Self-serve checkout technology that threatens Australian jobs is receiving increasing backlash from unhappy consumers.

Australian photographer, Ken Duncan said he is unimpressed after being told by a McDonald’s employee that he “will have to get used to [the machines] as this is the way that’s it’s going to be for everybody”.

Brisbane City Council will launch an international offer for companies to secure a contract to build the Brisbane Metro.

Council plans for the Metro to extend from Eight Mile Plains to the Royal Brisbane Women’s Hospital and west to the University of Queensland.

The $944 million project is fully funded and requires a company to design the vehicles and upgrade existing stations and tunnels.

Five people have been injured after an explosion at a London Underground tube station.

A battery short circuiting is said to be the cause of the explosion according to British police, with the Southgate station remaining under lock down.

Witness Haluk Ozkan said he could smell burning rubber as people started using fire extinguishers and hurrying out of the station.

Bosnian police have blocked approximately 100 people from entering Croatia at the Northwestern border crossing.

Croatia, a member of the EU, also mobilised its police force as small towns in the area grow restless from daily arrivals which are nearing the hundreds.

The International Red Cross says they are in dire need of basic humanitarian support to cope with the influx of migration in the region.  

In a world first, the Australian Human Rights Commission will launch a national inquiry into workplace sexual harassment which is found to be increasing.

Sex discrimination commissioner Kate Jenkins says "the ultimate aim is to have better guidance on how to prevent and respond to sexual harassment”.

The 12 month investigation will follow the #MeToo movement and will turn discussion into action to make workplaces safer by evaluating the effectiveness of current laws.

Queensland Police are launching a road safety operation after a sudden increase in pedestrian incidents left five dead and another four injured in less than a month.

Road Policing Command superintendent David Johnson said the number of recent pedestrian deaths was very concerning.

He said pedestrians put themselves at risk when they take shortcuts through areas of the Brisbane City, including walking on the other side of road barriers, around walkways and crossing at red signals.

The senior ride operator at Dreamworld’s Thunder River Rapids Ride, Peter Nemeth, has given evidence into the ongoing inquest to the tragedy that occurred in 2016.

Nemeth, who is a trained Level 3 ride operator, told the inquest on Tuesday he tried pressing the red conveyor stop button “two or three times”, and panicked when the conveyors did not immediately stop.

A Brisbane-based Mum will be deported next month after the Federal Government rejected her claim for permanent residency.

The Filipino woman, Bernadette Romulo, who has lived in Brisbane for over a decade will be separated from her eight-year-old Australian born son when she is deported from the country next month.

On Tuesday, Ms Romulo said her son, who cannot be taken out of the country, was “doing his best.”