A new report charting the effects of climate change across the Asia Pacific region has found it is also having an effect on the health of the population.

The study from Global Health Alliance Australia outlined a series of areas where the health of the region's population was being affected by changes to the climate, including reduced IQs in the children of people who have survived natural disasters, malnutrition due to declining crops and death from heatwaves.

A senior Liberal Party figure has broken ranks with the party, calling for quotas to get more women into parliament and criticising the party’s attitudes towards women. 

Kathryn Greiner, a businesswoman and Liberal Party member of more than 50 years and the wife of federal Liberal president Nick Greiner says the Liberal Party organisation is less female-friendly than during the 1980s and “had not kept pace” with broader society. 

Journalist Erick Kabendera’s arrest in Tanzania has sparked widespread anger and renewed concerns over press freedom in the country. 

According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, Kabendera was “forcefully removed” from his home on the outskirts of Dar es Salaam capital by plainclothes security men on Monday, and regional police commissioner Lazaro Mambosasa has since stated Kabendera is being questioned over doubts towards his citizenship. 

Ethiopia planted more than 350 million trees in 12 hours on Monday, in what government officials believe is a world record. 

The tree planting occurred as part of a wider reforestation campaign known as ‘Green Legacy’ which has been spearheaded by Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in an effort to combat the effects of land degradation, soil erosion and recurrent droughts and flooding. 

The expansion of a planned bikeway in Indooroopilly into a riverwalk has been approved by Brisbane City Council, with the project expected to cost almost $58 million over three years. 

Similar to the New Farm Riverwalk, the over water bikeway will connect the Western Freeway Bikeway and the University of Queensland, taking cyclists off main roads and onto dedicated cycling connections. 

Organisers of a protest today regarding funding agreements between Australian universities and Chinese government-funded education organisations in Queensland expect 500 people to attend. 

The student protest, to be held at the University of Queensland, comes after a violent clash between Hong Kong and pro-China demonstrators at the university last week.

Organisers of the protest, Transparency 4 UQ, say they are working with Queensland police and hope there is no violence at the demonstration.

Hundreds of patients of a Cairns dental clinic are being urged to get tested after improper practices potentially exposed them to blood infections such as Hepatitis C and HIV. 

The Tropical Public Health Unit has issued a warning to get tested to approximately 550 patients of Essential Dental for Life in the Cairns suburb of Smithfield. 

Dr Richard Gair, Director of the Topical Public Health Unit, says the risk of infection was very low and efforts were being made to contact all patients affected. 

Labor has called for former Breitbart editor-in-chief Raheem Kassam’s visa to be cancelled ahead of an Australian-first conservative conference. 

Mr Kassam has said the Koran is "fundamentally evil" and tweeted Scottish National Party Leader Nicola Sturgeon's legs should be taped shut following a miscarriage "so she can't reproduce".

The UK has invited military representatives of the US, France and other European countries to a meeting in Bahrain today in an attempt to create an international mission to safeguard shipping through the strait of Hormuz in the Arabian Gulf. 

According to the Guardian, UK sources say the British proposal to create a European-led mission to prevent future ship seizures by Iran was still alive despite the dismissal of Jeremy Hunt as foreign secretary by new British PM Boris Johnson.