Dylan Alcott has become the first man in any form of tennis to earn the calendar year ‘golden slam’ of all four major titles and Paralympic or Olympic gold. 

Mr Alcott says “thanks for making the dreams of a young fat disabled kid with a really bad haircut come true because I can’t believe I did it” 

Alcott has now won 20 of his 21 matches this season and a 15th singles grand slam.

A Brisbane based robotics team is set to represent Australia in a competition run by the United States. 

CSIROS’s Data61 team members will join the Subterranean challenge run by the US Defence Research Projects Agency via telepresence. 

The challenges are designed to stimulate real world scenarios and involve locating models representing lost or injured humans with the winners set to be awarded 1 million US dollars.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is scrapping the introduction of vaccine passports, announcing he will set out his plans on Tuesday to manage the COVID19 pandemic during the colder months.

After taking fire from his governing Conservative Party for raising taxes to fix a health and social crisis, Mr Johnson is set to ditch the plan to introduce COVID passports in a bid to sooth critics. 

The opposition Labour Party said it agreed it was a quote “reasonable” approach to take some measures off but warns the winter could punish the National Health Service (NHS)

Queensland Premier Anastasia Palaszczuk reaffirms the ongoing recognition of Indigenous knowledge and connection, announcing 54 First Nations rangers for 13 communities across Queensland. 

The Environment Minister Meaghan Scanlon says the government will invest $24 million to help First Nations organisations foster the next generation of community leaders. 

Chairperson for the Wuthathi Aboriginal Corporation, Keron Murray says securing a ranger program for the country was a monumental achievement and the culmination of more than 30 years of hard work.

Diving Australia is chasing the next generation of champions and are recruiting athletes as young as eight for the Brisbane 2032 Olympics. 

Diving Australia’s national pathway coach Vyninka Arlow says Diving Australia is testing more than 200 children in Brisbane which will narrow the field to around 40 young athletes.

Ms Arlow says despite the minimum age requirement of the Olympic Games, many of the young hopefuls recruited this year will start international competitions long before Brisbane 2032.

The Brisbane city council's Green Heart Fair is going virtual between September 20th to 26th with a mix of sustainability experts sharing green living advice. 

Across the week you can learn about waste, energy, water, transport, creating a green home and the council's sustainability activities. 

You will also have the chance to collect a free native plant at one of the pop up stalls across the city.

The Australian Tax Office won't pursue the repayment of JobKeeper funds from businesses that made a mistake in claiming the wage subsidy.

ATO Commissioner Chris Jordan says “We have determined not to pursue $180 million, mostly from small businesses, where there have been honest mistakes,”

Independent senator Rex Patrick claims the decision is in direct contradiction to the federal government’s approach to the thousands of welfare recipients it is claiming were overpaid due to JobKeeper.

A Chinese academic Chen Hong is accusing the Australian government of not being transparent about his Visa which was rejected on national security grounds.

This comes one year after the disclosure of an alleged plot by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to infiltrate New South Wales Parliament through the office of Labor backbencher Shaoquett Moselmane, using his former staffer John Zhang.

Mr Hong says he is sometimes critical of some of Australia's policies but his intention is to "eliminate misunderstanding".

North Korea is claiming it has carried out more long-range cruise missile tests over the weekend amid a standoff with the United States over denuclearisation.

According to a media outlet KCNA, the missiles flew 1500km before hitting their targets and falling into the water.

The state outlet believes “strategic significance of possessing another effective deterrence means for more reliably guaranteeing the security of our state and strongly containing the military manoeuvres of the hostile forces”.