Brisbane will host a celebration to officially welcome Australia’s 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic athletes back to the country. 

Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says the move aims to acknowledge and honour the athletes for their exceptional performances in Tokyo.

Australia is slowly rising in world vaccination rate rankings.

Currently Australia is fifty-eighth in the world for full vaccination coverage, but among the O-E-C-D nations, Australia ranks near the bottom. 

Two First Nations women are suing Queensland Rail in the wake of racial discrimination

The women were forcibly removed from a Spirit of Queensland train in January whilst a white passenger was permitted to stay.

The family were then left stranded in Mackay, 300km from home with no money and little knowledge of the area.

Queensland teenagers are getting vaccinated more than any other age group right now. 

One in five teenagers have received their first dose in under a fortnight. 

A Western Australia fire brigade is setting the standard for gender diversity in volunteer firefighting services.

In Merredin, 12 of the 26 volunteer support staff and firefighters are female, a figure not yet seen in any other volunteer fire service in the state.

Instagram’s plans for a user-friendly interface for under-thirteen’s has been paused in response to outcry from lobby groups. 

A letter from the Campaign for a Commercial-free Childhood claims the platform is dangerous for children’s health and privacy and called for the change to be scrapped. 

Lifeblood Milk and Queensland Milk Bank have teamed up to address the rising demand for donated breast milk. 

Australian Red Cross Lifeblood chief medical officer Joanne Pink says the new facility will collect, pasteurize and distribute over 1500 litres of donated breast milk annually. 

A major University is set to remove all lectures from its subjects.

The University of the Sunshine Coast has made a call to omit lectures from its programs starting from next year. From 2022, lectures will be replaced with quizzes and podcasts. 

A new project is set to grow the southern Queensland agriculture workforce. 

Minister for Training and skills development Di Farmer announced the $200,000 agriculture diverse workforce program will start this month. The project aims to support migrants, refugees and international students to find work in the south west Queensland agriculture sector.