The Brisbane City Council opposition says almost 1,300 cases of illegally dumped rubbish and household goods show the mess left since the Brisbane City Council cancelled kerbside collections almost a year ago.

The chair of Council’s city standards, Kim Marx, said they have implemented a range of high-tech cameras that are installed in dumping hotspots and are rotated to different locations.

Ms Marx also said kerbside collection would return when it is economically viable, meanwhile $800,000 is spent on removing illegal dumping every financial year.

$1.86 million in funding has been granted to Townsville Cycling Club in order for them to rebuild their velodrome, the Queensland government announced today.

The velodrome suffered flood damage during the North Queensland Monsoonal Trough in 2019. According to Minister for Emergency Management, David Littleproud, the repairs will have a positive impact on the community.

The work has been jointly funded by the Australian and Queensland Governments under the Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements through the Community and Recreational Assets program.

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A 36 year-old Tamil refugee was transported by air ambulance from Nauru to Sydney on Friday after a targeted attack.

The Tamil refugee is the victim of a deliberate hit and run on Nauru on 9 February, which has reportedly resulted in fractures to his back, shoulder, leg, hand and hip.

The Australian government continues to hold roughly one hundred and twenty seven refugees and asylum seekers on Nauru, at a reported cost of $10,000 a day.

For the past six years, a motorcycle club known as the Night Wolves, have been establishing a presence in Australia in support of Vladimir Putin.

Founded in 2015, the club says it now has 40 to 50 members around New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia and Victoria.

Being described as a ‘proxy’ for the Kremlin, the Russian arm of the club is willing to conduct or support military operations at arms-length from the Russian government.

Drug overdose deaths outpaced deaths from COVID-19 in Canada’s British Columbia in 2020 with a 74 percent increase from 2019.

Province's Chief Coroner Lisa Lapointe suggested urgent changes on decades of criminalization, the increasingly toxic illicit drug market, and insufficient evidence-based treatment with recovery services.

A Melbourne man has completed a 74-day walk from Melbourne to Brisbane to raise funds for the Indigenous Marathon Foundation.

27 year-old Domenic Moore travelled the equivalent of 56 marathons, walking until midnight on most nights.

He arrived in South Bank on 11 February and has raised over $3,000 for the Indigenous Marathon Foundation.

The Queensland government has added 13 new electric vehicle charging stations, to what they are now referring to as Australia’s longest electric vehicle superhighway.

Today there are 31 vehicle chargers west to Toowoomba and 22,000 chargers from Coolangatta to Port Douglas.

Australia now has 2,307 chargers, 357 of those being fast public charging stations, which charge cars in twenty minutes.

The Gold Coast is set to lose a major surfing event over quarantine bills.

The World Surf League is understood to be shipping the Corona open surfing event to New South Wales after the Queensland government refused to foot the bill for COVID quarantine for the champion surfers and their entourages. 

New South Wales and Western Australia are believed to have created a war chest of up to $5 million to attract major events to the state while the Queensland government was offering $500,000 for the major surfing event.

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has spent more than $36,000 of taxpayer money in travel to make an announcement about a Department grant.

Mr Dutton chartered the Royal Australian Air Force jet from Canberra to Tasmania to make a grants announcement for CCTV systems for two councils during the 2018 Braddon byelection campaign.