Queensland households are increasing their use of solar panel systems by adding battery storage, with more than 2500 homes being approved for solar panel grants and loans.

At the current market rate, the home battery storage setups will take at least 10 years to pay off, but Energex and Energy Queensland say the systems will help pay for themselves in the long run.

According to the Queensland Household Energy Survey, one third of Queensland solar-panel owners plan to add a battery to their current solar setup within the next decade.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison will be in Brisbane at a business lunch to discuss the impact of the budget for Queensland.

Pro-environment organisations such as Stop Adani and the Australian Youth Climate Coalition are rallying at Fortitude Valley today to protest Scott Morrison’s views on climate change and coal mining.

The event is expected to make a statement following the recent strike for climate change in Brisbane, and protests against the alleged climate change denial of the Liberal-National government.

With Chistina, Dodie, Amy and Irina.

NASA has cancelled the first all-female spacewalk that was planned for this Friday.

The organisation claimed lack of available space suits for the International Space Station fitted for women.

Astronaut Jessica Mounts said the equipment she has worn is mostly designed for men and is calling for clothing accommodating women.

Although, she said NASA is currently improving their clothing technologies, this pace change is “slow”.

Many Brunei-owned luxury hotels have deleted their social media accounts, following international backlash regarding the country’s anti-LGBT laws and a boycott movement.

The boycott movement was led by celebrities such as George Clooney and Ellen DeGeneres after Brunei introduced laws that would see gay sex punishable by flogging or stoning to death.

Traditional owners and scientific rangers are working together to save the bilbies in Western Australia.

Birriliburu Indigenous rangers are looking for traces and ways to protect the greater bilby, as well as other threatened and culturally-important species including great desert skinks and night parrots.

Rangers facilitate an important role in sharing cultural practices by combining the Martu way of caring for country and Western ways of undertaking land management.

‘I Had One Too’ is a new online platform dedicated to women to share their abortion stories.

‘I Had One Too’ launched in Melbourne last week with the purpose of changing the narrative about reproductive health through addressing the stigmas and misinformation associated with abortion.

Co-founder of the platform, Priya Pavri, said “[she’s] been surprised about how different the stories have been, and how women's experiences of having an abortion are shaped by which side of a state and territory border they happen to live”.

Animal Protesters are launching protests across the country.

Protestors have chained themselves to an abattoir in Brisbane’s west following the one-year anniversary release of the documentary Dominion, which discusses the practices of Australian livestock farmers.

The Queensland Government announced yesterday they will be placing tougher penalties on activists who attempt to trespass on farms.