Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has provided a covid update from the new vaccination hub in Broadbeach on the Gold Coast. 

The Premier announces there has been no new covid cases recorded.

In the past 24 hours 5,922 tests were conducted in Queensland.

There are now 63.7 per cent of eligible people who have had their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and 44.8 percent who have received both doses. 

The Palaszczuk government is set to support the goat and sheep meat industry to double the value of production to 150 million per annum. 

The government backed a strategy with 4 million in grants over two years to help the industry leverage the benefits of cluster fencing.

In 2019-2020, Queensland exported $85 million worth of sheep and goat products into markets including the United States and China. 

A Sunshine Coast farm-animal rescue group is pleading for people to volunteer to rehome chickens after 82 hens were rescued from death. 

Happily Heifer After co-founder Michelle Dranfield says the hens were rescued after a farmer offered them to the charity when they could not produce eggs. 

Mrs Dranfield said the decision to offer the animals to Happily Heifer After meant they were not abandoned or left to deteriorate like many others the charity has received in the past.

The National Retail Association is urging NSW to ensure there are more undercover police to assist retail workers following the rollout of vaccine certificates.

New data released by the NRA shows violence towards shop staff has already significantly increased in NSW. 

The National Retail Association’s executive officer Dominique Lamb says he is concerned about the safety of workers when this new system is in place. 

Victoria has recorded 705 new locally acquired covid cases and 0 cases acquired overseas. 

The cases were detected from 51,252 test results processed on Sunday and there were 29,657 vaccines administered over the weekend.

The Taliban has today issued a new rule which prohibits men shaving their beards in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand.

The Taliban's director of information and culture, Hafiz Rashed Helmand says the decision was made by the Taliban's religious police during a meeting with barbershop owners in the province. 

A letter which was issued by Taliban authorities provides a warning for barbershops of dire consequences if it is proven they have shaved someone's beard.

Amid growing unrest from local Brisbane residents affected by flight noise, Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce will hold a community forum to provide feedback to Airservices Australia.

The Brisbane Flight Path Community Alliance, run by local residents affected by the noise, says the original environmental impact study into the newly designed runway is flawed, with little community consultation prior to building.

Mr Joyce says the community forum will “be advisory only and will meet monthly and report directly to Mr Joyce”.

Federal ministers are calling out the Queensland Premier in a bid to continue the national plan to reunite Australia by Christmas. 

Minister for Agriculture David Littleproud says Annastacia Palaszczuk’s lack of commitment on the national plan is not only casting doubt on holiday plans, but is also continuing to cost the state’s tourism industry “billions”. 

Mr Littleproud’s comments come off the back of Queensland Deputy Premier Steven Miles who says that Queensland’s borders could remain closed for Christmas.

Two former patients of a Queensland hospital have claimed they were discharged without health staff removing their cannulas. 

A patient says when she was discharged from Caboolture Hospital, staff forgot to remove her cannula. 

The 17-year-old received a call from the hospital asking her to take out the cannula herself without any medical supervision.. 

Kyla Eccles also says Caboolture Hospital left a cannula in her arm after she was discharged following a day surgery. 

The hospital is now the subject of a state government inquiry.