The Queensland Farmers’ Federation is calling on the State Government to implement co-funding opportunities for farmers and other businesses to undertake a range of safety improvements after new statistics showed Queensland had one of the highest numbers of on-farm deaths in the country.

QFF CEO Dr Georgina Davis says significant improvements can be made by implementing a government co-funded grants program in Queensland.

The Federal government has stepped in to compensate abuse survivors commonly known as Fairbridge children.

Fairbridge Farm Schools were set up to house migrant children from 1913 until 1982, exposing children to years of abuse.

The Prince Charles trust was supposed to compensate the abuse survivors but has said that they are unable to do so for legal reasons.

Labor MP Chris Hayes, who served for the parliament for 16 years, will not run for the next federal election due to his medical condition. Last year, he collapsed in Parliament and was admitted to hospital.

In 2017 he spent 15 days in a hospital after suffering several broken ribs, a broken arm and internal injuries following a motorcycle crash.

NASA unveils Mars helicopter Ingenuity, an experimental helicopter designed to fly in Mars’s thin atmosphere.

The 1.8-kilogram helicopter will  rise 3 metres in the air on its first attempt to fly, with a series of longer flights planned if successful.

The Mars helicopter Ingenuity is set to take off from the surface on the 8th of April.

Cairns State High School students that protested racism at their school last week have been told to stay home.

Last thursday a relief teacher allegedly used a derogatory term in class which prompted children to peacefully protest the school.

Protestor Varni Nona has been told to not return to school, she said “all the racial experiences students have faced, they continue to get swept under the rug”.

Protestors are disrupting construction work on the Adani Carmichael Rail Corridor in Central Queensland this morning saying that the mines’s climate effects will cause more frequent and extreme natural disasters like those we are already experiencing.

It has been reported that protestors locked themselves to equipment while a group of supporters blocked traffic moving up and down the rail corridor. Police have now arrived at the scene.

A state memorial will be held at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne today to commemorate the life of music industry legend Michael Gudinski.

Gudinski is known for founding the music label Mushroom Records and Frontier Touring.

Gudinski’s family have requested that the public donate to Support Act, a charity set up to support musicians who are struggling financially post-COVID, in lieu of bringing flowers to the event.

Managing director of Volkswagen Australia, Michael Bartsvech  says he is not confident to supply Australians with the company’s electric vehicles because of poor local regulation.

Australians cannot buy the models popular in North America and Europe where they are open to clean new energy unless laws on CO2 emissions are introduced.

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.