SEQ coffee vans offering support for ex-service people

A number of coffee vans across South-East Queensland are helping veterans and first-responders manage post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Terry McNally, an ex-Navy personnel, founded 3 Elements Coffee to help ex-service people adjust back into everyday life by providing them their own coffee vans, equipment and beans to set up their own business.

Indigenous vaccination rates lagging

Confidential leaked reports of New South Wales government data shows a huge gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Covid vaccination rates in every region of the state.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison and the federal Indigenous Australians Minister Ken Wyatt have attributed this low rate to vaccine hesitancy.

NSW prisons in lockdown as number of Covid-19 infectious inmates grows

Several major prisons in New South Wales are in lockdown after 12 inmates became infected at Parklea Correctional Centre.

A Corrective Services NSW spokesperson said 23 prisons across NSW were taking extra precautions after inmates were recently transferred to those prisons from Parklea Correctional Centre.

Protest on Saturday in West End against development proposal

A peaceful march was held at Bunyapa Park on Saturday to protest a development proposal that would affect a West End community garden and demolish the adjoining housing.

Councillor for the Gabba Ward Jonathan Sri attended the rally in support of the group and said the development would contribute to more people becoming homeless.