Eight thousand Melbournians have received emergency payments in the wake of the city’s latest lockdown. 

The recent stimulus aims to ease those who are financially stressed, considering JobKeeper wage subsidies have since receded. 

Auckland has beaten out four Australian Capitals to claim the title of the world's most liveable city. 

Adelaide ranked third, while Perth was in sixth place and Brisbane was in 10th place.

The state government will commit two million dollars to the Sunshine Coast Hydro Plant Plan over two years.

Planned for the Mary River at Lake Borumba, the hydro plants would be Queensland's largest, and provide electricity to 1.5 million homes by the middle of this decade. 

A list of COVID-exposure sites in Queensland are expected to grow today as contact tracing gets underway for a woman who fled locked-down Melbourne before testing positive on the Sunshine Coast on Wednesday.

She and her husband left an unidentified suburb on the edge of greater Melbourne on June 1, while the Victorian capital was in lockdown.  

Today, Extinction rebellion protesters will lie on the road outside the offices of Origin Energy in the CBD. 

Posing as dead bodies, protestors hope to highlight a lack of initiative amongst gas corporations at a time where concerns for gas emissions grow increasingly anxious.  

Australian of the year Grace Tame says there is still a lot of work to be done to reckon with a culture that protects perpetrators of abuse, although there’s been a major shift in attitudes towards sexual assault survivors. 

Data from ABC’s Australia Talks National Survey has revealed that 55% of Australians now agree that allegations of sexual assault are almost always true, which is a 14% rise from last years results. 

Law enforcement authorities in the US are investigating the disclosure of tax records cited in a media report showing some of America's richest people paid little to no taxes. 

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has provided close-up shots of Jupiter’s largest moon for the first time in two decades.

Juno zoomed past icy Ganymede on Monday, passing within 1,038 kilometres, but it took time for the first images to be received on Earth.

A recent government survey shows only 16% Queensland businesses have recovered from COVID 19 restrictions.

A large portion of respondents display signs of optimism when dealing with the virus and unexpected lockdowns. 

Queensland scientists have announced the development of a new quantum microscope capable of revealing biological structures without annihilating them.