The federal government is proposing to spend an extra five hundred and thirty nine million dollars on new 'clean' energy projects.

$275 million towards developing hydrogen production hubs in regional areas and $263 million towards carbon capture and storage projects.

A rally is taking place in Brisbane this morning to urge decision makers to reject a proposal from a Clive Palmer owned company who want to build a coal mine just 10kms away from the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area.

The LNP opposition has made a failed bid to launch an official probe into Queensland’s corruption watchdog over abandoned fraud charges levelled at seven Logan city councillors. 

John Bugy Bugy Christophersen, a Murran man from the Cobourg Peninsula, died on the weekend after a long illness.

Mr Christophersen was one of the organisers of a convoy that took forty thousand people to Sydney to protest the bicentenary of British settlement and the treatment of Indigenous people in Australia in 1988.

The Czech Republic is threatening to expel all Russian diplomats from Prague after accusations Russia was behind an explosion in an ammunition facility in 2014. 

Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis describes the explosion as “an unprecedented terror attack on our territory.”

The President of Chad, Idriss Déby has died while visiting troops on the frontline of a fight against northern rebels from Libya.

President Déby’s death comes days after he won his 6th presidential election.

Rebels based across the northern frontier in Libya attacked a border post on election day and have advanced south hundreds of kilometres.

Queensland researchers developing new treatment for obsessive compulsive disorder have seen promising results following a successful clinical trial. 

Deep brain stimulation, which involves implanting electrodes in the brain, has proven to be effective in treatment for severe OCD. 

Mining exploration in North Queensland is set to boom with the mining of vanadium for batteries rising in demand.

Vanadium is a mineral with natural resistance to acids, traditionally used in reinforcing steel is now being used in giant batteries to stabilize renewable energy .

Queensland energy heavyweights will be meeting in Gladstone today to discuss how to manage changes to the energy sector across Central Queensland at The Energy Futures Summit.

Just as the Australian and New Zealand travel bubble has opened a New Zealand airport worker has tested positive to covid-19.

The worker contracted COVID-19 from a passenger who arrived into New Zealand on an international flight more than a week ago.

No changes have been made to the Australia - New Zealand Travel bubble has not been affected.