In a major foreign policy speech today, Prime Minister Scott Morrison is set to warn global readers today that the risk of conflict involving china is rising. 

The Prime Ministers speech will back US calls for fresh investigations into the origins of COVID-19, as well as claims that it may have escaped from a Wuhan lab conducting coronavirus research. 

The Prime Minister is expected to comment on the arising tensions between China and other nation including Australia.

An Extinction Rebellion protest against gas giants, Santos and Origin Energy, will occur in King George Square tomorrow morning due to the fracking in the Northern Territory on sacred Indigenous lands and for the removal of the Origin Energy CEO as Australia's official Climate Change Authority.

The protesters will pose as dead bodies lying on the road. The Extinction Rebellion is calling on protesters via the Facebook page, "to bring a white sheet" to add to the "Chilling effect".

Annastacia Palaszczuk has defended her choice to get the Pfizer vaccine as the Queensland Premier gets her first dose of the vaccine. 

Despite government advice that people over the age of 50 should receive the Astrazeneca vaccine, the Queensland Premier made the decision to get the Pfizer vaccine in event she needs to travel to Tokyo for the 2021 Olympics. 

First Nation Queenslanders are set to receive extra support from the Federal Government through the Working with Children Blue Card process. 

A review in 2017 showed that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders experienced more barriers through the Working with Children check.

The initiative will have a set team to assist with the process and target remote communities without access to the application system.

Online news outlets Amazon, The Age, and The Guardian among others were temporarily shut down due to an unexplained global website outage linked to provider 'Fastly.'

Shortly after the outage, the United Kingdom's attorney general tweeted that the country's main gov.uk was down, providing an email for queries. 

Adapting to the outage, popular tech website the Verge took to Google Docs to report news, while UK technology editor at The Guardian started a Twitter thread to report on the problems.

Although Melbourne's lockdown is expected to end later this week, health authorities are warning some restrictions will likely remain in place. 

Melbourne GP Dr. Todd Cameron says that the end of the lockdown is coming but he's not sure Melbourne residents will be able to do things as normal such as regular catch-ups, travel, or have large gatherings. 

Melbourne remains to be on track to exit lockdown at 11:59 pm this Thursday despite the emergence of the highly contagious Delta Coronavirus cluster.

Norman Park residents are protesting cuts to Brisbane's public transport that they say leave residents out of options

A protestor against the Brisbane City Council's cuts to the New-Farm ferry on Monday says "a 3-minute Cross River Ferry now takes about 45 minutes by car in peak hour traffic"

Norman Park resident Chelsea Clarke rejects the state government initiative to promote public transport being a 'Golden Go-Card' giveaway for each week of June, which gives the receiver of the card unlimited access to public transport for a year.

A tent city has been situated in Townsville ahead of tonight's State of Origin game. The tent city, or otherwise referred to as this week's Footy Basecamp has the capacity of accomodating up to 200 people.

The creation of the footy base camp comes after it was deemed to be a creative and short term solution to the city's severe accommodation shortages, as thousands of fans travel to the region for a sold-out State of Origin clash