The 75th anniversary of the completion of the Thai Burma Railway has been marked at The Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial in Ballarat.

Around 13,000 Australian POWs laboured on the railway and more than 2,700 were worked and starved to death by their Japanese captors.

Perhaps no section of the railway was more notorious than Hellfire Pass and Australian War Memorial historian Dr Lachlan Grant tells Mark no-one will ever know how many Australians perished there.

A new ad promoting organ donation which uses the crucifiction of Jesus as the setting has some crying blasphemy and demanding it be banned.

The ad asks What Would Jesus Do? and involves two Roman guards encouraging Jesus to donate his organs.

The director of the ad Richard Bullock tells Mark it is deliberately provocative and he believes Jesus would have been an organ donor.

See it here:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4_5Kgy4qWms

A taskforce looking at the scourge of cyberbullying has presented the Palaszczuk government with its final report.

The government has pledged to adopt all of its 29 recommendations and promised $3.5 million to educated children and young people about the dangers.

Taskforce member, MP and former secondary school principal Corinne McMillan tells Mark some measures can be rolled out quickly but others will take time.

A new study has found the overwhelming majority of women are only too happy to look after their grandchildren.

The Queensland University and University of Newcastle study found 60% of grandmothers in their mid 60s and 12% in their late 80s provide regular, unpaid childcare for their grandchildren.

Study deputy director Assoc Prof Leigh Tooth tells Mark there actually appear to be health benefits in caring for the littlies.

Queensland’s four major horse racing groups have placed threatened strike action over the Palaszczuk Government’s new betting tax ‘on hold’.

The Racing Industry Participants Alliance wants a share of the new Point Of Consumption tax and has been willing to boycott local meetings to coincide with the Cox Plate and Melbourne Cup.

Alliance spokesman Cameron Partington tells Mark the industry believes it best to give negotiations with the government some clear air.

Almost everyone has some superstition they follow whether it be not walking under ladders, black cats or touching wood.

In fact, sportspeople famously have a range of different superstitions they believe are the difference between victory and defeat.

Murdoch University PhD student Kylie Sturgess researches superstitions and tells Mark humans are predisposed to find patterns where none exist.

A Brisbane company that makes charging stations for electric vehicles has been named Queensland Exporter Of The Year.

Tritium launched its first fast charger in 2014 and now has instillations in 24 countries and offices in the United States and The Netherlands.

Tritium CEO and founder David Finn tells Mark as carmakers move towards more electric vehicles the future for his company is unlimited.

Diesel has been a mainstay of the Australian music scene for 30 years and to mark his stellar career he has released his first greatest hits compilation.

Diesel 30 – The Greatest Hits boasts one new track 'Give Me Saturday Night'.

He tells Mark seeing his career laid out in the track listing was a real eye opener.

People in the northern hemisphere often have to suffer through the chilly Christmas season wearing the ugliest of ugly jumpers.

The Cancer Council doesn’t see why Queenslanders should be spared the embarrassment and has released its annual Ugly Xmas Rashie.

This year’s edition sports a koala design and Cancer Council spokesperson Meaghan Bush tells Mark the money raised will go towards cancer research, support services and cancer prevention programs.

Queensland Rail has joined forces with a local RSL Club for a special commemoration to mark the 100th anniversary of Remembrance Day.

All the windows on three carriages of a Brisbane train have been fitted with special skins marking the centenary.

It is the brainchild of Redland RSL Sub-Branch Secretary Michael McDonnell and he tells Mark it will be put to good use come November the 11th.