Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk confirmed Monday that the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill will be debated in two weeks time in Queensland Parliament.

MPs from both major parties will have a conscience vote during the debates starting in the third week of September.

The Princess Alexandra Hospital’s Research Foundation is bringing back its ‘We’re all 4 the Heroes PA Giving Day’ - an initiative to raise $500,000. 

The funds will be collected Thursday 2nd of September, will go to staff education, medical research and purchasing state of the art equipment. All donations will be quadrupled on the day. 

Caloundra State High School students have partnered with the Maroochy Regional Bushland Botanic Garden for a technological experience called the Wildflowers in Augmented Reality. 

Caloundra State High teacher Adam Baker, who facilitated the project, said it is a self-guided augmented reality tour where visitors at Maroochy Botanic Garden can learn about the local flowers through 3D modelling software technology. 

A man in his 50s has become the first Indigenous Australian to die of COVID-19 in Dubbo, NSW.

This came after 51 new cases of COVID-19 were reported in the western NSW region on Monday, including 31 cases in Dubbo. 

Local media in Kabul have reported that nine civilians were killed in a US airstrike on Sunday.

Six children were among those reportedly killed when US forces destroyed car full of explosives.

Arraignments have begun at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre for an Indonesian and two Malaysian prisoners held without charge for eighteen years in connection with the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings. 

A military commission took place over nearly five-hours on Monday inside the US base in Cuba, where the men face charges including murder, conspiracy and terrorism.

Visitors to Fraser Island will soon have their number plates recorded in an effort to watch for bushfire danger this season.

A spokesperson for the Department of Environment and Science says license plate recognition is only to help monitor visitor patterns and improve emergency response.

Volunteering Australia claims that charities nation-wide are reaching breaking point, with demand nearly doubling in the last three months and volunteer numbers dropping by twelve percent between late 2019 and April 2021. 

Property developer group Mirvac had lodged a complaint with the Brisbane City Council last week over a proposed small hotel planned for construction on the corner of Roma and Turbot streets. 

Mirvac has a thirty two storey mixed use tower stretched across a city block set for submission and blames the adjacent hotel site for ‘gross overdevelopment’.