Pauline Hanson’s One Nation will meet today with Attorney-General Christian Porter to try and get a bill through the upper house that would penalise unions more severely for transgressions.

The Senate is due to vote tomorrow on the Ensuring Integrity bill, which would give the government the power to deregister unions and ban officials. 

While the bill will require crossbench backing, it seems there is widespread support from senators.

The historic Station Master’s Cottage in Cleveland has become the new headquarters for the Redlands Centre for Women.

Mayor Karen Williams officially opened the centre’s new location on Saturday, saying the cottage would offer more stability for the group.

Mayor Williams said “The Station Master’s Cottage will host a number of programs, including counselling to support women through challenges, programs to support teenage girls and young mothers and the Redlands Active Women’s Program”.

The smoke haze from fires across Queensland and New South Wales has left the air quality in Brisbane worse than Beijing, whose air is deemed as ‘unhealthy’.

According to The World Air Quality Index, the air quality is currently rated as very unhealthy over many areas in Brisbane.

More than 3,000 firefighters and thousands of police and other emergency services are deployed or on standby because they fight dangerous fire raging across New South Wales.

At present, there are about 50 major fires burning throughout the state, of which more than half are non-existent and nine are designated as “watch and act”

The temperatures in most parts of New South Wales are expected to reach around 30s, humidity below 10%, west winds north to west, and an average speed of at least 40 km/h.

On Monday, Hong Kong police opened fire on protesters as chaos erupted across the city on Monday morning, a local media reported.

A protester in Sai Wan Ho was shot in chaos by a traffic officer. The Hospital Authority said the injured protester was in critical condition and undergoing liver and kidney operation.

Police had fired live rounds at protesters in Central, the eastern side of Hong Kong island.

A senior Trump administration official said that the United States on Monday condemned “ the unjustified use of deadly force” in the recent violence in Hong Kong and urged the police and civilians to reduce the deterioration of the situation.

The United States issued the above statement after a Hong Kong police shot and critically wounded a demonstrator. A man was set on fire in violence that prompted leader Carrie Lam to denounce “enemies of the people.”