Overnight, Brisbane streets have recorded 140 millimetres of rainfall, with another 135 millimeters expected to fall over the next seven days. 

The Bureau of Meteorology has warned that storm cells moving about parts of the south-east could bring further rainfall and flash flooding for the rest of the week. 

The SES has already attended to 11 calls for assistance with sandbagging and property repairs since Tuesday this week. 

Central Queensland is set to hit 100,000 COVID vaccination doses today as the region continues to get ready for the state’s borders to open. 

This news follows a gathering in Yeppoon last week, in which central Queensland small business owners expressed their concerns over the state’s impending tough COVID-19 restrictions for unvaccinated people. 

Minister for regional development, Glenn Butcher, has encouraged Queenslanders to keep up the good work, but advised that we can’t be complacent- with borders set to open in the next few weeks. 

The Greens have revealed a plan to make gender-affirming healthcare free under medicare.

The plan proposed yesterday involved investing $15 million annually to cover the out-of-pocket costs experienced by trans and gender diverse people in assessing gender-affirming healthcare. 

This new policy comes as the Green’s tabled a petition signed by 150,000 Australians in the House of Representatives yesterday evening. 

Greens Senator Janet Rice has said that Australia does not have a universal health care system until there is equal access to essential services.

A series of explosions have torn through a munitions factory in Belgrade overnight, killing at least two workers and injuring at least 16.

The warehouse containing 500 rockets and 30 kilograms of explosives was completely destroyed by the explosion,  leaving a crater in the ground. 

Police have said the blasts damaged nearby housing and was heard in the centre of the Serbian capital 15 kilometres away. 

Meteorologist Jonathan How says parts of Brisbane saw rainfall exceed100 millimetres yesterday. 

The wet weather is set to worsen from tomorrow with the worst to be seen at the end of the week. 

Authorities are urging Queenslanders to avoid flooded areas.

Brisbane activists will rally outside the CBD watchhouse at 4pm tomorrow in solidarity with a New South Wales climate activist sentenced to 12 months in prison.

Eric Herbert was sentenced at the Newcastle local court this morning for his role in disrupting a coal project in the Hunter region.

Mr. Herbert was arrested last week after disrupting a coal train for 5 hours by climbing on top of it and was convicted of charges including causing obstruction to a railway locomotive or rolling stock, and attempting to hinder working of mining equipment.

Tasmanian Independent senator Jacqui Lambie has criticised Pauline Hansen’s bill to scrap vaccine mandates in an impassioned speech. 

During the debate yesterday, Senator Lambie spoke against ending the vaccine mandates saying it was not discriminatory to have separate rules for the vaccinated and unvaccinated. 

She described the bill as, “playing Russian roulette with people’s lives.” 

Canada is ending their covid-19 policy of turning away asylum seekers.

Since march, Canada has turned away 544 would-be refugees as a result of increased Covid measures. 

Refugee lawyer Maureen Silcoff said it didn't make sense to allow entry to tourists while denying entry to people seeking protection. 

She says, “It's a relief to see the measure for refugees align more with our international obligations and I think it's been clear… public health and refugee protection could coexist.”