Queensland shadow Treasurer, Tim Mander, is set to release the LNP’s costings today, two days before the state election.

The report will explain to voters how the LNP intends to fund its election promises with a target of returning the budget in surplus in four years.

Queensland Treasurer, Cameron Dick, released Labor’s costings on Tuesday.

An inquiry into Victoria’s hotel quarantine scheme has delayed the release of its final report until December.

The board of the inquiry has requested more documents from the Department of Health and Human Services, after a series of emails contradicted evidence provided by Victoria’s Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton.

An interim report will instead be handed down on November 6.

An insights survey, conducted by ADHD Australia, has revealed inadequate care, education and support for people with ADHD.

Nearly one million Australians are currently living with ADHD, which can have a significant impact on their daily lives.

Chair of ADHD Australia, Professor Michael Kohn says ADHD is often misunderstood in the community.

European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, has called on European leaders to help map intensive care bed capacity to allow the transfer of coronavirus patients from over-crowded hospitals.

Ms. Von der Leyen said reasserting control of the infection rate would require far closer coordination between governments.

The Netherlands has begun air-lifting patients to hospitals in Germany and Belgium is expected to run out of intensive care beds in the next two weeks.

The Taiwanese army will marry its first same-sex couples at its military mass wedding this week.

Two female soldiers will be wed to their civilian partners at the annual event on Friday.

Taiwan became the first Asian country to legalise same-sex marriage in May, 2019.

A strike in Poland is underway after a court ruling was announced introducing an almost total abortion ban throughout the nation. 

Images have emerged from parliament sessions depicting MP’s holding signs sporting pro-choice slogans, demonstrating their outrage at the decision. 

The ruling by the constitutional court shut down one of the only remaining legal grounds for abortion in Poland and demonstrations have now been going for over a week in response. 

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is voluntarily self-quarantining after a guest at a dinner he attended was tested positive for coronavirus. 

Reports indicate that President Ramaphosa is currently asymptomatic, but has chosen to isolate as a precaution. 

South Africa has so far reported over 700 000 cases of COVID-19, of those 19,000 fatalities; the most on the continent. 

Professor at the Australian National University Susan Scott is one of four honoured overnight by receiving Australia’s top science prize. 

Professor Scott is one of four recipients to receive the Prime Ministers Prize for Science, and has been commended on her work as Australia’s leading general relativity theorist. 

Professor Scott says she hopes her recognition serves as an inspiration to young women who are considering a career in physics, a field she describes as traditionally male dominated.

A student has tested positive for coronavirus in a school in Sydney’s Western Suburbs. 

Staff and students of the school have been asked to self-isolate as contact tracing and cleaning of the school campus gets underway. 

Following the announcement of the positive case New South Wales Health have called for people experiencing even the most mild of symptoms to get tested immediately.