Brisbane local, Carol Kleech, spoken out about the lack of Auslan interpreters available in Queensland hospitals after she was left without one after an emergency surgery.

Mrs Kleech said she was left completely in the dark and called for better services for deaf people in hospitals, saying interpreters need to be present 24 hours a day.

A new training organisation on the Sunshine Coast called Skills Generation has been created by 14 women recently displaced from the workforce. The initiative is catered for mature age female job seekers and childcare employers. 

Women aged 45 and over represent the highest unemployed demographic in the Sunshine Coast, while the childcare sector struggles to meet labour needs with qualified employees. 

Perth and Peel regions will go into lockdown from midnight tonight.

The state will go into a 4 day lockdown from midnight after WA premier Mark McGowan revealed another case in the state.

Mr McGowan said the ‘circuit-breaker’ lockdown will be in place for 4 days at a minimum and hopefully give testers and contact tracers enough time to nail down a picture of how far this latest outbreak has spread.

Just a warning for this next story, it does contain a derogatory term.

The new packaging of Cheer cheese started appearing on Australian Supermarket shelves after Saputo retired the Coon name.

The name change campaigner Steve Hagan said it has taken 22 years for the change to happen and it is a victory for the Aboriginal and Torres Straight Island peoples.

Previous manufacturer of the Cheese, KRAFT, defends the controversial name, claiming it was named after American cheesemaker Edward William Coon, a claim Mr Hagan refutes.

Singapore has announced it will soon fundamentally change how it manages the pandemic. 

The country will no longer aim for zero transmissions, no announcement of daily case numbers, close contact of cases won’t have to isolate and travellers won’t have to quarantine.

With vaccination as a key factor in their road map out of the current restrictions, Singapore is set to have given two-thirds of its residents at least one jab within weeks and have two-thirds fully vaccinated by early August.

The Queensland Police faced criticism over their usage of the Covid Check In App. Privacy and human rights commissioners have raised concern as the state police had been using the app to track check in details as part of an investigation over a reported theft of police officer’s items.

Despite assurances from the Queensland government that the app would only be used for contact tracing purposes, a previous scenario had been seen in Western Australia whereby police had used the app for crime investigative purposes.

The Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining, Energy Union called for ministerial intervention over concerns regarding the release of dangerous silica dust at the Cross River worksite. 

The CFMEU had it workers holt construction at the Woollongabba worksite between June 18 til 21. The union states the dust issues occur because water pumps were not used to dampen rocks carried by a conveyor belt as a way of lightening load taken by trucks. 

Former Queensland MP Clive Palmer came under fire by medical authorities over a recent stunt involving a Covid 19 flyer campaign being currently distributed. 

Labeled ‘Urgent Communication’, the yellow flyers includes strong statements  and accusations over the current pandemic situation, and how it is being handled by the government and medical authorities.