The Cilento family has said they are ready to wage a PR war against the Queensland Government after refusing to back down on the proposed change of the Lady Cilento Hospital’s name.

The Cilento family called the decision "absolutely outrageous" after health minister Steven Miles confirmed the decision would go ahead on Monday.

The family was backed by LNP deputy leader Tim Mander, who said the outlined budget of $500 000  dollars was a “joke”.

The majority of Brisbane councillors have rejected a call by Moorooka councillor Steve Griffiths to urgently repair a list of damaged and unsafe local footpaths.

Griffiths introduced the motion yesterday to publicly release a list of the damaged footpaths, but all LNP councillors, including mayor Graham Quirk, rejected the call to action.

The motions comes after a 69-yr old women broke her wrist after falling on a damaged Durack Street footpath.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has apologised to thousands of victims of institutional child sex abuse in a Federal Parliament address broadcast nationwide yesterday.

Morrison said the nation had failed the children and parents who experienced trauma which had been “hiding in plain sight for too long”.

“I believe you, we believe you, your country believes you.”

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The Labor Party says it will agree to the Coalition’s proposed New Zealand travel ban if it will break the political deadlock and get children and their families off Nauru.

Shadow immigration minister Shayne Neumann says the ALP will come to the table if Prime Minister Scott Morrison can guarantee acceptance of New Zealand’s long-standing offer to resettle the asylum seekers.

Neumann also says the “lifetime travel ban” Morrison intends to impose on resettled asylum seekers should only apply to one cohort.

Special forces have been deployed by the Nigerian government to northern Kaduna, following communal violence which killed dozens of people.

President Muhammadu Buhari ordered the deployment on Sunday after violence broke out earlier in the week between Muslim and Christian communities.

At least 55 people have been declared dead in the Kasuwan Magani area Kaduna, with Buhari condemning the incident in a series of tweets.   

Hundreds of protestors gathered in the Jordan capital Amman on Saturday, demanding constitutional reform and parliamentary democracy in the country.

Led by the “National Follow-Up Committee’, the pro-reform group rallied against corruption and policies which they claim have “brought the country’s economy to its knees”.

The protestors grievances are against the Jordanian monarch, King Abdullah the 2nd, who the public has accused of promoting “corrupt” officials.