A threatening email sent to Liberal National Party MPs before they voted to decriminalise abortion has been found to be of contempt in the Queensland Parliament.

However, there will be no punishment set out following the ruling from the Parliament's ethics committee.

Pine Rivers Labor MP Nikki Boyd complained to Speaker Curtis Pitt about how the email amounted to contempt.

The State budget has announced on the 12th of June pledges over 800 million dollars for the Queensland Ambulance Service, including hiring 200 more paramedics.

Ambulance Services Minister Steven Miles said the Palaszczuk Government is hiring more paramedics and buying more trucks.

Mr Miles says this budget includes more than 50 million dollars to build new stations, and upgrade existing stations.

Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam criticised protests against a proposed bill that would allow extradition to China.

Seventy-two people aged between 15 and 66 were injured in the violence, including two men who were in critical condition.

The protesters fear the law will be used to target political opponents of the Chinese state in Hong Kong.

Nearly 1400 people have died in the Democratic Republic of Congo from the new Ebola outbreak.
Dr Jeremy Farrar, the director of the Wellcome Trust, saaid the epidemic was the worst since the 2013 to 2016 outbreak and it shows "no sign of stopping".
He warned more cases were expected, and a "full" national and international response would be needed to protect lives.
 

Energy Minister Angus Taylor said he won’t rule out reversing the nuclear energy ban if the business case stacks up.

A group of Queensland MPs are leading the energy battle of the new parliament and pushing to have nuclear energy reconsidered as part of Australia’s power plan.

The nuclear question comes as discussions over the rules for the Paris emissions reduction target continue within the international community.
 

A lack of suitable roads has been found as a big reason why cycling participation rates are so low in Queensland and Australia.

James Cook University lecturer Jemma King said recent estimates suggest that only 34% of Australian adults have cycled in the previous year and 16% in the previous week.

In rural areas, a lack of infrastructure safe for riding was indicated as a concern of residents, prompting discussions about developing safe cycling routes outside of metropolitan areas.

The Queensland Environment Department decides on Adani’s groundwater management plan on 13th June 2019.

Adani’s plan for the black-throated finch was signed off on last month, leaving the groundwater plan as its final state approval.

The government has been working with the CSIRO in assessing the plan which will include a strategy to protect sacred wetlands.