The body of missing Brisbane Rower Mark Roome has been found near the South Brisbane Sailing Club in West End yesterday.

Springfield near Ipswich will next week test driverless electric shuttle buses, following trials in Canberra, Darwin and along the Esplanade at Mooloolaba.

BP has forecasted global oil consumption to rise by 10 percent, reaching its peak in the late 2030’s.

It is expected renewable energy will begin to prosper following this peak, with production increasing 5-fold by 2040, as oil demand begins to curb.

The increase in renewable energy will satisfy the Paris Agreement on climate change, with oil demand decreasing from 100 million barrels a day to 85 million barrels globally.

Venezuela’s main opposition party said they won’t participate in snap legislative elections called by President Nicolas Maduro for April 22, the same day as presidential elections

The Democratic Unity movement has labelled the decision to move the elections forward by two years “fraudulent and illegitimate”, demanding the vote be held in the latter half of 2018 under the supervision of independent international observers.

Their decision to boycott means there is only one candidate challenging Maduro, little-known evangelical pastor Javier Bertucci.

South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill promised to increase the states renewable energy target from 50 percent to 75 percent by 2025.

Perth based company Carnegie (Car-nay-gee) Clean Energy has been granted $3 million by the South Australian government to build a two MegaWatt battery storage system in Adelaide to improve the quantity and efficiency of energy generation in the state.

Northern Territory Horticulturist Chris Nathaniel has high hopes his new avocado breed will be help solve Australia’s summer avocado shortages.

Australia’s most popular breed, the Schuller avocado, fruits between Mid-January and March, whereas Nathaniel’s Calypso avocado does so between December and February.

Nathaniel has been developing the plant for more than a decade and is optimistic 2018 will be the first year that the trees will be grown commercially.

The saga of Macquarie Street continued after Shadow Planning chairman, Councillor Jared Cassidy, said he will bring a motion of debate against the development in the upcoming City Planning Committee.

Residents have been resisting development applications over the past six years and are worried the addition of this 73 unit, 16 storey complex, originally planned at 11 stories, would heavily impact on the street’s public amenity.

The search for missing Brisbane rower Mark Roome continued today with a focus on recovering his body.

The sixty-three year old was reported missing by his rowing companions at 4:40am on Wednesday after they became separated due to windy conditions. His vessel found overturned near West End.

Shortly after 2pm on Wednesday, divers investigating an "anomaly" on sonar found several small items on the bottom of the river believed to belong to Mr Roome.