Brisbane residents are campaigning against the Redlands Toondah Harbour development over concerns it will damage koala habitats and protected wetlands.

The development is listed as a priority development area (PDA), which plans for three thousand six hundred apartments to be built over the water. 

The PDA status means developers are not required to comply with environmental regulations. 

Koala Action Group President Debbie Pointing said the development will be a death sentence for local shorebirds and koalas.

The Queensland Government is reviewing the animal protection and welfare act for the first time in 20 years. 

The Animal Care and Protection Act 2001 covers various issues, including penalties for animal cruelty. 

Agricultural Industry Development Minister Mark Furner said, "this review will examine all aspects of the Animal Care and Protection Act 2001 to ensure that the Act continues to meet changing community expectations and modern animal welfare practices,"

Brazil has recorded more than 4000 Covid 19-related deaths in 24 hours for the first time. 

The country’s death toll is over 300,030, second only to the United States. 

President Jair Bol-son-aro said he will continue to oppose lockdown measures and has not commented on the four thousand recorded deaths.

A rare weather event is developing off Western Australia’s coast, as two cyclones are set to cross paths this weekend. 

If Tropical Cyclone Seroja and another nearby tropical low interact, the cyclones will likely rotate around each other - a phenomenon called the Fujiwara effect.

The Bureau of Meteorology said they are expecting severe weather from the potential category one cyclone on Sunday or Monday.

Calls for a review into Victorias Aboriginal heritage act are underway following damage to Stone eel arrangement. 

The ancient stone arrangement - one of the only formations of its kind, was moved by a landowner over the weekend. 

The formation has sparked a discussion for better access to cultural heritage on private land. 

Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Council chair Rodney Carter said, "When Aboriginal cultural heritage, like the stone arrangement, has been disturbed and messed with, it's not easy to fix what's happened,"

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.

In a letter addressed to PM Scott Morrison, Palaszcuk says it is time for action to address the gender pay and superannuation gap, affordable childcare and sexual harassment and violence.

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.

Rebecca Michaels from RACQ says level crossing removals alone would be an additional 2 billion dollars but are needed.

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.

Peanut farmer Peter Howlett says the “variability is becoming more and more noticeable as years go on”.