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.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is in Tokyo for the final pitch, which will be delivered in front of the IOC later today.

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.

The fisheries minister, Mark Furner, responded to the claims saying they had no plans to remove the equipment from Queensland Controlled waters.

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”.

Wright also said that she didn’t realise the park would generate so much interest and that it’s, “really hitting home about what a difference the park has made in people’s lives”. 

The park will be shutting its doors in August after the Ekka season.

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.

Research shows, processing asylum seekers offshore cost Australia $8.3 billion between 2014 and 2020, according to the Refugee Council of Australia.

The federal government has repeatedly said asylum seekers arriving in Australia by boat will not be resettled here.

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. 

Peace talks began in Qatar on Saturday, marking what US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo heralded as a "truly momentous" occasion in nearly two decades of gruelling conflict. 

Mr Pompeo states they will “undoubtedly encounter many challenges in the talks over the coming months” but is determined for the warring sides to seize the opportunity to secure peace.

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. 

Total wildfire carbon emissions from Sakha Republic have reached 65 megatonnes so far this year with almost two months left of the fire season.

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".

Resources for teachers are set to be released at the end of 2021 for use in schools at the beginning of 2022