A pair of award-winning Brisbane engineering students are building what they claim is a world-first stargazing app to cater to the vision-impaired community.

The app has been designed using NASA data and allows users to move their phones around and understand where corresponding planets, satellites, stars and comets are, using touch and sound.

Queensland Health have been vocal in the lack of mental health treatment options for killer of Brisbane bus driver Manmeet Alisher in 2016.

The report outlined by the Queensland Government shows that Alisher’s attacker had made attempts to return to a community clinic two months prior to the incident, however was not given adequate care.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison wants to slow Australia’s migrant intake, and has also suggested cuts to the number of international students studying here.

Ms Wilshire of the Migration Council of Australia is urging the Prime Minister to maintain a long-term view, and consider the economic benefits of migration before making any cuts.

Mr Morrison’s bid would also cut the amount of migrants on temporary working visas.

The Federal Government is spending $220 million in subsidies to Optus and Telstra at more than 850 regional and remote sites across Australia.  

Towns such as Kalumburu, in regional Western Australia, have offered to accept the telecom roll-out and this will see mobile phone coverage in place of the town’s two public phone boxes.

Opinions in the community are mixed, with some residents saying it will improve daily life and connection and others suggesting children may become too focused on social media and texting.

American engineers are deploying a rubbish collection device to corral plastic litter floating between California and Hawaii in an attempt to clean up the world's largest garbage patch in the heart of the Pacific Ocean.

The 600-metre long floating boom is being towed from San Francisco to the 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch' - an island of trash five times the size of Victoria, Australia.

At least 21 people have died in South Sudan when a small aircraft carrying passengers from Juba International Airport to the city of Yirol crashed into a lake.

The plane carried a total of 22 passengers, among them were three children.

One of the survivors, an Italian doctor working with an NGO, is in critical condition and undergoing surgery in Yirol Hospital according to State Information Minister Taban Abel. An eyewitness said bodies were recovered from the water.

The Bureau of Meteorology is forecasting a week of sunshine and warmth throughout Brisbane, Toowoomba and the Gold Coast Hinterland.

Warm springtime temperatures are expected after a weekend of light showers across certain regions of the state.

While there is a slight chance of showers on Thursday and Friday, it should stay sunny all week.

A Brisbane City Councillor has criticised Queensland’s current heritage protection laws, suggesting they are not properly enforced and leave chances for disaster.

Following the State Government’s stop order to prevent the Broadway Hotel from being demolished, Councillor Jonathan Sri said complaints he and constituents made to the Council and Government could have prevented the building’s blaze.

Labor will this morning attempt to refer Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton to the High Court, regarding his eligibility as a Member of Parliament.

Doubts were raised under Section 44, due to the member being a beneficiary of a childcare centre run by Mr Dutton’s wife.