After 6 years of planning from the Queensland Government, it was announced last night by the international Olympic Committee that Brisbane will be the host city of the 2032 olympic games.

Brisbane will be the smallest populated city to host the games since Helinski in 1954 but IOC president says it was Australia’s passion and love for the sport that really brought the bid over the edge.

The Great Barrier Reef could avoid being listed on UNESCO’s World Heritage Site in danger list if Australia’s proposed amendment to delay the decision until 2023 is passed.

Scott Morrison said he regrets saying the vaccine rollout was “not a race” and takes responsibility for the rollout problems, promising to find solutions fast.

The rollout program is 2 months behind schedule, with only 14.5% of eligible Australians fully vaccinated and 3 states currently in lockdown. 

Six nights of protests in Iran’s Khuzestan over water shortages have turned deadly, with three civilians and one police officer killed.

Oil-rich Khuzestan has faced water problems for decades and its large Sunni Arab population has long complained of being marginalised in predominantly Shia Iran.

Global tensions with China have risen this morning after Chinese officials flatly rejected the premise of orchestrating a cyber-attack earlier this year that hacked into a microsoft server- exposing confidential government and business emails from the US, New Zealand, The United Kingdom, Japan and Canada. 

Federal Opposition Leader of the Labor Party, Anthony Albanese, has criticized Prime Minister, Scott Morrison for “going missing whenever there’s a crisis”. 

Critics argue that whenever an issue arises, Scott Morrison conveniently stops making press conferences in attempts to reduce pressure on the Government's handling of said crisis   . 

A legal challenge that saw Christian Porter's lawyer removed from his defamation case against the ABC could cost him and his former barrister up to half-a-million-dollars.

The former attorney-general took action against the ABC over a story about an unnamed cabinet minister accused of an alleged historical sexual assault.

In a matter of hours, Brisbane will find out if it's been successful in its bid to be the host city of the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic games.

If the Queensland capital gets the backing of the International Olympic Committee, it'll be the third time an Australian city has hosted an Olympic Games after Melbourne in 1956 and, Sydney in 2000.

Gold Coast conservationists are sparking public debates on the usage of shark nets after the release of a highly anticipated documentary calling for changes to our shark control measures, which haven’t been altered in 59 years. 

"A lot of people think shark nets are a barrier. They're not — they're a fishing device." said film director, Andre Borell.