People on disability support and aged care pensions with assets will continue to be charged up to 40 per cent of their low incomes for administration services by the Public Trustee of Queensland.

A report published by Queensland’s Attorney-General Shannon Fentiman documented high fees for asset-rich pensioners, fees for no service and charging multiple sets of fees on managing the same funds, like superannuation.

On Sunday, the Palaszczuk Government announced plans to extend its free Playgroup campaign for Queensland families with children under one. 

Education Minister Grace Grace announced the Play Stars initiative would continue for another three years costing up to $2.4 million, which will provide additional support for up to 10,000 Playgroup families.

PlayStars provides free 12-month Playgroup Queensland memberships, including access to online resources, for any Queensland family with a child under one.  

A new report published on the weekend shows that nearly a quarter of permanent skilled migrants in Australia are working in a job beneath their skill level.

The Committee for Economic Development of Australia ("CEDA"), who published the report using data from the Department of Home Affairs, says that the skill mismatch cost at least $1.25 billion in foregone wages between 2013 and 2018.

Federal MP Andrew Laming has gone on medical leave and will be undertaking empathy and communication counselling services, after allegations of harassment against two women were aired on Nine News last week.

The Queensland LNP backbencher has confirmed he will resign from politics at the next election, but some members of Labor and the crossbench are calling for his immediate resignation as a result of the allegations, which Dr Laming has apologised for. 

A 400-metre long cargo ship remains wedged diagonally inside the crucial Suez Canal in Egypt after becoming stuck on Tuesday. 

Suez Canal salvage teams report it could take weeks to dislodge the skyscraper-sized “Evergreen” ship, while the cause of the grounding is still not totally clear.

The Suez Canal, which connects the Red Sea with the Mediterranean, is one of the world’s busiest waterways. Service provider Leth Agencies says 156 vessels are waiting in the vicinity of the canal.

Greater Brisbane has avoided a lockdown for now, after a 26 year-old man tested positive for COVID-19 last week while he had been out in the community. 

The Queensland Government has corrected their initial advice that the man had held a party for 25 people after being told to self-isolate, instead saying that there had been a misunderstanding and he had actually been at home with five household contacts.

The brother of the man initially diagnosed has now also tested positive, but was not infectious at the time of testing.

Around 1 million Australians are waking up without the financial support from the JobKeeper wage subsidy this morning, after the scheme came to an end on Sunday.

The government told a senate estimates hearing last week that up to 150,000 people could be out of work once the scheme had wound up.  

In a press release on Sunday, Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenburg said that although JobKeeper had come to an end, the Government’s economic support had not, which included tax cuts, business incentives, and a JobMaker Hiring Credit.

Aboriginal rights organisation Strong Grandmothers of the Central Deserts in Alice Springs is calling for immediate action against the proposed changes to the Bail Act and Youth Justice Act.

The Strong Grandmothers say the proposed legislation is regressive, and will result in more kids in jail, directly countering the recommendations of the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory.

A content warning on this next story, which mentions the death of protestors.

In the bloodiest day since the military coup last month, over 100 pro-democracy protestors in Myanmar were killed during large-scale demonstrations on Saturday. 

Protests continued throughout the weekend, with large gatherings in Yangon and Mandalay, as more of the demonstrations were met with significant police force.

According to Al Jazeera, more than 420 people have now been killed since security forces overthrew Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government.