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Celebrations for Olympic & Paralympic athletes in Brisbane
Brisbane will host a celebration to officially welcome Australia’s 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic athletes back to the country.
Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says the move aims to acknowledge and honour the athletes for their exceptional performances in Tokyo.
Australia's vaccine rates rank near the bottom
Australia is slowly rising in world vaccination rate rankings.
Currently Australia is fifty-eighth in the world for full vaccination coverage, but among the O-E-C-D nations, Australia ranks near the bottom.
QLD rail accused of racial discrimination
Two First Nations women are suing Queensland Rail in the wake of racial discrimination
The women were forcibly removed from a Spirit of Queensland train in January whilst a white passenger was permitted to stay.
The family were then left stranded in Mackay, 300km from home with no money and little knowledge of the area.
Young Queenslanders leading vaccination rates
Queensland teenagers are getting vaccinated more than any other age group right now.
One in five teenagers have received their first dose in under a fortnight.
WA fire brigade setting the standard for gender diversity
A Western Australia fire brigade is setting the standard for gender diversity in volunteer firefighting services.
In Merredin, 12 of the 26 volunteer support staff and firefighters are female, a figure not yet seen in any other volunteer fire service in the state.
Instagram for Kids scrapped
Instagram’s plans for a user-friendly interface for under-thirteen’s has been paused in response to outcry from lobby groups.
A letter from the Campaign for a Commercial-free Childhood claims the platform is dangerous for children’s health and privacy and called for the change to be scrapped.
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New Kelvin Grove facility to meet growing demand for breast milk
Lifeblood Milk and Queensland Milk Bank have teamed up to address the rising demand for donated breast milk.
Australian Red Cross Lifeblood chief medical officer Joanne Pink says the new facility will collect, pasteurize and distribute over 1500 litres of donated breast milk annually.
Uni to scrap all lectures from 2022
A major University is set to remove all lectures from its subjects.
The University of the Sunshine Coast has made a call to omit lectures from its programs starting from next year. From 2022, lectures will be replaced with quizzes and podcasts.