NASA has announced it will be building a new multi-million dollar deep-space antenna at the Canberra Deep Space Communications Centre in Tidbinbilla.

The new antenna will be used to communicate with spacecrafts more than one hundred thousand kilometres away from Earth.

Indooroopilly State High School is closed today after one student tested positive for Covid-19.

State Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says the school closure ensures they can ‘double-check’ it’s not a false positive. 

Sky News has paid $40,000 in legal fees to avoid a defamation suit being filed against them by Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young.

Sky News falsely broadcasted claims that Hanson-Young took her infant niece to a dangerous environmental protest in South Australia where protesters were blocking heavy machinery.

The head of Queensland’s peak medical body has welcomed moves away from using the quarantine hotel system after continual breaches.

Dr Perry says there is a real problem with quarantine as exemplified by the recent lockdown protests in Brisbane over the past weekend.

National COVID roundup:

Queensland has reported 1 locally acquired case

NSW has reported 239 cases

Victoria has reported 2 cases

A Canberra Lawyer has turned into a health and wellbeing guru, encouraging his Tongan community to stop the cycle of over-eating through his Brumby Fitness group.

Toni Tu’ulakitau said the formation of the Brumby Fitness group was purely accidental when he and 5 others made the lifestyle change after he experienced his own health scare earlier this year. 

The International Space Station is stable and astronauts on board are safe after a new Russian module began firing its engines without prompting, causing the station to shift in space said NASA officials.

The space station flies at a certain altitude for several reasons, including communications with satellites in order to talk to the crew and to direct sunlight to the solar arrays that power the space station.

As part of the rehabilitation and conservation of the Caboolture Riverbank, a team in North Harbour aims to plant 1000 native trees on August first, the nation’s tree planting day.  

The riverbank was previously eroded and degraded by invasive native plants.