New Zealand farmers have been denied their bid to trademark manuka honey in UK courts. 

Australian manuka producers have long argued a trademark should not be permitted as the plant from which the honey is produced is native in both Australia and New Zealand.

The chairman of the Australian Manuka Honey Association, Paul Callandar says 

A NASA spacecraft has officially touched the sun for the first time, plunging through the solar atmospheric region known as the corona.

Exploring this magnetically intense region up close can help scientists better understand solar outbursts that can interfere with life on Earth.

Masks have been mandated in Queensland for all indoor settings as of 1am Saturday the 18th of December.

The mandates require that all people in retail settings, on public transport and in rideshares and taxis must wear a mask. 

The Queensland state government has announced permanent funding for the Queensland Water Regional Alliance Program.

The program has been responsible for the implementation of efficient sewerage systems and urban water supply outside of South-East Queensland.

The Lunar Electric festival in Newcastle has been cancelled this year amid concerns of the Omicron COVID-19 variant.

The cancellation of this event comes right after two men have been fined a total of fifteen-thousand dollars for isolation breaches. 

The launch of a luxury tourism destination in Antarctica is raising questions as to whether tourists should be travelling to the continent at all. 

Currently, the tourism of Antarctica is managed by rules agreed upon by the Antarctic Treaty. 

The former Toowong Bowls Club near Perrin Park has been revealed as the location for a new inner-west Brisbane school.

This will be Queensland's first vertical public primary school. 

Some local Gold Coast businesses say they are receiving online backlash for abiding by the vaccine mandates coming into effect today.

The local business owners say the implementation of the mandate is not a personal attack but simply abiding by the law.