A number of campsites on Fraser Island are set to remain closed over the Easter break due to concerns over dingo attacks. 

Queensland’s Department of Environment and Science say that visitors interacting and feeding Dingos may lead to an increase in aggressive behaviour.

A 8-year-old boy was bitten on the leg by a dingo earlier this February and a man was fined $2,000 last week for throwing bait at two dingo pups.

Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins is leading an independent inquiry into the parliament workplace culture and she says a wide-range of people will be coming forward.

Last night, the commissioner said at a Senate hearing, submissions will be welcomed from current and former politicians, staffers and even  those who work in Parliament's cafes and gardens.

The comment follows Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s “get house in order” address in response to an allegation of former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins being sexually assaulted in a Ministerial office.

Delays have hit the building of the Australian Navy’s new patrol boat fleet with deficient aluminium bought from China.

Ship builders, Austal, gained the three hundred and fifty million dollar contract to build the Cape Class patrol boats.

Austal says most of its aluminium is sourced from China.

United States President Joe Biden is calling for tougher gun restrictions after a fatal mass shooting in the state of Colorado this Monday. 

Biden is urging the US senate to revise legislation that allows loopholes in firearm background checks. 

The shooting claimed the lives of ten victims and was the second mass shooting recorded in America in less than a week.

The rain sweeping through South East Queensland is providing hope to Stanthorpe residents as the Storm King Dam begins to fill up.

Drought has forced the town to bring in water by truck every day for the past 12 months to meet demand.

Despite the optimism the rain has brought, the Storm King Dam will need another six months of rain, or 550 megalitres of water, before deliveries can safely end.

The Queensland Government’s proposed overhaul of youth justice laws has youth workers concerned it may backfire. 

Youth Advocacy Centre CEO Janet Wight says the bill would put the system back 10 years as the changes were introduced with undue haste. 

With reforms including ankle bracelets and presumption against bail there is concern the youths would see the ankle bracelets as trophies, causing the opposite effect to their purpose.

Just 1000 people have taken the Brisbane City Council up on their $100 Go Between Bridge vouchers since the scheme opened on January 1st.

The incentive aimed to draw people away from William Jolly Bridge, which has seen heavy congestion since Victoria Bridge closed to traffic as part of the council’s green initiative.

Local Infrastructure Committee chair Cr David McLachlan says the best way to reduce congestion will be by getting people on to public transport, which is still only at 70 per cent of pre-pandemic levels.

Federal Parliament has backed a motion to open a royal commission into veteran suicide.

The government had previously opposed the move, instead establishing a permanent national commission for veteran suicides in February last year.

From 2001 to 2017, 419 ex-defence forces personnel committed suicide, more than seven times the number of combat deaths in the same period.

Senior Liberal cabinet minister Karen Andrews says that it’s time for the Liberal Party to consider introducing quotas to get more women into parliament. 

Ms Andrews says she’s ''had a gutful'' of the treatment of women in parliament as a male Coalition staffer was sacked last night due to allegedly performing a lewd sex act on the desk of a female Liberal MP. 

Labor and Greens staffers conducted a sit-in at parliament’s meditation room this morning arguing they wanted to send the message that they’ve had enough of the culture.