Popular chocolate restaurant chain Max Brenner Australia has withdrawn the license for the business and was successful in having liquidators appointed.  

Creditors are currently owed $33 million, as earlier this month saw 20 of the 37 stores collapse into administration.  The Israeli-based head franchise requested the company to withdraw its license.

Over 700 former staff members  have made claims of unpaid superannuation payments, made before going into administration.

Queensland Greens MP Michael Berkman has underlain a plan in which evicting tenants under ‘no grounds’ would be banned, with a rent hike of as little as 1% a year suggested.  

Berkman said landlords and real estate agents had immense power over tenants' lives: the power to make them homeless.

King Abdullah II of Jordan has announced that he intends to reclaim land leased to Israel under a 1994 peace treaty.

The peace treaty leased two tracts of agricultural land in the southern sector of the Israeli/Jordanian border to Israel. The territories are currently cultivated by Israeli farmers.

Financial analysts have observed a loss in Chinese stocks of more than 30% during 2018.

This $600 billion loss is blamed on the slowing of the economy, the increase in national debts as well as the impact of the ongoing trade war with the US.  

The trade war is seen by JPMorgan as having a 1% shrinking effect on the economy, alongside numerous Chinese companies seen as using their shares in the form of loan collateral.  These trends are predicted to continue going into 2019.

The federal Australian Labor Party has provided plans to ensure the protection of heritage sites, including stopping the Sydney Opera House being used as a billboard.

The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act ensures that the Commonwealth has a responsibility and interest in cultural heritage.

Labour spokespeople have ensured the plan won’t just be a ‘nice idea’.

Corporate members of gun industry lobby group Shooting Industry Foundation of Australia (SIFA) set the intention to intervene in state and federal elections.

This plan would lobby for governments to be accountable for the decisions they make, with a proposed law to allow sports shooters access to high-powered guns, doubling the firearm licence period to 10 years, as well as allowing certain shooters to access silencers.  

Two of Brisbane’s major golf courses are not as popular as they used to be, with both steady and sudden declines in attendance across the courses.
 

St Lucia Golf Links has seen an 11% decrease in games played, while at Victoria Park Golf Complex there was 12.6 % decrease in the last year.

Three Queensland Liberals - Tim Nicholls, Steve Minnikin and Jann Stuckey used a conscience vote in support of Premier Palazcuk’s abortion   decriminalisation bill.

The LNP council is expected next month to ban the three from seeking reelection.  

Moderates in the party are vocal in the view that recrimination about the three would “light the fuse” for a demerger push.