A woman who conned her family and friends out of almost $42 000 for fake cancer treatment has been given a three month jail sentence.

In 2013, nineteen year old Hanna Dickenson told her parents she was gravely ill with cancer and required an overseas trip for treatment or she would die within months. Three family friends donated a combined $41 700 for her trip. Dickenson then used the money for partying, drugs and an unrelated overseas trip.

A man and his cat were rescued off Moreton Island after their tinnie capsized.

The two men were fishing when the boat capsized, requiring the Westpac Lifesaver Helicopter to rescue one of the men and his cat.

The rescuer, George Lavett, said in his fifteen years of being an aircrewman, this was the first time he’d rescued a cat.

Brisbane could have its first, permanent outdoor cinema in the city’s northside.

The proposed cinema in McCaskie Park at Kelvin Grove will have a 2.7 metre by 5.4 metre screen.

Council Field Service Chairman, Peter Matic, says it’ll be available for hire but didn’t say if there would be an admission cost or how much the cinema would cost ratepayers.

Brisbane band frontman George Sheppard has attacked the Commonwealth Games organisers saying his band, Sheppard, were offered “peanuts” to perform at the opening ceremony.

The band known for their breakthrough hit “Geronimo”, turned down the gig after being offered a “very minimal fee”.

Mr Sheppard says if they performed they would’ve paid a “honorarium fee”, which meant they would’ve lost money for performing at the opening ceremony.

Papua New Guinea is looking to Australia to assist with natural disaster prevention techniques and infrastructure following a senior ministers forum in Brisbane.

However, with China’s developing presence in the Pacific, PNG’s Foreign Minister Rimbink Pato says the island nation will welcome assistance from all development partners.

He urged Australia and China to work together as greater cooperation will provide “security, prosperity and stability” which will empower all governments and citizens.

Bootleg alcohol in Indonesia has killed eighty-two and left hundreds of others in critical condition.

Hospitals around Jakarta and West Java reported an insurgence of alcohol poisoning related admissions from Saturday with conditions ranging from stomach issues to partial blindness.

Deaths related to the illegal liquor are not uncommon, but this is the largest mass fatality caused by alcohol poisoning; with six people already arrested and police on the hunt for at least two more suspects.

Research has found that Australia’s political and business leaders are overwhelmingly Anglo-Celtic.

Australia’s leadership and executive culture is dominated by people of Anglo-Celtic backgrounds with only 4.7% of senior figures reporting from non-European heritage.

The research also found that only 0.4% were indigenous.

A mystery illness has been spreading through Perth’s bird population leaving magpies, mudlarks and crows paralysed, unresponsive and unable to stand.

Despite tests being conducted, the disease has left experts unsure of the cause.