The Princess Alexandra Hospital’s Research Foundation is bringing back its ‘We’re all 4 the Heroes PA Giving Day’ - an initiative to raise $500,000. 

The funds will be collected Thursday 2nd of September, will go to staff education, medical research and purchasing state of the art equipment. All donations will be quadrupled on the day. 

Last year, the campaign raised a total of $654,000 funding projects such as kidney disease, genetic testing of melanoma patients and profiling of lung tissues of COVID-19 patients.

Caloundra State High School students have partnered with the Maroochy Regional Bushland Botanic Garden for a technological experience called the Wildflowers in Augmented Reality. 

Caloundra State High teacher Adam Baker, who facilitated the project, said it is a self-guided augmented reality tour where visitors at Maroochy Botanic Garden can learn about the local flowers through 3D modelling software technology. 

A man in his 50s has become the first Indigenous Australian to die of COVID-19 in Dubbo, NSW.

This came after 51 new cases of COVID-19 were reported in the western NSW region on Monday, including 31 cases in Dubbo. 

As of Tuesday there were 561 active cases of Covid-19 in the western local health district, 65% of whom were Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.

Regional NSW remains in lockdown until at least September 10.

Local media in Kabul have reported that nine civilians were killed in a US airstrike on Sunday.

Six children were among those reportedly killed when US forces destroyed car full of explosives.

US officials were still investigating the reports on Tuesday, but have indicated they thought the civilians were killed by secondary explosions and not the airstrike itself.

Arraignments have begun at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre for an Indonesian and two Malaysian prisoners held without charge for eighteen years in connection with the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings. 

A military commission took place over nearly five-hours on Monday inside the US base in Cuba, where the men face charges including murder, conspiracy and terrorism.

The arraignment comes after the Biden administration made clear its intentions to close the detention centre this year, where nearly 800 detainees have passed through the prison since opening in 2002.

Visitors to Fraser Island will soon have their number plates recorded in an effort to watch for bushfire danger this season.

A spokesperson for the Department of Environment and Science says license plate recognition is only to help monitor visitor patterns and improve emergency response.

However, in Cooloola National Park where a similar system has been rolled out, rangers are patrolling and making random ‘compliance checks’ with number plate cameras.

Volunteering Australia claims that charities nation-wide are reaching breaking point, with demand nearly doubling in the last three months and volunteer numbers dropping by twelve percent between late 2019 and April 2021. 

Charities such as Able Australia provide emergency relief and support for many in Brisbane facing homeless or living with disabilities are struggling to keep up with increased demand during the pandemic as many of its volunteers include senior Australians more vulnerable to the coronavirus. 

Property developer group Mirvac had lodged a complaint with the Brisbane City Council last week over a proposed small hotel planned for construction on the corner of Roma and Turbot streets. 

Mirvac has a thirty two storey mixed use tower stretched across a city block set for submission and blames the adjacent hotel site for ‘gross overdevelopment’.

Mirvac further claims the plans are double the height allowed for the lot size under the CBD neighbourhood plan and its limited separation from adjoining buildings would end up ‘prejudicing’ further work on its site.

Over two hundred and fifty former inmates have joined a class action lawsuit alleging mistreatment at a Western Australia juvenile detention centre.

Lead lawyer Stewart Levitt says he heard of “horrendous” deprivation of liberty in the centre.

The prison in Canning Vale was also the subject of a report in 2018, urging the Western Australian Government to stop putting children in solitary confinement.