After struggling to bounce back from the three-day lockdown, the Brisbane City Council will urge Queensland’s Chief Health Officer to relax capacity restrictions in lifts.

Foot traffic in the city centre declined to about 20 percent of its pre-pandemic average in March and as of last week only reached 56 percent.

According to Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner, to combat queues and bring people back into the CBD, a change in the restrictions facing lifts should be made.

A 13-year-old Annerley resident has been chosen as one of the artists to design a chiller bag for a National Supermarket.

Abbey Whalley is one of six students to win the design competition, which was run to raise awareness against single-use plastic bags. Her bags will be printed nationally and sold to millions of customers for two dollars fifty for a limited time.

Abbey’s primary school also received five thousand dollars thanks to her win.

Plantations across the Gnangara mound have been logged from 23,000 hectares down to 6,000 hectares. 

The government plans to harvest the rest within three years with no large-scale replacements after two comprehensive strategies for the land fell over.

Despite the pine plantations could create green jobs and revegetation for the regions. The lack of replanting strategy could lead to extinction for Perth's endangered black cockatoos.

A private Chinese company is planning to build a new city on the Papua New Guinean island of Daru, only about 124 miles from the Australian mainland.

The new city aims to include an industrial zone, a business and commercial zone, a residential area, a resort and a seaport sprawling out over an area of 40 miles.

A radio broadcaster in China has been arrested under a colonial era sedition law, making him the second journalist arrested under the law in the last 6 months.

Wan Yiu-sing, who goes by the name of "Giggs", hosted programmes discussing anti-government demonstrations and had previously advertised for donations to support young people from Hong Kong who have fled to Taiwan.

According to police, Wan was arrested on a charge of seditious intent, a law that dates back to the mid-nineteenth century, however they did not disclose what had been said or what he did.

A public forum to discuss the proposal for two new footbridges in Brisbane will be held in the coming weeks.

The forum hosted by Greens Councillor, Jonathan Sri and Local Greens MPs, Amy MacMahon and Michael Berkman. They are seeking feedbacks from elected representatives and local residents about the preferred locations of these two footbridges.

The forum is scheduled for Saturday, 27th of February, from 3:45pm in King George Square.

A local Not-for-profit organisation is allocating apartments to young people in Brisbane as vacancy rates hit 10-year low.

Not-For-Profit organisation Brisbane Housing Company is allocating five of their 32 apartments specifically to young people living in transitional housing supported by Brisbane Youth Service, with the aim to move them into long-term homes.

Getting drivers license in Queensland will require more rigorous training following changes to the provisional license test, as increasing fatal crashes amongst P-plate drivers.

Starting from 29th of March, Queensland P-plate exams are being upgraded with an added-on hazard-perception test, in an attempt to assess drivers' reactions to dangers on the road.

Respect Victoria has released a new report which has revealed the discrimination and inequalities faced by LGBTIQ+ Australians were grossly inflated during the pandemic.

Young people have had to move back home as a result of COVID -19 and consequently some had to go back into the closet, according to General Manager at the Centre for Family Research and Evaluation, Beth McCann.