Private and public schools will come together for the inaugural Greater Springfield Festival of Learning next week.

The festival will offer Greater Springfield students the chance to participate in events and workshops across the city’s schools, on topics as diverse as Lego, drones and technology, literacy, song and dance.

Coalition chairman and Springfield City Group EGM, Dr Richard Eden, said the event aims to highlight what can be achieved when schools collaborate.

Billion-dollar activewear brand Lululemon is the latest company to be implicated in the allegations of abuse of women workers in Bangladeshi factories. 

A report found that female workers are subjected to physical and verbal abuse, and were commonly humiliated with sexual slurs from managers. 

A pair of Lululemon leggings retails for about $120 in Australia — just a little less than the average worker in its Bangladeshi supply chain earns in a whole month.

Abu Dhabi has announced the establishment of the world’s first research-based, graduate-level artificial intelligence university.

Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artifical Intelligence (MBZUAI) is named after the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, who has advocated for the United Arab Emirates development of human capital through scientific thinking.

Professor Sir Michael Brady, Interim President of the university says that this evolution is creating exciting new career opportunities in nearly every sector of society.

This Saturday will be the first protest in a three week campaign against horse racing.

Campaign Director of Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses Elio Celotto, says they will have a large presence outside all of the seasons biggest racing events, starting with this Saturdays Caulfield Cup and The Everest.

“Before, during and after racing they endure shocking cruelty, whilst the industry keeps peddling the rhetoric that these horses are treated like kings,” Mr Celotto said. 

After theAustralia government committed more than $1.5bn of taxpayer funds to planting trees in native habitats, it has wiped out carbon gains by bulldozing them in six months.

According to new data, in less than two years, land clearing will cancel out what the public is spending to avoid 125 million tonnes of carbon dioxide going into the atmosphere.

The Wilderness Society’s national nature campaigner, Jess Panegyres, says the action is absurd and is allowing Australia to become a global deforestation hotspot.

Redlands Coast organisations will come together on the lawns of Capalaba Library today to show support for those experiencing or facing homelessness. 

Homelessness United, Love and Hope Redlands and the Department of Births, Deaths and Marriages will be among the organisations in attendance at the event today from 10am until 2pm.

Anyone affected by or facing homelessness are invited to talk with experts and connect with support services.

The Queensland police service says they can’t find records of whistleblower complaints, despite being required by law to keep them.

Former police Rick Flori, was told by the state’s information watchdog that police could not provide information relating to “public interest disclosures” he made between 2010 and 2018 because “the information is non-existent”.

Sources have questioned whether the police statements were designed to restrict information released to Flori, who is suing the services related to alleged reprisals. 

Recent political propaganda from North Korea shows leader Kim Jong Un riding a white horse on a sacred Korean mountain.

The horse and location are symbols associated with the Kim family’s seven decade dynastic rule over North Korea.

According to North Korean state media, the scenic photographs of Mount Paektu’s, the spiritual homeland of the Kim dynasty, have his supporters convinced the leader is planning a ‘great operation’.