There has been a record increase of international visitors to Brisbane, with around 1.3 million people visiting the city last year, 6.7 percent more than the year before.

Australia have won one gold and two bronze medals at the PyeongChang Winter Paralympics reaching their target of three medals with four days of competition remaining.

Simon Patmore won Australia’s first gold since Salt Lake City in 2002 in the snowboard cross becoming the second Australia to win a medal at both the Summer and Winter games following his bronze medal in the  200m T46 sprint at the London 2012 Paralympics.

President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, has withdrawn his nation’s ratification of the Rome statute, which created the International Criminal Court administered by the United Nations.

He accused the International Criminal Court and UN of running a “baseless, unprecedented and outrageous attacks on my person,” in the wake of a war on drugs which has resulted in an estimated 8,000 extrajudicial killings.

Youth party Kabataan representative Sarah Elago said ,“Only the guilty become too eager to run away from prosecution.”

Facebook has removed the page of British political organisation Britain First, citing violations of it’s hate speech policies.

Britain First used the page to host the false and misleading videos about islamic extremism that were shared by US President Donald Trump and Former Major General of the Australian Army and current senator for New South Wales James Molan.

The organisation’s rhetoric was invoked by the murderer of British MP Jo Cox in 2016.

The Melbourne Cricket Ground will no longer allow parking at the venue during major events, in a move to prevent vehicular attacks on attendees.

In January 2017 six people were killed and dozens were injured when a car was driven into a crowd in Melbourne’s City Centre - a similar incident occurred in Flinders Street in December.

In the wake of these incidents the MCG’s administrators feel that it is prudent to limit interactions between vehicles and pedestrians at highly attended events at the venue.

Residents fear inner south streets close to train stations, hospitals and other key infrastructure will become a parking nightmare after an overhaul of permit rules.

Street parking permits will be issued to the suburb of Annerley, with residents needing to nominate a specific street or streets. The changes arose from the Parking Taskforce 2014 citywide audit of on street parking to balance kerbside space.

Queensland Council of Parents and Citizens' Association is calling on the State Government to ensure all new schools are built with air conditioning even if they don’t fall within a Cooler School Zone.

Rising temperatures across Brisbane’s Southwest suburbs have sparked the call and QCPCA Chief Executive Officer Kevan Goodworth said that Parents and Citizens associations should not be solely responsible for providing air conditioning to schools.

The United Kingdom’s Home Office is reporting a sharp increase in the number of European Union citizens applying for British citizenship in the wake of the Brexit referendum.

Just less than 30,000 applications from the EU were received between June 2016 and June 2017, more than double the previous year.

The data also seems to suggest the looming Brexit divorce has warmed some cold feet, with citizenship through marriage applications almost trebling in the same period.