Volunteering Australia claims that charities nation-wide are reaching breaking point, with demand nearly doubling in the last three months and volunteer numbers dropping by twelve percent between late 2019 and April 2021. 

Property developer group Mirvac had lodged a complaint with the Brisbane City Council last week over a proposed small hotel planned for construction on the corner of Roma and Turbot streets. 

Mirvac has a thirty two storey mixed use tower stretched across a city block set for submission and blames the adjacent hotel site for ‘gross overdevelopment’.

Over two hundred and fifty former inmates have joined a class action lawsuit alleging mistreatment at a Western Australia juvenile detention centre.

Lead lawyer Stewart Levitt says he heard of “horrendous” deprivation of liberty in the centre.

South Australians are now able to add Indigenous place names to their addresses on their driver’s licenses. The initiative created by ServiceSA says it took inspiration from Australian Post, who once included First Nation country names on envelopes and packages. 

However the South Australian Native Title Services has raised concerns over the accuracy of native place names and titles. 

The United States says the war in Afghanistan is over after the last military plane containing the remaining US troops departed Hamid Karzai International Airport on 5:29am AEST. 

The occasion marks the official end of the twenty year long Afghan war and comes hours before the official deadline set by US President Joe Biden.

Queensland government abandons its stockpile of 1080 used in wild dog baiting programs.

Minister for Agriculture Mark Furner confirmed the stockpile of the toxin used to control pests, maintained since the 1970s, was now depleted.

The private developer behind Queensland’s regional quarantine facility west of Toowoomba has revealed that it is expected to cost less than a third of other national hubs.

However, concerns remain that without federal approval for international passenger flights to land at the site, travellers will potentially expose Queensland at greater risk during transport.

The Queensland Ballet has opened up a program on the Gold Coast to improve rehabilitation for people with brain injuries.

This 10-week pilot program was developed by Belinda Adams, who was shocked by the lack of rehabilitation options when she became a carer for her son after he sustained life-threatening injuries in a car accident.

Mental health nurses at three Sydney hospitals say they're unable to keep patients safe from COVID-19 without further support.

This comes after 26 patients in the Nepean Hospital’s mental health unit contracted COVID-19.