The US Space Force is kicking off a program it calls Orbital Prime which aims to generate interest in the emerging technology sector known as OSAM, short for on-orbit servicing, assembly and manufacturing.

The program will sponsor businesses developing technology to repair and refuel existing satellites, remove orbital debris and create new capabilities in space

The program includes grants from the public and private sector and is expected to be worth around one hundred million dollars. 

Demonstrations of the newly developed technologies are expected in 2023

The Moree Plains Shire has been declared a restricted border zone area. 

This decision made by the Queensland Government comes after three new locally acquired COVID cases were recorded in Queensland yesterday in the Goondiwindi area. 

Residents of Moree will no longer have access to the Queensland side of the border unless under exceptional circumstances such as urgent medical care.

Katherine and the Greater Darwin area have entered a snap 3 day lockdown after an unvaccinated man in his 20s tested positive on Thursday evening

Fully vaccinated residents will be exempt from the lockdown, apart from mask rules, but will still be required to remain in the state for the next 72 hours

Northern Territory Chief Minister Michael Gunner said health authorities do not yet know the source of the infection.

Some South Australians are being encouraged to change their drivers license number after hackers gained access to South Australia’s digital platform mySA Gov.

The South Australian Department of Infrastructure and Transport says that two-thousand-six-hundred-and-one accounts have been accessed during the cyber attack, two-thousand-and-eight of which containing registration and licensing information.

The department says the accounts were accessed because the owners of the accounts have used similar passwords across multiple unrelated websites.

A new study released by the Real Facebook Oversight Board shows that the amount of climate misinformation on Facebook is increasing dramatically. 

The study released on Thursday analysed a dataset of nine-hundred-and-ninety-five groups on Facebook which posted approximately eight-hundred-and-eighteen-thousand posts downplaying the severity of climate change. 

Researcher Sean Buchan says that interactions with posts in this dataset have increased by 76.7 percent in the past year.

Alan Jones is stepping down from his prime time position at Sky news. 

The broadcaster says that he was notified by Sky news management that his contract will not be renewed when it ends on November thirtieth. 

This news comes soon after the scrapping of his regular column in Sydney’s Daily Telegraph with the paper’s editor Ben English saying Jones’s writing no longer resonated with readers. 

Mental Health experts say there has been a notable increase of people presenting with OCD symptoms since the onset of the pandemic, and that these symptoms have become harder to easily detect.

Psychologist Cassie Lavell, from the Children's Centre for Anxiety and OCD on the Gold Coast, has observed a nearly 50 per cent increase in patients over three months.

According to Ms Lavell, the pandemic had made treating OCD more difficult due to it masking some sufferer's symptoms, including the normalisation of hand sanitiser usage and avoidance of touching surfaces

South Australia has set records in their solar energy generation, producing more electricity from solar than they consumed for periods of time on five different days in the past five weeks. 

The South Australian Power Networks say that this is a world first for a gigawatt-scale power grid. 

Spokesperson Paul Roberts says that in the near future we can expect to see South Australia's midday energy needs regularly being supplied one-hundred per cent from rooftop solar