As it happened: Brisbane on Friday, November 14

Mancel College in Fig Tree Pocket has closed its campus for the day, effective immediately, after discovering a toy used on campus might contain asbestos.

Kadink Sand, Educational Colours Rainbow Sand, and Creatistics Coloured Sand has been recalled nationally for containing asbestos.

“We have reviewed the guidance published by the ACCC regarding a recall notice of a coloured sand used in sensory play activities,” the school said on social media.

“We have some of the product on site at Mancel College and it has been used in some of the Junior School and we have now found some in the Senior School.

“While the advice is low risk and there are only minor traces, we are acting with an abundance of caution.

“We are therefore advising parents that with immediate effect we are closing the entire College today.”

Mancel College is a special school with almost180 students enrolled at present.

Shortly after 11am, no additional schools had closed or reported finding the contaminated toy, although governing bodies were still performing checks across the Brisbane region.

There are more than 300 schools in the Brisbane City Council area.

A 19-year-old Gold Coast man has been accused of multiple terrorism offences following a federal police investigation.

The teen, who is expected to appear before the Southport Magistrates Court today, was charged with five violent extremist material offences.

He allegedly possessed and shared violent videos and propaganda messages linked to a terrorist organisation between January and April last year.

The Australian Federal Police seized electronic devices during a search of a Gold Coast home on Thursday, which allegedly contained violent extremism material.

Two mobile phones, a laptop and a handwritten diary were previously seized during a search of the home in April.

Police allege forensic analysis of these items found “videos depicting violence and propaganda material for a proscribed terrorist organisation”.

The teen has been charged with four counts of using a carriage service for violent extremist material and one count of possessing or controlling violent extremist material.

A Queensland resident with a confirmed case of measles visited parts of Sydney while infectious, including Accor Stadium for an Oasis concert, health authorities have warned.

The health alert comes after three cases of measles were confirmed in Queensland associated with the Jelly Roll concert in Brisbane on October 24.

A NSW Health spokesperson said people who attended the Oasis concert at Accor Stadium in Sydney on Saturday should monitor for symptoms until Friday, November 28.

The person left Brisbane Airport last Saturday morning (November 8), returning Monday night and locations they visited other than the concert included Sydney Airport, the CBD and inner-west Sydney, using trains.

A full list of locations is posted on the Queensland and NSW Health websites.

“These locations pose no ongoing risk,” NSW Health said.

Anyone who attended American singer Jelly Roll’s Brisbane show on October 24 could have been exposed and is urged to be on the lookout for symptoms.

The three people spent time in the Gold Coast, Brisbane and Wide Bay areas while unknowingly infectious, Queensland Health said.

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Mancel College in Fig Tree Pocket has closed its campus for the day, effective immediately, after discovering a toy used on campus might contain asbestos.

Kadink Sand, Educational Colours Rainbow Sand, and Creatistics Coloured Sand has been recalled nationally for containing asbestos.

“We have reviewed the guidance published by the ACCC regarding a recall notice of a coloured sand used in sensory play activities,” the school said on social media.

“We have some of the product on site at Mancel College and it has been used in some of the Junior School and we have now found some in the Senior School.

“While the advice is low risk and there are only minor traces, we are acting with an abundance of caution.

“We are therefore advising parents that with immediate effect we are closing the entire College today.”

Mancel College is a special school with almost180 students enrolled at present.

Shortly after 11am, no additional schools had closed or reported finding the contaminated toy, although governing bodies were still performing checks across the Brisbane region.

There are more than 300 schools in the Brisbane City Council area.

Police are investigating whether a series of 4WD thefts across Brisbane are linked.

Forty-seven reports of stolen Toyota LandCruisers and RAV4s were made between October 20 and November 12 across the city.

Four LandCruisers were stolen from a business on Ipswich Road, Moorooka, in the early hours of Tuesday, November 4, with one of the vehicles later found suburbs away in Willawong.

Anyone with dashcam or CCTV footage or information that might assist investigators is urged to contact the police.

The annual Sherwood Community Festival returns to Sherwood Arboretum on Saturday from 2pm with food trucks, craft stalls, homewares, gifts and performers.

Get along to the Brisbane Orchid Society Spring Show at the Belmont Shooting Complex this Saturday 8am-3pm for the opportunity to buy orchids – the flower that literally keeps on giving.

Brisbane’s world-famous circus theatre company Circa is presenting the savagely entertaining show Wolf at QPAC tonight and tomorrow.

Hugely influential US indie rockers Pixies are returning to play two different shows at the Fortitude Music Hall: albums Bossanova and Trompe Le Monde on Sunday, and a classic Pixies set on Monday.

Power ballads and rockers by Bryan Adams and Jim Thompson prove a good fit for Pretty Woman: The Musical, a staging of the 1990 film in its final two weeks at QPAC before heading south.

Triple Oscar-winner Daniel Day-Lewis retired six years ago, but has made a one-off return to the screen to star in his son’s movie Anemone, which is showing at Palace Barracks on Saturday in the British Film Festival.

Nominations are open for a state government program to deliver better walking, riding and drop-off zone infrastructure around Queensland schools.

Eligible projects can include new or improved drop-off and parking, upgrades to bus set-down and pick-up zones, upgrades to bikeways and shared paths and new pedestrian refuges and crossings.

Schools, P&Cs and others have until next week to apply for funding under the School Transport Infrastructure Program, which includes $4 million this year.

Applications, via the TMR website, close on November 17.

Speaking on Seven’s Sunrise this morning, Health Minister Mark Butler labelled yesterday’s announcement that the Liberal Party would formally drop their commitment to net zero as “a decision of extraordinary environmental irresponsibility”.

“Well, I can’t believe we’re back here ... I mean, it goes without saying this is a decision of extraordinary environmental irresponsibility. It will be a shock to people who care about climate action.

“It sends a terrible message to our region, [our] Pacific neighbours, to whom climate change is an existential threat and who are so important to our strategic community,” Butler said.