Getting tested for cancer often requires complicated lab-based equipment but a team at Queensland University has developed a test that may only require a simple blood test.

The test doesn’t look for specific cancers but can alert people to the fact they have a cancer of some kind.

UQ research fellow Dr Abu Sina explains that the breakthrough is thanks to what’s called ‘unique nano-scaled DNA signature’.

A new survey has found many Queensland’s renters are living in “poorly maintained homes for fear of eviction and struggling with rental affordability.”

The research conducted for groups including CHOICE and the National Association of Tenant Organisations found 8% of Queensland renters had been evicted at least once without being given a reason while 58% are concerned asking for repairs would mean a rent rise.

Tenants Queensland CEO Penny Carr tells Mark that what’s needed is for the state government to ban ‘no grounds’ evictions and to place limits on rent rises.

It’s a familiar story that superfit athletes go to seed when they go into retirement but NRL great Billy Slater is determined it won’t happen to him.

He has just released a book Move with Billy Slater which lays out 32 separate workouts that don’t require a gym or any equipment.

He tells Mark he designed the workouts for him and his whole family.

The beleaguered Eagle Farm race track is finally in the home straight and in sight of the finishing post for a long overdue return to racing.

The problems with the racing surface look to have been sorted out after 13 horses tested the track under gallops for the first time.

Racing Queensland CEO Brendan Parnell tells Mark barrier trials will be held next week and if all goes well there may be an early Christmas present for punters.

The bosses of the Big Four banks are anxiously awaiting the final report of the Banking Royal Commission which is due at the start of February next year.

Fresh from his appearance at the commission ANZ Chief Executive Shayne Elliott joined Mark in the studio.

Even before Commissioner Kenneth Hayne delivers his recommendations Mr Elliott says the ANZ is working to rebalance its priorities.

Conditions have eased but Queensland’s bushfire emergency is far from over with fire crews still working right across the state.

While bushland and national parks have borne the brunt of the devastation farmers in central and north Queensland have not escaped unscathed.

Canegrowers CEO Dan Galligan explains to Mark that around 800 hectares of sugarcane crops has been destroyed while one grower also lost his home.

Residents in Mt Gravatt East have won their long running battle against plans to turn a parcel of residential blocks into a complex of 32 townhouses.

The Brisbane City Council will buy the land to add to the 400ha of native bushland its purchased in last two years to save important habitat.

The site has already been cleared by the developer but Mark Winters from the Mt Gravatt East Townhouse Development Action Group tells Mark there are already plans to restore it as koala habitat.

The Broncos Rabbitohs coaching circus has finally been settled with Anthony Seibold fronting at the Broncos Red Hill HQ this morning to take charge.

He says he only knew he was definitely Brisbane bound when he started receiving messages as he sat in the movies with his kids in Sydney yesterday.

Bronco’s legend Glenn Lazarus tells Mark it’s time the NRL put mechanisms in place to ensure there’s no repeat of the Seibold Bennett farce in future.

A two year trial of real time petrol price monitoring has finally begun in Queensland.

Service stations will now have to update prices within half an hour of any change with the information made available through a range of petrol price websites and mobile apps.

Lucinda Ross from the RACQ tells Mark it will then be up to motorists to flex their consumer muscles to keep a lid on prices.

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