Brisbane news live: Alleged thief coaxed out of tree following home invasion | Police lay murder charge over man’s disappearance

A 30-year-old man officers coaxed out of a tree over an almost 12-hour period on Sunday night is set to appear before court today.

Police were called to a Stirling Street home, in Bridgeman Downs, about 3.30pm on Sunday, following allegations two men had broken into the home and stolen a car.

The 40-year-old male resident allegedly confronted the pair, who police have since said threatened him with a knife before allegedly fleeing in the 40-year-old’s white Toyota Corolla.

Officers said they tracked one of the alleged offenders – a 30-year-old Strathpine man – to a home in Strathpine about 6.30pm on Sunday.

The 30-year-old then climbed a tree but was eventually coaxed down and arrested almost 12 hours later, about 6.50am.

He was charged with four offences including robbery armed/in company/wounded/use personal violence, serious assault police officer, possessing dangerous drugs, and was expected before Brisbane Magistrates Court today.

A sunny day is ahead in the River City today.

The Bureau of Meteorology has forecast a fine Tuesday with a top temperature of 30 degrees, with similar conditions to be expected tomorrow.

Humidity should be quite high, but the apparent temperature should remain much closer to 20 than the mercury suggests.

By Thursday, however, Brisbanites should be ready for an especially warm spike, with the latest prediction outlining a maximum in the mid-30s.

Here’s a look at the next seven days:

Here’s what’s making news further afield:

US President Donald Trump has vowed to uphold the AUKUS pact and has signed a rare earths deal with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in the leader’s first bilateral meeting with Trump. The rare earths agreement is aimed at ensuring a steady supply of critical minerals at a time when China is trying to tighten control over global supply.

Websites are slowly being brought back online this morning after a major cloud services outage impacted the likes of Canva, Roblox, Snapchat, Amazon and others globally, including in Australia, affecting potentially millions of users.

Westpac Rescue service has announced an investigation into allegations of a toxic and unsafe workplace as this masthead has revealed that it splashes more on fundraising and events than other agencies. On Sunday, a joint investigation by the Sydney Morning Herald and 60 Minutes uncovered disturbing allegations of a toxic workplace culture at the service, which covers an area from Newcastle to the Queensland border.

Pauline Hanson has pounced on the opportunity to poach National Party members and bring them to One Nation, following Barnaby Joyce’s decision to step away from the Nationals last week, as well as increasing fractiousness plaguing the Coalition. She told Sky News yesterday she was forming “the A-team”. As many as eight Nationals from Tamworth branches in NSW have sensationally quit the party in recent weeks to join One Nation.

And we review Nobody’s Girl, the memoir in which Virginia Roberts Giuffre posthumously reclaims her identity from powerful men – including Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew – she claimed sexually abused her.

Good morning and welcome to Brisbane Times’ news blog for Tuesday, October 21. Today we can expect a sunny day and a maximum of 30 degrees.

Here are this morning’s local headlines:

(Clockwise from top left) Nationals defector Barnaby Joyce; Opposition Leader Sussan Ley; Queensland Premier David Crisafulli; and Liberal MP Andrew Hastie. Crisafulli has lauded Queensland’s full amalgamation of the LNP as saving conservative politics in the state.Credit: Michael Howard

Premier David Crisafulli says the amalgamation of his Liberal National Party in Queensland was the “single best decision for centre-right politics in the history of this state” as the federal branch’s tentative grasp of a coalition continues to be riddled with infighting and defections.

A tenant accused of beating his 74-year-old landlady to death in 2022 and splattering the lounge room with blood washed away the evidence in her swimming pool, a court has been told.

The Brisbane City Hall clock is chiming once again – but it might just be temporary.

The Queensland government will double the number of court-reporting scientists employed by its embattled forensics lab in a bid to clear a DNA testing backlog stretching up to four years.

And ice hockey teams around the country are seeing bigger audiences turn out to watch the winter sport – even in summertime.