Australian charity, Rural Aid, is helping fill the agricultural worker shortage created by border closures and travel restrictions. 

Rural Aid’s ‘ farm army’ website is providing a platform where volunteers and workers can apply for jobs that are listed by farmers needing a hand. 

Despite being a priority group, COVID-19 vaccinations in Indigenous Australians continue to cause concern for politicians desperate to reopen borders, however one community near Alice Springs have turned that on its head with 94% of the eligible population having received at least one dose. 

New Forecasts from the International Monetary Fund place Australia in the fastest growing region in the world. 

The IMF has cut its economic outlook for the Asia Pacific by 1 point 1 per cent, but the area is nonetheless predicted to experience an overall growth of 6 point 5 per cent this year. 

Facebook will pay up to $19 million to settle civil claims brought by the US government that the social media company discriminated against workers and violated other federal recruitment rules. 

The lawsuit announced last December accused Facebook of giving hiring preferences to temporary workers, including those who hold H-1B visas that let companies temporarily employ foreign workers in certain specialty occupations. 

Extinction Rebellion protesters have used tactics again to draw public attention to their latest message by carrying fake human corpses around King George Square in the CBD yesterday afternoon. 

It is believed the protest is in response to Minister Ley approving three new New South Wales coal mine extensions in the space of a month. 

Traditional owners in the Cape Yorke Peninsula Heritage Area have been granted water licences under the region’s water plan for the first time. 

This decision from the Minister of Water Glenn Butcher follows a lengthy development plan working with Traditional Owners to ensure they receive greater water resource management in the country. 

A controversial school funding model will be reviewed as the Northern Territory government promises an overhaul of efforts to boost school attendance, particularly in remote areas. 

Northern Territory Education Minister Lauren Moss has launched a 10-year “engagement strategy” this week in aims of strengthening Indigenous culture and language in schools and increasing the Aboriginal teaching workforce. 

Queensland businesses that allow unvaccinated staff and customers will face tighter COVID-19 restrictions imposed under a plan being developed by the state government. 

This comes as the Queensland government is in the process of developing another restrictions roadmap with businesses, ahead of the state opening its borders to the declared hotspots of NSW, ACT and VIC on December 17. 

Myanmar’s military government plans to free hundreds of political prisoners from the notorious Insein prison.

This release has been described by some activists as a ploy by the ruling military to try to rebuild its international repudiation after the Association of Southeast Asain Nations took the unorthodox step of not inviting Junta chief Min Aung Hlaing to their summit later this month.