Brisbane vacant rental properties have dropped below 10,000.

The vacancy rate in Brisbane dropped from 3.2% to 3% from March to April, proving good news for real estate investors.

Despite the decrease in empty properties, Brisbane is still above the 2.1% national average.  

Diagnosed asthma in preschool aged children has halved by managing the condition in expectant mums’.

Birth difficulties including pre-term birth and low birth weight are linked to asthma and every year it kills 400 Australians, with 37000 being hospitalisations.

Researcher, Joerg Mattes says asthma prevention is the holy grail and these findings have significant implications for patients and ongoing research.

The Northern Territory seabed mining moratorium has been extended through 2021.

The ban sees a pause on growing interest in deposits of manganese along the coast of Arnhem Land and the Gulf of Carpentaria.

This follows the ban beginning in 2012 by the then country liberals over concerns about potential environmental impacts.

Brisbane City Council’s Julian Simmonds has been called a “walking conflict of interest,” as he is set to campaign for a federal seat while remaining as chairman for city planning.

Opposition leader Peter Cumming has called for Simmonds to resign from his chairman role immediately o avoid a conflict of interest following his selection as the LNP’s candidate.

Opposition councillor Jared Cassidy has also queried whether Simmonds would rule out accepting developer donations through the federal division of the Liberal Party.

Researchers have found a possible cause for Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and it may be due to a hormonal imbalance before birth.

PCOS is a common cause of female infertility and researches have been able to cure it in mice.

The syndrome affects up to one in five women worldwide.

Agricultural industry professionals have advised for farmers to stay off social media to reduce anxiety and stress.

Many farmers have looked to social media for comparisons to more fruitful regions, which has inevitably  caused an unfair case of FOMO.

This comes as much of Western Australia's grain growing region is experiencing a dry Autumn. 

Private hospital emergency departments have little impact in reducing pressure on public hospitals.

The Buderim Private Hospital on the Sunshine Coast will not offer an onsite private emergency department, with the The Australian College of Emergency Medicine advocating for privately insured patients to use private facilities.

President Simon Judkins said “there is a certain demand for private hospital emergency departments, but we’re always just wary that they’re not going to be a panacea to the ongoing issues that we have in the public hospital system.”

A Brisbane Uber driver is being investigated for driving on a footpath is claiming taxi drivers parked him in.

The driver says he resorted to driving on the footpath after up to five taxi drivers blocked his exit from a private driveway in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley.

The driver decided to use the footpath to make it back to the road and insists he only went “at a crawl”.

Alien life may exist in other universes according to scientists who are studying dark energy.

Researchers at Durham University claim that a computer simulation suggests that if other universes exist, they may just as likely harbour life.

Jaime Salcido, postgraduate student of Durham University says “our simulations show that even if there was much more dark energy or even very little in the universe then it would only have a minimal effect on star and planet formation.”