Victoria-based medical students unite to create Conversation in Isolation helping support Australians through the pandemic. 

Conversations in Isolation are a diverse group of over 150 volunteers talking to age-care residents to international students wanting to connect.

Director of Conversations in Isolation and fourth year medical student, Steph (MEC-KEL-VIE)  McKelvie, was processing the cancellation of placements due to COVID-19.

Yesterday morning, protesters against the detention of 120 asylum seekers gathered at Parliament House. The latest in a series of many ongoing protests against the Australian Government's decision to detain refugees at a Kangaroo Point hotel.

They began the protest at Parliament House before walking though George and Adelaide streets and ended at the Department of Immigration.

Eight year old Malia, an Auchenflower local, petitions for better representation of women in public spaces.

Malia’s mission uses the hashtag ‘Female Faces 4 Public Places’ is a call to action for gender equity and justice.

A petition with over 700 signatures addressed the Queensland legislators stating, ‘‘There are only three statues of real women in Brisbane” 

Lebanon is facing crisis as hospitals are reaching full capacity, and they are unable to treat coronavirus patients as the recent Beirut blast still requires patients to be in care.  

Health minister Hamad Hassan says public and private hospitals in the capital have very limited capacity whether in terms of beds in intensive care units or respirators. 

Hassan is urging authorities to employ a two week lockdown to control the spread of the virus. 

The Brazilian city Porto Velho has faced a large bushfire that threatens to spread to the Amazon rainforest. 

Residents of the city were plagued by the fires spreading in the dry bush, waiting for firefighters to arrive on the scene to help control the damage. 

Locals expressed their concern at the severity of the fires, explaining that bush fires to this capacity can ruin all their life equity in mere seconds.

In a new finding among Australia’s waste disposal, it was identified two titanic size loads of single-use plastic are believed to end up in Australia’s oceans and environment every year.  

Environmental group, World Wide Fund Australia (WWF), estimates 130,000 tonnes of this plastic is leaked into the water environment every year.

The threat of a strike prevails from the Sydney transport employees, who wrote to NSW Premier with a two day notice before they will cease work, unless the government employs health and safety guidelines for public transport.

There is demand from bus drivers in Sydney for masks to be mandatory for all passengers.

Queensland government is beginning to stockpile over 120 million pieces of personal protective equipment (PPE) in a further attempt to prevent any new cases of coronavirus. 

Premier Anastacia Palaszczuk states she is doing everything possible to prepare in case of a new outbreak, as Queensland has seen nearly a month without any new community transmissions.

In local news, Geoscience Australia has identified two resource corridors throughout mainland Australia and a large part of Queensland that have the potential to supply new energy, minerals, and groundwater resources.