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.

Toy retailer Toys R Us will cease trading in all 800 of its American stores, after an announcement earlier in the week it would also close its 100 United Kingdom stores.

The chain, which employs up to 33,000 employees in the USA, filed for bankruptcy in America and Canada in October 2017.

The Australian arm, which comprises 39 stores, said after the bankruptcy filing last year it was “”business as usual” for local operations, although it’s unclear what effect the latest development will have.

The South Australian election remains a genuine three horse race rarely seen in Australian politics.

ABC election analyst Antony Green believes the Liberals are on track to win the 24 seats required to form government following an electoral redistribution in the state; Labor would need a uniform swing of 3% to retain government.

The Northern Territory marine ecosystems may be under threat after rising sea temperatures lead to coral bleaching in waters near the Co-bourg Peninsula.

Rangers at the Garig Gunak Barlu National Park have documented large patches of bleached coral from the air in January this year, in the same area where coral grew healthily in 2015.

Today marks the 75th anniversary since the American Seventh Fleet was created out of General Douglas MacArthur’s Brisbane headquarters in the old AMP building on Queen St during World War II.

Current commander of the Seventh Fleet, Vice admiral Philip Sawyers, laid a wreath yesterday on the New Farm Submarine Heritage Walk, the site of an Allied submarine base during World War II.

The Seventh Fleet operates out of the Pacific, and comprises up to 40,000 sailors and more than 60 ships and 300 airplanes.

Doctors at Lady Cilento children’s hospital are allegedly ‘turning a blind eye’ to parents illegally administering medicinal cannabis to their seriously ill children.

In a recording obtained by the ABC, Brisbane father Steve Peek told a doctor he would be administering the drug while his daughter is in Hospital, to which he was told as long as staff didn't know about it, it was ‘completely fine’.

A man and a transgender woman were arrested in Banda Aceh, Indonesia for allegedly engaging in intimate acts in a beauty salon.  

Banda Aceh has a record of poor human rights and discrimination particularly since it was granted special autonomy in 2001 to be ruled by Islamic law.

The pair, who deny the allegations made against them, face charges under Article 26 of Aceh sharia law which carries a punishment of 100 lashes.