Overseas Australians have filed legal action with the United Nations against the Morrison government. 

The group of Australians declared the government “arbitrarily breached their right to return to the land of their birth or citizenship.”

The group has reiterated they were willing to comply with the public health measures required of them, including a 14-day quarantine period.

A new report warns the Great Barrier Reef’s coral is set for destruction unless immediate transformative action is taken to reverse global warming. 

The Australian Academy of Science’s report stipulates the Paris Climate Agreement target of keeping global warming to 1.5 degrees is unattainable.

Byron Bay’s Bluesfest Festival has been cancelled for the second year in a row, following COVID-19 concern in the region after a local man tested positive on Tuesday night. 

The music festival was supposed to start today, and organisers were expecting up to 15,000 people to attend.

Queenslanders will find out today whether the snap 3-day lockdown will come to an end, or if it will be extended over Easter.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk will address the state in a press conference from 9am. 

Airlines will release over 800,000 half price airline tickets today as part of the government's one-point-two billion-dollar tourism package. 

The flights aim to get Australians travelling and include return travel to the Whitsundays, Sunshine Coast and Gold Coast. 

Queensland has confirmed 2 new locally acquired COVID cases and 1 new case in hotel quarantine.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is urging all Queenslanders to get tested if they show any symptoms to ensure the outbreak has been contained during Brisbane’s lockdown. 

Brisbane residents risk forking out a one thousand three hundred dollar fine if they decide to travel out of the greater Brisbane region before the COVID-19 lockdown period ends on Thursday afternoon.

Council-owned caravan parks on the Gold and Sunshine coasts have been advised to refuse requests for entry from anyone in Greater Brisbane during the lockdown period.

A leaked report has revealed The Adani Group is paying up to $68 million to a Myanmar military-controlled company. 

Footage has also emerged showing Adani Ports' boss meeting with the junta's top general in 2019 contradicting the company's claim that it had never "engaged with military leadership" in Myanmar.

Scott Morrison will later today announce plans to develop a 1 billion dollar weapons manufacturing facility. 

This is one such project in the federal government's plan to invest $270 billion dollars in military and defence projects over the next ten years.