderra. Illawarra Hockey President Garry Bull said the tournament was a big win for the region. “Our facilities here are first-class in a national standard, so it means a lot to us in terms of when [it] does come time for asking for potential funding for maintaining our facilities … to have these sorts of events behind us is a big plus,” he said. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNsc6DCVRQk&feature=youtu.be The Illawarra Hockey Centre is hosting under…
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Weeks of internet backlash on the appointment of Rebecca Maddern as the first female host of Nine’s AFL Footy Show have again raised questions about the way women are treated in Australian sport – on and off the field. Cricket Australia’s announcement of a significant pay rise for female cricketers has been seen as a significant step toward bridging the gender pay gap in sport. UOWTV Multimedia spoke to ABC Grandstand sports journalist Brittany Carter about her experiences in a role that is typically dominated by males. Your browser does not support iframes. Carter noted while she had received the…
Leicester City has battled 5000/1 odds to take the English Premier League’s 2015/16 season in an upset some are calling “the biggest sporting achievement ever”. [View the story “From Zero to Hero: Reactions to Leicester City’s dream season” on Storify]
Australian prices and release dates for Virtual Reality software like Facebook’s Oculus Rift, Sony’s PlayStation VR and the HTC Vive have been released. The Oculus Rift, bought by Facebook in March 2014 for release this May, is priced at US$649 and is not being priced locally for an Australian audience. Including shipping, the headset will cost about AU$1025 plus the cost of a PC capable of supporting the hardware. The HTC Vive has an estimated price of AU$1180 including shipping, and will be released 5 April, and backed by Valve – one of the biggest supplier of PC games in the market. With built-in support…
April 2016 was the hottest April in recorded history, and broke temperature records by the highest margin ever, according to NASA. This year is set to be the hottest on record, with the last three months in a row having broken temperature records, and the last seven months having been at least one degree warmer than previous years, . Spiralling global temperatures from 1850-2016 (full animation) https://t.co/YETC5HkmTr pic.twitter.com/Ypci717AHq — Ed Hawkins (@ed_hawkins) May 9, 2016 The Cape Grim monitoring station in Tasmania recorded atmospheric carbon dioxide levels exceeding 400 parts per million (ppm). Monitoring stations in the northern hemisphere have exceeded 400ppm…
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[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/252088805″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] 1 – REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT TOO SLOW A spokesperson for Wollongong’s refugee action collective, Cath Blakey, has labelled the government’s resettlement of refugee’s ‘too slow.’ BLAKEY: I think it’s great that Syrian refugees are starting to be resettled in Wollongong but I think the process has been very slow. The criticism comes as yesterday members of Australia’s Assyrian community called the federal governments resettlement of the promised 12,000 refugees as frustrating. Last year, the government announced it would resettle 12,000 refugees from Syria and Iraq, however only a handful of families have arrived since…
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/252082742″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] 1 – SAFE SCHOOLS SCHEME Government backbenchers are calling the review of the Safe Schools Coalition Scheme a “joke.” Coalition MP’s received a briefing from University of Western Sydney’s Emeritus Professor Bill Louden last night, where he concluded that Safe Schools met all the necessary guidelines of the current curriculum. LOUDEN: The Labor Party’s entire strategy for opposing this reform, that they have conveniently forgotten you agreed with until five minutes ago, has been premised on losing the next election. He was described as a “stitch” and a “whitewash” by national MP’s…
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/252075016″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /] 1 – BRUSSELS COUNTER-TERRORISM Four police officers have been shot and injured during counterterrorism raids in Belgium that ended in a police shootout. The shootout began at around 3pm local time, when two suspects opened fire on officers, leaving four policeman injured, one critically. One suspect has reportedly been killed during the raid, whilst two others were still on the run, according to local media reports. The mayor of Brussels, where the raid took place, said the suspects had barricaded themselves in an apartment initially, before fleeing the scene via rooftops. A southern section…