The Fortitude Music Hall opened its doors for the first time in 16 years on Friday, with a tribute show to the Brisbane music scene of old.

Chief executive of Hutchinson Builders Scott Hutchinson said they decided to rebuild the site for an upcoming generation of young people who had grown without the venue. 

Mr Hutchinson said big bands such as Birds of Tokyo, The Flaming Lips and The Cat Empire will be able to play in the heart of Brisbane instead of on the outskirts.

Every uniformed Queensland police officer will be required to wear body cameras as part of sweeping reforms introduced by new commissioner Katarina Carrol.

Commissioner Carroll said the real-time footage will be high-definition and can be accessed remotely to record events without prejudice.

Queensland Police Minister Mark Ryan said the changes will allow police to be more transparent and build confidence with the public.

A Western Australian couple in their 60s have escaped with minor injuries from a light plane crash in the South Australian outback.

Police say the plane flipped while landing at the William Creek Airport on Sunday afternoon, resulting in an air exclusion ban that is still in place.

Tour operator Trevor Wright was on the scene and said he believes a landing wheel collapsed upon impact with the runway, which caused the plane to flip nose-first.

A Perth local council is making a last-ditch effort to save a species of endemic snake-necked turtle from extinction.

Turtle nesting refugees have been installed by Bibra Lake after dozens of pregnant turtles were crushed by cars and eaten by foxes last year.

Murdoch University PhD student Anthony Santaro said their surveys show an alarming ratio of one female turtle to every ten males in the local population.

Russian police said they detained more than 1,000 people in central Moscow as protesters demanded opposition candidates be allowed to run for the Moscow city council. 

About 30 people were disqualified from the election and at least 50 arrests took place before the protest was scheduled to begin. 

Opposition leaders said they were barred for political reasons and all 45 Moscow city council seats, which have a five-year-term, are up for election on September 8.

Over 1,000 passengers have been evacuated from an Indian train after it got stuck in monsoon flood waters between two stations.

Local authorities said the train was carrying about 300 passengers who did not have registered tickets at the time of the incident.

Some passengers report they waited for up to 15 hours without food and water before being rescued.

Researchers from the University of Queensland say low impact exercise may be the key to treating chronic pain in those suffering whiplash. 

The researchers will run a study monitoring pain response and the effects of the exercise on the structure and function of whiplash victim’s brains.

Dr Rutger de Zoete said understanding the brain's response to different types of exercise is crucial for developing new treatment options.

The highest-paid train drivers for Queensland Rail makes more money than school principals and Queensland backbenchers after overtime.

The top Queensland Rail drivers worked a combined total of 3522 overtime hours last year and earned between $195,000 and $226,000 dollars.  

Queensland Rail announced they will be adding an extra 430 train services and 200,000 seats to the network last month.

One man has died and two men are believed to be in critical condition after being electrocuted while installing a train line at a sugarcane farm near Cairns.

Police Inspector Peter Flori said the men were steadying a length of track suspended from the crane when the boom hit an overhead powerline on Sunday morning.

A nearby resident and first responder said the workers had been replacing rail tracks at the farm for several weeks.