The Callide C power station that catastrophically failed after an explosion in its turbine hall on May 25th, has faced a setback recently as the Queensland State budget for 2021/22 may have insufficient funds to repair it.

The budget has allocated $10.1 million for capital works at the Callide C in 2021/22, but that was locked in prior to the station exploding which puts the timeline of repairs in doubt, with the estimated repairs being at $43.5 million for refurbishments and overhauls.

The Greens seek to repeal the new online safety bill mainly due to the misspelling of several words. However, critics have also responded with other concerns, namely that the bill may unfairly impact the LGBTQI community and sex workers.

Critics say that the bill draft draws to many similarities British Anti-Pornography act and the American anti sex work out and may de-platform sex works as it gives the government the capacity to remove dating apps and apps like only fans from the app store.

The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas came to an end after the Israeli military fired two rounds of airstrikes over the past three days.

According to the Israeli military, these strikes were in retaliation to a series of balloons launched by Palestinian militants which aimed to set fire to surrounding farmland. 

These strikes have reportedly hit Gaza City. 

Israel army chief, Aviv Kohavi, said the Israeli military will continue to strike Hamas infrastructure along the Gaza strip and holds Hamas accountable for all of the transpiring events.

In interplanetary news,

Three astronauts have flown to China’s unfinished space station where they will live for three months in China’s first crewed space flight since 2016.

The mission is the third of eleven needed to complete assembly of China’s first space station and will be used to test out technologies such as the life support system as well as the physical and psychological impacts of living in space.

Mt Cotton will see the construction of the new precinct commence in 2022 or 2023.

Redland City Mayor Karen Williams said the forty seven hectare site will allow for sports like netball, basketball, and gymnastics to expand, and that the project will take pressure off the Cleveland Showgrounds.

The new precinct will include three clubhouses, sixteen sporting fields, BMX and cycling tracks, and other recreational facilities.

The state government has resumed work on its one-billion dollar ring-road project, and residents have had to leave their homes to make way.

Among those affected were Sarah Greene and her three flatmates. Ms Green said that it was hard to find their house in the first place.

Now the relocating Rockhampton residents need to find a new rental home while the rental vacancy rate sits at 0.4%.

A major abortion provider is going to close clinics in Rockhampton, Townsville, the Gold Coast and Newcastle, citing high operation costs in the wake of COVID-19.

The non-profit organisation Marie Stopes was the only abortion provider in Townsville.

Womens’ health advocates are concerned regional Queenslanders seeking to have abortions will now have to travel to major cities.

Heritage New South Wales has granted ‘Mid-Coast Stories’ fifty-thousand dollars in a bid to capture quirky histories of small coastal towns north of New South Wales.

The developers of the initiative, Janine Roberts and Penny Teerman, said the funding will be used to create up to ten heritage trails over two years, preserving the region's little-known history.

With concern for preserving history, Ms Roberts said "We are losing that uniqueness of our regions and towns."

The Senate foreign affairs committee has recommended fourteen measures to block any goods made by forced labour across the world.

Human Rights Watch Australia researcher Sophie McNiell said Australia is lagging behind the US, Canada and the UK in introducing the measures.

Senior lawyer Freya Dinshaw says testimonies of Uyghur Muslims have propelled Australia to ensure Australian businesses are not complicit in profiting from forced labour from Xinjiang or anywhere else in the world.