Brisbane City Council has approved a proposal for a commercial building between the Heritage-listed Boggo Road Gaol and a CSIRO building despite the surrounding residents' complaints against the development. Stockwell, a Brisbane property company proposed the development in 2019. Months of delays were due to the council needing more information before approving the proposal. Residents say the site is not appropriate and will increase traffic congestion and less access for the public.

Queensland Greens MP Amy McMahon says sex education should be made compulsory in Queensland schools. McMahon, the state member for South Brisbane, wrote to Education Minister Grace Grace yesterday in a bid to curb sexual violence. As people around the world celebrated International Women’s Day yesterday, Ms McMahon said compulsory sex education was just one thing the government could do to improve the lives of Queensland women.

Protesters marked three years since a family of Tamil asylum seekers were taken into immigration detention, with a protest in Brisbane’s CBD this weekend. 

The Brisbane protest came on the same weekend a candle-light vigil was held in support of the family by neighbours and friends in their home town of Biloela.

Four Brisbane developments in the inner-city region are under the spotlight as City Hall assesses a deal to relax project development restrictions.

It comes as part of the Brisbane City Council’s Buildings that Breathe initiative and will see limitations like building heights relaxed, in return for developers improving public spaces on the ground.

Projects are to be evaluated closely according to planning committee chair Krista Adams.

Developers of the Bulimba Barracks site in Brisbane's east have asked the City Council to vary an existing masterplan to reflect a need to raise the entire site above flood level.

Developers say earthwork filling is needed to remove the risk of flood inundation and effectively manage stormwater flow across the site.

Filling the site would meet the Council's flood immunity requirements, except for the fabrication workshop area where the area's heritage prevents it being lifted.

Simultaneous marches are planned across Australia on 15 March to seek justice for women affected by gendered violence.

The protest was initially planned just in Canberra, with aims to have enough attendees to encircle Parliament House, but popularity for the event has grown significantly now with twenty-one planned events across all States. 

The “March4Justice” event has more than 17,000 followers and counting.

Danila Dilba Health Service launched legal proceedings on 5 March in the Northern Territory Supreme Court over a decision to approve a Dan Murphy's store in Darwin.

The action, being run by Maurice Blackburn Lawyers, calls on the liquor licence approval to be set aside on the basis that the decision failed to properly weigh up the risks and benefits for the community. 

Danila Dilba CEO Olga Havnen says, “There’s no harm caused to the community by taking the time to properly consider the public interest and community impact of the proposal..."

The Matamoros asylum seeker camp on the US-Mexico border is now almost empty, with nearly all asylum seekers allowed to cross the border to pursue their claim to stay in the United States.

Once home to more than three thousand people, the camp has emptied after American President Joe Biden last month rolled back the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), which had forced asylum seekers to wait in Mexico.