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.

Over a thousand athletes from around the world will gather in Brisbane for the INAS games in October, held for athletes with intellectual impairment.

Australian athletes including boxer Jeff Horn, tennis legend Pat Rafter and Commonwealth Games gold medalist Daniel Fox will be ambassadors for the game.

"We're pleased to confirm we've got support from all three levels of government now, so we've got a federal government grant, some state support and council support," Mayor Adrian Schrinner said.

A young Queensland army recruit has died in a Sydney hospital after suffering injuries in a training incident on Good Friday in regional New South Wales.

18-year-old Liam Wolf was at the Army Recruit Training Centre in Kapooka completing his basic training when he was involved in an incident that saw him rushed to Wagga Wagga Base Hospital before being transferred to Sydney for specialist treatment.

Principal and teacher groups are pushing for mandatory Special Religious Education (SRE) to be scrapped from high school after 43 per cent of students did not nominate a religion last year.

The number of New South Wales Public school students who do not identify with a religion has surged by 13 per cent in the three years to 2018, making non-believer the fastest-growing group, ahead of Islam and Hinduism.

French billionaires Francois-Henri Pinault and Bernard Arnault are copping a mountain of criticism after they tried to outbid each other with pledges in the hundreds of millions of euros to fund the rebuilding of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.

People are wondering why the billionaires were so quick to pledge funds to rebuild a cathedral when there are so many other issues that need to be fixed in France.

Philippines authorities are still searching for survivors after a magnitude 6.1 earthquake on Monday killed at least 11 people.

ABS-CBN News reports five were killed while dozens are missing after a four-storey supermarket in Pampanga province north of Manila collapsed.

Pampanga Governor Lilia Pineda told local radio, search and rescue operations are continuing at the supermarket where as many as 30 people are feared to still be trapped.

Queensland has welcomed its very first female Police Commissioner following the retirement of its previous commissioner who served more than 45 years.

Katarina Carroll has previously held many other impressive titles including serving as chief superintendent and assistant commissioner of the Queensland Police Service, and the Queensland Fire and Emergency Service Commissioner in December 2014, becoming the first woman in Australia to hold such a position.