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An unusual cloud formation rolled over Brisbane this morning, raising the curiosity of early morning commuters and joggers.
The long, well-defined “roll cloud” formed as a result of a strong southerly wind change undercutting the warmer air ahead of it, meteorologist Tony Auden told his Facebook followers.
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If you are just catching up, here are some of the stories making headlines today:
Findings for 38 patients were missed in Caboolture Hospital’s imaging scandal, a review of more than 21,000 scans has found.
Former lord mayor and premier Campbell Newman says campaigners are ready to take out injunctions in the federal court to stop Brisbane’s new Olympic stadium being built in Victoria Park, which celebrates its 150th anniversary today.
The teenager who stabbed grandmother Vyleen White to death in the car park of a Redbank Plains shopping centre is waiting to learn his fate in a Brisbane courtroom.
An unusual cloud formation rolled over Brisbane this morning, raising the curiosity of early morning commuters and joggers.
The long, well-defined “roll cloud” formed as a result of a strong southerly wind change undercutting the warmer air ahead of it, meteorologist Tony Auden told his Facebook followers.
The Brisbane Broncos will launch their NRL premiership defence at Suncorp Stadium against the Penrith Panthers, after the league used AI for the first time to devise next year’s first round of fixtures.
Coach Michael Maguire’s men, having broken the club’s 19-year title drought, will kick off on the night of Friday, March 6, against rugby league’s modern-day juggernaut, the Panthers.
This year was the first time since 2020 that the Panthers have not lifted the silverware at the end of the season.
The match-up will come the week after the NRL takes its opening two clashes to Las Vegas for the third time, with the North Queensland Cowboys, Newcastle Knights, Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs and St. George-Illawarra Dragons all making the trip.
Liberal senator Leah Blyth was on a flight from Adelaide to Canberra this morning for a party room meeting on net zero when the cabin of the plane started to fill with smoke.
“We fly a fair bit and certainly before going into politics I spent a lot of time flying but I’ve never had a cabin sort of filled with smoke quite like that before,” the South Australian senator told Adelaide breakfast radio earlier this morning.
“So that was certainly unusual and hats off to the Qantas staff who were calm, cool and collected and they got us back safely on the ground with no incidents.”
Blyth was travelling with colleagues Tony Pasin, the member for Barker, and Senator Andrew McLachlan.
The incident happened upon take-off, Blyth said. The plane was immediately grounded and passengers were safely disembarked with the help of cabin crew.
The Liberals are expected to finalise their position on net zero at today’s party room meeting.
Save Victoria Park campaigners have revealed they will take legal action in the federal court as soon as the bulldozers roll in to start building Brisbane’s Olympic stadium.
Campaigners gathered in Victoria Park in Brisbane’s inner-north this morning to celebrate its 150th birthday and protest “its imminent demise and death”.
“We’re celebrating the great vision of governments back in 1875 who said this should be the lungs of the city,” former deputy mayor David Hinchliffe, one of the leading campaigners, told ABC radio.
“And we’re also lamenting the lack of vision by a government, who says the only place in this great big beautiful city of ours where they can think to put a stadium is smack bang in the middle of a hilly … 150-year-old park.”
Almost one in three Australians want the Albanese government to dump its commitment to net zero emissions by 2050 on the eve of a Coalition meeting where it is expected to formalise its climate policy after months of infighting.
Almost half of those surveyed in an exclusive poll thought that Australia would not meet its 2030 emissions-reduction target of 43 per cent against 2005 levels.
The nation is set to fall short of the goal on its current trajectory, but 22 per cent still believed it would reach the 2030 target, while the other 29 per cent were unsure.
According to the federal Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Australia is on track to reduce emissions by 42 per cent by 2030, 1 per cent short of the legislated target, though many experts warn Australia’s large-scale renewable energy projects have stalled, and the country will fall well short of the 43 per cent target.
Keeping with the Liberal party room meeting for a moment …
Nationals leader David Littleproud has refused to say if his party would stay in the Coalition if the Liberals decided to keep a net zero target, saying on Sky News only that his role was to put his party’s position “with the how, not just say no, but what and how, which is what we have done with a cheaper, fairer, better plan”.
Littleproud bridled at suggestions that ditching net zero meant the Nationals were climate deniers.
“The only argument Labor’s got at the moment, there is no intellectual argument against what the National Party’s put,” he said.
“They’ve reverted to pure old politics as saying that we’re climate deniers. That’s all the intellectual rigor they can bring to this debate. It shows this government is out of touch, and they’re going to spend nearly $2 billion on a conference to create a grandstand for Albanese to talk to the world.”
Liberal senator Jane Hume has swiftly batted away the suggestion that today’s party room meeting was about Opposition Leader Sussan Ley’s position, amid increasing rumours about the possibility of a leadership spill.
Asked whether today’s party room meeting was about net zero or Ley, Hume said:
“No, today’s meeting is about our energy policy. That’s the most important thing, our energy policy, and also our climate policy because Australians want a cleaner climate but they also want lower energy prices,” Hume told Nine’s Today program this morning.
But Hume appeared to dodge a question about whether Ley would survive as party leader.
“Sussan has been consistent from the very beginning that she wants to consult with her party, with her team, and make sure that we find our way forward, not Labor’s way forward. It’s not about adopting Labor’s way or abandoning Labor’s way. It’s about finding the Liberal way forward,” she told the hosts of Nine’s Today show this morning.
Liberal MPs have arrived at Parliament House after being called back from their electorates to Canberra to urgently discuss the party’s energy policy.
Opposition Leader Sussan Ley did not respond to questions.
Manager of opposition business Alex Hawke said he would support Ley if she followed the National Party and dropped net zero during the party room meeting today.
“It’s a lot to ask one person to be our leader, and that person’s got to carry forward the team view,” he said.
The Cultural Forecourt in South Bank has been announced as the venue for On the Banks, a new outdoor concert series during March 2026.
De La Soul, Bernard Fanning, The Streets, Peach PRC and Marlon Williams are among the acts confirmed for the series.
The series will also include the debut of a one-day celebration of Punjabi music, food and culture called Blockbuster.
The concerts will take place next to the ‘Brisbane’ sign behind the Queensland Performing Arts Centre.
Holding an outdoor concert series in March does not come without risks. March is historically the third-rainiest month in Brisbane, according to the Bureau of Meteorology. This year, many parts of south-east Queensland had their highest March daily rainfall on record.
Tickets for On the Banks are on sale from Friday, November 14.