One person is dead and delays of more than an hour have been reported after an early-morning multi-car crash in Brisbane.The collision occurred on the Gateway Motorway near the Old Cleveland Road ramp in Belmont about 5am.Only one lane is open and QldTraffic is reporting significant delays along the entire motorway.“This incident is ongoing,” Queensland Ambulance said in a statement.Nine News reports one of the vehicle occupants has died.Drivers are urged to avoid the area.Latest postsLatest postsThe G7 meeting of world leaders in Canada has got off to an awkward start over the past few hours.US President Donald Trump kicked off his first engagement, a bilaterial meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, by complaining to the press that Russian President Vladimir Putin was kicked out of the group, then the G8, over his annexation of Crimea more than a decade ago.President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney on the sidelines of the G7 Summit.Credit: APTrump said:The G7 used to be the G8. Barack Obama and a person named Trudeau didn’t want to have Russia in, and I would say that that was a mistake.But that’s not quite correct.North America correspondent Michael Koziol writes: “Russia was actually removed by G7 members when Justin Trudeau’s predecessor, Stephen Harper, of the Conservative Party, led Canada. Harper said Russia should never be allowed to rejoin while Putin was president – a position that Trudeau continued.”Premier David Crisafulli says the government has been inundated with more than 10,000 expressions of interest within a day after expanding the state’s sports voucher program.The vouchers are available for children aged between five and 15, giving parents $200 towards sports costs. They are limited to one child per year.The state announced on Sunday it would continue the program, setting aside funding in the upcoming state budget and rebranding the vouchers from FairPlay to Play On.The Queensland government has set aside more funding in the state budget for children’s sports vouchers. “We are really focused on making sure that we can drive participation,” Crisfaulli told reporters yesterday.The government will separate the vouchers into two rounds for summer and winter sports, with the first round to open on August 4.Budget figures given to Treasury Officials indicate $62.5 million will be included in the budget each year for these vouchers – up from $40 million last year.Treasurer David Janetzki will hand down the 2025-26 budget on June 24. One person is dead and delays of more than an hour have been reported after an early-morning multi-car crash in Brisbane.The collision occurred on the Gateway Motorway near the Old Cleveland Road ramp in Belmont about 5am.Only one lane is open and QldTraffic is reporting significant delays along the entire motorway.“This incident is ongoing,” Queensland Ambulance said in a statement.Nine News reports one of the vehicle occupants has died.Drivers are urged to avoid the area. Advertisement It’s estimated more than 40,000 people are enslaved across the nation, subject to violence, threats, punishing hours, low pay, poor housing and restricted movements.Workers employed through the federal government’s the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme – which employs people from nine Pacific islands and Timor-Leste – were found to be sleeping on benches and lining up at soup kitchens in Bundaberg, in Queensland’s Wide Bay-Burnett region.One PALM worker had metal lodged in his eye while using a staple gun, leaving him with significant vision loss. His employer forced him to continue lifting heavy bags of fruit against medical advice and didn’t apply for another visa on his behalf after the injury.LoadingHowever, ministerial intervention was sought and the Samoan man was granted permanent residency in 2023.The federal government has made several reforms to strengthen PALM, including pay parity, minimum hour rules and extra resourcing for the Fair Work Ombudsman.There have been 228 investigations of PALM-approved employers since mid-2019, resulting in $762,625 in recovered wages for 1937 workers, according to the ombudsman.The changes are a good start but worker mobility should be the top future priority, NSW anti-slavery commissioner Dr James Cockayne says: “We know from experiences overseas that tied visas – where workers are made entirely dependent on the discretion of their employer – are the number one correlate of vulnerability to modern slavery.”Premier David Crisafulli has defended his government’s decision not to extend the state’s electricity rebate. As we reported last week, Treasurer David Janetzki confirmed the Miles government’s $1000 electricity rebates would be scrapped in his first budget next week.LoadingYesterday, Crisafulli defended the move, saying his government could “do a little better” than electricity rebates to help