The mystery of what creates the rare, healthy sugar found in stingless bee honey, has been solved by researchers at The University of Queensland, in collaboration with Queensland Health Forensic and Scientific Services.

The team found that the sugar trehalose – which is not found in other honey or as a major component in other food – is produced in the gut of the bees.

Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News has threatened the ABC with legal action over a Four Corners episode that examined the American TV network’s coverage of former US president Donald Trump and its role in the aftermath of last year’s general election.

A letter to the ABC sent days before the episode's airing warned that Fox would consider all options if the episode went live.

A rapidly evolving outbreak has raised concerns for critically low vaccinated indigenous communities across Australia.

In Wilcannia, where 44 people have tested positive, there has been a shortage of food and supplies as families in overcrowded housing isolate together.

The top court in Brazil is set to decide whether to recognize Indigenous rights to land occupied prior to 1988 when Brazil’s constitution was ratified, a legal cut-off date sought by Brazilian state governments that are seeking to limit Indigenous claims.

Residents of Logan have been informed this morning that the city has been regarded as the “drone delivery capital of the world”. 

A google owned company known as “Drone delivery service wing” have released new figures showing it made more than 50,000 deliveries in the first eight months of 2021

New freedoms for fully vaccinated residents of New South Wales could be announced as early as today despite the state recording its highest day of coronavirus cases. 

The Queensland government has announced that those arriving into the state after its’ snap two-week travel ban must buy return tickets. 

Anyone arriving in Queensland for the next fortnight, unless they have a rare exemption, will be forced to wait at the airport or in hotel quarantine until they can book a flight to exit the state or face a $4000 fine.

Queensland will pause hotel quarantine from interstate hotspots for two weeks to ease pressure on the system. The pause applies to arrivals from Victoria, the ACT, and NSW. The announcement comes after Queensland has recorded no new cases. Exceptions apply to people visiting for compassionate reasons such as suffering from a

Stronger privacy protections to better protect witnesses of the disability royal commission have unanimously passed the Senate following long-held concerns over a lack of safeguards.  

The Royal Commissions Amendment to the Protection of Information Bill passed on Wednesday with the support of the government as well as Labor and Greens senators, but did not require a formal vote. 

McDonalds has been forced to stop selling milkshakes and bottled drinks at nearly 1,300 restaurants in the United Kingdom as Brexit-related staff shortages and supply chain delays caused by the pandemic continue to slam companies.