Woolworths has announced that from Tuesday this week it will no longer sell its homebrand milk for just $1-a-litre.

 

It will charge $1.10-a-litre with the extra 10 cents going directly to struggling dairy farmers on a permanent basis.

Budget priced milk first hit supermarket shelves in 2011 and Queensland Dairyfarmers Organisation President Brian Tessman tells Mark it is now vital that Coles and Aldi follow the Woolworth’s lead.

When the movie School Of Rock debuted back in 2003 it turned actor, comedian and musician Jack Black into a big star.

The movie was such a hit that Andrew Lloyd Webber turned it into a musical, penning 14 new songs for the stage production.

It finally lands at QPAC this July and two of the show’s stars joined rock and roll fan Mark in the studio to give him a real lesson in rock.

A federal parliamentary committee is currently holding hearings and taking submissions looking into ways of tackling the scourge of the cane toad.

Since its introduction in 1935 the amphibian now occupies an area of more than 1.2 million square kilometres from Queensland to WA.

The RSPCA has lodged a submission to the inquiry and senior scientist Dr Di Evans tells Mark that while they are a pest that’s no excuse for not disposing of the animal humanely.

Southeast Queenslanders are using water at rates not seen since the Millennium Drought.

In January the average consumption per person was 239 litres, compared to the 170 litres-per-person which had been the average over the last decade.

The region’s water supply dams are currently at a combined 72% but if they slip below 70% authorities will introduce the region’s drought plan.

Seqwater spokesman Mike Foster tells Mark we’re still a long way from water restrictions.

New figures released by the Cancer Council Queensland have delivered some mixed news about cancer rates for Australian kids.

The numbers show cancer rates are increasing with almost 770 children under the age 14 diagnosed each year, however mortality rates have fallen by 38% over the past two decades.

Cancer Council QLD CEO Chris McMillan tells Mark the results reinforce the need for more research.

Finding dinosaur bones is rare, but finding their preserved footprints is equally special.

An hour-and-a-half’s drive from Winton palaeontologists have been working to save a 55 metre long trackway in a dry river bed which contains the footprints of three different kinds of dinosaurs.

Leading the work has been Dr Stephen Poropat from the Swinburne University of Technology and he tells Mark it’s a good thing the project was well advanced because the site is now under flood waters.

It is now illegal in Queensland to post revenge porn online with prison sentences of up to three years.

In fact, even the threat of sharing intimate images without a person’s permission can now land someone in jail.

Queensland Law Society president Bill Potts explains to Mark that it doesn’t matter if the person posting the image is somewhere outside of Queensland.

Australian romantics will splash out more than $500 million on flowers, chocolates and expensive dinners this Valentine’s Day.

However figures show we are increasingly falling out of love with the Hallmark Holiday.

Dr Rebecca Dare from the Monash Business School’s tells Mark a quarter of the population had no plans to mark the occasion, in part because of the cost.

Queensland is on the way to following Victoria with the possible introduction of Assisted Dying laws.

A parliamentary committee has released an issues paper for public comment as part of an inquiry that will report back to state parliament in November.

The Clem Jones Trust is one organisation campaigning for the change and chairman David Muir tells Mark patients, families and doctors are currently forced to skirt the law if they want to allow a loved one to die with dignity.

Lynda La Plante is one of the world’s most successful TV writers, authors and producers.

She was the woman behind such international TV hits as Prime Suspect and Trial and Retribution.

Lynda launched her TV career in the early 80s with Widows which was subsequently released as a novel, before last year becoming a major motion picture.

On her first visit to Queensland she joined Mark in the studio to discuss her follow up to Widows - Widows’ Revenge.