The Palaszczuk Government is launching a bold new housing plan backed by $1.9 billion investment and a further $1 billion Housing Investment Fund to boost housing supply and increase housing and homelessness support across Queensland.

The government will pay for about 3,600 new houses over the next four years and is expected to build 6,365 new public housing dwellings by December 2025.

Queensland is hoping to return a surplus by implementing a new accounting method that will cut the state's debt. 

State Treasurer Cameron Dick has slashed the forecast 2020/21 deficit of $8.6 billion to $3.8 billion in his 2021/22 budget on Tuesday.

Three Labor councillors resigned from Brisbane City Council's bipartisan ethics committee yesterday afternoon, saying it has become a “political weapon without transparency or natural justice”.

The Australian government has agreed to purchase 51 million doses of a new COVID-19 vaccine. 

The new vaccine called Novavax, developed in Maryland, America, has been found to be 90 percent effective against COVID-19. 

The vaccine is set to be available to the public later this year.

The UK and Australia have agreed on the first trade deal post-BREXIT after the first meeting between Scott Morrison and Boris Johnson post-covid. 

The trade deal will extend the Working-Holiday VISA age to 35 for both countries and will liberalise imports up to 99%, specifically goods such as Australian beef, lamb and sugar. 

Victoria has recorded three new COVID-19 cases as the state awaits an announcement on the ease of restrictions today. 

The Victorian health department have said the three new cases are linked to known current outbreaks. 

The three cases come before a possible easing of restrictions on Friday.

The State government handed down the budget this Tuesday declaring a Labor pledge to further invest in health, education, environment, job seeker, tourism and social housing.

$16.8 billion will be dedicated towards education; opening four new schools in 2023 and 10 in 2024.

Brisbane researchers are hoping that an in-progress nasal spray could soon protect people from COVID-19. 

The revolutionary vaccine will be administered in the the form of two sprays in the nose, meaning those who dislike needles could avoid the jab altogether.