Residents on Australia’s east coast are being warned to brace for a fast approaching thunderstorm season, with wild weather predicted to hit as soon as this Friday. 

The Australian Bureau of meteorology is warning of potential hail, flash flooding and damaging winds as well as significant rainfall over the next couple of days. 

An activist representing the extinction rebellion group has been charged with three offences after blocking traffic in a protest effort yesterday 

The woman was suspended from a bamboo harness for three hours until she was removed and taken to the Brisbane City watch house, where she was later released on bail, and is due to appear in court early next year. 

Opposition Leader Deb Frecklington has announced the LNP’s plan to fight juvenile crime in Townsville and Cairns 

The plan would see an 8pm curfew introduced for children aged 14 years and under, and a 10pm curfew for 15 to 17 year olds, with parents to be fined $250 if their unaccompanied child is found out at night without reason. 

In the United States, Louisiana early voting numbers are record breaking for the November 3rd presidential and congressional election.

Over a quarter million votes were cast on Friday with twice as many voters during the first two days of early voting compared to the first two days of early voting in 2016.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX will launch a satellite into space to track rising sea level.

The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite lifts off on November 10 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

Its mission is to track the accelerating rise of sea levels which threaten the habitat of more than a third of the world's population.

The Northern Territory Supreme Court heard Michael Holden set 18 fires over 16 months between May 2018 and September 2019.

Michael Holden was a volunteer firefighter for five years with the Darwin River Volunteer Fire Brigade, he battled dozens of blazes to protect the community; however, the court heard some of the fires burned for several days.

The controversial Community Development Program is set to resume this week but critics are calling to suspend the program.

It is estimated the programme disproportionately affects 80% of Indigenous people.

Member for Lingiari, Labor’s Warren Snowdon told NITV News the program needed a ‘radical’ change calling the program flawed.

With 10 days left of the Queensland State Election,  Brisbane Times reports, both major parties say the state election is about who voters trust more to get us out of the recession but experts are calling out both leaders.

A $3.6 million grant for a study into a coal-fired power station was granted before a key report was finalised

The study looks into the feasibility of a 1 gigawatt ‘high efficiency, low emissions’ coal plant in north Queensland.