Industry group Australian Grape and Wine has called for the federal government to refer China’s tariffs on Australian wine to the World Trade Organisation.

A WTO appeal on the tariffs, which are up to 220%, could take up to 5 years to be resolved, leading some to raise concerns about the risk of further disruption or potential retaliation on the industry.

The Australian Securities and Investment Commission says charges of false and misleading behaviour have been filed against ME Bank in the Federal Court following an investigation. 

The Banking Code of Compliance Committee has also sanctioned ME Bank for serious and systemic breaches of the Banking Code, including poor and ineffective communication to customers regarding changes to their redraw amounts. 

The Australian Government will give $500,000 in funding to the Alcohol and Drug Foundation to increase the number of Local Drug Action Teams nationwide.

The energy generating turbine that caught alight and caused mass blackouts across Queensland this week had only last year been given an overhaul to ensure it operated safely and reliably.

CS Energy, who owns the plant, completed works on the $60million overhaul in December 2020.

A government report says more could have been done to avoid the 2020 bushfires on K'Gari, formally known as Fraser Island. 

Africa will need 20million doses of the Astra-Zeneca vaccine in the next six weeks,  for those with their first shot to get their second in time, according to the World Health Organisation. 

Two doses of the Astra-Zeneca vaccine are needed between eight to twelve weeks apart, to achieve an eighty one percent protection rate.

A finger pointing contest has begun between the US and China, who are each calling for the other to be investigated for manufacturing COVID-19. 

US President Joe Biden gave orders yesterday for intelligence officers to pursue the lab leak theory about the origin of the virus, which he had previously dismissed as far-fetched.

Brisbane’s final bid documents to host the Olympics are in. 

The Olympic Committee is expected to announce Brisbane as the 2032 host at its session in Tokyo on July twentieth and twenty-first.

The Australian Olympic Committee and Commonwealth Games Australia have written to the federal government, calling for a fundamentally new investment model for sport.

Content warning: this Zedline mentions Indigenous deaths in custody. 

The Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service has co-signed a letter with almost 40 human rights groups damning the Victorian government’s bail laws for contributing to Aboriginal deaths in custody.