The expansion of a planned bikeway in Indooroopilly into a riverwalk has been approved by Brisbane City Council, with the project expected to cost almost $58 million over three years. 

Similar to the New Farm Riverwalk, the over water bikeway will connect the Western Freeway Bikeway and the University of Queensland, taking cyclists off main roads and onto dedicated cycling connections. 

Organisers of a protest today regarding funding agreements between Australian universities and Chinese government-funded education organisations in Queensland expect 500 people to attend. 

The student protest, to be held at the University of Queensland, comes after a violent clash between Hong Kong and pro-China demonstrators at the university last week.

Organisers of the protest, Transparency 4 UQ, say they are working with Queensland police and hope there is no violence at the demonstration.

Hundreds of patients of a Cairns dental clinic are being urged to get tested after improper practices potentially exposed them to blood infections such as Hepatitis C and HIV. 

The Tropical Public Health Unit has issued a warning to get tested to approximately 550 patients of Essential Dental for Life in the Cairns suburb of Smithfield. 

Dr Richard Gair, Director of the Topical Public Health Unit, says the risk of infection was very low and efforts were being made to contact all patients affected. 

Labor has called for former Breitbart editor-in-chief Raheem Kassam’s visa to be cancelled ahead of an Australian-first conservative conference. 

Mr Kassam has said the Koran is "fundamentally evil" and tweeted Scottish National Party Leader Nicola Sturgeon's legs should be taped shut following a miscarriage "so she can't reproduce".

The UK has invited military representatives of the US, France and other European countries to a meeting in Bahrain today in an attempt to create an international mission to safeguard shipping through the strait of Hormuz in the Arabian Gulf. 

According to the Guardian, UK sources say the British proposal to create a European-led mission to prevent future ship seizures by Iran was still alive despite the dismissal of Jeremy Hunt as foreign secretary by new British PM Boris Johnson. 

India's parliament has approved a bill that makes the Muslim practice of "instant divorce" a criminal offence, which can have men jailed for up to three years.

"Triple talaq", as it's known, allows a husband to divorce his wife by repeating the word "talaq", or “divorce”, three times in any form, including email or text message, and was declared unconstitutional in 2017.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has celebrated the vote as "a victory of gender justice".

Brisbane City Council has rejected a proposal for a seven-storey development that would have partially demolished a heritage building and created floors of tiny single-room apartments in Nundah. 

The development at 1180 Sandgate Road would have demolished part of the 1920s-era Henry Thomas Chemist shop and included forty ‘smart’ studio apartments, with fold-out furniture built into the walls. 

Brisbane City Council will be subject to a raft of "non-compliance" measures for its bus network under a new contract between the council and TransLink.

The measures will force the council to answer to TransLink if it triggers a threshold for the number of buses missing routes, running behind or ahead of schedule, or if quarterly customer satisfaction falls below par.