A new children’s book is hoping to inspire the next generation of First Nations readers.

Author Karen Wyld, a Martu woman, wrote the non-fiction book ‘Heroes, Rebels and Innovators’ to capture the lives and achievements of seven iconic Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people during the early contact period.

Today, a virtual national summit on women’s safety will take place, hoping political leaders will make a “sincere commitment” to reduce sexual, family and domestic violence through extra funding.

The summit follows this year’s earlier allegation by Brittany Higgins that Parliament House did not act on her complaints, but instead treated it as a “political problem”.

Thousands march in Zurich, Switzerland to support same-sex marriage ahead of a national referendum.

Until now, same-sex couples in Switzerland can only get official approval for civil unions, which is not the same as marriage.

Queensland has reported a higher number of children entering state care in recent years.

Bryan Smith, the executive director of Queensland Foster and Kinship Care, has warned that these numbers are not sustainable.

Mr Smith says, “When we’ve got more than 10,000 children in care and we’ve got 5,700 carers, those numbers don’t add up.”

A social media group is helping to keep the legacy of Brisbane suburban house gardens alive.

The 'Your Garden Legacy' Facebook group was created by Anthony Steele when he grew concerned that as property developers buy old houses they destroy the decades-worth of labour put into the gardens.

New data from James Cook and Monash university shows that for Australia to reach herd immunity, teenagers need to get the Covid-vaccine.

85% of the total population needs to be vaccinated to reach herd immunity.

It is expected that tougher restrictions will ease when 70-80% of the national population is vaccinated.

Special forces claim to have ousted Guinea’s long serving President Alpha Conde on Sunday, telling the West African nation they had dissolved its government, constitution and closed its land and air borders.

The elite army unit’s head Mamady Doumbouya says that “poverty and endemic corruption” drove them to remove the president from power.

Yesterday’s Father’s Day celebrations saw hundreds meet at the QLD and NSW border in Coolangatta.

Police monitored the border zones, but no one was asked to move on.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is continuing the border talks with NSW officials, but at this point no agreement has been reached.