Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt has sent a letter to QLD health minister Yvette D’Ath to “raise concerns” about Queensland's testing policy, with the federal health department describing the testing as “not clinically relevant”. 

This comes after Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk defended the rules which require interstate travellers to get a Covid-19 test at least 72 hours before arrival.

The covid-19 PCR test thus far has cost the tax pay $1.75 billion.

The Northern Peninsula Area estimates 80,000 visitors passed through since April, putting extreme pressure on the region's resources. 

Mayor Patricia Yusia says, “we need more influx of dollars coming into the northern peninsula area communities, to try and look at how we can address those issues.

The two Wonnarua men describe the land as “hallowed ground” of the Wonnarua people. 

Glencore has taken out an advertisement in the community paper naming the duo stating they are “seeking to stop our project”. 

Mr Franks described the advertisement as a “flat-out attack on First Nations people.”

Federal environment minister Sussan Ley is set to consider the protection claim from Franks and Lester under the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protections Act.

The Kenyan health minister is announcing, from the 21st December, locals will not be allowed in bars, restaurants and public transport without being fully vaccinated. 

Having only administered vaccines to 10% of the population, 20 million Kenyans are yet to have their first dose. 

The measures come as a plea to get everyone vaccinated ahead of the festive season.

However those living in barely habitable villas, some without hot water at Kuranda Resort have been given eviction notices. 

Mareeba Community Housing Manager Patricia Goldfinch says her organisation is working with about 30 families after they had been given eviction notices following liquidation of two thirds of the villas. 

Ms Goldfinch says, "There’s still others living there, in a deplorable situation, some of them don’t have electricity... [or] cooking facilities.”

Sunland, the 110 square kilometre cattle property is downstream from the proposed mine site and in front of the Isaac River. 

A number of objections were made against the proposals, mainly on the basis the mine would severely impact the quantity, quality and ecology of the water in the Isaac River. 

However the application has been dismissed by the court.

Labor frontbencher Penny Wong is set to denounce the Morrison Government’s position on Taiwan as they talk up the prospect of joining a war over the country. 

Wong says the Morrison Government is embarking on, “the most dangerous election tactic in Australian history”. 

The Australian government and the labor party have both raised concerns over increasing military pressure from China against Taiwan. 

Ms Wong says, “amping up a war against a superpower [is a] tactic used by irresponsible politicians” in an attempt to hang on to power.

Nasa is set to slam a spacecraft into an asteroid in an effort to alter its orbit. 

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, mission is the first attempt to understand if this strategy is realistic. 

The director of the National Near Earth Objects Information Centre, Jay Tate says “this is the first step to actually trial a way of preventing near-earth object impact.”

The spacecraft is set to depart from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California tomorrow evening.