In Queensland, there has been one new case of coronavirus recorded overnight, leaving the state’s total number of active cases at 31. 

The new case was an arrival from overseas, who is already in quarantine.

The Koonibba Aboriginal Community in South Australia are bracing themselves with excitement for their first rocket launch on Indigenous Land.

A pair of Adelaide companies, Southern Launch and DEWC, have joined together to launch the rocket on a testing range near the town. 

For the first time in two months, Victoria has recorded zero deaths of coronavirus. 

The news comes as a positive indicator of the employed Victorian restrictions, with 42 cases reported overnight but no fatalities. 

The state’s next goal in easing the restrictions is to have an average of 30 to 50 cases per fortnight by the 28th of September.

The Russian President Vladiimir Putin has loaned $1.5 billion to the country of Belarus, to help its leader Alexander Lukashenko, who has been facing protests from locals urging for his resignation. 

After continuing weeks of hundreds of thousands of protesters marching the streets of Minsk, Lukashenko met with Putin in an urgent request for his help to continue his reign over the country. 

A large block of a Greenland ice cap, believed to be around 110 square kilometres, has broken off in the far-north east Arctic, which scientists are claiming is an indicator of climate change. 

The National Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) states this incident is concerning, as it appears to be a continuous disintegration of the Arctic’s largest remaining ice shelf.