South East Queenslanders have been urged to be cautious if they plan to head to the beach this weekend, due to concerns recent flooding has impacted water quality.

Runoff from the Nerang River, Tallebudgera Creek, and nearby farmland into the ocean is likely to have increased the amount of bacteria present in the water.

A Vincent Van Gogh painting was sold for 21.7 million dollars at an auction on Thursday only to be erroneously sold a second time for 20.3 million. 

Auction house Sotherby’s said a glitch with its online system during the sale allowed for the double sale.

Western Australia’s peak mental health consumer body is calling for more community support for people transitioning out of hospital mental health care.

Chief Executive of Consumers of Mental Health Western Australia, Shauna Gaebler, says more support is needed for people to create a stable life outside of hospital and avoid readmission.

Business owners in the Northern Territory have expressed concern at the resurgence of business after COVID-19 lockdowns. 

Darren Lynch and his wife Pina Somerville are two of many business owners in the Northern Territory struggling to cope with the resurgence of business after COVID-19 lockdowns.

The Department of Transport and Main Roads has gone out to tender for specialist divers to dive underneath the bridge sections of the Pacific Motorway for a maintenance procedure.

The process is key for keeping the structure safe for motorists. It includes scraping away barnacles and vegetation so the bridge sections can be checked for any issues.

Researchers at QUT have developed a simple way to use the gas released as a by product of cement creation to create more cement.

At present, nearly 900 kilograms of carbon dioxide is emitted for over a thousand kilograms of cement. The cement industry contributes seven percent to overall emissions and this figure is expected to grow as urbanisation continues to increase.

The brightly-coloured external cladding on Brisbane Square was removed from the building as it contains a combustible central core that poses a fire risk. Hundreds of buildings in Queensland are clad by the panels. They are built of the same material that accelerated the fire in Grenfell Tower in 2017, which resulted in 72 deaths.

Almost 200 cows are roaming free in New South Wales’ mid-north coast after floodwaters swept them away from their Mondrook property.

Owner of the cows, Peter Bowie, has begun the process of retrieving the animals. Some of them have been found fifteen kilometres downstream from the property.