More than 2300 new park ‘n’ ride spaces have been confirmed across south east Queensland, with Springfield to receive the majority of the state government spend.

Springfield Central’s park ‘n’ ride station will be expanded with $44.5 million invested in order to create further spaces.

Construction will also be taking place in 12 other train stations across Brisbane, which includes Cannon Hill, Salisbury and Ormeau.

A man is suing the Australian Commonwealth for 200,000 dollars for false imprisonment after he was detained for 50 days.

Daniel Love, who was born in Papua New Guinea but had an Indigenous father, had his permanent residency cancelled after being released from prison.

His lawyer Rod Hodgson says the Commonwealth knew he was of Indigenous descent and therefore deliberately held the dual citizen unlawfully.

Record numbers of older Australians are contacting the National Debt Helpline this year, with counsellors claiming they are “at capacity” with cases.

The government run financial counselling service states the reason they’re inundated with calls is due to elderly Aussies failing to keep up with mortgage and rent payments.

Financial Rights Legal Centre Coordinator Karen Cox believes the lending practices towards pensioners is the cause for this rise in financial hardship.

A judge has reprimanded the Commonwealth Bank for it’s mediation process in which a drought-stricken family was forced to leave their farm in Forbes NSW, after 70 years on the property.

The Fuge family’s counsel, Peter King, accused the bank of using fictitious valuations that resulted in irresponsible lending, and giving the family just six weeks to sell their farm.

Federal Court judge Michael Lee said it was a “tragedy [to have] reached this stage.”

South Korean women are standing up to unrealistic beauty ideals in what has been dubbed as the “escape corset” movement.

The women who call themselves “beauty resisters” are destroying cosmetics and cutting their hair short to protest the beauty industry.

This is the latest social movement calling for gender equality in South Korea, which has been further agitated by the recent “spycam porn” allegations, where men used spy cameras to obtain images of women in bathrooms.

A Greek government official has blown the whistle on funding misuse and the handling of refugees.

Andreas Iliopoulos believes Greek and European taxpayers may be subject to fraud, because contracts awarded to migration-related services were not competitively bid for.

Iliopoulos says “fast-track funding” made sense at the height of Greece’s refugee crisis in 2015, but is no longer justifiable.

Glencore’s Hail Creek coal mine in the Bowen Basin near Mackay will make more than 400 workers redundant due to a recent restructure of the mine.

Meetings were held by the global resources giant on Monday at the Mackay showgrounds, to announce its reconfiguration of the two dragline operation.

Over 30 per cent of the mine’s current workforce is expected to be cut, reducing the numbers of workers from 1,360 to 930.

A young mother who was pelted with large hailstones while shielding her baby during a Queensland thunderstorm last week will be nominated for a bravery award.

After large hailstones blew out her car windshield last week near Kingaroy, 23 year old mother Fiona Simpson used her body to cover her baby daughter.

The department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet issue these bravery awards in Australia, ranging from the highest honour of the Cross of Valour, to a commendation for Brave Conduct.