Bushfires burning out of control near Perth Hills in Western Australia are destroying homes with authorities working through the night trying to control it.

A bushfire warning is in place in various suburbs as 800 hectares have already been burnt and 3 houses lost.

As fear these numbers will increase, more than 200 firefighters and emergency crews are on the scene.

A Brisbane city councillor will face a disciplinary hearing after calling for renters and landlords be put in direct contact to resolve property issues

Jonathan Sri, Greens councillor for The Gabba will be facing the hearing after allegedly offering to put tenants and landlords in touch with each other in situations where real estate agents are not passing on essential correspondence.

A second part of the complaint says he told people it was okay to not pay rent or pay late when they couldn't afford it. 

The Gold Coast’s rental market has become increasingly competitive with less than one per cent rental vacancy rates.

This is due to low housing supply and increased interstate migration as border restrictions have lifted. As more homeowners rent their homes over purchasing them, tenants can be asked to leave with no reason and no consequence to the homeowner.

Tenants Queensland CEO Penny Carr says we need to change laws to protect tenants from being unreasonably evicted in an unstable COVID environment.

The premier has called for a youth justice review after a number of recent incidents involving young people driving stolen cars.

Police say the targeted group are repeat offenders between the ages of 12 and 17.

This follows an incident last week where a minor crashed a stolen car in Brisbane, killing two people in the process.

Ms Palaszczuk will meet with youth justice minister Leanne Linard and police minister Mark Ryan over the matter this week. 

A Brisbane biotech firm received from the United States military to increase COVID-NINETEEN home testing kit production this morning.

Ellume received five hundred million dollars for tests, which will be available for purchase in the US, but not in Australia as current Australian law prevents the sale of home COVID tests.

Senior white house advisor Andy Slavitt says Ellume will aim to send three million tests to the US by the end of March.

A Queensland university has discovered a new potential cause of dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

The University of Queensland’s brain institute has found a process known as ‘seeding’ where tangled neurons allow a toxic protein to leak into healthy brain cells.

Dr Juan Polanco says the findings will help scientists understand how non- inherited forms of alzheimers and dementia occur.

Maxwelton, a town in north-west Queensland is now the state’s first horse racing club with an all female executive board. 

Tammy Bailey who is the newly elected president of the club says the move was not done deliberately, only after being elected they realised they were all women.

Locals in Maxwelton have been racing horses since the 20th century and a Racing Queensland spokesperson says there is no record of another all-female executive in its history.

Australian Electoral Commission data shows that 1 billion dollars worth of donations to political parties has come from unknown sources in the 2 decades since 1999.

The weak donation laws in Australia allow political parties to hide the origins of the dark money, which is about 35% of contributors.

This analysis also finds that 5 donors have contributed 25% of money given to political parties since 1999.