Amid growing unrest from local Brisbane residents affected by flight noise, Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce will hold a community forum to provide feedback to Airservices Australia.

Federal ministers are calling out the Queensland Premier in a bid to continue the national plan to reunite Australia by Christmas. 

Two former patients of a Queensland hospital have claimed they were discharged without health staff removing their cannulas. 

A patient says when she was discharged from Caboolture Hospital, staff forgot to remove her cannula. 

Bribie Island residents are urgently calling for a raft of measures in a bid to protect native animals from becoming roadkill as tourism and development grows. 

Resident Ken Salisbury has launched an online petition which is pushing for the council to take measures to protect the native flora and fauna on the island. 

The NSW government is set to bring in over 500 science and maths teachers from interstate and overseas.

Education Minister Sarah Mitchell says the government will spend more than 13 million dollars to recruit qualified STEM teachers.

The Ontario government is planning to spend 1 million dollars to assist Indigenous Tourism Ontario by developing a travelling exhibit to promote Indigenous culture and innovation across northern Ontario.

The Indigenous Ingenuity exhibit, which is a collaboration between Indigenous Tourism Ontario and Science North, will highlight historical and modern aspects of Indigenous culture and innovation. 

Catholic church leaders are recognising first nations people, as Brisbane's Archbishop Mark Coleridge voices support for the Uluru Statement. 

Pressure is mounting on Queensland to vaccinate year 12s against COVID 19 to avoid disruption to exams. 

Infectious disease expert Dr Paul Griffin says year 12 students should be treated as a priority group for vaccines in Queensland.

The Queensland Police Service will have the single biggest police recruit intake in a decade.

QPS will deliver more than 2000 extra personnel as Police Minister Mark Ryan says the investment is “all part of Queensland’s plan for economic recovery” as the police play a vital role in “protecting the economy”.