Australia urged to embrace stronger climate targets
Australia is urged to embrace stronger climate targets ahead of the Glasgow summit.
The EU’s ambassador to Australia, Michael Pulch, says “We are calling on all of our partners – not only on Australia, all of our partners, particularly developed G20 countries – to be more ambitious now.”
Australian women angered by census question
Outraged Australian women have slammed an 'offensive' census question.
The Australian census aimed at recording the country's population contains questions about age, race, religion, marital status and more.
Concerns rise for Afghanistan students looking to study in Britain
Students in Afghanistan fear that their scholarships to study in Britain could make them targets of the Taliban.
Prime minister Boris Johnson intervened to say efforts would be made to accelerate their visas, hours after the Foreign Office defended its decision to block their scholarships.
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Gold Coast businesses hard hit from NSW border closures
As the border to New South Wales remains closed, and fears of Sydney's COVID outbreak spreading north rise, many Gold Coast businesses are facing the COVID fatigue.
Gold Coast hotel and laundry service operators are among those struggling to remain open and profitable despite the federal and Queensland government business support package.
Pleas for compassion as Voluntary Assisted Dying legislation looms
As Queensland’s Voluntary Assisted Dying legislation looms, there continue to be pleas for ‘compassion’ and ‘dignity’ in death.
Cathy Herbert, daughter of the recently passed Ursula Shepherd, has urged Queenslanders to consider and respect those who support voluntary assisted dying, after she witnessed her mother struggle for years in a body that could no longer function properly despite her retained mental clarity.
University campus set to be developed in Fortitude Valley
A university campus and student accommodation tower have been pitched to be built in the mostly derelict department store buildings in the Fortitude Valley.
A $180 million redevelopment to turn the buildings on the corner of Brunswick Street and Wickham Street into a Torrens University site hopes to be operational by May 2023.
Concerns arise over vaccination rates in western NSW Indigenous communities
State and federal health departments have been accused of abandoning Aboriginal communities of western NSW as vaccination rates in the region are among the lowest in the nation.
Less than 20% of the Aboriginal population aged 16 and over in western NSW had received one dose of any vaccine, and only 8% are fully vaccinated, according to the peak body representing Aboriginal community-controlled health organisations, Naccho.
National Scientific Literacy has risen due to COVID-19
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to impact our lives, one positive to come out of it is that national scientific literacy has considerably increased.
Queensland’s Chief Scientist, Hugh Possingham, is encouraged that along with being able to interpret scientific charts at a glance, overall more people are also placing more trust in science.
LGBTQI+ pride march in Romania ahead of proposed legislative changes
Thousands of people marched at the LGBTQI+ pride march in Bucharest on Saturday ahead of planned legislation announcements.
Romania decriminalised homosexuality in 2001, but still bars marriage and civil partnerships for same-sex couples.