As Brisbane continues planning to host the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games, there are concerns over the rising costs as a host city.

The initial price estimate of $4.45 billion has already increased by $1.35 billion, and is likely to keep increasing over the next 11 years.

The Police are calling on the public to help find Jiavanti, a twelve-year-old girl missing from Sydney's Inner west.

She has been missing for four days. The family and police are now concerned about her welfare because of her age.

Both New South Wales and Western Australia have made recent moves to ban or minimise plastic waste.

In New South Wales a $356 million five-year plan is expected to prevent 2.7 billion items of waste entering the environment over two decades.

Today is the start of Men’s Health week.

In Australia, the Men’s Health week gives a platform for conversations concerning challenging and debating key issues in men's physical and mental health in an attempt to raise awareness.

Every June, such a platform aims to raise the profile of men, their health outcomes and needs around the country.

Tens of thousands of people are protesting in Madrid against controversial plans to pardon jailed Catalan separatists.

Leaders of Spain's right-wing parties joined the demonstration against the pardoning of 12 separatists behind a failed independence attempt in 2017.

Australia's first residential treatment facility for eating disorders opens in the Wandi Nerida facility on the Sunshine Coast.

The 13-bed private hospital is owned and operated by the Butterfly Foundation under its "B-FREEDT" Model of Care, which incorporates connectedness, mental health support, permaculture and equine therapy.

Brisbane’s ethnic Polish club has issued an urgent call for help to prevent the sale of its Milton venue by September.

The 60 year old centre of Brisbane's Polish migrant community is in financial trouble and has only a few months to raise $200, 000

The state is expecting to receive over $17 million across the next three years as interstate arrivals will ‘pay for the privilege’ to move to Queensland.

From July 2022, new arrivals will be required to pay roughly $80 to transfer their driver’s licence.

Last week’s Victorian flood crisis will see businesses and households continue without power, potentially for up to another week.

As the clean-up continues there remains more than 26, 000 homes and businesses without power.