The free carpark at Roma St Parklands is set to be sold by the Queensland government to developers, reportedly to offset costs of the cross-river rail project. 

Brisbane City Council is opposing the deal and will lodge an official complaint to the state government. . 

The decision will impact 150 free car parks in the Roma St Parklands precinct and the land may be used in the future to build residential or commercial projects

Although the rainfall is easing over south-east Queensland after flash flooding, our dams have failed to be topped up.

Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster, Jonty Hall says the significant rainfall over the past few days had fallen short of filling up the region's biggest dams.

Wivenhoe Dam is currently at 37 per cent capacity, however Somerset Dam is sitting at almost 78 per cent.

Learning about consent as part of sex education is now mandatory in all Victorian public schools.

The Victorian government’s previously implemented program covered safety around STIs, and building health relationships, but did not explicitly cover how to recognise and give consent.

Victorian Education Minister, Jaala Pulford, says the move has come after younger Victorian’s called on the government to put a greater emphasis on consent education.

The founder of The Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Hobart and the dark MOFO festival has apologised over its plan to use donated blood to soak a British flag for an art project.

The museum and festival has been boycotted by first nations peoples for the art project after the request for donated Indigenous blood was made on Saturday.

MONA founder Michael Walsh says he “didn't see the deeper consequences of this proposition”

The death toll from a fire that ripped through a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh has risen to at least 15, with another 400 people missing, 550 injured and about 50,000 displaced according to the United Nations refugee agency. 

Rohingya  people are a Muslim ethnic group of western Myanmar, the cause of the fire is still unknown.

Most of the people in the camps fled Myanmar in 2017 amid a military-led crackdown on the Rohingya  that UN investigators said was executed with "genocidal intent", charges Myanmar deny.

Bribie Island residents are worried that the island is too popular with holidaymakers and 4WD enthusiasts.

Residents are calling for a rethink of island tourism with increased traffic clogging the bridge to the mainland and putting turtle hatchlings at risk along the beach.

The endangered loggerhead turtles use bribie island beaches to lay their eggs and hatch their young.

Residents are being urged to evacuate low-lying areas in Beaudesert this morning as the Logan and Albert river catchments burst their banks.
River levels are easing across the upper reaches of the catchments causing floodwaters downstream to arrive this morning.

You can get more warning, rainfall and river information at www.bom.gov.au 

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.