Three anti- Adani protestors have been arrested in Brisbane after conducting a peaceful protest outside Meales concrete pumping in Windsor.

Sitting on the road outside the industrial site on Monday, protestors blocked concrete trucks from leaving or entering the establishment and demanded the company refuse to work with Adani in the future.

LNP leader Deb Frecklington criticised the protests, tweeting ‘a number of business people who have nothing to do with the resources industry couldn’t access their properties. Enough is enough’.

Residents of Mount Coot-tha are calling for the local quarry to be disestablished because of concerns over public health and inaccurate monitoring.

Their ambition comes from community success in getting rid of plans for the proposed Mount Coot-tha zipline as well as quarry blasts cracking concrete in their houses. 

Greens MP Micheal Berkman has called for Environment minister, Leeanne Enoch to investigate the residents’ worries.

Australian citizen and pro-democracy activist Van Khan Chau has been detained in Vietnam for six months without a lawyer.

Mr.Chau was arrested in Ho Chi Minh city in January for allegedly trying to ‘overthrow the state’ while meeting a member of the outlawed Brotherhood for Democracy group.

Vietnamese authorities have extended the investigation period until September.

Liberal Senator Dean Smith has joined a growing group of Coalition figures calling for Australia’s unemployment benefit to be raised for the first time in 25 years.

Labor pledged to review the level of NewStart Allowance - which has not risen in real terms in 25 years - if it won office, however the Morrison government has remained steadfast in its opposition to an increase as the payment is meant to be ‘transitional’. 

In one of the largest operations of its kind in years, Isreali work crews began demolishing Palestinian homes on Monday on the outskirts of an east Jerusalem neighbourhood.

The demolitions capped a years-long legal battle over the buildings that were constructed on an invisible line straddling the city and the occupied West Bank.

The United Nations stated that Isreal’s policy of destroying Palestinian property is incompatible with its obligations under international humanitarian law.

Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in Puerto Rico to demand the resignation of Governor Ricardo Rossello.

The protests come a day after Rossello refused to step down over a leaked online chat in which he exchanged homophobic slurs and insults about victims of 2017’s Hurricane Maria.

The protest on Monday is expected to be the largest in US territory’s history.

The aging Valley Metro train station and retail precinct will undergo an extensive refurbishment to the internal area and external entrance off Brunswick Street.

Under the approved plans, the precinct will get a revamped entry way, upgraded central common space, more public art and increased pedestrian connectivity to the train station.

The building will also get a new 5 screen cinema to strengthen Fortitude Valley as an entertainment destination.

Queensland Deputy Premier and treasurer, Jackie Trad, has referred herself to the Queensland Crime and Corruption Commision over a seven-hundred thousand dollar property she did not declare in Woolloongabba. 

Ms Trad purchased the property earlier this year, in the same area that will benefit from a new highschool and the Queensland Government's Cross River Rail project which she is in charge of.

Trad will stand down from making decisions for the Cross River Rail project while the investigation is underway.