Acclaimed TV actress and announcer Mary Ward has passed away in a Melbourne aged care facility yesterday. 

Most known for her role as ‘Mum’ Jeanette Brooks in the Prisoner series, Ward appeared in over 20 television series and six major films in a career which spanned over seven decades.  

An army of volunteers leads defense and cleanup efforts after deadly riots in South Africa.

The protest and violence engulfed Johannesburg and Durban after the arrest of former President Jacob Zuma on July 7th.

An object streaked across Queensland’s night sky on Sunday, with several eyewitness reports and multiple videos capturing the spectacle. 

While the nature of the object is still unconfirmed, the event fell right in the middle of the annual delta aquariid meteor shower, with the perseids meteor shower also due to cross the night sky next month.

An online petition launched by an Ipswich woman aimed to rename Paul Pisasale Bridge in Ipswich.

A woman undergoing hotel quarantine on the Gold Coast breached her isolation conditions after receiving cigarettes via a flying drone. 

A man is believed to have operated the drone from outside the Crowne Plaza at Broadbeach last Sunday. The sneaky exchange was spotted by a hotel staff member who notified police, and interviewed the quarantining women. 

Prime Minister Scott Morrison labelled nations engaging in illegal fishing as ‘thieves’ during a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron and Pacific Island leaders. 

Scott Morrison said “For Australia, as an island, the Blue Pacific is critically important, it drives our economies and supports life in the Pacific… it is absolutely vital we protect them from those thieves who would come and steal it from you”. 

The swift ban on most construction, repair and renovation work in Great Sydney is expected to double the cost of Sydney’s lockdown. 

The Commonwealth Bank’s head of Australian economics has estimated the economic hit to cost between $1 to $2 billion per week, which is 0.4 percent of the nation’s GDP. 

Australia joined the US and other allied nations in condemning China for large scale Microsoft hack.

The attack on Microsoft took place in January, but the allied nations only now publicly accused China for the cyber attack on Microsoft Exchange Server.