Employers will be facing up to 10 years in prison and businesses will be fined $950,000 for wage theft if Labor government is re-elected in the November Victorian election.

It was announced at the Labor state conference on Saturday by the Victorian premier, Daniel Andrews, after increasing concern about wage theft and union campaigns.

Workers looking to recover wages will be expedited due to a simpler legal process with court fees being lowered and cases will be heard within 30 days.

Israeli defence minister Avigdor Lieberman says a sea barrier of fortified breakwater and barbed wire is due to be completed by the end of the year, which will prevent infiltrating Israel by sea.

The Israeli government started this project after discovering Hamas had entered Israel by sea in the 2014 conflict.

This comes as tensions are heightened in the region since the beginning of Palestinian protests to return to the area in late March.

The 5000 supporters of the far-right Alternative for Germany were outnumbered by anti-AfD demonstrators in a march down Berlin’s main station to protest immigration.

The party is notorious for their anti-immigration stance after Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to open Germany’s border to refugees in 2015.

German police estimate 20,000 anti-AfD protestors were present however protests broadly peaceful with only one minor injury reported.

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.