Two people have died and three Australians, including two experienced Qantas pilots, have been injured in a plane crash in South Africa.

Video from the airport shows the 64-year-old plane, with 19 people on board, barely lift off the runway, with smoke pouring from one of its engines, crashing shortly after.

A South African technician on board was killed in the impact, and three people were injured on the ground, one later succumbing to their injuries.

Baptist churches in North America are fundraising for a baptist pastor facing deportation to New Zealand after being charged for confronting worshipers at a mosque in Brisbane’s south this year.

Logan Robertson, who is in detention and fighting charges of public nuisance, had a GoFundMe page with ten thousand dollars in donations until it was shut down on Wednesday, earmarked for legal fees.

The Churches from Vancouver and California are trying to match the donations, as they believe Mr Robertson was “Telling the truth about Islam”.

Scientists from ANU have discovered the oldest surviving biological colours from rocks retrieved under the West Sahara Desert.

The 1.1 billion-year-old pigments have a bright pink hue, but range from blood red to deep purple in their concentrated form. The pigments are fossilised molecules of chlorophyll produced by sea organisms.

“Imagine you could find a fossilised dinosaur skin that still has its original colour, green or blue... that is exactly the type of discovery that we've made," Associate Professor Jochen Brocks said.

One of the Prime Ministers top advisors, David Gruen, warned that economically marginalised communities must be taken seriously or Australia will face a political backlash that threatens the established economic order.

Gruen, the deputy secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, was backed by Treasury secretary John Fraser on Wednesday, who added the market was failing to come up with solutions to inequality and the government must be prepared to deliver policy solutions.

Queensland and other state governments are being urged to remove or devalue so called gold plating from electrical transmission networks, by The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

That would include a voluntary government write-down of the regulatory asset base in Queensland, Tasmania and for Essential Energy in NSW, and use of rebates on network charges in NSW.

It was estimated the write-downs and rebates could result in savings of $100 a year for the average residential customer.

TransLink has been accused of not delivering for commuters, with LNP members calling for the public transport body to be reviewed.

At the LNP convention, members voted to call on a future LNP state government to "review the structure, function and operation of TransLink to improve its customer focus, service responsiveness and efficiency”.

Brisbane councillor Andrew Wines, who moved the motion, accused TransLink of refusing to serve the public.