Brisbane labor councillors are calling for physical barriers to be installed for Brisbane bus drivers after the council released figures of assaults on drivers yesterday.

Brisbane city council statistics show there were 654 assaults against bus drivers in 2020, 3 attacks less than 2019 despite the number of people on busses declining by 85 percent during the pandemic.

Council Opposition leader Jared Cassidy is calling for full driver barriers and more security on buses and at interchanges

Homeless people removed by police from a tent city in Perth and placed in a budget hotel face another removal after hotel owner, Eddie Kamil, has not been paid.

Kamil says he was under the impression their accommodation would be paid for by the Government that had moved them there.

Hotel guests say they feel depressed, hurt and as though the State Government had "dumped" them there with no further thought.

Facebook has suspended Liberal MP Craig Kelly's account for one week for posting three unproven discourses on Covid-19 treatments.

Kelly strongly objects to the ban and he says there are absolutely no grounds.

Facebook's spokesperson says they don’t allow users to share misinformation about Covid-19 which could lead to imminent physical harm.

A US airbase in the Kurdish region of Iraq was attacked by militants late on Monday. The attack has killed a Filipino national civilian contractor and injured nine other people.

The US-led military coalition in the region says approximately 14 rockets were launched toward the city of Erbil, with three hitting the air base used by the U.S. military in its campaign against Islamic State.

Brisbane commuters living in Norman Park are fighting to have their axed cross-river ferry to New Farm returned.

Residents stated that zero consultation was conducted by Council at a meeting yesterday, council says the service was cancelled due to low numbers.

A non-Indigenous business selling ‘red-centre sand exfoliant’ has pulled the product from its website after increased pressure and criticism.

Melbourne-based small business Red Dune Skin, sold red Central Australian sand in dot painting-style packaging which some Aboriginal people claim misleads customers into thinking the business is Aboriginal owned.

Alice Springs-based small business owner and Aboriginal woman Rayleen Brown calls for companies to stop selling the ground to “stop selling the dirt from underneath our feet."

Thick snow has been falling in the Greek capital of Athens since last Saturday, cutting off power through the affected area, which affected the Covid-19 vaccine distribution.

The north-western city of Florina yesterday recorded temperatures as low as -23C. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is urging people to stay at home.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says Queenslanders will begin getting the COVID-19 Pfizer vaccine  this coming Monday.

The first 100 people vaccinated will be health workers on the gold coast followed by health workers at Brisbane’s Princess Alexandra Hospital

Queensland Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young hoped every resident of the state would receive the vaccine by the end of October.

Australia’s smallest freshwater fish has been saved from the brink of extinction thanks to a breeding and conservation program. 

The red-finned blue eye is only found in remote parts of central-western Queensland and is listed as critically endangered.

Captive-bred red-finned Blue Eyes are being released back into the wild and conservationists hope the program will replenish population loss because of an invasive species of mosquito fish.

Yesterday Queensland Health Minister Yvette D’Ath(ee-VET ) revealed the first outlook of $7 million Mental Health Crisis Stabilisation service at Robina Hospital in Gold Coast. 

D'Ath says the facility is designed by clinicians and people with lived experience and will offer a non-clinical, more home-like, therapeutic environment for treatment than the Emergency Department.