Former NSW deputy premier John Barilaro has settled a defamation case against YouTube comedian Jordan Shanks, better known as FriendlyJordies

Mr Barilaro was suing Mr Shanks in the Federal Court over a series of videos published last year. 

In a statement posted on social media, Mr Shanks's solicitor, Mark Davis, said no damages had been paid to Mr Barilaro and none of the material in question had been removed from the FriendlyJordies YouTube channel.

More than 40 countries at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow are committing to ending all investment in new coal projects. 

The countries which include Poland, Vietnam and Chile also agree to phase out coal power completely by 2040.

Other countries whose economies are dependent on coal such as Australia, the United States of America and China have not signed the agreement.

The US Space Force is kicking off a program it calls Orbital Prime which aims to generate interest in the emerging technology sector known as OSAM, short for on-orbit servicing, assembly and manufacturing.

The program will sponsor businesses developing technology to repair and refuel existing satellites, remove orbital debris and create new capabilities in space

The program includes grants from the public and private sector and is expected to be worth around one hundred million dollars. 

Demonstrations of the newly developed technologies are expected in 2023

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. 

Residents of Moree will no longer have access to the Queensland side of the border unless under exceptional circumstances such as urgent medical care.

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

Northern Territory Chief Minister Michael Gunner said health authorities do not yet know the source of the infection.

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.

The department says the accounts were accessed because the owners of the accounts have used similar passwords across multiple unrelated websites.

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. 

Researcher Sean Buchan says that interactions with posts in this dataset have increased by 76.7 percent in the past year.

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. 

This news comes soon after the scrapping of his regular column in Sydney’s Daily Telegraph with the paper’s editor Ben English saying Jones’s writing no longer resonated with readers.