A racing club car park located at Ascot will be converted back into public parkland in 2019 to offer more health activities to the neighbourhood.

The project will cover the triangular park between Lancaster Road, Kitchener Road and McGill Avenue. At this time, the area has dirt and cement paths surrounded by the grass and a scattering of trees.  

Considered a historical site once used by military vehicles, the proposed park will offer a gym/fitness area, a dog off-leash area, playground and rotunda.

A buoy in the Southern Ocean has recorded the largest wave in the southern hemisphere, reaching 23.8 metres.

Spotify announced yesterday they will no longer feature rapper R Kelly in their playlist recommendations.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo has confirmed their first death in the latest ebola outbreak with 11 more people infected, including three medical staff.

2016 Presidential Candidate and former US First Lady Hillary Clinton spoke at a ‘Women in Leadership”  talk in Melbourne yesterday.

Former Prime Minister Julia Gillard shared the stage with Clinton, and the pair discussed experiences of misogyny in office and eradicating sexism from politics.

Clinton also encouraged Australia to advocate strongly for its national interests, after she mentioned China’s expansionism; building naval bases and occupying reefs and atolls across the pacific.

 

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission on Thursday announced it had granted conditional authorisation for a deal over cruise ship operator, Carnival’s access to the long awaited Port of Brisbane project.

Laws that would give the local government minister the power to sack or dismiss councils, individual councillors and mayors will be introduced to Queensland’s parliament next week.

Brisbane’s City Council have relocated a concrete slab away from a Kelvin Grove park after children playing handball there resulted in local noise complaints.