The M1’s Cross River Rail is expected to be included in the new $45 billion infrastructure budget.

Queensland’s Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk states the plans are to cope with the infrastructure that is needed for Queensland's growing future.

Palaszczuk also states the $45 billion budget is nine times more than Malcolm Turnbull is giving Queensland from Canberra.

Labor’s official budget will be revealed on the 12th of June.

Homeless persons are being subjected to hundreds of pounds in fines for loitering and begging in England and Wales, despite guidelines from the home office for councils to avoid targeting those sleeping rough under Public Space Protection Orders.

Under these laws homeless persons have been banned from city centres and given fines, in some cases up to 1100 pounds, for acts such as persistent begging.

Australian farmers with properties foreclosed by major banks are hoping the banking royal commission hearings will expose unfair treatment.

ANZ and Commonwealth is alleged to have forced farmers and business owners to refinance against their will.

ANZ bank has privately settled with many farmers but has gagged them from speaking out publicly without risking legal action with confidentiality clauses.

Warnings have been issued in NSW as 27 people have been poisoned by eating wild mushrooms.

A spokesperson for NSW Health states while its prime season for mushrooming, pickers are confusing
a poisonous fungi for an edible one.

Jared Brown, head of the Poisons Information Centre says there is no reliable way to distinguish poisonous mushrooms from edible ones.

Anyone in contact with wild mushrooms should contact the PIC on 13 11 26.

The Palaszczuk government has purchased the land proposed for the Earl Hills development at Trinity Beach, protecting the land from developers.

Member for Barron River Craig Crawford says the area is home to threatened species and  the plan was to develop the 54 hectares of land into a conservation park by the years end.

Environment Minister Leeanne Enoch says its important to protect areas like Earl Hill to ensure Queenslanders can enjoy the natural beauty they provide.

An experimental Ebola vaccine will be administered in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in the city of Mbandaka.

Three confirmed cases of Ebola was confirmed in the city last week and there are growing concerns about the spread of the virus into the nine neighbouring countries.

DRC’s Minister of health, Oly Ilunga said the vaccine would initially target the health staff, contacts of the sick and contacts of the contact.

Residents of Hawaii’s Big Island is under threat of Laze as Kilauea Volcano lava reaches the Pacific ocean.

Laze is a product formed when hot lava hits the ocean, sending hydrochloric acid and volcanic glass particles into the air.

It’s proved deadly before, leading to two deaths in 2000 and can cause lung, eye and skin irritation.

The US Coastguard has enforced a Lava Entry Safety Zone for the navigable waters around the Kilauea Volcano.

The final cotton harvest of far west New South Wales is taking place in the town of Menindee, as the water rights to the Tandou property were sold back to the government after several years of difficult conditions caused by a water shortage.

Property Manager Robert Lowe said the current conditions are significantly worse than the 1990s, when the property could support a full cropping program.

The government buyback will allow the water authorities to reconfigure the surrounding lake system to be more efficient.