Protesters will be drawn to the Geraldton Anglican Cathedral in Western Australia this Saturday as Gosnells' Deputy Mayor, Peter Abetz, led a talk on ‘gay conversion therapy’.

The former state Liberal MP enlisted ‘reformed’ gay man James Parker to speak at Geraldton Anglican Cathedral.

The National Geographic Society said it formally recognises the Southern Ocean as the world’s fifth ocean.

This is the first time in over a hundred years the organisation has classified another body of water as an ocean.

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Europe has announced it will be joining the space party at Venus.

The European Space Agency has just selected a probe called Envision to explore the second planet from the Sun. 

The ESA joins NASA, who announced its return to Venus with the two probes launched last week, after a chemical found in the atmosphere suggested evidence of life.

The state government has announced there have been no new local cases of Covid-19 reported in Queensland overnight.

The Sunshine Coast is on alert after a woman traveling from Melbourne tested positive for COVID-19.

From next week, Brisbane will see four new ‘jacaranda-coloured’ electric buses joining the free city loop route.

The $3.3 million dollar two-year trial is set to determine if electric buses should be implemented.

Brisbane Lord Mayor, Adrian Schrinner, says the electric buses are cheaper to run and put out zero emissions.

A University of Queensland study found that 47% of Australians are distrustful of Artificial Intelligence.

Professor Gillespie, one of the study’s lead investigators, cited low awareness and understanding of how AI technology works for the findings.

Northern Territory Indigenous Workers have gone to the Federal court and are taking legal action over decades of lost income during the last century.

Shine Lawyers, who have taken the case, said the commonwealth held workers' paychecks in unreleased trust-accounts under so-called ‘protective legislation’ between 1933 and 1972.

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International human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson is taking the death of an Indigenous man in custody to the United Nations.

Robertson said there was “no proper investigation" into the 2015 death of David Dungay in prison custody.

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Twenty five people have been killed in a train collision in Pakistan earlier this week.

With the total number of injured people unknown, reports from villagers say anywhere from up to fifty people were sent to hospital.

A vigil for Tharnicaa, the youngest member of the Biloela family, who were sent to detention on Christmas Island, will take place in the Brisbane CBD this evening. 

Organisers asked federal minister Karen Andrews to use her ministerial powers to bring Tharnicaa and her family home to Biloela, and believe their detention is ‘cruel and unnecessary’.