Brisbane City Council’s Julian Simmonds has been called a “walking conflict of interest,” as he is set to campaign for a federal seat while remaining as chairman for city planning.

Opposition leader Peter Cumming has called for Simmonds to resign from his chairman role immediately o avoid a conflict of interest following his selection as the LNP’s candidate.

Opposition councillor Jared Cassidy has also queried whether Simmonds would rule out accepting developer donations through the federal division of the Liberal Party.

Researchers have found a possible cause for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and it may be due to a hormonal imbalance before birth.

PCOS is a common cause of female infertility and researches have been able to cure it in mice.

The syndrome affects up to one in five women worldwide.

Agricultural industry professionals have advised for farmers to stay off social media to reduce anxiety and stress.

Many farmers have looked to social media for comparisons to more fruitful regions, which has inevitably  caused an unfair case of FOMO.

This comes as much of Western Australia's grain growing region is experiencing a dry Autumn. 

Private hospital emergency departments have little impact in reducing pressure on public hospitals.

The Buderim Private Hospital on the Sunshine Coast will not offer an onsite private emergency department, with the The Australian College of Emergency Medicine advocating for privately insured patients to use private facilities.

President Simon Judkins said “there is a certain demand for private hospital emergency departments, but we’re always just wary that they’re not going to be a panacea to the ongoing issues that we have in the public hospital system.”

A Brisbane Uber driver is being investigated for driving on a footpath is claiming taxi drivers parked him in.

The driver says he resorted to driving on the footpath after up to five taxi drivers blocked his exit from a private driveway in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley.

The driver decided to use the footpath to make it back to the road and insists he only went “at a crawl”.

Alien life may exist in other universes according to scientists who are studying dark energy.

Researchers at Durham University claim that a computer simulation suggests that if other universes exist, they may just as likely harbour life.

Jaime Salcido, postgraduate student of Durham University says “our simulations show that even if there was much more dark energy or even very little in the universe then it would only have a minimal effect on star and planet formation.”

Queensland’s infrastructure wishlist has been looked over in the federal budget.

The Redlands is missing crucial funding for railway duplication and Eastern Busway Extension to Capalaba which would vastly improve traffic congestion and public transport capacity.

Mayor Karen Williams says she is supportive of any government assistance for the plans and hopes the projects will receive funding in the June budget.   

In a galaxy far, far away the fastest growing black hole in the universe has been discovered by Australian scientists.

The monster black hole is consuming the equivalent mass of our Sun every two days and the ultraviolet light it emits has taken 12 billion years to reach us.

Professor Tamara Davis, an astrophysicist at the University of Queensland says “it actually has implications for how the universe began and what mechanism triggered the big bang."

A new Queensland Government plan will allow the commercial harvesting of crocodile eggs from the wild.

Under the proposal, licensed people will be able to harvest the eggs which will lead to lucrative crocodile skins being exported.

In the Northern Territory, about 120,000 eggs are taken every year, but crocodile numbers in the area continue to increase.