Federal Labor MP Richard Marles has clarified on ABC’s Breakfast program that there is no difference between the LNP’s and his party’s policy on border protection.

While Marles criticised the treatment of the Biloela family, critics online have criticised Labor’s stance on the issue as appearing too hardline.

Federal funding will allow international collaboration of researchers to test the effectiveness of using sterile water injections for labour contraction pain. 

The Commonwealth Government's medical research future fund has granted more than three hundred thousand dollars to the two year project, run by the University of Queensland, Royal Brisbane and Women's hospital, Charles Darwin University and the University of Skovde. 

Australia's lowest-paid workers will receive a bigger pay rise than last year after the Fair Work Commission decided on an $18.80-a-week wage increase to $772 per week. However, many workers will not see immediate benefit.

SDA National Secretary, Gerard Dwyer and other Unions are expressing dismay that retail workers will have to wait another two months to receive any increase in their pay packets.

In international news, a coronavirus outbreak in southern China’s manufacturing and export hub may have a ripple effect on global trade.

A woman has been airlifted to a Brisbane hospital after falling seventy meters down a cliff in a car accident north west of the Gold coast yesterday morning. 

The woman reportedly sustained an arm injury, but miraculously appears to be in a stable condition. 

In response to the LNP administration's 2021-2022 budget released yesterday, Labor opposition leaders said, Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner has turned with his tail between his legs.   

Labor leader Jared Cassidy said “ratepayers are paying more and more and they’re getting less and less”. The budget has revealed an average rates rise of 3.75%, adding an additional $62 to an occupier's annual bill. 

Two new locally acquired Covid-19 cases could lead to a new wave of restrictions for Sydney.

The cases include a man in his 60s and one of his household contacts both located in Sydney’s eastern suburbs.

A teenage boy who was crushed by a whale while out fishing off the NSW coast has woken up after being comatosed for over a week.  

Eighteen year old Nick Myhill, and his thirty nine year old step father were on an early morning fishing trip off the coast of Narooma, when a whale breached from the water and landed on their small boat leaving the teenager with severe head and neck injuries. 

American President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladamir Putin will conclude the Geneva summit agreeing to reinstate their respective ambassadors and begin talks on arms control and cybersecurity.