The Northern Territory Health Department has addressed concerns raised about the new medical director of the Howard Springs Centre for National Resilience.

Prime minster Scott Morrison will meet with Chanel Contos to discuss reforms to sex education in schools, after the petition Contos began prompted hundreds of testimonies from schoolgirls about sexual assault.

Contos says sex education is taught too late, with 50% of children already sexually active by the time it is taught in year ten.

Queenslanders have raised concerns it is difficult to secure an appointment for the COVID-19 vaccine.

Queenslanders can visit the federal Department of Health website and enter their postcode to check for vaccine clinics in the area, however many listed have no appointments available.

Buyers could claim ownership of an entire town in far north Queensland with a museum, church, and railway station, for less than the cost of an apartment in Brisbane.

A group of leading researchers have found Queensland’s lockout laws have had a limited effect on ambulance callouts over the past four years.

Deakin University psychology expert Peter Miller says findings showed that monthly ambulance callouts only reduced 4.3% state-wide. However, callouts in high-risk areas like Fortitude Valley reduced by more than 20%. 

Microsoft will be retiring Internet Explorer next year to focus the spotlight on its new web browser, Microsoft Edge. 

This move comes as the final nail in the coffin for the infamously slow Internet Explorer, which Microsoft has been slowly phasing out.

A new study by University of Tasmania scientists finds that increasing extreme weather events caused by climate change may change flying fox migration patterns.

Tasmania, which currently only hosts eight species of small bats, may become a new climate refuge for flying foxes, or megabats, as they are also known. 

Epidemiologists are urging Australians over 50 not to wait for an alternative vaccine to AstraZeneca before getting vaccinated. 

Professor Catherine Bennett from Deakin University says it is important people do not settle into a false sense of security about the virus. She says waiting for an alternative vaccine puts Australia at risk of higher transmission rates were an outbreak to occur.

The Queensland Government has announced plans to start charging fees for businesses that exhibit animals.

The proposed fee schedule will apply to businesses such as Sea World, Australia Zoo, travelling circuses and petting zoos.