Researchers have revealed the secrets behind a sex-changing fish.

The Bluehead Wrasse can change sex in just 10 days in response to environmental cues.

La Trobe University’s Professor Jenny Graves says the project links to studies of sex reversal in Australian dragon lizards that she is collaborating on with researchers at the University of Canberra.

Foreign Minister, Marise Payne, has not denied Kurdish claims that the Australian Government is yet to make any contact between the two governments about Australian IS fighters being held in Syria. 

Ms Payne did not deny the claims and changed the subject to the children of Australian fighters in Syria, particularly orphans.

TransLink is holding over $5 million in unused fares from expired Go Cards.

From 2016 to 2018, over 600,000 Go Cards became irreversibly expired and had still not had their balance refunded or transferred to another card.

TransLink acting deputy director general Martin Bradshaw, says any money remaining on Go Cards dormant for five years was reinvested into public transport initiatives to improve the TransLink network.

Speaking at the 2019 Asia Pacific Cities Summit in Brisbane yesterday, the Cohort of Lord Mayors said homelessness and rough sleepers is the 'number one issue' on their agenda.

The spike in the highest number of homeless in urban areas was between 2001 and 2016 when it went from 48 per cent to 63 per cent.

Federal Assistant Housing Minister, Luke Howarth, was put on notice yesterday about the seriousness of this homelessness problem.

The UK ambassador to the US,Kim Darroch, has resigned after Donald Trump criticized the ambassador about leaked memos to the British Press. 

In the memos, Mr Darroch described the Trump administration as inept, President Trump over twitter described Mr Darroch very stupid and ex prime minister Theresa May as foolish.

British trade minister, Liam Fox explained that the Trump administration plan was to have been to hurt the two nations' relationship, or Darroch.

The Federal Government is under pressure to make changes to the age pension as baby boomers will leave the workforce in the next decade.

The Parliamentary Budget Office predicts the aging population will require an increase in spending of over $15 billion in the next ten years.

The qualifying age to get Age Pension has been increasing by 6 months every 2 years and will continue until it reaches 67 years on 1 July 2023.

During NAIDOC week, the National Peak Body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services is calling on the Federal Government to retain the Indigenous Legal Assistance Program, known as ILAP.

In the Federal Budget the Government announced that from 2020, funding for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services would be mainstreamed into a national mechanism, abolishing the ILAP.

A total of 15 rural businesses in Queensland have received $3.3 million under the first-round of funding for the RED Grants program. Overall, these 15 projects are expected to create over 600 jobs across the agricultural sector in regional Queensland.

The recent State Budget locked in funding for the remaining rounds of the program, taking the total amount of grants available up to $10 million.

Funding for Round 2 of the RED Grants will be announced later this year.

A fresh round of protest about climate change will begin this morning from the group Extinction Rebellion who were a part of the canoe protests two weeks ago on Victoria Bridge.

The group says the protests will be happening today between 7.30am and 10.30am, they plan to block Brisbane roads with swarming tactics to cause congestion and disruption.

 Extinction Rebellion also explained they will be supporting another two members of the group who were apart of the canoe protests at Roma Street Magistrate Court.