A same-sex couple in Sydney are shredding posters and signage from the campaign against same-sex marriage to turn into confetti for their wedding at Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras this weekend.

Stuart Henshall proposed to his partner James Brechney  the moment the ‘Yes’ result for the Same Sex survey was announced and the couple has been rushing to prepare everything in time for the big day.

They will be married during the Parade on a float designed to look like a gigantic wedding cake.

Townsville has been lashed with heavy rain overnight. More than 150 millimetres have fallen since tuesday, prompting the SES to spend the night sandbagging residences.

The town of Giru, south of Townsville is expecting the Haughton River to break its banks past the town record level of 3.09 metres.

The Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Rick Threlfall said Townsville weather will continue its instability through to Friday, as the low pressure system moves inland.

The Queensland Police Service is warning children to be careful when walking to and from school after a woman approached at least three children in the South Brisbane area late last month.

The incidents occurred on the 19th and 23rd of February when the woman approached school students aged 12 to 17, stating she was a teacher at their school and offering them a lift as they walked in Runcorn and MacGregor.

Ethiopian Jews are staging a hunger strike to pressure the Israeli parliament into continuing to fund reunion by migration of Ethiopian Jews with family members in Israel.

In 1991 Israel evacuated 15,000 Jewish people from then conflict torn Ethiopia, separating many families in the process.

However the Israeli parliament has recently put it’s ongoing family reunification program on hold, an action that the head of the Israeli parliament's Absorption and Diaspora (DI-AS-PRA) Committee has described as discriminatory.

Fighting in Syria continues despite a temporary ceasefire resolution from the united nations.

The ceasefire motion was passed to allow humanitarian convoys and aid workers to move safely through the embattled country.

Humanitarian organisations and many western governments have criticised Russian forces in the region for limiting their capacity for aid work, despite Russia’s support for the ceasefire resolution.

The Victorian Fixated Threat Assessment Centre aimed at identifying and responding to ‘high-risk individuals’ has been deemed ‘illogical’.

Professor of Human Security at RMIT University, Joseph Siracusa said the new centre is unlikely to assist with the discovery of radicalists as there is little evidence that there is a set of criteria for identifying lone attackers or terrorists.

Australian National University Criminologist Clark Jones, also criticised the centre, suggesting the program should extend its services to preventing youth crimes in Victoria.

It’s been revealed in a Senate Estimates hearing that the Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet intervened in order to secure for Malcolm Turnbull a 100 megabits per second NBN connection at his Point Piper mansion.

Consumer advocate Allan Asher has penned an article in the conversation and called the NBN an “expensive white elephant” and warned it will “faces irrelevance in cities” after South Australian premier Jay Weatherill announced 35 million dollars for a fibre network in Adelaide if re-elected.

Work has commenced this morning on the second runway for Sunshine Coast Airport, tipped to generate 2 200 jobs and $4 billion in revenue for the region.

Sunshine Coast Mayor Mark Jamieson said the new runway will accommodate larger aircrafts and open up direct access to the Sunshine Coast from Australian cities, and international markets in Asia in turn driving significant economic growth.

The new two-and-a-half kilometre runway built by the civil infrastructure giant, John Holland Group, will cost $225 million with completion due in 2020.

A film based on the Battle of Long Tan begins production in Queensland later this year.

The film, provisionally titled Danger Close, is produced by former special forces commando Martin Walsh.

It is expected to create around 860 jobs, and will employ approximately 200 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans as extras.

Danger Close’s Vietnam sequences will be principally filmed in areas near Kingaroy and Nerang.