Queensland is close to a 60 per cent first dose vaccination rate after the the last two day's ‘Pfizer weekend’.

Around 31,000 Queenslanders received vaccinations on Saturday on the first day of the walk-in-hubs.

Some people had to be turned away due to the high demand, but Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk assures people that there are still lots of vaccines available.

There are concerns that teenagers are most at risk to white supremacist propaganda.

A group of Sunshine Coast students were seen on social media promoting anti-government, anti-trans, pro-Hitler, separatist ideas.

There is a call for more education to prevent teenagers being unknowingly recruited into these groups under the guise of a “local club”.

Outback Queensland tourism is on the rise as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to keep the borders closed.

New demographics of tourists are heading west for travel, including school groups, glampers and couples.

More than 700,000 tourists visited outback Queensland between September 2020 and July 2021, which is a 37 per cent increase on the region’s tourism target.

Former attorney-general Christian Porter has resigned from the federal cabinet.

In a bid to keep the people who financially backed his legal battle against the ABC a secret, Mr Porter has stepped down potentially saving Prime Minister Scott Morrison from a devastating byelection.

Mr Porter promises to stay in the Federal parliament.

Mr Porter said he was assured none of the anonymous financial contributors were lobbyists or prohibited foreign entities but instead people who wanted to avoid retribution for supporting him.

Victorian state authorities are concerned that some clients with disabilities and mental illness in supported residential services are being exploited for their NDIS packages.

State regulated, but privately run, supported residential services house several thousand Victorians living with disabilities and mental illness.

With NDIS packages, which can be worth more than $100,000 a year, managers at competing sites are feuding, with allegations of competing providers luring residents away.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison rejected accusations that Australia had lied, saying France should have been aware it was prepared to break the deal. 

France says the trilateral security pact between Australia, the UK and the US has led to a “serious crisis” between the allies. 

As a sign of protest, France has recalled its ambassadors from the United States and Australia.

The AUKUS partnership ended a deal worth $37bn signed by Australia in 2016 for France to build 12 conventional submarines.