The Australian Baseball League is underway and the Brisbane Bandits play host to the Adelaide Bite at Holloway Field on Thursday

The bandits will be looking to make it four ABL Championships on the trot.

The club’s principal owner Mark Ready tells Mark the bandits are looking good with three wins from three so far this season.

Queensland state school teachers will be asked if they want to strike next week to demand the Federal Government remove all refugee children from Nauru.

The strike would see primary and secondary teachers walk off the job at 2:30 next Tuesday afternoon.

Mark put Teachers Union president Kevin Bates on the spot to explain how Nauru was in any way an issue for the union.

A new report has revealed that young Queensland men are much less likely to binge drink than their parents or grandparents.

The Health of Queenslanders 2018 report found that since 2010 the rate of young men consuming alcohol at risky levels had fallen 31%, while for men 65 and over drinking excessively rose 32%.

Qld Health chief psychiatrist and chief alcohol officer Dr John Reilly tells Mark the numbers even took him a bit by surprise.

There are warnings the Brisbane River is at an ecological tipping point brought on by mounting population pressures.

Nitrogen and phosphorus levels in the river have increased for the first time since the early 1980s when there were major investments made in water treatment.

Dr Paul Maxwell is the principal river scientist with Healthy Land and Water and he tells Mark it is not all doom and gloom.

After three years and $110 million stage-1 of the long awaited Howard Smith Wharves redevelopment beneath of Storey Bridge has been officially opened to the public.

It includes parklands, a lift that travels down the cliff face from Bowen Terrace to the riverside and new event spaces.

Howard Smith Wharves CEO Luke Fraser tells Mark that in the coming months there will be even more for the public to enjoy.

A US ride sharing startup Lime is planning to introduce hundreds of electric scooters to the streets and footpaths of Brisbane.

Riders use an app to find and unlock a scooter and are charged $1 to access it then 30c a minute to use it.

Once the ride is over the rider simply leaves it parked on the footpath.

Australia and NZ government affairs and strategy director Mitchell Price tells Mark the company is working with local authorities to get the service up and rolling.

Brisbane’s architectural heritage is unique but development pressures have new homes and units literally closing in.

The Priory at Indooroopilly sits on 4 hectares overlooking the Brisbane River but now a developer has been given approval to hive off about 3 hectares to build units.

Jane Alexander is the Qld Heritage Advocacy Manager with the National Trust and she explains to Mark that it is the big landing holdings that make gems like the Priory so vulnerable.

22 years of fighting to protect children from predators has earned the police Detective Inspector Jon Rouse the honour of being Queensland’s Australian of the Year.

He will now represent the state at the national awards to be presented in Canberra next January.

Inspector Rouse tells Mark his work with Task Force Argos is often difficult and confronting but the fight against those who would exploit children is never ending.

Federal and state Consumer Affairs Ministers are under fire over the question of charging people a fee to receive a paper bill in the mail.

State and federal governments have given organisations such as The Commonwealth Bank and Telstra 12 months to extend exemption programs to those who can least afford it.

The Combined Pensioners and Superannuants Association has called it a “do nothing” policy and CPSA spokesman Paul Versteege tells Mark it is time the practice was banned outright.

Most people know of a special place where going for a swim is pure paradise.

A new book Places We Swim catalogues 60 of Australia’s most beautiful, dramatic and special places to get wet.

Co-author Dillon Seitchik-Reardon spent a year visiting the locations and he tells Mark is was a tough job but someone had to do it.