Talent Manager and industry veteran Glenn Wheatley alongside Oceania Partners are looking to sell two radio stations - 91.9 Sea FM and 92.7 Mix FM on the Sunshine Coast.

In 2013, Mr Wheatley purchased the Sunshine Coast stations with the South African company for $17.75 million.

Sales talks are in the early stages with the owners looking to find interested buyers.

Moreton Bay Regional Council has purchased a second property to protect wildlife and native habitat for future generations through the Land Buyback Program.

The environmental program will take place at the new site located on Flowers Rd, Caboolture, will be a continuous corridor from Elimbah to Beachmere. 

The council says the property is home to important hollow-bearing habitat trees, various bird species and vulnerable listed fauna species such as koalas.

Scott Morrison is under fire after it was revealed that he jetted to Sydney during lockdown for Father’s Day while Aussie families remain separated.

The Prime Minister was granted an exemption to fly to Sydney from Canberra for Father’s Day aboard a taxpayer-funded VIP flight during lockdown, breaching protocols requiring those returning interstate from Sydney to isolate for 14 days.  

The office for the Prime Minister was forced to release a statement after a Royal Australian Air Force business jet was identified by airplane enthusiasts as he left Canberra on Friday.

Federal Government distribution of Pfizer vaccine has seen “huge shifts in favour” towards New South Wales over Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia, according to an investigative report by ABC’s 7.30 last night.

While the vaccine distribution invariably aimed at NSW’s current hot-spots, ABC’s report suggests that Victoria, Queensland, and Western Australia have seen all their vaccine allocations fall well below their share of the national population.

A new forecast of how vaccines would be shared out would be released shortly.

Concerning new research by the Tourism and Transport Forum revealed around 20 per cent of jobs in the tourism sector of the Gold Coast have been cut due to the impact of Covid 19. 

The total drop in tourism employment is forecasted to reach 36 per cent by December due to bans on interstate travel, affecting more than 4,500 tourism businesses.

Destination Gold Coast CEO Patricia O’Callaghan commented this week that ongoing government support will be vital for recovery.

Today marks a special milestone for Torres Strait Islander children, with a new law known as “for our children’s children” being passed.

After 30 years of advocacy by Kupai Omasker Elders, the new law will allow Torres Strait Islanders raised by extended family to transfer their legal identity from birth parents to cultural parents. 

At a Cultural Recognition Orders ceremony in Cairns, the elders says it will remove many legal barriers and allow families to live by their cultural identities to reflect their legal identities and lived experiences.

Australian families whose relatives were amongst the 298 passengers and crew killed on the Malaysia Airlines flight MH-17 in 2014 will give their personal testimonies before an Amsterdam court this week. 

The Boeing 777 heading from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, and was shot down by a buk missile fired as it flew above the conflict-torn eastern Ukraine.

More than 90 people from around the world will offer their victim statements either in person or via video link.

Former opposition leader Matthew Guy returned as Victoria’s Opposition Leader after a spill motion challenging Michael O’Brien.

MPs voted 20 to 11 for a leadership spill at a party room meeting on Tuesday morning.

Guy was voted in as leader, unopposed. 

Mr Guy has been criticised for failing to connect with the Victorian public, as well as failing to show challenge to Premier Dan Andrews for his handling of the pandemic during 2020.

Belarusian opposition protest leader, Maria Kolesnikova has been sentenced to 11 years in prison. 

The 39 year old was one of the key figures of the mass opposition movement during the 2020 Belarusian presidential election.

She along with fellow senior opposition figure, Maxim Znak, are both sentenced, charged with extremism and seizing power control illegally. Both prisoners will appeal the verdict.