The Tokyo Olympics may still be cancelled less than one hundred days out from it’s scheduled start, says Toshiro Nikai, Secretary General of Japan’s ruling party.

The country is facing their fourth wave of the pandemic, with 4,300 new daily cases reported last Wednesday. This comes as less than 1 percent of the population have received the vaccination.

Both the Japanese and international Olympic committees have been firm about pushing through lockdown measures to host the games, despite over 75% of respondents in polls nationwide have expressed against it. 

A campaign has been launched by Powderfinger bass player John Collins to pressure the Queensland Government to ease COVID-19 restrictions in Brisbane live music venues.

Mr Collins, the venue director of The Triffid and Fortitude Music Hall in Brisbane, launched the Play Fair campaign, saying strict restrictions on music venues are unfair while sporting arenas like Suncorp Stadium have been allowed to open at 100 per cent capacity. 

The Play Fair petition has reached over sixteen thousand three hundred signatures since opening six days ago.

Brisbane City council will review the Go-Between-Bridge toll credit scheme after complaints that terms and conditions meant only vehicles considered a passenger car or motorcycle were eligible.

The Infrastructure Committee Chair David McLachlan conceded some residents were unable to access the subsidy due to the Transport and Main Roads Department vehicle classifications.

A small Aboriginal fashion brand based out of Melbourne has been ordered to rebrand after a two-year legal dispute with American fashion giant Gap Inc. over the use of the word ‘gap’ in their name. 

Clothing the Gap says their name was a reference to the Australian health initiative focused on closing the gap between Australian and First Nation people, but a judge ultimately found that there was “contextual confusion” and “deceptive similarity”, and ordered them to rebrand.

Disaster assistance in Western Australia has been extended to a further seven local council areas as the state continues to reckon with the damage caused by last week’s Tropical Cyclone Seroja. 

Minister for Emergency Management David Littleproud said the cyclone had left a devastating trail of destruction and the assistance was being extended as the scale of the damage continued to become clearer.

The jointly funded Commonwealth-State Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements is now providing support to 13 local government areas.

Hong Kong has marked the first Chinese National Security Day since sweeping national security laws were introduced, which the Chinese government dedicated to promote the nation to defend against foreign threats.

China expanded the definition for national security that goes beyond defense against military or terror attacks.

Steve Tsang, director of the SOAS China Institute in London, said while national security in democracies stands for the security of a country against external threats. China’s apparatus targets all external and internal threats. 

Residents of South Brisbane have planned a protest in support of greater pedestrian safety for residents with impaired mobility and vision on the 28th of April.

Residents say that the Brisbane City Council has continued to dismiss or ignore their requests for a zebra crossing to be installed in the vicinity of Hope Street, South Brisbane.

They’re planning to block the intersection of Peel and Hope Streets from 8:00am to 8:30am in order to apply pressure on the Council to meaningfully consider their request for a crossing.