The Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses has published their 2021 Deathwatch Report and the numbers are staggering.

According to the reports 149 horses have been killed on Australian racetracks over the 2020-2021 racing year. 

Campaign Director Elio Celotto is calling on all state racing ministers to ensure the racing industry publicly reports on all horse deaths caused by injuries sustained in racing, trackwork, trials and training.

Thousands of New South Wales residents are allowed to cross back into Queensland as of today as the Queensland government has agreed to reinstate the border bubble. 

There are still travel restrictions in place as people are only allowed to cross into Queensland for essential work, medical needs or school. 

Queensland Police Deputy Commissioner Steve Gollschewski reminds residents to play by the rules as the NSW border bubble re-opens.

As COVID-19 cases surge in inner Sydney, local volunteers are stepping in to help. 

Most of the food is being donated via social enterprise Plate-it-Forward, which has already dished up more than 85,000 meals so far for dozens of vulnerable residents around Sydney’s Inner West. 

The group's co-founder, Coral Lever, is coordinating a team of about 80 volunteers and says the group's services are in high demand after several large Aboriginal organisations were forced to pause their support measures due to staff testing positive for COVID-19.

Content Warning for this next story which mentions assault. 

Harrowing accounts have emerged of the Taliban detaining and brutally assaulting reporters covering a protest in Kabul earlier this week with one Afghan journalist believing he was going to die. 

At least 14 journalists are reportedly detained for covering protests in Kabul.

S-E-Q Water has won its appeal against a decision that found it partly responsible for the 2011 Brisbane flood.

The appeal decision was handed down in the New South Wales Supreme Court on Wednesday morning. 

A spokesman for law firm Maurice Blackburn, which represented the flood victims, said they are considering a High Court appeal. 

More than six thousand eight hundred flood victims joined the class action seeking compensation.

Queensland Chief Health Officer Jeanette Young is “genuinely hopeful” the state has dodged a serious covid outbreak, but warns the threat has not passed. 

On September fifth, two members of a trio who had travelled from New South Wales tested positive and stayed in Queensland for two days. 

Dr Young says “...so from today, we’re mandating it and everyone will have to have had their first dose by the 30th of September and be fully vaccinated by the end of October.

There are pushes to amend Queensland’s voluntary assisted dying bill to allow health practitioners who conscientiously object to euthanasia the option to refuse referring patients to these service.

Queensland is set this week to become the fifth state in Australia to legalise voluntary euthanasia for terminally ill patients, amidst opposition from opponents including Catholic Health Australia.

Meanwhile, a survey of Queensland Nurses and Midwives Union members in February found almost 87 per cent supported voluntary assisted dying. 

Parents can start making bookings for children aged 12 to 15 to get vaccinated against covid-19.

The Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation recommends the mRNA-type Moderna vaccine for those aged twelve years and older. 

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says the federal government has secured an additional one million Moderna doses.

The voices of young Australians from across the country are set to be amplified from the floor of federal parliament next month as an initiative aimed at developing a diverse new generation of leaders.

The Raise Our Voice in Parliament campaign is asking Australians twenty-one years or under to write a short speech about their visions for the future, which will be read aloud in Canberra by their local MP.