The Northern Territory plans to push ahead with reopening border despite calls from Aboriginal health groups to delay changes due to lower remote vaccination rates.

Quarantine requirements are set to be scrapped altogether from December 21st for travellers with the NT government asking for more stringent testing instead. 

With 55 remote communities with vaccination rates below 70 percent, Central Australian Aboriginal Congress Chief Medical Officer Dr John Boffa says the current vaccination rates will not be sufficient in protecting communities across the state.

NSW, ACT and Victoria are set to tighten international travel rules amidst concerns about Omicron variant.

All vaccinated travellers to NSW and Victoria will be required to undergo isolation for 72 hours with the ACT taking similar measures.

Tensions are high in Burkino Faso with tyre burnings and government building pillaged by protestors after police fired tear gas to disperse crowds. 

The protests which are calling for the country’s president to resign, are angry at the government’s inability to stem terrorism linked to Al Qaeda and the Islamic State group. 

Mobile internet was cut and the demonstrations went  went unauthorised, with further tensions arising from French forces firing warning shots at Protestors in Kaya following a blockade by protestors. 

The Queensland Government is being criticised for its transparency on its progress towards its renewable energy targets. 

An Auditor-General report criticised the State Government for its lack of detail on how it will reach its fifty percent renewable energy target by 2030.

The Auditor-General has warned Queensland may fail to achieve this target if early stage targets continue to stall as they have for the past four years.

The Central Highlands region of Queensland experienced flash flooding last night, causing great damage to residents' homes. 

In the past forty-eight hours, the catchment experienced an average of a-hundred-and-fifteen millimetres of rain, with areas such as Theresa Creek receiving up to two-hundred-and-seventy millimetres of rain.

This is the second time this year that the Gemfields has experienced flash flooding, and locals say the cost of these floods has put them at a breaking point.

Aus Music T-shirt day hit a new milestone this year, raising more than half a million dollars in donations to help music workers in need. 

The day of awareness was held last Friday and has so far generated a record five-hundred-and-forty-thousand, six-hundred-and-four dollars to help those in the music industry including artists, artist managers, crew and music workers.

This year saw a sixty-five percent increase in donations from 2020.

An accident in a Siberian coal mine has killed at least 52 people, including six rescuers, in one of Russia's worst mining disasters

About 285 people were in the mine when smoke spread through the ventilation shaft forcing them to the surface

Dozens of people were taken to hospital for treatment, at least some of them for smoke inhalation. Four were in critical condition.

Three people, including the director of the Listvyazhnaya mine and his deputy, have been arrested on suspicion of violating industrial safety rules which led to the disaster

Turkish police have fired tear gas and rubber bullets at thousands of women protesting against male violence in Istanbul.

The demonstrators gathered in the capital on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, hoping to see a return of the Istanbul Treaty that aims to protect women from violence.

Human rights groups say violence against women is on the rise in Turkey.