The Minister for agricultural Industry Development and Fisheries Mark Furner has announced that Queensland’s border arrangements for the agricultural industry has been extended for one month. 

The border exemptions have allowed NSW and Queensland agricultural workers to travel between the states to continue to perform essential agribusiness and farming activities. 

Minister Furner says that the extension will keep Queenslanders safe from COVID-19, while ensuring that the agricultural industry can continue to operate. 

The University of Queensland’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience released a report today which showed using spider venom is promising to tailor pain blockers for people with irritable bowel syndrome.

Researchers analysed 28 spiders and it was the Venezuelan Pinkfoot Goliath tarantula that showed the most promise.

Team leader Professor Richard Lewis as well as his collaborator from Flinder's University professor Stuart Brierley explained how the venom can work to inhibit the pain.

On Sunday morning, the police were called to a private address after reports of a disturbance at Ranora Avenue, but were confronted with a man in possession of a bladed weapon and shot him multiple times.

Police said they didn’t have time to deploy their tasers because the man ran at them as they got out of the car.

The shooting will be investigated by the Queensland Police Ethical Standards Command, and the Crime and Corruption Commission.

Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses reported 119 horses were killed on Australian racetracks over the 2019/2020 racing year, most commonly from catastrophic front limb injury.

Campaign Director Elio Celotto said these numbers are only the deaths caused by on-track injuries that make it to the steward's reports.

The number of deaths might be way higher than believed as there are no requirements of recording deaths that occur during training, trials, or even if the horse is taken away from the track to be killed.

US Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg died of a metastatic pancreatic cancer last Friday at the age of 87, raising questions of who would replace her. 

US President Donald Trump and the Republican party said they wanted to fill her seat right away to be assured that this government will make the decision.

Joe Biden asked to wait after the elections to make a decision that would have an impact over the US judiciary system, following the wish Justice Ginsburg made herself in her final days.

A peaceful protest opposing the election of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has turned violent, with videos published online depicting  police forcefully detaining  protesters.

Protesters and bystanders have taken to Twitter to expose the brutality demonstrated by police, describing  horrific cases of mass arrest and tear gassing.

This is the sixth week of the protests, with one hundred thousand Belarus citizens taking to the streets to oppose the reelection of Lukashenko, after it was speculated that his win was rigged. 

A recent survey conducted by Dementia Australia has found that 65 percent of those living with dementia feel that the people they know have been avoiding or excluding them. 

Furthermore, 81 percent of family members, friends. or carers who responded to the survey felt that people in public places treat people with dementia differently. 

The survey results have been released as part of Dementia Action Week 2020, and aim to bring to light the discrimination that many dementia patients experience. 

Climate activist group Extinction Rebellion are conducting a bicycle protest in Brisbane this morning, riding through the CBD in an attempt to disrupt peak hour traffic. 

The protesters, starting at the Kurilpa bridge, will slowly ride towards King George Square, passing through the Queensland Parliament Building.

The group declared on the Extinction Rebellion Brisbane Facebook page the protest aims to “bring attention to the climate and ecological crisis and one of its dire outcomes- social collapse.”