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.

The French senate has passed a “anti-separatism” bill including a ban on people under 18 year old wearing the hijab. 

The provision will also stop mothers wearing the hijab from accompanying their children on school excursions and at public swimming pools. 

The bill has received criticism internationally and is yet to go back to France’s lower house to be approved as law. 

Rain continues to hamper search efforts in Indonesia, as the death toll from recent landslides rises to 126 people.

Tropical Cyclone Seroja brought winds and rains across the south-east of the country on Tuesday, triggering flash floods and landslides.

Over 10,000 people have been displaced.

The federal government has asked the nation's medical and vaccine regulators to look into findings of a possible link between AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine and rare blood clots.

The European Medicines Agency found the connection between the vaccine and blood clots yesterday.

"Like with any treatment, vaccine, medicine we have to look at the risk and benefit and we do know that the risk of vaccination against this very serious disease of COVID is a really important component of our control," said Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly.

The Federal Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment is considering removing humpback whales from Australia's threatened species list. 

More than 33,000 humpback whales are estimated to migrate through Queensland annually, with over 40,000 humpback whales migrating through Australia. 

Griffith University research fellow in Marine Science Dr Olaf Meynecke, said it was too early to delist the species.

"What now is an issue, is a combination of other threats that are a lot harder to address," he said.

An environmental assessment has found a 585 kilometre pipeline considered by the Queensland Government would significantly impact vulnerable species. 

The pipeline construction proposes to clear over 140 hectares of koala habitat in central west Queensland. 

A Federal Department of Environment assessment completed in 2019 found the proposal would significantly impact 2 endangered and 15 vulnerable species.

A report on the Murri Court has found the Indigenous-owned court system is operating positively across Queensland. 

The Ipsos report due to be released this week found the culturally-informed specialist court is generally viewed as somewhere offenders can have a "fair go".

“Importantly, the report showed that Murri Court is valued highly by participants, community members and elders as a means of justice that is Indigenous-owned and more culturally appropriate than mainstream courts,” said State Attorney-General Shannon Fentiman.