The police presence during Brisbane’s 2014 G20 summit may have justified violence in the eyes of some protesters, according to recent research from the University of Queensland.

At least 6000 Queensland police officers were involved in the security operation for the international summit, making it one of the largest peacetime police operations in Australian history.

The vast police presence was credited with keeping the protesters in check, especially compared to other G20 events elsewhere in the world.

The Queensland Government has announced it will be taking back control of its prisons after a report in December revealed the extent of corruption and assaults within the system.

The Crime and Corruption Commission’s report found that prisoners were being treated inhumanely due to overcrowding, with Queensland jails at 125% capacity.

The cost of the move is estimated to be $111 million over four years.

Senior One Nation figures have been secretly recorded asking for millions of dollars in political donations from the NRA and Koch Industries by Al Jazeera Journalists.

Pauline Hanson’s chief of staff James Ashby and One Nation’s Queensland leader Steve Dickson were involved in several meetings with pro-gun lobbyists last September during a trip to Washington.

The meetings were covertly recorded by a journalist posing as a gun lobbyist and included conversations about seeking political funding and how to spin gun massacres against gun control advocates.

A new CPR machine trialed in Sydney has saved a man’s life after he went into cardiac arrest on Monday afternoon.

Mark Sackley collapsed during a work meeting inside the Department of Defence in the Sydney CBD, and paramedics on the scene were quick to try out a new device known as the Lucas machine.

Doctor David Roy, a cardiologist at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney, said without the machine, Mark would likely not have survived.

Passengers on a British Airways Flight had a small change of plans on Monday when their flight from London to Dusseldorf landed in Scotland by mistake.

British Airways say that a paperwork mishap was the core of the blunder, as the wrong route was submitted to air traffic controllers.

However, the plane and passengers were all in safe hands as the pilot, crew and air traffic controllers all believed that Scotland was the plane’s intended destination.   

Bohemian Rhapsody premiered in China on Friday to a limited audience with four minutes of the film cut out by the state censorship department.

Scenes about Freddie Mercury’s sexuality and drug use were chopped to meet Chinese legal requirements that include a ban on depicting homosexual relationships in the media.

Chinese broadcaster Mango TV have copped heavy criticism over the last year after censoring pro-LGBTQI aspects from Rami Malek’s Academy Award acceptance speech and from the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest.

Health authorities have issued a warning to those in the south-east after discovering the first recent measles case to be contracted in the state, rather than overseas.

A man contagious with the disease was in the Brisbane CBD, Fortitude Valley and Spring Hill region between March 13th and 21st.

The Metro North Public Health Unit is warning anyone in the area between those dates to be on the lookout for symptoms, which include sore and red eyes, a runny nose and fever, followed by a red, splotchy rash.