Queensland’s Capricorn Caves have been voted the best place to listen to Opera in Australia, beating the Sydney Opera House.

The caves are located north of Rockhampton and have an acoustic score of 2.1, which over the perfect acoustic score of 2.

Ex miner Bruce Edwards has been bringing The Underground Opera Company to the caves for the last decade.

Christopher Trotter’s renowned mechanical kangaroos on George Street in Brisbane’s city have been a point of interest for more than 19 years.

The 49-year- old artist has now introduced a new exhibition to promote his latest works. His Foreign Bodies exhibition can now be viewed at the Ipswich Art Gallery until July 22nd.

His new exhibition showcases 17 new metal sculptures, connecting unrelated materials and textures.

Oman and neighbouring Yemen face extreme weather condition as a cyclone hits the southern coast.

Thirteen people are dead and eight missing as the city of Salalah faces flash-flooding in the wake of Cyclone Mekunu.

Cyclone Mekunu is the most powerful recorded cyclone to hit the Omani coast and its deluge worth three years of rainfall.

French President Emmanuel Macron has rewarded a 22-year-old migrant with a French citizenship and a job as a firefighter.

Mamoudou Gassama was awarded these rights after scaling an apartment building, climbing five floors to save a young child dangling from a balcony.

He has been regarded as a hero, also being awarded with a medal from the president for “courage and devotion”.

A haze of smoke has descended over Sydney this morning from regional controlled burnings.

This is one of several instances of smoke hazes this month that have affected air quality across the city.

The smoke hazes have prompted the Asthma Foundation of New South Wales to call for fire protection regulations that will not compromise health requirements.

A coroner has determined that the death of a 91 year old woman in Tasmania’s Royal Hobart Hospital could have been prevented with proper risk assessment.

The woman died three days after falling and fracturing her hip, with no staff present to witness the fall.  

The woman’s cognitive function had declined and her risk of falling was not properly assessed, prompting the coroner to state the hospital should have taken more action to prevent her fall.

A $500,000 upgrade has been announced for the Meakin Park sporting fields near Logan under the Palaszczuk Government’s new Female Facilities Program.

Member for Waterford Shannon Fentiman says Football Queensland will use the funding to upgrade nine dressing rooms and referees room to include 29 brand new unisex shower cubicles and 10 unisex toilets.

Palaszczuk’s program overall involves $15.2 million worth of funded projects designed to improve female facilities in Queensland.

Brisbane’s dog population has increased by about 10 per cent in the past five years.

With the expected forecast close to 400,000 extra people to call Brisbane home by 2041, Brisbane city council is reviewing its animal management due to the predicted influx of dogs into the city.

Over the past five years the number of registered dogs has gone up by roughly 10% with that number only going to escalate in the coming years.