The Mapuche communities, one of the poorest and most discriminated-against groups in Chile have been fighting increased militarised police presence and violence.

In recent months, Mapuche groups have been attacking and torching trucks, farms, homes and forest lands owned by lumber companies in an attempt to reclaim their ancestral lands.

The Mapuche communities make up roughly 12 percent of the country’s population but they are still not recognised by the Chilean constitution. 

Labor have called for a parliamentary inquiry to evaluate the rise and threat of right-wing extremism in Australia. 

Labor’s Home Affairs spokesperson Kristina Keneally said it’s a growing and real threat in Australia that needs both laws and tools to address.

The party will vote today as they move towards referring the matter to Parliament.

Queensland will open its borders to South Australia, as the state recorded no new coronavirus cases in the last week. 

Queensland's Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said the decision was made on the condition that there are no additional cases that can be linked to the Parafield COVID-19 cluster

On Saturday, it will be 28 days since the first case.

Queensland’s recent scorching weather is expected to drop by this weekend as cool winds come in from the south.

The Bureau of Meteorology said winds are expected to ease hot conditions and bring temperatures to below Queensland’s December average.

Fraser Island even received overnight rain which assisted firefights in their battle against the fires.

More than 25,000 homes and businesses were left without power after storms across south-east Queensland on Monday afternoon.

Hailstones up to three centimetres were reported as the first of the forecast severe storms hit.

It comes after almost two weeks of heatwave conditions across the state, driving temperatures as high as the mid-40s. 

These conditions have driven very high and severe fire danger ratings for parts of Queensland’s south, east coast and central interior as firefighters continue battling blazes threatening populated areas of Fraser Island.

The UK will launch the world’s first mass inoculation of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination this week, having ordered 40 million doses of the newly developed vaccine. 

Health officials will begin administering the drug in hospitals, before distributing stock to doctor’s clinics. 

The first set of vaccinations are set to be rolled out on Tuesday, with priority going to those over 80, frontline healthcare workers, and care at home staff and patients.

Brexit negotiations are ongoing between the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the European Commission president Ursula Von Der Leyen but haven’t come to a successful conclusion yet, despite the fact they have been negotiating the whole of last week.

The decision of what trading relations will look like early 2021 is still not complete, as they released a statement that said issues of fishing rights, competition rules and how any deal is enforced still needed to find common ground.

Both leaders will speak tonight to debrief the situation.

More than 60,000 koalas were impacted by the devastating bushfires that swept across the country last summer, with total numbers of wildlife affected estimated to be 3 billion.

A new report by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) revealed that 143 million mammals were killed or lost their habitat last summer.

Chief executive of WWF Australia, Dermot O’Gorman, said that it is hard to think of an event in living memory that has caused this much impact on wildlife and nature.