Car manufacturers have found themselves in the unusual position of asking the Australian government to impose limits on how much their cars can pollute. 

After announcing the long-awaited Future Fuels strategy, Scott Morrison promised his government would make sure there is infrastructure to support the change to electric vehicles. 

However, leading car brands say the lack of regulation on their emissions in Australia is hindering their ability to bring electric vehicles here and stick to the plan to sell zero-emission cars by 2030. 

Tuvalu’s foreign minister has garnered worldwide attention after delivering a plea to the COP26 summit standing knee-deep in seawater. 

The pre-recorded speech begins with Simon Kofe standing at a lectern with a standard blue backdrop typical of press conferences, however as the camera pans out audiences see the reality of the situation facing Tuvalu and other nations as sea levels continue to rise due to global warming.

An assessment of new pledges by the UN environment programme yesterday has found the COP26 climate summit will likely do little to slow global warming, and earth is still on course for a “catastrophic” temperature rise of 2.7 degrees this century. 

The UN report highlights the challenges facing climate negotiations, giving the gap between the emissions cuts needed this decade and the continuing increases in greenhouse gases pumped into the atmosphere. 

Queensland’s Deputy Premier and Planning Minister Steven Miles has given notice he may intervene in the assessment process for Clive Palmer’s Waratah Coal power proposal. 

Currently under local government process there is no legal requirement for the company to notify the public, however Mr Miles has given notice of a proposed call-in which will give the public more control of the decision making process.

Now it is expected the multi-billion dollar coal power proposal will seek government and local approval. 

Queensland Opposition Leader David Crisafulli is hosting a health crisis town hall meeting in Redlands today to give locals a platform to voice their concerns with the government’s handling of the local hospital.

Redlands hospital has one of the worst issues with ambulance ramping in the state, with 65 per cent of all patients forced to wait in the back of ambulances longer than recommended.

700 Australian high-school students have penned and signed an open letter calling on Immigration Minister Alex Hawke to protect their peers living under Taliban rule in Afghanistan. 

In the letter to the Minister, the students urged the Australian Government to provide an additional 20,000 humanitarian places, giving safety to young people facing persecution, discrimination and violence.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has estimated that 97% of the people in Afghanistan will fall below the poverty line by mid-2022. 

Four first nations women from Normanton in Queensland’s North have been honoured in the 2021 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, through a series depicting the life of indigenous stockwomen in outback Australia.

The series by Sydney photographer David Prichard took out the top spot from over five thousand submissions, and features Kurtijar elder Gloria Campbell, who recounts her early life as a cattle station cook as hard work from morning to night.

Community groups are calling for a grassroots approach to raise awareness of scams, as Indigenous Australians and those whose primary language is not English have lost tens of millions of dollars to scams over the past 10 months. 

New data from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s scam-reporting service, shows scammers stole a total of $36.2 million from people who spoke English as a second language, and $4.6 million from Indigenous Australians. 

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko is accused of using “gangster-style” tactics during an ongoing standoff at the Belarus/Poland border, resulting in the deaths of seven migrants. 

The European Union believes Belarus is encouraging migrants to illegally enter the EU in retaliation for sanctions put in place in Minsk amidst human rights abuse allegations.