Older citizens with their mouths taped shut will stage a sit-in at City Hall this morning. 

They will demand the LNP rescind the ban of Extinction Rebellion groups meeting in libraries and other council premises.

Group convenor Miree Le Roy said, "the LNP took away our freedom to meet in the Joh Bjelke-Petersen era. We mustn't allow them to do it again."

Australian exchange students have chosen to remain in Hong Kong despite warnings from universities to return home after clashes between police and pro-democracy protesters broke out on campuses across the city. 

Australian universities, including the University of Sydney, University of Queensland and the Australian National University, began pulling exchange students out of Hong Kong late last week.

Influential figures from some of Queensland’s largest organisations and community groups will oversee the next phase of the State Government’s domestic and family violence reform agenda.

Domestic and Family Violence Implementation Council Chair Ms Kay McGrath and former Queensland Police Commissioner Bob Atkinson AO APM will serve a 12-month term as the leaders of the Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Council.

A cat has been reunited with its owner after an epic 3400km five-year trip from his home in Portland, Oregon, in the north west of United States to Santa Fe in the country’s far south.

The animal shelter officer that found the plucky cat said it was lucky the pet was microchipped so it could be proved he belonged to Portland resident Viktor Usov.

Mr Usov told the Oregonian newspaper that he had assumed the worst had happened when he couldn’t find the fearless feline anywhere.

Exported Australian plastic among waste 'contaminating' Indonesian food chains, according to a new report which found eggs near dumping grounds had some of the highest levels of dioxins recorded in Asia.

Dioxins are persistent organic pollutants which have been identified by the international scientific community as "the most hazardous and toxic chemicals on earth" and have been linked to birth defects and Parkinson's disease.

A GoFundMe for bushfire-affected koalas has become the second-largest campaign on the crowd-funding platform in Australia, after receiving more than $1 million in donations.

Port Macquarie Koala Hospital after an expected 350 koalas perished in the devastating bushfires that hit New South Wales and Queensland.

The goal was to raise $25,000 for the rescue and rehabilitation of koalas, but that number has since been dwarfed by Australians' generosity.

South-east Queensland’s air quality has been at levels dangerous to health for nearly a fortnight as a result of smoke from bushfires burning across the region.

The ongoing poor air quality prompted the nation’s peak body for asthma awareness to issue a warning to sufferers to be on the alert for signs they were getting into trouble after the extended period of bad air.

NSW has succumbed to the highest levels of air pollution from smoke ever recorded, as Sydneysiders wake to air quality conditions worse than Shenzhen, China.

Air quality in the harbour city was ranked ninth poorest in the world on Friday when compared with other cities, with the visibility index at every suburban monitoring station reaching "hazardous" levels

The Environment, Energy and Science unit of the NSW government said the past two months "have been the dustiest on record".

Morphett Vale CFS volunteers were among dozens who headed to Yorkes to help fight the massive bushfire - after a full day at their own station.

“They came from all over to help save our little town,” said Julie “Nuggett” Tatchell as she crafts sandwiches for the scores of exhausted Country Fire Service volunteers.

The 60-year-old’s dear little town, Edithburgh, was saved thanks to the tireless efforts of firefighters, who contained the blaze on Yorke Peninsul.