Google has come under investigation by the European Union, as regulators have launched an antitrust investigation. 

The company is under investigation due to stifling competition in digital advertising technology as Google favours its own display ad technology services hence, breaching the antitrust rules. 

The investigation underscores European Commission concerns about Google's dominance in the online advertising industry and whether it's exploiting its data advantage to cement its position in the display ad market.

New Zealand's quarantine-free travel bubble with NSW is being paused after the state's growing number of COVID-19 cases. 

It comes after New Zealand health authorities say that they are concerned about two recent cases with no clear links to confirmed infections.

New Zealand said it was pausing the travel bubble arrangement while the source of the new cases was investigated.

Environment Minister, Susan Ley, has defended the government’s handling of the Great Barrier Reef after recommendations from UN officials to take, “accelerated action at all possible levels” on climate change.

UNESCO has suggested the Great Barrier Reef be listed as an “in danger” location, making it the first official  World Heritage site affected by climate change. 

Ley responded to these claims, saying, “she had already joined the foreign affairs minister, Marise Payne, in a call to Unesco’s director general, Audrey Azoulay”.

A commission into Queensland’s youth justice system reveals Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander children are overrepresented in juvenile detention.

The report reveals while Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children accounted for seven per cent of the total population of ten to seventeen-year-olds in Queensland, they made up forty-five per cent of young offenders in 2018-19.

The head of Queensland's Family and Child Commission is calling for  a new approach to youth justice developed in consultation with the local community

Tolls and fee prices are set to increase throughout Southeast Queensland next week in line with the Brisbane Consumer Price Index. 

The increase will begin on the 1st of July and the tunnels and roads affected will be the Clem7, the Go-Between Bridge, Legacy Way and the Toowoomba ByPass.

Queensland Health is attempting to recover millions of dollars of unpaid hotel quarantine fees, putting pressure on those who have overdue payments. 

Only 44% of invoices have been paid for leaving $52 million dollars left outstanding. 18% of the invoices are considered ‘overdue’, and 9.7% listed as significantly overdue. 

"Queenslanders rightly expect travellers will pay for their hotel quarantine stays and not leave taxpayers to foot the bill," a spokesperson from Queensland Health has said. .

Barnaby Joyce states, the year 2050 is too far away to be sure to reach the LNP’s target of net zero emissions. 

The new Deputy Prime Minister is pursuing a more aggressive  stance against the net zero target than his predecessor Michael McCormack.

He says, when the government gets there, whether in Australia or anywhere else, it will depend on the advances made in science and technology needed to commercially transform the developing world as well as advanced economies

The US White House has accepted the fact that the July vaccination target will not be met after a large drop in the daily vaccination rates. 

The target aimed to have 70% of American citizens over 18 vaccinated by the 4th of July with officials estimating only 67% of American adults will be vaccinated by the holiday.

Iranian President, Ebrahim Raisi, has backed a potential nuclear deal in attempts to improve current relations with the US and remove sanctions that have caused economic grief in Iran.
The nuclear deal was initially called off by then-president Donald Trump in 2018, however current president Joe Biden agreed to continue negotiations with Iran and has just concluded their 6th round of talks. 

Both leaders have rejected a meeting but agree to mutually work together through other world powers.