Speed limits around two of Brisbane’s major hospitals may be lowered under a citywide push to improve safety in areas with high pedestrian numbers.

The Brisbane City Council is looking to implement  a “Move Safe Plan” around the Mater Hospital in South Brisbane and Queensland Children’s Hospital in Woolloongabba.

A Gabba Ward Councillor hopes to lower the speed limits to 40 km/h and for wait times at crossings to be reduced.

A couple from Florida found a 2.7 metre long alligator in their backyard pool.

Senta Evans, the owner of the house, says “she was checking the yard for potential hazards before letting her dogs out Monday morning” when she came across the alligator.

A trapper came and relocated the alligator to a more suitable habitat.

Sudan’s military leader Lt-Gen Abdel Fattah Abdelranham Burhan has vowed to uproot the country’s “regime” days after a military coup.

In order to achieve this, Gen Burhan has announced he will introduce new procedures which include a night curfew, the release of political prisoners and the reconstruction of state institutions.

Demonstrators are taking to the streets of Sudan for the greater need of civilian rule.

Plasma donations are on the rise in Canberra to support those with cancer and rare diseases.

Donations in Canberra have doubled over the past year after the city’s plasma donation centre opened, and has collected “over 18,000 donations”.

The donations are providing eighteen life-giving treatments for serious conditions.

The Tasmanian caravan park industry is in rapid decline with growing fears that there may be as few as 10 parks left on the Apple Isle in as little as eight years.

In less than a decade, almost 25 percent of the state's parks have been shut down following the rise of free-camping sites.

Campervan and Motorhome Club of Australia CEO Richard Barwick says the caravanning sector needs to "adapt and change" to move with the times, and offer lower-cost camping to align with the reduced usage of traditional caravan park facilities.

Several celebrities are boycotting hotels owned by the Sultan of Brunei amidst news of Brunei’s laws to stone LGBT citizens to death.

Royal on the Park Hotel, in Brisbane’s CBD, has now been added to the list of hotels owned by the Brunei government.

Boycott Brunei in Australia rally co-organiser Peter Hackney says they want to show that "there is no market for bigotry in Brisbane.”

The University of Queensland is joining forces with the Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP) to tackle the rising concern of drug-resistant infections.

Dr Mark Blaskovich from UQ’s Community for Open Antimicrobial Drug Discovery (CO-ADD) says about 700,000 people die of drug-resistant infections every year. “ With CO-ADD at UQ’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience identifying more than 1500 potential new antibiotics since its launch in 2015.”