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. 

At least 22 civilians have been killed in an attack on a camp for internally displaced people in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ituri province. 

The province has been plunged back into a cycle of violence since late 2017 with the rise of the Cooperative for the Development of Congo militia, which has since split into rival factions. 

Brisbane buses will run free for 2 weekends leading up to Christmas with hope it will attract locals to the CBD this festival season. 

Lord Mayor, Adrian Schrinner, announced the news this week saying that bus riders can “put their go cards away” for the weekend of Friday the 10th to Sunday the 12th and again on Friday the 17th to Sunday the 19th. 

Queensland is announcing jab mandates for schools, airports and prisons as the state prepares to bring its rules in line with most other jurisdictions, with new rules expected to go live before the start of the 2022 school year. 

A damning report into Parliament House in the wake of Brittany Higgins’ rape allegation has found sexual harassment and bullying is widespread in Parliament with female workers complaining it is “a man’s world.” 

An investigation by Sexual Discrimination Commissioner, Kate Jenkins, included face-to-face, online and telephone interviews, written submissions, and interviewing hundreds of current and former staff. 

A new report by British Columbia's Human Rights Commissioner, Kasari Govender, has shown Indigenous people are “grossly overrepresented” in arrests and chargeable incidents across unceded territories in the Canadian province.