Most people know that dogs and cats see the world in monochrome but plenty of animals see a world filled with colour.

Researchers at the Queensland University are using trained fish to understand how animals perceive colour.

Dr. Karen Cheney from the Queensland Brain Institute tells Mark the research will not only help understand how animals see colour, but why many animals are the colours they are.

The Brisbane Bandits face off against the Perth Heat on Thursday looking to create Australian baseball history.

If the Bandits can dominate the best of three game series the team will be the first to claim four consecutive ABL Championships.

Ipswich native and Bandits left fielder Andrew Campbell tells Mark the Heat are the best team they’ve played this year and will be a tough task.

There are only 22 police in Queensland to keep tabs on the 2,700 paedophiles on the state’s Child Protection Offender Register.

The Queensland Police Union is demanding the State Government enlist an extra 150 officers to work in the Child Abuse and Sexual Crimes group.

The State Government and the Commissioner say all police are able to perform the duties but Police Union President Ian Levers tells Mark it takes the right kind of officer to do the job.

An Australian company has launched a new product that it says works as an invisible sharknet.

The Ocean Guardian Boat01 is a bouy that sits in water powered from a boat that creates an electrical field to a depth of about 8 metres which interferes with a sharks sensory organs.

Ocean Guardian CEO Lindsay Lyon tells Mark the device could of prevented the attack that killed 33 year medico Daniel Christidis in the Whitsundays late last year.

In a sign of how vital southeast Queensland will be to the government’s election prospects Prime Minister Scott Morrison is spending the week on the hustings.

The PM came armed with a pledge to create 1.25 million jobs in the next five years and hundreds of millions of dollars for congestion busting projects.

Cities, Urban Infrastructure and Population Minister Alan Tudge tells Mark all the projects, big and small, are aimed at making life easier for commuters.

The Brisbane Heat have become the first non-Sydney team to win the Women’s Big Bash League defeating the Sixers with three wickets in hand and four balls remaining.

The WBBL decider was played in front of a sell-out crowd at Drummoyne Oval in stifling heat.

Heat all-rounder Jemma Barsby interrupted her Mad Monday celebrations to share the side’s victory with Mark.

Dogs owner in Sydney, Melbourne and in major cities around the world think nothing of taking their dogs on public transport.

Brisbane however is a no go zone for pets on buses, trains and ferries.

A group of Brisbane dog owners are taking the lead by launching an e-petition to allow dogs on CityCats and

owner Paul Liddy tells Mark it would be under strict conditions on deck.

New research shows 60% of primary schoolchildren in Australia don’t walk or cycle to school, even when they live within just 750m of their school.

The research by a team at the Australian Catholic University sounds the alarm that parents are creating a “backseat generation” of children.

Dr Alison Carver from the Mary MacKillop Institute for Health Research tells Mark one solution might be creating safe pick up and drop off zones 800m from primary schools.

An eight year old girl is recovering after being attacked by a goanna while walking through a campground on South Stradbroke Island this week.

The lizard latched onto her foot and it took two people to pull it off her.

PhD student James Dobson from the University of Queensland Herpetology Society tells Mark unprovoked attacks by goannas are very rare.

The Brisbane Heat will be out to deny the Sydney Sixers a three-peat of WBBL titles when they clash at Drummoyne tomorrow.

Although the Heat and the Sixers have split their games this summer Sydney will go into the decider as slight favourites.

Former Heat star Holly Ferling tells Mark she thinks Brisbane’s bowling attack will be the difference on the day.