Traditional owners of the Doongmabulla springs are concerned for the safety of the sacred site as a result of Adani’s Carmichael mine.

The company has yet to prove the wetlands will not be affected, as experts warn the mine could cause the springs to dry up.

Spokesman for the local elders Adrian Burragubba says the springs are significant to his people because they are the only source of water in our country that is eternal and continues to be alive and give life.

A car has caught fire in a garage early this morning causing thick smoke to spread across Brisbane’s south-east.

Fire crews were called to the home in Carindale just after 6:30am and according to a fire service spokeswoman, the home was “smoke-logged”.

All residents were accounted for and the flames were extinguished just after 7am.

The Queensland government has spent $4 million on demountable classrooms in the last year, as the number of students enrolled full time in Queensland schools is up by 6.7 per cent since 2014.

LNP education spokesman Jarrod Bleijie accused the state government of not having a plan, while Education Minister Grace Grace pointed out that only a small percentage of Queensland’s 35,000 classrooms are in demountable buildings.

Ms Grace said $210 million will be spent on maintenance projects in schools this year.

The Queensland government has changed the penalty of feeding dingoes to be greater than $10,000 as a result of a toddler being dragged from a camper trailer on Fraser Island recently.

The maximum fine has been doubled and now stands at $10,444 while the minimum fine is $2088 which is five times more than what it was originally.

Environment Minister Leeanne Enoch says by the government increasing fines it will really reinforce to people who deliberately disturb or feed dingoes how dangerous the practice is.

In local news, a new street has been opened, running off Lytton Road with a new set of lights added.

The street will be named Kulpurum St which is the Indigenous name for Norman Park.

Councillor Jonathan Sri believes it’s really positive that the community was given a say as to the name of this street, that was on the basis of a suggestion from a local Aboriginal elder and it was great that residents voted for that option.

Brisbane’s historic Norman Hotel has hit the market with a $40 million price tag.

The Woolloongabba hotel has had its doors open for nearly 130 years and is being sold by the Power family - of Power’s Brewery fame - who purchased it in 2015.

Known by locals as “Brisbane’s worst vegetarian restaurant” for its praiseworthy steaks, owner James Power says when the opportunity arose to purchase the hotel, he thought it would be a great investment.

Looking across the nation, new Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows that in the 2017-18 financial year Australians paid more than $41 billion more in taxes than in the 2016-17 financial year.

The research reveals that Australia’s total tax revenue increased by $41.8 billion which means it totalled $529 billion for the 2017-18 financial year, which is up from $487 billion in the previous financial year.

In international news, floods in Rio de Janeiro have killed at least ten people as the city becomes more concerned for its capability of withstanding extreme weather events.

152 millimetres of rain fell in four hours on Tuesday which amounts to the average rainfall for April in the city.

The city’s fire department reported 10 deaths including 3 buried in a car by mudslides.

Mondelez International, which manufactures Cadbury and Milka, is attempting to protect its business from global warming by making the switch to sustainable cocoa.

Mondelez is currently sourcing around 43% of the cocoa for its chocolate brands through its Cocoa Life program, which provides educational and financial support to cocoa farmers in order to improve crop yield.

This week, Mondelez pledged to raise this figure to 100% by 2025, saying without a good source of quality cocoa, they can’t have a healthy chocolate business.