Clive Palmer asked the Australia High Court to overturn a new law preventing him from suing the Western Australian government.

The WA government introduced a legislation which aims to stop Mr Palmer from claiming $30 billion in damages from a previous Liberal government which disallowed assessment of the billionaire’s Balmoral iron ore project in Pilbara.

Mr Palmer said the law discriminated against him since he lives in Queensland, and the state government prevented him from selling the Balmoral project to a Chinese company. 

Wage theft and exploitation inflicted by farm managers forces migrant workers to go dumpster diving just to survive.

Kate Hsu, a Taiwanese foreign worker, said she was paid $4 an hour for picking oranges on a farm in South Australia, leaving her no choice but to eat from public rubbish bins just to survive.

Unions NSW secretary Mark Morey said the horrific treatment goes beyond underpayment, but leaves many overseas workers vulnerable as employees have the power to influence their visa status.

Scott Morrison and Boris Johnson agreed to a trade deal between Australia and the United Kingdom in principle over dinner.

The deal envisioned to give food producers and businesses from both nations easier access to each other’s markets and away from the volatile Chinese market.

Additionally, a substantial revamp of visa requirements for professionals and travellers desire to live and work in each other’s countries is expected to be included.

This trade deal is considered a major step in Britain joining a wider Asia Pacific free-trade agreement.

Avocados sold for $1 each in supermarkets after farmers upped production for this season.

Although this is welcomed news for consumers, growers are at a disadvantage. Chief Executive of Avocados Australia John Tyas said demand for avocados has not matched up with the sheer volume of product available this year, leaving growers doing it tough with the marginal prices.

However, these low prices increased the number of avocados being exported offshore, so it isn’t all bad news for the industry as a whole.

The state budget so far indicated little spending changes to improve housing conditions for lower income Queenslanders.

Queensland Greens Member for South Brisbane Amy MacMahon said resources for an adequate public housing strategy are noticeably absent from the new budget.

Ms MacMahon said it’s quote “astounding when we have 40,000 people on the social housing wait-list".

A report released yesterday found risky practices caused an explosion at Anglo American’s Grosvenor Coal Mine injuring six workers.

The Queensland Coal Mining Board of Inquiry’s second report revealed no adequate gas drainage system was installed before the production started at the mine on 9 March 2020

The report said overproduction of coal, constantly exceeding the capacity of the critical control of gas drainage, subjects coal mine workers to an unacceptable level of risk.

An update on the Tamil family from Biloela.

Immigration Minister Alex Hawke approved the family to reunite in Perth temporarily, but their long term future remains unclear.

Mr Hawke said he used his powers under the Migration Act to allow the Murugappan family to reside in a community detention placement in Perth while four-year old Tharnicaa receives medical treatment.

Victoria recorded 0 local Covid cases and 3 new overseas cases that are in hotel quarantine. 

As of yesterday, 15,067 tests were received and nearly 10,000 doses were administered.

Authorities are quarantining residents in a Melbourne townhouse complex to contain a potential outbreak, which is suspected to have an infected transmission take place on site.