A recent ad campaign by the Queensland Government encourages Aussies to holiday in Queensland.

The two million dollar advertisement has hit screens across Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria.

10 million people have already seen the ads encouraging Aussies to holiday in Queensland, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says.

The Premier says the coronavirus outbreak is having a big impact on the tourism industry. Thousands of bookings have already been lost throughout the state.

Tree loss in Brisbane suburbs is leading to residents experiencing higher temperatures and in some cases, higher energy bills. 

"Some of the research indicates up to three degrees, in some circumstances that can be as high as six to seven degrees centigrade," Landscape architect Libby Gallagher states.

This has a major impact on lower socio-economic areas and renters as they are often unable to plant trees themselves.

Global stock markets are falling due to Coronavirus.

The ASX-200 dropped just shy of 10 per cent. Wall Street and Germany's DAX both shed 12 per cent, the FTSE in Britain fell 11 per cent and Japan's Nikkei was down 10 per cent.

Finance experts are saying those declines on market have merely taken us back to the levels we saw last August, illustrating just how hard the boom here has been running, even as our economy has been slowing.

Child workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo are facing abuse while mining for Coltan, a crucial component in smartphone production, an ABC report finds.

Children and teenagers mining for the mineral must work long hours in physically demanding tasks and many face sexual abuse and coercion by their bosses.

Amnesty International is calling for big tech companies to clean up the Coltan supply by turning to ethical suppliers of the mineral.

Climate denialism in reporting on bushfires has decreased since 2009, an analysis from Monash University’s Climate Change Communication Research Hub finds. 

Researchers determined just five percent of articles covering the bushfires include climate denialism.

This is a reduction compared to coverage of the 2009 Black Saturday Bushfires, in which 21 percent of reports denied climate change.

Deputy Premier Jackie Trad and Minister for Employment and Small Business Shannon Fentiman have announced a new payroll tax deferral package for small and medium Queensland businesses impacted by coronavirus. 

In a press conference held this morning, the Ministers stated that small and medium Queensland businesses in all sectors will be able to defer payroll tax payments for six months. 

“The most immediate impact of coronavirus has been on the tourism, export and education sectors,” Ms Fentiman said.

James Cook University researcher Associate Professor Richard Franklin says drownings globally have dropped by half over the last 30 years, with rates reducing in all regions except Oceania.

Dr Franklin is the lead author of a world first study, which found the age standardised mortality rates from unintentional drowning have decreased by fifty seven  percent between 1990 and 2017.

Dr Franklin has said the decrease was not uniform across countries. The revised global estimate is now approximately 300,000 drowning deaths per year.

Greens Lord Mayoral candidate Kath Angus has pledged to clean up Brisbane City Council’s planning and development system. 

Dressed as a cleaner at City Hall this morning, Ms Angus declared that the City Plan’s flexibility towards height limits, property boundary setbacks and green space requirements allowed some developers to do dirty deals with council and created fertile ground for corruption .