North Burnett Mayor Rachel Chambers will resign from council, after announcing the decision in a personal social media video. 
Her resignation will be effective as of the eleventh of December, and comes after great pressure from the public following cuts to local services.
Councillor Chambers, who was first elected in 2016 cites personal reasons for leaving, stating that she is not cut out for party politics. 

Chambers has no intention of running for state or federal politics in the future.

Riverfire is set to return this weekend following a one year hiatus due to COVID restrictions. 

Last year’s festival saw the famous fireworks display replaced with a more toned down laser light show

Brisbane Festival Artistic Director Louise Bezzina is confident the show will impress viewers, while remaining covidsafe.

A new pop-up vaccination hub at Loganlea TAFE is set to help hundreds of migrant and refugee students get the vaccine. 

The hub aims to overcome the language barrier faced by many students in the Logan area, the most linguistically diverse area in South-East Queensland. 

The clinic has already delivered 314 doses over the last 5 days.

Australian cricket is set to embrace gender neutrality by replacing the term ‘batsmen’ with ‘batters’ in all official documents. 

The Marylebone Cricket Club, the governing body of written cricket law in Australia, cites the change as “a natural evolution” fuelled by the unprecedented growth of women’s cricket in the last few years.

The changes are in effect immediately.

Marine biologists at the University of New South Wales have developed a technique to help identify which species of soft coral are most vulnerable to bleaching.

In figuring out which species are most vulnerable, researchers can then develop methods of protecting coral against the bleaching effects of climate change. 

PhD Candidate Rosie Steinberg, who is responsible for co-development of the technique, says it is a massive breakthrough for the limited soft coral research field.

Serhiy Shefir, the aide to Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has been targeted by an alleged assassination attempt. 

Local news outlets report 10-19 bullets hitting Mr. Shefir’s car, injuring the driver. 

Mr. Zelenskiy’s party has said Russia may be behind the attempt, which the Kremlin harshly rejects.

Brisbane Baysiders are opposing a childcare centre in Lota.

Twenty million dollars is being put into Bayside childcare centres, prompting outrage from residents.

A proposal has been submitted for a 109-place childcare centre with 42 submissions from residents in opposition.

With 17 staff and only 22 car parks, nearby residents worry about road safety caused by a build-up of traffic. One complaint read that having more than 100 vehicles accessing the new centre would wreak chaos on Whites Road.