UberEats drivers are feeling exploited as updated worker contracts have been sent out to each driver this week.

The contract requires drivers to have individual ABNs and take out their own injury or death insurance or face losing their jobs, amongst other requirements.

Slater and Gordon Principal Lawyer Andrew Rich says the move appears to be aimed at stopping claims that drivers should be treated as employees and making it more difficult for them to advocate for their own industrial rights publicly

Fire insurance premiums in the north of Western Australia have more than doubled, forcing Indigenous ranger groups to stop their bushfire control work.

Land and sea manager of the Kimberley Land Council, Will Durack stated the service is not only essential for local people in Kimberley, but for the WA community and for the entire nation.

Aboriginal rangers manage fire across hundreds of thousands of northern Australia, in the Kimberly area working across a region almost twice the size of the state of Victoria

Significant measures have been announced by the Queensland Government this week to improve the natural environment of the State.

The Queensland Government has allocated $2.3 million to recover priority areas in Australia's largest ancient Antarctic beech rainforests running south from Mount Barney National Park across the NSW border.

Some breeding programs and weed-clearing work have also been announced to boost numbers of endangered species in the local areas. 

Singapore is paying citizens and their families affected by the COVID-19 vaccine $225,000 after a rare event of serious side effects.

Most vaccine side effects have been reported and limited to headaches, soreness and fatigue.

The prime minister of Singapore revealed he has received all three doses of the vaccine and mentioned that the monetary precautionary measures are in place to ensure that vaccinations are carried out safely, even though he expected very few would need it.

Queensland’s acting premier has this morning labeled Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenburg’s rejection of further assistance for the struggling tourism industry as “heartless” and “cruel”.

The comments made by Steven Miles on Channel 7’s Sunrise program come after Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk called for an extension of the JobKeeper program last week.

The current JobKeeper program is set to expire on 28 March and is currently assisting more than 3,600 Cairns, 400 Brisbane and 600 Surfers paradise businesses.

The new construction of a 46 storey tower on Mary Street in Brisbane’s CBD will back on to the Brisbane Synagogue. 

According to an assessment report by Urbis planners “the development presents a unique opportunity to redevelop a currently underutilised site in the ‘quieter end’ of the city centre”

The development would not alter the 1880s era worship site, instead the Brisbane Hebrew Community would gain a new secondary hall, cafe, kosher kitchen, indoor kids recreation space, roof deck and residential apartments

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced a plan to vaccinate all Australians by October, 2021.

The AstraZeneca vaccine will be produced by CSL’s Melbourne Manufacturing plant alone, but the approved Pfizer vaccine will still be the first rolled out from late February.

An extra $1.9 billion of funding will be announced for workforces involved in the rollout of the vaccines through GPs, pharmacies and thousands of other approved centres.

Indonesia is prioritising young workers below 60 for the first round of the COVID-19 vaccine, as the government believes they are working and mobilizing, which gives them a higher chance of spreading the virus. 

Known globally as a dominant factor of the virus, those who are older have a higher death rate.

It has been pointed out that the government is prioritising the younger age group to improve the economy rather than the pandemic situation or its impact on the elderly.

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other senior members of the ruling party have been detailed during an early morning raid.

The raid comes after days of escalating tension between the civilian government and the powerful military of Myanmar. 

Tensions started as a result of what the military say was a fraudulent win by Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, the National League for Democracy, in the recent November election which she won by a landslide.