Brisbane train drivers are taking home a lot of overtime pay, leaving the top earning drivers with nearly $200,000 annually.

The five best paid Queensland Rail employees accumulated between 669 and 952 overtime hours last year.

Transport Minister Mark Bailey said drivers and guards can be responsible for the safety of 1000 customers at any time on top of having to work weekends and holidays, so they are paid accordingly.

Beer supplies to the Commonwealth Games may stumble as nearly 100 XXXX staff workers will strike next week.

The strike will occur on Monday and is a result of workers being fed up with job insecurity and threats to ‘water down their conditions’.

Damien Davie, United Voice Queensland spokesperson, said they’ll risk disrupting the beer supply for the games if their management doesn’t come to the bargaining table.

According to the Queensland Fire and Emergency Service, the number of hikers being rescued from the Glass House Mountains are increasing.

Since 2015 the service crews have rescued 90 people, calling for walkers to take more precautions when climbing these mountains.

Emergency Minister Craig Crawford is working with the National Parks Department and the Queensland Police Service to ensure all walks are as safe as possible.

The Queensland government will re-introduce a waste levy following the incidents of New South Wales companies who have received scrutiny for dumping thousands of tonnes of rubbish north of the Queensland border.

The cabinet agreed to sign off on the levy on Monday which was $35 per tonne, before it was axed by the LNP government in 2012.

The Commonwealth Bank has been accused of misleading customers with junk insurance policies and under reporting the numbers affected.

The problem was identified by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission in 2011, yet the bank continued selling the insurance policies.

64, 000 customers, mainly students, pensioners and the unemployed, are being repaid for credit card insurance they will not be able to use.

The first doctor to diagnose HIV in Australia has died.

Dr David Cooper started Australia’s first clinical HIV research studies and went on to research the disease for 30 years.

St Vincent Hospital CEO Anthony Schembri  says few clinicians “have transformed the health landscape in such a significant way.”

An airstrike on Syria’s Eastern Ghouta has killed 15 children sheltering in a school.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says Russia is suspected to have carried out the Monday night raids.

Russia says it is helping the Syrian government defeat rebels in the area but has denied carrying out airstrikes against civilians.

13 million of people in The Democratic Republic of Congo are in need of humanitarian aid with ongoing political turmoil, malnutrition and a cholera outbreak.

The UN security council says humanitarian needs caused by conflict have doubled over the last year.

$1.7 billion is required this year to address the humanitarian needs in the the DRC, this includes the issue of 4.5 million internally displaced people.