Queensland Chief Health Officer Jeanette Young is “genuinely hopeful” the state has dodged a serious covid outbreak, but warns the threat has not passed. 

On September fifth, two members of a trio who had travelled from New South Wales tested positive and stayed in Queensland for two days. 

Dr Young says “...so from today, we’re mandating it and everyone will have to have had their first dose by the 30th of September and be fully vaccinated by the end of October.

There are pushes to amend Queensland’s voluntary assisted dying bill to allow health practitioners who conscientiously object to euthanasia the option to refuse referring patients to these service.

Queensland is set this week to become the fifth state in Australia to legalise voluntary euthanasia for terminally ill patients, amidst opposition from opponents including Catholic Health Australia.

Meanwhile, a survey of Queensland Nurses and Midwives Union members in February found almost 87 per cent supported voluntary assisted dying. 

Parents can start making bookings for children aged 12 to 15 to get vaccinated against covid-19.

The Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation recommends the mRNA-type Moderna vaccine for those aged twelve years and older. 

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says the federal government has secured an additional one million Moderna doses.

The voices of young Australians from across the country are set to be amplified from the floor of federal parliament next month as an initiative aimed at developing a diverse new generation of leaders.

The Raise Our Voice in Parliament campaign is asking Australians twenty-one years or under to write a short speech about their visions for the future, which will be read aloud in Canberra by their local MP.

The Taliban say Afghan Universities will be segregated by gender, and a new dress code will be introduced.

High Education Minister Abdul Baqi Haqqani indicated women would be allowed to study, but not alongside men.

Under Taliban rule, between 1996 and 2001, women and girls were banned from schools and universities.