Polish author and journalist Jakub Zulczyk has been charged with insult and defamation after calling his president a ‘moron’ on Facebook last November. 

The writer called President Andrzej Duda a moron who did not understand the US federal election process in a tweet. 

It is a crime in Poland to insult state flags, religion and state leaders. If convicted, Zulczyk may face up to three years in prison.

Four of five water bores have been closed in the remote north-west Queensland town of Dajarra after unacceptable levels of uranium were found in the water.

Dajarra is 150 kilometres south of Mount Isa and hotel publican, Richard Ryan, says there was no announcement of the uranium in the water.

Mr Ryan says people should have been fully informed straight away and states that everyone is under the impression that it's E. coli.

The Queensland parliament has passed a bill that will see adoption considered for children in state care who can't be reunited with their parents.

The bill would see adoption be a second to last option for children in care, the Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Protection Peak opposes the bill.

Chief executive Garth Morgan, says that "changes to the law will lead to the forced adoption of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children,"

The free carpark at Roma St Parklands is set to be sold by the Queensland government to developers, reportedly to offset costs of the cross-river rail project. 

Brisbane City Council is opposing the deal and will lodge an official complaint to the state government. . 

The decision will impact 150 free car parks in the Roma St Parklands precinct and the land may be used in the future to build residential or commercial projects

Although the rainfall is easing over south-east Queensland after flash flooding, our dams have failed to be topped up.

Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster, Jonty Hall says the significant rainfall over the past few days had fallen short of filling up the region's biggest dams.

Wivenhoe Dam is currently at 37 per cent capacity, however Somerset Dam is sitting at almost 78 per cent.

Learning about consent as part of sex education is now mandatory in all Victorian public schools.

The Victorian government’s previously implemented program covered safety around STIs, and building health relationships, but did not explicitly cover how to recognise and give consent.

Victorian Education Minister, Jaala Pulford, says the move has come after younger Victorian’s called on the government to put a greater emphasis on consent education.

The founder of The Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Hobart and the dark MOFO festival has apologised over its plan to use donated blood to soak a British flag for an art project.

The museum and festival has been boycotted by first nations peoples for the art project after the request for donated Indigenous blood was made on Saturday.

MONA founder Michael Walsh says he “didn't see the deeper consequences of this proposition”

The death toll from a fire that ripped through a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh has risen to at least 15, with another 400 people missing, 550 injured and about 50,000 displaced according to the United Nations refugee agency. 

Rohingya  people are a Muslim ethnic group of western Myanmar, the cause of the fire is still unknown.

Most of the people in the camps fled Myanmar in 2017 amid a military-led crackdown on the Rohingya  that UN investigators said was executed with "genocidal intent", charges Myanmar deny.

Bribie Island residents are worried that the island is too popular with holidaymakers and 4WD enthusiasts.

Residents are calling for a rethink of island tourism with increased traffic clogging the bridge to the mainland and putting turtle hatchlings at risk along the beach.

The endangered loggerhead turtles use bribie island beaches to lay their eggs and hatch their young.

Residents are being urged to evacuate low-lying areas in Beaudesert this morning as the Logan and Albert river catchments burst their banks.
River levels are easing across the upper reaches of the catchments causing floodwaters downstream to arrive this morning.

You can get more warning, rainfall and river information at www.bom.gov.au