Brazil’s health ministry website was hacked on Friday, taking down several systems with it including one with vaccination information, which has been said to have been stolen and deleted. 

User data in the ConectSUS app that provides Brazilians with vaccination certificates disappeared, with Brazil’s Deputy Health Minister, Rodrigo Cruz, adding on Friday evening that access to the vaccination data had not been recovered but it is “too early” to say whether or not the data has actually been lost. 

Canada is setting aside $31.2 billion to compensate Indigenous children and families in foster care for suffering discrimination. 

Officials said on Monday that it will start paying out once a protracted lawsuit is settled. 

The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruled in 2016 that the federal government allocated fewer funds for child and family services of Indigenous people than for others, pushing more Indigenous children into foster care. 

The Queensland Police service is launching new separate inquiries into the disappearances of two Aboriginal women in 2013. 

23 year old mother Allison Bernard was last seen leaving a bar in the town of Coen in Queensland’s North before her disappearance in 2013, with no further evidence found.

Similarly, 24 year old Monique Clubb disappeared from Beenleigh train station the same year. Her family will gather for the inquest this week in the hopes to gain closure.

A report released by the Real Estate Institute of Queensland has revealed Queensland’s residential property market median has climbed almost 2 percent since September this year.

It was found this year the Brisbane median house market also grew more than 15 per cent. 

This report comes three weeks after the Rental Affordability Index report showed a significant decline in affordability across some regions in Queensland, with the cost of rent now skyrocketing. 

The United Nations High Commission for Refugees has warned Australia’s Administrative Appeals Tribunal its processing backlog could reduce trust in the country’s asylum seeker program. 

The UN’s warning further outlined the issues of the asylum seeker system, in which asylum seekers often have to wait years for their claims to be resolved. 

AAT President David Thomas further acknowledged the tribunal’s processing issues, however he claims the tribunal is not sufficiently resourced to substantially reduce the current backlog of cases.

One of Australia’s biggest disability service providers has apologised after incidents of violence, abuse and neglect in two of its group homes. 

‘Life without barriers’ which operates disability services around Australia and New Zealand with revenue at $750 million last year, fronted the disability royal commission to answer questions yesterday after four days of evidence from residents and their families. 

The cases included residents being abused, injured and not receiving proper medical care. 

A UK court has cleared WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition to the United States to face espionage charges.

Assange is wanted by the US for publishing military documents in 2010, after which he fled to the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, before being transferred to Belmarsh Prison where he has spent the last two years. 

Deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce has opposed the extradition and instead claims Assange should be kept in the UK, or returned home to Australia.

If found guilty, Assange could spend up to 175 years in prison. 

The Pentagon says it will not discipline any US troops over a drone strike which killed 10 civilians including seven children in Kabul in August. 

The US has already admitted the attack, which came as foreign forces tried to evacuate Kabul airport during the Taliban takeover, as a ‘tragic mistake’. 

An earlier review by Air Force Lieutenant General Sami Said found the strike was caused by execution errors, interpreting information and communication breakdowns.