A Victorian company has been awarded the contract to build Brisbane's new casino bridge.

Company Fitzgerald Constructions announced that the Neville Bonner Bridge, honouring Australia’s first Indigenous parliamentarian would connect the $3.6 billion (dollar) Queen’s Wharf casino and hotel resort development with South Bank. 

Work on the construction project will begin at South Bank between the Wheel of Brisbane and the river’s edge in March next year, with several riverside trees to be removed.

Train services were delayed for up to two hours yesterday morning, after a signalling fault held up traffic at the Eagle Farm Junction.

Commuters reported to work more than an hour late, with multiple services, including those travelling to the Gold and Sunshine Coasts, affected by the change. 

Queensland Rail’s Natalie Roach apologised to people experiencing the delays, saying that buses supplemented trains on major lines and that people travelling to the airport were offered taxis to compensate for the shortfall.

The only spinal unit in Queensland, based at the Princess Alexandra Hospital, is at capacity, depriving patients of specialised care.

The unit, for patients with spinal cord injuries that have no cure, has 40 beds that are “at capacity most of the time,” according to the unit’s director Dr Sridhar Atresh.

Quadriplegic patient Peter Stevens has spent the last four months at the unit and says “there are certain things that a spinal patient needs but can’t get up in the general ward and it's frustrating when you know there is help close by”.

Legislative amendments will allow survivors of physical and psychological abuse in Queensland institutions to sue for damages.

A reverse onus on institutions will be introduced to a Bill currently before state parliament, and limitation periods in place for survivors to take legal action against an institution will be removed.

Attorney General Yvette D’Ath said “[institutions] will have have to prove they took all reasonable steps to prevent the sexual abuse of children in their care to avoid legal liability”.

Travellers along every south-east Queensland train line are facing significant delays this morning due to a signal fault. 

Train services are being delayed up to two hours on the Airport and Doomben Lines, and up to one hour on all other lines.

Queensland Rail’s Natalie Roach responded to frustrated commuters saying, “We’re really sorry for the impacts to our services.”

Ms Roach says there have been teams on site since 5:00am this morning, but they have not yet been able to fully recover the problem.

Kurdish refugees in South-East Queensland have been anxious over the new developments in the Turkish-Kurdish clashes happening overseas.

Kurdish families were resettled in Toowoomba after the 2011 Syrian war, but many still have families unable to flee from the area.

2-year resident of Australia Khaled Ali says he hasn’t heard from his family since Turkish forces invaded Kurdish territory two weeks ago.

Mr Ali says “I tried to call them yesterday, but there was no connection, no network, so I am still waiting”. 

Deep-sea explorers discovered two Japanese aircraft carriers that sank during the Second World War.

The aircraft carrier was one of the seven ships that fell in the middle of the battle. The battle in the middle was a major sea-air battle between the United States and Japan in 1942.

A Kaga ship was discovered last week, and the wreckage of another aircraft carrier, the Akagi, was discovered on Sunday.

Until now, no other ship sank in this battle has been found - the USS Yorktown in 1998.

In the past two months, at least 55 large elephants have died of starvation in Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park due to severe drought.

Zimparks spokesperson Tinashe Farawo said: "The situation is very serious." "The elephant is dying of hunger, which is a big problem.”

The drought has greatly reduced the level of crops in Zimbabwe.

According to reports, in the ongoing economic crisis, one-third of the population needs food aid.

In August, a report from the World Food Program said that 2 million people in the country were at risk of starvation.