Nasa is launching a new mission to explore never-before-seen asteroids. 

The Lucy mission will set off on a 12 year exploration to discover Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids swarms. 

To date, artist renderings and animations have been our only glimpses into the swarms. Lucy will provide the first ever high resolution images of the asteroids. 

The mission will help researchers learn more about how the solar system formed.

A group of students from St Edmunds College rode their bikes from Woodend to surfers paradise, leaving school at 9:45am and arriving at Cavill Avenue between 3:30 and 4pm, with breaks along the way. 

The school raised over $40,000 for Ipswich Hospice and the St Vincent de Paul society with its first time reaching this goal.

Queensland Premier Anastasia Palaszczuk announced in a press conference yesterday, fully vaccinated travellers will be allowed to enter the state without the need to quarantine from December 17th.

This comes as Queensland recorded zero new cases today and yesterday. 8,000 people remain interstate having applied for border passes.

Premier Palaszczuk says modelling shows the state is on track to reach the 80% vaccination target by December 17th, however this date is “locked in” whether the target is reached or not.

A Brisbane nurse is waging a war on unused medical supplies going to landfill. 

Claire Lane was shocked by the sight of packs filled with new medical supplies being thrown away because they were unfit for surgery.

She asked if there was a way to recycle the packs of drapes, gowns and masks but was told to throw them out.

This prompted her to start “Save Our Supplies”, a non-profit organisation collecting clean unused medical supplies to redistribute them overseas.

New report backs prohibition of unnecessary medical interventions on intersex people.

The Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has called for legislation which prohibits unnecessary medical interventions without consent on people born with variations in sex characteristics. The AHRC report released yesterday made several recommendations to protect the human rights of intersex Australians when it comes to decision making. 

November first marks the deadline to lodge a 2020-2021 tax return without risking a fine from the Australian Taxation Office. 

The ATO assistant commissioner, Tim Lo, says late lodgement fines are usually reserved for those who owe money, not the 80% of people who get some back.

He says the 80-cent-per-hour work from home deduction will be a particular benefit this year.

He says “the longer you wait, the chances are you’re missing out on a refund.” 

China has launched a new “space nuke” which can strike anywhere in the world, stunning US intelligence. 

China officially announced a 77th and 79th nuclear launch. However, there was no announcement of the s78th which is believed to be a “secret launch” of the new hypersonic missile. 

A hailstorm hit the Gold Coast yesterday, leaving thousands without power.

The severe thunderstorms left residents seeking protection for their cars as golf-ball sized hailstones moved through the region.

Energex recorded 2,964 gold coast residents lacking power Monday afternoon with close to 1000 homes in Molendinar suffering outages also.

Meteorologist Helen Reid said the trough is helping lift the moisture and heat which is creating the storms.