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. 

Police gave the women a $1300 fine for the stunt.

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 leaders also talked about protecting and managing oceans and how nations are working to tackle climate change.

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. 

Builders urged the government to shorten shutdowns for large scale projects, as projects are put into serious disarray when lockdown time are lengthened due to time and costs .

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.

In a joint statement on Monday night, Foreign Minister Mrise Payne, Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews and Defence Minister Peter Dutton said China’s actions in cyberspace has undermined international stability and security.

Queensland’s grassroots sport and active recreation clubs are set to benefit from a new $9 million Active Gameday Projects fund to help them develop or upgrade playing fields as part of the Palaszczuk Government’s Covid-19 Economic Recovery Plan.

Sports Minister Stirling Hinchliffe says the Active Gameday Projects fund would help the economic recovery of the sport and recreation industry by investing in smaller scale infrastructure that benefits local communities.

Almost half of heavy vehicles stopped at border highway locations in Queensland were reportedly caught without a pass or documentation to enter the state.

The drivers breached several permit conditions, including the need to wear a face mask while in Victoria, appropriate record-keeping for contact tracing purposes and “effective self-isolation” where practicable when working and during stops.

Two Queensland women have founded a social enterprise to keep Australia’s homeless community warm this winter, particularly in lockdowned states.

The Good Box, provides publicly-purchased packaged gift boxes filled with winter essentials to the homeless community.

During New South Wales and Victoria’s current lockdowns, the group is calling for public help to keep this support service running just as many other support services are forced to shut.

For more information go to The Good Box website.

The former New South Wales premier and foreign minister Bob Carr has written to UNESCO urging it to send a mission to the Blue Mountains to assess its world heritage status, warning it could be badly affected by the proposed heightening of the Warragamba Dam.

Mr Carr says the recent bushfire has burned more than 80% of world heritage-listed forests in the greater Blue Mountains and “destroyed very large numbers of threatened species”.

Experts in the field have also warned raising the dam wall would not necessarily remove the flood risk or lower the maximum flood height.