Tensions are rising between an anti-capitalist community garden and the proposed development next door in Highgate Hill.

Growing Forward gardeners say a sewer line for the Highgate Hill residences development would run through the community garden, which sits on disused land owned by the state government.

The activists declined offers from developers, ‘Bluebird’, to fund the rebuilding of the garden once construction is over.

Tune into Brisbane Line at 12pm tomorrow for the full story. 

There’s been an update on the suspension of evacuation flights out of Kabul Airport, with Defence Minister Peter Dutton saying all Australian Troops have been withdrawn from Kabul and all flights have been terminated.

This comes after the two suicide bombers attacked crowds outside of Kabul Airport and killed 60 Afghan civilians and 12 US soldiers.

Dutton said all Australians involved in the evacuation operation are safe after the final airlift was completed yesterday before the attacks.

This week’s Covid round up has NSW hitting over 1000 cases, with today’s number set to be announced at 11am. This comes as the state plans to ease the rules on outside gatherings due to hitting its vaccination targets.

Next is Victoria hitting a rise of nearly 80 new cases and 860 exposure sites showing that the numbers are continuing to rise.

There is no news yet on the other states but with NSW continuing to be on track for the over 2000 estimated daily cases, experts are concerned about the easing of the outside gathering rules.

US President Joe Biden has told Americans he will hunt down and make the terrorists responsible for the overnight twin suicide bombing in Kabul pay for what they’ve done.

ISIS-K has claimed responsibility for the attacks which killed 12 US soldiers, and saw the worst day of casualties for US forces there in a decade.

Biden said he’s asked the Pentagon to develop plans to strike back at them and ordered commanders to strike ISIS-K assets, leadership, and facilities.

A Facebook Group called ‘Reef Pollution, a Walk for a Solution’ has been launched by Cairns local Che Tyson to bring his local community together to minimise the amount of rubbish entering the oceans, polluting reefs and ecosystems.

Che said he is frustrated seeing rubbish on the mudflats being washed out to sea and believes the local community can do a better job at ‘keeping it in a bag’.

Chelsey Fetini, founder of Chelsey Jean Lymphatics, has been named a finalist for the 2020 AusMumpreneur Awards.

Fetini runs her own naturopath clinic at Capalaba and teaches hundreds of therapists across the world how to build their own lymphatic health business. 

Fetini says she can’t believe that so little is understood about the body’s lymphatic system despite our medical advances. 

Fiteni has garnered thousands of followers online for educating women on how to use her self-massage techniques to improve health and well-being.

Truck drivers for Toll are set to strike for 24 hours starting today in a bid for better pay and working conditions.

Up to 7,000 truck drivers are set to strike, which could impact and delay food and fuel deliveries.

Toll said its enterprise agreement is the best in the industry and the Toll Global Express businesses president, Alan Beacham, said the Union was unwilling to compromise during negotiations and that they will not be bullied by them. 

Qantas has announced international flights will resume for highly vaccinated countries such as Singapore and Japan if Australia can achieve eighty percent vaccination rates by December.

Qantas CEO Alan Joyce said the ability to travel is reliant on vaccine uptake and alongside international travel, is hopeful domestic travel will fully open again in November when a seventy percent vaccine rate is achieved.

Mr Joyce is forecasting however, that NSW and Victoria will remain sectioned off from the rest of the country until December.

Hundreds of Greek health care workers have marched through Athens protesting the government’s new policy of mandatory vaccinations for those working in the health care sector.

The protest is made up of both vaccinated and unvaccinated Greek health care workers who all believe it’s their colleagues right to choose whether to be vaccinated or not.

Public Hospital Workers Union President Michalis Yiannakos joined the Athens protest and told journalists that the Union will support their unvaccinated colleagues.