Last week’s Victorian flood crisis will see businesses and households continue without power, potentially for up to another week.

As the clean-up continues there remains more than 26, 000 homes and businesses without power.

Acting Premier of Victoria, James Merlino, says financial assistance would be available for eligible Victorians impacted by the recent weather.

The Bureau of Meteorology has predicted more rain in the coming days.

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Leetona Dungay, mother of the late Dunghutti man David Dungay Junior, will take her family’s fight to the United Nations after feeling the Australian legal system has failed her son.

Mr Dungay died in custody in 2015, due to guard mistreatment. No one has yet been charged with his death.

Ms Dungay wants to hold the Commonwealth and New South Wales Government accountable for their failures to protect the lives of Indigenous people in custody.

It has been over a month since the deadly uprising of anti-government protests began in Colombia.

The protests started due to inequalities faced by the citizens, with the pandemic only having worsened the situation, as 42% of the population in Colombia now live in poverty. 

The protests so far have resulted in the President Ivan Duque promising changes in police training and disciplinary standards as well as new human rights directorate.

The Australian Medical Association (AMA) says they have heard reports concerning children with respiratory symptoms who aren't being treated by General Practitioners. 

It is a continuous issue, as Queensland health authorities in March noted a third of the state’s increase in hospital visits were illnesses a GP could have treated. 

The Royal Australian college of General Practitioners however, is defending GPs, saying they lack the personal protective equipment to see children with respiratory illnesses in person.

The Brisbane City Council objects to trucks carrying soil through the inner city on Sundays during the construction of the Cross River Rail project.

BCC’s infrastructure committee chair David McLachlan says allowing 100s of trucks in the city on the weekend will hinder the inner-city’s economic recovery, as people would be less likely to partake in the city’s recreational activities.

The state’s Coordinator-General, Toni Power, claims the Sunday works will speed up construction, and prevent traffic build-up during the week.

A vigil was held on Friday in Brisbane at King George Square for a Biloela family who has languished in immigration detention for three years.

Greens Senator Larissa Waters and former Labor Senator Claire Moore also participated, calling for Minister Karen Andrews to release the family and let them go back to Biloela.

Their three-year-old daughter Tharnicaa is currently in Perth hospital being treated for sepsis as a result of untreated pneumonia.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk called on the Federal Government to make a call on the future of the family.

The Government will allow Australian families travel exemptions to have their children brought home from India.

After India was particularly hard-hit by COVID-19 the Australian government banned all travel to the country, over fears that it would place Australia at a serious health risk.

Whilst there remains a cap on international arrivals, families are hopeful that the easing of these travel restrictions will continue, and help more families reunite.

G7 country leaders will pledge 1 billion coronavirus vaccines to poorer nations in an attempt to convey global friendship and unity.

The leaders have also vowed to help developing nations tackle climate change and call out Beijing for human rights abuses.

However, health and environmental campaigners remain unimpressed by the details of the meeting, saying the leaders have failed to completely meet the challenges of our times.