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.

The new construction of a 46 storey tower on Mary Street in Brisbane’s CBD is 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 1880's 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 apartment

Queensland’s acting premier has this morning labelled 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

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. 

Two boring machines to be used in the construction of the Cross River Rail tunnels in early 2021 will be named after two feminists pioneers. 

Chair of Powerlink, Else Shepherd who was the first female engineering graduate in Queensland and feminist Merle Thornton who introduced women's studies at the University of Queensland in 1973 will be named for their common groundbreaking nature.

The two machines, Merle and Else, will eventually emerge at Normanby late in 2021

In an effort to take the pressure off Mount Coot-tha’s heavily used trails, almost 90 Brisbane bushland reserves could be opened up as sustainable mountain-biking tracks.

Mount Coot-has trails were used more than seven hundred thousand times annually according to the council’s environment, parks and sustainability chairwomen Fiona Cunningham.

In total, 48 reserves are proposed for off-road cycling over the next five years and 38 for long-term development.

The first sitting for the 2021 Federal Parliament has been disrupted by the recent case of COVID-19 found in WA after politicians from the state boarded their flights to Canberra. 

While onboard, all passengers on board the flights were instructed to take a COVID-19 test and stay in self-isolation for five days even if the test came back negative. Passengers included several senior federal politicians including Defence Minister Linda Reynolds. 

Parliament is still expected to sit tomorrow, but ministers will have to adapt to the changes.