Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more 9 June 2021
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How large is a cubic metre of water? The answer, which comes as part of our persistent series on Unusual Alternative Measurement Units, is that it is location dependent.
An ABC News item about the East Australian current courtesy of Kevin Ritchie notes that it “can carry 40 million cubic metres of water each second – the equivalent of 300 billion pints of beer”.
Meanwhile, the world’s biggest artificial water-filled hole, currently being built in Cornwall, UK, to simulate extreme environments, is said, in a press release forwarded to us by Laurel Stanford, to hold “over 42,000 cubic metres of water – the equivalent of 17 Olympic size swimming pools or 168 million cups of tea”.
Sydney Theatre Company re-opens with Meyer
Monday, 24 May 2021
The Wharf at Walsh Bay has undergone a total renovation
Australia - Sydney Theatre Company (STC) has reopened its home venue, The Wharf, at Walsh Bay in Sydney, following a two-year closure for a total renovation. A highlight of the complete technical upgrade was the installation of 32 new Meyer Sound loudspeakers, largely drawn from the company’s new Ultra-X series. The system was designed by Bob McCarthy and Josh Dorn-Fehrmann to implement Spacemap Go, Meyer Sound’s new tool for spatial sound design and live mixing. When it opened in late February, STC’s production of
âWe wake up in grief for our cultureâ: the return of a landmark play
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Elaine Crombie has just four weeks to shape herself into a one-woman âvesselâ for a landmark play about grief and survival.
Itâs day four of rehearsals and the actor, singer and writer laughs that she is âchaotically organisedâ. In the previous week she has taken her teenage boys Andrew and Michael shopping in Adelaide for ânew shoes and to kit them out as a sayonara from mamaâ, before driving interstate to the Sydney Theatre Company at Walsh Bay to learn
"Clean Up Your Fishing Spot" initiative kicks off fishingworld.com.au - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from fishingworld.com.au Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
00:20 EDT, 15 March 2021
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Sickening footage has emerged of a waterbird being kicked and stabbed to death by young fishermen in a shocking alleged act of animal cruelty at a popular Sydney pier.
Investigations continue after police were made aware of the distressing vision posted on social media last Friday.
Police made two arrests within 24 hours while a manhunt for a third male seen in the video allegedly involved in the killing of the bird continues.
Officers believe the horrific attack of an Australian pied cormorant occurred at a pier near Walsh Bay on March 4.
Footage filmed by a friend shows two young fishermen reeling in their catch before they are allegedly seen kicking the defenceless bird along the ground and stomping on its head multiple times.