Heavy machinery work on a Bundaberg creek has environmentalists concerned for the safety of the sea turtles who are frequenting the area for mating season.

The work on the well known turtle nesting site is being criticised as it is taking place during the middle of turtle nesting season. 

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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.