A new inclusive sports program will be rolled out across Queensland to create opportunities for students with disabilities to get active.

Children's Charity, Variety, will extend its Variety Activate Inclusion Sports Day, after its Brisbane event to Moreton Bay, Cairns and Townsville this year, to achieve greater inclusion and participation in sport for students with disabilities.

A satirical group is withdrawing a statement that alleged federal Liberal MP, Andrew Laming, took up-skirt photos of a woman in her workplace. 

Andrew Laming threatened to sue the comedy group ,“The Shot” for defamation, after it characterised an incident in which he took a photo of a woman bending over as “up-skirting”.

Queensland Police dropped the charges against Laming on the basis there was no evidence of a criminal offence.

Three year old Tharnicca, detained on Christmas Island, is reportedly yet to see an infectious diseases specialist after being medically evacuated to Perth with a suspected blood infection.

Protestors will take to the street on Friday against the government’s detention of the Muruggapan family. 

The Tamil asylum seekers narrowly avoided deportation to Sri Lanka following a court injunction in 2017, but have since been held in mandatory detention on Christmas Island.

A Queensland schoolboy attempting to raise money for his senior formal has framed a “rare Woolworths plastic bag” to Facebook marketplace.

The high school senior says he initially framed the plastic bag after the major supermarket ban in 2018.

Characterising the framed “artifact” as having significant value the school student hopes to raise three-hundred dollars for a suit to wear to his formal. 

Trillhouse Camphill have already offered $100 to showcase the artifact in their gallery.

Eight thousand Melbournians have received emergency payments in the wake of the city’s latest lockdown. 

The recent stimulus aims to ease those who are financially stressed, considering JobKeeper wage subsidies have since receded. 

To combat two weeks of lockdown the federal government will be bringing payments of five hundred dollars to the individuals most affected.

Auckland has beaten out four Australian Capitals to claim the title of the world's most liveable city. 

Adelaide ranked third, while Perth was in sixth place and Brisbane was in 10th place.

The findings are calculated through an index rating system based on a City’s infrastructure, education, healthcare and culture and environment ratings. 

A City’s response to the Pandemic was also included and largely responsible for shaking up the global rankings.

The state government will commit two million dollars to the Sunshine Coast Hydro Plant Plan over two years.

Planned for the Mary River at Lake Borumba, the hydro plants would be Queensland's largest, and provide electricity to 1.5 million homes by the middle of this decade. 

The Queensland government plans to produce 50% of its energy from renewable energy sources by 2032.

A list of COVID-exposure sites in Queensland are expected to grow today as contact tracing gets underway for a woman who fled locked-down Melbourne before testing positive on the Sunshine Coast on Wednesday.

She and her husband left an unidentified suburb on the edge of greater Melbourne on June 1, while the Victorian capital was in lockdown.  

The current list includes locations in Kawana, Caloundra, Goondoowindi, and Moffat Beach. 

See the Queensland health Website for more details: https://www.health.qld.gov.au/

Today, Extinction rebellion protesters will lie on the road outside the offices of Origin Energy in the CBD. 

Posing as dead bodies, protestors hope to highlight a lack of initiative amongst gas corporations at a time where concerns for gas emissions grow increasingly anxious.  

A spokesperson for the extinction rebellion says the government is lying about gas being a greener alternative to coal.

Extinction Rebellion says it will continue its campaign of civil obedience until the government tells the truth about the climate emergency.

Australian of the year Grace Tame says there is still a lot of work to be done to reckon with a culture that protects perpetrators of abuse, although there’s been a major shift in attitudes towards sexual assault survivors. 

Data from ABC’s Australia Talks National Survey has revealed that 55% of Australians now agree that allegations of sexual assault are almost always true, which is a 14% rise from last years results. 

Ms Tame has described this shift in public opinion as “a huge symbol of progress”.