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23.01.2022 Cities demand that rail services be taken out of the hands of private hands Meanwhile back at the Sunny Coast government is setting up a monopolistic Light Rail system, which it will hand over to a private company to operate with a ratepayer guarantee of profit This is the system that operates on the Goldie & is subsidised by the ratepayers for $10s of millions every year...Continue reading
13.01.2022 This council is morally bankrupt as is the media that fawns after itTheir proposal to spend $80 million on a "Tower of Power" luxury council chambers & another vote buying $250 million on a stadium Is despicable when many of our local residents will probably face more catastrophic events later this year than they did in the last few months
11.01.2022 #DearYourMajesty #NotMyPM #AustraliaBurns Dear Your Majesty,
08.01.2022 After selecting Jess Hill's 'See What You Made Me Do' as our inaugural Australia Institute book club selection, we hope you find our next Book Club Selection was worth the wait! Announcing our next Book Club book in time for the holidays -- Secret by Brian Toohey.
05.01.2022 This is the most important election the Sunny Coast will ever faceWhy, because we have been push so far along the line of over-building that we are not far from it being irreversibly damaging & our debt level is beyond ratepayers' ability to sustain itThe options are simple continue with the existing council or one similar to it & the region will decline into economic stagnation, with an unrepayable amount of debt, and in which, the developers have picked all the choice piece...s of real estate on which to build huge towers of apartments
05.01.2022 Will Chris Thompson apply to be the CEO of the council?Wouldn't that be cosy?We can only hope that the new council wouldn't consider it appropriate with at least some having a conflict of interest if that did happenAfter all the appoint of a new CEO must be a priority for the new council & the councilors should make themselves very informed about he credentials of the applicantsLast time it seems the appoint may have been left to a small group & some councilors professed almost total ignorance about the eventual appointee
01.01.2022 China 'gene-editing' scientist sentenced to three years in jail Court says Shenzhen-based He Jiankui 'crossed the line' with his work after women gave birth to gene-edited babies. Scientist He Jiankui pictured in July 2017 before the gene-editing scandal erupted [File: Stringer/Reuters] more on Science & Technology... A court in China sentenced the scientist who created the world's first "gene-edited" babies to three years in prison on Monday, having found him guilty on charges of illegally practising medicine. He Jiankui, then an associate professor at Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen, said in November 2018 that he had used gene-editing technology known as CRISPR-Cas9 to change the genes of twin girls to protect them from getting infected with the AIDS virus in the future. More: China orders investigation into gene-edited babies 'Extremely abominable': China scientist faces law amid outcry over experiments CRISPR babies: What's the future of gene editing? The backlash in China and around the world about the ethics of his research and work was swift and widespread. He was suspended from his job and accused of work that was "extremely abominable in nature". He and his collaborators forged ethical review materials and recruited men with AIDS who were part of a couple to carry out the gene-editing. His experiments ultimately resulted in two women giving birth to three gene-edited babies, according to the official Xinhua news agency. The court also handed lesser sentences to Zhang Renli and Qin Jinzhou, who worked at two unnamed medical institutions for having conspired with He in his work. "The three accused did not have the proper certification to practice medicine, and in seeking fame and wealth, deliberately violated national regulations in scientific research and medical treatment," the court said, according to Xinhua. "They've crossed the bottom line of ethics in scientific research and medical ethics."
