The Queensland Government is accused of abandoning residents affected by drywood termite.

Various Queensland towns and suburbs, including Brisbane's bayside suburbs, all have slow-spreading infestations of the invasive West Indian drywood termite.

This week South Australia will begin trials of home quarantine for travellers returning from Victoria and New South Wales.

Premier Steven Marshall said geo-location and facial recognition software will be used to track people quarantining.

Police have issued thirty-five thousand dollars in fines after a large group of people illegally gathered at a church in Blacktown, New South Wales. 

Around sixty people were inside the church, both adults and children from various local government areas of concern. 

President Joe Biden says the United States is considering extending the Afghanistan evacuation timeline.  

There are still upto fifteen thousand Americans alone who need to be evacuated from the country, along with fifty to sixty thousand Afghan allies.

Concerns are rising over the ongoing emergency health services crisis in Queensland.

Ambulance ramping, which when paramedics are required to continue care for patients in the ambulance, has grown to greater than 50% in eight Queensland hospitals.

Queenslanders living with a disability will now be able to access a website for the latest advice and information on a range of support services.

The Minister for Families and Social Services, Anne Ruston, says the National Disability Gateway is a fast, easy to use and ‘one stop shop’ website.

A border town split between Queensland and New South Wales, is seeing locals struggle to manage with different restrictions in place.

Mungindi, about 550 kilometres south-west of Brisbane, has seen essential services, including the local grocery store, inaccessible for Queensland-side residents because crossing the border will mean a 14-day quarantine.

A new visa will be in place from late next month allowing foreigners to work on Australian farms.

It would be offered to South-East Asian nations, however it still remains unclear which countries will sign up to the visa.

Australians attempting to return home from Afghanistan are losing hope of being rescued.

Afghan Australian man, Zia says he is scared to try again after failing four times to get on to evacuation flights.

His toddler was pushed against the wall and brother whipped by Taliban fighters trying to battle large crowds at the airport.