A Queensland health official is travelling to the ACT to examine the territory’s pill testing trial with the potential to introduce tougher penalties after two deaths from a suspected overdose at a music festival on Easter Monday.

After a 24-year-old man and 22-year-old woman died at the Rabbits Eat Lettuce festival south of Toowoomba, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has said she will consider the outcomes of the ACT pill testing trial while Health Committee chairman Aaron Harper travels to the location to investigate.

A Darwin soldier is paving the way for Australian Defence Force women to serve on the front line.

Captain Angela Stokes is one of four women in Australia to pass the physical examination including trekking over 15 kilometres while weighed down with gear and lifting extremely heavy equipment.

Women could not serve in the front line infantry or special forces until 2013, when the restriction was overturned by the Defence Force in a huge shift in equality.

South-East Queensland is reaping the economic benefits following Brisbane’s rapid recognition as a favourable film destination for Hollywood films, commercials, and music videos.

The industry has injected more than $73 million into the regional economy with Screen Queensland being a key player in attracting productions to Brisbane.

A report by lifestyle and community services customer manager, Shane Hackett, showed filming is increasing every year.

Research has found if the Zika virus makes it to Queensland it would spread rapidly as a result of the resilient mosquito species that live here.

Queensland University of Technology undertook research in conjunction with QIMR Berghofer where two local mosquito species were tested for their ability to contract and spread the Zika virus.

Australian politicians, including the Prime Minister and Opposition Leader, are using China’s largest social media platform, WeChat, to target Chinese-Australian voters in key marginal seats and, as a result, risk being kicked off the platform.

The politicians are using official accounts set up by Chinese citizens which means that not only does the practice appears to be a breach of the platform’s terms and conditions, but it also means Australian politicians are open to Chinese Government censorship.

NASA’s InSight probe on Mars has detected and measured its first seismological tremor.

The InSight spacecraft was designed to study the deep interior of the planet in a two-year investigation.  

Scientists are still examining the data to determine the cause but the trembling does not appear to be caused by forces above the surface, such as wind, but has originated from inside the planet.

Advocacy group Plan International has found negative comments on broadcasters’ social media pages are three times as common for female athletes as their male counterparts.

Studying posts by broadcasters which received a significant amount of engagement, 27 per cent of comments on articles regarding female athletes, while only 8 per cent on articles regarding males were negative, with comments including remarks such as “stick to netball”.

This Anzac Day, road closures will be in place in Brisbane’s CBD from late Wednesday night until Thursday afternoon with parking arrangements across the city altered.

The Dawn Service at the Shrine of Remembrance in Anzac Square will begin at 4.28am Thursday morning to coincide with sunrise.

Brisbane City Council and the state Government have completed a joint refurbishment of Anzac Square in time for tomorrow’s event.