The Minister for Veterans’ Affairs visited Toogoom and Hervey Bay to announce further support for veterans and their families. 

MP Darren Chester and Federal Member for Hinkler Keith Pitt oversaw a forty-nine thousand dollar grant to the Hervey Bay RSL, which will assist with administration costs. 

Mr Pitt says the RSL is an important example of how the Hervey Bay community supports its veterans
 

Drivers in Brisbane will soon have the ability to compare fuel prices across the city with software being distributed to online services such as MotorMouth, Gasbuddy and the RACQ. 

Energy Minister Anthony Lynham says with fuel prices hitting a four-year high in the two weeks, the fuel price reporting trial is on schedule to empower motorists when it comes to buying fuel as we lead up to Christmas. 
 

Chelsea Football Club’s Russian owner is considering sending the club’s racist supporters to the remains of holocaust death camp Auschwitz.

Jewish billionaire Roman Abramovich, who has owned the club since 2003, is looking to change fan behaviour after the club was criticized for its anti-Semetic chanting last year.

Chelsea’s chairman Bruce Buck says the club’s current strategy of banning racist supporters is ineffective and does not cause fans to change their beliefs.

The Russian Soyuz rocket made an emergency landing last night after an unknown failure forced the flight to abort and astronauts to make a parachute landing 400 km from their launch site in Kazakhstan.

The two crew members had to abort the rocket after only 2 minutes into their launch towards the International Space Station.

This the most serious safety incident for the Soyuz rocket and it could be months before Russian space agency Roscosmo identifies the cause of the incident and clears the rocket for another mission.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says no school should be allowed to refuse LGBTIQ students, following a Commonwealth review into religious protections leaked to the media this week.  

Mr Morrison originally refused to take a stance on the issue on Wednesday, simply acknowledging that "existing laws" allowed certain schools to turn away students, based on their sexuality.

One of Australia’s top energy officials says the nation’s electricity supply would continue undisrupted if the coal industry shut down within 30 years - in contradiction to the Morrison government’s warning of widespread blackouts if coal was to be phased out.

Australian Energy Market Operator chief executive Audrey Zibelman says green energy, storage and gas will be the most economical way to replace electricity capacity lost when ageing coal plants close.

Brisbane City Council and hotel owners are assuring locals that the council’s hotel incentive is delivering hotel rooms that are in demand across the city, after figures released an average of 1200 hotel rooms have opened every year.

Lord Mayor Graham Quirk says despite the significant number of new 4-and-5 star hotels, the occupancy rate levels are staying up.

The average hotel occupancy rate in Brisbane is around 76 per cent compared to the national average of 71 per cent.

More than 4000 homes have been left without power after damaging winds and large hailstones tore through parts of south-east Queensland yesterday afternoon.

Five-to-seven centimetre hails stones were reported through Kumbia, Dalby and Gympie while Emergency Services are calling out 280 jobs, for leaking roofs and fallen trees in the Kingaroy, Gympie and Fraser Coast areas.