US President Joe Biden plans to provide two hundred and 35 million dollars of aid to Palestinian, restoring the Trump administration cuts. 

Over two-thirds of the aid will go to the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees with the additional funding going towards development assistance and peace programs. 

The funding aims to address the impact of COVID-19 and food security in the nation.

The federal government will amend the Sex Discrimination Act to include MPs, judges and public servants, who are currently exempt from the act.

The government will adopt the 55 recommendations of last year’s Respect at Work report, including placing the onus on employers to proactively end sexual harassment and create safe workplaces. 

Attorney-General Michaelia Cash says politicians will now be subject to the same law, and the same consequences, as everybody else.

China’s ambassador to Australia has told Canberra to stop criticising the country over human rights abuses, in a press conference on the treatment of Chinese Uighur people. 

Ambassador Cheng Jing-yi described criticisms of China’s re-education camps for minority Uighur people as “Western lies” and “fabrications”.

The ambassador warned any country which put pressure on China for its internal affairs would receive “a response”. 

Farmers concerned over koala welfare are setting aside land for permanent safe koala corridors from northern New South Wales to the Queensland border.

Bangalow Koalas, the organisation behind the initiative, have planted nearly 54 thousand trees since February 2020.

Bangalow Koala president Linda Sparrow says they are hearing from more farmers who want to create wildlife corridors in response to the 30 thousand koalas that died in last summer’s bushfires.

Conduct complaints made against Queensland teachers were up by 60 per cent last year, despite students learning from home. 

The Queensland College of Teachers revealed they suspended 33 teachers charged with serious offences during the period. 

Employers made 610 reports regarding teacher competence last year, which is almost double 2019’s findings.

Communities will protest in Brisbane to mark the 30th anniversary of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.

Indigenous collective, Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance will organise the protest from King George Square this Saturday, at 10 am. 

Protesters are demanding justice for First Nations people, following five First Nations deaths last month, and nearly 500 deaths in custody since the Royal Commission.

The French senate has passed a “anti-separatism” bill including a ban on people under 18 year old wearing the hijab. 

The provision will also stop mothers wearing the hijab from accompanying their children on school excursions and at public swimming pools. 

The bill has received criticism internationally and is yet to go back to France’s lower house to be approved as law. 

Rain continues to hamper search efforts in Indonesia, as the death toll from recent landslides rises to 126 people.

Tropical Cyclone Seroja brought winds and rains across the south-east of the country on Tuesday, triggering flash floods and landslides.

Over 10,000 people have been displaced.