Andrew Knight

Around 1:30AM this morning, an 18 year old man was stabbed numerous times by a group of young men in front of a karaoke club in Sydney’s Chinatown. Police report two groups of males started fighting outside the karaoke club on Factory lane when the 18 year old man intervened whilst coming outside for a smoke.

Inspector Brenton Lee reports from City Central Police saying the 18 year old man tried to break-up the fight:

“An 18-year-old male left the club to have a cigarette outside the premises and there he came across six young males fighting. He then went in to stop the fight occurring and some of those young men produced a knife.”

Friends of the victim managed to hail down a taxi and take him to Macquarie Street, before calling an ambulance. He was then taken to St Vincent’s Hospital and is currently in a critical condition.

Police spoke to a number of witnesses at the scene, but say the motive for the attack is still unclear.

The identity of these men are unknown however, anyone who witnessed this attack or might have any information, please contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000. Vicious events like these shouldn’t occur in today’s society and it’s everyone to blame. If you see something unlawful, call the Police or Crime Stoppers, doesn’t matter how small you may think it is, every bit counts.

Source: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/11/07/2412797.htm

The taste of summer is near, with the beautiful women lazing about on the golden beaches, relaxing music by day and hard music by night. Where parties don’t stop for days and sleeping is absent. I’m getting excited just by talking about it. Chris Hamilton & I are launching a brand new website, SummerMusic.com.au which will host a variety of different things to cater for this years summer including; Summer sports, summer fashion and trends and of course, summer parties! Events will also be posted in relation to their state. For example, there will be a static page for Byron Bay with all events listed.

We’re aiming for Summer Music to be successful so we can keep it recurring and engage into next years summer, the year after that and so on. There will also be a community forum so you can signup and discuss whatever needs to be discussed, meet new people and live the summer life!

Plans for a research centre or “Brain City” in Queensland, Australia was acknowledged by News.com.au today, revealing the multi-billion dollar institute would be attracting up to 4,500 elite scientists to participate in various experiments with a green hands-on approach. However, as it turns out, Brain City was a hypothetical plan created by Urban and Master Planning students of UQ - The University of Queensland. Funnily enough, interest spread quickly nationally and overseas with SlashDot also acknowledging the story.

My question is, why would the media jump to such a conclusion so quickly without concrete facts. Were they mislead or was this part of UQ’s experiment? It just makes you wonder, doesn’t it…

I’m happy to create a discussion about this as I believe it’s important to analyse a few key points here.

For example:

1. Why would Urban and Master Planning students leak a story out.
2. Why would the media pounce on something so quickly not knowing whether it’s factual or not.

To view the full story on News.com.au, click the following link: Brisbane to build centre to attract 4500 elite scientists