Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is calling on the Federal Government to host a National Women’s Summit. 

The proposed summit would aim to address the ongoing economic and social inequality facing Australian women.

New doubts are being raised over Brisbane’s Cross River Rail, as critics say billions more must be spent to achieve the government’s promises. 

Experts say not only upgrades, but the removal of about 20 level crossings around Brisbane is needed if the project is to deliver on its promised train timetable.

Annastacia Palaszczuk is pushing the National Cabinet to hold a summit to investigate and address economic and social inequalities faced by Australian women. 

In an announcement today, Palaszczuk said that actions to address the gender pay gap, affordable childcare, workplace discrimiation, and sexual harassment both at work and in broader society, should be of high national priority. 

Farmers in the Queensland town of Kingaroy are worried that drought and a shifting rainfall pattern might mean the end for peanut crop production.

According to the Bureau of Meteorology's regional climate guide, from 1989 to 2018, annual rainfall in the region declined by 60 millimetres, or seven per cent.

A Report released by the Commonwealth Ombudsman yesterday shows that the Government pursued robo-debts even after they knew the program was unlawful.

Services Australia, the government department responsible for robo-debt decided to keep pursuing debts while it checked whether they were legally sound.

Scott Morrison says he never blamed the EU for vaccine troubles.

He says any suggestion that he, in any way, made any criticism of the European Union yesterday would be completely incorrect.

Two cyclones detected off the WA coast are predicted to create a rare weather phenomenon known as the Fujiwhara effect. 

The Fujiwhara phenomenon occurs when two cyclonic systems rotate around each other. In tropical cyclones, the effect can happen when cyclones are within 1,400 kilometres of each other. 

Forbes’ annual world’s billionaires list has broken its previous record by including 500 new billionaires onto the list.

The list has been growing despite the world economic downturn due to the covid-19 pandemic.

This year’s billionaires are worth a combined 13.1 trillion US dollars, up from 8 trillion US dollars last year.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk reported the state’s fourth consecutive day without community transmission of COVID-19. There are six new cases in hotel quarantine.

She has also invited the New Zealand prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, to holiday in Queensland after the recommencement of the trans-Tasman bubble in earnest on 19 April.

Protesters have stopped work on Adani’s Carmichael rail line this morning by blocking vehicles from entering the construction site off the Gregory Highway in central Queensland.

The protest group called “Health On The Frontlines” is made up of healthcare professionals that want to stop Adani from risking our planet and health.