Gold Coast city council faces a legal battle to complete its proposed one point six kilometre pathway along the beachfront. 

Local community group, the Surfers Beachfront Protection Association, argue the pathway would result in significant destruction to the beachfront dunal system. They have lodged an appeal against the decision to approve the pathway. 

Gold Coast city council maintains the path will allow cyclists and pedestrians to avoid driveways and streets without causing significant environmental damage.

A section of a popular beach near Rainbow Beach has collapsed into the water in what is becoming a regular occurrence for the area.

Wayne Dean, a resident in the local area, says the landslide went on for over twenty minutes and was not the first he’s seen. He says the landslide occurred shortly after a barge picked up a load of cars bound for Fraser Island.

A University of the Sunshine Coast associate lecturer, Peter Davies, says the phenomenon is caused by fast-moving currents along the beach that eat away at sand beneath the surface.

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.