The long-awaited replacement venue for the demolished Festival Hall, dubbed The Fortitude Music Hall, will pay tribute to the older city buildings demolished in the 1980s.

This architectural design feature was unveiled on Wednesday and will be on full display in 2019—when the hall is expected to open.

The Brisbane City Council has begun discounting cat desexing at 30 local vets in order to reduce stray and abandoned cat populations.

Yesterday the council announced it would commit fifty five thousand dollars in the current financial year to the program.

This comes as the council has received over 700 complaints regarding brisbane's feral cats and has captured 800 of these cats in the last year.

A mass blackout has left vast swathes of Bali without power, after a major substation outage occurred just after midday on Wednesday.

Major parts of the island are still without electricity after a supply disruption between a substation in Kediri and a coal power plant on the neighbouring island of Java. Traffic lights are down in Denpasar and many homes are still without power.

The cause of the blackout is still under investigation by local utility authorities.

7000 insects along with one of the worlds most highly venomous spider have been stolen from the Philadelphia Insectarium and Butterfly Pavillion in the United States.

The thieves, on the 22nd of August, stole more than 40,000 dollars worth of insects, with police believing the heist to be an inside job.

The insectarium and police state that it’s difficult to track which specific creatures have been stolen as the thieves also stole the logs used to track the pavilion’s insects.

Victorias Admissions authority has warned schools to stop publishing misleading results following 2 elite private schools promoting inaccurate year 12 scores

The Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre or VTAC has warned every Victorian school to publish accurate results as schools have inaccurately equated International Baccalaureate scores of 6 or 7 to VCE scores of above 40, placing this student in the states top 9 percent.

Uber will ban Australian and New Zealand passengers who posses a rating lower than 4, for a period of six months, in order to improve passenger behaviour.

Uber told the BBC that Australia and New Zealand had been identified as a place to bring in the rule, after receiving feedback from drivers. While same policy was introduced in Brazil earlier this year, this is the first time it will be rolled out in an English-speaking country.

A young northern hairy-nosed wombat has been captured on camera venturing from its burrow at a southern Queensland nature refuge.

The baby was born at the Richard Underwood Nature Refuge, near St George. Approximately 250 northern hairy-nosed wombats are left in the wild.

Environment Minister Leeanne Enoch says this birth is a cause for celebration, as this refuge was established 10 years ago to protect the species.

Environmental groups are appealing the use of baited hooks to the Queensland Government following the release of images showing 2 dead Hammerhead sharks attached to the hooks.

Both the Human Society International and the Australian Marine Conservation Society say the images, obtained off the coast of Magnetic Island, is proof that the government needs a new approach and new measures to prevent shark attacks.