Australia’s new $20 note will be unveiled at Vision Australia in Melbourne this morning, and will be the fourth note to include a tactile feature to help the vision impaired.

Vision Australia government relations manager Chris Edwards says the features will enable the 350,000 Australians who are blind or have low vision to easily identify the cash they are handling.

The $20 note has three raised bumps along its edges, while $5, $10 and $50 notes have other distinguishing features.

The Morrison government has to review all 123 councils eligible for drought relief, after using the wrong weather data to grant one million dollars to a Victorian shire experiencing one of its best seasons in years.

Waterlogged Moyne Shire will officially reject the funding today, and a review of the entire process will begin.

“If people are accusing us of helping us too much they can, that’s certainly much better than the alternative,” Scott Morrison said.

A local café owner from Victoria point is cycling around Queensland to raise money for a Christian charity.

Harvest Café owner Jo Hedges started her journey on her 53rd birthday, and plans to raise $53,000 by travelling 53,000 kilometres.

The charity she is supporting, called Eagles Wings, helps to provide a better education for children in Zambia.

Ms Hedges says “I do not class myself as an athlete, I class myself as a mum who is trying to do something for others”.

Hong Kong police fired tear gas and water cannons on Saturday to disperse anti-government protesters who threw stones, shattered government office windows and blocked key roads near the local headquarters of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

A series of protests for and against the city's Communist Party rulers in Beijing are planned before the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China on Tuesday. 

Popular short-form video app TikTok has seen a boom in popularity in 2019 while its moderation guidelines have resulted in censoring certain types of content – including "banning any content that could be seen as positive to gay people or gay rights" in some countries.

Prohibition of intimate activities between homosexual lovers like hands, touches, kisses, and reports on gay groups, including news, people, music, television shows, pictures are prohibited.

The Redlands Research Facility manager Shane Holborn will be speaking at the Redlands Organic Growers Inc. meeting to share project plans.

Mr Holborn says “our latest focus is on high-tech, intensive horticulture and agriculture to help boost primary production across Queensland and in the process hopefully assist agricultural enterprises to select the Redlands for their base”.

The site is also soon to be host of the $7.5 million QUT hydrogen research plant.

Brisbane’s Prince Charles Hospital is trialling a new cystic fibrosis drug that manipulates a faulty gene into working effectively.

The pills are taken three times a day and work to reduce the excessive mucous that gathers on sufferers’ lungs.

Because the drug works in a matter of days, the hospital’s once overflowing wards now have free beds.

New data confirms Australia’s obesity problem is becoming more dire, with almost half of young adults now considered overweight or obese.

The survey data from The Australian Bureau of Statistics’ shows one million young adults fell into this category in 2017-2018, an 18 per cent increase in the number of young adults over a healthy weight in just three years.

A new Australian study shows that a significant number of cancer patients are not being told their treatment can cause infertility.

In a survey of 878 cancer survivors, just 46 per cent of men and 57 per cent of women reported their practitioners discussed with them the possibility of treatment causing infertility. 

Results from the study led by Western Sydney University showed doctors are focused on treating cancer and they often believe potential side effects of treatment to be out of their scope, or too time-consuming to deal with.