Former Don Dale detainee Dylan Voller and his mother have been arrested by police at a rally in Alice Springs.
The pair were part of a large group of people protesting against deaths in custody and youth detention.
The protesters marched from the courthouse to a busy intersection on the Stuart Highway when police asked people to get off the road.
A Brisbane man spent 18 months collecting and wiring together thousands of discarded batteries to create his own “homebrew” version of a Tesla Powerwall, Elon Musk’s home energy storage system, because he “was bored”.
“[I needed something] to get my ideas out of my skull and onto the bench, so to speak,” Pete Matthews told The Link.
The self-taught computer repairman now uses his backyard invention to power his family’s off-grid household appliances, excluding his hot water, air conditioning and stove, which are still connected to the grid.
He says his invention can store 40kwh, or 2.8 times the capacity of Tesla’s newest 14kwh Powerwall 2.
“My power bill came down from about $1,700 to around $400, so this is significant savings,” he said.
Mr Mathews said his system cost him $10,000 and is made from 4,480 18650-type lithium-ion batteries, a generic battery, commonly found inside laptops and other rechargeable consumer devices.
A pledge to ban the full-face veils worn by some Muslim women is expected to be included in the UK Independence Party’s general election manifesto.
Party leader Paul Nuttall will launch what he calls an “integration agenda” on Monday.
He will say wearing the burka and niqab in public is a barrier to social harmony, as well as a security risk.
He will also propose outlawing Sharia law – the religious rules that form part of Islamic tradition.
The party’s manifesto is expected to suggest that anyone with evidence of female genital mutilation will be bound by law to inform police.
And it will also call for postal voting to be largely abolished, because of concerns over electoral fraud.
The former UKIP leader, Nigel Farage, proposed a burka ban in 2010.
But the party later dropped the policy, and it did not appear in its 2015 manifesto.
Full-face veils are already banned in public in some European countries, including France.
Source: General election 2017: UKIP manifesto to pledge a burka ban – BBC News
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So I approach The Good Fight (More4), the TGW spin-off show fans have been baying for, with a feeling of rising anxiety that I am going to enjoy it. Imagine my gloom after the opening double bill, which plays out like the perfect superhero origin story but with more decanters and depositions. It’s brilliant. Not only will I have to watch every last second of it over the coming weeks, but the spectre of TGW (I dare not type its name) looms ever larger, reminding me of what I am now undoubtedly missing.
The Good Fight stars Christine Baranski as Diane Lockhart, partner in (deep breath) Lockhart, Deckler, Gussman, Lee, Lyman, Gilbert, Lurie, Kagan, Tannebaum & Associates, the top Chicago law firm where we (well, not me, obviously) left her at the end of The Good Wife’s seventh and final season in 2016.
Source: Grant Hackett breaks silence, thanks family after ‘toughest week’ | Perth Now
