Thank you for joining us for Brisbane Times’ live news blog. Brisbane can expect a partly cloudy day today, with a maximum of 25 degrees.
In this morning’s news, a major Optus outage is affecting millions of customers around the country.
Meanwhile in Queensland, in what one expert says is an attempt to “avoid unpleasant news”, the Queensland government has failed to carry out a full community impact study on the Queen’s Wharf casino.
A man who allegedly pointed a loaded revolver at an officer before his dramatic arrest on the Gold Coast has been charged.
Amid interest rate rises and rising rents, money worries are affecting young Australians both physically and mentally, with many struggling to cope with the cost of living.
And a trial starting today at the Howard Smith Wharves restaurant precinct will see fly larvae convert up to 1.7 tonnes of food scraps daily into fertiliser and chook food.
Olympia Yarger of Goterra.Credit: Oscar Colman
