Over 10,000 people gathered in the Thai capital, Bangkok, on Sunday to demand democratic reform. 

Although it is illegal to defame or criticise the monarch based on Thai lèse-majesté law, protesters are calling for immediate changes to the institution with hopes of lessening their political power.

Anonymous witnesses from the scene say they have been suppressed for far too long and will not stop protesting until their demands are met.

China launches anti-dumping investigation into Australia’s wine exports as tension brews between Beijing and Canberra.

China’s Ministry of Commerce said, The investigation looks into the origins of wine ‘dumping’ in Australia. 

Wine is the third industry targeted after beef and barley, putting $1.25 billion at risk.

Federal Government has announced students who fail more than 50 per cent of their classes lose access to the HECS-HELP loan.

Education Minister Dan Tehan says changes are aimed at preventing students with low completion rates from accumulating debt without having achieved any qualifications.

The President of the National Union of Students, Molly Willmott, says the government is trying to “incentivise success through fear of punishment.”

Victoria-based medical students unite to create Conversation in Isolation helping support Australians through the pandemic. 

Conversations in Isolation are a diverse group of over 150 volunteers talking to age-care residents to international students wanting to connect.

Director of Conversations in Isolation and fourth year medical student, Steph (MEC-KEL-VIE)  McKelvie, was processing the cancellation of placements due to COVID-19.

Yesterday morning, protesters against the detention of 120 asylum seekers gathered at Parliament House. The latest in a series of many ongoing protests against the Australian Government's decision to detain refugees at a Kangaroo Point hotel.

They began the protest at Parliament House before walking though George and Adelaide streets and ended at the Department of Immigration.

Eight year old Malia, an Auchenflower local, petitions for better representation of women in public spaces.

Malia’s mission uses the hashtag ‘Female Faces 4 Public Places’ is a call to action for gender equity and justice.

A petition with over 700 signatures addressed the Queensland legislators stating, ‘‘There are only three statues of real women in Brisbane” 

Lebanon is facing crisis as hospitals are reaching full capacity, and they are unable to treat coronavirus patients as the recent Beirut blast still requires patients to be in care.  

Health minister Hamad Hassan says public and private hospitals in the capital have very limited capacity whether in terms of beds in intensive care units or respirators. 

Hassan is urging authorities to employ a two week lockdown to control the spread of the virus. 

The Brazilian city Porto Velho has faced a large bushfire that threatens to spread to the Amazon rainforest. 

Residents of the city were plagued by the fires spreading in the dry bush, waiting for firefighters to arrive on the scene to help control the damage. 

Locals expressed their concern at the severity of the fires, explaining that bush fires to this capacity can ruin all their life equity in mere seconds.