Damage from hailstorm to reach $1 billion

The damage from the hail storm that hit Brisbane on Saturday is expected to cost $1 billion. The storm left 95,000 houses without power and saw cricket ball-sized hailstones severely damage cars and houses. The Insurance Council of Australia has declared a catastrophe for damages caused by the hailstorm, which has been declared the worst hailstorm Brisbane has seen since 2014.

Palaszczuk leads QLD Labor to victory

The Queensland Labor Party led by Annastacia Palaszczuk has been re-elected as a majority government over the weekend. Palaszuzuk has become the first female politician in the country’s history to win three elections. Opposition leader Deb Frecklington conceded defeat on Saturday night but vowed to remain leader of the Liberal-National Party.

Kate Miller Heidke: Child In Reverse

- She’s been up on a bendy pole defying gravity in front of millions of eager Eurovision Song Contest viewers, on top of a helter-skelter like structure surrounded by monstrous rabbits at the Sydney Opera House and lording it over (nearly) all she surveyed as “The Queen” on the recent series of The Masked Singer Australia. Kate Miller Heidke has seemingly, effortlessly, hopped from one style to another, never settling for long in one genre before she’s off again, Monty Python-esque, for something completely different.