Queenslanders who travel to take up farm work could be eligible for up to 15 hundred dollars under a new scheme.

Under the Back to Work Agriculture Incentive Scheme, participants will receive $500 for completing two weeks of full-time work and an additional $1000 for completing 8 weeks of work. 

Minister for Agricultural Industry Mark Furner says the scheme supports people from all walks of life to relocate and try farm work.

Australian troops are expected to withdraw from Afghanistan following discussions between Scott Morrison and US President Biden.  

According to the defence department, Australia currently contributes around eighty per cent of defence personnel in Afghanistan. 

The action comes after President Biden announced he will withdraw troops from Afghanistan by September, ending the country’s longest war.

Australia’s first underground waste disposal system will replace some rubbish trucks and wheelie bins in South East Queensland by June.

A 6.5-kilometre network of underground pipes has been placed under Maroochydore in the Sunshine Coast over the past five years. 

The underground rubbish system will see waste and recyclables from buildings and public bins vacuumed up and transported to disposal facilities.

Protests erupt for a third night in the United States, after police shot and killed a Black man during a traffic stop. 

Officer Kim Potter shot 20-year-old Daunte Wright in Minneapolis on Sunday, reigniting national conversations and protests about policing and use of force.

Officers used pepper spray, rubber bullets and stun grenades against protesters in Minneapolis. 

Queensland’s heightened COVID-19 restrictions have eased as of 6am this morning, after no new cases of community transmission.  

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced that as of today, there is no legal requirement to wear masks indoors. 

Visitor restrictions on hospitals, aged care centres, prisons and disability accommodation have also been lifted.

A Brisbane study found that a ‘lower quality’ kidney transplant has been found to have better quality of life outcomes and is more cost effective than remaining on dialysis for patients with end-stage renal failure. 

Expanding the quality criteria of donor kidneys suitable for transplant may be a better strategy than remaining on dialysis in the hopes of being matched with a higher-graded kidney. 

People with end-stage kidney failure require dialysis three times a week and dialysis is associated with higher mortality rates than successful transplantation.

Fraud charges have been dropped against eight former Logan City councillors two years after they were sacked.

Former mayor Luke Smith and seven Logan City Councillors  had all been charged by Queensland's Crime and Corruption Commission two years ago.

Yesterday morning, prosecutors told the Brisbane Magistrates Court that charges were being withdrawn as there was insufficient evidence.

Waste disposal is starting to be revolutionised on the sunshine coast with the underground suction system set to complete its first phase.

It has taken 5 years for a 6.5 kilometre network of underground pipes to be laid  under Maroochydore.

The waste disposal system has been delayed by the pandemic not allowing Korean inspectors to enter the country.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison is being urged to apologise to former Australia Post chief executive Christine Holgate, who alleges she was "bullied" into leaving her position over the Cartier watches scandal.

There is also growing support for Ms Holgate's call for Australia Post chair Lucio Di Bartolomeo to resign. 

Speaking at the Senate inquiry on Tuesday afternoon, Mr Di Bartolomeo rejected Ms Holgate's claims and said he would not resign.