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.

Australia’s former trade minister Andrew Robb has slammed ex-colleagues Malcolm Turnbull and Barnaby Joyce, as well as Australia’s security agencies, over what he sees as anti-China sentiment.

Mr Robb had been working with Chinese company Landbridge on a plan to develop a health precinct in China, until the company’s chairman was told Beijing would not accept the proposal.

Federal Funding will be necessary to complete the Brisbane Cross River Rail project in order to free up the QLD Government’s budget to invest in roads and other major projects.

The 2019 Queensland Major Projects Pipeline report, commissioned by the QLD Major Contractors Association and the Infrastructure Association of QLD, detailed the major projects expected to be built by the private and public sector.

Venetians now want control on visitors as Venice is facing multiple tourism threats.

The city-on-the-sea has been on every traveller’s bucket list for years, but now Venice locals are doubting the city will survive long enough for coming generations to experience.

Just near the famous Rialto Bridge, a clock tracks the local population decline and it now registers under 53,000 locals which is less than half the number 60 years ago.

An expert from Dutch open internet foundation GDI has discovered an unprotected Chinese database of young womens’ personal information, including identity numbers and marital status, titled “BreedReady”.

Cyber expert Victor Gevers has informed the New York Times the website which indexed women aged 15 to 95 has been taken down.

While the name is speculated to be either a translation of women who are at “child-bearing” age, others speculate the website, which also contains links to the womens’ Facebook pages, indexes women who “have children”.a

Up to 800 Chemist Warehouse workers have gone on an indefinite strike over what they claim is a widespread culture of sexual harassment and labour exploitation.

Workers are demanding higher wages as the National Union of Workers say both permanent and casual staff earn approximately 25 per cent below the industry standard.

In national news, with the Women’s World Cup in France fast approaching, the Matildas’ kit has been unveiled on a Parisian catwalk.

Although punters are finding similarities to the Socceroos’ infamous ‘spew’ shirt of the 90’s, it has also won plenty of support as the first kit to be exclusively designed for the women’s team.

Nike’s senior apparel manager Cassie Looker says, “the graphic mixes the awesome 90s-inspired graffiti you see on Hosier Lane and the Golden Wattle to create this print.”