This is where we will leave our live news coverage on this Origin Wednesday. Please join us again tomorrow morning when we will hopefully be celebrating a Queensland victory.
Here are some of today’s headlines:
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who was released from prison after spending 1901 days behind bars in London, intends to make public remarks after his plane touches down in Canberra tonight.
Visitors pumped a record $10.6 billion into the Brisbane economy in the 12 months to March this year, according to the latest Tourism Research Australia data. The data showed Brisbane had welcomed more visitors from Canada, New Zealand, South Korea and the US than ever before.
The family of Tia Cameron erupted in emotion, with one person yelling, “You killed our family,” at a brief court hearing this morning for the Brisbane City Council bus driver charged over her death.
Just days after it was named Queensland’s best boozer, the Alba Bar & Deli has permanently closed.
Queensland Health has been ordered to pay almost $40,000 to a worker who was discriminated against when her contract was not renewed after she fell pregnant.
And, a $1 billion Gina Rinehart-backed gas project in Queensland has been approved by the federal government.
Elsewhere in Australia:
In Victoria, widow Robyn Hill feels a sense of injustice at the verdict over her husband’s death, but has vowed to look killer Greg Lynn in the eye when he is sentenced for murdering Carol Clay.
And, in two separate Sydney shootings overnight, a family home with five adults and four girls was peppered with bullets, and a young man was hospitalised after being shot in the stomach.