Queenslanders struggling with the cost of living. “It’s safe to say that the budget will reveal a couple of things ... we are working to put downward pressure on electricity prices for everyone,” Crisafulli said.He said there would be “structural reforms” in the June 24 budget, which would bring down power prices, but did not elaborate further.Crisafulli added that the government would ensure small business owners and vulnerable people, including concession card holders, could still afford to pay their electricity bills. The scrapping of the $1000 rebate was last month cited as the primary reason Brisbane’s 1.9 per cent first-quarter CPI increase far exceeded other capital cities.An off-duty police officer was allegedly attacked by a group of teenagers on a Gold Coast tram after he attempted to stop one of them verbally assaulting staff.Police say the 39-year-old senior constable had finished his shift and was travelling home on the tram just after midnight on Saturday when he saw a girl verbally abusing a staff member.When the officer identified himself and attempted to intervene, he was allegedly attacked by the girl and three teenage boys. Suffering bruising and scratches, he left the tram at the next stop in Parkwood East to contact on-duty police.Officers stopped the tram at Parkwood and arrested a 15-year-old Oxenford girl, a 16-year-old Slacks Creek boy, a 17-year-old New Beith boy and a 15-year-old Yarrabilba boy. The girl has been charged with one count of serious assault police officer and will appear in Southport Children’s Court on Wednesday.Police say the 16-year-old Slacks Creek boy and 17-year-old New Beith boy will both be dealt with under the Youth Justice Act.Anyone who witnessed the incident or has footage is urged to come forward.9News Gold Coast Advertisement Today’s top temperature in Brisbane is forecast to be a degree cooler than Monday’s but Queensland’s early winter cold-snap is in its final days, the weather bureau says.Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Helen Reid said the mornings were expected to warm up from today.“The forecast for the Brisbane region is to have those morning temperatures a bit closer to the double figures,” Reid said.“We’re looking at ‘back to normal’ even [on Tuesday].”The nightly minimums will be noticeably warmer than those felt during the past few days, with figures in the teens for the rest of the week.Here’s what’s making news further afield this morning:Almost one in six young Australians have enough cash saved to buy a property under the federal government’s 5 per cent deposit scheme. However, the burden of ongoing loan repayments could rule out some candidates.Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, right, and his wife Diana Fox Carney officially welcomed world leaders to the summit.Credit: APThe G7 meeting of world leaders has begun, with US President Donald Trump complaining that Russian President Vladimir Putin had been kicked out of the group more than a decade ago after his annexation of Crimea, in a fresh sign of the tensions hanging over the summit.A Qantas trainee captain who was commanding a flight from Canberra passed out briefly in the cockpit of a Boeing 737 aircraft minutes after landing.Monash IVF is seeking to hobble the defection of one of its top executives as it reels from a series of scandals, investigations and a plunging share price.Prosecutors have begun their closing address to the jury by laying out the four “calculated deceptions” they say show Erin Patterson’s guilt.An Israeli airstrike has hit Iran’s state-run TV news station while it was broadcasting live, forcing a newsreader to run for cover.Donald Trump reported more than $US600 million ($924 million) in income from crypto, golf clubs, licensing and other ventures in a public financial disclosure report released that provided a glimpse of the vast business holdings of America’s billionaire president.Good morning, welcome to Brisbane Times’ live news coverage for Tuesday, June 17. Today we can expect a partly cloudy day and a top temperature of 21 degrees.In this morning’s local headlines:A rate rise is likely to be on the cards when the Brisbane City Council budget is handed down tomorrow – but the lord mayor has promised the city’s rates will stay the lowest in the region.Star chef Matt Blackwell is set to part ways with Brisbane’s Pneuma, and the restaurant will close on July 6.Chef Matt Blackwell is departing Pneuma.Credit: Tammy LawIn more hospitality news, Mount Coot-tha’s Summit restaurant has reopened with successful but once-maligned operator Mantle Group at the helm. With stunning views and a star chef’s menu, Brisbane Good Food editor Matt Shea says it’s well worth it.A Queensland loss may force the changing of the guard, one which has already begun with Daly Cherry-Evans’ axing. Sport reporter Nick Wright breaks down the Maroons’ future prospects.