Climate change protesters are disrupting commuters in Brisbane city this morning, with ten minute bouts of ‘swarming’ to cause congestion.

In a live stream on Facebook, Extinction Rebellion’s Tom Howell says while disruption isn’t comfortable, it’s the only way to promote change and convince the government to address the mass extinction.

Hecklers told the disrupters "you might have got the day off work, but we didn’t."

The lifts and escalators at Brisbane's Central Station will begin to be replaced before Christmas and several of the platforms will be raised in a major three-year upgrade.

The work is part of the $65 million upgrade of Brisbane's busiest train station, announced in 2016 but delayed for the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast.

More than 140,000 people catch a train to or from Central station every day.

Australia is again facing international pressure to improve its recycling measures.

Indonesia this week announced it would return 210 tonnes of Australian rubbish, the latest in a series of announcements by south-east Asian nations that they will not be dumping grounds for overseas waste.

Peter Shmigel, the head of the Australian Council of Recycling says governments could address the issue by funding new plants and introducing requirements for departments and agencies to use recycled material.

More than 20 countries at the UN Human Rights Council have signed a joint letter criticising China's treatment of ethnic Uighurs in the Xinjiang region.

UN experts and rights groups says China is holding approximately  one million Uighurs and other Muslims in detention camps.

China claims that Uighurs are being re-educated in vocational training centres designed to combat extremism.

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.