Qantas has announced international flights will resume for highly vaccinated countries such as Singapore and Japan if Australia can achieve eighty percent vaccination rates by December.

Qantas CEO Alan Joyce said the ability to travel is reliant on vaccine uptake and alongside international travel, is hopeful domestic travel will fully open again in November when a seventy percent vaccine rate is achieved.

Mr Joyce is forecasting however, that NSW and Victoria will remain sectioned off from the rest of the country until December.

Hundreds of Greek health care workers have marched through Athens protesting the government’s new policy of mandatory vaccinations for those working in the health care sector.

The protest is made up of both vaccinated and unvaccinated Greek health care workers who all believe it’s their colleagues right to choose whether to be vaccinated or not.

Public Hospital Workers Union President Michalis Yiannakos joined the Athens protest and told journalists that the Union will support their unvaccinated colleagues.

A world-first trial of a new particle Covid-19 vaccine will soon begin in Queensland, with scientists hoping they will be able to provide better protection against the virus.

The University of Sunshine Coast clinical trials of the virus-like particle vaccine or VLP for short, will be the first in the world and if effective this type of vaccine could be used to treat future strains of the virus.

Principle investigator Rob Scott said the trial will aim to identify the optimal dose and safety of the VLP vaccine that has been produced using nanoparticle technology.

Whale researchers are calling for a ban on tours allowing people to swim with whales, saying the interactions are disturbing the marine mammals on their annual migration off Australia’s east coast.

They've been a major drawcard for the Fraser and Sunshine coasts, but a study by the not-for-profit Pacific Whale Foundation has found the tours are causing significant behavioural changes in humpback whales.

Researchers said that, “these whales are fasting and they have a certain amount of energy that they're living off, and that it’s important we don't interfere with that."

To mark the centenary of Australian and New Zealand Rotary service, a Peace Pole is being dedicated to the milestone by the Rotary Club of Mitchelton.

The Peace Pole serves to reaffirm Rotary’s commitment to peace locally and globally, with the inscription “May peace prevail on Earth” written in the four languages, English, Portuguese, Tagalog and the Turrbal language of the local Aboriginal people.

The pole joins another two hundred and fifty thousand that already stand across approximately two hundred countries to symbolise the common wish for world at peace.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison said that soon children aged 12-15 will become eligible in the Covid vaccine roll out.

Morrison told reporters in Canberra that the decision to vaccinate 12-15 year olds was consistent with the interim advice from the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI), who’s set to deliver its final findings today.

There are 1.2 million Australians in this age bracket and Morrison says with our current vaccination rate of 1.8 million doses administered per week, this age group would be immunised quickly.

The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission reports that 210 people have been killed in attacks in Ethiopia's Oromia region.

It’s been alleged members of the Oromo Liberation Army in the East Wollega area of Oromia are responsible for 150 of the killings.

With the other 60 said to have been killed in retaliation attacks, according to the statement issued by the government-appointed body, which did not state who was responsible for the acts of revenge.

Scientists have identified an eight million square kilometre region of water in the South Pacific that is warming unusually fast, disrupting normal weather patterns and contributing to South America’s long megadrought.

The region is dubbed the ‘Southern Blob’ and according to an article published in the Journal of Climate, the phenomenon has a natural origin but has intensified over the last forty years due to global warming.