Council has approved an e-scooter expansion, ahead of the release of its e-mobility strategy next month.

The number of e-scooters on Brisbane’s streets are set to jump from 1000 to 1500, and roll out to more areas of the city.

A woman has fallen to her knees crying in front of Prime Minister Scott Morrison as he toured Rockhampton’s Beef Week expo yesterday.

The woman was  asking Scott Morrison  to intervene in a violent conflict in the Central African nation of Cameroon that she said had claimed the lives of much of her family.

Aboriginal  cultural heritage has been preserved after a go kart track was blocked from being built on Mt Panaorama-Wahluu in Bathurst, NSW.

Federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley announced a protection order for the site that will  last for ten years and explicitly outlaws earthworks or construction of any track.

Australia's first net-zero hybrid power station has gotten the green light and will be built in Illawarra, New South Wales.

The power plant will be capable of running on both hydrogen and natural gas with the NSW and federal government eighty three million dollars towards the build.

With Rockhampton's beef week underway the Sustainability Steering Group has released a Beef Sustainability Report for 2021.

The report  shows that the percentage of cattle lands set aside for conservation increased but trends in ground cover, deforestation and conservation management of grazing country were not quantified by the report.

A giant wood moth has been found at the Mount Cotton State School, south east of Brisbane.

The Giant Wood Moth is the heaviest species of moth in the world and has a wingspan of up to 25 cm.

Students used the Giant moth as inspiration for their creative writing class.

Half a billion dollars will be spent by the federal government to establish a new agency overseeing the national responses to major natural disasters 

The National Recovery and Resilience Agency or NRRA will provide relief to communities and advise it on how to mitigate the impacts of future weather events.

Space debris possibly weighing several tonnes is currently on an uncontrolled re-entry phase with earth with parts expected to crash on earth over the next week.

The debris is part of the Long March 5B rocket that recently successfully launched China's first module for its proposed space station.

During a Brisbane city council meeting of the local government’s ethics committee the council labour opposition raised concerns about the censorship of elected representatives’ views.

The meeting was held to discuss Greens Councillor Jonathan Sri’s comments about a NSW police officer’s alleged assault of a 16-year-old Aboriginal boy last year.

The federal government's cashless debit card program is set to roll out a job ready program at Bundaberg and Hervey Bay in Queensland.

The controversial program holds 80 percent of a person's welfare payments to only be spent on food from participating supermarkets.