Brisbane’s Feminist Festival will take place this Saturday at Riverside Receptions in New Farm. 

The festival will feature guest speakers, workshops, performances, panels, food trucks, art, entertainment and more. 

State facilitator, Hannah Kelly says she wants to teach feminism in a broad, intersectional sense, rather than as a ‘niche’ which it is often labelled as. 

A Sunshine Coast woman was involved in a 6 million dollar scam after a man she met on a dating site convinced her to open a bank account he later used to store stolen cash.

The scammer hacked a Sydney company’s email to take over a 6 million transaction between the company and a Korean business.

Detective Senior Sergeant Daren Edwards is encouraging people on dating sites to be aware of red flags and be realistic when using these sites.

The threat of deportation is rising for Syrian refugees in Lebanon, as security forces are increasingly carrying out raids of businesses and refugee camps. 

Lebanon is home to 1.5 million Syrian refugees - it has more refugees per capita than any other country in the world, and most are undocumented. 

Local media in Lebanon reports that at least 301 Syrians were deported in May, and there is growing concern that refugees are at risk of unfair treatment or deportation.

Up to 150 people are feared to have drowned after two migrant boats capsized in an attempt to cross from Libya to Europe on Thursday.

According to the coastguard, another 137 passengers were rescued and brought back to Libya. 

UN High Commissioner for refugees spokesman, Charlie Yaxley, says the tragedy opens up again the necessity of taking urgent action and offering safe and legal alternatives that prevent people from taking boats.

Independent candidate Oliver Yates will challenge the Liberal Party’s Chinese language signs, which were designed to resemble Australian Electoral Commission posters during the federal election.

The Liberal Party signs used the same colours as the AEC material and said the correct voting method was to place a number 1 beside the liberal candidate. 

Yates, who was unsuccessful in his attempt to claim Kooyong against treasurer Josh Frydenberg, says the signs infringe the Electoral Act.

A new major festival has been announced, set to take place in Coolangatta at the end of the year. 

The festival, named ‘sand dunes’ will take place on November 30th and December 1st. 

Sand Dunes will bring Travis Scott, Carly Rae Jepsen and more to Australian shores and will also feature a range of local acts.

A Victorian Labor MP who allegedly kicked and damaged a Canberra hotel door says he will take leave to deal with health issues after apologising for his “appalling behaviour”. 

Burwood MP Will Fowles allegedly damaged the door at the Adobe Hotel in Kingston during a dispute about his luggage as he tried to leave the hotel to return to Melbourne. 

Mr Fowels says he has recently undertaken a course on drug and alcohol counselling and will get treatment to become a better person.

A Gold Coast man has been hospitalised due to a small explosion at his workplace near Burleigh Heads late last night.

Queensland Ambulance Service senior operations supervisor Jayney Shearman said a 41-year-old man suffered superficial burns to both his face and forearms as a result of trying to clean a hotplate with methylated spirits.

The man was transported to a Gold Coast University Hospital in a stable condition.