The Olympic bid for South-East Queensland has gained traction as the head of Australia’s peak tourism body re-enforced his support for the bid.

Tourism Australia managing director John O’Sullivan said the region is well-suited to make the bid after encouraging State leaders to go one better after the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games last year.

A new submission has been made to Brisbane City council to wrap an apartment building around a heritage house in Kangaroo Point.

The new proposal puts forward a different design to the original which was approved in mid-2017 by council which sparked protests from Kangaroo Point residents.

Thornclyffe was built around 1886 and remains in good condition, with original features such as fireplaces and French doors.

A motion that would allow female MPs to breastfeed for a trial period is likely to pass in Western Australia’s Labor-dominated Lower House, however an amendment proposed by Nationals leader Mia Davies to also allow bottle-feeding has already been voted down.

In a survey, 31 of 45 MPs in Western Australia supported the move to allow members to bring children into the Lower House for feeding.

Following the rejection of Theresa May’s latest proposed deal for Brexit, the UK parliament has voted that the country will not leave the EU without a deal under any circumstances.

If a new proposal does not get approved by March 20, the UK parliament said they will ask the EU for another extension.

The vote does not have legal force, however, and the UK may still have to leave the EU without a deal at the current date of March 29.

A primary school building has collapsed in the Nigerian city of Lagos, leaving school students trapped under the rubble.

Up to 100 students reportedly attended the school, with emergency management officials saying the current number of fatalities remains unknown.

Crews have pulled around 40 people from the 3 storey building which collapsed around 10am local time on Wednesday morning according to a spokesman for Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency.

Verdant Minerals, the small resources company that owns one of Australia's largest deposits of phosphate, is looking to finalise a $40.5 million takeover bid by a foreign-owned private equity group.

The company owns the Ammaroo Phosphate project near Tennant Creek and said the offer by the London-based CD Capital Natural Resources Fund (CD Capital) will increase the chances of its Ammaroo project becoming a reality.

The takeover announcement on Monday saw Verdant's share price double, before settling at 3 cents a share.

A company proposing a cable car project in Hobart's kunanyi/Mt Wellington said they have referred online threats to sabotage work sites and endanger workers to Tasmanian Police.

A spokesman for the Mount Wellington Cableway Company said the threats against the company, workers and suppliers are unacceptable and cautions protesters not to put anyone's personal safety at risk.

Extreme water restrictions have been implemented by the Southern Downs Regional Council as the drought continues to impact the region’s water supplies.

All residents will be required to limit their overall water consumption to 120L per person per day as capacity of the region’s 3 dams ranges from 7.2 per cent to 45.2 per cent.

An investigation by the University of Queensland’s student newspaper Semper Floreat has revealed that the food outlet Indian Feast at the university’s St Lucia campus has been underpaying their employees, and the university was aware of this.

A payslip envelope revealed to Semper by a former employee suggested that employees receive at least a part of their wages through cash payments and that hourly rates could be as little as $10 per hour.