The Adani mining company is paying for four employees of the Isaac regional council to manage the increased workload the coal project is causing.

Anti-corruption think tank Transparency International says the situation raises questions about the independence of council decisions and perceptions of conflicts of interest.

Isaac mayor Anne Barker says the arrangement is not raising concerns, and the council says the employees are under their direction and control.

Queensland opposition leader Deb Frecklington is calling for parliament to hold an inquiry into toll roads, as she says the under-use of toll roads is contributing to congestion.

She cites the rising number of consumer complaints against toll operators GoVia as a cause for concern, saying that 51% of complaints to the national tolling customer ombudsman are in response to GoVia.

The government is yet to issue a response.

NAB bank is promising to refund customers who lost money during the four-hour outage on Saturday that suspended banks services such as ATMs, EFTPOS and online banking.

Many small businesses affected are asking for compensation for profits lost during the ‘busiest day of the week’.

The bank’s business executive general manager Cindy Batchelor says they will be working with each and every customer to understand exactly what happened.

Another million cars from the Audi A5 to the Holden Cruze have been added to a new future recall list of the Takata airbags.

This brings the total numbers of cars recalled nationally to 4 million, in the latest list announced by the Australian Competition Consumer Commission.

25,000 of the more-dangerous older Takata airbags known as “alpha bags” is also revealed to be still on the road.

Colombians are heading to the polls for the first time since a peace deal between the government and FARC rebels were struck in 2016.

The campaign is focused on Ivan Duque of the right-wing Democrat centre party and Gustavo Petro a leftist, one-time rebel and former Mayor of Bogota.

Colombia’s elections are at the same time as several other Latin American nations including Brazil and Mexico choose leaders over the coming months.

Italian Prime Minister Designate Giuseppe Conte has failed to meet his mandate to form a new government after the President refused to endorse a vocal EU critic for the minister of economy position.

Mr Conte and Italian President Sergio Mattarella met on Sunday to discuss a proposed list of cabinet members in what would have been Italy’s first populist government.

The President refused to install the proposed minister of the economy as he said he could push Italy out of the Eurozone and alarm markets.

A three-week aerial baiting program targeting black rats will begin on the Frankland Islands and Northern Barnard Islands, south of Cairns.

The rats pose a threat to thousands of nesting seabirds in the Great Barrier Reef world heritage area, damaging seabird eggs and eating hatchlings.

A helicopter will drop baits over the islands over the three weeks but tourism operators who run day trips will be allowed to continue to visit during set times.

Labor is allocating $125 million in the Queensland budget for a new theatre to improve the Queensland Performing Arts Centre.

This investment will ease QPAC’s existing facilities, currently exceeding 90% and give Queensland Ballet a new home.

An international competition will be set up to find a design for the new theatre, which is scheduled for completion by 2022.

The Queensland Education Department has refused to disclose to the ABC how much they are paid for School banking program run by the commonwealth bank.

According to the Commonwealth Bank website the bank donates $100 for every 100 students enrolled in the program,  a $200 establishment contribution per school and further incentives for children depositing in their accounts.

The program has also been recently revealed to have been used for fraudulently in order to meet bonus and incentive goals.