As it happened: Brisbane on Tuesday, June 3

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If you’re just catching up, here are some of the top stories making headlines today:

Did you know the average income earner in Hawthorne makes about $137,000 a year? We’ve analysed official personal income data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics to reveal where Brisbane’s highest income earners live, and what the top 1 per cent of people in each suburb make.

People catching the train to the Caravan and Camping Supershow tomorrow will be the first to experience the much-anticipated revamp of the train station at Brisbane’s RNA Showgrounds.

Jail time handed to two teenagers who broke into the home of rugby star Toutai Kefu and stabbed his family was appropriate, the Court of Appeal has found, dismissing an argument that their sentences were “manifestly inadequate”.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese does not believe the Fair Work Commission increasing the minimum wage by 3.5 per cent will force up prices.

Speaking in Perth, Albanese said his government pledged that people would not fall behind when it came to the cost of living.

“My government ... said we understand people are under cost-of-living pressure and we want to do something about it,” he said.

“The opposition just wrung its hands and wanted to make things worse. It makes a difference, how much income people have, as well as their expenditure, and this is a modest increase but it is one that is welcome.

A push to make full-face helmets mandatory on e-scooters has come amid a surge in serious injuries, with about five riders now landing in emergency departments across the state every day.

Two years ago, about 100 serious incidents were recorded each month. That figure is now about 150.

Head injuries and fractures are the most common.

Jamieson Trauma Institute has been interviewing patients, and found a significant percentage of incidents involve riders on privately owned scooters travelling to or from work.

Australia’s lowest-paid workers will receive $24.94 an hour after the Fair Work Commission decided to lift the minimum wage by 3.5 per cent this morning.

About 180,000 people will see their hourly rate increase from $24.10 to $24.94 from July 1 as a result of this morning’s ruling by the industrial umpire.

Fair Work Commission president Adam Hatcher said that in reaching this year’s decision, he considered relative living standards, needs of the low paid, workforce participation, the performance and competitiveness of the economy and gender equality.

Brisbane’s annual festival of queer arts, Melt, has revealed headline events set to turn the city rainbow-coloured this October.

There’s no mass nude photograph like last year, but instead, 1000 Voices invites the public to join queer and ally choirs and solo singers in a celebratory mass singalong.

Rascally cabaret star Reuben Kaye is presenting EnGORGed at QPAC, with musical backup from Camerata – Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra.

The Miss First Nation Drag Pageant, the drag competition run by Ben Graetz aka Miss Ellaneous, will bring the most glamorous Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander queens in the country to Brisbane for the grand final.

The corporate watchdog is suing insurance comparison provider Choosi for allegedly misleading customers who were shopping around for funeral and life insurance.

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has launched Federal Court proceedings against Choosi, alleging that it made false or misleading representations to customers by claiming it compared products from a range of funeral and life insurers.

However, ASIC claims that since July 2019, Choosi only compared policies issued by a single insurer – Greenstone Financial Services – a company associated with Choosi.

ASIC alleges that at least 4225 funeral insurance policies and 9478 life insurance policies were sold, with Choosi receiving $61 million in commissions.