Ahead of the birth of their first child, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have launched their own official Instagram page and already have more than 920,000 followers in just 12 hours since becoming active.

Their first post features numerous photos including them meeting fans, doing conservation work, and sailing on the Sydney Harbour.

"Welcome to our official Instagram,” the post read, “we look forward to sharing the work that drives us, the causes we support, important announcements, and the opportunity to shine a light on key issues.”

A tiny flying fox listed as vulnerable in NSW has been found in a rainforest on the Sunshine Coast during a four-day scientific survey.

The blossom bat was first recorded on the Sunshine Coast at Buderim in 2015, but this is the first time it has been recorded in the 55-hectare Mary Cairncross rainforest reserve.

Brisbane City Council has committed $550 million to build 5 new green bridges across the city, but has no plans to expand the notorious Walter Taylor Bridge in the city’s south-west.

The single-lane both-ways bridge connects Indooroopilly and Chelmer   

Legal academic Prof Reece Walters from Deakin University has criticised Australia’s freedom of information regime after spending two and a half years trying to shed light on the government’s efforts to keep the Great Barrier Reef from being labelled as “in danger”.

Despite a group of Australian and US environmental lawyers determining that the GBR easily met the criteria to be listed as “in danger” by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, officials from the Australian government spent over $100,000 to successfully lobby the committee against the move.

The ALP says it is prepared to override state governments to fix the regulation of the Murray-Darling Basin.

Labor says it will be prepared to use the powers outlined in the Water Act and the Labor-controlled basin states of Queensland and Victoria to ensure stronger environmental outcomes.

The current recovery plan was pegged as an absolute bare minimum from the outset by science groups but has been crippled by management failures, water theft, and political stubbornness from NSW and Victoria.

In Paris, a one hundred and eighty-three square foot paper collage - created to mark the 30th anniversary of the Louvre’s glass pyramid - was ripped apart by visitors within only a few hours.

President Donald Trump has blasted Central American countries for sending migrants to America and cut aid to El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.

A surge of asylum seekers from the three countries tried to enter the United States within the last few days and Trump accused the nations of “setting up” migrant caravans and sending them north.

Trump said there was a “very good likelihood” he would close the border this week if Mexico did not stop immigrants from reaching the United States.

The concept master plan for a new public school in Brisbane has been released to the public.

The school is to be built in Dutton Park between Gladstone Road, Grantham Street and Annerley Road as a $800Mn part of the state’s Building Future Schools program.

It is scheduled to open for Grade 7 in Term 1 2021 and add another Grade each following year to increase the supply of catchment schooling in the West End, Dutton Park, and South Brisbane areas.