Saudi women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul has been released from prison.  

Ms Hathloul was instrumental in the movement to allow women to drive cars in the kingdom and became a face of political dissent. 

She was sentenced to nearly six years in a maximum-security prison, found guilty of seeking to change the political system and damage to public order.

England midwives are being encouraged to use the terms chestfeeding and human milk when working with transgender patients.

Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals will be the first to implement the new policy.  

The policy states the service will be “using gender-neutral language alongside the language of womanhood, in order to ensure that everyone is represented and included.”

School banking programs, including the Commonwealth Bank’s Dollarmites program, will be banned from schools in the Australian Capital Territory. 

The motion to ban the programs was passed yesterday and will be implemented in July. 

ACT Greens MLA Johnathan Davis introduced the motion and says the programs are an advertising tactic to gain new customers.

"Corporations have no place in our public education system," Mr Davis said.

The Labor Party is calling for kerbside collections to be reinstated after almost 1300 cases of illegal rubbish dumping in Brisbane over the last year.

The most frequent cases of illegal dumping were at Inala (74), Doolandella (36), Forest Lake (35) and Calamvale (29).

Kerbside collections were cancelled by the Brisbane City Council in April 2020 to reduce the risk for staff during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Forest Lake ward councillor Charles Strunk says many Brisbane residents relied on the initiative.

Gold Coast residents have been urged not to mistake native frogs for cane toads. 

Dry conditions over South East Queensland have changed the breeding patterns of cane toads, causing an outbreak and explosive numbers. 

Under animal care laws, it is illegal to kill a cane toad in a “cruel” and “unreasonably painful” way. 

Emily Vincent of community environmental group Watergum says the most humane method is to put toads in the fridge for a minimum of 24 hours, before placing them in the freezer.

Logan and Gold Coast residents are urged to get tested for COVID-19 if symptomatic after fragments of the virus were detected in sewage. 

The viral fragments were found in Pimpama, Coombabah, Merrimac and Loganholme.

State Acting Chief Health Officer Dr Sonya Bennett says getting tested is more important than ever as new variants continue to emerge overseas.

The latest report from the Queensland Audit Office (QAO) has found the 16 bodies established to run Queensland’s hospitals are in substantial debt.

The QAO  found 11 of Queensland’s 16 hospital and health services experienced losses in the last financial year, compared to 8 in the year before.

The report also found the 16 bodies do not have adequate systems in place to effectively communicate with each other and the health department.

Ghana’s parliament will suspend its activities for three weeks after a COVID-19 outbreak amongst members of parliament and staff. 

At least 17 MPs and 151 staff members have become infected with the virus. 
 

“Our COVID-19 treatment centres have gone from having zero patients to now being full because of the upsurge in infections,” President Nana Akufo-Addo said.

“At this current rate ... our healthcare infrastructure will be overwhelmed.”