The New South Wales education department has announced a teacher shortage set to hit schools across the state.

With the vaccine mandate deadline approaching, the Teachers Federation is expecting the already low number of teachers to further reduce. 

The new south wales teachers federation president Angelo Gavrielatos says the unsustainable workload and non competitive salaries are contributing factors to the shortage. 

Shanghai residents are being told to brace themselves as Typhoon Chanthu moves up the east coast.

Flights and train services are being cancelled and schools have closed due to heavy rainfall and high-speed winds affecting the region. 

The storm has forced Shanghai's main container port, the worlds largest, to suspend operations.

Senior meteorologist Jason Nicholls says, "Chanthu will lose wind intensity as it continues to push northward just east of Shanghai into Wednesday." 

A Brisbane riverfront home has sold for 10 times the previous purchase price. 

The Californian bungalow in Toowong sold for six million dollars in less than 48 hours in an off-market deal. The house was previously sold in 1993 for $600,000.

Jordan Navybox, who brokered the deal, says that surging interstate migration has driven an increase in Sydney and Melbourne buyers. He says a third of his clients are buying property from outside of Queensland driving the demand and soaring prices. 

Greens candidate Danielle Mutton will join fellow community protesters this Thursday in a bid to halt introduction of a toxic energy-from-waste incinerator in Ipswich.

The greens are calling on Queensland and federal governments to move away from energy-from-waste and towards a cleaner alternative. 

Ms Mutton says the incinerator will do immeasurable harm to the health of local residents and the environment. 

Queensland has recorded an additional locally acquired case of COVID-19

A 15-year-old girl who attends St Thomas More College in Sunnybank has tested positive.

In good news, however, premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is not concerned due to the case being related to the Sunnybank cluster.  

More than 13,000 tests have been conducted in the last 24 hours and 38.3% of eligible Queenslanders have now had their first dose of the vaccine. 56.6% have been fully jabbed. 

New food sharing app is tackling the problem of food waste in Australia.

OLIO is the world's only neighbour-to-neighbour food sharing app which connects people with local shops and cafes in an effort to eliminate food waste. Users are able to exchange food with one another rather than throwing it away. 

App user Sian Lewis says the initiative is a satisfying reassertion of community and caring. 

The app is free to use and is accessible to any smart phone. 

Australian farmers are relishing a record-breaking season of nearly $70 billion worth of produce.

The agriculture industry is expected to grow $73 billion worth of produce this coming financial year. This will be the first-time farmers have broken through the $70 billion mark.

The promising weather conditions and a growth in pricing are delivering returns for fruit, grains, livestock and vegetable farmers.

The United States has appointed its first transgender bishop.

The Evangelical Lutheran Church welcomed Reverend Dr Megan Rohrer who will oversee up to 200 congregations in California and Nevada.

The initiation service was held in the Grace Cathedral in San Francisco on Saturday where Reverend Dr Rohrer committed to serve a six year term as bishop.

Reverend Dr Rohrer says, “During all the difficulties we have encountered through the pandemic, it is more important than ever to celebrate joy, hope and love everywhere we find it.”