Logan City Council will today hope to secure a stay on a Queensland Industrial Relations Committee decision to temporarily reinstate CEO Sharon Kelsey, who was sacked after providing information to a Crime and Corruption Commission investigation which led to corruption and perjury charges against Mayor Luke Smith.

A source said this would be “totally unworkable”, but nine of the councillors will need to seek leave from Local Government minister Stirling Hinchliffe in order to vote on pursuing the legal action and they are apparently not confident.

Brisbane temperatures will plummet to single digits over the weekend, with Brisbane and Ipswich seeing minimum temperatures of 5-9 degrees, as a cold front approaches southeast Queensland.

Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Michael Paech said we’ll get a real cool, dry south-westerly burst over the weekend and as a result morning minimums, and in fact maximums, to drop away fairly rapidly.

The cold change follows downpours on the Sunshine Coast earlier this week.

Malaysia’s opposition leader Mahathir  Mohamed, a 92-year-old previous authoritarian ruler of the country, has defeated Prime Minister Najib Razak in a shock upset, winning 112 seats in Malaysia’s Parliament, the amount required for a majority.

Mahathir  Mohamed will become the oldest elected leader in the world, and ends a 60-year rule of Mr Razak’s National Front, which won 76 seats according to the Election Commission.

A Somalian woman has been buried neck-deep in sand and stoned to death after a court run by militant group Al-Shabab convicted her of having 11 husbands, without divorcing the previous ones.

According to Sharia Law, which Al-Shabab adheres to, polyandry, or a woman having multiple husbands, is illegal, while a male may be permitted up to four wives.

Al-Shabab controls large swathes of the Somalian countryside, regularly conducting raids on capital Mogadishu to try and overthrow the central government.

Four non-government MPs have announced their resignation from parliament due to questions surrounding their citizenship status.

The resignation of the Nick Xenophon Team Rebekha Sharkie, and Labor’s Josh Wilson, Susan Lamb and Justine Keay follow the High Court’s ruling that Labor senator Katy Gallagher must step down due to her not renouncing her dual British/Australian citizenship before the last election.

104-year-old Australian academic, David Goodall will end his life through voluntary euthanasia in Switzerland today.

Mr Goodall who has no hesitation in ending his life, spoke to international media saying, “At my age, or less, one wants to be free to choose to die when it is an appropriate time.”

A World War II veteran whose Brisbane home was destroyed in a house fire has been presented with the French Legion of Honour medal from his hospital ward.

Queensland Honorary French Consul Lady Jane Edwards said the Queensland Government collaborated with the French Government to replace Arthur Jackson's medal, which he earned after serving in RAF Bomber Command during WWII.

The federal budget has been slammed as a ‘dud’ and a ‘hoax’ for Queensland, despite the state being the nations second biggest winner.

Queensland Treasurer and Deputy Premier, Jackie Trad says the budget is inherently unfair for Queensland, and criticised a lack of funding for remote Indigenous housing, the Rockhampton levee, Townsville pipeline and Cross River Rail.