More than a dozen of Australia’s mining giants may have breached legal duties by refusing to consider financial risks posed by climate change.

Market Forces campaigner Rachel Dean says if directors don’t start taking climate risk seriously, it is likely we will see more cases of directors being sued.

Companies are required to include a discussion of climate risk in annual reports and it appears directors are admitting their breach and Australian Securities and Investments Commission are well aware of it.

24 hours worth of rain across the central Queensland coast has dampened more than 70 bushfires in the region, with all now considered under control.

Evacuated residents were allowed to return home to Deepwater, Baffle Creek, Rules Beach and Oyster Creek last night, and the last of the affected state schools were reopened this morning.

The Mackay area recorded approximately 30 millimetres of rain while Rockhampton received more than 40 millimetres.

Mexico’s new President, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is honouring a pledge made on the campaign trail by selling the nations version of Air Force One, for US $200M.

More than 43% of Mexico’s 129 million population live in poverty, and Obrador says he would hang his head in shame to get on such a luxury jet in a country with so much poverty.

With the campaign slogan, “for the good of all, the poor must come first”, Mr Obrador won the election with the largest margin in Mexican history.

The government has struck a deal with Labor, which will allow police and spy agencies to access encrypted messages on apps such as Wickr and Whatsapp.

Attorney-General Christian Porter called the deal a massive win, saying terrorism and child sex offences are being facilitated by criminal groups communicating on encrypted apps.

He added law enforcement and ASIO had informed him that the legislation was not necessary to give them an edge, but a fighting chance.

The International Space Station’s artificial intelligence ‘companion’ CIMON was switched off shortly after it was activated as it started giving attitude.

CIMON, standing for Crew Interactive MObile companioN, was built to be a friend and a tool to help, however, after a short while of being switched on it was clear to see CIMON had other plans, after refusing to turn off a song when commanded to.

The robot is now back in its box, powered down, with no further interactive sessions planned for the immediate future.

An upgrade for Wynnum road from four lanes to six lanes between the Story Bridge and Canning Bridge is scheduled to be finished in 2020.

Although the upgrade is designed to ease congestion, there have been concerns raised over the Canning Bridge section of the road, where motorists will be reduced back to four lanes and traffic could build.

Separate morning and afternoon schools could soon be trialled in NSW to reduce traffic peaks and address the enrolment boom, said State Education Minister Rob Stokes.

Mr Stokes said the design of the schooling system is in dire need of reform to cater to the new generation, with children beginning their education today set to end their working lives at the beginning of the 22nd century.