A WHO team says it is unlikely the coronavirus has spread to humans from the Chinese laboratory.

The team has finished a month-long investigation and the leader of the team Peter Ben Embarek said WHO had not dramatically changed their picture of the outbreak.

He says WHO found no evidence of large outbreaks, related to cases of COVID-19 prior to December 2019 in Wuhan or elsewhere.

A Poster Project has invited artists to redesign information to fix issues in non-english speaking COVID-19 posters

The project, part of Melbourne Design Week, is asking people to reimagine the government's COVID-19 messaging “with care” and in languages other than English, as part of an effort to “demonstrate how design can support our most vulnerable communities”.

Federal and state governments came under fire last year when translation errors were uncovered in official COVID-19 messaging.

Youth justice advocates are slamming the Queensland government's crackdown on youth crime as a knee jerk reaction pushed by the police.

Former commissioner of the Northern Territory's Royal Commission into the Detention and Protection of Children, Mick Gooda, says this crackdown is “not based on evidence, and you can’t punish kids into doing the right thing.”

Prisoner advocate and CEO of Sisters Inside, Debbie Kilroy, says the crackdown would help cement a cycle of traumatised children who will be pipelined into adult prisons.

QLD Acting Chief Health Officer Dr Bennett says the fragments of SARS-CoV-2 have been detected in the Gold Coast catchments of Pimpama, Coombabah and Merrimac, but it's possible these detections are not current.

Dr Bennett says it's critical we find any sources of coronavirus through the testing mechanisms as quickly as possible.

Queenslanders who have been in New South Wales since 2 February should come forward and get tested if they experience any symptoms.

Local Traditional owners are once again calling on the Brisbane city council to ensure that there is a consultation process in place when dealing with Aboriginal cultural matters.

Brisbane city council will rename the 22 city-cat fleet without any input from Traditional custodians, Brisbane City Council Opposition leader Jared Cassidy Claimed the council only sent one email to 5 Indigenous representatives and did not follow up.

Peter Dutton slashed funding for community safety programs and gave money to a list of his own choosing an investigation by the 7:30 report uncovered.

The Home affairs department strongly recommended a list of grant approvals for community safety across the country and Minister Peter Dutton rewrote the list with his handpicked approvals.

The 7:30 report found that Peter Dutton had approved grants to two councils in marginal seats that his department recommended shouldn’t be funded at all.

From February 22 Brisbane city council will make more than 9 hundred parking metres permanently cashless. 

Parking metres in Brisbane were made cashless during the lockdown in March last year but yesterday the council officially announced cash payments will not be returning. 

hygiene reasons and lower maintenance costs were the main reasons behind the decision. 

The Queensland Government is set to hand out 8 million dollars of grants  to upgrade community infrastructure and accelerate the COVID-19 economic recovery.

The grants will prioritise projects supporting critical social and job-readiness services, in high need communities.

The state government is encouraging not-for-profit organisations that own land or assets or are delivering social services from council-owned facilities to apply for the grants.

Kangaroo Point residents are demanding answers on why Developer Pedro Pikos was allowed on a town planning committee that advised council on the redesign of the Kangaroo Point Peninsula Neighbourhood Plan in 2019.

The Plan allowed a fifty percent increase in building heights and the “Say No to one hundred and eight Lambert Street group claim that Mr Pikos has at least five development sites in Kangaroo Point.

Myanmar police shot a woman during the protests against military rule in Naypyitaw and she is in critical condition at hospital.


The protest has been occurring the last few days against the military's action on detention of the nation's iconic figure Aung San Suu Kyi.

Four people were taken to hospital reportedly with wounds caused by rubber bullets.