The Queensland government is set to have control of Norfolk Island services, following NSW stepping away from governance which caused uncertainty to the island.

The federal and Queensland governments announced on Tuesday they had reached an agreement for Queensland to provide essential health and education services to the island, which has a population of more than 1,700 people. 

Asylum seekers inside Melbourne’s Park Hotel are pleading to be released into the community as a COVID-19 outbreak infects over twenty detained immigrants. 

The outbreak is believed to be connected to  Australian Border Force service contractors working at several sites across Melbourne, with the ABF saying contractors are working with the Victorian Public Health Unit to ensure a comprehensive response.

Human Rights groups are urging the Australian Government to condemn Israel’s recent decision to outlaw six Palestinian civil groups as terrorist organisations. 

The University of Queensland is developing a $2.5 million research centre to aid in the recovery for people injured in road crashes. 

The centre will have a specific focus on musculoskeletal injuries, which are the most common and most expensive aspect of survivable traffic injuries nationwide. 

A Gold Coast man suffering from epilepsy has recovered from a life saving operation, conducted while he was fully conscious.

Twenty-Five year old Ben Tondeleir has suffered from epilepsy since he was six years old, however thanks to a two-hour procedure at Brisbane’s Mater hospital in August, Ben has now been seizure free for over ten weeks.

First Nations leaders from two remote islands in the Torres Strait are taking the Federal Government to court to prevent the destruction of their communities by climate change. 

In this landmark action, the plaintiffs will argue the Federal Government has a legal responsibility to ensure Torres Strait Islander Peoples are not harmed by the climate crisis. 

From the first of November, fully vaccinated Australians will no longer have to apply for travel exemptions to leave the country as the government prepares to ease international borders.

The announcement comes as Prime Minister Scott Morrison continues negotiations with Singapore for Australian travellers to visit without hotel quarantine from the eighth of November.

The world is on track for a ‘catastrophic’ rise in temperature this century, according to new United Nations reporting.

The UN data says, even with countries’ emissions reductions plans ahead of the COP26 climate summit, which intend to keep global warming under 1.5 degrees, the world is set to warm by 2.7 degrees this century.