The Moree Plains Shire has been declared a restricted border zone area. 

This decision made by the Queensland Government comes after three new locally acquired COVID cases were recorded in Queensland yesterday in the Goondiwindi area. 

Katherine and the Greater Darwin area have entered a snap 3 day lockdown after an unvaccinated man in his 20s tested positive on Thursday evening

Fully vaccinated residents will be exempt from the lockdown, apart from mask rules, but will still be required to remain in the state for the next 72 hours

Some South Australians are being encouraged to change their drivers license number after hackers gained access to South Australia’s digital platform mySA Gov.

The South Australian Department of Infrastructure and Transport says that two-thousand-six-hundred-and-one accounts have been accessed during the cyber attack, two-thousand-and-eight of which containing registration and licensing information.

A new study released by the Real Facebook Oversight Board shows that the amount of climate misinformation on Facebook is increasing dramatically. 

The study released on Thursday analysed a dataset of nine-hundred-and-ninety-five groups on Facebook which posted approximately eight-hundred-and-eighteen-thousand posts downplaying the severity of climate change. 

Alan Jones is stepping down from his prime time position at Sky news. 

The broadcaster says that he was notified by Sky news management that his contract will not be renewed when it ends on November thirtieth. 

Mental Health experts say there has been a notable increase of people presenting with OCD symptoms since the onset of the pandemic, and that these symptoms have become harder to easily detect.

Psychologist Cassie Lavell, from the Children's Centre for Anxiety and OCD on the Gold Coast, has observed a nearly 50 per cent increase in patients over three months.

South Australia has set records in their solar energy generation, producing more electricity from solar than they consumed for periods of time on five different days in the past five weeks. 

The South Australian Power Networks say that this is a world first for a gigawatt-scale power grid. 

Ethiopia has announced a nationwide emergency as the Tigray People’s Liberation Front has gained territory. 

The announcement has come after the Tigrayan rebel’s seizure of two towns in their push towards the capital, Addis Ababa.

Much of Northern Ethiopia is currently under a communications blackout.