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.

Japanese car company Nissan plans to cut 12,500 jobs worldwide, amid decreasing sales.

It will reduce its production capacity by 10% by the end of 2022 but has not mentioned where the cuts will take place. 

This statement comes after Nissan announced that it would cut 4,800 jobs in May. 

The US federal government is set to resume executing death-row inmates after a 16-year hiatus.

Attorney General William Barr said five inmates are scheduled for execution between December 2019 and January 2020. 

The announcement lifts what was an informal moratorium on the federal death penalty, the last execution took place in 2003.

The latest New South Wales Government pilot program of scholarships has introduced 18 new interpreters aimed at filling a gap in new and emerging migrant communities. 

There is a demand for more interpreters in communities that speak Assyrian, Kurdish-Kumanji, Tibetan, Chaldean, Kirundi, Tamil, Rohingya, Somali and Tigrinya.

NSW Minister for Multiculturalism John Sidoti says he hopes that this announcement will provide further funding for the project to alleviate the deficit. 

Advocates have delivered a report to Scott Morrison’s government asking to improve the quality of life for Australians living with dementia.

The advocates delivered the report to Aged Care Minister Richard Colbeck, the report offers a dementia-specific response to eight of the Morrison’s government aged care quality standards.

The organisation Dementia Australia asks commitment from Mr. Colbeck to add the findings to current standards before the royal commission presents their recommendations.

The Queensland Premier will wait for an official investigation to be launched into her deputy’s purchase of a house before deciding whether or not to sack her. 

Deputy Premier Jackie Trad’s purchase of a Woolloongabba home near the state governments Cross River Rail project, and failure to declare it on time, has been referred to the corruption watchdog. 

But Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says she will wait to hear if the Crime and Corruption Commission will investigate the purchase before making a call on Ms Trad’s future.

Clubs and pubs along Brisbane’s caxton St will no longer be forced to scan IDs.

The Queensland Government has accepted a swag of recommendations from a landmark two-year review of its crackdown on alcohol-fuelled violence, including softening of scanner rules.

The review also found that since the laws were first introduced assaults have by almost 29 percent a month between 3am and 6am.