From the Archives, 1980: Big crowds see the Queen open the City Square
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By Peter Smark
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World’s best diplomat
Queen Elizabeth II showed Melbourne yesterday why her Court advisers say she is the world’s best diplomat.
The Queen talks to some of the children who welcomed her to Melbourne
Credit:The Age Archives
While rows of civic dignitaries and their spouses waited on a raised dais in the City Square for the Queen to come and talk to them, she insisted on continuing to talk with crowds lining the route of her walk from Bourke Street.
April 25
The ruling National Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces for the Defense of Democracy (CNDD-FDD) announces that then-President Pierre Nkurunziza will be its candidate in June elections, triggering widespread demonstrations in the then-capital, Bujumbura.
April 26
The government bans live reporting from the sites of the demonstrations by three popular radio stations – Radio publique africaine (RPA), Radio Isanganiro, and Radio Bonesha FM, suspends their broadcasts outside the capital, and cuts off their telephone land lines.
April 27
The government completely shuts down RPA’s broadcasts, including in Bujumbura, and shuts down the Media House (la Maison de la Presse), a gathering place for local media. The police arrests Pierre Claver Mbonimpa, president of the human rights group APRODH, who had gone to give an interview at la Maison de la Presse. The police kicked and roughed up Mbonimpa, aged 66, who was released the next day.
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The Permian Basin is home to over 100,000 oil and gas wells, but we are also the home of the largest solar and wind farm in the state too.
According to the Midland Reporter-Telegram, renewable energy is getting more and more real estate in the Permian Basin especially with the opening of the Permian Energy Center.
The center is located in Andrews County and is a utility-scale 460 megawatt alternating current (MWAC) hybrid solar and battery storage facility according to the MRT.
The Permian Energy Center has 1.3 million solar panels on 3,600 acres right next to oil and gas wells, and will be able to power 80,000 homes with clean energy as well as 40 MWAC of battery storage.
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Whitsunday Police officer in charge sergeant Nathan Blain said police had arrested and charged five people in the past week for committing public nuisance in the Safe Night Precinct, and would continue to take a “high vigilance” approach to such behaviour in a bid to “curb assault rates”.
The five arrests Sgt Blain referred to were in addition to the following five men who appeared Proserpine Magistrates Court on public nuisance charges.
Euan Wright pleaded guilty in the Proserpine court on Monday, to committing public nuisance near a licensed premises and failing to leave a licensed premises, following an incident at Mama Africa nightclub.