The World Bank is working to free up $500 million dollars from a frozen Afghanistan aid fund to humanitarian agencies, but the plan to redirect the funds remains riddled with complications including stifling US sanctions. 

Gold Coast residents are again on high alert as another COVID case has been detected, with shoppers who attended the Black Friday sales at Robina Town Centre in the Gold Coast being asked by health authorities to isolate and get tested. 

The patient visited Rebel Sport, JB Hifi, and Target stores at the shopping centre between 1:40 pm and 2:30 pm last Friday.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has defended a 12 month investigation after 11 women complained about a Queensland Health manager who was accused of insulting co-workers with derogatory names and playing sexually charged “game ratings.”

Westpac has admitted it broke the law and has agreed to pay penalties totalling $113 million after the corporate regulator hit the bank with 6 lawsuits over careless treatment of customers, including charging dead people fees. 

The US Supreme Court is set to decide whether to uphold a Mississippi law that would ban almost all abortions after 15 week of pregnancy. 

The ruling could gut the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which protects pregnant women’s liberty to choose to have an abortion.

Education professionals are concerned Queensland could lose thousands of teachers as the state government makes COVID-19 vaccinations mandatory in public and private schools in just weeks. 

The Teachers’ Professional Association of Queensland secretary, Jack McGuire, has said he suspects at least 10 % of teachers would be reluctant to get the jab which would see around 6,000 teachers and 180,000 kids impacted. 

The Master Plumbers’ Association of Queensland (MPAQ) is warning residents to check their plumbing and drainage as the south east continues to receive a massive deluge of rain.

Following prolonged rainfall, residents should check for drainage and septic overflows, blocked or silted drains, hail damage to pipes and gas regulators and Gutter blockages. 

Freedom of Information documents have revealed that Australia’s Future Fund has invested $157 million in 14 companies that have done business with the Myanmar military such as supplying fighter jets, missiles, radar and millions in annual revenue to war criminals. 

The Future Fund holds about $200 billion in investments made on behalf of the Australian government.