Former prime minister Paul Keating has reignited claims a rise in the superannuation guarantee is the only way Australians are going to be able to adequately afford retirement without overburdening the pension system.

The super guarantee is legislated to increase to 12 per cent by 2025 from 9.5 percent currently, but there is now a question as to whether the government will proceed with the rise.

A federal parliament IT disruption resulted in parliament staff being unable to access their email over the weekend. 

Assistant Defence Minister Andrew Hastie confirmed the Australian Signals Directorate is working with the Department of Parliamentary Services to investigate the issue. 

Another separate cybersecurity incident over the weekend interrupted Channel Nine’s live broadcast. Cyber security researcher Dr Suelette Dreyfus said the Channel Nine attack appeared to be a ransomware attack.

Suspected Islamist insurgents have attacked a convoy of fleeing civilians, including foreign workers, in Mozambique. Dozens of of people have been killed including seven who were ambushed trying to escape.

Hundreds are fleeing by car and boat as a result of the attacks, with reports that jihadists militants are to blame. 

Communications with Palma, the city hardest hit by the attacks, have been cut making it difficult for reports of continued attacks to be verified. 

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has declared greater Brisbane a hotspot from 5pm tonight, recommending that other States and Territories do the same, as Brisbane gets set to enter another 3-day lockdown starting this afternoon.

People in greater Brisbane will be required to stay at home for the duration of the lockdown, unless they need to leave their house for essential work, to buy food, to seek medical assistance or treatment, to look after a vulnerable person, or for exercise.

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Australia has joined in international condemnation against the Myanmar military, as countries such as the United States, South Korea, Japan and the United Kingdom criticise the Junta.

The junta has said its use of force has been justified to stop what it calls ‘rioting’, during which 114 unarmed people were killed in a brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protesters on Saturday.

Amidst continued reports of human rights abuses in Xinjiang, China, Australian Olympic uniform supplier, ASCIS is also being caught. 

In a social media post, ASICS’ branch in China said it would keep sourcing cotton from Xinjiang, despite backlash internationally. However, a spokesperson from the company headquarter in Kobe, Japan confirmed that the Australian Olympic Team uniform does not contain cotton sourced from Xinjiang and was not manufactured in this region on Sunday afternoon.

Queensland will enter a snap three-day lockdown starting from 5pm tonight, after four cases of community transmission were recorded in Queensland in the last 24 hours. Masks will also be mandatory once again.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk made the announcement this morning, saying the snap lockdown is aimed at stopping the spread of the cluster. 

More information to come.