Mount Coot-tha residents are taking action against the Brisbane City Council-operated Mount Coot-tha Quarry following complaints of cracking concrete, inaccurate monitoring and a silica dust storm. 

Chairman of the Mount Coot-tha Local Residents action group, Phil Best, says he has experienced blasts which have shaken his house for thirty seconds and is concerned by the potential impact to property foundations. 

Extra buses will be trialled on some of Brisbane’s busiest routes to and from the University of Queensland over the next two years amid reports of overcrowded buses missing key stops. 

Popular bus routes will increase in frequency and have their operating hours extended until 10:30pm as part of the $1 million trial in a partnership between the state government and the university. 

A new route 28 will also be created between UQ Lakes and Langlands Park as well as an extension of Saturday services on 12 exam period weekends.

Four elderly residents have died and a nursing home is in lockdown amid a flu outbreak in New South Wales. 

The Marco Polo Aged Care Services at Unanderra, south of Wollongong, has been quarantined since June 10, with five residents taken to hospital, twenty staff diagnosed with the flu and 15 isolated at the centre.

Manager Robert O'Shae says the facility is managing the outbreak in consultation with the NSW public health unit and families have been asked not to visit the centre as it tries to control the situation.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Labor leader Athony Albanese have promised to work together on constitutional recognition for Indigenous Australians as the new term of Parliament begins. 

Mr Morrison says his government has committed $7.3 million to design options for a Voice to Parliament and pledged to hold a referendum once the proposed model was finalised. 

A12-year-old girl has shared her testimony on the conditions she faced while being held at a Texas border detention facility in the United States, saying detainees are given little food and sleep on the floor. 

The witness account comes as US Democratic lawmakers visited the same detention facility on Monday, with congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez labelling the conditions there “horrifying” after a tour of the compound.

An Italian judge has ordered the release of the German captain of a migrant rescue ship who had been placed under house arrest for breaking an Italian naval blockade. 

Carola Rackete was arrested after forcing her ship carrying 40 migrants rescued in the Mediteranean into the Sicilian port of Lampedusa, however, Judge Allesandra Vella ruled Rackete had been carrying out her duty to protect life and had not committed any act of violence. 

The Queensland Teachers’ Union wants church-taught gospel gone from Queensland classes given only around a quarter of parents approve of their children being involved in religious instruction. 

Queensland Teachers’ Union president Kevin Bates says church-based religious instruction should be moved out of class hours and offered instead before school or during lunch hours. 

Queensland Minister Grace Grace says there are no plans to change the way religious instruction is offered in Queensland schools, despite it being “a good idea”.

Brisbane river tourism operators expect a boost in the number of tourists visiting Moreton Bay, following the opening of a new $2.5 million public pontoon at New Farm, next to the Brisbane Powerhouse. 

Adventure Moreton Island employee Bradley Ross says visitors can now book trips to Moreton Island directly from the city rather than having to travel to wharves in bayside suburbs.