The Brisbane City Council has waived 172 parking fines issued to drivers with disability permits.

The Council is investigating its parking ticket technology after incorrectly issuing fines to drivers.

Woolworths will be the first to trial a new form of packaging on its shelves. Recycling start-up Samsara has plans to open a new recycling plant which will use enzymes to eat plastic and break it down into molecules to be reused. The technology developed at the Australian National University will eliminate single use plastic. 

Victoria is home to its first Aboriginal-owned solar farm, due to be completed next year.

A paddock, which has remained vacant for over a decade, will soon become the site of the state’s first indigenous-owned solar farm. The block in eastern Victoria’s Gippsland region will contain solar panels, as the region moves toward cleaner energy. 

The United States have announced they will lift the covid travel ban for fully vaccinated UK passengers. 

From early November, passengers from the UK and most of the EU will be able to travel to the US. Currently only US citizens, green-card holders and those with exemptions can travel freely to the US. 

Queensland has recorded no new community cases, but two in hotel quarantine.

Victoria recorded 567 new COVID-19 cases, but no deaths.

In Sydney, fully vaccinated adults in another twelve LGAs can experience an easing of restrictions, following other parts of the city.

A gay bar opened last week in the Gold Coast, it hopes to unite a ‘disconnected’ community.

The Chameleon Lounge Bar, in Broadbeach, is the first LGBTQI+ safe bar in almost two years.

Dan Duncan, the owner, says, “We seem to be losing the gay culture on the Gold Coast because there was nothing.”

Drunk drivers in outback Queensland will face a $2,000 bill for alcohol interlock devices.

Until now rural convicted drivers have been able to apply for a court exemption because there was no qualified technician to install the devices.

Federal government forecasting predicts about 850,000 people, twice the current numbers, will be living with dementia by 2058 unless there is a cure or breakthrough treatment.

An Australian Institute of Health and Welfare found dementia was the leading cause of death for women,the second leading cause of death for all Australians after heart disease.

New research claims women receive worse medical treatment than men for common heart attacks.

A study by Sydney researchers has found that women diagnosed with a common type of heart attack or the condition unstable an-JIGH-nah (angina) received “less evidence-based treatment” than men, both immediately and in the long term.