A major climate change report has been released by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, after being delayed by the Trump administration since 2017. 

The Climate Change Indicators Report found floods have become five times more likely in U.S. cities since 1950, and recorded a record low amount of sea ice last September. 

Researchers from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the US are calling for Indigenous perinatal health to be better incorporated into the nation’s health systems. 

The researchers are demanding better perinatal care for First Nations women, who are most at risk for complications during childbirth. 

Indigenous justice bodies are concerned by the lack of funding allocated to Aboriginal legal services in Tuesday’s federal budget.

There was no further funding allocated to legal assistance services, despite high rates of Indigenous incarceration and deaths in custody.

The Queensland tourism sector is raising concerns over the federal budget’s failure to address the state’s struggling tourism providers.

With international borders expected to remain closed until 2022, the sector is asking for more certainty and more support. 

Members of the Queensland Government are responding to calls to recognise peoples' self-identified gender in legal documents. 

Currently, Queenslanders who are transgender are required to undergo reassignment surgery if they want to change their birth certificate, contrary to rules in other jurisdictions. 

The Queensland Government will allocate $30 million towards extra funding for domestic, family, and sexual violence services in Queensland. 

Attorney-General and Minister for the Prevention of Domestic and Family Violence Shannon Fentiman said the pandemic and increased awareness are placing demand on services in Queensland. 

The southern Italian island of Lampedusa is struggling to cope with an influx of migrants, with more than 2000 people arriving since Saturday. 

The arrivals have filled up the island’s migrant camp, designed to hold fewer than 300 people. 

Illegal miners have fired on an indigenous group in a protected reserve in the Brazilian Amazon. 

An estimated 20,000 illegal gold miners are occupying the Yanomami area of the Amazon, where violence has increased under Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro.

New South Wales will allocate $50 million to tackling the ongoing mouse plague in the state’s regions.

New South Wales Minister for Agriculture John Marshall said the state government will provide free baits to all primary producers and establish eight grain treatment stations.