State government proposed spending caps have been met with opposition from LNP councillors in Brisbane, with local councillors warning yesterday a reduction in discretionary funds would directly inhibit local organisations, who often rely on councillors setting aside small amounts of money for local events.

LNP councillor for Holland Park, Krista Adams, labelled the changes to spending “diabolical” in her motion at a council meeting yesterday, causing a heated debate in the chambers.

Australian Actuaries institute advises that roughly 850,000 homes could be rendered “uninsurable” in coming generations.

The data given details extreme weather in the country’s worst-impacted regions has doubled in frequency when compared to the long-term average.

“If the industry doesn’t step up, we’ll all pay - both as taxpayers picking up the bill for the recovery, or because of the impact on our communities and our economies,” says Dr Mallon, director at climate analytics company Climate Risk.

Italian children without vaccination certificates are being turned away from schools after the country’s coalition reversed its previous stance on the need for compulsory injections.

The reversal insists that as of this week, children attending school must receive immunisations for a range of infectious diseases, including measles, mumps, rubella and polio, and under the law, parents will be fined up to 500 euros.

Hall of Fame drummer, Hal Blaine, has died at the age of 90.

The drummer played for Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley and The Beach Boys, and won a Grammy Lifetime Achievement award last year.

According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, he played on 40 number one hits. He also played on eight Grammy award winning songs and was rumoured to be the only drummer to back Presley, Sinatra, and John Lennon.

Leaked child protection figures show the number of children in Tasmania waiting for child protection services has quadrupled in just over a year.

The ABC obtained the leaked figures from the Department of Communities, and revealed there were 280 cases as of March 8 that had not been allocated a child safety officer.

Assistant secretary of the Health and Community Services Union Robbie Moore, said, “this is an urgent situation, these figures demonstrate vulnerable children are not being given the services they deserve.”

ALP councillor Steve Griffiths has backed federal LNP member for Ryan, Jane Prentice, in urging the federal government to purchase the former Toowong ABC site, a motion that was lost.

Ms Prentice wrote to Scott Morrison urging him to purchase and return the site to green space, saying “with the plans for ever increasing high rise development in the local area I feel it is important that local residents be afforded an open space for all to enjoy.”

A 110-kilometre network of roads across Brisbane City will be shut down on a Sunday morning in April as thousands of cyclists hit the streets for the new Tour de Brisbane.

The race, which will take place on April 14, will feature as the main event of the Brisbane Cycling Festival.

Infrastructure chairman Amanda Cooper said, “it’s not a small event, it’s an event that has very wide implications not just for Brisbane.”

The Federal Government will unveil a draft terms-of-reference today regarding the Royal Commission into the mistreatment of disabled Australians.

The public will then have two weeks to give feedback on the scope before it is finalised.

The proposed terms of reference have encompassed a wide range of contexts, with Social Services Minister Paul Fletcher stating that the draft is deliberately broad to ensure no one falls through the cracks.

Federal authorities have arrested dozens of people over a college bribery scandal, that involved wealthy parents, Hollywood celebrities, and prominent business leaders, cheating their children into elite American universities.

Thirty-three parents were charged in the Justice Department’s ‘largest ever college admissions prosecution’, with more indictments expected to come.