The University of Queensland has started showing off the plans for its new Sunshine Coast campus set to open at Petrie in February 2020.

The university has been taking 3D viewers to year 12 students in the region who it hopes will help fill the 1200 spots that will be available when the campus opens.

With most students currently facing a three hour round trip to commute to Brisbane universities, the campus is hoping to capture prospective students who are currently electing to attend smaller universities closer to home.

The ACCC has reported that Australians lost $489Mn to scammers last year, a 44% jump from 2017.

The regulator pointed out a 900% increase in Australian Tax Office impersonation scams and $60Mn of losses to dating and romance scams as particularly worrying.

But deputy chair of the ACCC Delia Rickard warns that this may just be the tip of the iceberg, saying that not everyone who suffers a loss would have reported it to a government agency.

Astronomers from WA’s Curtin University have witnessed a black hole spewing jets of plasma into space as it pulled apart a nearby star.

Professor James Miller-Jones noted the activity was unusual, as typically gas pulled from a nearby star is shot into space up and down the spinning axis of the black hole.

Indonesia's President has decided to relocate the country’s capital out of Java to an undetermined location.

President Joko Widodo is the first to seriously consider the move, although the idea has been around since Former President Sukarno was in office.

Whilst a new location is yet to be determined, Indonesia’s Planning Minister has confirmed the administration is looking towards the eastern side of the country.

Flooding in Mozambique has continued in the aftermath of Cyclone Kenneth, with the death toll from the storm now reaching 38 people.

The cyclone first hit the country 5 days ago, and has since damaged thousands of homes and placed 160,000 residents at risk. Further heavy rains are expected over the next few days.

Cyclone Kenneth is the second cyclone to strike the region in the past 6 months.

There was “a break-in every hour” in Brisbane last year, with more than half of the intrusions occurring on the southern side of the river, following the trend from the past decade.

10 years of Queensland of Police Service data revealed, residents of Brisbane’s south-side are most at risk of having their homes and businesses broken into.

Over the past decade, the suburb of Dunwich was the hardest hit by intruders, while Dayboro had the least with an average of just one break-in per month.

In the lead up to Brisbane Street Art Festival, South Bank station will soon be covered in blue with artwork created by Blu Art Xinja.

The anonymous street artist was responsible for the much-loved “Smoke” installation, which was removed from Central Station’s chimney after it was damaged due to its poor condition.

Along with the South Bank Station work, Xinja plans to surprise commuters and residents in Fortitude Valley in the lead up to the Street Art Festival, with a series of artworks expected to randomly pop up next week.