In a matter of hours, Brisbane will find out if it's been successful in its bid to be the host city of the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic games.

If the Queensland capital gets the backing of the International Olympic Committee, it'll be the third time an Australian city has hosted an Olympic Games after Melbourne in 1956 and, Sydney in 2000.

Gold Coast conservationists are sparking public debates on the usage of shark nets after the release of a highly anticipated documentary calling for changes to our shark control measures, which haven’t been altered in 59 years. 

"A lot of people think shark nets are a barrier. They're not — they're a fishing device." said film director, Andre Borell.

Newmarket Gardens, an inner-city caravan park, is set to close its doors after 64 years of service later this year.

Owner of the park, Robyn Wright, told 4zzz that they, “were very reluctant to close the park” and that “there was no 1 dominant reason for closing the park”.

South Australia has now implemented Australia’s harshest restrictions, enforcing a 2.5km travel limit from your home, whilst Victoria maintains it’s 5km restriction and NSW with a 10km limit. 

This comes after South Australian Health Officials recorded their 5th case recorded in 2 days and the exposure of the highly contagious deltra strain.

Monday marked eight years since the Australian government's offshore detention program came into force. The anniversary has sparked renewed calls for asylum seekers languishing in detention to be set free.

Officials sound optimistic during the first round of negotiations while peace talks resume with the Taliban, but the Taliban says it's confident it can still win on the battlefield. 

A heatwave in one of the coldest locations in the world, Siberia, has sparked concerns after exceeding air quality controls by 40 times the safety limit due unprecedented forest fires causing the worst fire seasons in recorded Russian history. 

Global warming has caused a month of an intense smoke haze that Siberian officials have now begun removing young children to safer locations. 

A bridge named after now disgraced former Ipswich City mayor Paul Peeze- a sale should be renamed after Ipswich-born tennis champion Ash Barty, according to a new online petition.  

On the change.org petition, Ms Weston wrote the bridge should be named after "an Indigenous woman, a sporting legend, a woman of character who is proud to call this community her hometown".

More explicit and age-appropriate education on consent and reporting sexual assaults will be delivered in Queensland schools, following a state government review of its respectful relationships program.

This comes after a review aimed to examine whether the state's Respectful Relationships Education Program "adequately addresses issues of sexual consent and reporting in schools".