After a three and a half month lockdown in Auckland, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will adopt a new Covid-19 response. 

The new strategy will take place from the 2nd December, and aims to contain rather than eliminate the virus. 

Ms Ardern said, “The hard truth is Delta is here and not going away.”

This decision comes as Air New Zealand cancelled one thousand flights to Australia as border restrictions remain uncertain.

145 people were arrested in the Netherlands over three days. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte criticised the demonstration describing it as “violence under the guise of protest”. 

Austria has also been placed into another partial lockdown following the protests, with a sweeping vaccine mandate to take place from the first of February.

Heavy machinery work on a Bundaberg creek has environmentalists concerned for the safety of the sea turtles who are frequenting the area for mating season.

The work on the well known turtle nesting site is being criticised as it is taking place during the middle of turtle nesting season. 

Sea Turtle Alliance President Ainsley Gatley says this work will make it difficult for turtles to lay their eggs and for hatchlings to dig to the surface.

CONTENT WARNING: this next story mentions violence against LGBTQI+ communities.

Doctors are calling for an end to LGBTQI+ discrimination in the healthcare system.

The Australian Medical Association is urging medical schools to adopt LGBTQI+ health knowledge as a learning outcome for graduate doctors.

The AMA also says coercive gay conversion practices should be banned in Victoria, the ACT and Queensland, the only states where they remain.

As of today, Victorian dance floors are to reopen with a capacity of thirty thousand people for fully vaccinated residents.

The restrictions are set to ease after months of lockdown placed across the state. 

This comes as a great relief to the entertainment and music industry of Victoria who have suffered losses during the pandemic.

Lebanese Australians are registering to vote in the upcoming Lebanese election in an attempt to protect the civil rights of those living in Lebanon

Lebanese Australian Sari Haddad says he is trying to mobilise the Lebanese Australian community to involve themselves in the election in 2022.

Mr Haddad says he feels a social responsibility to veer away from the major political parties that have been in power for decades.

A partial lunar eclipse will be visible around Australia tonight, visible from 6:14pm for Queenslanders, with the peak of the eclipse at 7:02pm.

The partial eclipse is the longest since the fifteenth century, lasting three and a half hours, and is expected to colour the moon with a red hue.