Australia has recorded its lowest number of new HIV cases since 2001, with a 23 per cent decline in cases nationally in the past 5 years

Kirby Institute Researcher, Professor Rebecca Guy, says the reduction in cases is due to widespread HIV testing and treatment as well as improved access to PrEP, a daily pill taken to prevent HIV transmission during sex. 

Eighty-three per cent of Australians support the federal government’s mandatory vaccination policy according to a joint study by the University of Sydney and the University of Western Australia. 

Under legislation introduced in 2016, children across the country must be fully-immunised for their parents to receive federal government payments.

The paper's co-author David Smith, from the University of Sydney, says the study shows there is no political divide over the issue in Australia, in contrast to the United States.

A leading climate change institute says last month was the hottest June worldwide since records began. 

Head of Copernicus Climate Change Service, Jean-Noel Thepaut, says the average temperatures in Europe were on average 2 degrees Celsius above the defined normal range for the month.

Mr Thepaut says temperatures over the southwestern region of Europe during the last week of June were unusually high and similar events are likely to occur in the future due to climate change.

A group of Jakarta residents are filing a lawsuit against the Indonesian government over toxic levels of air pollution in the city. 

The lawsuit accuses the Indonesian government and provincial governors of not implementing required air pollution checks on vehicles as well as industries, and demanded a plan of action to bring down pollution levels. 

Mount Coot-tha residents are taking action against the Brisbane City Council-operated Mount Coot-tha Quarry following complaints of cracking concrete, inaccurate monitoring and a silica dust storm. 

Chairman of the Mount Coot-tha Local Residents action group, Phil Best, says he has experienced blasts which have shaken his house for thirty seconds and is concerned by the potential impact to property foundations. 

Extra buses will be trialled on some of Brisbane’s busiest routes to and from the University of Queensland over the next two years amid reports of overcrowded buses missing key stops. 

Popular bus routes will increase in frequency and have their operating hours extended until 10:30pm as part of the $1 million trial in a partnership between the state government and the university. 

A new route 28 will also be created between UQ Lakes and Langlands Park as well as an extension of Saturday services on 12 exam period weekends.

Four elderly residents have died and a nursing home is in lockdown amid a flu outbreak in New South Wales. 

The Marco Polo Aged Care Services at Unanderra, south of Wollongong, has been quarantined since June 10, with five residents taken to hospital, twenty staff diagnosed with the flu and 15 isolated at the centre.

Manager Robert O'Shae says the facility is managing the outbreak in consultation with the NSW public health unit and families have been asked not to visit the centre as it tries to control the situation.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Labor leader Athony Albanese have promised to work together on constitutional recognition for Indigenous Australians as the new term of Parliament begins. 

Mr Morrison says his government has committed $7.3 million to design options for a Voice to Parliament and pledged to hold a referendum once the proposed model was finalised. 

A12-year-old girl has shared her testimony on the conditions she faced while being held at a Texas border detention facility in the United States, saying detainees are given little food and sleep on the floor. 

The witness account comes as US Democratic lawmakers visited the same detention facility on Monday, with congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez labelling the conditions there “horrifying” after a tour of the compound.