Indonesia are still using asbestos in massive volumes, oblivious to the danger. 

About 10 per cent of Indonesian homes have roofs made from white asbestos, a proven carcinogen that can cause cancers including mesothelioma [me-seu-thi-lioma ]and several other diseases. 

Muhammad Darisman from Indonesian Ban Asbestos Network saud Indonesia has a potential for an epxlosion of the number of people with exposure to asbestos or asbestos-related disease. 

The UK’s Labour deputy leader Tom Watson announced he will step down from parliament after 35 years reopening the debate about the party’s direction under Jeremy Corbyn.

In a letter to Mr Corbyn released by Labour, Mr Watson says his resignation was “personal, not political,” as the two shared significant political differences.

Mr Corbyn also said he enjoyed “convivial” chats with Mr Waston, and he hoped the horseradish plant he gave Waston will thrive.

New research has found that pesticide regulation and management in the reef catchment areas of Queensland had failed to prevent the exposure of ecosystems to the significant risk of agricultural chemicals.

The study revealed more than 50 individual pesticide residues had been detected in the Great Barrier Reef waterways. 

Total fire bans stretching from the Sydney coast to the Queensland border and out into the northwest are being enforced amid a severe fire danger forecast.

Inspector Ben Shepherd from the NSW Rural Fire Service said temperatures exceeding 30 degrees, low humidity and strong winds were a dangerous combination today. 

"It’s been an extraordinary season so far. We’ve seen more land burnt this fire season than the past two fire seasons combined,” he said.

Firefighters are on standby as susceptible fire conditions loom for the next 48 hours. 

Parts of south-east Queensland have recorded their coldest November mornings in 13 years days prior to predicted sweltering temperatures. 

Meteorologist Kimba Wong says a dry air mass lingering above south-east Queensland is responsible for the unseasonably cold morning. 

Ms Wong also says no storms or rain is forecast for the rest of the week because there was not enough moisture in the air. 

“It was windy yesterday as a trough pushed off the coast and there were dusty south-westerly winds near the trough,” she said. 

The heritage-listed restaurant at the top of Mount Coot-tha will be revitalised under a plan from new lessees, Mantle Group, which operates the popular eatery Jimmy’s on the Mall. 

Mantle Group chief executive Godfrey Mantle says his company was very excited about taking on the leases at the popular tourism spot. 

Mr Mantle says he thinks people will be delighted with what they're proposing and it will be somewhere locals will really enjoy coming to.

Italy has become the first country to make sustainability and climate crisis lessons compulsory for all school children.

State schools will incorporate the UN’s 2030 agenda for sustainable development agenda into multiple subjects from next September.  

Italy’s education minister Lorenzo Fioramonti announced lessons in geography, mathematics, and physics, will be taught from the perspective of sustainability.

The incoming head of the European Commission has criticised British prime minister Boris Johnson for failing to meet his ‘do or die’ pledge to leave the EU by October 31st, by requesting the “rapid” nomination of a British candidate to join her Brussels top team.

Ursula von der Leyen has written to the prime minister asking him to propose a British candidate or candidates for EU commissioner “rapidly, in the shortest time possible”.