A man has been charged with masquerading as an SES volunteer in southeast Queensland.

The 29-year-old man dressed in orange SES (State Emergency Services) overalls and cap was seen handing out protest flyers and directing traffic during a protest in Brisbane.

Police spoke to the man before charging him with impersonating an authorised rescue officer under the Fire and Emergency Services Act. He is scheduled to appear in the Brisbane Magistrates Court on December 14th.

A group of Canadian engineers have been working in the Sunshine Coast hinterland to assemble a Bell 214 water bomber- an aircraft that will help in the firefighting effort across Queensland.

The aircraft will be part of Queensland's aerial artillery fleet, with a second aircraft expected to arrive within the next 10 days.  

Team leader Garth Ramsay stated that his team would spend the next month in Australia to maintain the aircraft that is deployed.

A recent report released by the Sleep Health Foundation disclosed that more than one in seven Australians have insomnia- with many people going undiagnosed or untreated, despite symptoms of this sleep disorder arising at least three times a week.

The Sleep Health Foundation found that 14.8 per cent of 2044 Australians who took the survey met the criteria for clinical insomnia.

Early learning in Australia is lagging behind other developed countries, a new report card from the peak early childhood advocacy has found. 

Research has shown the first five years of a child’s life are crucial to their lifelong development and children who attend early learning services are 33 per cent less likely to be developmentally vulnerable when they start school.

Three British citizens were brought back to the UK from Sierra Leone to be medically assessed after coming into close proximity with two individuals with Lassa fever. 

Public Health England stated that the three citizens will be given the required treatment if necessary- getting in contact with 15 others who were noted to have been in proximity to the Dutch Lassa fever.

Dr Jake Dunning of Public Health England, stated that the fever is not very contagious between people, so the public risk remains low. 

The Sumatran rhinoceros is now extinct in Malaysia after the last of the breed died of cancer; with there now approximately only 80 of the species are left in the wild in Indonesia. 

The 25-year-old female rhino, named Iman, who has been cared for in a wildlife reserve since her capture in 2014, died in the state of Sabah on the island of Borneo. 

The Rhino’s isolation, caused by habitat loss and poaching, means they rarely breed and may become extinct in a matter of decades, according to conservation group International Rhino Foundation.

A school on Brisbane’s southside is trialling new technology that will automatically lock up students’ mobile phones as they enter the front gate.

Corinda State High School is the first in the state to trial a tech-savvy pouch that locks the phones inside and it has a mechanical lock that opens when tapped against the unlocking base.