Property developers lodged complaint with Brisbane City Council

Property developer group Mirvac had lodged a complaint with the Brisbane City Council last week over a proposed small hotel planned for construction on the corner of Roma and Turbot streets. 

Mirvac has a thirty two storey mixed use tower stretched across a city block set for submission and blames the adjacent hotel site for ‘gross overdevelopment’.

Indigenous place names to be added to licenses

South Australians are now able to add Indigenous place names to their addresses on their driver’s licenses. The initiative created by ServiceSA says it took inspiration from Australian Post, who once included First Nation country names on envelopes and packages. 

However the South Australian Native Title Services has raised concerns over the accuracy of native place names and titles. 

US ends war in Afghanistan today

The United States says the war in Afghanistan is over after the last military plane containing the remaining US troops departed Hamid Karzai International Airport on 5:29am AEST. 

The occasion marks the official end of the twenty year long Afghan war and comes hours before the official deadline set by US President Joe Biden.

QLD's regional quarantine facility set to cost less than other quarantine sites

The private developer behind Queensland’s regional quarantine facility west of Toowoomba has revealed that it is expected to cost less than a third of other national hubs.

However, concerns remain that without federal approval for international passenger flights to land at the site, travellers will potentially expose Queensland at greater risk during transport.