Studies led by the University of Queensland and the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute are exploring ways to fast-track research which could lead to new vaccines against the Zika virus.

Scientists are using a new technique to uncover Zika mutations that help foster virus replication in mosquito hosts while hindering its ability to replicate in mammals.

Queensland Dam levels are sitting just over 70 percent of their capacity after a hot summer with and a lack of storms to fill them back up again.

SEQ water says the levels are lower than normal for the time of year due to the lack of rainfall and an increase in consumption of 25 litres per person per day as we tried to escape the heat.

A Northern Territory parliamentarian has made a bid to honor his electorate’s Indigenous heritage by renaming it.

If successful, Scott McConnell would rename the Stuart electorate as Gwoya, in honor of Gwoya Tjungurrayi, an Aboriginal elder and boomerang salesman that survived the 1928 Coniston massacre.

The Federal Government has announced that medicines made to treat cancer, Parkinson’s and motor neuron disease will be subsidized, and placed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.

It will cost the government $19 million to list the medicines on the PBS, but the savings to patients are well worth the cost, with some treatments reduced from an annual cost of up to $300,000 down to just $41 per script.

New Zealand police investigating online leads as a follow-up to Friday’s Christchurch terror attacks have been met with some resistance.

The founder of an American site asked to preserve the emails and IP addresses of users posting about the attacks reportedly labeled the request a ‘joke’, calling New Zealand an ‘irrelevant island nation’.  

British Prime Minister Theresa May has had her hopes of getting her Brexit deal passed before the March 29th deadline dashed.

The Speaker of the UK Parliament John Bercow announced that he would not allow a third vote on May’s Brexit deal unless it undergoes substantial change, citing parliamentary rules dating back to 1604.

King’s College at the University of Queensland has announced that it will be admitting women to the college for the first time in 107 years.

Starting in 2020, King’s will open its doors to women to help cope with falling college admissions.

The move is likely to be met with some resistance given the college’s history of hazing and sexual assault scandals.

An inquiry by the Senate has called for the $444 million awarded to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation to be returned.

The money was awarded to the foundation by Malcolm Turnbull in the 2018 May Federal budget without a tender process.

The Senate’s report, tabled today, found that the money in question was almost twice the size of any other Government grant in 2018, and that the foundation was only expecting a $5 million public investment.

It is unclear how much of the $444 million remains.