A landmark court case in the UK has ruled that it is okay to call in sick to work and still show up to the pub later for beers. 

British man, Colin Kane from Newcastle appeared before the British courts to appeal his own sacking after being spotted at the pub drinking and smoking by his boss. Kane had reportedly called in sick to work that day with a sore cough. 

Greens MP for South Brisbane Amy McMahon is holding an Olympic Forum to evaluate community opinions about the proposed bid to host the 2032 Olympics. 

A new inclusive sports program will be rolled out across Queensland to create opportunities for students with disabilities to get active.

Children's Charity, Variety, will extend its Variety Activate Inclusion Sports Day, after its Brisbane event to Moreton Bay, Cairns and Townsville this year, to achieve greater inclusion and participation in sport for students with disabilities.

A satirical group is withdrawing a statement that alleged federal Liberal MP, Andrew Laming, took up-skirt photos of a woman in her workplace. 

Andrew Laming threatened to sue the comedy group ,“The Shot” for defamation, after it characterised an incident in which he took a photo of a woman bending over as “up-skirting”.

Three year old Tharnicca, detained on Christmas Island, is reportedly yet to see an infectious diseases specialist after being medically evacuated to Perth with a suspected blood infection.

Protestors will take to the street on Friday against the government’s detention of the Muruggapan family. 

A Queensland schoolboy attempting to raise money for his senior formal has framed a “rare Woolworths plastic bag” to Facebook marketplace.

The high school senior says he initially framed the plastic bag after the major supermarket ban in 2018.

Eight thousand Melbournians have received emergency payments in the wake of the city’s latest lockdown. 

The recent stimulus aims to ease those who are financially stressed, considering JobKeeper wage subsidies have since receded. 

Auckland has beaten out four Australian Capitals to claim the title of the world's most liveable city. 

Adelaide ranked third, while Perth was in sixth place and Brisbane was in 10th place.

The state government will commit two million dollars to the Sunshine Coast Hydro Plant Plan over two years.

Planned for the Mary River at Lake Borumba, the hydro plants would be Queensland's largest, and provide electricity to 1.5 million homes by the middle of this decade. 

A list of COVID-exposure sites in Queensland are expected to grow today as contact tracing gets underway for a woman who fled locked-down Melbourne before testing positive on the Sunshine Coast on Wednesday.

She and her husband left an unidentified suburb on the edge of greater Melbourne on June 1, while the Victorian capital was in lockdown.