As it happened: Brisbane on Thursday, November 6

Tickets to Enchanted Garden go on sale tomorrow, and Brisbane’s full Christmas program is set to be revealed today, as there are just 49 days remaining until St Nick flies into town.

The Enchanted Garden is set to return to Roma Street Parkland from November 21 to December 20 with a new immersive festive tale.

Featuring mischievous guardians of the guardian, Willow and Marigold, An Enchanted Eve is packed with Christmas wonder and dazzling light-show effects, with tens of thousands of twinkling LED lights across more than 22,000 square metres of inner-city parkland.

Tickets go on sale at 10am on Friday.

Brisbane City Council is set to launch the city’s full Christmas program this morning.

Brisbane’s Anzac Square has been transformed with a light installation to mark Remembrance Day.

From now until November 11, a falling poppy light display will be projected on the walls of the square each night from 7pm to 10pm, while visitors can place a poppy tribute on the bronze wall.

The Remembrance Day ceremony will be held on November 11 at 10.15am.

See a preview of the installation here.

Brisbane’s citywide green bin rollout is now 80 per cent complete, with more than 119,000 green bins delivered to homes in 151 suburbs.

The remaining 32 suburbs will get about 35,000 green bins by Christmas.

In the June budget, Brisbane City Council introduced a green waste program with a $50 levy.

Every house will get a green bin, and people can opt out, but they will still be charged the levy.

Households that previously paid for and received a green bin will not have a change to their total bill.

Earlier this year, Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner described the program as a “large-scale tax-avoidance scheme” to avoid the state government’s “bin tax”.

Under the state government’s bin levy, introduced in 2019, councils are charged about $115 for every tonne of general waste sent to landfill, with that cost set to increase by $10 a year through to 2028.

Police have charged a man in his 20s after he allegedly threatened people with what looked like a gun at a roundabout in Logan yesterday afternoon.

Police were called to the intersection of George and Main streets after reports a man was walking around allegedly armed, with what appeared to be a firearm, threatening people.

Officers arrived three minutes later, at 4.36pm, and the man was arrested at 4.38pm.

No one was injured.

A 23-year-old Mount Warren Park man was charged with dangerous conduct with a weapon and obstructing police.

He was expected to appear in Beenleigh Magistrates Court today.

A man has been charged with high range drink-driving after he was allegedly seen swerving across the road on Sunday morning.

Police allege he was seen by officers swerving over the road shoulder and centre dividing lines while driving south on Beerburrum Road in Elimbah, a rural town in Moreton Bay, on November 2.

Officers stopped the car on Twin View Road about 7.15am for an RBT.

The 41-year-old Glasshouse Mountains driver allegedly recorded a blood alcohol concentration of 0.326 per cent back at Caboolture police station.

His licence was immediately suspended, and he was charged with driving under the influence of liquor.

He is due to appear in Caboolture Magistrates Court on November 17.

A fire has ripped through a duplex in Emerald, inland from Rockhampton.

The residence was “fully engulfed” when Queensland Fire department crews arrived about 6.50am today.

Crews remain at the homes, with the fire at the main home under control but a small fire in the neighbouring roof space still being worked on.

Paramedics remain at the property, though have not assisted any patients.

Queensland Police officers are also assisting at this stage.

Should e-bikes be registered?

The Department of Transport and Main Roads has reviewed 1106 submissions to Queensland’s parliamentary e-mobility inquiry, which included 36 per cent in support of registration.

But TMR argues non-compliant devices, such as overpowered electric motorbikes, are already banned, and a registration scheme would only work with active enforcement.

The department said registration was effective for road vehicles because they had dealer-assigned plates, and identifiers such as Vehicle Identification Numbers [VIN], and because police conducted high-visibility enforcement.

But “e-mobility devices entered Queensland through varied channels, limiting point-of-sale registration”.

Without strong enforcement, offenders were unlikely to comply, TMR said.

People who ride high-powered electric motorbikes are already breaking the law by riding them on public roads and paths – they are only legal to ride on private property.

Introducing a tiered registration system based on power and speed would likely be complex and expensive, requiring certification, tamper-proof labelling and regulatory oversight, including federal government changes, and system changes to the Transport Registration and Integrated Licensing System.

Costs would probably fall on industry and consumers, including people who ride legal e-bikes that are limited to 25km/h and 250 watts, discouraging “active transport, increasing emissions, congestion and health issues”.

An alternative, suggested by Bicycle Industries Australia, was clear identification of non-compliant devices, such as permanent, visible markings reading “not for use on roads or public places” to help enforcement officers and inform riders of the rules.