Queensland has recorded its 13th "incursion" of COVID-19 in the community in the past six weeks when a man tested positive after leaving hotel quarantine.

He was potentially infectious in the community from July 22 and was staying in the City Backpackers hostel on Roma Street in Brisbane.

During the installation of air conditioning units in Queensland state schools under the government’s Cooler Schools program in 2019, there were 19 separate incidents of asbestos exposure and disturbances.  

In November of 2019 at Sunnybank State High School contractors disturbed asbestos and it took the Education Department seventeen days to dispatch a clean-up crew to the site.

The ABC's defence from the now-settled case brought by the former federal attorney-general Christian Porter will not be made public after a Federal Court ruling today.

Mr Porter took action against the ABC over a story about an unnamed cabinet minister accused of an alleged historical sexual assault.

A UQ research report has revealed Australia is only 1 of 3 countries to exceed 30% of women on top listed ASX200 boards without legislated quotas.

The research shows a jump from 8.3% of women on boards in 2008 to 33.6% percent in 2021, a rise of about 2% each year.

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