A Brisbane TV journalist is facing potential Crime and Corruption Commission hearings after losing a Supreme Court appeal on Friday. 

In a 2018 hearing the journalist refused to name sources and refused to answer questions which he says he did because of “public interest immunity”, the most recent ruling warned the journalist he could face up to 5 years in prison. 

Greens MP for Maiwar Michael Berkman will today face Parliament’s Community Support and Services Committee for a public briefing on his Bill to raise the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14 years old and transition 10-13 year olds out of prisons and watch-houses in Queensland. 

 Mr Berkman says “This Bill is also a crucial step towards reducing the over-incarceration of First Nations people, given Queensland currently has the greatest proportion of First Nations children under 14 held in detention of any Australian state.

ABC chair Ita Buttrose has accused Coalition of political interference and intimidation after the Senate established an inquiry into the ABC’s complaints handling process. 

In a statement, Ms Buttrose has called on the upper house to defend the independence of the ABC by suspending the inquiry until an independent process by the board has been completed. 

US journalist Danny Fenster has been sentenced to 11 years in jail in a Myanmar military court.

Mr Fenster, who worked as an editor for a now banned independent news site Myanmar Now prior to the military coup in February which was critical of the military junta, is facing court on new charges tomorrow. 

Mr Fenster, along with dozens of local journalists were detained after the coup and given harsh punishments which critics say could possibly be an attempt to force the US to soften its hardline stance against the regime and relax sanctions.

Queensland has hit its’ 70 per cent double vaccination milestone with the state recording no new cases yesterday.

Federal government statistics have revealed 81.99 per cent of the population aged 16 and above have had their first dose leading to the relaxing of the mask mandate with another 23,383 vaccinations recorded on Saturday. 

Health Minister Y’vette D’ath says the updated border system will not be in place until later today but urged people returning from COVID19 hotspots to exercise caution and to home quarantine.

A new study by the University of Queensland is challenging the growing popular belief that the gut microbiome drives autism. 

The new Australian collaborative Autism CRC study, led by Mater Research and The University of Queensland, studied genetic material from stool samples of autistic children with lead author Chloe Yap saying that “while it’s a popular idea that the microbiome affects our behaviour, our findings flip that causality on its’ head”.

A New South Wales south coast national park will no longer bear the name of a colonialist considered Australia’s first ‘blackbirder’, in a move long called for by the local Aboriginal Land Council.

Ben Boyd national park will be renamed in the language of its traditional custodians, following a community consultation process.

Boyd’s legacy was to initiate ‘blackbirding’ in Australia during the nineteenth century, by shipping South Sea Islanders to the colony on minute wages to avoid anti-slavery laws.

Youth climate activists across the world are leading a chorus of voices disillusioned with the outcomes of the COP-26 summit. 

The climate conference, which ended on Friday, saw countries commit to a real reduction in coal in addition to urgent emissions cuts and financing to assist developing countries in phasing out greenhouse gases. 

The current commitments are predicted to keep global warming under 2.4 degrees, more than 60 per cent above the 1.5 degree target stipulated in the Paris agreement in 2015.