WHILE successfully straddling the line between commercial success and managing to keep their Alternative Music roots secure, over their career, Eskimo Joe have racked up a long list of impressive stats. With 6 studio albums under their belts and sales in excess of 750,000, in Australia alone, the band has seen 3 of those albums debut at number 1 on the ARIA charts, with juggernaut ‘Black Fingernails, Red Wine’ shining for a monster 62 weeks in the Top 50 and “Foreign Land”, from their fourth album ‘Inshalla’, bringing home 2 APRA Awards, for Most Played Rock Song on Australian radio…
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STUDENTS have dropped plastic bottles into Kananook Creek in a bid to track where litter ends up in local waterways. Frankston High School students dropped five bottles, fitted with GPS trackers, into the creek on 16 October as part of the Litter Trackers program. The program is a joint initiative between RMIT and Melbourne Water. RMIT aquatic scientist Dr Kavitha Chinathamby said “litter entering our waterways could end up in the bay, harming animals and polluting the environment.” “Ninety-five per cent of litter transported through stormwater drains into rivers ultimately ends up on beaches in Port Phillip Bay,” Dr Chinathamby…
A MORNINGTON Peninsula teacher who trained in Brisbane with former US Vice President Al Gore as part of the Climate Reality Project spoke to members of Berg Mt Martha earlier this month. Sharon Rogers said Mr Gore posed three questions on climate change and the future. The first was: Do we have to change? “We are spewing 110 million tonnes of man-made global warming pollution into the thin shell of the atmosphere every 24 hours as if it were an open sewer,” Ms Rogers said. “This trapped heat is leading to stronger storms and more extreme floods. The many associated…
TWO offenders are on the run after allegedly assaulting a man in his own home at Seaford, Sunday 13 October. Police say that two men assaulted a 59-year-old man at his home with a metal bar, giving the victim lacerations to his head, leg, arm, and hands. The victim also sustained a broken finger, and was taken to the Alfred Hospital by ambulance for surgery. The victim’s injuries were non life-threatening. Police believe that the incident may have occurred as a result of an incident earlier in the night, in which the victim was involved in a scuffle with one…
POLICE are investigating an explosive device that crashed through a Carrum Downs home in August. Police believe that an explosive device was ignited at around 5pm, 28 August, on Hillview Drive. They believe the device propelled into the sky and came crashing down into a home 150 metres away. The impact into the roof caused extensive damage to the home. Two occupants of the home were inside at the time, but were not hurt. Detectives from the Arson and Explosives Squad released CCTV images last week to help with their investigation. They released images “which depict two people [who police…