Surf Life Saving Queensland is set to integrate drones and artificial intelligence into its beach patrol and disaster relief operations after buying search and rescue technology company The Ripper Group.

SLSQ director Grant Dearlove says the integration of drones into patrol operations will allow the service to save more lives and make life saving more attractive to young people.

Major train delays across Sydney continue after a Police operation at Westmead Station. Services were suspended after multiple reports of a man seen walking on the tracks.

With crowds of people left stuck at stations across the western Sydney suburbs, people are being urged to use buses instead.

Reports are emerging from Colombia of a rising number of armed vigilante attacks against protestors, as anti-government demonstrations continue throughout the country.

Protestors from several indigenous minority groups in the city of Cali, the movement’s epicentre, say men in civilian clothes and armed with assault rifles are firing on protestors.

Israeli police have cancelled the annual Jerusalem Day March through occupied East Jerusalem today, amid rising tensions and increasing violence between Israelis and Palestinians.

The controversial event marks Israel’s recapturing of East Jerusalem from Jordan in the nineteen sixty-seven Six Day War and usually sees ultraconservative Israeli youth marching through Palestinian districts of the city.

Queensland Treasurer Cameron Dick says the Federal budget infrastructure funding is a “rotten rip-off”.

A 2.5 metre long Great White shark has been spotted off the coast of Surfers Paradise in the Gold Coast by local charter boat operator Shannon Green. Mr Green was fishing on his boat near the popular tourism hotspot when he saw a shark fin come out of the water before circling the boat. Great Whites are more common in Southern Australia in cooler waters but Mr Green says it was really cool to see the s

Queensland Clerk of state Parliament Nick Laurie says some of the “wider safeguards,” implemented in the wake of the Fitzgerald inquiry have been “fatally weakened,” in his submission to a committee review into Queensland’s Crime and Corruption Commission. Mr Laurie was particularly critical of the Commission’s increasing use of closed hearings and what he called “secrecy restraints,” saying the measures reduced the amount of information available to the public and made scrutiny

The Australian Olympic Team are receiving COVID-19 vaccinations as preparations for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics continue. The Institute of Sport in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth have all been set up with Vaccine hubs as more than 2000 athletes and officials are expected to receive the vaccine. Australian Olympic Committee chief executive officer Matt Carroll says the Olympic te

The Palestinian health ministry says more than twenty people are dead in the Gaza Strip following Israeli air strikes on the territory last night. The strikes were a retaliatory move after Hamas’ military wing the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigade launched rockets from Gaza towards East Jerusalem, causing Israel’s parliament to be evacuated. The attacks further escalate tensions between Israelis and Palestini