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Doctors are calling for an end to LGBTQI+ discrimination in the healthcare system.

The Australian Medical Association is urging medical schools to adopt LGBTQI+ health knowledge as a learning outcome for graduate doctors.

As of today, Victorian dance floors are to reopen with a capacity of thirty thousand people for fully vaccinated residents.

The restrictions are set to ease after months of lockdown placed across the state. 

This comes as a great relief to the entertainment and music industry of Victoria who have suffered losses during the pandemic.

Lebanese Australians are registering to vote in the upcoming Lebanese election in an attempt to protect the civil rights of those living in Lebanon

Lebanese Australian Sari Haddad says he is trying to mobilise the Lebanese Australian community to involve themselves in the election in 2022.

A partial lunar eclipse will be visible around Australia tonight, visible from 6:14pm for Queenslanders, with the peak of the eclipse at 7:02pm.

The partial eclipse is the longest since the fifteenth century, lasting three and a half hours, and is expected to colour the moon with a red hue.

Gold Coast nurses say there is a huge gap in worker supply for caring for patients diagnosed with prostate cancer.

Currently, there are only two specialist nurses caring for those diagnosed with prostate cancer in the region. 

Cotton Australia is implementing trials to see if old cotton textiles could improve the soil on cotton farms. 

As a part of this trial, Goondiwindi farmers Sam and Harry Coulton have spread two tonnes of shredded cotton on a paddock on their farm in Southern Queensland.

Farmers of the Lachlan Valley say costs of recovery from recent floods could reach tens of millions of dollars. 

The flooding of the Lachlan river peaked yesterday morning at over ten metres which is just below the 2016 flood record.

A cricket match between New South Wales and Victoria has been postponed this morning due to a possible COVID-19 case.

The Sheffield Shield match was scheduled for 10am this morning but has been postponed after Victorian bowler Will Sutherland returned a test result that requires further analysis.

10 people were found dead at the bottom of a refugee boat, along with 99 survivors rescued from Libyan waters late on Wednesday.

Doctors Without Borders reported a rescue ship found the wooden boat after responding to a distress call off the Libyan Coast.