There have been renewed calls for an overhaul of Queensland’s consent laws following a debate as to whether saying “I don’t want” constitutes “no.”

The Women’s Legal Service Queensland (WLSQ) says existing laws are “not in line” with modern-day attitudes and were “confusing jurors”, and disadvantaging vulnerable complainants.

The State Opposition says it will support a parliamentary inquiry into the laws, and Attorney-General Yvette D’Ath says she is consulting with legal stakeholders on the matter.

A young Brisbane concreter has won $2.5 million at a Keno jackpot on Saturday night.

The man went to the Acacia Ridge Hotel Motel after work with his boss and was gobsmacked after realising his big win.

The man plans to “[work] less and [enjoy] life more” with the money.

Well, look what the wind blew in!

The discovery of a foreign ladybird thought to have been carried into the country on a cyclone may be the key to controlling a pest wreaking havoc on the farming community.

Psyllids are little bugs that cause millions of dollars of damage every year to tomato and potato crops.

They are also found to be one of the foreign grey ladybird or Olla v-nigrum’s favourite snacks.

Indigenous groups are looking to regenerate the outback through growing carbon farming projects.

The Budijiti Aboriginal Corporation is collaborating with carbon farming developer Climate Friendly in south-west Queensland to farm carbon where blocks of land are left to grow to create carbon stores.

The corporation hopes this will stop droughts as well as regenerating bush tucker, plates and medicines in outback areas.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is asking for governments to rule establishment for internet content.

Zuckerberg is calling for regulations in harmful content, election integrity, privacy and data portability after Facebook failed to protect user privacy and failing to control hate speech on its platform.

He agreed with politicians in saying Facebook had a great deal of power over speech on the online platform, and Chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg is promising to further investigate more restrictions.

The United States Government has ordered a $US700 million (700 million US dollars) cut in foreign aid to Central America following President Donald Trump’s threats to shut the US-Mexico border as early as this week in retaliation for reported over-migration.

The funding cuts to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras needs to be approved by Congress before they can be put in place.

The Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is celebrating their part in the production and export of “green hydrogen” derived from water from Australia to Japan.

The shipment was a test in collaboration with Japanese petroleum conglomerate JXTG and QUT’s solar facilities to extract hydrogen from water.

This is then used to power gas turbine generators to create electricity.

This has become an opportunity for Queensland to build renewable energy via sustainable export economies.

A special police task force was deployed to target “stupid” electric scooter riders on Friday night in Brisbane City.

A total of 75 fines were issued for riders without helmets.

Around 30 police officers were situated across Mt Gravatt, Fortitude Valley and Brisbane City.

Fortitude Valley officer-in-charge Acting Sergeant, Simon Rowe, said “the number of offences detected as part of this operation [was] concerning and [they] want to remind everyone they do not tolerate people disregarding their own and others safety on scooters.

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The National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO), and Aboriginal Media is launching the STRONGER TOGETHER campaign with the suicide prevention organisation to encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to reach out and ask for help.

The program launches today and hopes to “break [the] cycle of trauma” within these communities.