Former Queensland Roar coach Miron Bleiberg was outraged after he saw state government funding go to an AFL stadium in Ipswich, when there was an alternative proposal for a multi-purpose stadium on an existing Brisbane site.

More than 6.7 million Australian workers will see a boost to their retirement savings from today as the superannuation guarantee increases from 9.5% to 10%, set to progressively rise to 12% by July 2025. 

Mining sites that operate near "vulnerable" remote Aboriginal communities and rely on Fly In Fly Out workers need to regularly test staff for COVID-19, insisted by peak health groups.

National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation chief executive Pat Turner says people should be immediately isolated and given a rapid COVID-19 test when they arrive on site.

Environment Minister Susan Ley has agreed with the United nations educational, scientific and cultural organisation draft ruling, citing climate change as a major factor impacting water quality in the great barrier reef.

Queensland premier Anastasia Palaszczuk has criticised the prime minister over major changes to the vaccine rollout. 

Palaszczuk says that the national cabinet did not decide to open up the AstraZeneca vaccine to under forties and that no meeting was held between states before PM Scott Morrison announced the rollout last week. 

NYC Commission for Human Rights hits Fox News with its biggest penalty of $1 Billion in the US for sexual harassment.

The largest penalty in its history is a result of a 2017 investigation into reports of “rampant abuse" at the company.

Industry experts say Queensland's tourism profits have plunged due to a lack of interstate travel from Victoria and New South Wales that was expected in a school holiday boom.

Queensland on average occupies between eighty to a hundred percent for the school holiday break. However, recent cancellations estimate that there won’t be an accommodation provider across the state with more than forty percent occupancy.  

South Australia has recorded five new local COVID-19 cases, but Premier Steven Marshall says he will not impose a lockdown. 

Despite this, people have stripped supermarket shelves bare in attempts to stock up on household essentials. 

US comedian Bill Cosby has been released from prison after a US court overturned his conviction for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 2004.

His release came shortly after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that Cosby had been denied a fair trial in 2018 when he was convicted of assaulting Andrea Constand at his Philadelphia mansion.

A growing coronavirus outbreak in Fiji has prompted the government to offer jobless citizens tools and cash to become farmers. 

The pacific nation got through the first year of the pandemic without any significant outbreaks and just two virus deaths. However an outbreak of the delta variant two months ago has resulted in Fiji adding about two hundred and fifty new cases each day.