Researchers from Griffith University have used sediment analysis to reconstruct weather patterns from 1500 years ago.

Using sediment from the mouth of the Brisbane River in Moreton Bay, the researchers were able to show that rainfall was highly variable across the period.

Large periods of drought were followed by prolonged periods of being wetter than average, challenging water planning that had relied on the last two hundred years of data.

Charles Sturt University is doing things differently after a report exposed a culture of sexual assault and harassment on campus.

The Australian Human Rights Commission surveyed the nation's students and found more than half had been sexually harassed at least once at university in 2016.

This year, Charles Sturt University introduced a compulsory, intensive education program for its
first year students living on campus.

Buying burial plots, paying for parking and registering a pet in Brisbane have all become more expensive, with some costs increasing by more than 10 per cent.

Brisbane City Council revealed its 2018-19 schedule of fees and charges as part of the budget, with some of the items within the 70-page document well above the average increase of 2.5 per cent.

Motorists wanting to park at meters in Brisbane were hit with a huge increase, with street parking in the CBD on weekdays now costing $4.90 an hour, an 11 per cent increase on the previous year.

Police are searching for the owner of a collection of World War One medals found last month in a garden in the Moreton Bay region.

The collection, which includes a First Light Horse Brigade medal, was handed into the Redcliffe police station in late May by a member of the public.

Anyone who believes they may own the medals or know who does should contact Policelink on 13 14 44.

Proof of ownership will be required.

US and Russian leaders are set to meet in a summit at its planning stages for the first since the 2016 US election.

The summit, which is likely to take place in a mutually convenient third country, is set to become a grievance to US allies and NATO member nations, who would like to see Russian influence contained.

Foreign and domestic critics are questioning President Trump's commitment to NATO and fret over his desire to rebuild relations with Moscow as Washington tightens sanctions.

Australia's Minister for the Pacific has revealed Canberra will explore options to support Vanuatu with a high-speed undersea internet cable, after discussions with the country's Prime Minister this week.

The Turnbull Government confirmed it would spend $136 million to build an undersea cable linking Solomon Islands to Australia, a project the Solomon Islands Government had originally signed with Chinese tech company Huawei.

Australia offered to take on the project instead after raising security concerns with the Solomon Islands Government.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics is attempting to secure funding to publish inflation numbers in line with international best practice.

Australia is one of two countries in the OECD to not publish inflation data each month, which the bureau estimated would cost $4 million a year.

The figure is down from fifteen million eight years ago when the bureau first started the push to come in line with international standard practice.

Agricultural groups are under fire for not providing enough information to the State Government so it could properly assess how farming practices are affecting water quality on the Great Barrier Reef.

This week the Queensland's auditor-general released his latest report on how well Queensland is meeting water quality targets in reef catchments.

The report found the Government was doing a better job at coordinating its approach, but progress was slow and targets under the Reef 2050 Long-term Sustainability Plan were unlikely to be met.

A peak cycling organisation has called for Brisbane’s CBD speed limits to be set at thirty kilometers an hour after several fatalities occurred in the previous months.

Bicycle Queensland chief executive Ann Savage has said that data supported the position, having lowered the cost of each crash involving a pedestrian by $30,000.

The Pedestrian Council has also called for speed limits in built-up areas to limited to thirty kilometers per hour.