A vigil for Tharnicaa, the youngest member of the Biloela family, who were sent to detention on Christmas Island, will take place in the Brisbane CBD this evening. 

Organisers asked federal minister Karen Andrews to use her ministerial powers to bring Tharnicaa and her family home to Biloela, and believe their detention is ‘cruel and unnecessary’.

The three-year-old will spend her fourth birthday battling a blood infection in a Perth hospital.

The vigil is taking place on Friday the 11th of June at 5.30pm in Brisbane’s King George Square.

Brisbane is set to close its bid to host the 2032 Olympics after it was unanimously endorsed by the International Olympic Committee overnight.

This is a break int tradition following a change in the selection process as cities no longer have to outbid each other to host the event. 

Whilst all levels of government support the vote, the reaction from the community is mixed, with many citing concerns for Brisbane’s liveability.

State Treasurer, Cameron Dick, will announce a drivers licence transfer fee for Australians wanting to relocate to Queensland from July 2022.

The fee of $78.75 is expected to raise $17 million over three years, as more than 61,000 Australians are predicted to relocate to the North East.

Mr Dick says Australians will have to pay for the privilege to live in the sunshine state.

China is preparing to launch its first manned mission to its new, orbiting space station.

The China Manned Space Engineering Office said it moved the Long March-two-F Y1-twelve rocket, carrying the Shenzhou-twelve spacecraft to the launch pad as of yesterday in preparation for its first crewed mission into space.

The astronauts will stay in space for three months during which they will do a range of tasks from science experiments to maintenance.

This will be the third of eleven space missions planned by China to complete its space station by the end of 2021.

United States President, Joe Biden, said the US will donate 500 million doses of the Covid-19 Pfizer vaccine around the world in an attempt to speed up the end of the pandemic.

The announcement came before the G7 summit, which is due to be held in the United Kingdom.

Biden has denied speculation there are strings attached to the donations, saying it is the responsibility of the wealthy countries to vaccinate the world and that this is in every country’s best interest.

Fortitude Valley’s QMusic has called upon the state government to invest money into Brisbane’s live music industry after Townsville’s state of origin match.

The closure of international borders until 2022 along with the flexible state borders, has seen the live music industry brought to its knees.

QMusic called on the Queensland government to offer a similar $24 million financial support package to the one the New South Wales government recently gave to live music venues.

Protesters are criticising the QLD Maroons over a six-year merchandise sponsorship with fuel company, Puma.

A flash protest on Origin night highlighted PUMA’s ties to the Israeli football association, which has teams in Palestine territory.

The Palestinian-run, global ‘BDS’ movement says people should boycott the gas giant amidst Israel's continued occupation of Palestinian land and aggression at the border. 

Under a new pilot plan, the New South Wales government plans to allow two hundred and fifty international students into Sydney each fortnight from the middle of this year.

The students will spend their quarantine period in purpose-built student accommodation before commencing the second semester of their university studies.

The proposed plan has support from state police, health, and all universities, and is under review by the Federal government.

The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons released a new report which calls for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to end its reliance on nuclear weapons.

It asked NATO to enter into the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons which was founded in January of this year.

The report wants NATO to become a ‘non-nuclear alliance’ and maintains that there is no legal barrier for countries to enter into the treaty.