A new national support group for grandparents separated from grandchildren through divorce has now become available. 

Gold Coast grandmother, Colleen James, who lost contact with her grandchildren during her child's divorce has inspired a new national support group to help forgotten victims experiencing similar distress. 

Colleen said more than 100 grandparents seeking support responded to an impromptu meet-up posted on social media.

Newmarket Gardens, Brisbane's last inner-city caravan park will be shutting its doors in August after 64 years of operating just outside the CBD.

Owner of the popular tourist destination Robyn Wright said, “we're getting a lot of messages from people who came here on holidays when they were growing up and that the outpouring of support from the Newmarket Community has been truly touching”. 

Over the years, the holiday location has played host to thousands of visitors who arrive promptly in time for the Ekka festival.

After 6 years of planning from the Queensland Government, it was announced last night by the international Olympic Committee that Brisbane will be the host city of the 2032 olympic games.

Brisbane will be the smallest populated city to host the games since Helinski in 1954 but IOC president says it was Australia’s passion and love for the sport that really brought the bid over the edge.

Other factors that had been considered in the decision have been the Olympics “New Norm” efforts to help sustain the games which were met with precision by the sunshine state. 

The Great Barrier Reef could avoid being listed on UNESCO’s World Heritage Site in danger list if Australia’s proposed amendment to delay the decision until 2023 is passed.

Federal Environmental Minister Sussan Ley claimed the reef is being unfairly targeted for Australia’s climate change policy saying other international World Heritage Sites should be subject to the same process if listed on the basis of global climate change.

The decision will be announced tomorrow with 12 other countries in support of Australia.

Scott Morrison said he regrets saying the vaccine rollout was “not a race” and takes responsibility for the rollout problems, promising to find solutions fast.

The rollout program is 2 months behind schedule, with only 14.5% of eligible Australians fully vaccinated and 3 states currently in lockdown. 

Six nights of protests in Iran’s Khuzestan over water shortages have turned deadly, with three civilians and one police officer killed.

Oil-rich Khuzestan has faced water problems for decades and its large Sunni Arab population has long complained of being marginalised in predominantly Shia Iran.

This year has been especially difficult for the province due to extreme temperatures and droughts leading to widespread blackouts and water shortages.

Global tensions with China have risen this morning after Chinese officials flatly rejected the premise of orchestrating a cyber-attack earlier this year that hacked into a microsoft server- exposing confidential government and business emails from the US, New Zealand, The United Kingdom, Japan and Canada. 

World Leaders confronted China in hopes to convince Chinese Authorities to implement more preventative measures against cyber-attacks, however those measures look unlikely.

Federal Opposition Leader of the Labor Party, Anthony Albanese, has criticized Prime Minister, Scott Morrison for “going missing whenever there’s a crisis”. 

Critics argue that whenever an issue arises, Scott Morrison conveniently stops making press conferences in attempts to reduce pressure on the Government's handling of said crisis   . 

Morrison is yet to comment on South Australia’s lockdown, Victoria’s lockdown extension and New South Wales’ current 5 week lockdown.

A legal challenge that saw Christian Porter's lawyer removed from his defamation case against the ABC could cost him and his former barrister up to half-a-million-dollars.

The former attorney-general took action against the ABC over a story about an unnamed cabinet minister accused of an alleged historical sexual assault.

Mr Porter later revealed himself to be the subject of the allegations but denied any wrongdoing.