The United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has warned of a looming "humanitarian catastrophe" in Afghanistan. 

The UN chief has urged countries to provide emergency funding following the departure of US forces.

Mr Guterres expressed his "grave concern at the deepening humanitarian and economic crisis in the country," adding that basic services threatened to collapse "completely."

The JobKeeper scheme is under fire after reports the Federal Government plans to deny transparency to Australians by refusing to release the billionaire businesses that wrongly received JobKeeper.

Whilst the Government has announced they expect businesses to pay back the tax-payer money, it’s likely billions of dollars that wrongly went to giant corporations who didn’t need JobKeeper to maintain their business,  will go undetected. 

Prime Minister Scott Morrison made an abrupt exit to his radio interview on 4BC on Tuesday. 

The Prime Minister hung up mid-way through his interview after he was constantly grilled by the radio host over his relationship with US President Joe Biden.

The PM put down the phone when he was pressed on why the US had refused to share their Pfizer vaccine with Australia.

Coalition MPs are reportedly pushing Prime Minister Scott Morrison into the government’s school chaplaincy program to address concerns that activism against global heating is causing mental health problems for Australian children. 

Liberal MP Andrew Wallace told party members on Tuesday he supported the motion and compared children’s fear of climate change to the 70s fear of nuclear annihilation, with assistant youth minister, Luke Howarth, backing his claim.

From September 13, children aged between 12-15 will be eligible for the Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine.

This comes after the Queensland School cluster, causing thousands of school students into home isolation.

An experimental Johnson & Johnson (J&J) HIV vaccine that uses the same technology as successful shots against Covid-19 and Ebola, has failed to provide women in Southern Africa with significant protection against the virus, researchers said on Tuesday.

The disappointing results are the latest in a long history of setbacks to the global effort to develop a safe and effective HIV vaccine

Australia has secured half a million doses of Pfizer coronavirus vaccines in a deal with Singapore.

The agreement means that 500,000 pfizer doses will arrive this week for distribution next week

Mr Morrison says it will accelerate the vaccination rollout as Australia perseus to reach a vaccination coverage target of 70 and 80 percent of the population aged 16 and above

Tensions are rising from environmentalists after both the Coalition and Labor party voted to move a disallowance motion in Parliament to prevent $50m in public grants going to gas explorers in the Northern Territory. 

This comes after senior Liberal Party figure Paul Espie, whose Empire Energy is expected to receive half of the $50m in funding from his Beetaloo Cooperative Drilling grant program.