Members of the sovereign Kabi Tribe will be gathering peacefully next Monday 15th November outside the Gympie magistrates court with other tribal representatives. Tribes have said they are gathering in their religious and spiritual tribal obligation to protect country and all who live on it from further abuse of their “human rights.”

The event follows the continued efforts of The Kabi Kabi traditional owners in Queensland who have relentlessly fought to protect their sacred site, Djaki kundu, which has been slated for a $1 billion dollar highway upgrade this year in Gympie. 

Queensland met the state government’s threshold for the easing of mask rules yesterday with 80.1 % of the state’s population over 16 now at least partially vaccinated. 

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said yesterday that people in south east Queensland would no longer need to wear masks indoors, including at schools, workplaces, cafes, pubs, clubs and hairdressers “the minute” 80 % of people over 16 had received one vaccine dose.

Australia’s climate policies have been ranked dead last out of 64 countries and is still among the worst offenders for emissions, renewables and energy use.

Australia’s “technology investment roadmap” as Prime Minister Scott Morrison has called it, has been deemed insufficient to decarbonise the economy, cut fossil fuel use and promote renewables. 

Australia has since been criticised for bringing to the recent Glasgow climate summit a 2050 target of net-zero emissions that involve no new policies or plans.

Poland has blocked hundreds of migrants at its Belarus border by responding to arrivals with tall, razor wire fences. 

Migrants have been abruptly expelled from Poland and Belarus refuses to allow them back in, a situation that has found people stranded and freezing in Poland’s forests. 

Poland has accused Belarus of pushing the migrants towards the border, with countries like Lithuania and Lativa saying there has been a massive surge in the number of people trying to enter their countries illegally from Belarus in recent months.

Queensland's public service will fail to come close to reaching its 2022 target of 8 per cent of its workforce made up of people living with a disability. 

In light of the failure, the government is doing an audit across the public service to reclassify any employers who might have been missed from the official disability count.

A disability advocate has said that the target was missed by so much, the government needs a “review” and a “quota conversation.”

Thousands of protestors have gathered at rallies across the country on Monday fighting covid-19 vaccine mandates.

The rallies were held in cities including Melbourne, Sydney and in Brisbane's King George Square which police have said were largely peaceful. 

The state’s biggest gathering was at the border where there were over a thousand people. 

Among the protestors were nurses, police, fire fighters, pilots, construction workers and more.

Victoria premier Daniel Andrews has refused to comment on allegations he knew about Labor’s red shirts rorts scheme in the lead up to the 2014 election. Former government minister, Adem Somyurek, told the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission (IBAC) earlier this week that Mr Andrews knew about the scheme and dismissed him when he tried to warn him about the rorting. 

Kenya’s government has declared a national disaster in 10 of its 47 countries. The United Nations says that more than 2 million people are severely food insecure and observers warn that tensions among communities could sharpen as people are trekking further in search of food and water.