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A grass fire was spotted burning in Balmoral Cemetery late yesterday, with one fire creeping metres from Wynnum Road.A fire was spotted at Balmoral Cemetery.Credit: Hannah DelbridgeFire crews arrived at the eastern Brisbane cemetery shortly before 5.30pm, finding two fires had been alight but one had burnt out.The second was contained by firefighters, and police also attending the scene said no traffic blocks were needed while crews contained the second fire, which covered a four-square-metre area at the edge of the cemetery near Wynnum Road.Fire crews had both blazes extinguished by about 6.30pm.Latest postsLatest postsPolice are searching for a 16-year-old girl missing from the Sunshine Coast for almost two weeks and request anyone with information to contact them.The girl was last seen on the Sunshine Coast on October 25.Credit: Queensland PoliceShe was last seen at a property in Banya, about 11 kilometres south-west of Caloundra, about 1pm on October 25.“Police have concerns for her welfare due to her young age and length of time since she was last heard from,” police said in a statement.The teenager was described as having slim build, fair complexion, brown hair and brown eyes.She was last seen wearing red shorts and a red T-shirt.Liberal senator Sarah Henderson has refused to back Opposition Leader Sussan Ley’s leadership, saying she’s hoping for a miracle to turn the party’s fortunes around in the face of record-low polling.“As a member of parliament, I can’t pretend things are good,” Henderson told Sky News this morning.Liberal Senator Sarah Henderson.Credit: Alex Ellinghausen“We’ve had a dire Newspoll result. A primary vote of just 24 per cent, things are not travelling well … I do think Sussan is losing support, but I do believe in miracles.“We can turn things around, but things are not good. I don’t support things the way they are.”LoadingAsked whether she supported Ley’s position as leader, Henderson said: “I can’t back in the way things are ... It’s a very difficult time for the Liberal Party.”Henderson said she was not calling for Ley’s removal as leader, but said: “She is losing support because of what’s happened since she became leader, and we are all working very hard to get our party back on track.”“I can’t sit here and pretend everything is OK. It’s not OK. And Australians want us to be better than we are at the moment, we have to be a highly effective opposition,” she said. A grass fire was spotted burning in Balmoral Cemetery late yesterday, with one fire creeping metres from Wynnum Road.A fire was spotted at Balmoral Cemetery.Credit: Hannah DelbridgeFire crews arrived at the eastern Brisbane cemetery shortly before 5.30pm, finding two fires had been alight but one had burnt out.The second was contained by firefighters, and police also attending the scene said no traffic blocks were needed while crews contained the second fire, which covered a four-square-metre area at the edge of the cemetery near Wynnum Road.Fire crews had both blazes extinguished by about 6.30pm. Advertisement The week ends in the River City with another pleasantly mild day, the weather bureau forecasting a top of 27 degrees on a mostly sunny Friday.The weekend is looking largely the same, give or take a slight rise in the daily maximums.Showers may be about at the weekend, but meteorologists suggest there isn’t much in it.Here’s the seven-day outlook:Here’s what’s making news further afield:Labor’s plans to restrict public access to government information will not pass parliament, as the Coalition and the Greens unite to oppose the bill in the Senate, calling the measure a tax on truth.Liberal MPs will be hauled back to Canberra on Wednesday for a crunch meeting to resolve the party’s position on net zero, infuriating moderate Senator Jane Hume, who labelled the divisive debate over the slogan “net zero” as crazy. She argued the Coalition parties broadly agreed on almost everything but those two words.Koalas are starving in their thousands on an island in Victoria, where once-healthy trees have been stripped to bare branches as population numbers careen out of control. Heartbroken locals have told of koalas falling from trees and resorting to eating pine needles.Fresh satellite images suggest the next step of a large-scale massacre of civilians is under way in the Sudanese city of El Fasher, which fell to a paramilitary force 11 days ago after an 18-month siege. The images, analysed by the Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab, show what appear to be mass burials being conducted in the city this week.Nancy Pelosi has announced her retirement.Credit: APNancy Pelosi, the first woman to serve as the powerful Speaker of the US House of Representatives, will not run for re-election to Congress in 2026, ending a four-decade career of a progressive Democratic icon often vilified by the right. The 85-year-old congresswoman was first elected in 1987.‘Screaming in my head’: Here’s how Jake Weatherald found out about his Ashes call-up.Good morning and welcome to Brisbane Times’ news blog for Friday, November 7. Today should be mostly sunny with a top of 27 degrees.Here are this morning’s local headlines:A pair of Brisbane suburbs once best known for their car yards and sprawling industrial hubs could be unrecognisable in a decade or two – but views on how they should be developed are divided.Ipswich Road in Moorooka, a the suburb that, along with nearby Salisbury, is shaping as a major future development corridor.Credit: William DavisThe $900,000-a-year executive responsible for Melbourne’s most expensive infrastructure project commutes from Brisbane and is paid additional expenses to attend unscheduled meetings.Victims of Thursday’s devastating Emerald house fire – a man, a teenager, a toddler and a baby – have been identified.A man who was working as a nurse at Greenslopes Private Hospital on Brisbane’s southside has been charged with raping two female patients, both in their 80s.The mother of a man shot dead during an armed stand-off with police has wept in court at an inquest as she described her son as loving and always willing to help people.And test your knowledge of local, national and international news stories with this week’s trivia challenge.
