Two South Australian men have been found alive near Salt creek after a four-day search.

The pair were reported missing on Sunday when their boat disappeared off the South Australian coast.

The men are reportedly in good spirits and not injured and are currently working with police to determine exactly what happened.

The Electoral Commission of Queensland are ramping up early voting methods ahead of the October 31 state election.

Queenslanders will be able to apply for a postal vote from Monday, nearly a month before the election period officially begins.

Queensland Attorney-General Yvette D'Ath says the increased access to early voting will help with social distancing.

Queensland reported no new cases of Coronavirus this morning, as the state surpasses one million tests.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk took to Twitter to congratulate Queenslanders for getting tested and said these numbers wouldn’t be possible without the dedication of frontline healthcare workers.

There are currently 27 cases of Coronavirus still active in the state.

Final clinical trials for Oxford University and AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine have been paused after a participant has reported an adverse reaction.

The vaccine has been tipped globally to be one of the first to become commercially available following successful phase one and two testing.

A spokesperson for AstraZeneca has described the halt in testing as a routine response to an unexplained illness. 

Greece’s largest migrant camp, the Moria facility on the island of Lesbos, has been ravaged by fire overnight.

As a result of the blaze thousands of migrants are now without accommodation, and the government has declared a four day state of emergency in response.

Local authorities are struggling to find shelter for those displaced by the disaster, and German foreign minister Heiko Mass has described the fire as a humanitarian disaster.

Legislation passed in State parliament yesterday will see South Australia become the first state in the country to ban single use plastics.

The Government had initially intended to ban the sale, supply and distribution of single use plastic products by the middle of this year, but the impacts of COVID-19 have delayed the move until 2021.

State Environment Minister David Speirs says that plastic items will be removed in stages, with an overarching goal of eliminating them completely. 

Virgin Australia has made cuts to several regional flight routes as it continues to restructure in the wake of COVID-19.

The airline has announced that a total of 10 regional routes have been stopped entirely, with a spokesperson for the company saying it is not commercially viable for them to continue these flights

Amendments made to Queenslands’ criminal code will give judges the power to hand out jail time to employers guilty of wage theft.

New laws passed in State parliament yesterday afternoon mean that employers who underpay their workers are now looking at penalties of up to 10 years imprisonment.

The legislation was passed without opposition, and will be enacted in Queensland before government dissolves on the 6th of October in anticipation of the state election. 

Queensland has recorded eight new cases of COVID-19 bringing the states total above forty for the latest cluster of the virus.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says that seven out of the eight new cases were individuals who were already in Quarantine when they tested positive.

Eight is the highest number of cases reported in a 24 hour period since the 22nd of August, and three of those cases have been linked to an outbreak at Ipswich Hospital.