Godzilla and Kong set to battle it out in Brisbane
Blockbuster movie Godzilla vs Kong is coming to Brisbane.
Filming is currently taking place at the Gold Coast, with shooting set to move to Wickham Terrace at the end of March.
A presentation to the Brisbane City Council Infrastructure committee this week stated the shoot will take place in the evenings, and will involve smoke, simulated weapons and armoured vehicles.
The film is set to be released in 2020, starring Hollywood actors Millie Bobby Brown, Alexander Skarsgard and Eliza Gonzalez.
Godzilla and Kong set to battle it out in Brisbane
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Danish politician and her baby kicked out of parliament
A Danish legislator was ejected from parliament after a fellow female colleague said her baby had no place in Parliament.
Danish politician, Mette Abildgaard detailed the experience in a post on Facebook, writing that Denmark’s first female speaker of Parliament, Pia Kjaersgaard, reproached her on Tuesday saying that her baby was ‘unwanted’ in Parliament.
The incident has united many legislators across political lines against what they said is an outdated and unwarranted action, some demanding an apology from the speaker.
Kazakhstan names new President and gives new name to capital
Kazakhstan has sworn in a new interim President less than 24 hours after their previous President of thirty years suddenly resigned on Tuesday.
65-year-old Kassym-Jomart Tokayev will now serve the rest of former President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s term until April of next year.
President Tokayev immediately moved to rename Kazakhstan’s capital Astana to Nursultan in a tribute to the former President.
February employment rates set to see slight decrease
The Australian Bureau of Statistics will release the latest unemployment figures for February on Thursday, which are expected to see a slight increase.
A weakening labour market is a sign the Reserve Bank could cut official interest rates, which are currently at 1.5 per cent.
In its board minutes released on Tuesday, the RBA said employment growth is likely to remain above average, but some recent indicators show a decrease.
Cyclone Trevor could hit Northern Territory as category five storm
Cyclone Trevor could intensify to a category five storm by the weekend, the Bureau of Meteorology said.
The storm, currently sitting in the Gulf of Carpentaria, is expected to become category three by Thursday afternoon, and could become a category five cyclone in the next two to three days.
Authorities are evacuating residents in Gulf communities with the cyclone’s core expected to cross the south western coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria, between Groote Eylandt and Borrooloola, on Saturday.
Independent animal shelter described as horrendous
The RSPCA have described heartbreaking scenes and horrendous conditions after inspectors raided an animal rescue group in north Brisbane.
Almost 40 animals were seized from the Storybook Farm - Sacred Animal Garden Rescue, with the majority of disabled animals now being treated by the RSPCA’s veterinary team.
The RSPCA have described the animals’ living conditions in reality were a significant disparity from the group’s posts on social media pleading for donations, with all dogs reportedly living in their own faeces and urine.
Queensland government submission calls for 3.5% increase to minimum wage
The Queensland government has made a submission to the Fair Work Commission advocating for a 3.5 per cent increase to the national minimum wage.
The state government’s push would see the current minimum hourly wage of $18.93 rise to $25.17 for Queensland’s lowest-paid private sector workers, particularly employees in industries without enterprise bargaining.
The state government’s submission argues the increase is unlikely to decrease employment rates and will promote gender pay equity.
Queensland government submission calls for 3.5% increase to minimum wage
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Google fined by EU for disadvantaging rivals through ad brokering
Google has been fined $2.38 billion (1.49 billion euros) by the European Commission, in what is its third large EU antitrust penalty in the span of two years.
The commission said the fine was about 1.29 per cent of Google's turnover, which was a total of $190.8 billion in 2018.
The case focussed on the company's illegal practices in search ad brokering from 2006 to 2016, which meant advertisers and website owners not using the AdSense platform had less options and faced possible higher prices that were passed on to consumers.