Queensland has recorded one local Covid case overnight, after a fully vaccinated woman, who had been in Melbourne recently tested positive after returning to the state. 

The case is not linked to existing clusters.

The Mater Hospital lost its appeal in a court case over a 2015 truck crash incident at the hospital’s overhead footbridge. The original ruling went in favour of truck driver Keith Cox and his company’s insurer QBE. 

Mater Misericordiae, the hospital’s parent company, appealed to the Brisbane District Court on 2 grounds over the original magistrate’s rulings. 

Judge Porter dismissed the appeal concluding Mr Cox was cautious of the clearance and mindful of his truck’s speed, while no one from traffic control gave prior warning about the clearance.

A successful surgery has been performed on a tiny tree frog weighing less than a gram in weight and shorter than 2cm long.

Dr Meaghan Barrow, an RSPCA vet from the Wacol facility, said a nurse found the little amphibian whose tiny lung and intestines were poking out of a hole in its thorax. 

Doctors first sedated the frog, then used very tiny instruments to perform the treatment and finally gave it pain relief and antibiotics which were diluted by 1000 times. 

The lucky frog was released to the wild once fully recovered.

Marine scientist Dr Townsend and ecologist Dominique Potvin from the University of the Sunshine Coast studied nearly 900 preserved bird nest specimens collected between the years 1832 and 2018.

Their world-first research on bird nests at Museums Victoria and the CSIRO in Canberra was published this month in the scientific journal Oecologia.

It was the first study of its kind to use museum specimens to determine the effects on wildlife in rural and urban backyards.

Fears of a pandemic resurgence in the United States is gaining steam as the Delta variant is spreading throughout states with low vaccination rates. 

President Joe Biden urges the population in the affected states to get vaccinated, as they accounted for 40 percent of all cases last week. 

The average number of cases in the US has tripled in the past 30 days rising from around 12,000 to over 32,000, while stock indexes in the share market have plunged due to fears economic recovery will be hampered by the virus.

An Australian detained in Myanmar prison now experiencing cold and flu symptoms amid the spread of the Delta variant.

Sean Turnell, Australian adviser to Myanmar’s deposed leader was the first foreign national arrested after the February coup that ousted Aung San Suu Kyi from power.

His wife pleads for her husband’s release expressing concerns about his health as the country endures a surge of Covid cases.

Researchers from Griffith University are looking to collect cell samples of every marine species on the planet with the launch of Australia’s first Marine Wildlife Cell Bank. 

Australian rivers institute marine ecologist and eco-toxicologist Dr Jason van de Merwe said the cell bank was established to address the lack of available marine wildlife cell cultures for research purposes. 

Police actions at a Refugee Solidarity Meanjin rally on Sunday at Brisbane Immigration Transit Accommodation Centre raised concerns by Action Ready legal observers. 

The Action Ready observers reported the Queensland Police Service had aggressively conducted over 20 ‘random spot compliance checks’ of driver licences, car regos, ‘random’ drug and alcohol swab testing at a peaceful protest area. 

Reportedly fines were threatened to protesters whose vehicles were only partially parked in no-standing areas as well as not wearing their seat belts ‘tight enough’.