A UQ research report has revealed Australia is only 1 of 3 countries to exceed 30% of women on top listed ASX200 boards without legislated quotas.

The research shows a jump from 8.3% of women on boards in 2008 to 33.6% percent in 2021, a rise of about 2% each year.

The research is encouraging, showing Australia is leading the progress for women on boards internationally despite the challenges women still face for gender parity.

NASA has announced it will be building a new multi-million dollar deep-space antenna at the Canberra Deep Space Communications Centre in Tidbinbilla.

The new antenna will be used to communicate with spacecrafts more than one hundred thousand kilometres away from Earth.

Indooroopilly State High School is closed today after one student tested positive for Covid-19.

State Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says the school closure ensures they can ‘double-check’ it’s not a false positive. 

The premier says there is no need to worry at this stage as they’ll be immediately testing close contacts. 

However, she said “we are told there is no association with any international travel so that is a bit of a concern,” she says.

Sky News has paid $40,000 in legal fees to avoid a defamation suit being filed against them by Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young.

Sky News falsely broadcasted claims that Hanson-Young took her infant niece to a dangerous environmental protest in South Australia where protesters were blocking heavy machinery.

Hanson-Young’s solicitor Rebekah Giles says the claims were, quote, “false and completely indefensible.”

Hanson-Young said she was, “never given an opportunity by Sky News to comment on the entirely false allegations before they were published.”

The head of Queensland’s peak medical body has welcomed moves away from using the quarantine hotel system after continual breaches.

Dr Perry says there is a real problem with quarantine as exemplified by the recent lockdown protests in Brisbane over the past weekend.

Perry says vaccinations are the solution and that only 3.6 million Australians have been fully vaccinated, approximately 14.2 per cent of the total population.

National COVID roundup:

Queensland has reported 1 locally acquired case

NSW has reported 239 cases

Victoria has reported 2 cases

This comes with at least 66 of those NSW cases infections in the community.

Australian Defence Force personnel will be out in force across all eight hotspot LGAs enforcing stay at home orders and making sure close contacts of positive cases are adhering to mandatory isolation.

A Canberra Lawyer has turned into a health and wellbeing guru, encouraging his Tongan community to stop the cycle of over-eating through his Brumby Fitness group.

Toni Tu’ulakitau said the formation of the Brumby Fitness group was purely accidental when he and 5 others made the lifestyle change after he experienced his own health scare earlier this year. 

Toni said the group isn’t only about physical fitness but also about encouraging social engagement to improve a sense of community and mental health.  

The International Space Station is stable and astronauts on board are safe after a new Russian module began firing its engines without prompting, causing the station to shift in space said NASA officials.

The space station flies at a certain altitude for several reasons, including communications with satellites in order to talk to the crew and to direct sunlight to the solar arrays that power the space station.