Country airline Regional Express made its first flight from Melbourne to Sydney yesterday, marking its entry into the world’s second busiest air routes. The regional airline is expanding its operations to include big city flights in a move to challenge Qantas and Virgin. The move comes following Regional Express’s announcement last week that it would end five of its regional air services at the end of March, blaming what it called Qantas’ ‘aggressive predatory moves’ to encroach on their regional operations.

Bravus, formerly known as Adani, is taking Prominent Stop Adani activist Ben Pennings to the Supreme Court today in a pre-trial hearing. Mr Pennings is being sued by Adani for breach of confidence inducing breaches of contract and conspiring with others to commit unlawful acts. Adani says Pennings has taken its confidential information but won’t tell him what the information is.

A team of QUT Creative practice delivered a short film using state-of-the-art technology to showcase cutting-edge medical science, by simulating environments like outback Queensland and operating room in the university campus.

QUT film lecturer and short film’s co-director, Joe Carter, said the team had gone beyond a short animated film to showcase what they are capable of. 

Almost 400 metres of tunnels have been excavated beneath Roma Street, as part of one of the most crucial steps in the progress of the Cross River Rail project.

The Cross River Rail will transform the Brisbane public transport network and is a vital project for supercharging and recovering the economy, according to Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk.

The project, and the new Roma Street Station, are set to be open and operating in 2025.

Four exotic snakes smuggled into Queensland have been seized by biosecurity officers and euthanised. 

Three American corn snakes and a four-metre Burmese python have been seized in the past two months. 

Agriculture Minister Mark Furner said exotic reptiles pose a serious biosecurity risk to Queensland’s native wildlife, environment and human life and safety.

Criticisms continue to flow after the Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition co-hosted the UN Women Australia’s International Womens’ Day breakfast event on 24 February. 

Twitter was alight with criticisms of the choice to have the two men host and be key speakers at the event, which was held in order to celebrate women leaders from across the globe. 

On Twitter, people are providing suggestions for female politicians that would have been better suited to address the group on the successes and issues facing women in leadership roles.

Alexei Navalny’s whereabouts had been unknown since Thursday after allies learned that he was transferred to an undisclosed location from the Moscow prison, Matrosskaya Tishina.

The Moscow Monitoring Commission has now disclosed he has been transferred to a penal colony in the Vladimir region to serve his sentence.

Navalny has been sentenced to more than two and a half years for parole violations that he says are trumped up.