Fiona Cunningham News Today

A multi-award-winning Shropshire business provided the catering for the Prime Minister's guests at the Farm to Fork Summit at Number 10 Downing Street.

Ahead of the Brisbane City Council election, the Greens have vowed to create bus lanes on three of Brisbane busiest roads. Labor and the LNP are opposed.

Brisbane’s LNP-run council set aside funds for a new terminal in the CBD, but the Greens want the money to be spent on a second terminal at West End.

A Labor-run council would deploy mobile CCTV cameras to the suburbs and improve lighting as part of a $10 million community safety pledge.

But the LNP said the Greens’ mayoral candidate had “more chance of dog paddling to the moon and back than paying for all his policies”.

We are lucky in this country to have two bulwarks against the extremism creeping into other Western democracy – preferential and compulsory voting.

The plan to woo voters with half-price bus tickets has not gone down well with south-east Queensland’s top public transport boffin, who called it a vote grab.

As the latest crisis in the straits wraps up, Taipei is on the back foot.

A main sticking point preventing progress on nuclear arms control talks is US policy that leaves China feeling it must expand its arsenal. If the US wants China to feel secure enough to negotiate, it must address Beijing’s legitimate concerns.

Also on Wednesday, a body has been discovered in the Western Downs as firefighters battle bushfires that have destroyed five homes.And ratepayers to pick up the tab for a new Brisbane City Council scheme in which some developers will not have to pay for infrastructure when building units.