Feel the need for speed?

Will don’t. High tech speed cameras will be installed in twenty four school and road work zones across Queensland in a two year trail. 

This decision comes as Transport Minister Mark Bailey noted in a recent radio interview, over 1400 people were found doing 60 kilometres per hour in a 40 kilometres per hour zone and over 8000 people were found to be driving 13 kilometres per hour in school zones.

The Queensland Police and Transport and Main Roads will monitor the trial and set to begin in the near future. 

The Queensland State Government remains stalled on its controversial recycled water scheme.

A Right to Information request by the Brisbane Times revealed a full restart of the plan had been approved by SEQ-Water, but was awaiting approval by ministers.

Restarting the plan to add recycled water to the supply could avoid the risk of water restrictions, as dams in South East Queensland may drop below 50 per cent capacity this year.

The University of the Sunshine Coast is seeking trial participants for a potential new COVID-19 vaccine.

The trial vaccine is being produced by American company Icosavax using virus-like particles.

This type of vaccine is non-infectious because it contains no actual virus parts.

The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a severe weather warning for NSW this morning calling it a “bomb cyclone”, forecasting damaging winds and surf for Sydney, Wollongong, The Entrance, Woy Woy, Bulli, Port Kembla, Kiama, Huskisson and Ulladulla.

Winds averaging 60 to 70km/h with peak gusts in excess of 90km/h are forecast, along with waves up to five metres.

A state-wide investigation into WA Liberal Party processes had uncovered secretive conversations among party members and Liberal powerbrokers.

It is alleged that more than a dozen party members - referring themselves as ‘the clan’ - had been using Whatsapp to influence the outcomes of WA Liberal Party pre-selections.

More than 700 pages of Whatsapp conversations have been said to expose relaxed conversations about orchestrating party selections.

Sri Lanka has introduced new animal protection laws for its domesticated elephants. 

All elephant owners will have new photo identity cards with a DNA stamp for their animals, and mandatory medical check ups every six months. Bans will be issued to owners ‘drunk riding’ on elephants.

Elephants will be banned from being used in movies, except for government productions under strict veterinary supervision. Baby elephants will no longer be used for work. 

Disney+ became the latest in TV productions to film on the Gold Coast.

The filming of TV series Nautilus will take place early next year, and was predicted to inject $96 million into the local economy and create 240 jobs in cast and crew along with 350 extras.

COVID-19 cases from the New South Wales outbreak have been recorded within 20km of the Queensland border.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and Chief Health Officer Jeanette Young both say that it’s only a matter of time before the Delta variant outbreak crosses into Queensland.

The Glossy Black Conservancy will host a weekend-long birding day in South-East Queensland on the 11th and 12th of September as part of its annual research event into the behaviour and breeding habits of the vulnerable Glossy Black Cockatoo. 

Volunteers will collect important data throughout the weekend, which will be used into policy and planning strategies for protection and maintaining the cockatoo’s habitat across Southeast Queensland and North-eastern NSW.

Interested birders should head to glossyblack.org.au register.