The Brisbane Queer Film Festival is entering it’s second week after opening on 11 March, running until 21 March.

Brisbane’s New Farm Cinema is hosting the Festival with around 20 separate films set to hit the big screens.

Information on films and tickets can be found at BQFF.com.au

A Brisbane quarantine hotel remains in lockdown after a doctor at the Princess Alexandra Hospital contracted COVID-19 after treating two returned travellers who were confirmed cases.

Over 300 tests of close contacts of the doctor have since been conducted and results are expected to be returned today. 

The doctor is understood to have been out in the community on Thursday while infectious, however, there have been no confirmed cases of transmissions as yet.

An Australian alternative rock festival, Spring Loaded, is set to kick off in Sydney in May before moving to Cairns and Brisbane in what could be one of Australia’s first large-scale touring festivals since the pandemic hit Australian shores.

Bands such as Grinspoon, You Am I, Regurgitator, Jebediah, and Frenzal Rhomb will grace the stages in Queensland before moving on to South Australia, the NT, New South Wales, WA and Victoria.

Tickets will go on sale on 24 March.

Organisers of the March 4 Justice protest today have refused a meeting with the Prime Minister after receiving an invitation, instead suggesting he use the time to attend the protest himself.

The simultaneous actions are scheduled across the country today in protest of gendered violence against women in the wake of a series of allegations made against Federal politicians. 

Tens of thousands of people are expected to join the marches in over 40 separate events planned.

Labor is set to win a historic victory after the Western Australia state election over the weekend, with current estimates predicting the party will hold 52 of the 59 seats in the lower house.

Mark McGowan, the returned WA Premier, has said that the landslide victory is thanks to his party’s centrist and "middle-of-the-road" stance. 

The results have left the Liberal Party with too few elected members to form an Opposition, with the Nationals set to replace them.

Content warning: This story mentions murder.

Police in London are facing significant backlash from citizens and politicians alike after heavy-handed tactics were used to quell a peaceful vigil in memory of Sarah Everard who was allegedly murdered by a serving police officer.

Police had denied permission for the vigil which was to be held in Clapham Common where Ms Everard was last seen alive, however, hundreds of people still attended throughout Saturday to pay their respects to Ms Everard.