The ‘Listen Out’ music festival in Sydney has seen 159 arrests for drug offences over the weekend.

The event attracted 34,000 festival goers, with 154 charged with drug possession and five charged with supplying drugs.

This comes two weeks after an expert panel was formed, following two deaths from drug overdoses at Sydney festival Defqon 1.  

The Queensland Government is undertaking a state-wide consultation in reforms to residential tenancy laws for renters and property owners.
 

This is a key part of the Palaszczuk Government's ‘Open Doors to Renting Reform’ consultation process announced on Sunday. The process will begin this week with renters, landlords and real estate agents being contacted and asked how the market is changing and how well the current system is working.

Two fire front’s within Central Queensland’s Blackdown Tableland National Park have seen heavy engagement from the state’s fire services and paramedic units.

Yesterday, Queensland Ambulance Service assessed 13 injured, 12 of which were trapped by bushfire.  The RACQ Lifeflight helicopter has now been ‘stood down’ after the successful rescues.

This comes as an emergency warning has been issued for the Walsh River in Queensland’s north, stating it is now ‘too late’ to leave the area.

Qatar has refuted allegations of supporting terrorism at the United Nations General Assembly on Saturday.

The allegations come from Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and United Arab Emirates who earlier in June 2017 imposed a blockade on Qatar, severing diplomatic relations and banning all air, sea and land entry.

The death toll of an earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia has soared to 832, with authorities fearing the numbers will climb as rescuers struggle to get aid to outlying communities cut off from communications and help.

Dozens of people are reported to be trapped in the rubble of several hotels and a mall in the city of Palu, on Sulawesi island, which was hit by waves as high as six metres following the 7.5 magnitude earthquake on Friday.

The technological rise in the 21st century has seen new opportunities for domestic violence and harassment against women, with modern gadgets such as Drones and ‘Smart Devices’ having the ability to be used to monitor and stalk victims.

These trends have been seen in which some victims have reported being ‘stalked’ by drones following them by former partners.  Hacking Smart-tvs with built-in webcams, as well as baby monitors and security cameras is also a security risk.

As the biblical tale goes, Jesus turned water into wine, but now Australian brewers are transforming thousands of punnets of unwanted strawberries into beer in support of struggling Australian farmers.

Since speaking directly to farmers affected by the slump in sales caused by the contamination crisis, the beer company says the community response to the new beer range has been significant.

Financial service group CoreLogic have announced research stating that Brisbane was the only Australian capital city to see home values grow in the month of September.

The results show Brisbane ascending 0.1 percent, where every other Australian city fell backwards.

Tim Lawless, head of CoreLogic, states that Brisbane currently represents ‘greater buying opportunities’ in comparison with Sydney and Melbourne; as both cities dropped substantially.

The storms across the Brisbane river has receded, showing clear night skies for the 21st annual Riverfire display.

It is estimated that over 500,000 attended the event, with another 400,000 across  state-wide television coverage.

This comes after the Bureau of Meteorology saw two severe weather warnings cancelled 90 minutes before the firework event.  

Large hailstorms and damaging winds, earlier described as ‘highly likely’ did not occur.