Smashed Avo on toast is being taken off menus around Brisbane as seasonal price surges of Avocado’s hits Cafe owners hard.

On Tuesday this week, Coles and Woolworths were both selling avocados for upwards of $3.50 each, with some wholesale suppliers charging as much as $100 for a tray of staple cafe breakfast rotation.

Avocado Australia chief executive John Tyas said most current supplies were from New Zealand, where weather events coupled with the busy Christmas period had affected supply.

According to the Report on Government Services, released by the Productivity Commission, one in four clients of specialist homeless services in Queensland missed out on getting access to suitable accommodation in 2016-17.

The report suggests 43.5 per cent of low income private rental households were in rental stress in Queensland in 2015-16, meaning that they spend more than 30% of their household income on rent.

There has been calls for Facebook to be regulated like cigarette companies, in a statement made to the World Economic Forum in Davos by chief executive for Salesforce, Marc Benioff.

Benioff said “for sure, technology has addictive qualities that we have to address, and that product designers are working to make those products more addictive, and we need to rein that back as much as possible,”

A far right politician for the controversial Alternative for Deutschland or AfD party has resigned, after it was discovered he had converted to Islam.

Surging to popularity before the 2017 election, AfD gained widespread notoriety for anti-immigration policy after Germany admitted more than 1.5 million refugees on a humanitarian basis.

This is the second far right politician to be caught converting to Islam, as the Dutch far right party expelled one of its own members over a pilgrimage to mecca.

The Victorian opposition are being criticised by teachers and principals because of their plans to overtake state school’s curriculum.

The Liberal Opposition Leader Matthew Guy and opposition education spokesman Tim Smith have launched the “School Education Values Statement” today and say Victoria’s curriculum will be changed if the Coalition wins.

The statement does not go into much detail and contains no budget commitments, however, it does set out themes the Coalition wants to follow.

Sydney commuters are feeling the pinch this morning as the latest train strike takes effect with commuters complaining of the packed conditions on social media this morning.

The timetable has been reduced to a weekend schedule, meaning trains will only run every fifteen minutes in peak hours instead of the usual eight.

Today’s ban on overtime comes ahead of Monday’s full day rail shutdown after workers voted to not take the government’s pay deal and take industrial action instead.

A Queensland Chief Scientist is in court on 31 new charges in relation to stealing funds from the state government.

Suzanne Miller allegedly used a state government funded credit card to buy $30, 000 worth of items, including a scooter, polaroid camera and a drone, for her own use between September 2013 and July 2017.  

However, this is not the first time the Chief Scientist had been charged over a $45, 000 private health insurance claim last July.

Brisbane protester Tayla Jay Haggarty has been charged after she suspended herself from a tree yesterday morning 50 kilometres west of Bowen, next to an Aurizon rail line connected to the Adani-owned Abbot Point coal terminal.

The mining sector said the act was extreme and dangerous.

This is just a part of a long line of peaceful protests which have been conducted in the area against the Adani coal mine and related developments.