9AM ZEDLINES - NOVEMBER 11
9AM report by Isabella Cheng.
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Gold Coast Quadriplegic doctor awarded 2020 Australian of the Year
Dr Dienesh Palipana OAM, and co-founder of Doctors with Disabilities Australia has been crowned 2020’s Australian of the Year.
The 36-year-old, Gold Coast Quadriplegic and spinal research doctor, is well known internationally through his Tedx talks for disability advocacy.
Dinesh is a doctor for the Gold Coast Titans physical disability rugby league team.
Queensland Beekeepers’ celebrate access to national parks extension
Queensland beekeepers’ celebrate the decision to allow access to use the national parks has extended for another for 20 years
Beekeepers say the decision will save the crops that rely on bees for pollination.
It is estimated three-quarters of the state’s commercially produced honey is from existing plants and apiary sites in national parks.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags denied during NAIDOC week
Three senators put forward a motion to fly the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags during NAIDOC week have been denied.
Labor senators Malarndirri McCarthy and Patrick Dodson, and Greens senator Lidia Thorpe’s motion was voted down by 29 senators - with 28 senators for the motion.
Liberal senator Anne Ruston told the Senate chamber that the Australian flag was the only appropriate national flag to display in the upper house
Australian Defense Force digitise thousands of paper archives
Australian Defense Force takes on a mammoth task to turn their paper archives digital to preserve Australia’s war heroes.
Digitising the Australian Defence Force medical and personnel documents, photos, training files and campaign logs from World War II through to the 1970’s need to be archived.
The ADF says this multi-million-dollar digitisation project may take up to five years.
Hurricane Eta leaves Central America in a flood of devastation
Central America remains on high alert as Hurricane Eta claims the lives of at least 57 people.
Hurrican Eta has displaced nearly 2 million people across Central America and the Caribbean along with their crops, food stock and livelihoods.
Catalina Vargas, Regional Humanitarian Manager for CARE in Latin America and the Caribbean, said, in Guatemala and Honduras around 4.5 million people were already suffering from hunger and food shortages exacerbated from COVID-19 lockdowns
Whatsapp Pay goes live in India
In India: WhatsApp Pay goes live giving 400 million users the ability to send each other money.
Facebook, the owner of the popular messaging platform, announced on Friday, WhatsApp Pay was now live after years of regulatory hurdles in India.
WhatsApp Pay was first announced three years ago but ran into controversy with misinformation on the platform linked to over a dozen lynchings forcing several product changes.
Various Artists: At Cloud's Length
<p><span><span>- The pandemic has put most of us a bit off our game, but as an artist management and booking agency, one based in Melbourne no less, <strong>WAT Artists</strong> -with their beats-focused and star-studded roster- has just had their regular game yanked right out of their hands. So, what have those idle hands been up to? Playing a different game!</span></span></p>
12PM ZEDLINES - NOVEMBER 10th
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Jobseeker extended until March
Jobseeker payments will be extended until the end of March 2021.
The temporary coronavirus supplement will be available to unemployed Australians at a reduced rate under a federal government decision to boost the $16.8 billion payment.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced the decision on Monday, advising the rate is likely to drop down from around $250-$150 a fortnight.