Gamers are reporting increased “hate raids” with barrages of racist, sexist, antisemitic and homophobic abuse, which has been making life increasingly unpleasant for minority users on Twitch.

Raven, a Black 31-year-old who identifies as gender non-binary, started a Twitter hashtag, #TwitchDoBetter to fight back racial slurs and messages referring to the Ku Klux Klan.

Queensland’s first 100% electric bus depot will be coming to North Lakes, with the first bus arriving next year.

Transport and Main Roads Minister Mark Bailey says the Australian-first electric bus depot will play an important role in Queensland’s Covid-19 economic recovery plan. 

Significant progress is being made on the Bruce Highway Upgrade – Maroochydore Road and Mons Road Interchanges. The completion of a new, eastern service road bridge over Eudlo Creek marked a major milestone for the project in Forest Glen.

Other Bruce Highway upgrades include the:

Caloundra Road to Sunshine Motorway 

Tensions are rising between an anti-capitalist community garden and the proposed development next door in Highgate Hill.

Growing Forward gardeners say a sewer line for the Highgate Hill residences development would run through the community garden, which sits on disused land owned by the state government.

There’s been an update on the suspension of evacuation flights out of Kabul Airport, with Defence Minister Peter Dutton saying all Australian Troops have been withdrawn from Kabul and all flights have been terminated.

This comes after the two suicide bombers attacked crowds outside of Kabul Airport and killed 60 Afghan civilians and 12 US soldiers.

This week’s Covid round up has NSW hitting over 1000 cases, with today’s number set to be announced at 11am. This comes as the state plans to ease the rules on outside gatherings due to hitting its vaccination targets.

Next is Victoria hitting a rise of nearly 80 new cases and 860 exposure sites showing that the numbers are continuing to rise.

US President Joe Biden has told Americans he will hunt down and make the terrorists responsible for the overnight twin suicide bombing in Kabul pay for what they’ve done.

ISIS-K has claimed responsibility for the attacks which killed 12 US soldiers, and saw the worst day of casualties for US forces there in a decade.

A Facebook Group called ‘Reef Pollution, a Walk for a Solution’ has been launched by Cairns local Che Tyson to bring his local community together to minimise the amount of rubbish entering the oceans, polluting reefs and ecosystems.

Che said he is frustrated seeing rubbish on the mudflats being washed out to sea and believes the local community can do a better job at ‘keeping it in a bag’.