Queensland is set to become the world’s second largest gas exporter, according to the latest Deloitte Access Economic review.

The review predicts that Queensland’s liquified natural gas industry is set to take overtake the coal industry and take the state out of its current economic mining downturn.

In November 2017, the sector produced its first 1.1 billion export.  

A Senate estimates hearing has heard a P&O cruise ship spilled 27, 000 litres of food waste and grey water on the Great Barrier Reef marine park in August.

Deputy Greens leader Larissa Waters delivered Australian Maritime Safety Authority’s report, which had been supplied anonymously, and said the public had a right to know about such events.

Waters said cruise ship companies are less likely to take the issue seriously if they believe the public won’t find out about their pollution.

The $50 billion education gap between urban and regional areas could soon be reduced with help from travelling bush tutors and rewards for student effort.

In a report conducted by UNSW economic professor Richard Holden, $53 billion could be added to Australia’s annual GDP if investments were made into the education of rural and regional schoolchildren.

Head of the Gonski Institute, Adrian Piccoli, said the report was commissioned in order to “get decision makers to understand the economic consequences of having this gap”.

Information about Labor’s voter tracking system has been exposed by a simple Google search, with the software firm inadvertently leaking classified data across 2016 & 2017.

The figures detail how Magenta Linas carried out upgrades to allow the Labor party to store individuals’ beliefs about the same sex marriage survey.

The information was only removed from Google once the ABC alerted the software firm.

Border tensions have hit a new low between Italy and France as Italy accuses French border guards of dumping unwanted migrants inside Italian territory.

Italian interior minister Matteo Salvini has condemned the action and  said Italy will ‘no longer be the refugee camp of Europe’, while French PM Emmanuel Macron called Italy’s hard line on migration ‘nauseating’.

French interior minister Christophe Castaner replied he wishes to improve border cooperation but that both countries need stronger measures against undocumented immigration.  

Croatia’s former Prime Minister has been convicted of war profiteering in the 1990s.

Ivo Sanader was found guilty of accepting just under half a million Euros in bribes from an Austrian bank while he was deputy foreign minister.

He was formally sentenced to two and a half years in prison, but the time will be absorbed into an existing sentencing he received for a similar offence in 2012.

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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