More than 50% of new enrolments at inner-city high schools designed to relieve enrolment pressure on Brisbane State High School are from out of catchment. A spokesperson for the Department of Education says the numbers are not unexpected as in-catchment parents opt to send their children to established, well-regarded schools. Brisbane South State Secondary College and Fortitude Valley State Secondary C

Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei says Iran is prepared to increase its uranium enrichment to sixty per cent amid Western pressure to re-enter the 2015 nuclear deal. If Iran follows through on the ayatollah’s threat, it would be tripling the purity of its current uranium stockpile and exceeding the limits laid out in the 2015 deal by sixteen-fold. 

The United Nations High Commission for Refugees is calling for the immediate rescue of Rohingya asylum seekers adrift in India’s Andaman Sea. The UNHCR says the boat left Bangladesh about ten days ago but broke down, leaving the asylum seekers stranded without food or water. The Indian coast guard says it is tracking the boat off the Nicobar Islands, but no rescue attempt has yet been made.

A family in Sydney has narrowly escaped tragedy as their Ambarvale home was engulfed by flames. Two young children, their parents and their uncle were asleep in the house when it went up in flames just after 3am. The uncle luckily noticed the fire and alerted the family, Mum Ankita Dahal says she grabbed her two kids, h

A Child protection Police Officer has allegedly made sexual and suggestive comments repeatedly to a 15 year old girl he met during an investigation. During the first day of trial, the alleged offender pleaded not guilty to 1 count of using the internet to procure a child under 16 and 2 counts of child grooming. The Defence lawyer told the

Hidden cameras on Queensland highways have caught over 1500 drivers using mobile phones while driving.  Fixed cameras along the Western Freeway near Toowong and some mobile trailer-mounted cameras captured an average of 99 people using their phone while behind the wheel each day since August last year. Drivers caught by cameras will avoid

Extinction Rebellion is holding a march on Queensland Parliament this morning to protest the government’s lack of action on environmental issues. The march, named Zombies of the Climate ApoCOALypse, is scheduled to coincide with Parliament’s first sitting of the year and will see protesters dressed as zombies converging on Speaker’s Corner. Extinction Rebellion says it intends to escalate disruptive ac

Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo Luca Attanasio is one of 3 people who were killed in an ambush on a World Food Programme convoy in eastern DRC. The convoy was on its way to visit a school feeding project when gunmen attacked on a road frequently targeted by armed militia and bandits. Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs Luigi Di Maio says he will stop at nothing to uncover the ci