US President Donald Trump has delayed the confirmation hearing of Admiral Harry Harris as Australian ambassador just hours before it was scheduled.

Harris’s nomination who is a highly decorated Naval commander was seen as a sign of the strength of the US-Australia relationship.

However it now appears likely Harris will be parachuted into the role of US envoy to South Korea disappointing Australia who has been without a US ambassador since Trump’s election in 2016.

More than 3000 indigenous Brazilians have descended on the capital Brasilia for the annual “Free Land Camp” to denounce an alleged “unprecedented” rollback of indigenous rights in the country.

Indigenous rights to traditional lands are enshrined in the constitution, however in practice their rights are often curtailed by “loggers, land grabbers and wildcat miners.”

Al Jazeera last week reported killings over land and resources had peaked to their highest number since 2003, leading the UN Environmental Office to yesterday condemn the violence.

The Greens have released a policy platform addressing the recent collapse of Australia’s recycling industry which increases pressure on the Federal Government to take leadership on the issue.

The Greens proposal includes enhanced technology and sorting processes at recycling plants, the phase out of single-use plastics, community grants targeted at recycling, and a national mandatory product stewardship scheme encouraging the production of recyclable goods.

A dozen human rights experts have signed an open letter to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard raising concern about a Sydney exhibition featuring preserved human bodies.

The signatories claim there is evidence to suggest the exhibition is using the bodies of executed Chinese prisoners, including political prisoners.

Imagine Exhibitions, the company behind the ‘Real Bodies’ exhibition, sourced their bodies from Dr Hong-Jin Sui, an anatomy expert from China's Dalian Medical University.

The annual Great Brisbane Bike Ride is on again this Sunday, as part of Queensland's bike week.

This years theme for the event is, ‘Bikeways build better communities’, and the course will run from West End across the Gateway Bridge, looping back past Suncorp Stadium towards Brisbane’s highest peak for the Mount Coot-tha Challenge.

Interested riders can register online until midday today or from 5:30am the morning of the event.

Drivers are being warned of heavier traffic conditions tonight for the Bruce Highway ahead of The Killers concert at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre.

Commuters are warned of the extra congestion which will be present at the Boondall exit tonight as fans travel to the show in peak hour.

Authorities advise to seek an alternative route or take public transport if you are attending the show tonight.

Thousands of Germans of all faiths have turned out in ‘wear a kippa’ marches against Anti-Semitism in solidarity for the Jewish community, a day after Head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Josef Schuster, warned against Jewish men wearing a kippa in public.

The announcement came following an anti-Semitic attack last week in Berlin which targeted two men wearing kippas.