The Queensland Government is being criticised for its transparency on its progress towards its renewable energy targets. 

An Auditor-General report criticised the State Government for its lack of detail on how it will reach its fifty percent renewable energy target by 2030.

The Auditor-General has warned Queensland may fail to achieve this target if early stage targets continue to stall as they have for the past four years.

The Central Highlands region of Queensland experienced flash flooding last night, causing great damage to residents' homes. 

In the past forty-eight hours, the catchment experienced an average of a-hundred-and-fifteen millimetres of rain, with areas such as Theresa Creek receiving up to two-hundred-and-seventy millimetres of rain.

This is the second time this year that the Gemfields has experienced flash flooding, and locals say the cost of these floods has put them at a breaking point.

Aus Music T-shirt day hit a new milestone this year, raising more than half a million dollars in donations to help music workers in need. 

The day of awareness was held last Friday and has so far generated a record five-hundred-and-forty-thousand, six-hundred-and-four dollars to help those in the music industry including artists, artist managers, crew and music workers.

This year saw a sixty-five percent increase in donations from 2020.

An accident in a Siberian coal mine has killed at least 52 people, including six rescuers, in one of Russia's worst mining disasters

About 285 people were in the mine when smoke spread through the ventilation shaft forcing them to the surface

Dozens of people were taken to hospital for treatment, at least some of them for smoke inhalation. Four were in critical condition.

Three people, including the director of the Listvyazhnaya mine and his deputy, have been arrested on suspicion of violating industrial safety rules which led to the disaster

Turkish police have fired tear gas and rubber bullets at thousands of women protesting against male violence in Istanbul.

The demonstrators gathered in the capital on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, hoping to see a return of the Istanbul Treaty that aims to protect women from violence.

Human rights groups say violence against women is on the rise in Turkey.

Saber Astronautics and Axiom Space have agreed to facilitate Australian astronauts’ future participation in missions to the International Space Station.

Saber Astronautics plans to use this agreement to build up interest with human space flight and space-based research.

The agreement will allow Australians to keep their Australian citizenships in their training to become astronauts, eventually leading to Australian astronauts entering space and having access to the international space station’s facilities.

Despite worker shortages caused by COVID, Queensland farms produced the same amount of fruit last year as they did in 2019.

A report by The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences shows despite the number of workers employed across Australian fruit farms dropping, the output of the farms remained relatively unchanged. 

Agriculture Minister David Littleproud says the report speaks volumes about the resilience of the Australian Agriculture industry.

Sunshine Coast couple Alan and Stacey Franks have been responding to a shortage in tree hollow habitat for native animals by building nesting boxes.

The couple have collaborated with researchers including Queensland Herbarium principal zoologist Geoffrey Smith in order to combat the shortage of habitat for endangered species such as greater gliders and powerful owls.

Hollow tree habitat can take up to a hundred years to form and is uncommon due to habitat destruction and human intervention.