South Australia COVID-19 Restrictions

South Australia has now implemented Australia’s harshest restrictions, enforcing a 2.5km travel limit from your home, whilst Victoria maintains it’s 5km restriction and NSW with a 10km limit. 

This comes after South Australian Health Officials recorded their 5th case recorded in 2 days and the exposure of the highly contagious deltra strain.

 

Asylum Seeker

Monday marked eight years since the Australian government's offshore detention program came into force. The anniversary has sparked renewed calls for asylum seekers languishing in detention to be set free.

Siberian Forest Fires

A heatwave in one of the coldest locations in the world, Siberia, has sparked concerns after exceeding air quality controls by 40 times the safety limit due unprecedented forest fires causing the worst fire seasons in recorded Russian history. 

Global warming has caused a month of an intense smoke haze that Siberian officials have now begun removing young children to safer locations. 

Petition to name bridge after tennis-star Ash Barty

A bridge named after now disgraced former Ipswich City mayor Paul Peeze- a sale should be renamed after Ipswich-born tennis champion Ash Barty, according to a new online petition.  

On the change.org petition, Ms Weston wrote the bridge should be named after "an Indigenous woman, a sporting legend, a woman of character who is proud to call this community her hometown".

 

Queensland Government to expand sex-ed program

More explicit and age-appropriate education on consent and reporting sexual assaults will be delivered in Queensland schools, following a state government review of its respectful relationships program.

This comes after a review aimed to examine whether the state's Respectful Relationships Education Program "adequately addresses issues of sexual consent and reporting in schools".

Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Inclined to Returning to Afghanistan

Australian Foreign Affairs minister, Marise Payne, told the ABC she remains “inclined to returning to Afghanistan in the next few months”.

A spokesman for Senator Payne said Australia's diplomatic arrangements in Afghanistan "were always expected to be temporary, with the intention of resuming a permanent presence once circumstances permit.