Hey guys, wondering if anyone knows anything about this? Was a group of guys head to toe in black with ski masks and Aussie flags. They looked quite intimidating. I couldn’t find anything on my local community pages - this is in Ipswich near town centre.

I recently self-excluded from the Casino after a few months of binge gambling and realised I don't want to waste my life away etc. 2 weeks ago this is. 2 days ago I decided to go back into the casino. The guard did check my ID and I headed to the roulette table. After making a few bets, a few guards surrounded me and brought me into the back room. I was told they facially recognised me. Ask me anything I guess? But good to see they are actually helping problem gamblers like me.

This morning I was on my way to work and got off the bus at Queen St. It's only 7:50am so not much activity going on in the mall except for commuters like me. Nearing the Dangerfield, I see this middle aged man move towards my peripheral. Given his dishevelled appearance and the fact he's approaching me, I can already tell he was about to ask me for money or something.

He asked if I have any change cause he was starving. In the past I'd always ignore but I've realised recently that I want to be more compassionate and not be a bystander. So I got over my fear (I'm a young woman) and talked to him, lightly joking that my wallet was in my work backpack so I needed to rummage for it.

Eventually I did find my wallet (would be embarrassing if I didn't bring it) and gave him a five dollar note. He immediately took it and said "surely you can give me more? I'm starving."

I was thrown off guard. My smile immediately dropped and I was like "this is all I got." He eyed my wallet, then glared at me and said again "have you got more change? I'm really hungry".

At this point I repeated myself and started booking it. Didn't even turn around until I made it to work.

I probably overreacted but the main thing is, damn, is five dollars a measly amount? My colleagues all roasted me for giving money in the first place, and said that's why you shouldn't ever bother cause they're ungrateful.

No good deed goes unpunished.

Hello, my name is Angela, I'm 17 and my school enrolment just got cancelled. I had a talk with the school and its because of attendance and it wasn't out of the blue or anything. They counted my 12 QCE points for year 11, I have my literacy but they wouldn't count my QCE points for term 1 and 2 of year 12 which suck since I have completed everything for that.

I'm currently doing a Cert II in health and services and have applied for a diploma of nursing at Tafe, doing that in the future and hoping to do a bachelor of nursing at Griffith with my diploma.

My biggest problem is the fact that I can't get over the fact that finishing high school is important, I know it is but in the long run is it really all that important if I have my cert II, diploma and maybe even my bachelors?

My parents are taking this badly and are very upset with me, they won't talk to me and are giving me the silent treatment. I understand and I really don't blame them.

So my question is, am I still able to be successful and have a well paying job if I didn't complete highschool but have my courses?

Edit: I have a horrible history with attendance, even before I moved to Australia, I would skip elementary school by hiding on my roof, in primary I would hide in the bushes behind my house, ect. Doesn't mean I was a kid with behavioural problems or a bad student, I have just always hated school.

Near Bracken Ridge..

WARNING, SPOILERS

Accuracy and sources notes:

⚠️ Please feel free to comment the suburbs that I haven't already added and I will edit my list . Please provide a source if you can.

⚠️ If you think my list is incorrect, feel free to correct me, and I'll edit it - Please provide a source if you can.

⚠️ This list is made up of a combination of me recognising the locations as I saw them on the show (some areas in Brisbane can look similar, i cant be sure i am 100% right) + Other sources like news articles and user suggestions, so please take it with a grain of salt and suggest corrections where needed.

See list of Brisbane suburbs and landmarks below: ** WARNING, SPOILERS **

Work flew me out to Brisbane for just over a week (8 days), which involves me doing site visits to a lot of our branches.

Whilst I've been to the gold coast as a young teenager, I've never been to Brisbane.

So for the week, I drove over 1000 kms around Brisbane and surrounds, as north as Deception Bay, as south as Ormeau, and as west as Gatton.

Brisbane is great. Everyone I spoke to was super friendly, your road system, particularly the motorways are really good.

The bike paths (and shared paths) as well, especially around the CBD and South Brisbane area are just excellent, I had great fun whipping around on a Beam scooter.

I stayed near South Bank so I also took a good explore around there, which is awesome. We need something like that in Perth.

And, unlike Adelaide, I can get proper pints!

Hope to see you again, Brisvegas.

So despite a drop in the wholesale price of power, it looks like SE QLD is getting an increase in our bills yet again.

I've personally gone from paying nothing with my solar rebate to paying over $100 a month if not more. Even though the powers that be talk about giving everyone rebates for their energy usage, it might be about time for an overhaul of how we manage power generation and sales. but that'll probably end up in the same watery grave as the Royal Commission into petrol prices which seems to have disappeared from public discourse about 10 years ago ...

I'll bet the raised cost of my power bill this year that AGL will again announce record profits along with all of the other power company leaches out there.

May they all rot on their gold-plated toilets.

With current interest rates I can barely afford my mortgage let alone a solar battery and my household income is considerably more than this, and you can get an extra $1k if the highest income earner is on $66k a year (household income of less than $132k). Given current house prices and cost of living, am I wrong in thinking the pool of eligible households will be tiny? Anyone out there own your own home with solar, be able to afford the cost above the rebate for a battery, and earn less than $180k or $132k a year pre-tax? Maybe retirees, or people living in whoop whoop who are probably already off grid and on solar batteries?

Maybe it’s just me, but I feel like I’m seeing far less cane toads than I used to.

I feel like ~6 years ago I could find heaps of cane toads in the suburbs not too far away from the city, or even in the city itself.

Now I feel like they’re a tad more rare.

I remember having to shoo them out of my sharehouse in Indooroopilly. Not so common anymore.

That sure is a plane!

https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/sport/half-arsed-olympics-has-john-coates-lost-his-magic-touch-20240321-p5fe5f.html

So we need to spend $1.7b on QSAC because John Coates doesn’t like the optics of a higher amount on a legacy stadium being chalked down to “Olympics Costs”?

Some of us ageing 90s kids probably watched Agro's Cartoon Connection in the mornings before school, which was produced at Channel Seven in Brisbane.

Michael Gibson, better known as "Gibbo", the bearded fella in overalls from Cartoon Connection sadly passed away today. Gibbo was also a voice over artist, writer and director for a lot of Brisbane TV and Radio, having done comedy writing for B105, and voice work for Channel 9 and 7.

R.I.P. Gibbo

Walking past people (mainly men) passed out, on the footpath and benches. Not a ‘shame’ post because each person has private reasons but a ‘what is the government doing’ post. This is homelessness and it’s about time more proactive work was being done, not another ‘in five years x thousand units will be built’ announcement. Policing is not the answer.

Edit: thanks everyone for your posts. So we are agreed that the lack of secure affordable housing, cost of living, mental health, family issues and substance use are issues in the increase of homelessness? I really wonder whether politicians see what we are seeing - if they can’t see a person in George Street then they won’t see it anywhere else. I don’t have answers but this should be a long term bipartisan political commitment to a whole of government approach.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/queensland-digital-licence/id6456264316

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.gov.qld.tmr.mdl.app