Facebook and Instagram are back up and running after a six-hour global outage.

Social media giants confirmed the outage via twitter, stating that some people were having trouble accessing apps and products.

Facebook and Instagram were functional again at around 9am but users reported the pages as “Glitchy.” WhatsApp still appears to be down.

Queensland doctors express fears hospitals won’t be able to cope with rising Covid cases once borders open. 

The Australian medical association of Queensland says systematic problems within Queensland hospitals must be addressed before interstate borders can be opened. 

A volunteer for the Queensland Ambulance Service has been honoured for 50 years of commitment. 

83- year-old Enid Machin joined the Ipswich local Ambulance committee in 1971, raising roughly $100,000 dollars over her 50 years of service. This was, at one stage, enough to buy an entire ambulance in the 1970s.

There is growing concern over low vaccination rates in Northern Queensland. 

Parts of regional QLD have some of the lowest vaccination rates in the country, with only a third of residents being fully vaccinated. The figures show only 44.9% of residents in far north Queensland have had their first dose. 

TRIGGER WARNING: This next story mentions mental health and abuse. 

The Australian swimming community were left reeling after the loss of Shane Lewis in February this year.

Shane Lewis represented Australia at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992 and passed away in February this year.

Over 350,000 Australians have entered the $1million vaccine lottery in less than a day. 

The lottery site which aims to incentivise Australians to get the vaccination, crashed within the first 24 hours of its launch. The initiative was started by the Million Dollar Vax Alliance, “a group of generous philanthropists and corporations.”

A large oil spill off the coast of California has been labelled an environmental catastrophe. 

It is believed the crude oil has been leaking from a southern Californian pipeline. Over 470,000 litres has spread into an oil spill over 33 square kilometres of the Pacific Ocean, injuring local wildlife and devastating a large ecological reserve. 

Sunshine Coast olympians and paralympians are set to be honoured in an event next week. 

Federal minister for Fairfax Ted O’Brien has organised the event in conjunction with the Sunshine Coast and Noosa councils.