Filming starts this week on the Gold Coast for local feature film Black Site produced by Queensland’s Todd Fellman. The film will create approximately 200 jobs for crew, cast and extras and inject over nine million dollars into the state economy. Funded by the Queensland Government, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says the feature film will recruit mainly Queensland crew and cast, including mostly Queenslanders as Heads of Department on the production.

The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Wooloongabba is set to become one of Queensland’s 6 hubs for the rollout of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine hubs are spread around Queensland to ensure the vaccine can reach those in need quickly, including frontline health workers and aged care residents. In a statement, state health minister Yvette D’Ath said the strict limitations on storage, transport and distribution of the Pfizer vaccine mean its rollout will be a more complex process than for other vaccines, but that the vaccine’s arrival in Queensland is an exciting milestone for the state

A fire in Browns Plains on Brisbane’s southside has destroyed a unit block after it broke out this morning.

Ten crews were dispatched to the scene on Myola Street at 4:00am, and the blaze was under control in 30 minutes, according to emergency services.

Two people are unaccounted for, according to authorities, however details or identity are not yet released.

The University of Queensland’s scientists have developed an ultraviolet ‘television’ display, aiming to help researchers better understand how animals see the world.

Standard monitors have been used previously, but none have been able to test ultraviolet vision - the ability to see wavelengths of light shorter than 400 nanometres.

The technology will help unveil the secrets of sights in all sorts of animals, such as fish and birds, according to Dr Samuel Powell from the Queensland Brain Institute’s Marshal Lab.

Just a content warning for this next story, as it contains themes of sexual assault.

A third woman has come forward to allege she was sexually assaulted in 2016 by the same political staffer accused of assaulting Brittany Higgins inside Parliament House.

The woman, barely out of school at the time, was assaulted while working as a coalition volunteer, allegedly occurring after a night out drinking with the then-political staffer.

The following story discusses sensitive themes, including abortion and sexual health.

The cost of contraception is pushing women in Venezuela into unplanned pregnancies and unsafe abortions.

As Venezuela enters its eighth year of economic crisis, millions of women are no longer able to afford birth control, forcing many to have unplanned pregnancies pushing them into further economic strain.

A man who had a planet named after Brisbane is set to retire, after 36 years at the popular Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium at Mt Coot-Tha.

The planet, 5277 Brisbane, was named thanks to Planetarium curator, Mark Rigby, who approached the International Astronomical Union in 2009.

Rigby has served as curator since 2002.

Fragments of SARS-CoV-2 were detected in the Kawana sewage catchment on Saturday.

Anyone with symptoms should come forward and get tested, implores Queensland Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young.

Young says new variants emerging overseas are concerning, but the detection may relate to previous COVID-19 cases that are no longer infectious.