Australia's first centre for indigenous business and entrepreneurs, The Dilin Duwa Centre for Indigenous Business Leadership, has opened in Victoria. 

Named in the Woi Wurrung language of the Wurundjeri people meaning “everlasting flow”, the centre aims to increase access to business education and mentoring to indigenous business owners throughout Victoria. 

Centre associate director Professor Michelle Evans said Dilin Duwa plans to run business workshops in Broome, Cairns and Alice Springs once restrictions across Australia ease.

In New Zealand, the nationwide lockdown was extended as there were 107 recorded cases in this outbreak.

33 of new cases recorded Monday were in Auckland, and two were in Wellington.

New Zealand will be locked down until Friday, with Auckland’s restrictions continuing until at least Tuesday.

One new local COVID case detected in home quarantine and is linked to the Indooroopilly cluster. 

There was also one new overseas acquired case — detected in hotel quarantine.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says "What we are seeing is the continual escalation of cases in New South Wales and Victoria, and we have to try and keep Queensland as safe as possible but we are very concerned that there could be another outbreak at any day,"

Residents in Ascot fear that a proposed unit development will see them lose their city views and hundreds of thousands of dollars from their house values.

The initial 86-unit plan, lodged in 2019, was rejected by the Brisbane City Council, but the decision has since been appealed.

Jason Powell, who challenged the development, says that when he bought the house in 2016 he was assured by a town planner that only a two-level building could be built on the land behind his house.

The Queensland Government is accused of abandoning residents affected by drywood termite.

Various Queensland towns and suburbs, including Brisbane's bayside suburbs, all have slow-spreading infestations of the invasive West Indian drywood termite.

The Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries ended the free fumigation program which paid for any outbreaks to be treated.

This week South Australia will begin trials of home quarantine for travellers returning from Victoria and New South Wales.

Premier Steven Marshall said geo-location and facial recognition software will be used to track people quarantining.

Mr Marshall says, “As we have more people in quarantine, it’s going to be very, very resource-intensive to have the police going around and checking, so instead we’re going to be using technology to trial.”

If successful, other states will follow this home-based quarantine scheme.

Police have issued thirty-five thousand dollars in fines after a large group of people illegally gathered at a church in Blacktown, New South Wales. 

Around sixty people were inside the church, both adults and children from various local government areas of concern. 

Thirty attendees received a thousand dollar penalty infringement notices and the organisation was fined five thousand dollars.

President Joe Biden says the United States is considering extending the Afghanistan evacuation timeline.  

There are still upto fifteen thousand Americans alone who need to be evacuated from the country, along with fifty to sixty thousand Afghan allies.

Mr Bidan says he’s hoping that the operation would not have to be extended as a lot still could go wrong. 

The US says it is facing threats from ISIS in and around the airport.