An overseas phone hacker has made more than one thousand calls to the triple zero emergency call service on Saturday morning, leaving some Australians waiting up to nine hours for a call back.

Several left-turn-on-red signs will be removed in Brisbane for not complying with newly enforced road rules.

Brisbane is facing its coldest start to Winter in twelve years, with minimum temperatures of eight and nine degrees predicted from today.

A 33-year old Honduran transgender migrant has died while in the custody of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The family of a Tasmanian man who died while waiting for a bed through the National Disability Scheme, believes his death was the result of the delayed delivery of vital medical equipment.

Defamation law expert Professor, Barbara McDonald, said the majority of #MeToo cases in the US would never be made public in Australia due to our strong defamation laws.

Statistics show the percentage of people leaving Brisbane for interstate has increased by almost 60% since 1996.

The number of abandoned cars at Brisbane Airport has doubled so far this financial year.