The Brisbane Indie Winter Project has been rescheduled for Friday 13 August.

The event boasts a wide variety of local music artists and bands, where they can showcase their talent, network with local creatives and expand their reach. Tickets are available at OzTix.

Over the past 12 months, more than 1200 women have been held in Victoria's maximum security prison without conviction and sentencing as a result of a series of punitive bail reforms made in the Bail Act introduced in 2018. 

Job vacancies have hit a new record in the United States as numbers have jumped from around 9.5 million to over 10 million, surpassing economists’ expectations.

This comes as businesses struggle to find workers in industries such as leisure and hospitality as the economy reopens. 

Despite the easing of restrictions, workers have not rushed back to the workforce and economists say “low skilled” jobs are being advertised with not enough suitable candidates.

Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate said he wanted a police checkpoint on the M1 between Brisbane and the Gold Coast.

Last week, Councillor Tate called for the Gold Coast to be excluded from the lockdown.

Queensland Police Acting Chief Superintendent Rhys Wildman said a checkpoint between the two cities would be an operational challenge.

He also said that any decision on a checkpoint will be between the police and the Government.

Chairman of Tourism Tropical North Queensland Ken Chapman said that the Government needed to show similar support of that in NSW or else potentially thousands of residents will see an end to business. 

"The community's been fighting for a number of years trying to get more investment and more support around additional social housing, and at this stage it is pretty challenging," he said.

A study has found alarming levels of toxicity readings in 19% of Brisbane backyards, with the highest levels detected in Yeronga and Holland park.

Professor Mark Taylor and his team from Macquarie university conducted the most extensive study of soil samples in Australia, investigating lead levels in over 17,000 samples across 3600 homes.

Findings revealed that 35% of the soil samples exceeded the Australian guidelines for lead content at more than 300 milligrams per kilogram.

It has come to light in the Senate that Services Australia sent Centrelink debt letters to over eleven-thousand Australians, claiming they were all overpaid while on JobKeeper payments.

The average debt per person was three thousand dollars, but the federal government was not going after businesses which claimed JobKeeper support whilst making a profit.

Greens senator Rachel Siewert says the debt reveals a double standard in how the government treats individuals and businesses.

Australia has been urged by experts to start placing heavier regulations on the video gaming industry. This call for action comes as countries such as Germany, Belgium, Japan and China have taken drastic measures against ‘loot boxes’. 

Loot boxes are purchasable prizes which medical observers have compared to gambling as they function like ‘mini-casinos’. Children are at most risk of being exploited by loot boxes.

Currently, Independent federal MP Andrew Wilkie is proposing new laws requiring games with loot boxes to carry an R-18 rating.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has apologised on behalf of the Greek government for their constant delays and breakdowns in responding to the wildfires. 

In the seventh day of the blazes, 500 fires have been burning throughout Greece forcing the evacuation of numerous villages. 

Mitsotakis promises the restoration of forests, and has approved a 500 million euro aid package for the region.