Labor has announced a 200 million dollar funding boost for sporting facilities and equipment especially for grassroots girls sport.

The Greens are amping up their attack on Labor over the Government's housing policy, claiming renters and home-buyers are being sold out. The party will rally today in Brisbane.

Federal Labor's ministerial team is under fire for a bill for chartered flights for more than six billion dollars just this year. The Prime Minister has spent more than 370 hours in the air.

And a Southern Right Whale and her calf are making their way down the east coast of Australia. The baby is only the second believed to have been born this year.