Queensland’s updated border pass system will take effect at 1am tomorrow.

The new ‘traffic light’ system, which resembles Victoria’s, issues visitors with a green, amber, or red pass.

Plans for the state’s $10 million parking upgrade at Mango Hill train station are being finalised.

The station, just north of Brisbane, overflows with over 200 parked cars daily.

The federal government has also pledged four million dollars to the project.

The planned upgrade includes 280 new carparks as well as lighting and CCTV.

A satellite hospital will be built on Bribie Island as part of Labor’s 2020 election commitment to building seven hospitals like it across the state.

Health Minister Yvette D’ath said the Bribie Island hospital will take pressure off nearby emergency departments.

The federal government has revisited plans to open gas and oil exploration off Victoria’s South-East coast, in a move they say will support Australia’s economic growth.

Federal Resources Minister Keith Pitt said the licence is still under consideration despite Prime Minister Scott Morrison saying in March it would be terminated.

France will hold the first women's Tour de France in 2022.

The race, which will be called Tour de France Femmes, commences at the end of the men’s race in Paris.

The move is described by Dutch Olympic champion, Anna van der Breggen, as a breakthrough moment for professional women’s cycling.

The United States will recognise Juneteenth as a new national holiday, after the bill was passed into law today.

Juneteenth celebrates the end of slavery in the US which occurred on the 19th June 1865, where news of freedom finally reached slaves in Texas two months after the Confederates surrendered during the Civil War.

Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner has reignited council plans to build an underground metro station at the Cultural Centre to meet Olympic demand for public transport.

Plans for an underground station were put on hold last year over disagreements over the size and location, but Schrinner says an underground station was always the council’s intention.

Magistrate Mac Giolla Ri was appointed for exceptional work in private practice, as well as his 5 years volunteering in legal aid working primarily in refugee and criminal matters.

Mr Giolla Ri has two decades of legal experience.