Four million Australians currently live with arthritis and two-thirds say that they are faring badly with their condition.

Arthritis is the leading cause of chronic pain in Australia costing the health system more than $5.5 billion annually and sadly there is no cure.

Arthritis Australia today launched its National Strategic Action Plan.

National policy manager Franca Marine tells Mark there’s more that governments at all levels could be doing to prevent the condition and make life better for sufferers.

A decision by Prime Minister Scott Morrison not to do preference deals with One Nation has left a number of Queensland LNP pollies deeply unimpressed.

One Nation preferences could decide the fate of several sitting LNP members at the upcoming federal poll.

QUT political scientist Professor Clive Bean explains to Mark that after the experience of the Liberals at the last WA state election it will be a difficult calculation for the government to make.

RSPCA inspectors are conditioned to deal with some pretty distressing scenes but a raid on an animal rescue service north of Brisbane came as a shock.

Officers seized 37 animals after executing a search warrant at the Storybook Farm Animal Garden Rescue and one dog was in such bad condition there was no choice but to put it down.

RSPCA Queensland's chief inspector Daniel Young tells Mark it was nothing short of appalling and the problem is there’s no regulation of animal rescues.

Queensland allows U-Turns at a select number of signalised and sign posted intersections but it is illegal at the vast majority.

That’s apparently proving too confusing for some motorists to such an extent that the Brisbane City Council is about to trial six high-visibility No U-Turn signs with the simplified message.

Mark is at a loss to understand why drivers are allowed to do U-Turns at intersections at all, but the RACQ’s Head of Safety Policy Steve Spalding says in some cases it’s a necessary evil.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced immigration will be capped at 160,000 people a year for the next four years.

There will also be two new visas to encourage skilled migrants to establish themselves in regional areas which include will Adelaide, Darwin and Newcastle.

Immigration Minister David Coleman tells Mark the new cap will help take some of the pressure off capitals like Brisbane where the infrastructure is struggling to cope with the ballooning population.

They say there are only two things certain in life - death and taxes, but in Australia we haven’t paid death duties since they were abolished in the late 70s.

A team at the University of Queensland believes it’s now time to at least have a discussion about adding an inheritance tax to tax mix.

The director of the Australian Institute for Business and Economics at UQ Professor John Mangan tells Mark reintroducing inheritance taxes would be an efficient and equitable way to address housing affordability.

Supermarket giants Coles and Aldi have finally succumbed to public pressure and followed Woolworths’ lead by ending $1-a-litre milk.

Dairy farmers have been battling against the cut price milk since it was first introduced in 2011.

The decision by Coles and Aldi has been welcomed by the Queensland Dairyfarmers Organisation and president Brian Tessman tells Mark it will stem the bleeding but the wounds in the industry run deep.

It’s been more than a decade since a group of 10 Pakistani terrorists went on a murderous four day rampage in Mumbai that left 165 innocent victims dead and more than 300 wounded.

It’s now the subject of a highly acclaimed film Hotel Mumbai that follows the horror of the attack and the bravery of the hotel staff who helped save others.

Australian screenwriter John Collee penned the script and he tells Mark it was a great responsibility to get it right.

Brisbane is home to new world champion.

Local florist Bart Hassam has returned home from Philadelphia where he won the Interflora World Cup against some of the best flower arrangers on the planet.

The three day event is held only once every four to six years and involves six separate disciplines.

Bart tells Mark the road to world cup glory began in his grandmother’s garden in Bundaberg.

One of the big problems for people suffering Coeliac Disease is getting a proper diagnosis.

Many sufferers go through batteries of tests for other conditions before their doctors land on a problem with gluten, but a team at the Wesley Research Institute in Brisbane is set to take much of the guesswork out of it.

They’ve developed a blood test that comes back with a result in just 10 minutes and research team leader Dr James Daveson tells Mark it takes just a pin prick.