Looking across the nation, the Labor party has announced a $3.2 million plan that will entail mentoring rural and regional students to encourage more of them to receive tertiary education.

Tanya Plibersek, Labour’s deputy leader and education spokeswoman, will commit to the plan at the Universities Australia conference in Canberra on Thursday where it is also expected she will promise a new commissioner to aide in the increase of rural students in tertiary education.

Looking across the nation, Paladin staff have walked off the job at immigration centres on Manus Island, claiming they are overworked and underpaid.

A petition has been circulated demanding pay rises for all local staff, overtime for long shifts, and the provision of three meals a day.

Scott Morrison has continued to defend his decision to award Paladin the $423 million contract, while Paladin declined to comment on the petition.

A senior Queensland surgeon has been accused of sexual harassment, bullying and incompetence in a series of complaints by numerous whistleblowers.

LNP health spokeswoman Ros Bates detailed the allegations in Parliament on Tuesday and said she was contacted by several medical professionals about the surgeons conduct, who currently operates at public and private hospitals in Brisbane’s north.

Booted Queensland MP Jason Costigan has hit back at what he calls a “disgraceful attack” on him by former LNP colleagues.

This follows recent allegations of “disgusting behaviour” by the dumped LNP member towards an eighteen-year-old, which he has continuously denied.

Costigan said he will be taking the strongest possible action against the persons involved, in what can only be described as a malicious attempt at destroying someone’s career and gleefully accepted by the LNP hierarchy.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has called for support from states and territories to introduce a royal commission into disability abuse.

Three states have already backed the inquiry, but the PM is waiting to hear back from other leaders before making an official announcement.

Morrison said, he “takes the issue of abuse and the neglect of people with a disability very seriously and so does the Government he leads.”

Pakistan said it has the “right to self-defence” in response to Indian jets entering Pakistani airspace on a mission to destroy infrastructure of terrorist groups in the north of Pakistan.

While Indian minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat stated on twitter the infrastructure was completely destroyed, a spokesman for Pakistani military responded in a tweet, stating “no infrastructure got hit” and there were “no casualties or damage”.

In international news, Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un have both arrived in Vietnam, where they will discuss North Korea’s promise to give up nuclear weapons.

The leaders first met eight months ago in Singapore, working to remove the animosity between their countries, but this time there is pressure to aim for the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula.

White House spokeswoman, Sarah Sanders, says they will meet one-on-one on Wednesday evening and again on Thursday, accompanied by interpreters and two guests.

Public Transport commuters may want to reconsider their regular routes as Brisbane Ferry Workers are determined to strike.

The Brisbane Ferry services regularly operate seven days a week, providing more than 5 million people each year with affordable transport across the city.

Due to poor working conditions, union members will strike at the end of this week with rallies prepared for Hawthorn on Wednesday and outside city hall on Friday.