Copenhagen hosted The World Pride 2021 Human Rights Conference's largest in-person LGBTQI+ rights gathering since the pandemic began.

WorldPride 2021 Director of Human Rights Aron Le Fevre says that 215 activists received scholarships. Some of these recipients come from the 69 countries that criminalise homosexuality or have been forcibly expelled from their homes because of their sexuality.

Reaching vaccination targets, not a guarantee for total lifting of restrictions in Queensland.

Deputy Premier Steven Miles says talk of vaccination targets of 70 or 80 per cent resulting in lockdowns and restrictions completely easing is too simplistic.

Australian city centres are changing to adapt with new pandemic conditions. 

Australia’s chief infrastructure body believes 10 per cent fewer people will work in Australia’s city centres, while CBD office spaces will get smaller as larger companies are expected to reduce the size of their city offices and move into regional hubs

Concerns remain in Queensland that no plan to remove level crossings at train tracks will continue to cause deaths and injuries over coming years.

With more than 1,200 level crossings, and none removed since 2014, Queensland is lagging behind in the national move to get rid of level crossings.

The discovery of a flaw in COVID vaccine certificates raises questions around putting a hold on freedoms allowed to the vaccinated by the state and federal governments.

Richard Nelson, a software engineer in Sydney, has found a security flaw in the Express Plus Medicare app, allowing him to make vaccine certificates with any name and date of birth and even featuring the background animations meant to prevent forgery.

Qantas will be offering a range of rewards to travellers but only if they are fully vaccinated against coronavirus.

Fully vaccinated Australian-based frequent flyers over eighteen will have a chance to win free flights for a year.

Greece has increased its fence border in fears of repeating the 2015 refugee crisis.

According to reports it has completed a 40-kilometre fence on its border with Turkey and installed a new surveillance system to stop possible asylum seekers from trying to reach Europe following the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan.

Yesterday’s protests at the Queensland and New South Wales border in Coolangatta reported more than 1000 participants.

There was only one Queensland arrest, but several in New South Wales.