The firebombing of a tattoo studio in Brisbane’s north has stoked fears that an apparent bikie war is set to escalate.

The studio is owned by a senior member of the Rebels and the attack follows the shooting of another Rebels member early last month.

Criminologist Dr Terry Goldsworthy from Bond University tells Mark it is vital that police come down hard to stop any war in its tracks.

The Queensland Government has launched a new campaign seeking more people to open their homes as foster and kinship carers.

Some 5,000 Queenslanders currently look after more than 8,000 children in need of some care and a roof over their head.

Brian Smith from Foster Care Queensland tells Mark people don’t need to be special to do something special for a child in need.

Most people are familiar with identical twins and fraternal twins but there is another kind - Semi Identical twins.

They are so far in fact that there are only two sets known in the world and one set is in Brisbane, a little boy and little girl.

QUT Clinical Geneticist Dr Michael Gabbett explains to Mark that what makes them so special is that they have 100 per cent of their mother’s genes and only a small amount of their dads.

A special taskforce headed by a retired Supreme Court judge will investigate white collar crime in Queensland’s building industry, especially cases of subcontractors being ripped off.

Since 2013 there have been 50 construction industry insolvencies in the state that left subbies more than $500 million out of pocket.

The establishment of the taskforce has been welcomed by Subbies United which has been demanding action for years and spokesman John Goddard tells Mark he hears from subcontractors forced out the back door every week.

In the past five year more than 400,000 city dwellers around Australia have packed up and moved to the country with almost a quarter relocating to regional Queensland.

With a federal election in the offing the Regional Australia Institute today launched its National Population Plan for Regional Australia.

RAI co-chief executive Kim Houghton tells Mark that among the key planks are devoting more money to regional infrastructure and making it easier for international migrants to live in the country.

New research by the CSIRO has found that when grocery shoppers decide which eggs to buy their number one priority is how the egg was laid.

Queensland accounts for 28 per cent of the 17 million eggs laid every day in Australia.

The CSIRO’s findings are being used to drive the industry’s sustainability and Rowan McMonnies from Australian Eggs tells Mark there’s been plenty of change in the last 15 years and there’s more to come.

Attracting new recruits to refresh the ranks of the Australian Defence Force is constant job.

An increasing number of women and girls are considering careers in the Army, Navy and Air Force.

Over two days this week 40 year 10, 11 and 12 female students will get a taste of the military life attending the ‘ADF Experience’ event at Gallipoli Barracks.

Captain Karina Harvey is a Specialist Recruiter for Women and she tells Mark a military career can offer much to young women.

New research has revealed that almost 50 per cent of Queensland primary school principals have been threatened with violence and more than one in three have been physically attacked, often times by parents.

What’s truly disturbing is that the Australian Principal Occupational Health, Safety and Wellbeing survey found the rates of violence are on the rise.

The president of the Queensland Association of State School Principals Leslie Single tells Mark principals have enough on their plates without living in fear.

We often hear that there are chronic shortages of properly qualified maths and science teachers to meet the needs of our schools.

There might possibly be many more trainee maths teachers if they were attending lectures by Dr Kevin Larkin at Griffith University in Brisbane.

He’s been named Universities Australia 2018 Australian University Teacher of the Year and he tells Mark he fell in love with maths because of the certainty of numbers.

The floods that swept across the northwest of Queensland wiped out an estimated half-a-million head of cattle.

It was a body blow for graziers who had spent the last seven years trying to keep their stock alive through the crippling drought.

The Rural Aid charity has been helping producers through the drought with its Buy-a-Bale program, now the charity’s CEO Charles Alder is urging people to help Buy-a-Cow.