The State Government has launched a website offering stats on key economic indicators, such as housing and employment rates. 

The Measures that Matter website is being aimed at town planners and developers, with State Development Minister Cameron Dick hoping the site will help planning during Queensland’s population boom. 

South-east Queensland is estimated to attract a further 2 million migrants, along with 1 million new jobs.

Queensland Labor has fallen foul to their own ban on property developer donations, and have been required to return $6,500 which had been donated after the due date. 

In March this year, the Palaszczuk Government introduced the restrictions on political donations following recommendations of a report into local government corruption. 

The Liberal National Party has also been forced to pay back roughly $8,400. 

However, as all banned donations have been returned, the will be no penalties for the major parties.
 

Hundreds of Queensland LNP supporters have reportedly rejoined the party in what senior officials are saying is an approval of the departure of former PM Malcolm Turnbull. 

Campaign director Lincoln Folo says while there was a spike in memberships when Mr Turnbull rolled Tony Abbott in 2015, this latest event has seen a far more significant increase. 

Mr Turnbull will appear next Thursday as the only panelist on an ABC QandA special - one of his first major television appearances since his resignation. 
 

Federal cuts to asylum seeker support payments has put 80 per cent of refugees at risk of homelessness and destitution in Australia, including the elderly and those unable to work. 

The government’s announcement to end the Status Resolution Support Services (SRSS) for asylum seekers on bridging visas, is shifting federal support, worth $80-$120 million to state governments and charities. 

The federal government is justifying the decision by saying the move aims to encourage asylum seekers who are able to work, to stop receiving support payments. 
 

The South Korean supreme court has ruled religion as an acceptable exemption for the country's long-standing mandatory conscription laws. 

Previously, all able bodied men in South Korea we're forced to take up military service with little exceptions, resulting in complications for Jehovah's Witnesses.

Months ago, a young Jehovah's Witness was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for refusing to join the military, of which a possible maximum penalty could have been 3 years. 
 

The UK Government is being urged by the opposition to halt Brexit proceedings as a prominent ‘Leave’ campaigner has become subject of an investigation by the National Crime Agency.

It is alleged Mr Arron Banks, the man behind the Leave EU campaign, is not the true source of £8m in funding, as was disclosed to the electoral commission. 

In a statement from Downing Street, the Government said they would not make comment on the open investigation, however Labour MPs say Brexit must be put on hold until Britain knows the extent of “crimes against democracy”.
 

In New York, an original painting generated by artificial intelligence has sold for more than 38 times its anticipated price—igniting the question of whether AI could become a threat to human creativity.

The painting was a portrait of Edmond de Belamy; it’s a blurry picture of a man in a dark frock coat and it was auctioned off for $610,000.

A Chinese man who helped thousands of citizens bypass China’s Great Firewall has been forced to flee to the United States, over fears for his family’s safety.

The Chinese government built this digital border in 2014 to control the internet, but Zou Chengfeng began teaching people how to get past it. As demand for uncensored content grew with the crackdown of internet freedom, Mr Zou created a free tutorial in 2016 for people who approached him on Chinese messaging app WeChat.