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Heavier number isHarry’s best songONE Direction heart-throbHarry Styles prefers the‘‘heavier’’ direction of theirnew single, Best Song Ever,which will be on the sound-track of the anticipated tourfilm This Is Us.
There are 50 more sleepsbefore One Direction kicksoff the Take Me Home tourof Australia, preceded bythe premiere of the 3D film,directed by Morgan Spur-lock, on September 19.
The band are not expectedto attend the premiere butmay ‘‘pop up’’ at a showing.
Best Song Ever debuted atNo.4 on the ARIA singlescharts and has amassed al-most 50 million views on
Vevo since the video laun-ched two weeks ago.
‘‘Best Song Ever is one ofmy favourite songs thatwe’ve done so far for thenew album, and it’s a littlebit different to what we’vedone before, a little bitheavier in the drums andguitar,’’ Styles said.
He and bandmates NiallHoran, Zayn Malik, LiamPayne and Louis Tomlinsonhave been finishing thesoundtrack on their US tour.
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NBNsparkspornfearsBy BEN SMEE
TERRITORY police say therollout of the NationalBroadband Network willhamper their efforts to re-strict pornography in someremote communities.
Pornography bans wereintroduced in 2007 as part ofthe Commonwealth’s inter-vention in indigenous com-munities. An NT Policesubmission to the SenateSelect Committee on CyberSafety said the ability to ac-cess the internet couldprove problematic.
‘‘The NT has many re-mote areas which have hadeither little or no exposureto internet communicat-ions or telecommunicat-ions,’’ the submission said.
‘‘As a result, most mem-bers of remote communi-ties will not have the know-ledge or technical expertiseto cope with a vast amountof information whichwill likely flood intothose communities.
‘‘With the rollout of theNBN, there will be diffi-culty in policing (pornogra-phy) restrictions with theability to download or up-load pornography beingreadily available.’’
The submission was writ-ten to specifically addressthe phenomenon of ‘‘sext-ing’’ by minors.
NT Police said the NBNwould mean there was‘‘nothing to prevent’’ suchimages being shared in re-mote communities.
They also call for moreregulation of telecommun-ications and social mediacompanies.
‘‘There is an increasingprevalence involving theexploitation of internetcommunications and tele-communications by adultswith sexualised interest inchildren,’’ the police sub-mission said.
Phone companies shouldalso be required to keep ac-curate records of activitythrough mobile devices.
Sam Mitchell is riding around Australia in his homemade solar-powered bike
Sam’s sunny life cycleBy DAVID WOOD
SAM Mitchell is just 18years old — but he has builta solar powered bike frombits from the tip.
And he is riding aroundthe nation.
He is hoping to teachpeople about renewableenergy and sustainabletravel — with a little bit ofadventure thrown in.
The bike has three wheelsand power from the pedalsand the solar panels, whichhe also made, that can be an-gled towards the sun.
‘‘Most of the parts I gotfrom the tip, almost all thesteel,’’ he said. ‘‘There areold bikes, swing sets, thereis a part off a Hills Hoist andtent posts.’’
Mr Mitchell, fromOrborst in Victoria, hasstopped in Darwin aftercoming across from FarNorth Queensland.
He has been travellingand working for fivemonths, covering up to200km a day — between fiveand 10 hours riding.
Mr Mitchell, who willnext head west, said there
was enough solar energy totake the bike up to 150kmper day — and it has a topspeed of about 40km/h.
‘‘I want to show or see if itis possible for a crazy kid togo around Australia in apile of scrap metal,’’ he said.
He estimates his total tripwill be between 16,000 and17,000km and he has so fartravelled about 8500km.
He aims to be back homenext year in time to startuniversity and while thereare ‘‘no concrete’ plans forthe next version of his bikethere are plans.
10,000couldbe sentto PNGBy SAMANTHAMAIDEN
KEVIN Rudd will warn peo-ple smugglers he standsready to create an islandfrom hell in Papua NewGuinea housing 10,000 asy-lum seekers.
Amid predictions thePrime Minister’s PNG sol-ution is sinking as peoplesmugglers gamble that Aust-ralia will quickly run out ofroom, the Government willconfirm it stands ready tofund a dramatic expansionof capacity.
The Prime Minister alsoannounced yesterday he hadstruck a deal with the Pa-cific nation of Nauru to pro-cess and settle a modestnumber of asylum seekers.
The Sunday Territoriancan reveal that Australiahas identified a massivenew site on remote ManusIsland in PNG that couldhouse 10,000 people.
Confirming a dramaticexpansion of PNG facilitieswas possible, ImmigrationMinister Tony Burke saidone site alone had the capac-ity to hold 10,000 asylumseekers in a tent city.
‘‘The new sites we arelooking at are proof thatthere is no cap on capacity,’’Mr Burke said.
‘‘There is no point gettingon a boat anymore.’’
Another boat carrying 44people arrived yesterday,taking the tally of arrivalssince Mr Rudd announcedhis PNG deal to more than1600 people in a fortnight.
Mr Burke’s warningcomes days after he attackedCoalition plans to expandfacilities on Nauru to houseup to 5000 asylum seekers.
By putting an upper limiton capacity, Mr Burke said,the Coalition was telegraph-ing to people smugglers atarget to hit before capacitywas exhausted.
Labor argues the 10,000figure for PNG is not an up-per limit.
Australia expects to pro-vide $30 million in aid toNauru under the deal withPresident Baron Waqa.
‘‘Implementing thesesorts of arrangements withpeople as ugly as peoplesmugglers is always hard,’’Mr Rudd said.
‘‘(But) those folks are notgoing to be allowed to settlein Australia.’’
The Coalition said theNauru deal was ‘‘much adoabout nothing’’.
‘‘Rudd’s $30 million,taxpayer-funded, pre-election advertising cam-paign to sell his unravellingPNG ‘deal’ would makeCoca-Cola blush,’’ Opposit-ion immigration spokesmanScott Morrison said.
Greens leader ChristineMilne took to the social net-working site Twitter to sug-gest Nauru could not copewith an influx of asylum-seeker arrivals.
‘‘Nauru has no foodsupply except fish. All fruitand veg is frozen and flownin from NZ and Australia,’’she said.